Save on savage, suspenseful, and even silly stories with over 150 volumes of Kodansha seinen manga up to 50% off!
Kodansha shows off the breadth of its seinen stories this spring by spotlighting some of our best including the fan-favorite high-octane street racing saga, Initial D; the fashion-focused trans coming-of-age drama, Boys Run the Riot; the gritty memory-loss mystery, My Dearest Self With Malice Aforethought (from the author of Lonely Deaths Lie Thick as Snow) and more! With each volume up to 50% off you can now stock up on volume 1s or dive deep on a few of these select seinen series at a big discount for a limited time only!
Sale ends Monday, May 11, 2026!
Take advantage of the Spring of Seinen discount of up to 50% off over 150 volumes by purchasing at kodansha.us or from any of our participating digital manga vendors:
Not sure where to start with the Spring of Seinen digital sale? Check out the recommendations below for a sampling of the the series now on sale:
Blue Period By Tsubasa Yamaguchi
Winner of the 2020 Manga Taisho Grand Prize! A manga about the struggles and rewards of a life dedicated to art. The studious Yatora leaves a dry life of study and good manners behind for a new passion: painting. But untethering yourself from all your past expectations is dangerous as well as thrilling…
Dive into Kousuke Satake’s suave and explosive manga debut, about powerful women and good and evil, featuring a story of vengeance in a stylish, art-deco urban wonderland that’s one part Fullmetal Alchemist and one part Cowboy Bebop.
Akari is a third-year student who has spent her high school career sticking to the straight and narrow…but her attention is caught by Yuki Sendo, the short-haired, standoffish girl in her class who seems to buck the trend. Akari can’t seem to stop seeking Yuki out, and her feelings rapidly develop into something more than girlish friendship. But Yuki seems to have eyes only for her childhood friend, Rintaro Kagawa…who himself seems to have feelings for Akari. It’s a mess…and one that threatens to grow even messier as Akari navigates between what she wants and what’s expected of her…
The Tokyo Party Scene isn’t NEAR ready for the star general of the Three Kingdoms era, but he sure is ready for it! Get down, shake your thing, and prepare to laugh out loud with this historical fantasy timeslip comedy, Ya Boy Kongming!
Get to Little Tokyo for guest appearances by Blue Lock’s Muneyuki Kaneshiro and Yusuke Nomura and Witch Hat Atelier’s Kamome Shirahama!
Anime Expo—North America’s flagship anime convention—and Kodansha—the creative force behind iconic pop-culture properties Akira, The Ghost in the Shell, and Attack on Titan—will partner for this year’s revival of Kodansha’s wildly popular immersive pop-up fan event, Kodansha House, which will make its West Coast debut this summer in Los Angeles’ Little Tokyo neighborhood July 2-12, while Anime Expo runs concurrently July 2-5 at the Los Angeles Convention Center.
Highlights of this year’s Kodansha House Los Angeles will include guest appearances by the creators of two of the biggest manga hits of the year: Muneyuki Kaneshiro and Yusuke Nomura, the creative team behind the global-hit soccer manga Blue Lock, and Kamome Shirahama, author and artist of the magical fantasy manga Witch Hat Atelier, recently adapted into a highly anticipated anime series. In addition, Kaneshiro-sensei, Nomura-sensei, and Shirahama-sensei will appear as official guests of Anime Expo, where they will hold separate panels and signing events. More details of how to attend these coveted appearances at both Kodansha House and Anime Expo will be announced. Attendees of Anime Expo can also unlock special benefits at Kodansha House with their AX badges—more details forthcoming. Anime Expo 2026 credentials are available for purchase at anime-expo.org.
Kodansha is also excited to announce a second Kodansha House in 2026 to be held later this fall, at its traditional homebase of New York City. In addition, Kodansha House satellite booths will appear on the convention floors of San Diego Comic-Con in July and Anime NYC in August. More details, including guest information, to come.
Once again Kodansha will partner with Kinokuniya USA as its official Kodansha House partner for retail operations during the Los Angeles pop-up event. Look for future announcements on exclusive merchandise that can only be purchased at Kodansha House and Kinokuniya bookstores.
More than a manga event, Kodansha House is a vibrant meeting place where the world of manga crosses over into the real world. Fans this year will enter a portal that takes them into a dynamic, interactive space to connect with and celebrate the impossible stories they have come to love. They can then spend their time more leisurely with friends, as well as meeting new ones, while hanging out in a manga gallery, cafe, lounge, and library. With daily programming to include manga creator appearances, anime screenings, panel discussions, and more, Kodansha House is the perfect pop-up for manga enthusiasts, both new and seasoned, to mingle and dive deeper into the magic of manga.
About Kodansha USA Publishing, LLC A subsidiary of Kodansha, Japan’s largest publisher, Kodansha USA Publishing is the English-language publisher of some of the world’s most recognizable manga properties, including Katsuhiro Otomo’s AKIRA and Naoko Takeuchi’s Pretty Guardian Sailor Moon, along with a robust catalog of English-language Japanese novels, cookbooks, craft guides, historical and cultural literature, and more. Today, thanks to recent fan-favorite and critically acclaimed hits like Attack on Titan, Blue Lock, Gachiakuta, and Witch Hat Atelier, Kodansha USA Publishing is one of the best-selling manga publishers in the United States. Kodansha USA Publishing’s print offerings are distributed by Penguin Random House Publisher Services, and their digital manga and select digital books are available across a number of digital comics, manga, and book vendors. For more information visit kodansha.us
Get your digital shelves ready as Kodansha launches a brand new Line-Wide digital manga sale, with over 400 volume 1s discounted to $0.99, and over 4000 additional volumes discounted by up to 50% off!
Sale ends Monday, April 20, 2026!
Now’s the prefract time to start or complete your digital manga collection with beloved series now on sale for two weeks! Whether it’s dark action-packed stories like, Attack on Titan, wholesome and heartfelt romance journeys like A Condition Called Love, and A Sign of Affection, far reaching magical adventures like, Witch Hat Atelier, or plenty other Kodansha series you won’t want to miss stocking up while so many volumes are wonderfully discounted.
Read Beyond Subscriptions & Save
Kodansha is also partnering with select digital subcription channels like Amazon, Kobo, Omoi, Mangamo and GlobalComix to offer fans even more discountss. For any series with volumes included in these vendor’s subscription services, you can purchase the next volume beyond subscription for only $0.99! This offer is available only during the line-wide sale so act fast to read beyond subscription!
Take advantage of the Line-wide sale offerings of $0.99 volume 1s and up to 50% off additional volumes by purchasing on uat.kodansha.us/ or from any of our participating digital manga vendors:
Looking for recommendations of series to try during Kodansha’s Line-wide digital manga sale? Check out the recommendations below for a sampling of the over 4400 digital volumes on sale:
Action & Adventure
FAIRY TAIL By Hiro Mashima
Cute girl wizard Lucy wants to join the FAIRY TAIL, a club for the most powerful wizards. But instead her ambitions land her in the clutches of a gang of unsavory pirates led by a devious magician. Her only hope is Natsu, a strange boy she happens to meet on her travels.
A century ago, the grotesque giants known as Titans appeared and consumed all but a few thousand humans. The survivors took refuge behind giant walls. Today, the threat of the Titans is a distant memory, and a boy named Eren yearns to explore the world beyond Wall Maria. But what began as a childish dream will become an all-too-real nightmare when the Titans return and humanity is once again on the brink of extinction…
For high schooler Kei—and for at least forty-six others—immortality comes as the nastiest surprise ever. In the eyes of both the general public and governments, he’s a rare specimen who needs to be hunted down and handed over to scientists to be experimented on for life—a demi-human who must die a thousand deaths for the benefit of humanity.
Outer space, the far future. A lone seed ship, the Sidonia, plies the void, ten centuries since the obliteration of the solar system. The massive, nearly indestructible, yet barely sentient alien life forms that destroyed humanity’s home world continue to pose an existential threat.
Maki’s first love was her high school classmate, a girl named Midori. But Midori broke up with Maki at graduation, saying they were now “too old to be fooling around dating girls.” Ten years later, Maki still can’t get Midori off her mind, and when the two women reconnect after a chance encounter, Maki realizes that, while her feelings haven’t changed, Midori has long moved on—in fact, she’s engaged.
A hard-working middle-aged gay couple in Tokyo come to enjoy the finer moments of life through food. After long days at work, either in the law firm or the hair salon, Shiro and Kenji will always have down time together by the dinner table, where they can discuss their troubles, hash out their feelings and enjoy delicately prepared home cooked meals!
One rainy night, Saki is rushing to a piano lesson when she crashes into a beautiful, long-haired girl, dropping her sheet music in the process. Saki stutters an apology, but the girl simply hands back her sheet music and leaves without a word. Saki begins her first day of high school the following morning, only to find the stranger from the night before sitting at the desk next to hers.
Carried into modern Japan from a forgotten past, the being known as Ogushi haunts and tortures humans of all kinds. Little is know about Ogushi’s curse, except that it resides in an unexpected place: human hair.
Returning home by train after a class trip, Teru Aoki takes a most frightening ride inside a mountain tunnel. When the train derails, nearly everyone aboard is killed. Amidst the bloody carnage, Teru discovers two survivors—but salvation is far from their grasp. As they try to dig out from the wreck in order to come up with a plan to stay alive, the lack of light and food, combined with the stench of death and decay, will lead one member of the group down a dark and demented path.
Yoshiaki Maeda has been falsely accused and detained, along with delinquents from all over the Kanto region, in the juvenile correctional facility, Shouran Institute. Yoshiaki is as typical as a boy can get, so when he finds himself living in this violence-ridden prison, he can’t think of anything worse. Then suddenly, a prison van crashes into the facility and what shambles out of the wreckage are flesh-eating zombies!
Can You Just Die, My Darling? By Majuro Kaname and Sousou Sakakibara
“I want to kill you”—Taku Kamishiro’s crush on Mika Hanazono had always been one sided, until one fateful day, his feelings turn into murderous impulse instead…You won’t be able to predict what each new page will bring!
Yuki is a college student who’s into friends and fashion. She’s also deaf. A chance meeting on a train leads to a serious crush… but can it grow into something more? A sweet and touching manga romance from the creator of Shortcake Cake!
Nagatoro is a freshman in high school who loves teasing and torturing her older male classmate! What’s her motivation and why does Senpai put up with her? Does Nagatoro just want to create misery for Senpai? Or maybe she secretly likes him?
Anyway, I’m Falling in Love with You. By Haruka Mitsui
Love in the time of COVID-19? This new series pits the the crushes, nostalgia, and friendship of shojo manga against a crushing pandemic. Can it be that a determined high school girl is more resilient than anyone expected?
Wife: Ichiko Aihara. Husband: Otoya Aihara. Married for seven years, they get along well, but sexless and without children, they agree to see other people. Otoya has an affair with Mitsuki, and Ichiko is aware of it. Looking at Otoya in a state of bliss with Mitsuki, Ichiko begins to change, too…
After a disastrous defeat at the 2018 World Cup, Japan’s team struggles to regroup. But what’s missing? An absolute Ace Striker, who can guide them to the win. The Japan Football Union is hell-bent on creating a striker who hungers for goals and thirsts for victory, and who can be the decisive instrument in turning around a losing match…and to do so, they’ve gathered 300 of Japan’s best and brightest youth players. Who will emerge to lead the team…and will they be able to out-muscle and out-ego everyone who stands in their way?
Chihaya is a girl in the sixth grade, still not old enough to even know the meaning of the word zeal. But one day, she meets Arata, a transfer student from rural Fukui prefecture. Though docile and quiet, he has an unexpected skill: his ability to play competitive karuta, a traditional Japanese card game.
Eijun Sawamura had his heart set on the middle-school national baseball championships. But his team is eliminated thanks to a wild pitch thrown by Eijun himself. He’s planning to go to high school with his teammates and try again next year when he’s scouted by the famous Seido High School Baseball team.
Natsuo Ishido has always been a gifted athlete, but it’s not easy being good at everything! Her high school peers may resent her for her indifference, but she truly couldn’t care less. She only longs for a break from the monotony of life among tryhards. As she daydreams of a real rival worth crushing, she runs into a pair of peppy transfer students from Brazil. What’s more, the newcomers are starting up a club that teases the challenge she craves—Mixed Martial Arts
In a world where everyone takes wonders like magic spells and dragons for granted, Coco is a girl with a simple dream: She wants to be a witch. But everybody knows magicians are born, not made, and Coco was not born with a gift for magic. Resigned to her un-magical life, Coco is about to give up on her dream to become a witch…until the day she meets Qifrey, a mysterious, traveling magician. After secretly seeing Qifrey perform magic in a way she’s never seen before, Coco soon learns what everybody “knows” might not be the truth, and discovers that her magical dream may not be as far away as it may seem…
In the small village of Amun lives a poor boy named Theo. Theo adores books, but because of his pointed ears and impoverished life, he isn’t allowed to use the village library. As he endures the prejudice and hatred of the village, he dreams of going where such things don’t exist: Aftzaak, City of Books. But one day, Theo chances to meet a Kafna—a librarian who works for the great library of Aftzaak—and his life changes forever…
Am I Actually the Strongest? By Ai Takahashi, Sai Sumimori and Sai Sumimori
Being reincarnated into another world with the promise of a “cheat” power is one thing, but being reborn as a baby, and then left for dead after your royal parents think you’re powerless? That’s another thing entirely! Now the newly born Reinhardt—Haruto to his new friends—must find his way through a dangerous world…but luckily he’s got magic that’s quite literally off the charts!
Pass the Monster Meat, Milady! By Chika Mizube, Peperon and Kanata Hoshi
Like any proper noble lady, one must have certain acquired tastes. For Melphiera Marchalrayd, she just happens to crave a rather exotic protein—monsters! But do not judge! Despite its bad reputation, monster meat can be used in exquisite cuisine and Melphiera is determined to change the kingdom’s opinion of it! Unfortunately, since debuting in society, Melphiera has been struggling to find her perfect match…until she meets the fearless “Blood-Mad Duke” of Galbraith!
