Get over $1200 worth of BL, Yuri & Other Hit Ichijinsha Manga in One $30 Bundle
Kodansha and Humble once again team up for a bundle featuring fan-favorite manga like Wotakoi: Love is Hard for Otaku, Saiyuki, Whisper Me a Love Song, My Summer of You and more series from the storied publisher Ichijinsha with the Kodansha Presents: BL, Yuri & More from Ichijinsha Humble Bundle. Starting now until June 19, 2026, manga fans can take advantage of this Humble-first Ichijinsha bundle and get more than 100 digital volumes of shojo, josei, BL and yuri manga, worth over $1200, for only $30.
Kodansha Presents: BL, Yuri & More from Ichijinsha ENDS June 19, 2026 @ 11AM PT
Find out about all the Ichijinsha series included in this special limited-time bundle with tiers starting as low as $1 to the full bundle at $30:
Pay $1 or more to unlock: Chasing After Aoi Koshiba, volume 1 Hitorijime My Hero, volume 1 I Want to Love You Till Your Dying Day, volume 1 Pupposites Attract, volume 1 Saiyuki: The Original Series Resurrected Edition, volume 1 The Yearning Fox Lies in Wait Whisper Me a Love Song, volume 1 Yuri is My Job!, volume 1
Pay $10 or more to unlock: Chasing After Aoi Koshiba, volume 2 Hitorijime My Hero, volumes 2-5 I Can’t Say No to the Lonely Girl, volumes 1-2 Kusunoki’s Flunking Her High School Glow-Up, volume 1 Life Lessons with Uramichi Oniisan, volume 1 Love on the Horizon My Summer of You, volume 1 My Ultramarine Sky Number Call Saiyuki: The Original Series Resurrected Edition, volume 2 Spoil Me Plzzz, Hinamori-san!, volume 1 Super Morning Star, volumes 1-2 The Yakuza’s Bias, volume 1 Whisper Me a Love Song, volumes 2-3 Wotakoi: Love is Hard for Otaku, volume 1 Yuri is My Job!, volumes 2-4
Pay $20 or more to unlock: Chasing After Aoi Koshiba, volume3 Hitorijime My Hero, volumes 6-10 I Can’t Say No to the Lonely Girl, volumes 3-4 If I Could Reach You, volumes 1-3 Kusunoki’s Flunking Her High School Glow-Up, volume2 Life Lessons with Uramichi Oniisan, volume2 My Summer of You, volume2 ONIMAI: I’m Now Your Sister!, volumes 1-4 Pupposites Attract, volume 2 Saiyuki: The Original Series Resurrected Edition, volume3 Spoil Me Plzzz, Hinamori-san!, volume2 Sugar Dog Life The Yakuza’s Bias, volume2 Whisper Me a Love Song, volumes4-5 Wotakoi: Love is Hard for Otaku, volumes2-3 Yuri is My Job!, volumes 5-8
Pay $30 or more to unlock: 23:45 An Older Guy’s VR First Love Chasing After Aoi Koshiba, volume 4 His Extra-Large, Ever-So-Lovely… Hitorijime Boyfriend Hitorijime My Hero, volumes 11-15 How to Deal When Your Intimidating Neighbor is Actually an Omega I Can’t Say No to the Lonely Girl, volumes 5-6 If I Could Reach You, volumes 4-7 Kusunoki’s Flunking Her High School Glow-Up, volume 3 Life Lessons with Uramichi Oniisan, volumes 3-4 My Summer of You, volume 3 ONIMAI: I’m Now Your Sister!, volumes 5-8 Saiyuki: The Original Series Resurrected Edition, volume 4 Spoil Me Plzzz, Hinamori-san!, volume 3 Super Morning Star, volumes 3-4 The Boy I Loved Became the Jaded Emperor, volumes 1-2 Whisper Me a Love Song, volumes 6-8 Wotakoi: Love is Hard for Otaku, volumes 4-6 Wotakoi: Love Is Hard for Otaku Official Art Works (English)Yuri is My Job!, volumes 9-13
What charity does this Humble Bundle support?: Kodansha will be leveraging the purchasing power of each bundle sold – whether it’s at the $1 tier, $30 tier or beyond – to donate a portion of the proceeds to a worthy cause! This Humble bundle supports The Comic Book Legal Defense Fund—a non-profit organization dedicated to the protection of the First Amendment rights of the comics art form and its community of retailers, creators, publishers, librarians, and readers. Pay what you want and choose how much of your purchase supports the CBLDF or choose a charity of your preference via the PayPal Giving Fund.
How will you get your purchased digital volumes?: All shojo, josei, BL and yuri manga featured as part of the Kodansha Presents: BL, Yuri & More from Ichijinshawill be delivered digitally upon purchase in multiple formats including CBZ, PDF, ePub, and FLAC so fans can read these titles across their computer, e-readers, tablets, cell phones, and a wide array of mobile devices!
For more information about all the manga mentioned in this unique Humble Bundle visit kodansha.us for free chapter 1 previews and synopsis.
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.
Start and save on hit spring anime-inspiring series like Witch Hat Atelier, Wistoria: Wand and Sword, Rent-a-Girlfriend, and more!
Whether you’re looking to get caught up on your favorite series, or fallen in love with an anime and ready to dive deep into the manga behind it, the Catch Up With: Spring Anime digital sale is perfect for you!
Save on so many anime-inspiring manga during the Catch Up With: Spring Anime by buying them on kodansha.us or through one of our participating digital manga venders:
Need suggestions for where to start with the Catch Up With: Spring Anime digital sale? See below for info on some fetured discounted series:
Witch Hat Atelier By Kamome Shirahama
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…
What’s a maid to do when she finds herself suddenly stuck in Japan for a year? Eat, of course! Follow maid-in-training Suzume Tachibana as she tries all sorts of Japanese food, from sweets like taiyaki and melon bread to savory snacks like takoyaki and onigiri! Be warned, though-while Suzume sates her appetite through delicious treat after delicious treat, she might just end up whetting yours!
Yutaka Kanzaki, a wine critic whose reviews have enough clout to move the industry worldwide, has died—leaving behind a wine collection worth over two billion yen. Only the one who can name his favorite bottles, plus vintages, will inherit this dream of a cellar. It’s a battle between Yutaka’s biological son Shizuku and adopted child Issei to identify these “Twelve Apostles”—along with the very best wine in his collection, the so-called “Drops of God.”
Wistoria: Wand and Sword By Fujino Omori and Toshi Aoi
The new, magical dungeon-adventure fantasy series from the author of Is It Wrong to Try to Pick Up Girls in a Dungeon? Seeking to fulfill a promise to a childhood friend, Will Serfort enters Regarden Magical Academy with the goal of making it to the top of the magical world. There’s just one problem: he can’t use magic! Will his sword skills be the key to unlocking his true potential?
Kodansha and Concacaf Launch Blue Lock: Diamonds in the Rough Competition
Do You Have the Ego to Win? Prove It.
New York, NY — May 13, 2026 — Kodansha, the creative force behind iconic pop-culture properties Akira, The Ghost in the Shell, and Attack on Titan, is collaborating with Concacaf, the Confederation of North, Central America and Caribbean Association Football, to officially “kick off” Blue Lock: Diamonds in the Rough, a nationwide online competition inviting fans and soccer players across the U.S. to show off their style, creativity, and ego. This mindset defines Blue Lock, Kodansha’s global-hit soccer-centric elimination-game saga by Muneyuki Kaneshiro and Yusuke Nomura.
Inspired by Blue Lock, the campaign brings the high-stakes world of the series off the page and onto the pitch. By bridging professional soccer and global manga, Kodansha and Concacaf are creating a space where two of the world’s most passionate fandoms can collide in a new way.
Starting May 27, fans ages 13+ can submit soccer-inspired videos and photos through the Blue Lock: Diamonds in the Rough website for a chance to be crowned the Best Striker. To enter, participants post their content on social media using #bluelockdiamonds and complete their submission at www.bluelockdiamonds.com.
Fan voting on the website will determine which submissions advance to the semi-final round. The final winners will then be selected by a panel of judges. Winners will be announced live at Comic-Con in San Diego.
Beyond the Best Striker Grand Prize, fans can compete across five additional categories—Just Like Blue Lock, Best Fan Energy, Most Artistic, Best Cosplay – Individual and Best Cosplay – Group—with exclusive Blue Lock prizes and collectibles up for grabs across the board. Weekly raffle prizes will also be awarded to registered Kodansha Reader Portal (kodansha.us) users throughout the campaign.
The collaboration will also extend into collectible products, retail experiences, and live activations tied to the world of Blue Lock. Fans can visit select comic shops, bookstores, and Kinokuniya locations across the U.S. that will feature custom in-store installations, photo opportunities, and bonus gifts with purchase.
Striker’s Collection, a limited-edition BLUE LOCK × Concacaf project launching on Kickstarter, will feature officially licensed collector pieces inspired by the intensity of the game and bold “ego” energy.
The campaign will culminate and come alive with the Blue Lock: Diamonds in the Rough Experience at Kodansha House, to be held in Little Tokyo, Los Angeles, from July 2–12, where fans can step into the world of Blue Lock and have the chance to meet the creators at Kodansha House and Anime Expo at the LA Convention Center from July 2–5.
From Blue Lock digital content and limited-edition product collaborations to live activations in LA and beyond, Kodansha and Concacaf are bringing football fans, manga fans, and strikers-in-the-making together through competition, creativity, and the shared energy of the game.
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.
About Concacaf The Confederation of North, Central America, and Caribbean Association Football (Concacaf) is one of FIFA’s six continental confederations, servicing 41 Member Associations, from Canada in the north to Guyana, Suriname, and French Guiana in the south. Concacaf means football first. Our members are united by a shared vision: Love For Our Game, as well as a unique mission, to develop, promote and manage football throughout the region with integrity, transparency, and passion in order to inspire participation in the game. For more information, please visit concacaf.com.
Save on sixteen completed romance sagas with all up to half off!
Want to fall in love with series you can read from start to finish? Kodansha’s got you covered with the Bingeable Romance digital manga sale! Starting now until May 25, 2026 you can save on fully completed romance series with each volume up to 50% off.
Whether you want to catch up or start a completely new love story you can try series like Ran the Peerless Beauty, the story of high a high achieving beauty striking a romance with a slacker flower boy; A Serenade for Pretend Lovers, the pretend love affair between a documentarian and world-class musician; My Little Monster, the late 00’s shojo romance about a self-absorbed genius and a hot-headed trouble maker; and many more! If you need more love in your life, why not start with page-turning romance manga that’ll make your heart swell to the very last page?
Sale ends Monday, May 25, 2026!
Save big with the Bingeable Romance digital sale and get up to 50% off over 170 volumes at kodansha.us or from any of our participating digital manga vendors:
Not sure where to start with the Bingeable Romance digital sale? Check out the recommendations below for a sampling of series now on sale:
A Galaxy Next Door By Gido Amagakure
The new sweet and wild romantic comedy from the creator of the hit manga and anime about food and family, Sweetness & Lightning! A desperate manga artist, called on to support his two young siblings, meets a new art assistant. But her arrival isn’t just a small step, it’s a giant leap…
Self-proclaimed otaku and shut-in Sakura Kisaragi would prefer to spend her days alone in her room, playing her favorite yakuza-themed dating simulator. But when she saves the life of an old man who turns out to be the head of the Amou-gumi crime family, she inadvertently earns a spot in the yakuza’s succession plans-moved by her courage, the old man declares that whoever among his three ambitious grandsons can win her hand in marriage will be the next boss. Now kind but ailing Shusuke, brash hothead Reo, and cool and calculating Ryusei are all vying to make her their boss wife-but will she be anything more to them than a means to an end?
PervyGirl Meets Two-Faced Boy At her high school, she’s Eriko Ichimura, the girl so boring no one remembers she exists. But online, she’s “Lovesick Ellie,” a brash and lusty alternate persona with quite a viral following! Ellie’s favorite pastime? Spying on her handsome and perfect classmate Ohmi and spinning wild fantasies in the form of very thirsty tweets. But one day, quite by accident, Eriko learns that Ohmi isn’t as perfect as she thought…and he discovers her secret to boot! What’s ahead for this two-faced boy and pervy girl?
Yae is an unremarkable girl who temps for a living. She loses her home and job in one stroke and is, at 29, at her wits’ end. Then her childhood friend Takumi appears before her. A good-looking, successful architect, he lives a glamorous life. In exchange for free accommodation in his skyscraper condo in the heart of Tokyo, Yae acts as his fake wife?! This is the story of a fake marriage to a smug, handsome architect!
Serina arrives at school one day to discover her desk has been vandalized—someone’s scratched the lyrics to a love song in it…and that someone turns out to be Mizukawa-sempai, a boy who’s one year her senior. She wants to get to know him better, but if his frosty demeanor is any indication, she doesn’t have a chance! But it seems he might be awkward—not simply mean—and before she knows it, she’s asking him out…! With each passing day, her heart races a little faster! Don’t miss out on volume 1 of this school romance story!
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!
Dig into a backlog of diamonds with the Catch Up With: Hidden Gems digital sale.
There’s plenty of amazing manga that are just one deep dive away from becoming your next favorite! Whether it be Land of the Lustrous, a literal world of humanoid gems battling for their lives; Tank Chair, the over-the-top assassin action saga; The Food Diary of Miss Maid, a tasty slice-of-life cullinary jourey; The Heroic Legend of Arslan, the mythic journey of a prince betrayed, or other hidden gems waiting to be unearthed. There’s a new manga series sure to catch your eye, especially when all select volumes are up to 50% off!
Sale ends Monday, March 30, 2026!
You can add these overlooked treasures to your digital collection by purchasing on uat.kodansha.us/ or from any of our participating digital manga vendors:
Check out the full list of discounted titles for the Catch Up With: Hidden Gems digital sale below:
Tank Chair By Manabu Yashiro
Living on Guicheng Island, called “the most dangerous town in the universe,” is no easy task. Genetic doping is common for gangs to gain ultimate power. Shizuka, a young girl, takes on the most dangerous of assassin jobs, but she’s not the one doing the killing. Rather, it’s her brother, Nagi, a strong assassin who took a bullet to protect his sister, leaving him in a comatose state and having to use a wheelchair. However, Shizuka has figured out the key to waking her brother up: he must be faced with murderous intent!
Cool and collected high school student Risa Amakawa has something in her heavy bag for every situation, and the last thing she needs—or knows how to ask for—is anyone’s help. When she saves a beat-up delinquent in the park one rainy evening, she refuses any sort of repayment. But it turns out that saving the notorious Zen Ohira buys her the attention of some unsavory characters. A Kodansha Print Club series!
A little boy named Yuma is obsessed with the impending return of the Arville Comet. Then, one day, he sneaks onto the roof of an apartment building and finds something even more amazing-something not from this world. Now Yuma and his friends, and his hovering autopet Nanako, must work together to uncover a secret that’s slumbered on the Earth for years, as dawn breaks over a new era for him and for humanity.
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. His cellmates, Iwakura, Yamanoi, and Yoshioka, are a cunning crew and soon Yoshiaki finds himself pulled into a feud going on in the prison. Then suddenly, a prison van crashes into the facility and what shambles out of the wreckage are flesh-eating zombies…
More Series Revealed to Join Kodansha Print Club This Spring
Hot on the heels of the recent Kodansha Print Club Spring licenses announcement, Kodansha unveils a new wave of exciting series making the jump from digital to print, including one all-new license!
Leading the pack of Kodansha Print Club releases is the hotly anticipated print edition of MF Ghost—the spiritual successor to the high-octane racing saga Initial D by Shuichi Shigeno.
Shifting gears, Kodansha Print Club is also proud to announce the print and digital debut of Secondhand Sisters—a drama-filled saga about grief, old resentments, and hidden passions from Battan, the acclaimed creator of Run Away With Me, Girl.
Fans will also see the following digital-first titles arriving in print this Spring:
Tokyo Tarareba Girls Returns 2: A new “husband hunting” quarter-life crisis rom-com from the author of Princess Jellyfish
You Must Be This Tall to Propose!: A romcom about a short boy, his tall crush, and the series of embarrassing misunderstandings keeping the two from confessing
Finally a new volume of a Kodansha Print Club favorite, Teppu, arrives this spring as well with volume 4 coming to print soon.
Kodansha Print Club titles debuting in Spring 2026 will be available to pre-order in the coming weeks via retailers like Amazon, Barnes & Noble, Bookshop.org, Books-A-Million, Kinokuniya, Hudson Booksellers, Powell’s, and the Crunchyroll Store. These titles may even be available at your local bookstore, but if you don’t see these titles, you can ask to special order them. Shipping of Kodansha Print Club titles may vary by retailer and may take longer for international orders.
Kodansha continues to invite fans to be part of this program by not only purchasing Kodansha Print Club titles, but also by letting the publisher know which series they would like to see added to this ever-expanding roster. Suggestions, comments, and requests can be submitted via Kodansha’s Publishing suggestion feedback form.
For details on each new Kodansha Print Club series debuting this Spring, see below:
MF Ghost By Shuichi Shigeno
JP Title: MFゴースト
Debut Date: Spring 2026
Get back into gear with the successor to Initial D!
In a not-so-distant future where most cars have switched over to sustainable power, combustion-engine racing is a rarity, and the MFG is the last major race for this dying breed. On the heels of graduating from a British racing school, half-Japanese Kanata Rivington has returned to Japan to make a name for himself on the infamous circuit…and find his estranged father. As he puts everything on the line, both literally and figuratively, will he have what it takes to become a new racing legend?
Ever since they were girls, charismatic and carefree Ran has had a habit of “borrowing” her sister Jun’s favorite things and making them her own. It always annoyed Jun to lose her toys, clothing, and other belongings, but she just saw it as part of having a younger sibling—until the day Ran claimed her boyfriend, too.
The two haven’t spoken in eight years when they’re reunited at their mother’s funeral. Ran and her husband—Jun’s ex—want to move into the house their mother left behind, but Jun will be damned if she lets Ran take one more thing away from her. With neither side willing to budge, the three find themselves living under the same roof, and it’s not long before old resentments, secrets, and passions threaten to unravel their lives. A Kodansha Print Club series from the acclaimed author of Run Away With Me, Girl.
Rated: 16+
Tokyo Tarareba Girls Returns 2 By Akiko Higashimura
JP Title: 東京タラレバ娘 シーズン2
Debut Date: Spring 2026
30-year-old Reina Hirota’s chill life of snacking and binge-watching TV shows gets a wake-up call through a forgotten childhood dream buried in a time capsule. Suddenly, her content solitude seems more like a forever-solo voyage, prompting her to crawl off the couch and start husband hunting—not just to find love, but to help her family find their groove again. Now, if only she knew what she wanted—not just in life, but in a guy, too.
How to Treat a Lady Knight Right By Kengo Matsumoto
JP Title: 今まで一度も女扱いされたことがない女騎士を女扱いする漫画
Debut Date: Spring 2026
For Leo Cornelia, there is no demon she cannot slay, no challenge she cannot handle. Until, that is, the confounding mage Foolie Dent professes his love to her. Though she has long turned away from the world’s expectations of femininity and romance, this annoying-yet-dependable new friend just might shake things up!
Chitose Oki has a huge crush on his next-door neighbor Tomo, but there’s one small problem—his height. Back as kids, when his dream girl said she wouldn’t marry him until he grew up, poor Chitose took that quite literally. These days, it’s not just height—one embarrassing misunderstanding after another keeps them from seeing eye to eye. The truth is, they’re both head over heels for each other, but it’s a tall order to confess your feelings to the one you love.
After her first amateur fight ends in a swift KO, Natsuo is disappointed…not in her dominant performance, but because the win came too easy, a far cry from the brutal challenge that she craves. When she finds out that her rival Yuzuko Mawatari will be entering the rookie selection competition for the big G-Girl tournament at the end of the year, it lights a fire under her. She trains single-mindedly for the chance to pummel Yuzuko’s little face in the ring, but her coach thinks it’s far too soon to be entering a competition of that caliber, full of killer fighters…a prospect that makes Natsuo only more hungry.
Kodansha announces the global release of its third branded film, featuring AKIRA and Attack on Titan
Kodansha Ltd. has so far produced two branded films as part of global expansion efforts. Its third and latest
branded film,
LIGHT HOLE
, is the winner of Kodansha’s global film contest, chosen from over 150 entries from within Japan and overseas.
Combining live action with papercraft stop-motion animation, the film provides a cinematic experience that has never
been seen before.
The film begins with a girl opening a book. When she becomes immersed in the world in the story, a light hole opens
up. That light hole is an entrance to the world of imagination, a portal between the real world and the worlds in
stories.
Live action was combined with papercraft stop-motion animation to create a surreal setting that juxtaposes the real
world with the worlds in stories. It is a world where figments of the imagination become possible, a world where a
girl’s fantasies run free.
The movie world expressed with paper brings together over 100 works by Kodansha, including
AKIRA
,
Attack on Titan
, and
Blue Period
. In addition to our manga, the film captures the essence of a wide range of Kodansha’s genres, from journalism to
fashion, beauty, literature, arts and sciences, and children’s books. Each time you watch it, you’ll notice something
new. Popular manga artists also appear in this exciting film.
Kodansha’s Branded Film series Since Kodansha was first established in 1909, it has emphasized stories that are both interesting and beneficial to readers, a brand purpose that Kodansha expresses as “Inspire Impossible Stories” in English. This reflects Kodansha’s commitment to being a company that continuously inspires new discoveries and creativity in both creators and readers, sparking impossible stories that have never been seen before.
Kodansha began initiatives to express this brand purpose in films in 2021. This is where Kodansha’s branded films come
in, as an exciting endeavor where Kodansha works together with talented creators to bring to life Kodansha’s vision
for the future of publishers.
An editor worked with the creator throughout the production process. Like with books, the editor brainstormed with the
creator to capture the world the creator wanted to bring to the screen. This process was overseen by the Creators’
Lab, our department for creating new businesses. This project exemplified our stance of “The Creative Collaborator,”
where the creator and the publisher work together to create a new story.
In contrast to our previous film, LIGHT HOLE was produced for a domestic audience, placing the characters and worlds of Kodansha’s works, such as AKIRA and Attack on Titan, front and center.
Directed by Toru Katori, the independent creator who was selected from over 150 entries from within Japan and overseas, the film uses a unique combination of live action and papercraft stop-motion animation to capture a reader’s immersion in the world of a story. It is the first film in the series for which applications were accepted from directors around the world. https://youtu.be/iIL_CB_YjFk
Director’s message (from Toru Katori) The concept for this film was the way stories connect the reader and the creator.
In LIGHT HOLE, paper media like books and manuscripts are shown in 3D, creating that world. What begins as a story on a page takes on various new forms that impact reality. I wanted to take Kodansha’s approach to stories, where nothing is impossible and anything can be created, and depict that in a film. I think this work is what it is because of everyone at Creators’ Lab who believed in this project and accompanied me on it, and the ideas of the staff.
Profiles of the production team
Director: Toru Katori Joined THE DIRECTORS GUILD after working for a design studio. His projects include production of live-action works, along with production of illustration-based character designs and animation, stop motion, and puppetry. He works on a wide range of media including commercials, music videos, and short movies.
Animation director: Takuro Oishi Established Lunch Box Studios LLP. in 2013. His work centers on stop-motion animation but spans a wide range of areas including 3D modeling and illustrations. In 2024, he was the animation director for the opening sequence of the TV drama Unmet. https://lunchbox-st.com/
Producer: Satoshi Otake Joined GEEK PICTURES in 2014 and began working as a producer in 2020. Works on planning and production of media, primarily movies and commercials, for purposes such as brand communication. He was involved in the overseas promotion of GACHIAKUTA in 2025.
About KODANSHA Ltd. Based in Tokyo, KODANSHA Ltd. is Japan’s leading publishing house, having delivered stories into ready hands across the globe with a wide variety of content from comic books to novels, fashion magazines, news journals and picture books for children, as well as video games and anime series and movies.
KODANSHA Ltd. was founded in 1909 to “Inspire Impossible Stories”, and is globally recognized as the licensor of some of the world’s most loved comic book IPs, including AKIRA , Attack on Titan and The Ghost in the Shell. https://www.kodansha.com/
Grammy Award-winning artist The Weeknd recommends Assassin Thriller Nezumi’s First Love! Volume 3 Debuts in English
March 2026!
First serialized in the pages of Kodansha’s Young Magazine , and boasting more than 1.5 million volumes sold worldwide, Nezumi’s First Love — the gritty assassin-in-love crime thriller — sees the third volume in English debut March 24, 2026. After a recent visit to Kodansha headquarters in Tokyo, Japan, the globally renowned singer-songwriter, The Weeknd—known for hit songs like “Blinding Lights” — has offered praise for this series. As an avid reader of the series, The Weeknd shared his feelings and endorsement of Nezumi’s First Love:
The Weeknd commented, “A vicious descent into violence and vulnerability,
Nezumi’s First Love
grips the throat and refuses mercy. Through carnage and despair, Riku Oseto clings to a fragile hope—where love cuts
deeper than any blade. Beautiful, brutal, and unflinching, this dark romance is not for the faint of heart and leaves
readers desperate for a happy ending.”
Riku Oseto, the author of
Nezumi’s First Love
, responded, “I was truly astonished, and it’s an honor. I was deeply moved that The Weeknd expressed, through his
beautiful writing, thoughtful sentiments about themes in
Nezumi’s First Love
that I hadn’t even put to words myself. “I will continue drawing this manga until its conclusion and strive to create
something worthy of the praise it has received.
Nezumi’s First Love currently has two volumes released in English, with a third scheduled for March 2026. All English-language volumes are available in both print and digital versions. Print editions can be purchased at physical and online book stores like Amazon, Barnes & Noble, Books-A-Million, and more. While digital editions are available across all our participating vendors, including Bookwalker, Amazon Kindle, Apple Books, Google Play, Nook, Kobo, MyAnimeList, among others. Fans can also purchase and read all Kodansha digital manga directly on uat.kodansha.us/ .
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 , Battle Angel Alita , Witch Hat Atelier , and the popular MONOGATARI novels, 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 uat.kodansha.us/ .
Title Overview: Title: Nezumi’s First Love Author: Riku Oseto Published in English by: Kodansha USA Publishing LLC Synopsis: Nezumi was raised by the yakuza to be a killer. It’s all she’s ever known. Love is something she’s never experienced or even contemplated…until she meets an ordinary, hapless young man named Ao in an arcade during a hit. Suddenly thrust into the simple bliss of shared dinners, video games, and bashful intimacy, Nezumi is happy for the first time in her life.
But her masters were never going to allow the dream to last forever. Now Nezumi has to make a terrible choice to save
Ao’s life—and her own. How far will this killing machine go to assert her humanity…?
Regarding Volume 3 of the Manga Series: Release Date: Tuesday, March 24, 2026 List Price: Print $13.95 USD // Digital $8.99 Page count: 192 pages
Highlights: Recommended by Grammy Award-winning artist The Weeknd! This series depicts the brutally cruel and heartbreaking first love between a girl assassin named Nezumi and an ordinary young man named Ao, surpassing 1.5 million copies sold worldwide!
Let the games and savings begin with the Sports Manga Madness digital sale!
Get into the competative spirit with heart-pounding sports and game manga on sale and available digitally!
From the mixed martial arts drama of Teppu (Also in print via Kodansha Print Club), to the bases loaded saga of Ace of the Diamond, or the basketball-fueled romance of Getting Closer To You, and even the finely trained elegance of figure skating in Knight of the Ice. Now’s the chance to get in the game with all these exciting series and more now on sale up to 50% off!
Sale ends Monday, March 16, 2026!
For a limited time stock up on these sports and games-powered series by purchasing on
uat.kodansha.us/
or by visiting any of our participating digital manga vendors:
See what’s on sale during the
Sports Manga Madnessdigital sale
with recommendations and the full list of series on sale below:
Blade Girl By Narumi Shigematsu
An energizing coming-of-age story about a teenager,
Blade Girl
follows Rin as she navigates life with a new prosthetic leg. She meets fellow athletes along the way in this
three-volume manga full of heart, drama, and action! A Kodansha Print Club series.
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.
High schooler and budding Shooto mixed martial arts fighter, Meguru Takayanagi, reunites with his old friend from
grade school, Takashi Segawa, in the ring for the first time in seven years. However, while the two used to be good
friends, due to the difference in their upbringings, Takashi now sees Meguru as an enemy. Without a moment of joy to
commemorate their reunion, the old friends’ match begins…
For Kaho, a man’s muscles are all that matters. She’s sports-agnostic, type-agnostic—all she cares about are that those abs, pecs, biceps and delts look good. She thinks she’s found her perfect Muscle Prince in Natsume-sempai…that is, until he finds out what a muscle-freak she is. But instead of ridiculing her, he instead suggests she becomes manager of the basketball team—the one he just so happens to be on? For a muscle-lover like Kaho, there’s nothing to lose…and everything to gain. By the author of Four Kisses, in Secret!
