Save on sensational Throwback Favorites with $0.99 volumes 1s
If the end of summer has you feeling a bit nostalgic, we’re here to help by offering huge discounts no classic Kodansha stories like MARS, BECK, Battle Angel Alita, BLAME! and more during the Throwback Favorites digital sale! Right now fans can take advantage and sample 12 different series with each volume 1 priced at only $0.99. Not only that continue to binge or complete your collection of these Throwback Favorites with additional volumes up to 50% off!
Sale ends Monday, September 14, 2026!
You can pick these titles up for your collection by purchasing them on kodansha.us or through one of our participating digital manga vendors:
Amazon Kindle
Barnes & Noble Nook
Bookwalker
Google Play
Apple Books
MyAnimeList
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and more!
See the full details on these discounted titles for the Throwback Favorites digital sale below:
BECK
By Harold Sakuishi
Fourteen-year-old Yukio Tanaka is one heck of a boring guy. He has no hobbies, weak taste in music, and only a small vestige of a personality. His shy and somewhat neurotic personality makes him his own worst enemy. Little does he know that his life will be forever changed when he meets rocker Ryusuke Minami, an unpredictable sixteen-year-old with a cool dog named Beck. Ryusuke has just returned to Japan from America, and when he inspires Yukio to get into music, the two begin a journey through the world of rock ‘n’ roll dreams! Lace up your Docs and head to the mosh pit-Harold Sakuishi’s manga series that spawned the hit anime is back!
Rated: 16+
MARS
By Fuyumi Soryo
Are you ready for some … drama? The all-time, long out-of-print shojo manga classic is back! With even more twists and turns then you probably remember, Fuyumi Soryo’s beautifully illustrated high-school psychodrama turned some young comics readers heads inside-out when it was first released, with hysterical plots revolving around the traumatic secret histories of its seemingly poised protagonists. Art class was never quite like this … Super popular motorcycle racer Rei and shy, neurotic art student Kira are worlds apart … until one fateful day brings them together. Rei stumbles upon Kira in the harassing hands of her sleazy art teacher and saves the quiet girl from his clutches. And when the resident school pretty boy plants a kiss on a statue of Mars in the studio, Kira finds herself drawn in and even summons up the nerve to ask him to model for her!
Rated: 13+
Shugo Chara!
By PEACH-PIT
Everybody at Seiyo Elementary thinks that stylish and supercool Amu has it all. But nobody knows the real Amu, a shy girl who wishes she had the courage to truly be herself. Changing Amu’s life is going to take more than wishes and dreams—it’s going to take a little magic! One morning, Amu finds a surprise in her bed: three strange little eggs. Each egg contains a Guardian Character, an angel-like being who can give her the power to be someone new. With the help of her Guardian Characters, Amu is about to discover that her true self is even more amazing than she ever dreamed.
Rated: 10+
Kitchen Princess Omnibus
By Natsumi Ando
Najika is a great cook who likes to make meals for the people she loves. But something is missing from her life. When she was a child, she met a boy who touched her heart-and now she’s determined to find him. The only clue Najika has is a silver spoon that leads her to the prestigious Seika Academy, but attending Seika will be a challenge. Every kid at the school has a special talent, and the girls in Najika’s class think she doesn’t deserve to be there. But Sora and Daichi, two popular brothers who barely speak to each other, recognize Najika’s cooking talent for what it is-magical. Is either boy Najika’s mysterious prince?
Rated: 13+
School Rumble
By Jin Kobayashi
She … is a second-year high school student with a single all-consuming question: Will the boy she likes ever really notice her? He … is the school’s most notorious juvenile delinquent and he’s suddenly come to a shocking realization: He’s got a huge crush, and now he must tell her how he feels. Life-changing obsessions, colossal foul-ups, grand schemes, deep-seated anxieties, and raging hormones-School Rumble portrays high school as it really is: over-the-top comedy!
Rated: 16+
See below for the full list of discounted series during the Throwback Favorites digital sale happening now until September 14, 2026:
ARISA
Battle Angel Alita
BECK
BLAME!
Kitchen Princess Omnibus
Love Hina Omnibus
MARS
Peach Girl
Saiyuki: The Original Series Resurrected Edition
School Rumble
Shugo Chara Chan!
Shugo Chara!