What’s your weapon of your choice? Superpowers? Martial arts? Mobile suits? Or an entire army?! When it comes to manga with epic battles, you can never be too sure! This week, we’re featuring 35+ manga series with the best fight scenes and put them on discount up to 50% off during the Battle Manga Sale at all of our digital retail partners: BookWalker, comiXology, Google Play, Kindle, and nook. (Sale ends June 3.)

Wanna see … Battles x Fantasy? 

Wanna see … Battles x Science-Fiction? 

Wanna see … Battles x Martial Arts?

Wanna see … Battles x Romance?

Wanna see Battles x Full-blown War? 

~ Battle Manga Sale  ~
May 28 ~ June 3
Click on the link to read Chapter 1 for FREE!

A.I.C.O Incarnated
All-Rounder Meguru
Ajin: Demi-Human
Ayanashi
Basilisk
BLAME!
Boarding School Juliet
Cage of Eden
Devil Survivor
Devils’ Line
Drifting Dragons
Fire Force
Golosseum
The Heroic Legend of Arslan
I’m Standing on A Million Lives
In/Spectre
Inuyashiki
Karate Heat
Kigurumi Guardians
Knights of Sidonia
Kokkoku: Moment by Moment
Land of the Lustrous
Livingstone
Monster Soul
Museum
Nekogahara: Stray Cat Samurai
Ninja Girls
Ninja Slayer Kills!
Pitch-Black Ten
Pumpkin Scissors
Real Account
Tokyo Revengers
UQ Holder!
Yagyu Ninja Scrolls
Vinland Saga

Looking for a new romantic relationship—with manga? 😂 Because here at Kodansha Comics, we may have just the right match for you!
This week only, we’re featuring 33 spicy manga hits like Peach Heaven, Domestic Girlfriend, and Ao-chan Can’t Study, and put them up for a crazy deal at our digital retail partners: BookWalker, comiXology, Google Play, Kindle, and nook. 
Here’s the deal
Looking for something casual? Then try Volume 1’s of every romance manga on sale on digital for only 99¢!

Wanna get more serious? Then keep going—because all other volumes are up to 50% off!
Pretty sweet deal huh? But you gotta hurry, because the sale will end on May 27!

 

~ Kodansha Comics Romance Manga Sale  ~
May 21-27
Click on the link to read Chapter 1 for FREE!

Ao-chan Can’t Study!
Asahi-Sempai’s Favorite
Beauty Bunny
Beware the Kamiki Brothers!
Black Panther and Sweet 16
Cosplay Animal
Defying Kurosaki-san
Domestic Girlfriend
Forget Me Not
The Full-Time Wife Escapist
Gakuen Prince
Hotaru’s Way
Kakafukaka
Kiss Me at the Stroke of Midnight
LDK
Liar x Liar
Living-room Matsunaga-san
Love and Lies
Love Massage: Melting Beauty Treatment
Love’s Reach
Lovesick Ellie
Mikami-sensei’s Way of Love
Missions of Love
Momo’s Iron Will
Moteki
My Pink Is Overflowing
O Maidens in Your Savage Season
Peach Girl
Peach Girl NEXT
Peach Heaven
Peach Mermaid
Real Girl
You Got Me, Sempai!

 

Wanna check out The Seven Deadly Sins but unsure where to start? Been a fan of the anime and looking to catch up on the manga? Here’s the best deal for you: This week, we’re having The Seven Deadly Sins Sale, where all volumes of the Kodansha Comics classic series are up to 50% off at all of our digital retail partners: BookWalker, comiXology, Google Play, iBooks, Kindle, Kobo, and nook. (Sale ends May 13.)

Here’s Chapter 1 of the The Seven Deadly Sins manga for FREE!
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The Seven Deadly Sins Volumes 1-31 are available now from Kodansha Comics — look for Volume 32 coming out May 14!

Sweepstakes, Color Image Gallery, special message from Nakaba Suzuki (creator of The Seven Deadly Sins) & MORE!
Celebrate 10 years of Kodansha Comics with The Seven Deadly Sins May!

 

10 years of Kodansha Comics!

The year 2019 marks the 10th anniversary of the first Kodansha Comics manga published in English. Please join us in celebration as we select one classic Kodansha Comics series each month for exclusive content, promotions, and other surprises!

The Seven Deadly Sins Volumes 1-31 are available now from Kodansha Comics — and look for Volume 32 coming out May 14!

Our May Spotlight title is Nakaba Suzuki’s beloved, action-packed shonen series The Seven Deadly Sins! So what kind of “special surprises” do we have waiting for you this month? Check these out…

Surprise 1: Exclusive The Seven Deadly Sins pin!

As a part of the 10 Years of Kodansha Comics project, we’ve teamed up with our friends at Rightstuf to bring you these awesome exclusive The Seven Deadly Sins pins!

Visit Rightstuf and order any volume of The Seven Deadly Sins and you’ll receive an exclusive The Seven Deadly Sins pin for FREE! Available this month (May 2019) only or while supplies last.

Surprise 2: The Seven Deadly Sins Digital Sale

Have you been wanting to check out The Seven Deadly Sins but unsure where to start? Been a fan of the anime and looking to catch up on the manga? Here’s the best deal for you: This week, we’re having The Seven Deadly Sins Sale, where all volumes of the Kodansha classic series are up to 50% off at all of our digital retail partners: BookWalker, comiXology, Google Play, iBooks, Kindle, Kobo, and nook. (Sale ends May 13.) …More Details 

Surprise 3: The Seven Deadly Sins Survey Sweepstakes!

Wanna know everything about The Seven Deadly Sins? Like following their entire adventure, from the past to present, manga to anime?  Well here’s your lucky chance: For the month of May only, ONE lucky winner will win: a set of The Seven Deadly Sins manga Volumes 1-32, both volumes of The Seven Deadly Sins: Seven Days, and one copy of The Seven Deadly Sins Season 1 Part 1 & Season 1 Part 2 Bluray/DVD, provided by our friends at Funimation! All you have to do is take this survey by May 31 to enter for a chance to win. …More Details

Surprise 4: Enter the The Seven Deadly Sins Worldwide Fan Art Contest!
The Seven Deadly Sins Drawing Knighthood is back and wants to see your The Seven Deadly Sins fan art!
Send your The Seven Deadly Sins fan art for a chance to have your fan art featured in an upcoming Japanese (and later English) volume of The Seven Deadly Sins— and for a chance to win a signed clear file or an exclusive signed shikishi from The Seven Deadly Sins creator, Nakaba Suzuki-sensei! …More Details

 
About Nakaba Suzuki

Born in Fukushima, Japan on Feburary 8, 1977, Nakaba Suzuki debuted as a mangaka in 1994 in Weekly Shonen Jump Special ‘95 Spring Special (published by Shueisha). In 2012, he began serializing The Seven Deadly Sins in Weekly Shonen Magazine (Kodansha). Interesting fact: he’s one of the few manga artists who have serialized manga in all four major weekly manga magazines in Japan.
Then check out Kodansha Comics’ exclusive interview with Nakaba Suzuki from 2015! 

Surprise 5: The Seven Deadly Sins Color Image Gallery
Kodansha Comics is also proud to present a special The Seven Deadly Sins color image gallery! Click through the gallery below to see some never-before-seen color art of Meliodas, Elizabeth, and the rest of The Seven Deadly Sins!
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That ain’t all—The Seven Deadly Sins creator Nakaba Suzuki also sent us this lovely message to celebrate our 10th Anniversary with us!

Thank you, Suzuki-sensei!

 

Celebrate 10 Years of Kodansha Comics with us all year long by following us on KodanshaComics.com!

Be sure to check back again next month, when we’ll be throwing the spotlight onto yet another Kodansha classic!

 
 
 

Grrr! Love monsters and all things terrifying? This week, we’re having a kaiju-size sale featuring 40 manga series including Gleipnir—a new, dark body-horror manga series from Kodansha Comics! All volumes of selected series are up to 50% off at our digital retail partners: BookWalker, comiXology, Google Play, Kindle, and nook. But HURRY! Sale ends May 6!

Gleipnir by Sun Takeda
Click on the cover to read all of Chapter 1 for FREE! 

~ Monster Manga Sale  ~
April 30-May 6
Click on the link to read Chapter 1 for FREE!

A.I.C.O. Incarnation
Ajin: Demi-Human
Alicia’s Diet Quest
ALIVE
Ayanashi
Basilisk
BLAME!
Devils’ Line
Drifting Dragons
Elegant Yokai Apartment Life
Fort of Apocalypse
Frau Faust
The Ghost and the Lady
Gleipnir
Golosseum
Good Dog, Cerberus!
Happiness
Hozuki’s Coolheadedness
I Want to Hold Aono-kun so Badly I Could Die
I’m Standing on A Million Lives
In/Spectre
Interview with Monster Girls
Kokkoku: Moment by Moment
Knights of Sidonia
Livingstone
Museum
Mushishi
Parasyte
Princess Resurrection
Princess Resurrection: Nightmare
Pumpkin Scissors
PTSD Radio
Real Account
Red Riding Hood’s Wolf Apprentice
Sankarea
Starving Anonymous
To the Abandoned Sacred Beasts
Witchcraft Works
That Wolf-Boy Is Mine!
Yagyu Ninja Scrolls
Yozakura Quartet

It’s officially spring, and a new season of romance is here! Looking for a breath of fresh air? Because we may have what you are looking for. 😉 This week, we’re having a BL and Yuri Manga Sale, featuring BL and yuri series from Kodansha Comics and put them on discount up to 50% off at all of our digital retail partners: BookWalker, comiXology, Google Play, iBooks, Kindle, Kobo, and nook. (Sale ends April 29.) 

~ BL and Yuri Digital Sale  ~
April 23-29
Click on the cover to read Chapter 1 for FREE!

 
10 Dance
By Inouesatoh
Ages: 16+
Dip into your new obsession in this steamy gay ballroom romance! The beautifully detailed, lithe bodies of the two “kings of the ballroom” fly across the dance floor as rivals build a volatile bond in this red-hot romance!
Shinya Sugiki, the dashing lord of Standard Ballroom, and Shinya Suzuki, passionate king of Latin Dance: the two share more than just a first name and a love of the sport. They each want to become champion of the 10-Dance Competition, which means they’ll need to learn the other’s specialty dances, and who better to learn from than the best? But old rivalries die hard, and things get complicated even further when they realize there might be more between them than an uneasy partnership …
 
 
 
 
 

Yuri Is My Job!
By Miman
Ages: 13+

 
 
 
 
 

 
Hitorijime My Hero
By Memeco Arii
Ages: 16+
A BL romance between a good boy who didn’t know he was waiting for a hero, and a bad boy who comes to his rescue! Now a hit streaming anime!
Masahiro Setagawa doesn’t believe in heroes, but wishes he could: he’s found himself trapped in a gang of small-time street bullies, and with no prospects for a real future. But when high school teacher (and scourge of the streets) Kousuke Ohshiba comes to his rescue, he finds he may start believing after all … in heroes, and in his budding feelings, too.
 
 
 
 

 

 
Stray Bullet Baby
By Kei Ichikawa
Ages: Mature
Chihiro Murakami works at a film advertising firm and looks up to Kiyoharu Honna, the stylish editor of the trendy magazine his company does business with. He’s cool, his smile is beautiful, and he’s good at his job. But Chihiro hasn’t had a chance yet to get close to him. However, one day he ends up looking after a dead-drunk Honna and goes home with him and … !? A selfish beauty and the man wrapped around his finger.
 
 

 
 

 

 

Intertwining Lives
By KAZU
Ages: Mature

 

 
Key Ring Lock
By ymz
Ages: Mature

 

 
 
Keeping His Whim in Check
By Pi
Ages: Mature
Proclaimed handsome elite businessman, Yuto Shinonome, falls in love at first sight with Tamaki, a beauty who’s exactly his type. It hits him like a ton of bricks when he finds out Tamaki is actually a guy!! Nevertheless, Yuto still acts like a kid with a crush and teases Tamaki like there’s no tomorrow … How can perverse Yuto handle love!?
 
 
 
 
 

The most talked-about and highly anticipated manga of recent years, Hikaru Nakamura’s Saint Young Men—is finally here in English. Volume 1 goes on sale as a digital edition on April 23 at all of Kodansha Comics’s partner digital platforms, including Amazon Kindle, Apple Books, BookWalker, comiXology, Google Play, Kobo, MyAnimeList, and nook.
Nakamura’s sly comedy documents the everyday life of two not-so-ordinary young men sharing an apartment in modern-day Tokyo: Jesus Christ and Gautama Buddha. Published in 16 volumes (and still ongoing) under the Japanese title Seinto oniisan in Japan, Saint Young Men Volume 1 goes on sale April 23, with subsequent volumes to be released once a month thereafter. Click on the cover—or scroll below—to read a free preview!

Volume 1 also features a specially-penned afterword by British Museum curator Nicole Coolidge Rousmaniere. “Who would have thought that Buddha would have a passion for manga? What Nakamura has managed to do with Saint Young Men is to entertain, stimulate and keep us addicted to this wonderful friendship that never fails to make you see life around you slightly differently as a result,” writes Rousmaniere, who helped acquire pages from Saint Young Men for the British Museum’s genga collection.
To celebrate the occasion of Saint Young Men‘s English-publication debut, we’re presenting the entirety of Rousmaniere’s afterword, right here:
Afterword: Hikaru Nakamura’s Saint Young Men Power
By Nicole Coolidge Rousmaniere, IFAC Handa Curator of Japanese Arts, British Museum and Research Director of Sainsbury Institute, University of East Anglia
Perhaps it was Jesus and Buddha looking like tourists and wearing slogan T-shirts on the cover of the first volume of Hikaru Nakamura’s Saint Young Men that first compelled me to pick up the manga at Kyoto Station in 2008. But from that moment I was hooked. My love affair with this manga shows no sign of abating at Volume 16 and I can only rejoice that Nakamura sensei’s work is being translated into English and will become available to English-speaking audiences with this new Kodansha edition.
Shortly after purchasing the first volume in Japan we accessioned it into the British Museum Japan section library and then shortly afterward displayed it in the Mitsubishi Corporation Japanese Galleries in the manga section display (Room 94). Soon we were trending on Twitter, and happily in a very positive light.
Only Hikaru Nakamura could have created a manga that centers on the theme of Buddha and Jesus renting a flat together in Tachikawa, Tokyo. The premise is that they are taking a gap year on Earth in order to understand modern Japanese life. They attempt to hide their identities and share everyday adventures, resulting in often hilarious situations. The series started off as a short-run gag manga in 2006 in Kodansha’s magazine Morning 2 under the encouragement of chief editor Kôhei Furukawa, and is still going strong and gaining more and more followers with each tankôbon (graphic novel) release.
Hikaru Nakamura is a young and incredibly popular manga artist who specialises in comedy. She broke into the mainstream manga world with her work Arakawa Under the Bridge (started in 2005), which chronicles the adventures of a compelling tribe of homeless characters living under a bridge in Tokyo. Her work was formally recognised in 2009 when she was awarded the prestigious Tezuka Osamu prize for her short stories for Saint Young Men.
Such was the interest at the British Museum in manga in general and in Hikaru Nakamura’s work in particular, I was able to curate a compact Asahi Shimbun “Objects in Focus” display at the British Museum at the very front of the museum in 2015 titled Manga Now. We featured three generations of manga artists—Chiba Tetsuya (b. 1939), Hoshino Yukinobu (b. 1954) and Nakamura Hikaru (b. 1984)—and in a few months drew close to 100, 000 visitors of all ages. Each artist had a bespoke work for the exhibition and we illustrated a representative story from each in translation. The designer wanted the exhibition to feel as if one was entering a manga itself and with the drawings on frames inside the space and not against the wall.
We reached out to Hikaru Nakamura sensei initially, as you may have guessed, on Twitter. Soon afterwards we were lucky to be able to meet her editor at Kodansha, Kôji Tabuchi, who then after a thorough interrogation as to our intentions introduced us to Nakamura sensei herself. I have to admit to being a bit star-struck after following her work for so long. Meeting her was also a revelation. She was refreshingly open in discussing her challenges and discoveries in creating a manga on such a potentially controversial theme. Nakamura sensei mentioned she was surprised by the positive reactions to her manga and that she received a number of letters from religious specialists, university professors, Buddhist priests and Christian clergy. The readership seems quite broad judging by the letters she noted, ranging from young adults to people in their sixties.
Happily she donated a story to the British Museum and chose episode 69,“The Loveable Rascal in a Red Suit,” when Jesus Christ experiences Christmas, his birthday, in Japan, where the immense popularity of Santa Claus takes him by surprise. To calm down, Jesus takes a walk and accidentally finds his way into a confessional booth in a Catholic church, and confesses to the priest his unexpected jealousy of Santa’s popularity. I will not give the rest of the story away, but believe me it will be worth the wait for the translation. Her donation of this story was our own Christmas present and became pivotal for the Museum’s nascent genga collection and most certainly paved the way for the large manga exhibition at the British Museum in the summer of 2019. When we were creating this display in 2015 Saint Young Men was not yet translated into English as we undertook the task ourselves. Until doing this I had no idea how challenging it would be to translate Nakamura sensei’s puns and word plays into English. She is a wordsmith keeping her references topical to contemporary interests. Even Jesus and Buddha’s T-shirt slogan messages are all carefully curated to give an added punch and smile to her readers.
Nakamura sensei also donated the cover artwork for Volume 10 where Buddha is learning how to draw manga, a newly found passion of his. It is early morning, they have stayed up all night and Buddha is still going strong but Jesus has fallen asleep, G-pen still in hand. Who would have thought that Buddha would have a passion for manga? What Nakamura has managed to do with Saint Young Men is to entertain, stimulate and keep us addicted to this wonderful friendship that never fails to make you see life around you slightly differently as a result.
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