NISIOISIN Humble Bundle is Here!

NISIOISIN-focused Humble Bundle Offers Manga, Light Novels & Audiobooks

Get over $400 worth of NISIOISIN titles from series like BAKEMONOGATARI, Pretty Boy Detective Club, KATANAGATARI & more starting at $1


Kodansha & Humble Bundle are teaming up once again to bring a massive, multimedia bundle featuring the works of fan-favorite author NISIOISIN – creator of the hit light novel series BAKEMONOGATARI, now with manga and anime adaptations. With the MONOGATARI RETURNS Humble Bundle fans can save big and receive over 40 NISIOISIN titles, including newly bundled digital manga, light novels, and audiobook content never before offered on Humble Bundle. This special bundle valued at over $400, comes just in time for the holidays and is available now until December 30, 2021.

Read ’em anywhere: All the light novels, manga & audiobooks featured as part of the MONOGATARI RETURNS Humble Bundle will be delivered digitally upon purchase in multiple formats including CBZ, PDF, ePub, FLAC and MP3 so they work on your computer, e-readers, iPads, cell phones, and a wide array of mobile devices!

Support charity: For this Humble Bundle, Kodansha will be leveraging the purchasing power of each bundle – whether it’s at the $1 tier or the $30 to donate a portion of the proceeds to a worthy cause! Choose where the money goes among Kodansha and our preselected charity, the BINC, the Book Industry Charitable Foundation – an organization helping bookstore owners, booksellers, and comic store employees and owners with unforeseen emergency financial needs. Or you can also choose a charity of your preference via the PayPal Giving Fund.

See below for information on the different tiers – starting at $1 – detailing all the amazing books fans can expect as part of the MONOGATARI RETURNS Humble Bundle:

Pay $1 or more to get:
BAKEMONOGATARI (manga) Vol. 1
Imperfect Girl (manga) Vol. 1
KOYOMIMONOGATARI, Part 1
NISEMONOGATARI, Part 1

Pay $10 or more to get:
BAKEMONOGATARI (manga) Vol. 2
BAKEMONOGATARI (manga) Vol. 3
BAKEMONOGATARI, Part 1
BAKEMONOGATARI,Part 2
BAKEMONOGATARI, Part 3
Imperfect Girl (manga) Vol. 2
KATANAGATARI, Part 1
KIZUMONOGATARI
NISEMONOGATARI, 
Part 2
NEKOMONOGATARI (BLACK)
NEKOMONOGATARI (WHITE)

Pay $20 or more to get:
BAKEMONOGATARI (manga) Vol. 4
BAKEMONOGATARI (manga) Vol. 5
BAKEMONOGATARI (manga) Vol. 6
BAKEMONOGATARI (manga) Vol. 7
BAKEMONOGATARI (manga) Vol. 8
BAKEMONOGATARI (manga) Vol. 9
HANAMONOGATARI
Imperfect Girl (manga) Vol. 3 
– FINAL VOL. 
KABUKIMONOGATARI
KATANAGATARI, 
Part 2
KOIMONOGATARI
KOYOMIMONOGATARI, 
Part 2
ONIMONOGATARI
OTORIMONOGATARI
TSUKIMONOGATARI

Pay $30 or more to get:
DECAPITATION
KATANAGATARI, 
Part 3
KATANAGATARI, Part 4 – FINAL VOL.
KIZUMONOGATARI (full unabridged audiobook)
NEKOMONOGATARI (WHITE) (full unabridged audiobook)
​​OWARIMONOGATARI, Part 1
OWARIMONOGATARI, Part 2
OWARIMONOGATARI, Part 3
STRANGULATION
SUSPENSION
ZOKU OWARIMONOGATARI 
– FINAL VOL.
The Dark Star That Shines for You Alone
The Swindler, the Vanishing Man, and the Pretty Boys
The Pretty Boy in the Attic

For the full list of titles included in this Humble Bundle visit the MONOGATARI RETURNS Humble Bundle homepage.

Spotlighting the very best from VERTICAL in this Hot Picks Digital Sale (Ends 8/24)

Don’t toy with these sizzling hot manga deals!

This summer where do you think you’ll find the most fun? Stuck the sand? Swimming the surf? Tanning under the sun? Think again! It’s with the VERTICAL Hot Picks digital manga sale! That’s right for an extended period of time you can take up to 50% on a number of VERTICAL fan-favorites and critically acclaimed manga!

Take advantage of this great summer sale to sample select digital manga at a price that won’t sink your wallet – including the tsundere romantic comedy – and soon to be an anime – Don’t Toy With Me, Miss Nagatoro, or the Tsutomu Nihei sci-fi epics APOSIMZ, BLAME! and Knights of Sidonia, the heart pounding psychological thriller The Flowers of Evil, and even the scrumptious slice-of-life What Did You Eat Yesterday?.

Want more? Just visit one of our participating digital vendors to save up to 50% off VERTICAL Hot Picks titles listed below: BookwalkercomiXology, Google Play, Kindle, Nook and izneo. Sale runs from August 10 to 24!

 

~VERTICAL Hot Picks Digital Sale! ~
August 10 – 24
See below for the full list of titles being offered during this sale,
and click on the links below to read chapter 1s FREE!

Featuring:

Bakemonogatari (manga) (Vols. 1-3)

Sale also includes:

Ajin: Demi Human (Vols. 1-7)
APOSIMZ (Vols. 1-3)
Don’t Toy With Me, Miss Nagatoro (Vols. 1-2)

BLAME! (Vols. 1-3)
CITY (Vols. 1-5)
Devils’ Line (Vols. 1-7)
From the New World (Vols. 1-4)
The Golden Sheep (Vols. 1-2)
Kino’s Journey- The Beautiful World (Vols. 1-3)
Knights of Sidonia (Vols. 1-8)
Imperfect Girl (Vols. 1-2)
Moteki (Vol. 1)
Mysterious Girlfriend X (Vols. 1-3)
The Flowers of Evil (Vols. 1-6)
What Did You Eat Yesterday? (Vols. 1-7)

Looking for Fun & Done series? We’ve got the manga reads for you! (Ends 7/13)

Save big on short series with huge stories

Look, we get it, sometimes you don’t have the time to jump int that 100+ volume ninja pirate sorcery fantasy manga series. That’s ok. If you were looking for engaging and exciting manga stories you could finish in a single evening have we got the selection for you!

Right now you can check out the beautiful revisionist fantasy fable Red Riding Hood’s Wolf Apprentice, martial arts masterpiece Golosseum, the darkly hilarious Good Dog, Cerberus!, even the supernatural romantic comedy That Wolf Boy is Mine, and more for up to 50% off each volume! Stock right now on several series that will thrill you and also leave you and your wallet satisfied. 

Just visit one of our participating digital vendors to save up to 50% off select Kodansha Comics & VERTICAL manga: BookWalker, comiXology, Google Play, Kindle, Nook and izneo. Sale runs from July 7 to July 13!

 

~Fun & Done Digital Manga Sales! ~
July 7 – 13
See below for the full list of titles being offered during this sale,
and click on the links below to read chapter 1s FREE!

Complex Age 
Fairy Tail S 
Frau Faust 
The Black Museum: The Ghost and the Lady
The Golden Sheep
Golosseum
Good Dog, Cerberus!
Imperfect Girl
The Knight Cartoonist and Her Orc Editor
Love in Focus
Moteki
Museum
Prince in His Dark Days
Red Riding Hood’s Wolf Apprentice
That Wolf Boy is Mine
The Wizard and His Fairy

Scary Manga digital sale: 30+ manga series that creep … for up to 50% off! Ends 10/28

Things getting weird this fall? We’re certainly ready here at Kodansha Comics ‘cos we’re putting a whoppin’ 30+ digital series on sale that’ll creep your pants off! That’s right, this week all scary manga are up to 50% off at all of our digital retail partners: BookWalker, comiXology, Google Play, iBooks, Kindle, MyAnimeList, and nook. Sale ends Monday October 28, though! 

— Kodansha Comics Scary Manga Sale  —
October 22- 28
Read FREE Chapter 1 previews in the links below! 

ALIVE
AJIN
As the Gods Will: Second Series
Attack on Titan Before the Fall
Attack on Titan No Regrets
Attack on Titan Lost girls
Attack on Titan Anthology
Cage of Eden
Can You Just Die, My Darling?
Cells At Work CODE BLACK
Deathtopia
Devils’ Line
Dragon Head
Elegant Yokai Apartment Life
The Flowers of Evil
Fort of Apocalypse
Gleipnir
Happiness
Hozuki’s Coolheadedness
Kasane
Kokkoku: Moment by Moment
Imperfect Girl
In/Spectre
I Want to Hold Aono-kun So Badly I Could Die
Junjij Ito’s Cat Diary: Yon and Mu
Livingstone
The Ghost and the Lady
Neo Parasyte
Museum
Mushishi
Parasyte
Princess Resurrection
PTSD Radio
Sankarea
Starving Anonymous
Until Your Bones Rot
Witchcraft Works

 

There’s more! It is that time of year, isn’t it … ? This Saturday, October 26, we celebrate Halloween Comic Fest!

Here’s how it works: Visit your Local Comic Shop and pick up a free Kodansha Comics sampler of our new video-game-related manga featuring Tales of Berseria, Granblue Fantasy and Fate/Grand Order!

And from Vertical, a sampler of NISIOISIN’s hit-novel-series-turned-manga, BAKEMONOGATARIwith special tribute artwork inside, so check that out!

         

About Halloween Comic Fest

Halloween ComicFest (HCF) is the comic book industry’s premier fall event—a single day when participating comic book specialty shops across North America and around the world give away specially published comic books absolutely free to anyone who comes into their shops. Find your local participating comic book shop at halloweencomicfest.com

NISIOISIN Sale! Digital manga and MONOGATARI novels up to 50% off—plus Halloween Comic Fest!

To commemorate in style the debut of our epic BAKEMONOGATARI manga team-up today, we’ve decided to hold a special week-long digital sale featuring Japan’s biggest literary phenom (and palindromic pen-name) NISIOISIN! (It’s also our first digital sale featuring novels!)

If you’re an ebook reader, here’s a great chance to dive into some of the most original, daring fiction to appear on the Japanese literary scene in years. On sale is the “first season” of NISIOISIN’s famous MONOGATARI Series, featuring your favorite characters Kiss-Shot, Senjogahara, and Hanekawa. In addition, you can also pick up the full set of NISIOISIN’s thriller manga, Imperfect Girl.

Go to our digital retail partners Apple Books, BookWalker, comiXology, Google Play, Kindle, Kobo, MyAnimeList, and nook this week and get up to 50% off on our NISIOISIN digital libary! Sale ends October 7, though. Full list of titles on sale, below:

[novels]

KIZUMONOGATARI

BAKEMONOGATARI Part 1

BAKEMONOGATARI Part 2

BAKEMONOGATARI Part 3

NISEMONOGATARI Part 1

NISEMONOGATARI Part 2

NEKOMONOGATARI: BLACK

[manga]

Imperfect Girl

Halloween Comic Fest 2019

 

Wait, there’s more!? The end of the month marks not just Halloween, but Halloween Comic Fest—when participating comic-book specialty shops give away specially published comic books absolutely free. Just check out the Halloween Comic Fest website to find a participating retailer near you.

Both Kodansha Comics and Vertical will be part of the festivities and this year Vertical will be showcasing none other than the BAKEMONOGATARI manga! So here’s one way you can get a free sample, specially printed for comics stores!

As a bonus, there will also be special tribute artwork printed inside … details to be revealed soon! 

Halloween Manga Sale: Princess Resurrection Nightmare digital debut + 25 series up to 50% off!

With everyone dressed in costumes around town, we here at Kodansha Comics love Halloween! To celebrate this spectacular holiday, we are doing a HUGE Halloween Manga Sale this week, with 25 spooky, creepy, Halloween-y manga at a 50% off discount at all of our digital retail partners: BookWalkercomiXology, Google Play, iBooks, Kindle, MyAnimeList, and nook. (Sale ends November 5.)  

Not only that, we are summoning the princess of monsters from the darkness … with the digital debut of  Princess Resurrection Nightmare–– a brand new sequel to Yasunori Mitsunaga’s masterpiece, Princess ResurrectionVolume 1 is now available on all digital platforms at 50% off! (Sale ends November 5.)  

Whether you’re a die-hard horror fan or just looking for a costume idea for Halloween, be sure to check out the FULL list of manga on sale!

~ Halloween Manga Sale  ~
October 30 ~ November 5
Click on the link to read Chapter 1 for FREE!

Ajin: Demi-Human
As the Gods Will: The Second Series
Can You Just Die, My Darling?
Devils’ Line
Dragon Head
Elegant Yokai Apartment Life
The Flowers of Evil
Flying Witch
Happiness
Hozuki’s Coolheadedness
Imperfect Girl
Interview with Monster Girls
Kigurumi Guardians
Kokkoku: Moment by Moment
Museum
Noragami: Stray God
Parasyte
Princess Resurrection
Princess Resurrection Nightmare
Sankarea
Starving Anonymous
Witchcraft Works
The Wizard and his Fairy
That Wolf-Boy is Mine!
Yamada-kun and the Seven Witches
Yozakura Quartet

Animal Land Final Volume Celebration! HUGE digital sale + special tribute comics by Hiro Mashima, Hajime Isayama, Yoshitoki Oima

From the hilarious hijinks to the heart-wrenching battles, Raiku Makoto’s Animal Land has painted a wondrous and fearsome world of humans and animals … along with chimeras and clones! As this story draws to a close in its final Volume 14 on October 30, we’d like to share the special moment with you with the Animal Land Final Volume Celebration

The biggest Animal Land Digital Sale EVER!
Starting October 23, for the week leading up with the release of the final volume, we are offering the best deal ever yet on Animal Land volume 1 for ONLY 99¢ and the additional volumes for $4.99 on all of our digital retail partners: BookWalkercomiXology, Google Play, iBooks, Kindle, Kobo, and nook. If you’ve been thinking about catching up to the series, now is your chance! (Sale ends October 29.) 

Special Tribute Comics featuring Hiro Mashima, Hajime Isayama, Yoshitoki Oima & MORE!
In Japan, Animal Land was first serialized in Bessatsu Shonen Magazine’s debut issue, alongside many other titles like Attack on Titan and The Flowers of Evil to name a few. The following special tribute comics are by fellow authors from the monthly manga magazine—maybe you’ll recognize a few names, and even see some familiar characters!


To read more of these 4-panel comics, you can check out Animal Land volume 14, available October 30
th, 2018. Or read from the beginning and follow Taroza and his animal allies throughout their perilous journey filled with heart and tears!

Digital volume 1s by Yoshitoki Oima, Hiro Mashima, Tsutomu Nihei

Kodansha Comics is the home of awesome manga creators. Did you know we publish multiple manga by Yoshitoki Oima (critically acclaimed creator of A Silent Voice and To Your Eternity), Hiro Mashima (hit-machine creator of Fairy Tail and Rave Master), and Tsutomu Nihei (mad genius of BLAME! and Knights of Sidonia)?

As a continuation from last week, we’re hosting our second installment of  the Creator Spotlight Sale to showcase our amazing creators and their work at all of our digital retail partners:BookWalkercomiXology, Google Play, iBooks, Kindle, Kobo, MyAnimeList, and nook. 

Here’s the deal

First of all: all digital Volumes 1s of all series listed below only 99¢!
Next: if you like what you’re reading, keep going—because the all other volumes are up to 50% off!
And to make it even easier for you, we’ve put some of the series available as a complete series bundles up to 60% off!

Pretty sweet deal huh? But you gotta hurry, because the sale will end on May 28!

~ Kodansha Comics Creator Spotlight Sale Part 2  ~
May 22-28
Click on the cover to read Chapter 1 for FREE!


Yoshitoki Oima

Yoshitoki Oima became a global bestseller  with A Silent Voice, a realistic yet dramatic story of redemption about a boy who used to bully a hearing-impaired girl. But did you know that Oima worked on Mardock Scramblea 7-volume hard science-fiction epic, and To Your Eternity, her stunning current series that could be her biggest hit of all?

Check out this exclusive creator interview with Yoshitoki Oima! A Silent Voice, To Your Eternity, and Mardock Scramble volume 1s are only 99¢ + all other volumes are up to 50% off during the Creator Spotlight Sale! (ends 5/28)

Hiro Mashima
Needless to say, our most iconic shonen manga artist is Hiro Mashima and he’s just completed his long-running bestseller series Fairy Tail earlier this year! But don’t be sad! It’s  just been announced that Mashima will start a brand new series in June 2018. Plus, we’ve brought back his debut masterpiece, the groundbreaking Rave Master on digital, because it is too good to be left out!

Check out this creator spotlight video of Hiro Mashima! Fairy Tail and Rave Master volume 1s are only 99¢ + all other volumes are up to 50% off during the Creator Spotlight Sale! (ends 5/28)

Tsutomu Nihei 
Tsutomu Nihei has been the big star of our sibling publisher Vertical for quite some time. Some of you may recognize his works like BLAME! and Knights of Sidonia from their anime adaptations on Netflix. Since then, Nihei has been working nonstop on his newest series APOSIMZ, which is currently available as simulpub from Kodansha Comics.  This is where science-fiction manga begins and ends!


Check out this creator spotlight video of Tsutomu Nihei! BLAME! and Knights of Sidonia volume 1s are only 99¢ + all other volumes are up to 50% off during the Creator Spotlight Sale! (ends 5/28)

Ken Akamatsu 
Ken Akamatsu has been the king of rom-com shonen manga since the 2000s. You know his hit manga and anime Love Hina and his even bigger follow-up series Negmia! But Akamatsu-sensei’s hit-manga-maker career doesn’t stop there! His current series, UQ Holder!, is a sequel to Negima!  and recently became an anime on Amazon Anime Strike!

Check out Ken Akamatsu’s Love Hina, Negima!, and UQ Holder! volume 1s for only 99¢ + all other volumes are up to 50% off during the Creator Spotlight Sale! (ends 5/28)

MORE Creators!
Here are few more creators Kodansha Comics creators that you wanna check out during this Creator Spotlight Sale!

Yoshinobu Yamada
Wanna see some beauty, guts, and glory? Check out Cage of Eden and Deathtopia  by Yoshinobu Yamada! 

Yuu Kuraishi, Kazu Inabe
As you may know, the creator team of of Fort of Apocalypse and Starving Anonymous specialize in dark fantasy. But the storywriter Yuu Kuraishi had also worked on the screwball timeslip comedy My Wife Is Wagatsuma-san, which may give you an idea of how diverse their storytelling style could be. 

Mitsuru Hattori
Did you know the creator of  the zombie girl series Sankarea  also works on the manga adaptation of Imperfect Girl by NISIOISIN (creator of the Monogatari series), published by Vertical?

Check out all these series’ volume 1s for only 99¢ + all other volumes are up to 50% off during the Creator Spotlight Sale! (ends 5/28)

 

Romance is in the air: digital manga up to 50% off thru Feb 19!

What kind of love are you looking for? 
Romance season is ON! Looking for that special someone? Trying to plan a surprise for your sweetie? Or maybe you’re just looking for something more than plain ol’ “romance” per se … Hey, why don’t you get a clue from some manga 😉 

Starting February 6, Kodansha Comics is offering a whopping 67 romantic manga from all genres for up to 50% off at all of our digital-partner platforms: BookWalker, comiXology, Google Play, iBooks, Kindle, Kobo, and nook. This offer will last for 2 weeks (ends February 19)!

Been away from romance … or romance manga? We’ve picked up some of our recent favorites by powerhouse creators like Akiko Higashimura, Ema Toyama and Mari Yoshino. Check out the Chapter 1 previews and see if there’s something you like! 

Kodansha Comics Romance Manga Sale (February 6-February 19)
Click on links below for free Chapter 1 previews!

manga by Akiko Higashimura
Princess Jellyfish
Tokyo Tarareba Girls

manga by Ema Toyama
Aoba-kun’s Confessions
I Am Here!
Missions of Love

manga by Mari Yoshino
Beauty Bunny
Peach Heaven

manga by Taamo
House of the Sun
I’m in Love and It’s the End of the World

manga by Robico
My Little Monster
Our Precious Conversations

manga by Rin Mikimoto
Kiss Me at the Stroke of Midnight
Love’s Reach

manga by Jun Yuzuki 
Gakuen Prince
The Prince’s Black Poison

As seen as Anime
Aho-Girl
Appleseed Alpha
Clockwork Planet
5 Centimeters per Second
From the New World
Fuuka
The Garden of Words
Love and Lies
Love Hina
Negima!
Nemiga! Omnibus
Nodame Cantabille
School Rumble
A Silent Voice
Suzuka
The Gods Lie.
Tsuredure Children
Unlimited Fafnir
Yamada-kun and the Seven Witches
Your Lie in April

Shojo / Josei Romance
A Springtime with Ninjas
Black Panther and Sweet 16
Cosplay Animal
Drowning Love
The Full-Time Wife Escapist
Hotaru’s Way
Kigurumi Guardians
Kiss Him, Not Me!
LDK
Let’s Dance a Waltz
Living-Room Matsunaga-san
Lovesick Ellie
My Boyfriend in Orange
My Brother The Shut-In
The Prince in His Dark Days
Real Girl
Say I Love You.
Wake Up, Sleeping Beauty
That Wolf-Boy is Mine!

Shonen / Seinen Romance
Cage of Eden
Devils’ Line
Domestic Girlfriend
The Flowers of Evil
Forget Me Not
Happiness
I Want to Hold Aono-kun So Badly, I Could Die
Imperfect Girl
Magatsuki
My Wife is Wagatsuma-san
Mysterious Girlfriend X