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: BookWalker, comiXology, 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 Resurrection! Volume 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!
With Halloween right around the corner, have we got a great deal on some spooky and creepy manga for you—with the Humble Book Bundle: Tales of Horror! Together with our friends at Humble Bundle and a bunch of other horror-ific publishers, we’ve put together $392 worth of terrifying (in a good way) digital books includingAjin: Demi-Human, Dragon Head, and Parasyte!
Name your price. Together, the books in this bundle usually cost as much as $492. At Humble Bundle, though, you choose the price!
Read ’em anywhere. These comics are available in multiple formats including CBZ, PDF, and ePub, so they work on your computer, e-readers, iPads, cell phones, and a wide array of mobile devices! Instructions and a list of recommended reading programs can be found here.
Support charity. Choose where the money goes—among Kodansha Comics and our preselected charity the Arthritis Foundation—or, if you like, a charity of your choice—via the PayPal Giving Fund. For details on how this works, click here. If you like this bundle or like what Humble Bundle does, you can leave a Humble Tip too.
PAY WHAT YOU WANT! Here’re the Kodansha Comics you’ll get with each tier:
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:BookWalker, comiXology, 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 to50% 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 Scramble, a 7-volume hard science-fiction epic, and To Your Eternity, her stunning current series that could be her biggest hit of all?
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 Tailearlier 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 Masteron digital, because it is too good to be left out!
Check out this creator spotlight video of Hiro Mashima! Fairy Tail andRave Mastervolume 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 Hinaand 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 Anonymousspecialize 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)
Battle Angel Alita, The Ghost in the Shell, BLAME!,Parasyte … We here at Kodansha Comics think of ourselves as having one of the most diverse manga catalogs around, but if there’s a few genres we specialize in … well, one would think science-fiction is one of ’em! And to help, er, drive home that fact, for this week only, we’re hosting a Sci-fi Digital Manga Sale at all of our digital retail partners: BookWalker, comiXology, Google Play, iBooks, Kindle, Kobo, and nook.
Here’s the deal
To start out with, volumes 1’s of all our science-fiction manga on digital for only 99¢!
And if you like what you’re reading, keep going—because the all other volumes are up to50% 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 7!
~ Kodansha Comics Sci-Fi Manga Sale ~ May 1-7 Click on the link to read Chapter 1 for FREE!
As we announced last month, starting March 13, Kodansha Comics will be debuting one new digital manga series every week for the forseeable future. Great news for you readers with an undying hunger (see below) and curiosity for new manga!
First up is Starving Anonymous (debuting March 13)–– an intense dystopian horror thriller in the apocalyptic vein of Dragon Head and Attack on Titan, from the team that brought you zombie actioner Fort of Apocalypse.
Click on the cover (or scroll below) to read all of the vertiginously terrifying Chapter 1 for free!
Wait, there’s more! To celebrate this occasion, we’re also discounting Fort of Apocalypse in its entirety (volumes 1-10)up to 50% off on all digital platforms: BookWalker, comiXology, Google Play, iBooks, Kindle, Kobo, and nook. But hurry! The deal ends on March 19!
Remember (or not) back in the days when manga was fairly new to all of us outside of Japan and we had no idea what to expect? We here at Kodansha Comics like to think we’re bringing back some those days of giddy manga discovery with our digital-first releases!
And to really turn back the clock, we’re happy to announce today the release of all of Minetaro Mochizuki’s 90s cult classic Dragon Headas a digital release, with with the entire tightly wound ten-volume run droppingFebruary 27 at all of our partner digital book platforms. In addition—for one week only—Volume 1 of Dragon Head will be available for 99-cents on BookWalker, comiXology, Google Play, iBooks, Kindle, Kobo, and nook.
Dragon Head by Minetaro Mochizuki
The Complete Series (Volumes 1-10) available now on digital!
The end of everyone was just the beginning … 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. And with sudden, violent earthquakes shaking the tunnel, escaping to the outside world may lead them to an even greater danger …
Originally released in English by TokyoPop, Dragon Head shocked readers used to lighter fare from the manga boom of 2000s and went on to become an underground classic. Publishers Weekly in a Starred Review called it “an emotionally and psychologically compelling drama that promises to be an unforgettable journey into darkness.” A relentless tour de force of disaster and psychedelia, it’s been long out of print, until now. Chapter 1 can be read for free here.
Are you ready? A digital debut every week!
There’s more. Dragon Head’s release kicks off a renewed barrage of digital-first manga releases from Kodansha Comics. Starting March 13, Kodansha Comics will be debuting one new digital manga series every week for the forseeable future. Great news for you readers with an undying thirst and curiosity for new manga! Here’s 3 new series starting up in March:
Starving Anonymous (debuting March 13) an intense dystopian horror thriller in the apocalyptic vein of Dragon Head and Attack on Titan, from the team that brought you zombie actioner Fort of Apocalypse.
Perfect World (debuting March 20) Rie Aruga’s touching drama about the romance that develops between an abled interior designer and her first love, whom she reencounters one day only to find he is wheelchair-bound.
Liar x Liar (debuting March 27) Renjuro Kindaichi’s devious romantic comedy about an off-kilter affair that’s kicked off by a high-school uniform and a case of mistaken identity!