Free Volume 1s Sale

Start a new digital manga series, get 3 volumes for under $5  

Today, Kodansha announced a FREE digital volume 1 giveaway and sale, to help new and existing manga fans get started on some of Kodansha’s most popular, anime-inspiring, and longest running manga series like, Attack on TitanDon’t Toy With Me, Miss NagatoroTokyo Revengers and more! At participating digital vendors, fans can now get volume 1s of select series for FREE, volume 2s for $.99, and volume 3s for $1.99 – 3 volumes for under $5, until Monday, August 2nd!

Kodansha is making it easy for fans to get their FREE volume 1s and discounted volumes 2s and 3s, at the digital vendor of their choice – including BookwalkercomiXologyKindleGoogle PlayApple BooksNookKobo and izneo!

Curious about this sale but want to see more? Check out below to read the FREE 1st chapter of our featured series, Tokyo Revengers. Or click on any of the titles featured below to read their free 1st chapter preview.

Add some FREE vol. 1s to your digital library: Discover Free Vol. 1s

Manga to Anime Summer!

An all-new season of anime is upon us! And of course, that includes some Kodansha manga turned anime as well. Whether you’ve been following along the manga series and eagerly awaited the anime OR have just discovered an anime you need to know everything about – we’re making it easy to dive into the manga that inspired some of this summer’s anime hits!

During the Manga to Anime Summer digital manga sale you can take up to 50% off fan favorite manga that’s made the cross-over to animation this summer like the hilarious dark fantasy, Peach Boy Riverside. Want to read manga series with premiering anime this season? Be sure to check out Mashima’s sci-fi space epic EDENS ZERO, and the multi-relationship rom-com Girlfriend, Girlfriend! If you’re already enjoying the fantasy saga of To Your Eternity, and the time-traveling delinquent drama of Tokyo Revengers, then now’s the best time to start the manga! All these series and more are at your fingertips and digitally available wherever you are!

But this sale won’t last long, so be sure to visit your favorite digital vendor to save up to 50% off select titles from the series mentioned below: Bookwalker, comiXology, Google Play, Kindle, Nook and izneo. Sale runs from July 6th to July 12th!

Curious about this sale but want to see more? Check out below to read the FREE 1st chapter of our featured series, Peach Boy Riverside. Or click on any of the titles featured below to read their free 1st chapter preview.

From art to animation: Discover Manga Turned Anime

Tokyo Revengers Vol. 1 for 99¢

Read beyond the fan-favorite anime today!

Have you been enjoying the Tokyo Revengers anime on Crunchyroll? Want to read the manga that inspired the Spring Anime Season fan-favorite? Now’s the perfect chance with the Wayback Wednesday Tokyo Revengers sale! That’s right for a limited time you can read the 1st volume of this time-traveling delinquent gang epic for only 99¢ and ALSO take up to 50% off select volumes after that!

Tokyo Revengers is the story of Takemichi Hanagaki who learns while watching the news that his girlfriend from way back in middle school, Hinata Tachibana, has died. The only girlfriend he ever had was just killed by a villainous group known as the Tokyo Manji Gang. He lives in a crappy apartment with thin walls, and his six-years-younger boss treats him like an idiot. Plus, he’s a complete and total virgin… At the height of his rock-bottom life, he suddenly time-leaps twelve years back to his middle school days!! To save Hinata, and change the life he spent running away, hopeless part-timer Takemichi must aim for the top of Kanto’s most sinister delinquent gang!!

This deal will soon be in the past so try Tokyo Revengers volume 1 for only 99¢,  and save up to 50% off select volumes after that! Just visit our participating digital vendors to take advantage of this great discount: BookWalker, comiXology, Kindle, Google Play, Nook and izneo. Sale runs from May 19, until May 25!

Curious but want to see more? Check out the 1st chapter preview FREE below!

Humble Manga Bundle: Spring 2021 Anime Season Debuts!

Kodansha & Humble Bundle Kick-off the Latest Season of Anime with the Humble Manga Bundle: Spring 2021 Anime Season

Over $900 worth of anime-inspiring manga for $30 including series like To Your Eternity, Don’t Toy With Me, Miss Nagatoro, EDENS ZERO & more!

Just in time for the debut of some truly amazing spring anime, Kodansha and Humble Bundle have teamed up to launch the Humble Manga Bundle: Spring 2021 Anime Season! Right now, fans can get 80 volumes totaling over $900 worth of manga that inspired the hotly anticipated Spring 2021 anime debuts including the heart-wrenching fantasy series, To Your Eternity, the school days soccer saga, Farewell My Dear Cramer, and even the Hiro Mashima sci-fi action / adventure, EDENS ZERO. But much like a season of exciting anime, this offer will not last – so be sure to get the jump into this Humble Manga Bundle before it ends, Thursday, April 29, 2021.

Read ’em anywhere: All the manga featured as part of the Humble Manga Bundle: Spring 2021 Anime Season will be delivered digitally upon purchase 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!

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 worthy causes! Choose where the money goes among Kodansha and our preselected charity, the Stop AAPI Hate organization – or choose a charity of your preference via the PayPal Giving Fund.

Below are the different tiers for the Humble Manga Bundle: Spring 2021 Anime Season and what fans can expect to receive:

Pay $1 or more to get:
EDENS ZERO Vol. 1
That Time I Got Reincarnated As A Slime Vol. 1
To Your Eternity Vol. 1
Don’t Toy With Me, Miss Nagatoro Vol. 1
Tokyo Revengers Vol. 1

Pay $10 or more to get:
EDENS ZERO Vols. 2-3
Farewell, My Dear Cramer Vols. 1-3
That Time I Got Reincarnated As A Slime Vols. 2-3
To Your Eternity Vols. 2-3
Shaman King: Zero Vol. 1
The Slime Diaries: That Time I Got Reincarnated as a Slime Vol. 1

Pay $18 or more to get:
Don’t Toy With Me, Miss Nagatoro Vols. 2-3
EDENS ZERO Vols. 4-6
Farewell, My Dear Cramer Vols. 4-6
Shaman King: Zero Vol. 2
The Slime Diaries: That Time I Got Reincarnated as a Slime Vol. 2
That Time I Got Reincarnated As A Slime Vols. 4-6
To Your Eternity Vols. 4-6
Tokyo Revengers Vols. 2-3

Pay $25 or more to get:
Don’t Toy With Me, Miss Nagatoro Vols. 4-5
EDENS ZERO Vols. 7-10
Farewell, My Dear Cramer Vols 7-13
That Time I Got Reincarnated (Again!) as a Workaholic Slime Vols 1-2
That Time I Got Reincarnated As A Slime Vols. 7-10
The Seven Deadly Sins: Seven Days Vols 1-2
To Your Eternity Vols. 7-10

Pay $30 or more to get:
The Seven Deadly Sins Vols. 1-24

BookWalker readers get exclusive sale in this digital manga showcase (Ends 6/22)

Check out this exclusive deal on BookWalker

Are you a fan of reading digital manga, AND are you a fan of BookWalker for all of your manga needs? Well you’re in luck! For a limited time we’re offering BookWalker readers up to 50% off select titles, so you can start a new series or get the next volume at a steep discount.

From manga that inspired fan-favorite anime like That Time I Got Reincarnated as a Slime and School Rumble, long omnibus reads like Air Gear and Genshiken, and even dark dramas like Flowers of Evil and Starving Anonymous, we’ve got a great mix of amazing manga titles to build up your digital manga library!

Take advantage of this exclusive BookWalker sale while you can! Sale runs from June 16, until June 22!

Like what you see but think you want even more digital manga? Check out the exclusive deals also happening at comiXology & Kindle!

~ BookWalker Exclusive: Kodansha Comics & VERTICAL Digital Manga Showcase! ~
June 16 – 22
See below for the full list of titles being offered during this sale,
and click on the links below to read chapter 1s FREE!

Again!!
Air Gear Omnibus
Back Street Girls
Complex Age
Flowers of Evil
Fuuka
Genshiken Omnibus
Genshiken 2nd Season
I’m Standing on a Million Lives
School Rumble
Starving Anonymous
Sweetness and Lightning
That Time I Got Reincarnated as a Slime
Tokyo Revengers
Tsuredure Children

Digital-first Manga Sale, Part 2: Saint Young Men + 50 series up to 50% off!

As mentioned last week, Kodansha Comics has published over 100 digital-first series and to help get you into those manga gems in our digital library, we’re hosting our two-fisted Digital-first Manga Sale, where all volumes of selected series are up to 50% off at our digital retail partners: BookWalkercomiXology, Google Play, Kindle, and nook. (Sale ends June 24.)

What are “digital-firsts”?

• First are the true “digital-firsts”—the ones that come out first digitally, then become available in print as well. Tokyo Tarareba Girls,The Quintessential Quintuplets,  Grand Blue Dreaming, and Boarding School Juliet all started out this way—and we’ve got several more exciting announcements to come in the months ahead!

If it’s not in print yet, tell us what you like! You can fill out this form to give us your feedback. The road to getting a book licensed in print can be a long and winding one, and we can’t always reply to requests directly, but we are listening—and we really do love and appreciate your opinions, no matter how crazy! 

• Then, for those of you who gotta stay exactly up to date, there’s our simulpubs, which are chapters from selected series published the same day they come out in Japan: you can read simulpubs on Crunchyroll and comiXology.

• Finally, digital-firsts allows us to bring back some of our favorite out-of-print titles—like BECKInitial D, Rave MasterDragon Head, Peach Girl, MARS, and You’re My Pet—that might not otherwise be available!

Questions?—check out our Digital-first manga page to see what’s in store!

Digital-first Manga Sale, Part 2: L-Z

For the second installment this week, we’re putting on sale all digital-first series with titles starting with the letters L-Z—which includes series like soon to be animated Magical Sempai, ’90s shojo megahit Peach Girl and its follow-up Peach Girl Next, and the most talked-about and highly anticipated comedy manga this decade, Saint Young Men! Check out the full list of series on sale below! 

Kodansha Comics Digital-First Manga Sale
Part 2: L-Z (June 18-24) 

Click on links below for free Chapter 1 previews!

Liar x Liar
Living-Room Matsunaga San
Love Massage: Melting Beauty Treatment
Love’s Reach
Lovesick Ellie
Magical Sempai
Mikami-sensei’s Way of Love
Momo’s Iron Will
Museum
My Boy in Blue
My Boyfriend in Orange
My Brother The Shut-In
My Pink is Overflowing
My Sweet Girl
My Wife is Wagatsuma-san
Nodame Cantabille
NOiSE
Peach Girl
Peach Girl Next
Peach Heaven
Peach Mermaid
Perfect World
Pitch-Black Ten
The Prince’s Black Poison
Prince’s Romance Gambit
Princess Resurrection
Princess Resurrection Nightmare
PTDS Radio
Pumpkin Scissors
Rave Master
Real Girl
Saint Young Men
Sayonara, Football
School Rumble
Seven Shakespeares— available only on comiXology and Kindle
Shojo Fight
Space Brothers
A Springtime with Ninjas
Starving Anonymous
Stray Bullet Baby
Suzuka
The Tale of Genji: Dreams at Dawn
Those Summer Days
Tokyo Alice
Tokyo Revengers
Trap in a Skirt
Tsuredure Children
Unlimited Fafnir
Until Your Bones Rot
The Walls Between Us
Wave, Listen to Me!
The Wizard and His Fairy
World’s End and Apricot Jam
The Yagyu Ninja Scroll
You Got Me, Sempai!
Yozakura Quartet

Jocks vs. Nerds Sale! 25+ manga series up to 50% off on digital!

Jocks vs. Nerds!

Ah. The timeless conflict within our society … or within ourselves … or what!? Why’s it gotta be so black and white when there’s no winning this particular game? That’s why this week we celebrate jocks into manga and nerds reading about jocks in manga by selecting 25+ nerdy/sporty manga and putting them at 50% off discount at our digital retail partners: BookWalker, comiXology, Google Play, Kindle, and nook. (Sale ends March 18.)  So before you take a side, check out the teams! 

~ Jocks vs. Nerds Sale  ~
March 12-18
Click on the link to read Chapter 1 for FREE!

Team Jocks

Ace of the Diamond
Again!!
All Out!!
All-Rounder Meguru
Boarding School Juliet
Cage of Eden
Days
Grand Blue Dreaming
Sayonara Football
School Rumble
Shojo Fight
Tokyo Revengers
Welcome to the Ballroom

Team Nerds

Alicia’s Diet Quest
Complex Age
Genshiken: Second Season
I Want to Hold Aono-kun So Badly I Could Die
I’m in Love and It’s the End of the World
Kasane
Kira-kun Today
Kiss Him, Not Me!
Magical Sempai
Manga Dogs
My Brother The Shut-In
Princess Jellyfish
Real Girl
Tsuredure Children

Science-Fiction & Beyond Sale! EDENS ZERO + 30 manga series up to 50% off on digital

Spaceships … time travel … mobile suits … and aliens! Are you a … true science-fiction head? Or just inspired by Battle Angel Alita? Whatever the case may be, Kodansha Comics has lots of cool science-fiction manga on offer, and to showcase our recent hits like EDENS ZERO—a new space-fantasy series by none other than Fairy Tail‘s Hiro Mashima—and timeless classics like The Ghost in the Shell and Parasyte, this week we’re hosting the Science-Fiction & Beyond Sale where all volumes of 30+ manga series are up to 50% off at our digital retail partners: BookWalker, comiXology, Google Play, Kindle, and nook. (Sale ends March 4.)

~ Science-Fiction & Beyond Sale  ~
February 26-March 4
Click on the link to read Chapter 1 for FREE!

Appleseed Alpha
Again!!
A.I.C.O. Incarnation
Ajin: Demi-Human
ALIVE
APOSIMZ
Ayanashi
BLAME!
BLAME! Academy and So On
Cage of Eden
Clockwork Planet
COPPELION
Fort of Apocalypse
The Ghost in the Shell
Ghost in the Shell: S.A.C
Golosseum
Inuyashiki
Knights of Sidonia
Kokkoku: Moment by Moment
Livingstone
Mardock Scramble
Mushishi
Parasyte
Neo Parasyte f
Neo Parsyte m
No.6
NOiSE
Queen Emeraldas
Real Account
Space Brothers
Starving Anonymous
Those Summer Days
To Your Eternity
Tokyo Revengers
Voices of a Distant Star

Did you find your favorite science-fiction series on the list? 
Make sure to let your friends know about it! 

Announcing: October 2018 digital-first debuts!

More debuts for fall! The campaign continues as we launch at least one new “digital-first”manga series every week, and this month we kick off  6 new manga series, with desert-island survival tactics, a couple of next-door-neighbor romances, vengeance through time, a royal resurrection, and a powerful dose of musical magic—all for October!

Kodansha Comics’s digital-first manga releases are part of an exciting new initiative begun last year to put a greater diversity of manga series into the market. This month’s series debuts will be available at all of Kodansha Comics’s partner digital platforms, including Amazon Kindle, BookWalker, comiXology, Google Play, Kobo, MyAnimeList, and nook:

Debuts October 2nd! Are You Lost? by Kentaro Okamoto and Riri Sagara
Because of a plane crash … starting today, we’re spending the springtime of our lives on a desert island!! There’s nothing here, so we have to make everything!! And eat everything!! (Ugh!) Check out our high-school-girl survival story of courage and knowledge. We’re actually doing pretty well! Volume 1 includes: how to eat cicadas, how to build traps, a simple allergy test, how to eat hermit crabs, etc. (original Japanese title: Sounan desuka?)

 

Debuts October 9th! Kira-kun Today by Rin Mikimoto  
For one short year, haplessly awkward, cockatiel-toting Nino has to keep watch over class joker and nextdoor neighbor, Kira-kun. Can Kira-kun—who harbors a terrible secret—find it in himself to open up and learn something new from Nino, or will she be consumed by his world? Find out in this touching tale of two fates that intertwine to become the “closest love to Heaven”—the latest from Rin Mikimoto (Kiss Me at the Stroke of Midnight, Love’s Reach)!  (original Japanese title: Kyou no Kira-kun)

Debuts October 16th! Tokyo Revengers by Ken Wakui
Watching the news, Takemichi Hanagaki learns that his girlfriend from way back in middle school, Hinata Tachibana, has died. The only girlfriend he ever had was just killed by a villainous group known as the Tokyo Manji Gang. He lives in a crappy apartment with thin walls, and his six-years-younger boss treats him like an idiot. Plus, he’s a complete and total virgin … At the height of his rock-bottom life, he suddenly time-leaps twelve years back to his middle school days!! To save Hinata, and change the life he spent running away, hopeless part-timer Takemichi must aim for the top of Kanto’s most sinister delinquent gang!!

Debuts October 23rd! Forest of Piano by Makoto Isshiki
This is a story about a piano, pitifully abandoned in the woods, and a young boy, Kai, who grew up playing it as his favorite toy. While Kai cannot even read sheet music, one day, he meets Shuhei Amamiya, an aspiring child pianist who transfers schools from Tokyo, and their music teacher, Sosuke Ajino. Ajino was also once a gifted pianist, until a tragic accident stole his promising future from him forever. Each from a different background, the trio’s personalities gravitate to one another and rebound. All the while, the piano sits patiently, awaiting a hand to play it.

Also debuts October 23rd! Mikami-sensei’s Way of Love by Hiro Aikawa
Without a single boyfriend in sixteen years, Natsume has zero relationship experience … and it’s all thanks to her super overprotective neighbor—high school teacher, Mikami-sensei!! Whether at home or at school, Natsume is always being manipulated by his strangely overbearing affections. But while it may have seemed like sibling love at first, their relationship soon takes an unexpected turn … ! (original Japanese title: Mikami-sensei no aishikata)

Debuts October 3oth! Princess Resurrection Nightmare by Yasunori Mitsunaga
With her flowing black dress, roaring chainsaw, and android, werewolf, vampire, and blood warrior at her service … the Princess of Monsters is back! Yasunori Mitsunaga’s masterpiece, Princess Resurrection, is hereby resurrected for a new series!