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Kodansha began the Noma Publishing Culture Award last year, where it awarded your name.’s director Makoto Shinkai, author Keigo Higashino, models Mai Shiraishi and Erika Ikuta, and publishers Ribon and Nakayoshi. This year the award goes to Demon Slayer creator Koyoharu Gotouge, Nintendo’s Animal Crossing: …Read more »
Katsuhiro Otomo’s Akira manga is one of the most well-known and widely read series out there, thanks in no small part to the landmark anime film adaptation that was released in 1988. The original manga ran in Weekly Young Magazine from 1982 to 1990, and …Read more »
On July 17, almost one year to the date of the Kyoto Animation arson attack, Tokyo police arrested a man for threatening the publisher Kodansha. Like the suspect in the KyoAni case, this suspect claimed that the company in question did something unseemly with his …Read more »
Kodansha Comics gave Comic Book Resources an early look at the upcoming variant cover for Attack on Titan volume 19 , illustrated by Eisner Award-winning artist Paolo Rivera. The volume hits stores on August 2, and the special edition release packs in the second episode …Read more »
Want a bucket of digital manga? Want to support charity? Kodansha Comics has you covered. You may have heard of the Humble Bundle, the pay-what-you-want service that packages (“bundles,” if you will) digital games, books and apps to help support various charities. Kodansha, the English …Read more »
Kodansha Comics announced a handful of new licenses this week… seven new print titles, to be exact! They announced a new one each hour today, culminating in the reveal of the Attack on Titan: Lost Girls manga. Ryōsuke Fuji's manga—adapting the spinoff novel by Hiroshi …Read more »
Fairy Tail author Hiro Mashima launched a prequel manga, Fairy Tail Zero , in the first issue of Monthly Fairy Tail back in July 2014. The series ended up running through the magazine's final issue this past July, resulting in one full volume depicting the …Read more »
Crunchyroll recently set up a major move to jump into the manga game. As announced via Japan's Nikkei Business Daily , in a special partnership, Crunchyroll will simultaneously publish a select assortment of Kodansha's manga series, and it all starts on Wednesday, October 30. 12 …Read more »
A limited edition version of Princess Resurrection 's 16th volume—by mangaka Yasunori Mitsunaga—comes packaged with a "Princess Solitary Island" OAD (original anime DVD). To promote this LE treat, Kodansha has posted a trailer for the anime, directed by Keiichiro Kawaguchi, who handled a previous Princess …Read more »
Hold it in, don't go nuts yet... Sailor Moon news is typically met here not with a whimper, but with full-blown hysterical excitement, so one can't possible be too careful. Kodansha, having heard your many squeals of joy, just announced that they'll be publishing not …Read more »
While Del Rey will hold on to the various Clamp series on their own upcoming lineup—including xxxHolic and Tsubasa —Kodansha Comics recently released the list of titles they'll be taking over for North American publication, along with a heaping list of launches. Starting with the …Read more »
Publishing company Simon & Schuster, previously owned by ViacomCBS, will be sold to Penguin Random House for a little over $2 billion, it was reported today. What does that mean for manga, exactly? A lot, potentially. S&S distributes manga released by Viz Manga. Meanwhile, Penguin …Read more »
Fans of the hybrid live-action/anime Gal & Dino will be happy to learn that the series is about to return after a COVID-19 related delay. Episodes actually made their way back to the airwaves in Japan on October 3, but those were just reruns starting …Read more »
It was recently announced that fans of the Don’t Toy With Me, Miss Nagatoro manga, which is written and illustrated by Nanashi, can officially look forward to an anime adaptation as part of the Spring 2021 season. To make the news even sweeter, a new …Read more »
Hiroyuki Takei’s Shaman King is back in a major way thanks to the new anime series in the works for April 2021, and its comeback includes a new Shaman King shojo spinoff manga. The series, titled Shaman King & a garden, is set to launch …Read more »
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