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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 »
Rent-a-Girlfriend is a comedy shonen manga based on a real Japanese premise, where girlfriends or even other family members can be “rented.” This is a type of business recently growing in Japan, as a note at the beginning of the book explains. The note also …Read more »
The mega successful Attack on Titan manga and anime will be wrapping up soon, so fans will have to say goodbye to characters and new storylines. But that’s not the only thing going on here. With the end of such a high-grossing series, manga publishers …Read more »
It’s been 20 years since CLAMP’s successful manga Chobits was first published. Previously the series was published in America by TOKYOPOP and Dark Horse, and now Kodansha USA is re-releasing the series in omnibus 20th Anniversary Editions. 19-year-old Hideki would love to get a robot …Read more »
The Shaman King manga spans 35 volumes, but only 32 volumes have been published in America. On top of that, those volumes are now out of print. But there’s good news for Shaman King fans—not only is there a new anime in the works, but …Read more »
Good news for folks who were enjoying Gal & Dino: the series about a gyaru living with a kyoryu will be back in October. The series was another victim of delays due to that virus thing. It began airing in April, and made it through …Read more »
We’re just now getting into the Summer 2020 anime season, but one TV series is already fully prepared for Fall. As revealed via the official Twitter, the I’m Standing on a Million Lives anime—which adapts the fantasy manga written by Naoki Yamakawa and illustrated by …Read more »
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