Danica Davidson
July 16, 2025 
Kodansha’s Young Magazine got started in 1980 in Japan, and has since launched titles like AKIRA and Ghost in the Shell. To celebrate its 45th anniversary, it’s making a special edition magazine aimed for Americans!
Editor in Chief of Young Magazine Hidemi Shiraki explained, “For our selection, we held an open call and received submissions from over 100 manga creators. Ultimately, 19 titles were carefully selected for your enjoyment. We hope to introduce the potential of Seinen manga—which explores themes and ideas beyond the scope of Shonen—to more readers in North America, the largest manga audience outside of Japan.”
The magazine is more than one thousand pages long, and contains chapters from the following manga:
- BOYS RUN THE RIOT – IN TRANSITION by Keito Gaku
- Fasciation by OUGA
- Godmother by Rin Shimokawa
- GOUMA The Blade that Slaughters Gods by Hiroki Ishizawa
- Into the Dark by Anri Morikuma
- Is My Love Strange? by Hikari Azuma
- KIKIKAIKAI by Kyuri Yamada
- Pregnant by Denchi Matsumoto and Keita Nishijima
- PROJECT METALLIA by Yukito Iwai
- Protocol Ryugu by Daisaku Tsuru
- Still You Kami by Nishio
- The Graveyard Shift by Yoshimi Sato
- The Journey of a Dark Elf with Fading Powers by Daisuke Itabashi
- The Knight of Blasphemy by Ray Kindo
- THE LAST TERRAN by Hiroshi Takashige and Tatsumi Hitomoji
- To Dusk and Twilight by Robico
- ME AND BOB DYLAN (AND MY FATHER) by Shuzo Oshimi
- The Silent Forest by Masaaki Nakayama
- Subaru and Subaru by Shuichi Shigeno
- UNDER NINJA by Kengo Hanazawa
People can pick up their copy of Young Magazine from participating Kinokuniya locations for a little while, or get it for free at Anime NYC.
There’s additionally a voting opportunity you’ll find in the magazine. There are sixteen different titles you can vote on, and the one that does the best will be serialized on K MANGA, a manga-reading app from Kodansha. The voting period is August 21–November 10, and we’ll learn the results on December 15.
Source: Press release
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Danica Davidson is the author of the bestselling Manga Art for Beginners with artist Melanie Westin, plus its sequel, Manga Art for Everyone, and the first-of-its-kind manga chalk book Chalk Art Manga, both illustrated by professional Japanese mangaka Rena Saiya. Check out her other comics and books at www.danicadavidson.com.
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