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Kodansha Announces May Manga Lineup

Kodansha Announces May Manga Lineup

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It will be a merry May full of manga, as Kodansha blankets the digital universe with new releases. May’s English translations include themes of sports, romance and amnesia, with a bit of creepy harem stuff on the side. In particular, they’re spotlighting these four releases…Medalist, Back When You Called Us Devils, The Springtime Of My Life Began With You, and With The Sheikh in His Harem. Look for them later this spring on participating digital vendors including Bookwalker, comiXology, Google Play, Kindle, Nook and izneo. With the Sheikh in His Harem By Rin Miasa Release Date: May 04, 2021 Sanagi loves nothing more than money—not even love. After all, it’s what keeps her small family going. But when a chance encounter with a stranger leads her to push away his offer of riches, she wonders if she’s gone crazy…and starts to believe she really has when he reveals that he’s a Sheikh, and proposes to her! She rejects him, but soon finds out that a marriage with him might be

The Seven Deadly Sins: Four Knights of the Apocalypse Is Here

The Seven Deadly Sins: Four Knights of the Apocalypse Is Here

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It wasn’t that long ago that the final chapter of The Seven Deadly Sins manga appeared in the US, so why are we talking about another one? Well, if you think Nakaba Suzuki would have ended what has been one of the most successful manga/anime properties of the last few years COMPLETELY, you haven’t been following the industry long. A spinoff, taking place in the same world, has just rolled out from Suzuki and publisher Kodansha. The Seven Deadly Sins: Four Knights of the Apocalypse follows Percival, who lives in a remote area with his grandpa. It’s not a very exciting area and Percy wishes something interesting would happen. He may regret that wish… This new story takes place apart from the main series and knowledge of the events in SDS is not needed. Percival has always lived with his grandfather on the idyllic, remote God’s Finger. And though Percival loves the simple life, he longs for adventure. That is, until adventure comes knocking at his door, tearing away everything

Comixology Expands Kodansha Library

Comixology Expands Kodansha Library

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More comics/manga news today: digital comics service Comixology has announced an expanded deal with Kodansha Comics that adds over 600 additional manga volumes to the former’s library. (The same deal was also made with Kindle Unlimited if you have that.) This deal includes the newer volumes of titles like Attack on Titan Before the Fall, That Time I Got Reincarnated as a Slime, Gleipnir, Chihayafuru and others.  Also included are the full runs of other manga like A Silent Voice, Inuyashiki and Kiss Him Not Me. Previously, the number of Kodansha manga titles on Comixology was somewhere over 400, so the library has now grown to more than double the size. “At Kodansha Comics we’re continually working to make it as easy as possible for our stories to reach fans everywhere,” says Kodansha USA Publishing President & CEO Alvin Lu. “And by leveraging comiXology and Kindle’s worldwide audience we’re sure our amazing series will find the growing number of manga and anime fans searching for new stories.” Many of the

Kodansha Comics Releases March Manga Lineup

Kodansha Comics Releases March Manga Lineup

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Attention aficionados of all things right-to-left: Kodansha Comics has sent us a list of the manga they plan to publish in the US this March. It’s a good mix of established and new, fantasy and slice-of-life, respectable and embarrassing, etc. You also don’t have to brave a trip to the bookstore (if it’s open) to get one since they’ll all be released digitally (and some are exclusively digital). Let’s dive in…. Shaman King: Marcos Original Creator Hiroyuki Takei Art by Jet Kusamura Yup, all these years later, the Shaman King series still continues in some form. What should be a bright future for the X-Laws is shadowed by the absence of Marco. Where could he have gone, and is something sinister behind it? Join the fan favorites in another Shaman King spinoff! Release Date: March 9 // Available Digitally Blue Lock Story by Muneyuki Kaneshiro Art by Yusuke Nomura This sports manga is from the story creator of As The Gods Will: The Second Series. After a disastrous defeat at

Kodansha USA Partnering With INKR Digital Comics Service

Kodansha USA Partnering With INKR Digital Comics Service

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American manga distributor Kodansha USA has announced it’s entering a partnership with INKR. If you’ve never heard of it, but assume it’s some new app, you’re right. INKR was created by a Vietnamese team working for a Singaporean company, and its aim is to do for manga what Netflix did for TV…a steady stream of content for a flat subscription rate. INKR just launched in October 2020, and Kodansha marks one of the biggest acquisitions in the young app’s two-month life so far. In addition to manga, INKR also distributes webtoons, manhua, and other comics through its service — it aims to stream in content from all over the world. The deal means INKR now carries over 400 manga volumes for reading, under respected titles like Attack on Titan, To Your Eternity, A Silent Voice, Your Lie in April, and more. Next week the app will be getting even more manga from Kodansha as it takes on Fire Force, Fairy Tail, and The Seven Deadly Sins. INKR has also landed

Kodansha USA Shifting Its Manga Release Schedule

Kodansha USA Shifting Its Manga Release Schedule

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If you’ve been paying attention to the news, you know that it’s become a lot more difficult to sell certain products…not only because purchasing them would require a lot of people to congregate in one small area, but because most of the bookstores across the US have been closed for this reason. In accordance with this, comic publishers have begun announcing delays for most of their popular titles. Manga publisher Kodansha has just announced it’s also falling in line with this practice. The on sale print dates for many of its spring and summer 2020 print titles will now be shifted to later in the year. “We’re very, very lucky to be working with incredibly resilient and resourceful retail partners and our fantastic distribution partner at Penguin Random House, who are stepping up and keeping the essential lifeline of books open during an unprecedented disruption to our day-to-day business,” said Alvin Lu, Kodansha USA Publishing President and CEO. ‘Getting manga to readers is the top and only priority for us

Kodansha Partners with Digital Manga Platform izneo

Kodansha Partners with Digital Manga Platform izneo

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Kodansha USA Publishing has partnered with izneo, an online comics platform to distribute Kodansha Comics and Vertical’s digital manga catalog, which includes over 2000 English language titles. Manga fans will be able to read series such as Fire Force, Attack on Titan, The Quintessential Quintuplets, The Ghost in the Shell, FAIRY TAIL, Pretty Guardian Sailor Moon Eternal Edition. Readers will be able to access from Android devices, Nintendo Switch, and via desktop. Access to izneo via iOS will be made available in the coming months. According to Alvin Lu, Kodansha USA Publishing President, and CEO, We couldn’t be more excited to share our vast digital manga library with izneo’s audience and help forge new life-long manga fans.” He continued, “For years we’ve been working hard to build a strong digital business for Kodansha content to make it as easy as possible for anyone to start reading manga. And now very happy to have izneo help us with that mission.”  Luc Bourcier, izneo Chief Operating Officer said, “izneo is delighted and proud

The Seven Deadly Sins Manga Ends – New Sequel Series Announced

The Seven Deadly Sins Manga Ends – New Sequel Series Announced

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The Seven Deadly Sins manga series ended today, with chapter #346 as its send-off. To mark this impressive accomplishment Kodansha and Nakaba Suzuki have announced a sequel series to The Seven Deadly Sins manga, which is tentatively titled The Four Knights of the Apocalypse. More details for the sequel series will be revealed at a later date. Fans of The Seven Deadly Sins manga series can read the final chapter on the same day as its Japan release through Kodansha’s partners CrunchyRoll, comiXology, and BookWalker. Fans that are new to the manga series can read it from the beginning in print, as well as through their digital partners: comiXology, BookWalker, Kindle, Google Play, MyAnimeList, Rakuten Kobo, nook, and Apple Books. The Seven Deadly Sins are feared warriors that were sent into exile after being accused of attempting to overthrow the monarchy. The Sins were framed by the king’s guard, the Holy Knights. Princess Elizabeth discovered this too late to stop the Holy Knights from killing her father and seizing the throne. The princess, now on the run, seeks out the Sins