Crunchyroll made its latest move toward Total Anime Domination in the West with the purchase of Right Stuf, the long-standing online anime and manga warehouse. The announcement was made yesterday, at the exact moment the deal closed — it has apparently been in the works for a while in secret.
Today manga publisher Kodansha not only announced their digital offerings for next month, but their print offerings for nine months from now. This kind of makes for a fractured, schizophrenic update, but to keep things from getting too confusing, just remember: the stuff you can read in a couple weeks
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Some manga stories are short, others are long. Some update all the time, and some have limited runs. And then there’s Hunter x Hunter. Created by Yu Yu Hakusho’s Yoshihiro Togashi, it’s one of the most successful manga of the last 20 years, but its fans often have to play
The months go by fast….it’s nearly May already. Manga publisher Kodansha has revealed their full slate of volumes to be released digitally in English over the next 30 days. Readers who prefer romance will be well-served this month with multiple rom-com stories in the schedule, many involving idols, cats, vampires,
Kodansha USA has announced plans to introduce the classic shojo manga The Wallflower to the digital market next week. Created by Tomoko Hayakawa, the series lasted 36 volumes. In broad terms, The Wallflower is a Japanese take on My Fair Lady (or to be more accurate, Pygmalion by George Bernard
Last year, Kodansha and Humble Bundle teamed up to produce a charity bundle of digital manga, where thousands of pages could be had for greatly reduced prices. If you missed it, good news…it’s back, and bigger than ever. This year’s bundle includes multiple volumes of titles like Witch Hat Atelier,
The offerings for manga distributor Kodansha are especially rom-com heavy this month — we counted at least seven romance comics and just ONE action-oriented one. The solitary actioner is Bootsleg, which is the name of an artisan syndicate dedicated to stopping the murderous entity known only as Shake Hand. Among
In 1988, a disturbing new manga called Parasyte hit the stands. 30-plus years later, Hitoshi Iwaaki’s sci-fi horror story is considered a classic of the genre, having produced spinoffs, live-action and animated adaptions, the most recent being the 2015 anime that ran on Toonami shortly afterward. Now Kodansha is bringing
Toru Fujisawa’s dark comedy GTO: Great Teacher Onizuka is a staple of most manga collectors’ shelves, but soon it will enter the digital space as well. Kodansha has the rights and is adding the series to their virtual lineup. It’s been 25 years since the debut of the first volume
Shuichi Shigeno is probably best known for Initial D, the iconic street racing manga he wrote and drew for nearly 20 years. Four years after retiring Initial D, Shigeno stated focusing on a new story, albeit with similar themes: MF Ghost, which began in 2017. It’s still running today, serialized
Kodansha will be giving the manga market an extra KICK this summer when they release the US version of the hit sports manga Blue Lock. The publisher made the announcement today that the property has been acquired by them for a 2022 Western release. Blue Lock is a soccer story,