Manga publisher Kodansha has revealed three volumes it plans to publish digitally in English next month: Raised by the Demon Kings, The Cafe Terrace and its Goddesses, and Gamaran: Shuma. None are seasonally themed (well, that first one could be interpreted as such, but it’s not really “scary”).
Customers should not notice much of a difference, WITH ONE EXCEPTION — and it depends on the kind of customer you are. Right Stuf will henceforth cease to sell hentai, or for the clueless, Japanese porn. That material will be shuffled off to a new off-branch, Ero Anime, which will “carry the full line of the erotica content.” Got it? Also, use Google because we can’t really provide a link..
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 is at the bottom, while the stuff you have to wait a long time for is at the top.
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 waiting game. As in…years of waiting. Hunter x Hunter hasn’t had a new chapter since 2018.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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 the original back, in a format sharper and more terrifying than it’s ever been.
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.
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 in the pages of Weekly Young Magazine, and its book collections have sold over 2.7 million copies. It’s about time MF Ghost showed up in America, don’t you think?