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May 26, 2023

Crunchyroll Announces Seven New Acquisitions

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This week Crunchyroll unveiled seven new anime acquisitions that will be arriving on the streamer later this year. The highlight is MF GHOST, the long-awaited anime adaption of Shuichi Shigeno’s sequel series to the iconic racing manga Initial D. For rom-coms, we’ve got the mismatched pair at the center of “Horiyama: The Missing Pieces” and the third season of “Rent-A-Girlfriend” (he’s been renting a girlfriend for three seasons? How sad). For enthusiasts of isekai, there’s “I Shall Survive Using Potions!”, about an office drone transported to a fantasy world and gifted the ability to make incredible potions. And for fantasy fans, there’s “Am I Actually the Strongest?”, a story about a man reincarnated as a prince — a prince that’s then abandoned in the woods by the king AS A BABY (oof). He lives, though, because the goddess of nature has accidentally granted him 1,000 times the magical power he was supposed to have. That king is in for it now. Check out all seven acquisitions below, accompanied by trailers.

February 8, 2023

Shuichi Shigeno’s MF Ghost Now Digitally Readable Across Multiple Platforms

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Last year Kodansha entered a partnership with ComiXology to offically bring to the US MF Ghost, Shuichi Shigeno’s sequel series to the iconic racing manga Initial D. MF Ghost began ruinning in the pages of Weekly Young Magazine in 2017 and its compilation manga has sold over 2.7 million copies in its home country. And with an anime adaption looming over the horizon, Kodansha figured it was time for MF Ghost to go global. MF Ghost is basically an Initial D spinoff, and no, the initials in the title don’t stand for what you’re thinking they do. The deal to bring the manga to the US included exclusivity to ComiXology for one full year. That deal is up, so as of today, you can find it on Amazon Kindle, Bookwalker, Apple Books, Google Play, nook, Kobo or MyAnimeList. And in the future, additional volumes of MF Ghost will be released digitally across all these platforms. The best-selling MF Ghost takes place in the 2020s, where self-driving electric cars have replaced

January 10, 2022

Kodansha And ComiXology Bring Over MF Ghost

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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? Kodansha has teamed up with ComiXology to produce an official English translation of MF Ghost, which will begin appearing in the digital library January 11 (hey, that’s tomorrow). So what is MF Ghost anyway? It’s basically an Initial D spinoff, and also, the initials in the title don’t stand for what you’re thinking they do. The best-selling MF Ghost takes place in the 2020s, where self-driving electric cars have replaced internal combustion ones. However, in Japan, there is a large organization called MFG, founded by Ryosuke Takahashi (from the Initial D