osamu tezuka

There’s early, and then there’s Kodansha. The manga localizer put out a press release this morning detailing the properties and book volumes they just licensed to debut in the spring of 2022 — almost a whole year from now. What do they have in mind? Quite a few intriguing items, like the next Seven Deadly Sins series, omnibus reprintings of classics by Osamu Tezuka, and a new Akira artbook. Plus a few wild originals like “Island in a Puddle.” The description starts out average, but just wait for the hook… Island in a Puddle Story by Kei Sanbe The tiny apartment where Minato lives may as well be an isolated island in the middle of the ocean. Despite still being in elementary school, it falls on his shoulders to care for his little sister Nagisa, who never stops asking when their mother will make one of her infrequent visits home. On one of those visits, their mother takes them to an amusement park, only to give Minato some cash and