Kodansha unveiled a brand new roster of upcoming print licenses for Spring 2025 throughout Anime Expo, together with new debuts from celebrated creators Hiro Mashima, Tsutomu Nihei, and Shuzo Oshimi, in addition to hotly anticipated romance tales, enjoyable, thrilling BL titles, and extra.
Additionally introduced have been two soon-to-debut digital manga collection, Tokyo Tarareba Women Returns 2, the most recent installment of Akiko Higashimura‘s Tokyo Tarareba Women saga, and My Journey to Her, Yuna Hirasawa‘s the poignant diary-like memoir about gender affirming surgical procedure. Each titles arrive this July. The whole slate is featured under.
DEAD ROCK
By Hiro Mashima
Welcome to Useless Rock, the underworld’s high instructional establishment! A spot at this coaching facility for demonic mischief is all of the younger demon Yakuto has ever needed, however in Hell, there’s no such factor as a straightforward A. Loads of Yakuto’s fellow prospects received’t survive the doorway examination, and even fewer will make it to commencement. So why trouble? The prize, for many who survive this loss of life sport by means of perdition, is the world, within the palm of their hand!
The Ayakashi Hunter’s Tainted Bride
Manga by Mamenosuke Fujimaru; Created by Midori Yuma
Younger, cheerful Nanao can’t wait to marry her betrothed, Reito, the younger lord of the Byakurenji household. However that modifications one evening when she is attacked by a vengeful yokai spirit—an ayakashi—leaving her scarred with the mark of a demonic curse. Her cousin Akemi seizes the possibility to steal away her fiance, nevertheless it doesn’t matter. Reito now finds her repulsive, and Nanao is pressured to put on a monkey masks to cover her scar and stay the lifetime of an outcast. Years later, she meets Yako, the willful younger scion of one other noble household. When Nanao’s masks shatters after an accident, Yako sees her face and is drawn to her magnificence and nice religious energy. However there’s extra to the good-looking younger lord then meets the attention, and when Yako affords Nanao a method out of her torturous life, the brand new life that awaits her is crammed with extra thriller and intrigue than she may ever think about…
The Dashing Zaddy and His Icy Protégé
By Fumito
The second gross sales division at Gosei Buying and selling Firm is headed up by Mr. Takanashi, one of many agency’s high performer and a charismatic knockout at age 40. Considered one of his subordinates is the equally scorching, cool and calculating 26-year-old, Hiwatari. Virtually each lady on the firm has tried to fire up an workplace romance with the magnetic Takanashi, however this dashing zaddy has turned all of them down, as a result of…he secretly has ED! In the meantime, Hiwatari looks as if a scary robotic on the skin, however he’s truly appeared as much as Takanashi since he began working with him 4 years in the past. When Hiwatari will get an opportunity to spend the night with Takanashi, he reveals greater than he means to!
An irresistible love comedy between a scorching older man with a shameful secret and a crafty underling who turns into an unlikely confidant in his quest to as soon as extra stand proud and, ahem…erect!
Deal When Your Intimidating Neighbor is Truly an Omega
By Nikuya Inui
“He appears to be like like a chilly and good-looking Alpha…who’d ever assume he was truly a twisted and attractive Omega!”
Kota is a school pupil, and an Alpha. Nonetheless, he dreads bumping into his neighbor, a super-intimidating hunk with massive, black tattoos. He all the time assumed this thriller man was an Alpha, too, and averted him just like the plague…till, at some point, a scent wafts in so highly effective it places even the dull-headed Kota in a daze. It’s the scent of Omega pheromones, from subsequent door! He assumes his neighbor’s introduced an Omega house, however when he tries to go away, what ought to he discover however the supply of the pheromones: his scorching neighbor! How will he get out of this case unscathed, and with out his neighbor discovering out he’s a virgin?!
A Vampire within the Bathhouse
By Niko Izuki
A heartwarming and hilarious comedy manga a few scorching vampire who simply needs to unwind and the household who runs the bathhouse the place he crashes. Escape to a world of steam and rest…and get the blood flowing!
A full story in a single quantity!
Luka is your image good vampire―he’s good trying, he’s regal… He’s additionally often extremely hungover and exhausted, and needs nothing greater than a change of tempo from his routine! When he takes a peek into the human world, he finds simply the remedy he’s in search of―a soothing bathhouse that can absolutely remedy him of his hangover and rejuvenate him from head to toe. To blow his fatigue out of the water, Luka pays a go to to Mangetsu no Yu bathhouse the place he meets the bathhouse’s eldest son, Sakura. However between the bathhouse being quick staffed and taking good care of his little brother, Sakura has sufficient to fret about with out a bougie vampire being added to the combination!
Hauntress
By Minetaro Mochizuki
Hiroshi Mori is an unusual school pupil main an unremarkable life, till at some point he hears somebody ringing his neighbor’s doorbell time and again. He goes out onto the touchdown and finds a wierd lady in a trenchcoat―whose tenacious consideration quickly transfers to him. Stalked and harrassed by this monstrous lady, Hiroshi tries to seek out out the reality about her earlier than she ruins his life fully.
Tower Dungeon
By Tsutomu Nihei
An evil sorcerer slays the king and takes over his physique, kidnapping the princess and spiriting her away to the legendary Dragon Tower.
The Royal Guard is rebuffed of their try and rescue her, and to exchange the wounded, a younger farmhand named Yuva is named up into service. With solely a pot lid for a defend and a powerful again to hold provides, Yuva joins the troopers on the perilous quest to climb the tower and rescue the princess. However the Dragon Tower homes untold horrors…!
Poisonous Daughter Chi-chan
By Shuzo Oshimi
Yua Hayakawa used to like enjoying with Chi, a mysterious lady with a murky household life who likes accumulating useless bugs, nevertheless it’s been years since they’ve spoken. Now, Chi infrequently even comes to high school. Someday, Chi reveals as much as class in beat-up gymnasium garments with a handful of useless bugs and begins a commotion that offers Yua’s classmate, golden boy Koudai, an thought: he’s going to avoid wasting Chi, and he wants Yua’s assist to do it. However clean-cut exteriors don’t all the time promise good intentions, and the darkness in Chi could also be extra harmful than Yua had ever imagined.
23:45
By Ohana
Two months after transferring to Tokyo, school freshman Iku resides his otaku nerd life to the fullest. There’s only one downside: he’s began having the ability to see ghosts. One spirit specifically, a younger man about Iku’s age, spends day after day standing on the pedestrian bridge on the way in which to Iku’s condo. Although decided to stay and let not-live unnoticed, Iku by chance bumps into the good-looking phantom and shortly finally ends up with the very chat-deprived spirit of Mimori Website positioning haunting his condo. Not lengthy after, Iku notices that each evening at 23:45, Mimori is drawn by some mysterious drive again to the bridge and compelled to repeat the autumn that made him a ghost within the first place. Will Mimori be caught on this loop without end, or can Iku discover a approach to save this specter from an eternity of never-ending tragedy?
Spacewalking With You
By Inuhiko Doronoda
Kobayashi simply can’t focus—not on learning, not on work—and the adults in his life assume he’s in peril of turning into a nugatory dropout. Then, at some point, a wierd new presence arrives in his class: an brisk and naïve child named Uno. Kobayashi saves Uno from getting scammed, and that shut encounter launches a brand new friendship. Uno’s positively an area cadet, however Kobayashi can’t assist admiring the way in which he floats by means of life, and earlier than he is aware of it, he may begin feeling his ft carry off the bottom, too…
Magic Knight Rayearth Half 2 Vol. 1 (Paperback)
By CLAMP
The three teenage ladies who saved a world at nice price return to Tokyo, somewhat older and far wiser. They assume that they’ll by no means see the magical, troubling world of Cefiro once more…once they discover themselves again there as soon as once more. However Emeraude couldn’t be the one who summoned them this time. What if the tragic climax of their first journey was solely the start?
Codename: Sailor V1
By Naoko Takeuchi
A yr earlier than assembly Sailor Moon―and her future as a member of the Sailor Guardians―Minako was the primary hero to seek out her calling. At age 13, all this teen can discuss is discovering a boyfriend, however her desires change when a speaking cat with a crescent moon on his brow reveals her true id because the Soldier of Justice, Sailor V! Miracles have returned to trendy Tokyo, and he or she should use her powers to cease the Darkish Company, which is making an attempt to control Japan’s leisure business and enslave the inhabitants.
Kodansha has additionally introduced two new digital licenses that might be launched later this month and are featured under.
Tokyo Tarareba Women Returns 2
By Akiko Higashimura
30-year-old Reina Hirota’s chill lifetime of snacking and binge-watching TV reveals will get a wake-up name by means of a forgotten childhood dream buried in a time capsule. Immediately, her content material solitude appears extra like a forever-solo voyage, prompting her to crawl off the sofa and begin husband searching—not simply to seek out love, however to assist her household discover their groove once more. Now, if solely she knew what she needed—not simply in life, however in a man, too.
This title might be launched by Kodansha on July 9, 2024.
My Journey to Her
By Yuna Hirasawa
After graduating college, Yuna spent a number of years going by means of the motions and dealing an workplace job. Till at some point, whereas in pursuit of a necessary lacking piece of her life, she receives a prognosis of gender dysphoria, which opens up new doorways for her. As she takes on medical therapies and tries out new make-up and outfits, she sees simply how lonely and troublesome the method of transitioning might be. However in 2015, when Yuna travels to Thailand for her gender-affirming surgical procedure, the assist of her siblings, new strangers, and documenting her expertise by means of manga helps her start to heal in additional methods than one. Instructed in an trustworthy and, at instances, humorous tone, this memoir is a mix of manga and detailed prose that doesn’t draw back from delicate matters, resembling suicidal ideation, transphobia, and the concurrently harrowing, but joyous, expertise of gender-affirming surgical procedure.
This title might be launched by Kodansha on July 23, 2024.
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