At their AnimeNYC industry panel, Azuki revealed that two series that are on their digital manga reading app, Hikaru in the Light, and Mecha-Ude: Mechanical Arms, will receive full-color print editions from Scholastic, the global children's publishing, education, and media company. These titles will be under Scholastic's Graphix imprint.
Note: This will be the first time Mecha-Ude is printed worldwide. In Japan it only releases digitally in LINE Manga.
Volume 1 of Hikaru in the Light will be published by Graphix in March 2025. The first volume of Mecha-Ude: Mechanical Arms will follow in April 2025. The Mecha-Ude anime series will release in October 2024.
Additionally, Azuki is adding four new manga series to its subscription now available worldwide (excluding Japan):
Kotonoha
By Kisugae
When Fujita was in high school, she had but one romantic encounter — and it was with another girl. It happened one day when they ended up kissing. However, somewhere inside her, she knew a girl kissing another girl was wrong, so she chose to remain as just friends. Even when graduation came, she could not confess her feelings, and so the two girls split ways. Five years later, Fujita still thinks back to that romantic encounter. Meanwhile at work, due to one of her colleagues going on maternity leave, a new designer is brought into the company... and who does that designer turn out to be? None other than her high school crush!
Ryoji Renjo: Gourmet Detective
By Tadashi Kato
Ryoji is just supposed to be that private detective everyone hires to solve their trivial personal cases. But why does he have this outstanding cooking skill that mesmerizes every cook he meets in the investigation? What is his connection with the famous head from Togawa restaurant? Together with Aoi, the outgoing woman who's also a foodie, Ryoji spreads his cooking skill that will bring more taste to Japan's urban culinary scene!
Sweeter Than Cake
By Yuga Kuromiya
For Takuya Otsuki, his everyday routine after school is to pick up his brother Yuta at daycare, then go home and make dinner for the two of them, while their parents both work. He doesn't stop by the game center, go out for karaoke, or visit cafes like the rest of his classmates. He is responsible for Yuta... who's just disappeared into thin air!? As big bro Takuya chases after his small but swift baby brother, he finally catches him at the park, ogling at some cakes held by a suspicious looking red-haired man! Uh oh... What will Takuya have to do to pay him back for the trouble Yuta has caused....? Be his cake taster...? Is that... some sort of euphemism...?
Dreamnautes
By Yasuyuki Oshima
Every time Nattsu shuts his eyes, his world changes into a cloudy dimension with bizarre creatures and strange humans. What exactly is Nattsu's purpose in that world? Why does he keep getting more and more tired?
Source: Press Kit
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