Today on X, formerly Twitter, Kodansha USA announced 4 new titles, including a box set and a new edition for a novel, for a Spring 2025 release.
Manga
Snegurochka of the Spring Breeze
By Hiroaki Samura
Bielka ("Squirrel"), a beautiful young woman in a wheelchair, and her taciturn companion Shchenok ("Puppy") must keep their true identities secret as they navigate the fraught political climate and harsh landscape of the Soviet Union in the 1930s. Intrigue abounds in this richly historical and erotic political drama that weaves historical figures including the Romanovs and Rasputin into Hiroaki Samura's brilliant fiction.
The POOL
By Gamon Sakurai
Note: From our research, volume 1 has not yet released in Japan. So this got licensed before volume 1 even came out anywhere!
Twenty years ago, a wormhole suddenly appeared above Earth's orbit and opened a passageway to an alien planet full of untapped resources and mysterious life forms. Two decades later, Team Sierra, a small military squad of security specialists working for the Tiberius Coke Corporation, are thirty miles away from home base on that planet when their leader, Chief Yugi Oishi, spots an SOS flare coming from a theoretically abandoned mine. Despite the danger, she leads her four-man team to the facility to see who'd called for help, only for it to be attacked by a horde of powerful creatures almost as soon as the doors close behind them. Now, she and the stranded exploratory excavation crew Team Sierra finds inside must traverse the treacherous mine to reach the only vehicle that could get them to safety—without waking the terrifying monster that's been picking off the researchers one by one.
Twilight Out of Focus Box Set
By Jyanome
This collector's box set includes:
Volumes 1-4 of the series
A booklet with U.S-edition-exclusive art
A never-translated story
Full-color illustrations!
Novel
Musashi (New Edition)
By Eiji Yoshikawa (author), Charles Terry (Translated By)
Miyamoto Musashi was the child of an era when Japan was emerging from decades of civil strife. Lured to the great Battle of Sekigahara in 1600 by the hope of becoming a samurai--without really knowing what it meant--he regains consciousness after the battle to find himself lying defeated, dazed and wounded among thousands of the dead and dying. On his way home, he commits a rash act, becomes a fugitive and brings life in his own village to a standstill—until he is captured by a weaponless Zen monk.
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