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Kodansha Licenses New Manga for August 2024 & Spring 2025

Kodansha August 2024 & Spring 2025 licenses

Yesterday at San Diego Comic-Con, Kodansha USA announced new titles, editions, and box sets coming in Spring 2025 along with some digital titles coming this August!


The series will be categorized by release season(or month where applicable) with digital titles having it labeled as such next to the title


August 2024

 

Volume cover of That Beauty is a Tramp

That Beauty Is a Tramp (Digital)

By Hal Osaka


Cool and tomboyish Nagi wants a boyfriend, but has one big problem—ever since an incident in college, her body reflexively rejects the touch of any man. That is, until she encounters the beautiful male model Aran, who uses his androgynous look to effortlessly model both masculine and feminine styles. She’s shocked to discover that she can touch him without having a reaction, and when he asks her to join him in an upcoming photo shoot with a famous photographer, she agrees, on one condition—be her practice boyfriend for one month, and help her conquer her aversion once and for all.


 

Holiday 2024

 

Cover of Sailor Moon Naoko Takeuchi Collection Manga Box Set 1

Sailor Moon Naoko Takeuchi Collection Manga Box Set 1

By Naoko Takeuchi







Includes:


  • Volumes 1–6 of the Naoko Takeuchi Collection edition of the Sailor Moon manga

  • An exclusive set of 16 art cards

  • A beautiful holographic box featuring a premium magnetic enclosure


 

Spring 2025

 

Cover of GAEA-TIMA the Gigantis

GAEA-TIMA the Gigantis

By KENT


A gigantic monster devastates a small, seaside town. Ten years later, the resilient community has emerged as a tourist destination, when the monster, known as GAEA-TIMA, returns. Miyako, a local hero and survivor of the first attack, pushes to find a scientific solution to the problem of the giant creatures known as “gigantis.” But is humanity capable of responding to violence with anything except more violence?


 

Cover of Tune in to Midnight Heart

Tune in to Midnight Heart

By Masakuni Igarashi


At the end of a difficult day, the haughty but purehearted rich kid Arisu found his only solace in the voice of another girl his age, who hosted a livestream under the pseudonym “Apollo.” Then, one day, the broadcasts stopped. Arisu has dedicated the years since then to finding Apollo’s true identity, and he’s narrowed it down to one particular high school. He transfers in as a student and figures it’ll be a cinch—but then discovers it could be any of the girls in the broadcasting club! And the real Apollo isn’t talking for reasons of her own! These four girls have no use for Arisu’s personality, but they each harbor dreams of using their voices to build a career, and they sure could use his money… Can the blunt and blustering Arisu buy his way into the club’s good graces, and find the real girl attached to his dream voice?


 

Cover of Shout Loud, My Heart

Shout Loud, My Heart

By Rayri Youga


College student Gen, a guitarist for the rock band Eve, meets a man named Mike while playing at one of his gigs. Mike’s the kind of person who has no trouble saying what’s on his mind, and Gen soon finds himself captivated by the smooth talker’s voice. The next day, the two meet again when they realize they go to the same college. Be it on stage or just during casual conversation, Gen finds himself more and more captivated by Mike’s voice, and the more time the two spend together, the more Gen realizes it’s more than just Mike’s voice he’s attracted to…


 

Cover of Roar: A Star in the Abyss

Roar: A Star in the Abyss

By Ai Okaue


Misato had a perfect childhood, with parents who loved her and a home on an idyllic island in Japan’s inland sea. But then a TV show starts shooting in town. Misato’s cast as an extra, and in an instant, her life is turned on its head. A woman appears claiming to be her real mother, and before she knows it Misato is living in a lavish mansion surrounded by greedy schemers of all stripes. The curtain rises on the story of a rising star who plunges into an abyss—where the only sustenance is vengeance!


 

Cover of Issak

Issak

By Shinji Makari (Story), DOUBLE-S (Art)


The year is A.D. 1620. Europe is riven with the conflagrations that will grow into the Thirty Years War. Catholic and Protestant forces clash across battlefields ruled by sword and gunpowder alike, and mercenaries of every stripe ply their trade. Among them is Issak, a lone Japanese warrior wielding a matchlock gun of strange design, on a sworn mission to find and kill the man who murdered his master and fled Japan for the other side of the world.


 

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