Kodansha has announced for Fall 2025, a new paperback print edition of Parasyte—the influential and fan-favorite body horror manga series by Hitoshi Iwaaki that also inspired an anime streaming on Crunchyroll and live-action series from Netflix. For the first time in over a decade, this new paperback edition will feature Iwaaki’s original black-and-white art restored, as well as an updated translation, updated interior design, and new cover designs that are sure to excite longtime fans and newcomers to the series.
Inspired by Kodansha’s best-selling full color edition, the new black-and-white editions of Parasyte will be completed in eight volumes and will include the updated translation, lettering, and size of the Parasyte Full Color Collection.
Teenager Shinichi wakes up one night to discover a creature crawling under the skin of his right arm. This is a Parasite, a creature that takes control of a person’s body and turns it into a shapeshifting monstrosity hungry for human flesh.
Shinichi has managed to stop his parasite with a tourniquet, and as a result, it takes over only his arm, leaving two consciousnesses sharing one body and dependent on each other to survive. As parasites take control of more and more people, rumors spread of brutal murders committed by terrible abominations—heads splitting open to reveal mouths of sharp teeth, batlike wings erupting from backs, blades tearing through soft bellies. Only Shinichi knows for sure that these rumors are all true. But can he find a way to live without destroying everyone he cares about, much less save the rest of humanity?
Say goodbye to winter and welcome the warmer weather with Spring Shonen Special Bundle by Kodansha. The shonen genre is full of action-packed stories, with amazing world building, memorable characters and exciting battles—including the series found in this bundle. Witness Yoh Asakura’s journey challenging adversaries around the world to win the Shaman Tournament and become SHAMAN KING, Shinra Kusakabe and his pyro powered comrades fight demons and shadowy organizations in Fire Force, and follow Yato, a down-on-his-luck god struggling to find worshipers in Noragami. This bundle offers nearly 100 digital volumes, giving you every volume of these outstanding series to the very last one. Act now—get the Spring Shonen Special Bundle and help support The BINC Foundation.
Get ready to discover your new favorite manga with the Kodansha Award-Winning (& Nominated) Manga Book Bundle from Kodansha, full of fan-favorite titles that span the genres! In The Drops of God, you’ll witness the gripping human drama surrounding an inheritance battle over a wine collection worth millions. Nina the Starry Bride tells the captivating tale of an orphan turned princess navigating royal deceit and unexpected love. In Shangri-la Frontier, you’ll join a seasoned gamer as he faces formidable foes and mysterious figures in a captivating and deadly virtual world. Pay what you want for this incredible bundle packed with dozens of volumes and help support the Book Industry Charitable Foundation!
Get ready to discover your new favorite manga with the Kodansha Award-Winning (& Nominated) Manga Book Bundle from Kodansha, full of fan-favorite titles that span the genres! In The Drops of God, you’ll witness the gripping human drama surrounding an inheritance battle over a wine collection worth millions. Nina the Starry Bride tells the captivating tale of an orphan turned princess navigating royal deceit and unexpected love. In Shangri-la Frontier, you’ll join a seasoned gamer as he faces formidable foes and mysterious figures in a captivating and deadly virtual world. Pay what you want for this incredible bundle packed with dozens of volumes and help support the Book Industry Charitable Foundation!
Journey to a post-apocalyptic world where grotesque giants roam and humanity is on the brink of extinction in Attack on Titan, the award-winning, New York Times–bestselling manga that spawned the hit anime series. This colossal collection features all 34 volumes of Hajime Isayama’s acclaimed series, along with No Regrets, Before the Fall, Junior High, and more. Lose yourself in the saga of Eren, and help support BINC (Book Industry Charitable Foundation) with your purchase!
Journey to a post-apocalyptic world where grotesque giants roam and humanity is on the brink of extinction in Attack on Titan, the award-winning, New York Times–bestselling manga that spawned the hit anime series. This colossal collection features all 34 volumes of Hajime Isayama’s acclaimed series, along with No Regrets, Before the Fall, Junior High, and more. Lose yourself in the saga of Eren, and help support BINC (Book Industry Charitable Foundation) with your purchase!
A BL manga about men who love BL manga… and each other. Fun, heartwarming and tantalizingly sexy, Comic Party Wonder Love is a boys love romance series about the world of making boys love comics!
Raizo and TOS are two men who also write BL in their spare time. Raizo is a cool, laidback and handsome guy whose dark BL style is popular, while TOS has a light and fluffy writing style, but is less popular due to his social awkwardness and difficulty communicating. Even though they are complete opposites in everything, they find themselves inexplicably drawn to one another…
Deco Yamano is a prolific BL manga creator known for such titles as Comic Party Wonder Love, Chotto Damatte, and Kimiiro Real.
Comic Party Wonder LoveVol. 1 debuts December 3rd from Kodansha’s LoveLove imprint and is for readers 18+.
As announced at New York Comic Con 2024, Kodansha revealed their latest slate of new manga coming to print in Fall 2025, including manga for younger readers like Sheeta’s Little Big World, suspense thrillers like Nezumi’s First Love, an emotional spectrum of BL titles like My Instructor Won’t Yield and Shoot Juliet Down, as well as an upcoming Witch Hat Atelier box set, and new editions of AKIRA.
Not only that, Kodansha also unveiled new publishing initiatives for the soccer-centric hit Blue Lock and the wine-focused drama The Drops of God.
Further, Kodansha announced an upcoming translation of Totto-chan, The Little Girl at the Window: The Sequel, the long-awaited second installment to Tetsuko Kuroyanagi’s Guinness World Record-breaking memoir which won over the hearts of more than 25 millions readers worldwide.
And debuting digitally across the next two months: As the Gods Will, a pulse-pounding game-of-death saga (from Blue Lock writer Muneyuki Kaneshiro) and India Calling Me Now, a heart-warming travel and self discovery drama.
Titles announced for print will be available starting Fall 2025 at physical and online book vendors like Barnes & Noble, Books-A-Million, Amazon, and more, while November 2024 digital debuts will be available upon release across all participating vendors.
NEW & NOTABLE PRINT ANNOUNCEMENTS:
Kodansha to publish new volumes of Blue Lock every month starting July 2025
Accelerating toward the goal!
The smash hit soccer action series is going monthly!
Starting in July 2025, Kodansha will release one print volume of Blue Lock every month until Kodansha is caught up with the Japanese release.
Hit wine-focused manga The Drops of God returns to print
Due to popular demand and on the heels of the fan-favorite Apple+ live-action drama, The Drops of God manga by Tadashi Agi and Shu Okimoto returns to store shelves with Kodansha’s original 2-in-1 omnibus editions being reprinted.
A wine critic and his rival brother must compete against each other to determine who will inherit their father’s estate—a wine collection featuring 13 heaven blessed wines.
‘Drops of God’ live action series was nominated for Outstanding Drama Series at the 2024 International Emmy Awards. Apple TV announced season 2!
Barnes & Noble Exclusive Edition of Koji Suzuki’s Ring Arrives November 2024
Perfect for horror fans and aficionados, Barnes & Noble is partnering with Kodansha to release an exclusive variant edition of Koji Suzuki’s chilling hit novel, Ring!
Features all new art with a striking throwback mock VHS cover
Contains sprayed page edges to mimic TV static
Each copy comes with an insert of the original Ring cover with a printed Koji Suzuki signature
Totto-chan The Little Girl at the Window: The Sequel (Novel)
By Tetsuko Kuroyanagi Debut Date: Fall 2025 Rated: 16+
Over forty years ago, Japanese pop culture icon Testuko Kuroyanagi ended her childhood memoir shortly after her beloved school, Tomoe Gakuen, burned down beneath the American air raids of WWII. At last, she returns to continue little Totto’s tale, beginning with her family’s frantic effort to escape Tokyo and the worst of the war. Told with the same disarming charm that enamored over 25 million readers worldwide, this sequel invites us to see the harsh realities of war through the eyes of an ever-curious child who finds wonder in the darkest of places, and trace her path to becoming a trailblazing actress and philanthropist who forever changed the landscape of Japanese entertainment.
NEW & UPCOMING DIGITAL LICENSES:
As the Gods Will
Story by Muneyuki Kaneshiro Art by Akeji Fujimura Debut Date: November 12, 2024 Rated: 18+
Deep down inside, high school student Shun Takahata craves for some excitement in his boring life…but his teacher’s head randomly exploding isn’t exactly what he had in mind. And when some of his classmates suddenly suffer the same fate, he begins to realize he’s been thrust into a series of deadly supernatural children’s games. Shun and fellow survivors are completely in the dark, not knowing who’s responsible, why it’s happening, or when it will end. To have any hope of unraveling the mystery behind the gruesome games, they’ll first have to outlast the games…and each other.
India Calling Me Now
By Terako Shima Debut Date: December 10, 2024 Rated: 13+
After years of struggling to get her work published, 28-year old manga artist Natsume is on the brink of giving up. When her boyfriend gets transferred to India and asks her to come, she takes it as a sign to finally let go of the dreams she’d pursued her whole life. But when she arrives and realizes that he sees her as little more than a dutiful future housewife, she dumps him on the spot and finds herself all alone in an unfamiliar land. Through her encounters with the resilient and radiant women she meets there, Natsume slowly finds the strength to follow her dreams once again.
FALL 2025 NEW PRINT LICENSES:
Welcome to Demon School! Iruma-kun: IruMafia Edition
By Hiroja Original Series by Osamu Nishi Debut Date: Fall 2025 Rated: 13+
Get ready to meet the lovable cast of Welcome to Demon School! Iruma-kun as you’ve never seen them before!
In this brand-new spinoff of the runaway hit series, Iruma is a dirt-poor but unfailingly cheerful young boy who grows up in a ruthless city slum. One day, Iruma gives an injured old man his last loaf of bread and nurses the stranger back to health—only to find out that the elder gent is none other than Don Sullivan, head of the Babyl Mafia! Soon after, Don Sullivan comes back, whisks Iruma away, and begs the boy to become his grandson. And just like that, Iruma begins his new life as the next in line to lead a gigantic gang of—dare we say—demonic mafiosos!
Sheeta’s Little Big World
By Yuki Kamba Debut Date: Fall 2025 Rated: 8+
Sheeta and Nala live happily inside a hollowed-out log with their fellow “littlefolk,” who stand no taller than a blade of grass. When Nala runs off one day to investigate a mysterious smoke signal, Sheeta must summon all his wit and courage as he sets off in pursuit. Rats, ants, weasels, giants… The wide world is full of dangers, but the plucky Sheeta will stop at nothing to find his friend. A charming new adventure manga for young readers and teens alike.
A Curtain Call for You
Story by Shiho Satou Art by Kiki Emoda Debut Date: Fall 2025 Rated: 13+
Shy, mousy Sakura Akutsu is content to keep her adventures confined to the pages of her notebook—until the brash, outgoing new transfer student Tsubame Hiiragi gets her hands on it, that is. The two secretly share the stories Sakura spins, but soon that secret proves too big to keep, and Tsubame whisks Sakura into a glittering world she could never have imagined!
As Sakura learns to be confident in who she is and ignore what others think, Tsubame learns to go below the surface and dig deep for emotional truths that may have eluded her… Together they’ll learn about art, love, truth, and most of all, the theater…!
This creative and emotionally rich series uses every visual tool available to express the confusion and elation of adolescence.
You Can’t Bluff the Sharp-Eyed Sister
Story by Natsu Hyuuga Art by Yo Asami Character Designs by Chiho Shinishi Debut Date: Fall 2025 Rated: 13+
In a sleepy countryside church, Chloe plays the part of a prim and naïve novice, studying to become a priestess. But when night falls, she sneaks out in disguise to win big money at cards!
Despite her best efforts, word gets around, and one day a handsome young holy knight named Heraldo—known as a rising star in the capital—arrives to enlist her help. A murder two years ago threatens the stability of the kingdom, and Heraldo thinks this card shark in sister’s clothes can solve it using her Gift—the rare blessing that allows someone to use magic. Little does Heraldo know, there’s nothing supernatural about Chloe’s winning streak. She’s just got a quick wit, and sharp eyes! Will that be enough to survive the den of devils that is the royal palace?
The new fantasy mystery manga from the creator of The Apothecary Diaries!
My Instructor Won’t Yield
By Deme Kingyobachi Debut Date: Fall 2025 Rated: 16+
A quirky, sweet BL romance that’ll have you turning the page at full throttle!
Chiba’s kind manner, clear guidance, and pretty face easily make him the favorite instructor of every female student at the driving school where he works. But, while he’ll play up his charms to get good reviews, Chiba is diligent about politely—but firmly—rejecting any romantic gestures or advances that may come his way. His well-crafted persona is put to the test when he is matched with the mysterious Yaotome, a new student gaining a reputation of his own as the “Sharp-Suited Prince.” Despite his cool looks and demeanor, Yaotome can hardly compose himself when Chiba begins their lesson. Is it just nerves, or is there something more to it…?
Shoot Juliet Down
By Komachi Katsura Debut Date: Fall 2025 Rated: 18+
Love is a brutal battle between vanity and desire.
Amidst the dark glamor of host club Velvet Kiss, Juri—also called Juliet—commands a vice-like grip on the number one position. Impressed by this poker-faced beauty’s supreme reign, newbie and number-two host Akatsuki decides he must learn Juliet’s secrets—and shoot him down from the top of the pack. But Akatsuki’s first up-close taste of Juliet’s intoxicating charm leaves him craving more than he’d expected. And as he may soon learn, some secrets are better left in their bottles, and the bullet that shoots through one heart might take out more than it bargained for…
Nezumi’s First Love
By Riku Oseto Debut Date: Fall 2025 Rated: 16+
Here’s the sweet, bloody yakuza love story we’ve all been waiting for! Nezumi was raised by the mob to be an emotionless killing machine, but a chance encounter in an arcade leads to a romance at total odds with everything she’s known. Equal parts ultraviolence and kawaii, Nezumi’s First Love turns both the hitman and love comedy genres on their heads!
Before You Go Extinct
Story by Takashi Ushiroyato Art by Kanato Abiko Debut Date: Fall 2025 Rated: 16+
A darkly comic look at the meaning and meaninglessness of life, through the eyes of various adorable and occasionally psychopathic species facing extinction.
A humble rock is at the center of this transmigratory tale of two souls who take the form of penguins, otters, crows, and more as they learn about the the value of culture, the beauty of play in the face of capitalist pressure to produce and reproduce, and the power of love in the face of total annihilation.
FALL 2025 BOX SETS & NEW EDITIONS:
Witch Hat Atelier Manga Box Set 1
By Kamome Shirahama Debut Date: Fall 2025 Rated: 13+
Can’t get enough of Witch Hat Atelier? See where the magic began in this manga box set containing the first six volumes of the manga that inspired the hit anime, plus an exclusive set of art cards!
In a world where everyone takes wonders like magic spells and dragons for granted, Coco is a girl with a simple dream: She wants to be a witch. But everybody knows witches are born, not made, and Coco was not born with a gift for magic. Resigned to her un-magical life, Coco is about to give up on her dream to become a witch…until the day she meets Qifrey, a mysterious, traveling witch. After secretly seeing Qifrey perform magic in a way she’s never seen before, Coco soon learns what everybody “knows” might not be the truth, and discovers that her magical dream may not be as far away as it may seem…
AKIRA Hardcover Collection
By Katsuhiro Otomo Debut Date: Fall 2025 Rated: 18+
One of the most acclaimed and influential comics of all time, with the original Japanese art and right-to-left reading format, now available in single-volume, collectible hardcovers!
Katsuhiro Otomo’s AKIRA, the dystopian, science fiction epic that changed anime and manga forever, returns in six beautiful hardcover collector’s edition volumes perfect for longtime fans and manga aficionados alike. Whether you’re a cult fan or are looking to dive into the world of Neo-Tokyo for the first time, there’s no better way to experience AKIRA than with these beautiful new hardcover editions, featuring the original Japanese art and right-to-left reading format.
Welcome to Neo-Tokyo, a city built on the ashes of a Tokyo annihilated by a blast of unknown origin that triggered World War III, whose streets have been ceded to motorcycle gangs and the rich and powerful run dangerous experiments on destructive, supernatural powers that they cannot control. The lives of two streetwise teenage friends, Tetsuo and Kaneda, change forever when paranormal abilities begin to waken in Tetsuo, making him a target for a shadowy agency that will stop at nothing to prevent another catastrophe like the one that leveled Tokyo. At the core of the agency’s motivation is a raw, all-consuming fear of an unthinkable, monstrous power known only as Akira.
As part of their digital license program, Kodansha revealed the October release of Parasyte Reversi, a new action-horror series from Moare Ohta, based on the acclaimed original series by Hitoshi Iwaaki.
Making its digital debut on October 8, 2024, Parasyte Reversi is a parallel episode that offers an exciting new perspective on the events of Parasyte—the original alien invasion body horror manga that inspired the fan-favorite anime and a live-action Netflix series.
Parasyte Reversi will be available upon release across all our participating digital vendors, including Amazon Kindle, Bookwalker, Apple Books, Google Play, Nook, Kobo, MyAnimeList, Mangamo and more! Fans can also purchase and read all Kodansha digital manga on kodansha.us.
Three dismembered bodies were found in an abandoned basement parking garage, sliced limb from limb while they were still alive…and if the boy who discovered them is to be believed, the murders occurred in an impossibly short window of time. Nothing is adding up for veteran detective Fukami of the East Fukuyama police department, and his gut is telling him the boy is hiding something. In fact, he’s quite certain that Tatsuki Hirokawa saw exactly what happened, and who did it. But what the boy knows will go far beyond even his wildest nightmares… A riveting parallel episode to Hitoshi Iwaaki’s acclaimed sci-fi horror series, from the author of cult classic Teppu.
Kodansha has announced that the Blue Lock— the smash hit, soccer centric manga by Muneyuki Kaneshiro and Yusuke Nomura—will see an official coloring book available for purchase in print this Spring 2025.
The Blue Lock Coloring Book will feature stunning artwork by series artist Yusuke Nomura, highlighting some of the series most action-packed moments, and fan-favorite character, in a format easy for fans to color in themselves.
Blue Lock, the award-winning manga first serialized in the pages of Weekly Shōnen Magazine, was reported as being the 2023 best-selling manga in Japan after “nearly tripling what it sold in 2022.” This series inspired the Blue Lock anime, with season one streaming on Crunchyroll, and season two set to debut October 2024. Blue Lock: Episode Nagi, a spin-off manga featuring the popular soccer prodigy, Nagi Seishiro, will debut in print and digital from Kodansha, October 15, 2024. A feature animated film of Blue Lock: Episode Nagi premiered in June 2024.
The Blue Lock Coloring Book will will arrive Spring 2025 at major retailers such as Barnes & Noble, Books-A-Million, Amazon, and more.
The official coloring book of the global smash soccer survival manga & anime! Celebrate the arrival of the new Blue Lock season with this 60-page, collectible coloring book suitable for fans of any age.
The prodigy, Nagi. The mastermind, Jinpachi Ego. The monster, Meguru Bachira. The fighter, Rensuke. The rival, Hyoma. And the ultimate egoist, Isagi. All of them and more populate the action-packed pages of this premium-quality coloring book, officially licensed by the creators of the series. Color spreads of your favorite characters, facing off on the soccer pitch. All the most dramatic shots, headers, taunts, celebrations, and turnabouts are here!
