Order up, nostalgia lovers (with a side of pepperoni and swords) because your favorite cybernetic cats are back on the menu! Nakama Press and Mad Cave Studios, in partnership with Tatsunoko Production, are proud to announce Samurai Pizza Cats Vol. 1! It will be a brand‑new 200‑page middle‑grade manga adaptation of the beloved ‘90s animated series from Tatsunoko and Sotsu Co. LTD., written by all-star favorite Fred Kennedy with illustrations by Lorenzo Di Santo, letters by Charles Pritchett, and the cover colored by Antonio Antro.

Welcome back to Little Tokyo, pizza lovers! And what a sizzling situation you’ve walked into! The Big Cheese is up to his stinky shenanigans again! This time, he’s using fish sticks to lull our fair city into a crispified, fish-laden catastrophe! And that’s just the first couple of pages… and let me tell you, when this kitten starts purring, there’s no telling where it’ll wind up! Rock concerts, pizza sauce, reality TV, evil spirits, hammocks, mecha-spiders, and even… Vikings! You read that right, buck-o, VIKINGS!!! So, toss on your tennis shoes and slap on a sweatband because you’re in for a wild ride with this one! Also… be sure to stretch; I don’t want you blowing out your hammies!

Samurai Pizza Cats Vol. 1 drops April 7, 2026.