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Dark Horse reveals Four new Manga Releases for Late 2026

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Dark Horse Manga has announced a new, expansive lineup of Manga coming to English audiences in Fall 2026 and beyond. 

Suicide Island

In a story evoking both Lord of the Flies and Battle Royale, a young Japanese man, Sei, is transported to the mysterious, remote Suicide Island after a failed suicide attempt—where he must live the rest of his days or figure out how to die! With society turning its back on many suicidal citizens, the island fills up with haunted, driven characters, often in conflict with each other and sometimes barely holding onto sanity! 

This series is created by mangaka Kouji Mori, with translations by Kumar Sivasubramanian and lettering by Eisner Award-nominated Steve Dutro.

Suicide Island Volume 1 (232 pages, 5.125×7.25”) arrives in bookstores and comic shops on December 8, 2026, for $14.99. Pre-order now from Amazon, Barnes and Noble, or your local bookstore or comic shop.

Suicide Island

Babanba Banban Vampire

An unassuming worker in a long-established public bathhouse is really the lustful 450-year-old vampire Ranmaru Mori! The heir to this esteemed Koi No Yu Bathhouse, Rihito Tatsuno, is a fifteen-year-old virgin—who is about to fall in love for the first time with a girl in his class! Ranmaru begins to weave a desperate plan to prevent Rihito from losing his virginity and to make him fall for Ranmaru instead, so the bloodsucker can eventually have pure, eighteen-year-old virgin blood for his own vampiric self!

This hilarious, BL manga series from Hiromasa Okujima has already been adapted into an anime and a live-action film! Translated by Kumar Sivasubramanian and lettered by Eisner Award-nominated Steve Dutro.

Babanba BanBan Vampire Volume 1 (208 pages, 5.125×7.25”) arrives in bookstores and comic shops on November 10, 2026, for $13.99. Pre-order now from Amazon, Barnes and Noble, or your local bookstore or comic shop.

Babanba Banban Vampire

Asobi Asobase

Hanako, Olivia, and Kasumi are three Japanese schoolgirls who love to play games—so they create a special club for themselves to challenge each other to intense, over-the-top games and dares! As they struggle with their own unique personalities, they also struggle to make their group an official club in the eyes of the student council.

From mangaka Rin Suzukawa, this omnibus series collects several original volumes into one trade paperback, with translations by Jongwoo Kim and lettering work by Thiago Péres, Lucas Saguista, and Naaice. Original Japanese volumes 1, 2, and 3, and part of Volume 4, are collected in the first Asobi Asobase Omnibus.

Asobi Asobase Volume 1 (564 pages, 5.75×8.25”) arrives in bookstores and comic shops on November 17, 2026, for $29.99. Pre-order now from Amazon, Barnes and Noble, or your local bookstore or comic shop.

Asobi Asobase

Forget-Me-Not

Stroll along the banks of the canals in beautiful Venice, Italy, and you’ll see the slacker—a young woman noodling on her guitar, pecking a bit at her laptop, and maybe getting a little reading in. But watch your step in this ancient town, because some of the other people you might run into—the ragged derelict, the drunken streetwalker, even that clean-cut gondolier—they’re all her, too! She’s Mariel Imari, of Italian and Japanese descent, whose skill at disguise comes from being part of a famous dynasty of detectives.

But Mariel hasn’t yet cracked the one case that would allow her to inherit her grandfather’s estate—Forget-me-not, the painting stolen from the mansion 22 years ago, which she needs to recover as a condition of his will. You see, Mariel is brilliant, but Mariel is also a bit lazy and slovenly and bored…and about to be a bit embarrassed, too, when her sisters show up from Japan, under the impression that Mariel is rich! Will Mariel ever catch the master thief standing between her and an aristocratic lifestyle? Does she really want to?

Created by mangaka Kenji Tsuruta with translation by Dana Lewis and lettering by Susie Lee.

Forget-Me-Not Volume 1 (256 pages, 5.25×10.25”) arrives in bookstores and comic shops on January 5, 2027, for $29.99. Pre-order now from Amazon, Barnes and Noble, or your local bookstore or comic shop.

Forget-Me-Not Volume 1

Shirow Masamune’s stories receive a Three-Book Deluxe Edition Treatment from Dark Horse Manga

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Dark Horse Manga presents Shirow Masamune’s classics in a three-book Deluxe Edition manga series, starting with Appleseed Deluxe Edition. The series will also include the Appleseed Companion Deluxe Edition, and additional works by Shirow within the Shirow Masamune Anthology Deluxe Edition. 

Translated by Dana Lewis, Toren Smith, and Duane Johnson, lettered by Tom Orzechowski, L. Lois Buhalis, John Clark, and Sasquatch, the Appleseed Deluxe Edition collects Books One through Four of Appleseed, and will feature a wraparound, seven-color artwork cover, metallic, edge-gilded pages, and four-color end sheets along with a sewn-in bookmark. This new Deluxe Edition collection will be available starting in August 2026, and it’s recommended that fans and retailers pre-order now to secure copies. Dates and additional details for the Companion and Anthology will be provided soon.

The year is 2127. In the aftermath of a devastating global war, Deunan and Briareos are just the kind of couple you’d find managing to survive—she’s a former SWAT team member, he’s a cyborg former mercenary. Both of them are found in the ruins by Hitomi, a young woman who recruits them to work for Olympus, an ultra-advanced, experimental city-state that survived the apocalypse. 

It’s an oasis of peace that now seeks to step outside its protected zone to try to reconstruct the world…but to do so, its philosophers, planners, and scientists will need the support of people who know how to fight. Olympus can offer them a new, safe home—and the chance to use the most advanced weapons tech on earth, including the powered combat armor known as the Landmate.

And so Deunan and Briareos are drawn into the paradoxes and power struggles of Olympus: their new job, to serve and protect the people of a city whose secrets they know little about. Protect them both from outsiders, and from themselves—for while Deunan and Briareos may believe enough in Olympus to put their lives on the line for it, they’re far too smart to be satisfied being anyone’s mere pawns, even in the most noble cause…

Don’t face the apocalypse alone. Appleseed, the 848-page (7×10”) hardcover arrives in bookstores and comic shops on August 11 and August 12, 2026 for $69.99. Pre-order now from Amazon, Barnes and Noble, or your local bookstore or comic shop. 

Lone Wolf & Cub is getting Deluxe Editions from Dark Horse

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The popular Deluxe Editions of Dark Horse Manga titles have captured the enthusiasm of manga and graphic novel fans across the globe. Now, Dark Horse Manga presents the highly anticipated Lone Wolf & Cub Deluxe Editions, which will present the beloved series in stunning, oversized hardcover volumes, displaying the classic tale at a larger size. Created by the samurai genre-defining team of Kazuo Koike and Goseki Kojima, the Lone Wolf & Cub Deluxe Edition Volume 1 arrives in December 2025, with additional volumes to follow. Translated by Dana Lewis with lettering by Studio Cutie, the deluxe editions feature the story in its original right-to-left reading format, with original Japanese sound effects.

Ōgami Ittō, once the shogun’s executioner, has fallen from grace after false accusations by a rival clan. With his wife murdered and with his three-year-old son to protect, he chooses the path of the ronin, the masterless samurai. Together, the lone wolf and his cub wander feudal Japan. All roads will lead them to a single destination—vengeance. 

Lone Wolf and Cub Deluxe Edition Volume 1 collects the stories presented in the Dark Horse paperback collections Lone Wolf and Cub Volumes 1 and 2, and stories from Volume 3, now updated to utilize the original right-to-left format materials. Lone Wolf and Cub Deluxe Edition Volume 2 collects stories from Lone Wolf and Cub Volume 3 and Lone Wolf and Cub Volumes 4 and 5. 

Experience a true classic, Lone Wolf and Cub Deluxe Edition Volume 1, when the 720-page (7” x 10”) hardcover arrives in bookstores on December 9, 2025 and comic shops on December 10, 2025 for $54.99. Pre-order now from Amazon, Barnes and Noble, or your local bookstore or comic shop.

Lone Wolf and Cub Deluxe Edition Volume 2 (hardcover, 720 pages, 7” x 10”) arrives in bookstores on March 24, 2026 and comic shops on March 25, 2026 for $54.99. Pre-order now from Amazon, Barnes and Noble, or your local bookstore or comic shop.

Chicago in the 1990s provides good business for two bounty hunting women in Gunsmith Cats Omnibus Vol. 3

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Dark Horse Manga celebrates the irreverent manga Gunsmith Cats with new Omnibus editions, bringing the beloved series to new readers. Gunsmith Cats is a story about a gun shop owner and her demolitions expert (and former call girl) partner-in-eradicating-crime and their quest to turn their “hobby” of rounding up the most wanted men and women in Chicago into a lucrative career–all while looking sharp and driving her Shelby Cobra GT 500! Gunsmith Cats Omnibus Volume 3 comes from retro anime legend Kenichi Sonoda, translated by Dana Lewis and Toren Smith, and retouched by Studio Cutie. 

Custody battles can get nasty—but rarely as vicious as the situation Rally and Minnie-May are caught up in. Michael Stone, the famed hypnotist and stage magician known professionally as “Mister Smart,” jumped bail on a hit-and-run, which made him Rally’s business. Kidnapping gets added to the rap sheet, as Smart is set up by his estranged wife on a false charge of abducting his daughter, Jeena. But this is much more than a family dispute, as behind the personal drama is a scheme to use Smart’s skills to rip off $20 million in mob money, with Jeena’s life as the penalty if he doesn’t pull off the trick!

Then, Rally’s trouble-prone pal, master thief Misty Brown, gets into more trouble than ever when she decides to steal Bean “Roadbuster” Bandit’s beloved car, Buff, on a whim. Not only is Bean a tad upset, but Misty is now in terrible danger, and not necessarily from the Roadbuster—because certain ruthless people want to lay hands on the cargo he was transporting. Sure, it was only blank sheets of paper, but there are thousands of them, and it seems they’re the same special kind used by the U.S. Mint!

Hop in with Gunsmith Cats Omnibus Volume 3 when the 648-page (5.75” x 8.25”) paperback arrives in bookstores on August 5, 2025, and comic shops on August 6, 2025, for $29.99. Pre-order now from TFAW, Amazon, Barnes and Noble, or your local comic shop or bookstore.

Gunsmith Cats Omnibus Volume 3

Kenji Tsuruta brings an all-new saucy story to Dark Horse, Captain Momo’s Secret Base

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From the mind behind the realism and careful intricacies of Emanon, Wandering Island and Spirit of Wonder, Eisner Award-nominee Kenji Tsuruta, comes a “slice-of-life” adventure from the naked depths of space! Translated by Dana Lewis, Captain Momo’s Secret Base Volume 1 features action, humor, and a very ornery cat.

Moshi-Moshi Momo works from home like many people—in a den crowded with books and papers, shared with a cat that’s got its own agenda. Except Momo truly does possess office space—because she lives inside a starship, and relativity means Zoom meetings need half an hour just to ask a question!

In the year 3019 AD, humanity has gotten even more work casual: most of the time, Momo doesn’t bother to wear her captain’s uniform—or anything at all—onboard the cargo vessel Blue Chateau, as she struggles against interstellar tedium, company directives, low battery strength, and her ever-underfoot cat Grandpa John. But fear not, equipped with plenty of reading material and a crate of peach liqueur, in the long haul past Proxima Centauri, space slacker Captain Momo will at last prove Newton correct—a body at rest will remain at rest!

Captain Momo’s Secret Base Volume 1 debuts on May 15, 2024. The oversized (5 3/4” x 8 1/4”) 140-page volume is available for pre-order in your local bookstore and comic book shop and on Amazon and Barnes & Noble for $14.99.

Captain Momo's Secret Base Volume 1