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Dark Horse reveals Four new Manga Releases for Late 2026

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

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

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 LewisCaptain 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

Dark Horse Manga announces four new releases

Dark Horse serves up more tasty stories fresh and hot from the Japanese creators you love! What’s new and coming soon? Check out the entire list of manga, light novels, and more available for preorder from your local bookstore or comic shop now!

Emanon Volume 4 is Out Soon — Get the whole collection!

Complete the collection as Dark Horse Manga releases Emanon Volume 4: Emanon Wanderer Part Three. Don’t have the full set yet? Don’t worry, volumes 1, 2 and 3 are set to return to print on August 22, so readers new and old can collect the entire story before they reincarnate.

Emanon Volume 4: Emanon Wanderer Part Three trade paperback will be available in comic shops September 6, 2023 and bookstores September 5, 2023. It is available for pre-order now on Amazon, Barnes and Noble and at your local comic shop and bookstore. It will retail for $14.99.

Emanon Volume 4: Emanon Wanderer Part Three

Vampire Hunter D Omnibus: Book Five

Vampire Hunter D Omnibus: Book Five collects in full two different multi-part novels! Twin-Shadowed Knight is a story in two parts, reflecting the dying words of a vampire which lead to a sorcery that splits the Hunter into two separate beings; the second D, full of passion, hunger and carnal desire! Then, the three-part Dark Road brings triple the thrill as D crosses over the southern border into the realm of General Gaskell. No ordinary vampire noble, this immortal warlord survived his supposed death under the sun to command the loyalty of a veritable army of the undead, who have been given their silent marching orders—eliminate D!

Volumes 13-15 of Hideyuki Kikuchi’s adventure horror series are bound together in Vampire Hunter D Omnibus: Book Five, illustrated by Final Fantasy artist Yoshitaka Amano, which goes on sale on April 17, 2024. Continue the enduring legend of D and pre-order from Amazon, Barnes and Noble, your local comic shop or bookstore now!

Vampire Hunter D Omnibus: Book Five

Innocent Omnibus Volume 2

Inspired by real historical figures and events, Innocent Omnibus Volume 2 collects volumes 4-6 of the original Japanese manga series in English for the first time. Shin’ichi Sakamoto masterfully fictionalizes the true life of Charles-Henri Sanson, known as the Monsieur de Paris—“Gentleman of Paris” who performed nearly three thousand executions in 18th century France.

What has begun, must be seen to an end. Despite the sorrows of a broken heart, Charles must carry out the execution of the condemned Damiens. Swearing to fulfill his duty mercifully, fate plays a cruel hand, and within the ranks of the Sanson family, one intervenes in a shocking display. With dreams of a future of mercy and flourishing equality, Charles faces the execution of the century.

Pre-order Innocent Omnibus Volume 2 of 3 to come face to face with Sakamoto’s gripping tale of humanity, death, and sacrifice when it goes on sale in bookstores on April 23, 2024 and in your local comic book shop on April 24, 2024. You can still pre-order volume 1 of Innocent wherever you get your manga.

Innocent Omnibus Volume 2

Keep Your Hands Off Eizouken! Volume 7

Sumito Oowara’s debut manga continues with Keep Your Hands Off Eizouken! Volume 7. When Mizusaki begs Kanamori to fill in for her on a fashion shoot, Kanamori convinces her campus rival in willpower, student council secretary Sowande, to join her on the set! But as always, the real rivalry in Eizouken is the creative one, as Mizusaki also realizes that she’s not the only talented amateur high school animator out there, and writer and director Asakusa ponders what it means to be able to successfully complete a work on their terms, if an outside audience doesn’t understand what they were trying to say! Student screenings are one thing, but how will Clutch That Machete With Strength! fare before festival judges at an anime tournament…?

Don’t miss Keep Your Hands Off Eizouken! Volume 7 (5 ⅛” x 7 ¼”) on sale April 24, 2024. The 168-page continuation of this story beyond the anime is available for preorder now at your local bookstore and comic shop, as well as Amazon and Barnes and Noble for $14.99.

Keep Your Hands Off Eizouken! Volume 7

Return to the mysterious world of Emanon

Dark Horse Manga has announced Emanon Volume 4: Emanon Wanderer Part Three. This 240-page manga contains the third part of the Emanon Wanderer storyline and includes 26 pages of fully-painted color. Emanon is a collaboration between writer Shinji Kajio and artist Kenji Tsuruta

Emanon is strange even for an immortal—a person with a mind over three billion years old, her consciousness endlessly migrating from new body to new body over the entire history of life’s evolution on Earth. Emanon Volume 4 tells the story of her existence in that odd decade, the 1980s, as Emanon’s latest incarnation grows from a grade schooler who seeks to conceal her intelligence, to a teen trying to avoid a relationship with the superhuman classmate pursuing her, to a young adult facing the death from old age of her best friend Hikari—a mortal time-jumper whose own life has crossed that of Emanon many times in the past, and will do so again many times in the future…but who dies at last in the here and now.

Emanon Volume 4: Emanon Wanderer Part Three trade paperback will be available in comic shops June 14, 2023 and bookstores June 27, 2023. It is available for pre-order now on Amazon, Barnes and Noble and at your local comic shop and book store. It will retail for $14.99.

Emanon Volume 4: Emanon Wanderer Part Three

Tsuruta’s Wandering Island Flies High at Dark Horse

Dark Horse Comics has announced the publication of the first new work by Kenji Tsuruta in English in 20 years: Wandering Island!

Wandering Island is a retro flying adventure in the spirit of Hayao Miyazaki. With eight pages in color, this special edition features an extended wraparound cover with French flaps.

Mikura Amelia is a free-spirited young woman who lives alone with her cat and operates an air delivery service, flying her vintage seaplane to Japan’s small island communities located hundreds of miles out in the Pacific.

When her beloved grandfather passes away, she discovers he left her an undelivered parcel, addressed to an island that doesn’t exist . . . or does it? To answer the question, Mikura flies off in search of the truth behind the Wandering Island!

Wandering Island is in stores July 6, 2016.

WANDERING ISLAND