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Dark Horse Manga reveals three new releases coming in 2024

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Manga fans can meow purruse this week’s round of new manga releases coming soon. What are the now and in the meowment hits Dark Horse Manga has to offer? Check out the latest list of titles available for preorder from your local bookstore or comic shop now!

Cat + Gamer Volume 5

A full party sets off for adventures!

Available for the first time in English, Wataru Nadatani’s Harvey Award-nominated manga series continues with Cat + Gamer Volume 5. Featuring translation by Zack Davisson and lettering by Susie Lee at Studio Cutie, this manga is the best of both worlds: cats and video games! Be sure to catch up on Cat + Gamer Volumes 1-4 before volume 5 arrives in bookstores and comic book shops in 2024.

Office worker Riko Kozakura supports her entire band of adventurers—including the two cats she cohabitates with, party members Musubi and Soboro! Follow along as the three live, learn, and grow together. New quests and challenges offer the trio plenty of XP. “Leveling up” in skills, surprises, and adventures extends to real life, as Riko discovers what it’s like living with two cats.

The next volume of Wataru Nadatani’s hilarious manga series, Cat + Gamer Volume 5, arrives in bookstores on June 25, 2024 and in comic shops on June 26, 2024. Pre-order this and the rest of the series at your local comic shop, bookstore, or on Amazon, and Barnes and Noble for $11.99. 

Cat + Gamer Volume 5

Hellsing Volume 10 (Second Edition)

There will be blood in this final chapter!

The final chapter in Kohta Hirano’s epic Hellsing saga pushes the boundaries of horror/action manga into new territories of thrills, shocks, and more than a few bloody laughs!

The curtain rises on the final act of the apocalyptic war between vampires, Nazis, Catholics, werewolves, Protestants, and mercenaries, and the outcome is still in doubt. Amidst the blood-drenched wreckage of London, the champions of light and darkness face off in a final showdown that will determine the future of humanity…or see humanity’s fall!

The Hellsing Volume 10 (Second Edition) paperback measures 5.125 x 7.25”, spans 192 pages, and continues the ongoing presentation of the single-volume paperback editions of the series, reissued with updated graphic design and translation. It will arrive in bookstores August 13, 2024 and in comic shops on August 14, 2024. Ensure you have the entire collection and pre-order the final volume from your local bookstore, comic book shop, Amazon, or Barnes and Noble for $14.99.

Hellsing Volume 10

Vampire Hunter D Omnibus: Book Six

The longest-running Japanese light novel series, translated into English! 

Experienced vampire hunters seeking more of Hideyuki Kikuchi’s expansive world of the future can finally taste another omnibus when Vampire Hunter D Omnibus Book Six welcomes itself to bookstores in 2024. These books are prose (text), featuring the stunning illustrations of Yoshitaka Amano, who ensures no mere mortal can deny the power of the mysterious D.  

Vampire Hunter D Omnibus Book Six collects in full two different novels. Tyrant’s Stars brings a legacy of evil hurtling down when a meteorite that destroys half a sector in the northern Frontier is revealed as none other than the return of Valcua, the undead Ultimate Noble, exiled from our planet millenia ago…and now back to wreak vengeance on the living descendants of those who banished him. Then, in Fortress of the Elder God, there is terror enough on Earth already, as D ventures forth against an ancient abomination that an army of 30,000 vampires once failed to destroy! 

Pre order the 744-page paperback (5.125” x 7.25”) Vampire Hunter D Omnibus Book Six from your local bookstore, comic book shop, Amazon, and Barnes and Noble before it arrives on shelves on August 14 and 15, 2024 for $24.99. 

Vampire Hunter D Omnibus Book Six

Dark Horse Manga reveals two new Hellsing 2nd Edition releases

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If manga fans want blood, Dark Horse Manga has gallons to offer! Check out the latest list of manga available for preorder from your local bookstore or comic shop now!

Hellsing Volume 8 (2nd Edition)

Kohta Hirano’s Hellsing is a worldwide phenomenon, a science-fiction-horror manga masterpiece of shocking intensity and wild ingenuity. If you’ve missed out on this series before, or you’re dying to read the revised translations (previously available only in the deluxe hardcover editions), don’t let the manga that spawned the international hit television and OVA anime escape you.

London is drowning in blood, its citizenry being butchered by the Nazi vampires of the Millennium Organization. And marching through this slaughterhouse are thousands of fanatic Catholic warriors, ready to strike down any who oppose their god. But both undead and zealot alike will have to contend with the return of the vampire lord Alucard, slave-paladin of the British Protestants, piloting an aircraft carrier up the Thames to join the fray!

Hold back the monster within, and pre-order Hellsing Volume 8 (trade paperback, second edition) on Amazon, Barnes and Noble and at your local comic shop and bookstore. Available on June 11, 2024 in bookstores and June 12, 2024 in comic shops, this volume retails for $14.99.

Hellsing Volume 8 (2nd Edition)

Hellsing Volume 9 (2nd Edition)

The maniacally gory fun of Hirano’s Hellsing ramps up in volume 9, serving you a mix of white-knuckle action and a bloody touch of graveyard humor. Keep up with your favorite vampires in these revised translation editions coming to comic shops and bookstores near you!

After vampire lord Alucard’s triumphant return as champion of the Hellsing Organization, the streets of London run red with the blood of Nazi undead and fanatic Catholic warriors. But the dead calm is only a temporary respite, and chaos soon engulfs the city once again. The undead still have some life left in them, and their plans are aligned for this moment…and final victory beneath the swastika!  

Hellsing Volume 9 (trade paperback, second edition) arrives in stores on July 9, 2024 in bookstores, July 10, 2024 in comic shops, and is available for pre-orders on Amazon, Barnes and Noble and at your local comic shop and bookstore for $14.99.

Hellsing Volume 9 2nd edition

Mob Psycho 100, more Hellsing volumes, and more are coming soon from Dark Horse Manga

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Innocent Omnibus Volume 1

Available for the first time in English, Dark Horse Manga proudly presents Innocent Omnibus Volume 1 by Shin’ichi Sakamoto, a gripping historical drama inspired by real figures and events. This first omnibus collects volumes 1 through 3 of the original manga series.

Blood, death, and duty—the title bequeathed to the heir of the royal executioner becomes a burden too heavy to bear. 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.

Ensure you read Shin’ichi Sakamoto’s historical epic, presented here for the first time in English, before anyone else and pre-order Innocent Omnibus volume 1 now, on Amazon, Barnes & Noble and at your local comic shop and bookstore. It will retail for $29.99.

Innocent Omnibus Volume 1

Mob Psycho 100 Volume 14 

Psychic powers, mannequins, and horror combine in a new volume of Mob Psycho 100 from the creator of One Punch Man. 

Teru journeys deep into the branches of the Divine Tree in search of the force attempting to control Seasoning City, only to be overcome by a strange mannequin of Mob. Meanwhile, back in town, the real Mob gradually realizes that no one, not even his master Reigen, may prove immune to the brainwashing of Psychohelmetism—so it’s up to Mob personally to confront the dummy of himself inside the Divine Tree…and the all-too-familiar spirit pulling its strings!

Stay in control, and pre-order Mob Psycho 100 Volume 14 on Amazon, Barnes and Noble and at your local comic shop and bookstore. Available on May 8, 2024, this volume retails for $11.99.

Mob Psycho 100 Volume 14

Hellsing Volume 7

Kohta Hirano’s manga that spawned the hit anime, Hellsing returns in new paperback editions with revised translations and new graphic design. Gothic horror, violent action, and dark humor combine in this beloved series!

London is battered by a hurricane of death and destruction as vampire Nazis, Protestant knights, and Vatican warriors battle in what may result in worldwide apocalypse. The Hellsing Organization’s Wild Geese mercenaries are literally being eaten alive. But with the Catholic Iscariot Army on the march and Alucard, the vampire lord, sure to enter the fray, this cauldron is about to boil over!

Volume 7 of Hellsing (Second Edition) in trade paperback comes to claim a spot in your collection now. Pre order from Amazon, Barnes and Noble, and at your local comic book shop, and bookstore. Available May 7, 2024 in bookstores and May 6, 2024 for $14.99.

Hellsing Volume 7

Drifters Omnibus Volume 1

Dark Horse Manga presents a new edition of the popular Drifters manga in Drifters Omnibus Volume 1. This wild, action-packed manga series, which inspired the hit Drifters anime, is by legendary mangaka Kohta Hirano, creator of Hellsing. With over 650 story pages, Drifters Omnibus Volume 1 is a supersized, value-priced collection of the first three Drifters volumes of the action-fantasy epic.

Drifters Omnibus Volume 1 will arrive in bookstores January 2, 2024 and in comic shops January 3, 2024. The 672-page trade paperback manga collection will measure 5.25 x 7.375″ and is available for pre-order now on Amazon, Barnes & Noble, and at your local comic shop and bookstore and will retail for $29.99.

Drifters Omnibus Volume 1

Dark Horse Manga announces Drifters Omnibus Volume 2

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This week, Dark Horse Manga announces one new manga volume. Find more details below about how to pre-order it now.

Drifters Omnibus Volume 2

From Kohta Hirano, the creator of Hellsing, comes Drifters, an action-packed fantasy epic where warriors and warlords from Earth’s history are transported to an alien world to intervene in a worldwide civil war. At the eye of the storm is the Black King who, desiring more than land and resources, is uniting the non-human races for a single purpose—the genocide of humanity. Drifters Omnibus Volume 2 collects Drifters volumes 4, 5 and 6 with 688 pages of all-out mystical mayhem!

The Drifters Omnibus Volume 2 trade paperback will arrive in bookstores April 30, 2024 and in comic shops May 1, 2024. The 256-page volume is available for pre-order now on Amazon, Barnes and Noble, and at your local comic book shop and bookstore, and will retail for $29.99.

Drifters Omnibus Volume 2

Dark Horse announces Hellsing Volume 5 (Second Edition)

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HELLSING VOLUME 5 (Second Edition)

The manga that spawned the worldwide hit anime, Kohta Hirano’s Hellsing returns in new editions with revised translations and new graphic design. Hellsing bonds gothic horror, violent action, and dark humor in a hotbed of homicidal hysteria!

The world has become a bloody fever dream with humanity on the brink of annihilation as the Millennium Project’s army of Nazi undead prepare for the final assault on England aboard the captured aircraft carrier Eagle. Only the Hellsing Organization’s vampire lord, Alucard, can hope to blunt the unholy onslaught

The Hellsing Volume 5 trade paperback will arrive in bookstores March 12, 2024 and in comic shops March 13, 2024. The 208-page volume is available for pre-order now on Amazon, Barnes and Noble, and at your local comic book shop and bookstore, and will retail for $14.99.

Hellsing Volume 5

From the creator of “Hellsing” comes a supersized manga collection, Drifters Omnibus Vol. 1!

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Dark Horse Manga presents a new edition of the popular Drifters manga in Drifters Omnibus Volume 1. This wild, action-packed manga series, which inspired the hit Drifters anime, is by legendary mangaka Kohta Hirano. With over 650 story pages, Drifters Omnibus Volume 1 is a supersized, value-priced collection of the first three Drifters volumes of the action-fantasy epic. 

Warriors and warlords from Earth’s history—”Drifters”—are transported to an alien world and employed to help the non-human races defend themselves in a worldwide civil war. Legions of monsters led by the malefic Black King threaten the annihilation of both human and non-human races. Included in the menagerie of fighters from Earth are samurai warrior Shimazu Toyohisa, Joan of Arc, and Hitler! Drifters is a howling tornado of all-out action and staggering imagination 

Drifters Omnibus Volume 1 trade paperback will arrive in bookstores January 2, 2024 and in comic shops January 3, 2024. The 672-page trade-paperback manga collection is available for pre-order now on Amazon, Barnes and Noble, and at your local comic book shop and bookstore and will retail for $29.99.

Drifters Omnibus Volume 1

The Hellsing manga rises from the grave in new editions

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The legions of the damned again threaten to cover the earth in darkness in new paperback editions of Hellsing from Dark Horse Manga. Featuring revised translations available previously only in the deluxe hardcover editions, Kohta Hirano’s epic action/horror manga is now even closer to the author’s terrifying vision that spawned the international hit anime series. Hellsing blends gothic horror, violent action, and dark humor in a bloody brew that has fired the imagination of otaku everywhere. These updated and redesigned editions are perfect for Hellsing devotees and a great jumping-on point for new readers.

With supernatural horrors haunting the streets and preying upon humanity, the shadowy Hellsing Organization fights back against hell’s minions. Hellsing’s secret weapon? Alucard, a vampire lord of immense power, specially trained and equipped to destroy the undead. But vast evil forces are on the march, and even the agents of Hellsing may not be able to stem the black tide that threatens to engulf England—and all humanity!

Hellsing Volume 1 2nd edition will arrive in bookstores November 7, 2023 and in comic shops November 8, 2023. It is available for pre-order now on Amazon, Barnes and Noble and at your local comic book shop and bookstore and will retail for $14.99.

Hellsing Volume 1 2nd edition

Kohta Hirano’s Hellsing Gets a Deluxe Edition in July 2020

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The international sensation returns in deluxe hardcover editions, collecting Kohta Hirano’s manga masterpiece for the first time in its original 7×10 serialized format. Renowned for its action-packed approach to horror, Hellsing is gruesome fun turned up to eleven!

With supernatural horrors haunting the streets and preying upon humanity, the shadowy Hellsing Organization fights back against hell’s minions. And Hellsing has a secret weapon in their arsenal: the vampire lord Alucard, whose terrifying powers are needed more than ever as an army of the undead marches on London beneath the banner of the swastika!

Hellsing Deluxe Edition Volume 1 goes on sale July 1, 2020, and is available for pre-order. This 664-page collection will retail for $49.99.

Hellsing Deluxe Edition Volume 1