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Yen Press announces new titles coming out in August 2022

Yen Press has announced four new titles scheduled to be published in August 2022. These acquisitions included an omnibus edition of Josee, the Tiger and the Fish and the debut of the manga series Heroine No More, Unnamed Memory, and Gahi-chan!

Josee, the Tiger and the Fish

Story by Seiko Tanabe
Art by Nao Emoto.  

Josee has been in a wheelchair since she was a child and has lived her life through pictures, books, and her imagination. One day, she meets Tsuneo, a college student, and while they clash at first, the two soon grow closer than expected. She takes this chance to venture outside with Tsuneo to experience a new world where surprises await. 

Josee, the Tiger and the Fish is an omnibus collection of the two volumes of the manga adaptation by Nao Emoto published by Kadokawa’s Da Vinci magazine in 2020. Since the initial publication of this beloved story by Seiko Tanabe in 1984, Josee, the Tiger and the Fish has been widely celebrated and adapted into live-action films in Japan and Korea. In 2020, it was made into an anime film. The prose edition of Josee, the Tiger and the Fish is set to debut from Yen On in March 2022.

Josee, the Tiger and the Fish

Unnamed Memory

Story By Kuji Furumiya
Art By Naoki Koshimizu

Witches—the centuries-old mages that command power immense enough to bring catastrophe. Oscar, the crown prince of the powerful kingdom of Farsas, was cursed as a young boy to never sire an heir. Hoping to break the magic, he seeks out Tinasha, the strongest witch on the continent. To meet her, he climbs her tower, as she is said to grant the wish of any who successfully do so. Yet, when he arrives at the top…he requests that Tinasha become his bride! 

Unnamed Memory, an ongoing fantasy romance light novel series published by Yen On, continues to grow in popularity and draw in new readers due to its compelling story and gorgeous illustrations. Fans of this popular series are sure to be excited for this manga adaptation, which does an amazing job of adapting Kuji Furumiya’s alluring story and chibi’s beautiful illustrations and character designs.

Unnamed Memory

Heroine No More

Story and Art By Momoko Koda

Every girl dreams of starring in her own love story. Hatori also firmly believed that one day she would marry her childhood friend, Rita—but things are never that simple! The agony of a heartbroken young maiden is laid bare in this uproarious comedy! 

Heroine No More is a welcome addition to the Yen Press shojo lineup, which includes hits such as Cheeky Brat and Fruits Basket. Fans are sure to love the twists and turns of this friends-to-lovers story! This classic shojo manga was originally published in 2010 by Shueisha and had a live-action movie adaptation in 2015.

Heroine No More

Gahi-chan!

Story and Art by Tirotata

When a starving manga artist suddenly finds a girl who looks like the spitting image of his own series’ heroine on his front doorstep, it seems like a dream come true! But if only it was as simple as his drawings coming to life—this girl turns out to actually be a gahi, a yokai who can only appear human by transforming artwork into human skin and wearing it like a glove?! “Without your art…my body will become all weird…” 

So begins the new life of an artist with a cute girl (?) under his roof.

Gahi-chan! is a manga about a mangaka that is self-aware, hilarious, and sure to be a hit among adult readers! Quirky, cute, and sexy, Gahi-chan! is a must read for fans of ecchi manga from Yen Press, such as Interspecies Reviewers and To Save the World, Can You Wake Up the Morning After with a Demi-Human?

Gahi-chan!

NYCC 2018: Kodansha Announces new Printing of Akira Plus New Titles for 2019

At New York Comic Con 2018, Kodansha Comics announced the return of the top-selling manga release of 2017, the Akira 35th Anniversary Box Set, along with an exciting slate of new series for release in the coming fall and 2019.

Since becoming one of the top-ticket comics releases during last year’s holiday shopping and winning two Eisner Awards at San Diego Comic-Con 2018, the new box set release of Katsuhiro Otomo’s seminal Akira had become widely unavailable. But the publisher announced that, as of this week, the set is back in stock and available for purchase again, just in time for this year’s gift-buying season. December 2017 marked the 35th anniversary of the debut of the manga, while this year is the 30th anniversary of the influential anime film.

One of the largest English-language graphic novel publishers in the world, Kodansha also presented some of its new releases for 2019, starting with O Maidens in Your Savage Season, the manga debut of the award-winning screenwriter and director Mari Okada (anohanaMaquiaMobile Suit Gundam: Iron-Blooded Orphans). In collaboration with acclaimed manga artist and illustrator Nao Emoto (Forget Me Not), Okada crafts a funny, dramatic, and deeply resonant coming-of-age story about a girls’ high school literature club confronting the terrifying specter of puberty.

The imprint also announced the print release of I’m Standing on a Million Lives, which had been a digital-first release. Ninth-grader Yusuke Yotsuya is a loner and he likes it that way. But one day, he and two female classmates are suddenly sent to another world, where they must work together to battle for their lives. But he’s been reincarnated as a farmer! How is someone who’s only ever wanted to be left alone supposed to be a hero? This original fantasy manga features a story by Naoki Yamakawa and art by Akinari Nao.

The publisher then presented several manga that tie into current or upcoming anime series.Boarding School Juliet by Yousuke Kaneda, an action romance about star-crossed lovers from two boarding schools that are bitter rivals, will see its first volume released in print this month, the same month its anime adaptation will premiere. It was previously released in digital formats. The Seven Deadly Sins: Seven Days, a two-volume prequel to the manga that became a Netflix Original Series, saw its first volume released this month and will conclude with Vol. 2 in November.

Joining these anime tie-ins is a broad variety of strong standalone titles. From Yoko Nogiri, the author of the bestselling shojo That Wolf-Boy Is Mine!, comes Love in Focus, about a teenage girl who moves away to a high school where she can nurture her talent for photography, learn to grow past personal loss, and build new relationships in her dorm. Like Wolf-Boy, the series is four volumes long, with the first debuting in March 2019.

The harem comedy Quintessential Quintuplets, about a super-smart student called upon to tutor five rambunctious, identical quintuplets, will debut in print in January 2019 after an initial digital release.

Finally, Kodansha Comics also previewed Gleipnir, the debut series by artist Sun Takeda, a compelling, sexy, and brutal action sci-fi series about a teenage girl searching for a sister who became a monster, and a boy with the strange power to turn into a ragged beast with a zipper down his back and a compartment on the inside just big enough for her body. With devilishly incongruous cute and violent art, Gleipnir will appeal to fans of the cute horror aesthetic of Five Nights at Freddy’s and the work of Jhonen Vasquez. Vol. 1 is coming March 2019.