A Nico-Colored Canvas

Nico Sorano is in the dictionary under "free-spirited,"...which makes her an instant celebrity at her art university. But one professor, the career-making-or-breaking Kageiwa-sensei, has only a limited tolerance for her aggressively good-natured optimism. Unsurprisingly, Nico isn't fazed...it just means she will have to make her way to stardom with the help of her friend Mitsuki and the inscrutable, notorious Soichiro Togo. No matter what, it'll be an interesting college debut!

September 11, 2024

SHIKITA Nao

Kodansha Ltd.

Shojo/Josei

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Ichi-F

On March 11, 2011, Japan suffered the largest earthquake in its modern history. The 9.0-magnitude quake threw up a devastating tsunami that wiped away entire towns and caused, in the months afterward, three nuclear meltdowns at the Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Plant. Altogether, it was the costliest natural disaster in human history. This is not the story of that disaster. This is the story of a man who took a job. Kazuto Tatsuta was an amateur artist who signed onto the dangerous task of cleaning up the Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Plant, which the workers came to call “Ichi-F.” This is the story of that challenging work, of the trials faced by the local citizens, and of the unique camaraderie that built up between the mostly blue-collar workers who had to face the daily devious and invisible threat of radiation. After six months, Tatsuta’s body had absorbed the maximum annual dose of radiation allowed by regulations, and he was forced to take a break from the work crew, giving him the time to create this unprecedented, unauthorized, award-winning view of daily life at Fukushima Daiichi.

September 11, 2024

TATSUTA Kazuto

Kodansha Ltd.

Shonen/Seinen

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Nighttime for Just Us Two

Our heroine, whose name no one in school can remember, can’t decide what’s weirder—that the most popular guy in school, Koga-kun, wants to be her friend...or that he insists he’s an alien. But one thing’s for sure—he knows her name and doesn’t seem ready to let her go through high school anonymously!

September 11, 2024

MIYOSHI Maki

Kodansha Ltd.

Shojo/Josei

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A.I.C.O. Incarnation

Aico Tachibana is recovering from a car accident that took her father and shattered her body and a world-shaking biological disaster that engulfed her mother and brother. Her rehabilitation is like getting used to a brand-new body, but as a young transfer student shows her, that is no simile. Her body is not her own. Now, she must escape shadowy forces who want to kidnap her and join a desperate mission into an organic-matter-infested valley to find the fate of her family, the truth about herself, and, quite possibly, save the world. This is Hiroaki Michiaki’s comic adaptation of the brand-new anime by the makers of Wolf’s Rain and Space Dandy.

September 4, 2024

BONES

HIROAKI Michiaki

Kodansha Ltd.

Shonen/Seinen

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Amefurashi

Gimmy is just an ordinary teen living in a desert town when his younger twin brother and sister disappear. While searching for them, Gimmy comes face-to-face with a sassy deity, Sora, the rain goddess who provides water to the town. But another goddess, Ciel, wants Sora’s sacred tree–so that she can control the rain! Includes special extras after the story! From the Trade Paperback edition.

September 4, 2024

SUZUMI Atsushi

Kodansha Ltd.

Shonen/Seinen

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The Golden Sheep

From the creator of the acclaimed The Gods Lie comes Kaori Ozaki’s latest series! Winter of junior year. Not quite able to become adults, we couldn’t stay as we were as children, either. Our tale explores a group of teenagers and their impatience and rebirth. “They say if you write down your wish, bury it under Sheep Tower, and dig it up after seven years and seven months, your wish will come true…” Tsugu Miikura, a high schooler who loves to play guitar due to family circumstances, moved away from the rural town where she had spent her childhood. After several years, she’s back in her old hometown. She reunites with her childhood friends—Sora, Yuushin, and Asari—whom she’d buried a time capsule with in elementary school. Tsugu is overjoyed to be with her friends once more, but the bonds that she thought would never change have, in fact, started to grow major cracks…

September 4, 2024

OZAKI Kaori

Kodansha Ltd.

Shonen/Seinen

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From the New World

Saki and her schoolmates enjoy normal lives in a peaceful provincial setting. Only their village cannot be of this era. Its customs differ from those of any known in modern-day Japan. While familiar, the landscape is much more constrained than what modern-day maps may exhibit. So when six friends embark on mental and physical training, this fateful journey will lead them to a series of mind-shattering truths for these characters and us as readers.

August 28, 2024

OIKAWA Toru

Kodansha Ltd.

Shonen/Seinen

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The Prince's Romance Gambit

With an IQ of 500, Prince Hatsuyuki Ichimonji has the bloodline of kings and more oil companies and titles than he can count! Even with everything at his fingertips, this extraordinary prince has his life thrown completely off-balance by one absolutely plain and plebian girl, Koume Yoshida! But she’s unsure if she wants anything to do with him! Will the prince wedge his way into her heart through sheer persistence? The love story begins with The Prince’s Romance Gambit volume one!

August 28, 2024

ASADA Nikki

Kodansha Ltd.

Shojo/Josei

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Crocodile Baron

His name is Alfardo J. Donson, novelist and ... crocodile. Together with his very good friend Rabbit Boy, he undertakes gentlemanly adventures in culinary excellence throughout Japan (Sanuki udon in the “udon” prefecture, oysters at an oyster shack somewhere on the Sanriku Coast … you get the idea), encountering other intriguing denizens of the animal kingdom along the way. Whether you love animals, love to eat out, love nobility, or love the book One Stormy Night, your cravings will certainly be satisfied. The gourmet manga you thought didn’t exist and didn’t have now been created! With delightfully drawn talking animal characters, Crocodile Baron demonstrates the absolute importance of good taste and that sometimes it takes an animal to show us how to be truly civilized!

August 21, 2024

TAKUYA Okada

Kodansha Ltd.

Shonen/Seinen

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Dragon Head

The end of everyone was just the beginning...Returning home by train after a class trip, Teru Aoki takes a most frightening ride inside a mountain tunnel. When the train derails, nearly everyone aboard is killed. Amidst the bloody carnage, Teru discovers two survivors--but salvation is far from their grasp. As they try to dig out from the wreck to devise a plan to stay alive, the lack of light and food, combined with the stench of death and decay, will lead one group member down a dark and demented path. And with sudden, violent earthquakes shaking the tunnel, escaping the outside world may lead them to an even greater danger...

August 21, 2024

MOCHIZUKI Minetaro

Kodansha Ltd.

Shonen/Seinen

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Sachi's Monstrous Appetite

Makie’s a boy in love with his tall, older classmate, Sachi. As a sign of affection, he makes Sachi a special daily lunch. Sachi loves Makie, too, but she has a secret… she’s actually a shapeshifting monster called a watari, and she was drawn to Makie because he smells…delicious! But it’s not just Sachi who’s drawn to Makie’s scent, and soon, he realizes the entire monster world is after him. Fortunately, Sachi’s a watari who eats watari, and she pledges to protect him. But how long can Makie survive, with Sachi’s appetite the only thing between him and a monster’s belly?

August 21, 2024

Chomoran

Kodansha Ltd.

Shonen/Seinen

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Ciguatera

This coming-of-age tale from contemporary master Minoru Furuya centers on seventeen-year-old Yusuke Ogino, a self-described loser whose only refuge from the bullying hell he experiences at school is his dream of freedom on a motorcycle. But the unexpected entrance of a beautiful young woman into his life threatens to upend his whole world, forcing him to re-evaluate his relationships and even his sense of self. Instantly relatable and painfully honest, Furuya’s manga blends pitch-black humor with pathos and the awkward realities of everyday life to produce a quintessential tale of youth. The meticulous yet uninhibited art swings from stark realism to laugh-out-loud caricature, while nuanced characters and complex emotions help Ciguatera transcend the bounds of the genre to take its rightful place as one of the great masterpieces of graphic storytelling.

August 14, 2024

FURUYA Minoru

Kodansha Ltd.

Shonen/Seinen

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Tokyo Alice

There are so many things she wants, but she still hasn't found out what she's looking for ... That's Fu Arisugawa, an office worker too busy with her shopping spoils and whose motto is "Shopping is Living." Meanwhile, for reasons she doesn't understand yet, she's interested in her cool-tempered and reserved boss. And there are her friends, too. Rio, who keeps her feelings towards Fu a secret; Mizuho, who always ends up dating losers; and Enjoji, who keeps interviewing University of Tokyo grads for an arranged marriage ... Each is lost in their own way while searching for happiness. These four Alices wander through their lives of love ... and shopping!!

August 14, 2024

CHIYA Toriko

Kodansha Ltd.

Shojo/Josei

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Danza

Danza is a collection of stories about being a foreigner, sometimes even in your home. Quiet, contemplative, and subtle, Danza collects some of Ono's best short work.

August 7, 2024

ONO Natsume

Kodansha Ltd.

Shonen/Seinen

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Devil Survivor

What should have been a simple day out with friends turns into a mysterious disaster when powerful demonic beasts appear. Kazuya and Atsuro are supposed to meet Naoya, their enigmatic friend, but he doesn't show up and instead sends another friend, Yuzu, to meet them and give them specially modded gaming devices. It becomes apparent that Naoya has given them much more than they bargained for when demons spawn from these devices!

August 7, 2024

MATSUBA Satoru

Kodansha Ltd.

Shonen/Seinen

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My Wonderful World

Shinobu Asakura has never been able to read or write—not for lack of trying. It's made getting and holding down jobs difficult, and he's constantly berated by people who think he's simply slacking off when he's just trying to keep up. But a chance meeting with a café worker who introduces a new word to Shinobu's vocabulary—dyslexia—may change Shinobu's life forever.

August 7, 2024

AIMOTO Mizuho

Kodansha Ltd.

Shojo/Josei

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Sweet Sweet Revenge

Hikari Minamoto is here for one reason: Revenge. She's after the five most popular guys in school...who have given her every reason to take them down. Never mind that they're handsome and accomplished. Will she succeed, or will even the cool-hearted queen of revenge be compromised...?!

August 7, 2024

SAKURAI Shushushu

Kodansha Ltd.

Shojo/Josei

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With the Sheikh in His Harem

Sanagi loves nothing more than money—not even love. After all, it's what keeps her small family going. But when a chance encounter with a stranger leads her to push away his offer of riches, she wonders if she's gone crazy...and starts to believe she really has when he reveals that he's a Sheikh, and proposes to her! She rejects him but soon finds out that a marriage with him might be the only way to keep her family safe...!

August 7, 2024

MIASA Rin

Kodansha Ltd.

Shojo/Josei

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A School Frozen in Time

On a snowy school day like any other, classmates and childhood friends Hiroshi and Mizuki arrive to find the campus eerily empty. Before long, they find themselves trapped inside with six other friends and an even stranger; all the clocks have stopped at a specific moment– when a former classmate jumped off the school roof to their death three months earlier. It turns out that this departed friend is their way out of their current predicament and may even be among their group…but no one can remember who took their life on that sad day. The students must face themselves and their memories to piece together the identity of this suicide victim or risk a similar fate–with their lives lost and forgotten inside these frigid school walls.

July 31, 2024

ARAKAWA Naoshi

Kodansha Ltd.

Shonen/Seinen

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CITY

From the creator of nichijou, this surreal slapstick series revolves around a penniless college student, Midori Nagumo, who lives in an ordinary city filled with not-quite-ordinary people. And as this reckless girl runs about, she sets the city in motion. Midori is in a bit of a bind. She is in debt, and her landlady is trying to shake her down for unpaid rent. Her best friend refuses to loan her cash since she’s wised up to her tricks. Maybe some bullying would help. Or a bit of petty theft? Neither is sustainable. Maybe getting a job would settle things… But working means less time for fun adventures in the big city…

July 31, 2024

ARAWI Keiichi

Kodansha Ltd.

Shonen/Seinen

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