The first “digital issue” to be released this summer, will feature Tenya Yabuno’s new manga
The “Digimon Con 2024” livestream event on Sunday revealed that the franchise staff will launch a manga web platform on the main Digimon website and will release manga on the platform in English and Japanese (session stream it’s unclear whether all manga on the platform will be released in both languages).
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The first “digital edition” on the platform will release in the summer of 2024. The platform will release Tenya Yabuno’s new Digimon manga Digimon Dreamers. That manga will be released in English and Japanese.
The web comic platform will also release the manga series that won the “Digimon Comic Award” as well as other works. Additionally, the staff will launch a new “Digimon Novel Contest” with submissions accepted from mid-March to mid-June. The winning work will also be released on the platform.
Yabuno ended the Digimon Dreamers manga on March 4. The second volume of the manga will release on April 4.
Yabuno launched the series in Shueisha’s Saikyō Jump magazine in October 2021. Akiyoshi Hongo is credited as the author of the original story. Bandai began publishing the manga with English translation by MediBang in 2023. Shueisha published the first volume in December 2022.
Source: Digimon Con 2024 live stream
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