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Publisher Kodansha USA announced during its New York Comic Con panel on Saturday that it has licensed Eri Sakai’s He’s Expecting and Kengo Matsumoto’s How to Treat manga Lady Knight Right to be released digitally on November. Additionally, they will release the BLUELOCK-Episode Nagi-manga by Muneyuki Kaneshiro, Kōta Sannomiya and Yūsuke Nomura and the Tank Chair manga by Manabu Yashiro in fall 2024. The company also revealed that they will publish the manga The Fable by Katsuhisa Minami in spring 2024.
The following manga series are newly announced prints:
Title: BLUELOCK-Episode Nagi-
Author: Muneyuki Kaneshiro (story), Kōta Sannomiya (art), Yūsuke Nomura (character design)
Print: Fall 2024
Summary: Seishiro Nagi, a second-year high school student, thinks everything is pain and lives his life in a fog of apathy. That is until he meets Reo Mikage and they enter the mysterious striker training center, Blue Lock… A new spin-off from Blue Lock author Muneyuki Kaneshiro, telling the story from Nagi’s perspective!
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The spinoff manga BLUELOCK-Episode Nagi-launched in Kodansha’s Bessatsu Shōnen Magazine in June 2022. Kodansha published the manga’s third compiled book volume on September 14. The manga is inspiring a anime movie.
Title: Tank seat
Author: Manabu Yashiro
Print: Fall 2024
Summary: Shizuka takes on the most dangerous job of an assassin, but she is not a killer. Rather, it was her brother Nagi, a powerful assassin who took a bullet to protect his sister, leaving him in a coma and confined to a wheelchair. However, Shizuka has found the key to awakening her brother: he must face killing intent! From there begins a violent journey of recovery, fighting the most dangerous enemies!
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Yashiro launched the manga on Kodansha’s Magazine Pocket app in November 2022. Kodansha published the manga’s fourth compilation volume in August 2023.
Title: Fable
Author: Katsuhisa Minami
Print: Spring 2024
Summary: When you’re the infamous “genius” assassin The Fable, many things become easy. However, being a normal person is not one of them. In fact, being told that he can’t kill anyone for a while might be the hardest job he’s ever taken on…
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Minami launched the original manga series in Kodansha’s Weekly Young Magazine in November 2014 and ended the series in November 2019. The series has 22 volumes. The series won the Best Manga Collection award at the 41st annual Kodansha Awards in 2017. Publisher Kodansha USA released the original manga in English digitally.
This manga is about to be adapted into a television anime.
The following manga series are new digital releases announced for November:
Title: He’s expecting
Author: Eri Sakai
Launch date: November 7
Summary: Career-minded Kentaro Hiyama discovers he’s pregnant, which will change more than just his own life. In the Japan of Eri Sakai’s thought experiment, ten years have passed since the male sex became naturally able to get pregnant and society has struggled to adjust. Kentaro is initially unsure who the mother might be and soon finds herself facing regressive attitudes and discriminatory policies—most of which occurred long before the male pregnancy. In his previous life, he had never given it a second thought—he might even have had a similar opinion. But through meeting other pregnant people and encouraged by her new perspective, Kentaro turned her business and marketing skills to create social change.
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Sakai published the manga in Kodansha’s Be Love magazine in 2012, and Kodansha published a compilation booklet for the manga. The manga inspired a live-action series in April 2022.
Title: How to properly treat a Lady Knight
Author: Kengo Matsumoto
Launch date: November 21
Summary: Leo Cornelia has devoted his entire life to the battlefield. There’s no demon she can’t slay, no challenge she can’t tackle—at least, until the shockingly stupid magician Foolie Dent confesses his love to her. Nothing is more foreign to her than long-discarded notions of femininity and romance, but this uneasy yet trustworthy new friend may just be the key to unlocking her heart. It has been closed for a long time.
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Matsumoto’s How to Treat a Lady Knight Right (Ima made Ichidomo Onna Atsukai sareta koto ga nai Onna Kishi wo Onna Atsukai Suru Manga) manga series launched in Weekly Shonen Sirius magazine in March 2018. Kodansha published the seventh compiled book volume. and the final volume of the manga. in May 2021. The defunct Sol Press previously licensed the manga.
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