The nominees for Kodansha’s 48th Manga Awards have been revealed! Let’s take a look at who’s in the running. The awards are narrowed down by category. For the Best Shonen Manga category, the titles competing are The Fragrant Flower Blooms With Dignity by Saka Mikami, …Read more »
Kodansha’s Shonen Magazine Edge manga magazine has been around since September 2015, but it’s time on shelves is getting ready to come to an end. The official website announced that Shonen Magazine Edge will cease publication with its November issue, which launches in Japan on …Read more »
The nominees for Kodansha’s 47th annual Manga Awards have been revealed! There are fifteen different titles competing, with three different categories. Let’s take a look at what’s in the running. For the category of Best Shojo Manga, the nominees are My Girlfriend’s Child by Mamoru …Read more »
Japanese publisher Kodansha Ltd., which is behind hits like Attack on Titan, Tokyo Revengers, Ghost in the Shell, and many more, has announced K MANGA, a digital service for American fans. The app will become available in just under two months, on May 10. There …Read more »
Jong Hyon Pak used to just be known as a manga editor at Kodansha who was involved with hits like Attack on Titan, A Silent Voice and Seven Deadly Sins. However, after his wife Kanoko died mysteriously in 2016 at the age of 38, Pak …Read more »
Kodansha USA Publishing just shared that it will be publishing seven different manga digitally this month. A brief description was released for each, so let’s take a look. The Shadows of Who We Once Were by Yae Utsumi “Nezu was looking forward to his elementary …Read more »
Kodansha’s 46th annual Manga Awards have revealed this year’s winners! Let’s see if your favorites won. The Award for Best Shonen Manga goes to That Time I Got Reincarnated as a Slime by Taiki Kawakami, beating out A Couple of Cuckoos, Shangri-La Frontier, and Frieren: …Read more »
The nominees for Kodansha’s 46th annual Manga Awards have been revealed! We’ll learn the actual winners on May 11, but in the meantime, congratulations to all the nominations! Let’s take a look at what’s running. In the category of Best Shonen Manga, we have: A …Read more »
The mobile manga subscription app Mangamo now has more than 1,200 manga volumes from Kodansha available after the publisher contributed an additional 800 or so. The newly supplied volumes include ones from Tokyo Revengers, Fire Force, FAIRY TAIL, Ghost in the Shell: Stand Alone Complex, …Read more »
Looking for some new manga to read? This year’s Kodansha Manga Awards just announced the winners: probably not a bad place to start! Best Shonen Manga: Blue Lock (Muneyuki Kaneshiro and Yusuke Nomura) Summary: After a disastrous defeat at the 2018 World Cup, Japan’s team …Read more »
Kodansha US has a YouTube channel where it does such things as give information on licenses and offer a program called Kodansha Live. An episode of Kodansha Live streamed yesterday, but if you weren’t able to catch it then, you can still see the video …Read more »
2021 marks the 45th year Kodansha has put on its yearly Manga Awards. It has revealed its nominations, with the promise of learning who won on May 13. The titles nominated for Best Shonen Manga are Fire Force by Atsushi Ohkubo; Frieren: Beyond Journey’s End …Read more »
Kodansha has seriously revamped and updated its site, and it shared the news on Twitter. Just announced, we've got a new look & site! Check out our new homepage at https://t.co/66tfqplT5i. Keep following this account to stay updated on manga news. And for Kodansha book …Read more »
Kodansha began the Noma Publishing Culture Award last year, where it awarded your name.’s director Makoto Shinkai, author Keigo Higashino, models Mai Shiraishi and Erika Ikuta, and publishers Ribon and Nakayoshi. This year the award goes to Demon Slayer creator Koyoharu Gotouge, Nintendo’s Animal Crossing: …Read more »
On July 17, almost one year to the date of the Kyoto Animation arson attack, Tokyo police arrested a man for threatening the publisher Kodansha. Like the suspect in the KyoAni case, this suspect claimed that the company in question did something unseemly with his …Read more »
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