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Kodansha USA<\/span> has announced several new print manga and book licenses for Spring 2027 release during its industry panel at Anime Expo 2026, including English releases for <\/span>Histori\u00e9<\/span> and <\/span>Witch Hat Atelier: Special Stories<\/span>, as well as a deluxe edition of the manga series <\/span>Phoenix<\/span>.\u00a0<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n Here are the details on Kodansha USA\u2019 <\/span>latest license acquisitions<\/span>:\u00a0<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n Story and Art: <\/span>Battan<\/span><\/p>\n Release Date: <\/span>Spring 2027<\/span><\/p>\n From the creator of <\/span>Run Away With Me, Girl!<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n The manga is also available to read digitally in English on the K MANGA app service.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n Synopsis:\u00a0<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n \u201cIf it means that I can read your work again, I\u2019ll even chase you to the ends of the earth.\u201d Seri Tainaka, writing under the pen name Nanakusa, is a mid-career manga artist living in the shadow of her only one-hit-wonder. Her series \u201cTo Hell and Back\u201d was adored by fans, but despite now being a ten-year veteran, her successes ended there. So when Seri is told that she is being assigned a new editor, it only fuels her insecurities.\u00a0<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n When Seri meets the quirky Sumire Futami, she\u2019s both creeped out and captivated by the strange and overly forthright woman, who claims she\u2019d go to hell and back to make her a success again. But just when Seri starts to think she and Futami might be an unstoppable duo, she meets the other manga artists Futami is assigned to, and a dangerous game of jealousy, envy, and femme fatales begins. It turns out that Futami has no qualms about going back and forth between which of her artists capture her attention the most, and they\u2019ll stop at nothing to win the number one spot in their fickle editor\u2019s heart!<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n Original Story: <\/span>Rei Tasaki<\/span><\/p>\n Original Character Design: <\/span>Jiji\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n Manga Art: <\/span>Nezu Usugumo<\/span><\/p>\n Release Date: <\/span>Spring 2027<\/span><\/p>\n Synopsis:\u00a0<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n Facing a political marriage with a much older man, fifteen-year-old aristocrat Julia Schreiber convinces her father Victor\u2014a commanding knight and beloved hero\u2014to first take her on a journey to Le\u00ebnde, a magical land whose people are dying from a mysterious illness. There she meets Tristan, a beautiful but aloof archer who seems to be keeping some secrets of his own. All too soon, however, dark machinations threaten to upend this idyllic adventure and throw Julia into a fight beyond her wildest dreams\u2026<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n Story and Art: <\/span>Nikki Asada<\/span><\/p>\n Release Date: <\/span>Spring 2027<\/span><\/p>\n Synopsis:\u00a0<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n Elite ninja Kagaribi, as beautiful and sultry as he is deadly, has wooed more women to complete his missions than he can count. To him, love is no more than a weapon\u2026and a disease. His next task: seduce and steal away Rindo, a cloistered princess said to have inherited the awesome power of a dragon god. Little does he know, this conquest will need more than a little sugar to go down\u2014if she doesn\u2019t take him down first.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n Story and Art: <\/span>Teki Yatsuda<\/span><\/p>\n Release Date: <\/span>Spring 2027<\/span><\/p>\n Synopsis:\u00a0<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n It is the near future, and the night sky over Tokyo glitters with LED light. One of the screens, five stories high, shows a woman tucking a device behind her ear. A voice makes a promise. \u201cWant to become a new you? Meet MYTHER\u2014the device that will design your perfect self and make all your dreams come true.\u201d<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n Meanwhile, inside one of these buildings, someone is committing a savage and inexplicable murder.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n The shining land of Japan is full of beautiful people, thanks some would say to Ideva, the company that developed the Myther. Representing the forefront of AI technology, this curved piece of metal contains a custom-built neural interface designed to help you become the ideal version of yourself, and eliminate the weaknesses that are holding you back. But it\u2019s become clear that something is going wrong, and Kyo, an agent with the top-secret National Special Intelligence Office, has been assigned to unravel a series of bloody deaths that all seem to revolve around the device that has changed his world. Yet how can anyone protect the public when all the powers that be want to do is cover it up, and everyone\u2019s loyalty is in question\u2026?<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n Story and Art:<\/span> Osamu Nishi<\/span><\/p>\n Release Date: <\/span>Spring 2027<\/span><\/p>\n A prequel spinoff of Nishi\u2019s <\/span>Welcome to Demon School! Iruma-kun<\/span> manga series.\u00a0<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n Synopsis:\u00a0<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n Years before he became one of the most feared teachers at Babyls, Kalego Naberius was himself a student at the school for demons, dealing with a very big problem. For some reason, his schoolmates keep mistaking him for the shadowy figure picking off unruly students one by one\u2014and trying to pay him back for the beatings. Not the type to sit and wait, Kalego and his classmate Balam start searching for the real culprit, only to find themselves in a cat-and-mouse game of demonic proportions\u2026!<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n Story and Art: <\/span>Hitoshi Iwaaki<\/span><\/p>\n Release Date: <\/span>Spring 2027<\/span><\/p>\n Kodansha USA\u2019s release will compile volumes one and two of the original Japanese volumes and will be released in large-sized hardcover format. The manga is also available in English digitally on K MANGA.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n The manga is inspiring a <\/span>TV anime adaptation<\/span> from <\/span>LIDENFILMS in January 2027.\u00a0<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n Synopsis:\u00a0<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n After shocking the world with Parasyte, Hitoshi Iwaaki returned with a series he\u2019d been aching to tackle since before his professional manga debut. A historical epic set in ancient times, Histori\u00e9 tells the story of Eumenes, a young man with quick wits and a vast destiny to fulfill. In time, he\u2019ll become a famed army commander and personal secretary to Alexander the Great. But the road to glory is fraught with danger.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n Story and Art: <\/span>Kazuto Mihara<\/span><\/p>\n Release Date: <\/span>Spring 2027<\/span><\/p>\n Synopsis:\u00a0<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n Unable to fit in at his new school or bring himself to pick up the violin he\u2019s studied for years, Yoshida does his best to simply muddle through life\u2014until the day a curious new girl named Satella simply appears in the middle of music class. No one else, however, seems to notice her arrival, much less find this sudden, unexplained addition to their class roster unusual. Who is this strange new soul, and what does she want? One thing\u2019s for sure: after making first contact, Yoshida\u2019s world will never be the same\u2026<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n Story and Art: <\/span>Ko Fumimura<\/span><\/p>\n Release Date: <\/span>Spring 2027<\/span><\/p>\n Synopsis:\u00a0<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n Yanai, a successful manga editor, is in Shinjuku to research the lives of youth who hang out around Kabukicho, when a girl suddenly grabs him by the shirt. Misumi lives in a manga cafe, cleans a love hotel for what little cash she has, and spends all her time devouring manga\u2014but now she\u2019s started writing it, and wants Yanai to take a look. He\u2019s dismissive at first, until he finally reads it and discovers she has real, if unpolished, talent. He offers to be her editor, but gets more than he bargained for when this almost feral girl suddenly takes up residence in his apartment! Her desperation and fixation are at total odds with the professional world he knows, jolting him out of his normal routine and opening his eyes to what manga is really about.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n Story and Art: <\/span>Yoshidamaru<\/span><\/p>\n Release Date: <\/span>Spring 2027<\/span><\/p>\n Synopsis:\u00a0<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n As the son of a former star player on Japan\u2019s national volleyball team, Gaku Shishiya has spent his volleyball career striving\u2014and failing\u2014to be an ace hitter like his father. The tension between them hits breaking point when a promising player on Gaku\u2019s middle school team becomes his father\u2019s new mentee, and as payback for the betrayal, Gaku aims to reinvent himself as a hitter\u2019s ultimate nemesis: the libero, a defensive specialist. With his high school career just beginning, can Gaku truly rise above the legacy that nearly destroyed him\u2026?<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n Story and Art: <\/span>Honomi<\/span><\/p>\n Release Date: <\/span>Spring 2027<\/span><\/p>\n The manga adaptation of the Boys\u2019 Love light novel series.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n Synopsis:\u00a0<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n Physician Roger Baldwin, a member of one of the five great houses, is forced on pain of death to transplant a Philosopher\u2019s Stone into a human heart\u2014and after 10 failed attempts, he finally succeeds! At the age of 18, the recipient, Mahoro Baldwin, is sent to the Lowen Royal Officers Academy to study magic, and to discover the fate of his adoptive brother and bosom friend Siegfried. But when he arrives on the Isle of Crimson, he soon realizes he has much more to learn than a few spells. At once intimidated and fascinated by the gorgeous upperclassmen Noah St. Johns, Mahoro is drawn ever deeper into a web of intrigue and attraction that he barely comprehends\u2026<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n This magic academy drama unfolds in a gothic fantasy kingdom simmering with class conflict and sexual tension\u2026<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n Story and Art:<\/span> \u200b\u200bSuji Hanabusa<\/span><\/p>\n Release Date: <\/span>Spring 2027<\/span><\/p>\n Synopsis:\u00a0<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n Feeling like a fish out of water after moving to his mother\u2019s sleepy seaside hometown, Yukiya is on his own one day when he hears agonizing moans coming from a secluded cove by the shore. Ignoring locals\u2019 warnings about the so-called murderous monster said to haunt the sea, he goes to investigate and finds a beautiful young man in pain. The man, though unable to speak, seems to have the power to transform into all sorts of animals and sizes and quickly shrinks himself into a boy of Yukiya\u2019s stature. A sweet relationship soon begins to blossom between the two lonely souls, but little does Yukiya know, this beautiful creature is hiding dark, hideous secret\u2026<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n Story: <\/span>Jun Esaka<\/span><\/p>\n Original Creator\/Supervisor: <\/span>Kamome Shirahama<\/span><\/p>\n Release Date:<\/span> Spring 2027<\/span><\/p>\n A short story collection containing three never-before-seen side stories, with original illustrations by Kamome Shirahama.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n Description:\u00a0<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n Supervised by Kamome Shirahama, this prose collection contains three exclusive side stories starring beloved characters from the Witch Hat Atelier manga series. Between Olruggio stumbling upon a mysterious magical creature, the apprentices tending to a silver dragon, and the Knights Moralis going undercover, adventure abounds on every page!<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n Art: <\/span>CLAMP<\/span><\/p>\n Release Date: <\/span>Spring 2027<\/span><\/p>\n CLAMP Official Artbook COLOR GOLD 1989\u20132024<\/span> follows <\/span>two previously released CLAMP art books<\/span>:<\/span> KURO<\/span> (published by Yen Press) and<\/span> SHIRO<\/span> (published by Kodansha USA).\u00a0<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n The <\/span>COLOR GOLD<\/span> artbook includes the entire color artwork from the previous <\/span>SHIRO<\/span> and<\/span> KURO<\/span> artbooks, as well as a cloth-wrapped, jacketed hardcover, gatefold spread, and 48 additional pages in a diecut slipcase. The artbook also includes exclusive consent, a fold-out illustration from CLAMP\u2019s <\/span>Fatale Game<\/span><\/h2>\n<\/p>\n
The Chronicles of Le\u00ebnde<\/span><\/h2>\n<\/p>\n
The Serenade of Spring Thunder<\/span><\/h2>\n<\/p>\n
Myther
<\/span><\/h2>\n<\/p>\nWelcome to Demon School! Iruma-kun Devilish Tales : Kalego\u2019s Story<\/span><\/h2>\n<\/p>\n
Histori\u00e9<\/span><\/h2>\n<\/p>\n
Interstellar Violin<\/span><\/h2>\n<\/p>\n
Manga Lover<\/span><\/h2>\n<\/p>\n
Dig It<\/span><\/h2>\n<\/p>\n
Blaze of Flesh and Blood<\/span><\/h2>\n<\/p>\n
Drawn Deep<\/span><\/h2>\n<\/p>\n
Witch Hat Atelier: Special Stories<\/span><\/h2>\n<\/p>\n
CLAMP Official Artbook COLOR GOLD 1989\u20132024 (Special Release)<\/span><\/h2>\n<\/p>\n