Kamikamikaeshi, new series by Missions of Love’s Ema Toyama
More for June: Those Summer Days (June 5), Karate Heat (June 19), and
The Quintessential Quintuplets (June 26)
San Francisco, Calif. (June 01, 2018)—Continuing to launch at least one new
“digital-first”manga series every week—Kodansha Comics just announced it will kick
off 4 new manga series in June, with a diverse offering for the month, including a
new girls’ fantasy series by best-selling shojo artist Ema Toyama (Missions of Love,
Aoba-kun’s Confessions), a sophisticated timeslip romance, an earnest boys’ junior
high-school karate manga, and an outrageous “private tutor” comedy.
Kodansha Comics’s digital-first manga releases are part of an exciting new initiative
begun last year to put a greater diversity of manga series into the market. Starting
with Chika’s Those Summer Days on June 5, this month’s series debuts will be
available at all of Kodansha Comics’s partner digital platforms, including Amazon
Kindle, BookWalker, comiXology, Google Play, Kobo, MyAnimeList, and nook:
Those Summer Days (debuting June 5), Chika’s timeslip romance about a legal
secretary and a businessman who get a second chance when they travel back in
time to that fateful summer day in high school (Japanese title: Ano natsu)—read
Chapter 1 for free here;
Kamikamikaeshi (debuting June 12), new fantasy manga by shojo hit-machine Ema
Toyama (Missions of Love, Aoba-kun’s Confessions), about Shinto gods living in one
young girl’s ... hair!?
Karate Heat (debuting June 19), Eiichi Kitano’s fun-filled saga of friendship and
competition in the Kawasaki Ukishima Junior High School Karate Club! (Japanese
title: Tenohira no netsu wo);
The Quintessential Quintuplets (debuting June 26), Negi Haruba’s outrageous
comedy about Futaro, a private tutor who gets stuck with five gorgeous,
troublemaking quintuplets for students (Japanese title: Gotoubun no hanayome) ;
ABOUT KODANSHA
Kodansha Ltd. is Japan’s leading publishing house, based in Tokyo, Japan. Founded
in 1909, Kodansha Ltd. continues to this day to play a dominant role in media,
producing books and magazines in a wide variety of genres including literature,
fiction, nonfiction, children’s, business, lifestyle, art, manga, fashion, and
journalism. Recently, Kodansha Ltd. has focused on creating and developing a wide
range of digital businesses.
Kodansha Comics is the English-language manga-publishing imprint of
Kodansha USA Publishing, which was established in New York City in 2008,
with the publications of two of the most groundbreaking comics of all time:
Katsuhiro Otomo’s Akira and Shirow Masamune’s The Ghost in the Shell. Other
major manga hits from Kodansha Comics include Sailor Moon, Attack on Titan,
and Fairy Tail. Kodansha Advanced Media is a digital-content distributor and
producer established in San Francisco in 2015.
More about Kodansha Comics at
kodanshacomics.com.