Kodansha USA Publishing announced in some unspecified time in the future of its Anime Expo panel on Friday fresh releases for spring 2026. As successfully as, the firm is releasing the Mushishi Collector’s Edition manga in November 2025.
Title: Shugo Chara! twentieth Anniversary Edition
Author: PEACH-PIT
Abstract: Relive the magic of self-discovery with Amu Hinamori and guests in a refreshed edition of this traditional magical-girl manga, that contains fresh covers, updated translation, and a stupendous color artwork gallery.
Amu Hinamori is identified amongst her fellow valuable college students as a “cool girl” with a spiky personality, nevertheless unhurried closed doors, she’s truly extremely timid and desires she would be heroic ample to embrace her female, cutesy side. Her desire is granted in the form of three persona eggs that hatch into Guardian Characters—mysterious entities that no longer most efficient lend a hand her to originate her seemingly nevertheless would per chance well energy her up by granting particular abilities. Together with the student council, Amu must use her newfound powers to close the vulgar forces feeding on the darkness in other folks’s hearts…
Title: Shugo Chara! Jewel Joker
Author: PEACH-PIT
Abstract: The magical girl traditional finally continues with this sequel manga to Shugo Chara! Amu Hinamori, the Joker Guardian, is a center schooler now—abet with guests and competitors outmoded and fresh.
Sugar and spice, and all the issues good—that would per chance well be what ladies are made of, nevertheless Amu Hinamori is so powerful cooler, especially now that she’s left unhurried her days at Seiyo Elementary and turn out to be a center schooler! After transferring to Arcana Academy on a numerous project, her characteristic as the Joker Guardian is to intervene in a crisis that is inflicting college students to lose hope and self assurance in themselves. But she has another, extra crucial secret mission: to retrieve the all-remarkable, mysterious Arcana Jewels.
Title: MARS thirtieth Anniversary Edition
Author: Fuyumi Sōryō
Abstract: The unforgettable traditional shojo manga about two teenagers against the world who overcome their misfortune by counting on each other returns, in a glittering metallic hardcover with all-fresh conceal illustrations and translation!
Kira’s lifestyles has been marked by misfortune. Gang violence took her father when she used to be younger, and her mother’s remarriage most efficient inflicted even extra appalling scars. She has no have confidence left to offer the world, so when a ravishingly gorgeous boy asks her for directions in the future, she attracts a draw and fingers it to him with out a discover. On the other side of the draw is one of her drawings, which catches the obtain out about of the boy, a motorcyclist and professional model named Rei. When the two discontinuance up in the identical class, an vulgar incident will bind them together—Rei promising to model for Kira, in change for extra of her artwork. But Rei has furthermore suffered a family tragedy that has extinct down his mood to a handy e-book a rough, flashing fuse. Can these two damaged souls with nowhere else to flip heal each other, or will they burn themselves out first?
The fresh 8-quantity release will feature fresh translations, collectible 2-in-1 hardcovers with glittering metallic covers and fresh conceal illustrations from the creator.
Title: The Ghost in the Shell Legacy Edition Manga Field Residing
Author: Shirow Masamune
Abstract: Since debuting in Japan in 1989 and in the West as a month-to-month comics sequence in 1995, Shirow Masamune’s manga The Ghost in the Shell has turn out to be the kind species of cyberpunk, with its brain jacks, neural chips, armed forces drones, and optical camo atmosphere the visual normal that will most seemingly be followed by The Matrix, while its mix of white-sizzling procedural trek and enthusiastic mental curiosity about the shape of the near future bridged the noir-tinged, American cyberpunk of the 1980s and the globalized, metaphysical stimulation overload that will characterize powerful of the science fiction of the Twenty first century.
For a few years, the English and Jap editions of this masterpiece obtain by no diagram barely matched each other. That finally adjustments with the Legacy Edition, which restores the pages that had been edited in the authentic The Ghost in the Shell manga. The space furthermore entails the acclaimed Deluxe Edition localization of The Ghost in the Shell 1.5: Human Error Processor and The Ghost in the Shell 2.0: Man-Machine Interface. All three are reproduced in a excessive-quality hardcover, appropriate-to-left manga format, with all the pages integrated in the latest model at the moment in print in Japan.
The fresh release furthermore entails a top price slipcase with two fresh illustrations from the authentic creator, one fresh share and ten posters from the restricted-edition 1997 Cyberdelics field space (reproduced in fresh variations and previously unreleased in English), fresh 10-ride-huge posters, multicolored Fuchikoma stickers, and a double-sided poster that puny print Shirow Masamune’s ingenious job.
Title: GALAXIAS
Author: Ao Hatesaka
Abstract: In a miles-off corner of the Laniakea Kingdom, other folks dwell alongside remarkable beings with odd tails identified as dragonfolk. A girl named Jio, whose father has forbidden her from leaving the some distance-off island where they dwell, yearns to receive away the confines of this aloof geographical region and hit upon the world. The whole lot adjustments in the moment when Jio meets the mysterious Nereid, who claims to acquire lost all his memories. The revelations obtain coming, as Jio realizes that her father kept her hidden because the whole world is hunting her, atmosphere Jio and Nereid on a direction to acquire the world’s most plucky explorer, Yuri Holst. May well per chance per chance this residing myth be the map to Jio’s complications? Habitual lands and uncharted waters wait for… Let the sizable adventure originate!
Title: OMORI
Authors: OMOCAT, Nui Konoito
Abstract: Teenage Sunny, a nonverbal shut-in (or hikikomori) coping with the loss of life of his older sister, leaves the home for the first time in years when his outmoded friend Kel looks all of sudden on his doorstep. At the identical time, Sunny’s dream-world alter ego OMORI embarks on a quest with Kel and their guests Aubrey and Hero to search for Basil, a lacking member of their neighborhood. Together the social gathering must navigate the perils of this odd world, apart from to their advanced emotions and repressed memories, to ride forward and obtain what they’ve lost…!
Title: Fruit of the Underworld
Author: Aya Kanno
Abstract: Ever since the day Seiji climbed down a creepy shaded successfully as a little bit one to retrieve a wayward ball and picked up an unfamiliar-having a see pomegranate, he’s needed to dodge an never-ending circulation of near-deadly “accidents” that push every person around him away—except for his handiest friend Haru. But all that adjustments when their excessive college bus crashes, killing every person on board nevertheless Seiji. All straight away, rumors from his childhood about that fateful successfully reaching into the depths of the underworld handle a full fresh gentle, and Seiji is launched into an memoir adventure to attach his friend—and his obtain soul.
Title: Depraved Residing
Author: Sal Jiang
Abstract: After spending over a century hiding in the shadows, remarkable sorceress Sadako stumbles upon the wonderful world of social media and decides to put up her come into her first true contact with humanity. She rapidly turns into an web sensation, attracting a giant following of doting fans—and shocks them all by announcing she is a witch. The giant existing turns one follower known as Hanako, a lonely younger girl with reputedly inhuman strength and a weird and wonderful resistance to magic, precise into a devoted hater, and inadvertently sends them each on a whirlwind adventure previous their wildest needs!
Title: Drawing From Your Memory
Author: Shiki Kawabata
Abstract: Mahoro Haruta is a manga artist whose first sequence turn out to be a giant bestseller. Her publisher expects her sophomore effort to be even higher. There’s accurate one subject: Mahoro has no opinion what to scheme subsequent, because she plagiarized the legend that skyrocketed her to stardom from a excessive college classmate named Yukishima, who shared a couple of precious months with Mahoro in the college’s manga membership before passing away and leaving her his notebook full of all his legend solutions. When, after a odd hit upon, Mahoro wakes up ten years in the previous—around the time of her first meeting with Yukishima—she realizes this would be her chance to redeem herself, erase her regrets, and even per chance attach Yukishima’s lifestyles…
Title: Like at First Memory
Author: Narumi Hasegaki
Abstract: Mia Takanashi, heiress to the famend Takanashi Neighborhood, has had the world at her ft since initiating. With the future of the firm to direct, settling on a marriage companion early would obtain its advantages. Then again, accurate as Mia space her coronary heart on one of a number of charming suitors, amnesia from a freak automobile accident sets her abet to sq. one! Four wildly numerous boys appear before her, claiming to be her intended fiancé, nevertheless which one of them did Mia in a roundabout map opt? She would per chance well accurate must tumble in esteem all over the assign again to acquire out!
Title: Kirio Fan Club
Author: Chikyuu no Sakana Ponchan
Abstract: For Aimi and Nami, the reply is to yowl tears of pleasure for being in a position to pinpoint at a distance the object of their affections, Kirio, from a single toot. These are the kinds of deep, philosophical questions the two guests/competitors in romance pose to each other to point to their esteem for this boy who no longer often looks to know they exist. That is never any longer going to close them from conducting nightly rituals to entice him into their needs, even if, or itemizing out what precisely they esteem about him, down to the very closing organ. But when push comes to shove, will they opt their hilarious friendship over a shot at esteem?
Title: Hitting Rewind With You
Author: Hanamaru Kira
Abstract: Wakaba Kayano is a 20-yr-outmoded college student who used to be too busy finding out in excessive college to expertise the quintessential inner most milestones of her teenage years, esteem occurring an afterschool date. In a moment of desperation, she goes out on Halloween in her outmoded excessive college uniform in an effort to take abet some of those coronary heart-fluttering experiences she by no diagram had, and in doing encounters Fumito, a boy clad in the quintessential excessive college boy uniform. Whisked away on the date of her needs, she panics when forced to reveal her accurate age–most efficient to acquire out that Fumito is in college, too!
Title: Like Out on a Limb
Author: Yōko Nogiri
Abstract: After her divorced parents remarry, Yui returns to her place of origin for the first time in eight years. She has no longer viewed her older brother, Hayato, in some unspecified time in the future of that time, so she is amazed to study out how widespread and grown-up he has turn out to be. She furthermore bumps into her childhood friend, Ritsu, who she remembers as a crybaby, and almost would now not witness him. Now residing with her brother again, she will’t abet nevertheless see her coronary heart fluttering with each interplay. Does this mean she would per chance well esteem him?! Gleaming how taboo these thoughts are, Ritsu suggests he and Yui date as a come to nip her emotions for Hayato in the bud. Yet this family tree would per chance well no longer truly be as easy as it looks…
Title: Completely Gorgeous on My Possess, So My Fiancé Can Twist in the Wind
Authors: Jun Hareta, Yahiro Arase (authentic legend)
Abstract: After her divorced parents remarry, Yui returns to her place of origin for the first time in eight years. She has no longer viewed her older brother, Hayato, in some unspecified time in the future of that time, so she is amazed to study out how widespread and grown-up he has turn out to be. She furthermore bumps into her childhood friend, Ritsu, who she remembers as a crybaby, and almost would now not witness him. Now residing with her brother again, she will’t abet nevertheless see her coronary heart fluttering with each interplay. Does this mean she would per chance well esteem him?! Gleaming how taboo these thoughts are, Ritsu suggests he and Yui date as a come to nip her emotions for Hayato in the bud. Yet this family tree would per chance well no longer truly be as easy as it looks…
Title: Marrying the Darkish Knight (For Her Money)
Author: In the future Suoh
Abstract: Clarice’s youthful sister is her whole world. In an worldwide of monsters, born precise into a noble family that is long gone broke, there’s nothing Clarice wouldn’t originate for her. So when she will get ill, and there’s most efficient one come to attach her, Clarice would now not blink! She agrees to an arranged marriage with the Darkish Knight, a ferocious warrior who goes in each space in magical armor—even their marriage ceremony! Afterward, Clarice is able to consummate the marriage and charm her fresh most valuable other into paying to attach her sister’s lifestyles. There’s accurate one subject: The Darkish Knight would per chance well no longer let her into the bed room! And Clarice finally finds out why…she’s secretly a lady! With female knights forbidden, the Knight severely lacking in social graces, a family corpulent of servants timid out of their wits, and monster fights breaking out continuously, Clarice realizes that this marriage ceremony of convenience goes to be extra inconvenient than she bargained for!
Title: Voices in the Sea Foam
Author: Kotaro
Abstract: For years, Aito thought he used to be accurate a traditional little one—till the day he fell in esteem with a boy at college. All straight away, a flood of memories come speeding abet, reminding him of his first lifestyles as the tragic little mermaid who risked all the issues for her prince, most efficient to go away into foam. But memories don’t seem to be all that Aito inherits, as a mysterious energy wrenches away his skill to be in contact or stand before his crush with out agonizing misfortune. Ever since, Aito has sworn off esteem in self-defense, nevertheless a fateful hit upon together with his charming college classmate Toru would per chance well accurate irrevocably shake up his world…
Title: Blue Summer season Haze
Author: Dondon
Abstract: Makoto’s favorite childhood memories are of enjoying baseball together with his handiest friend and former teammate Shuusuke, the catcher of his baseball workforce. When Shuusuke all of sudden moves away, Makoto is left devastated, nevertheless clings to the promise of the two of them one day reuniting at Koshien Stadium. Now in excessive college, Makoto is the considerable particular person pitcher of his excessive college’s baseball workforce, and he and Hokuto, the workforce’s catcher, are an all-considerable particular person duo. But in the future, Shuusuke all of sudden transfers to Makoto’s college, and now baseball is never any longer the most efficient component on the boys’ minds below the sizzling heat of the baseball diamond…
Title: What If I Stated, “I Love You”?
Author: Kumosoku
Abstract: Kazuho and Tokio were handiest guests since valuable college. As the years went on, Kazuho realized his emotions for Tokio were bigger than accurate guests, and he began pulling away from Tokio, desirous to lift his emotions a secret. While as soon as shut ample to offer each other piggyback rides, the two boys, now excessive college college students, cross each other in the hallway as the distance grows between them. But when Kazuho can’t obtain his emotions hidden from Tokio to any extent further, will the two guests most efficient proceed to trek apart, or will it be the originate to them experiencing the emotions of first esteem together?
Title: Smells Like Green Spirit
Author: Saburō Nagai
Abstract: Viciously bullied for being happy, junior excessive schooler Mishima struggles to belong in his hopelessly rural place of origin. Genuinely, the most efficient time he truly feels alive is when he dolls himself up with a stolen tube of his single-mother’s lipstick. But that pocket of pleasure is forever changed when he loses the lipstick, most efficient to acquire soccer workforce ace Kirino, one of Mishima’s worst tormenters, attempting it on in secret on their college roof. So begins a bittersweet summer of browsing for a space where the two can even be their accurate selves, nevertheless Pandora’s field is never any longer constantly so effortlessly opened…
Title: Honey Bee & Lemon Balm
Author: Jil Hashikura
Abstract: Kaoru Mitsuya has all nevertheless given up on residing a most valuable lifestyles. Ensnared at a younger age by the temptations of organized crime, he has neither a penny to his title nor something he holds truly dear. It is at this lowest point that he encounters Yuichiro Shirouzu—a delicately pleasing florist with a secret or two hidden beneath his kind demeanor. When Yuichiro offers Kaoru a job at his center of the night flower shop, it marks a turning point for Kaoru, each in how he lives his lifestyles, and whom he needs to exhaust it with…
Sources: Kodansha USA panel at Anime Expo (George Yang), Kodansha USA‘s web map
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