Yen Press, LLC announced the audiobook adaptation for three current licenses: My Youth Romantic Comedy Is Wrong, As I Expected; Banished from the Hero's Party, I Decided to Live a Quiet Life in the Countryside; and Monsterholic. From slice-of-life comedy to fantasy romance to dystopian sci-fi, respectively, Yen Audio is excited to be able to continue expanding its […]
HYBE announced that its original story webtoon Summer Moon: The Quprids, created in collaboration with K-pop's new mischief-makers ILLIT, is expanding to six global regions and will be available in local languages so more fans everywhere can read the tie-in manhwa. Summer Moon: The Quprids will launch in the U.S., Taiwan, and Thailand on October […]
At New York Comic Con last weekend, Manga Mavericks, the new indie manga publisher serving North America, announced two newly licensed titles during its panel that will be added to its print and digital catalog in 2026. The latest releases include the fantasy adventure series, Horon of the Closed Country by indie manga creator Sen, […]
Japanese pop-culture icon Tetsuko Kuroyanagi, whose bestselling autobiography Totto-chan: The Little Girl at the Window, first published in 1981, did as much as any book to set the tone for Japan's postwar culture, has now published her long-awaited sequel to that memoir. Kodansha USA will be publishing the English translation for North America. The original installment, Totto-chan: […]
Fans of the global phenomenon Solo Leveling rejoice! Yen Press confirmed they will be publishing the official English print release of Solo Leveling: Ragnarok during New York Comic Con 2025. As the current print publisher of the Solo Leveling comic, Ize Press will be publishing the long-awaited sequel to the New York Times bestselling series in June 2026. […]
At New York Comic Con 2025, Yen Press, LLC announced fourteen new title acquisitions dishing out heart-pounding and swoony romances, action-packed stories of adventure and revenge, and much more. Releasing across April and May 2026, the lineup includes eleven manga (Redeem: Only One Forever; Four in Love; kuro; Clumsy Kiss; My Lover Is Just Too Innocent to Handle; Love from […]
Rob Liefeld's return to Youngblood next month will feature a black and white edition with grey tones and splashes of red, both on the cover and its interior pages. And they will be calling it the Manga edition. Will it read right to left? No. Will it have the heft of a manga volume? No. […]
Yen Press and Tapas Entertainment, Inc. announced a new partnership to provide readers with a modern web novel reading experience for some of the most iconic light novel series. Starting October 2025, the first selection of series from Yen On (Yen Press's novel imprint) will be available to read on Tapas, with users able to […]
Did you know Scholastic also publishes manga titles? We didn't, and they just announced their November lineup of releases: The second volume of Hikaru in the Light Vol. 2 by Mai Matsuda (On sale November 4, 2025; Graphix; Ages 8 to 12) and Mecha-Ude: Mechanical Arms Vol. 2 by Yoshino Koyoka (On sale November 4, 2025; Graphix; Ages […]
Crunchyroll, the leading streaming anime service, announced a major expansion of its offerings at New York Comic Con this week with the launch of Crunchyroll Manga. The new premium add-on service, which has just begun rolling out across the US and Canada on iOS and Android devices, gives subscribers access to hundreds of Japanese comics […]
At New York Comic Con 2025, Yen Press announced the acquisition of the board game Monster Eater: Delicious in Dungeon, set for release in May 2026. Inspired by the popular 1998 Monster Maker board game, this exciting iteration of Delicious in Dungeon allows fans to play as their favorite characters and team up to explore dungeons, […]
Manta continues to be the go-to for romance and romantasy webcomics with the delectably named A Wicked Husband by Saha, a title that sounds like a tease, a promise, a threat, or all three. And like many good romance novels – here translated to comics with that extra Korean manhwa flavour, this series is certainly […]
Manga Mavericks, the new manga publisher specialising in indie titles, announces the digital debut of the delectable one-shot manga travelogue, First Time in Taiwan: A Delicious Adventure, on October 22nd. A print release will follow on December 16th. The manga by Muta Yuki explores the wonders of Taiwanese cuisine, told by a cast of whimsical […]
Anime distributor AnimEigo and parent company MediaOCD have announced the debut of Episode 8 of The Anime Business, a documentary series featuring interviews with a variety of pioneers of the Western anime industry. The latest installment features an insightful conversation with Kurt Hassler, Yen Press Publisher and Managing Director and the CEO and President of Kadokawa […]
Yen Press announced the omnibus edition of The Parasol Protectorate, a manga adaptation of the first three novels in the series of the same name by Gail Carriger. Described as Buffy meets Jane Austen, Carriger's debut was first published by Orbit Books in 2009, with the manga adaptation from Yen Press following in 2012. The art was […]
Yen Press announced the audiobook adaptation for two of its latest properties: About a Place in the Kinki Region and Frieren: Beyond Journey's End ~Prelude~. The prose edition of the horror novel, About a Place in the Kinki Region, is slated to go on sale in December 2025. Frieren: Beyond Journey's End ~Prelude~, which was recently announced in August, is […]
The Bookseller reports that in 2024, the Children's Comic Strip Fiction and Graphic Novels category was worth over £20 million. Sales so far in 2025 have increased by another 29.4%, heading towards over £26 million. But there has also been a jump in Adult Graphic Novels as well, with NielsenIQ reporting 2,161,645 graphic novels sold […]
Manta has launched The Beast Within, one of a line of new romantic comic serials on their website and app. It's the kind of romantic manhwa you would like if this is the type of thing you like, and is a sign of the times. Romance is big. It's always been big, and Manta is […]
The SHONEN JUMP SHOP, an officially licensed store authorized by Shueisha that handles original manga merchandise from popular Weekly Shonen Jump series, will make its U.S. debut from Japan and open sales in Los Angeles. For the first time ever, the legendary manga and anime-oriented store is making the jump from Japan to the U.S.—bringing […]
At Anime NYC 2025, Yen Press announced twelve new title acquisitions spanning genres like bittersweet romance, nail-biting thrillers, sensational mysteries, and more! Releasing in March 2026, the lineup includes seven novels (Frieren: Beyond Journey's End ~Prelude~; Legend of the Far East's Savior; Lycoris Recoil: Recovery Days; Associate Professor Akira Takatsuki's Conjecture EX; Casebook of Kurumi Tokisaki, Magic Detective; The Bubble […]
