Kodansha Comics

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A brash young woman and a boy with a mysterious arm search for answers while evading military assassins in this dystopian sci-fi action manga, perfect for fans of Akira and Sakamoto Days . HOW THE MIGHTY FALL All Japan was left reeling as Kariya carried out his long-planned coup, storming the Diet building and taking the prime minister hostage. With cameras rolling, Kariya then laid out a bold vision for humanity’s evolution and promised a demonstration of his sincerity. What this demonstration will entail is anyone’s guess, but the army isn’t prepared to take any chances. Colonel Tsujiura urges caution, fearing a trap, yet he now finds himself facing his own coup within the ranks...

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A mad young coach gathers soccer players from across the country to compete in a series of bizarre challenges in a high-tech colosseum he calls Blue Lock. It's a no-balls-barred battle to become Japan's next top striker, in this Squid Game –meets–World Cup manga, now available in print! Anime airing now! COULD YOU LIVE ON YOUR OWN? Thanks to Isagi’s game-ending goal, Germany clinched victory in the Neo-Egoist League. Will this finally be enough to earn Isagi the top spot in the salary rankings? Meanwhile, Ego announces which players will be leaving Blue Lock, and the list includes one name nobody expected... With the start of the U-20 World Cup, the time has now come for Blue Lock to devour the world. The hottest place in the world for soccer is here!

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A baseball diamond, a love triangle, and two catchers with their eyes on the same pitcher bring the heat in this baseball BL perfect for fans of Nagisa Furuya's My Summer of You . Makoto, the ace pitcher of his high school baseball team, has had a long, one-sided crush on his former battery partner and childhood friend, Shusuke. But when Makoto gathers the courage to tell Shusuke how he feels, he is ultimately rejected. In an attempt to get over Shusuke, Makoto tells his current battery partner, Hokuto, that he plans on leaving the team after the summer. Seeing Makoto look so dejected, Hokuto can’t keep his feelings bottled up any longer... Meanwhile, Shusuke has been feeling all kinds of butterflies after receiving Makoto’s heartfelt confession. With feelings of first love tugging on their hearts, the curtain rises on the summer tournament of the boys’ last year in high school...

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What keeps your feline friend purring? Find out as the neurons behind the bestselling Cells at Work! manga take you inside kitty's body in this new science-made-simple series purr-fect for every cat lover! Red Blood Cell, White Blood Cell (Neutrophil), and their team put on their cat ears as they work, day and night, to fight invaders big and small to make sure our feline friends are happy, healthy, and purring! Explore the action taking place inside a cat’s body, in Cells at Work! style, while also seeing the perspective of the humans who provide a home and tender, loving care.

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These innovative full-color edutainment books are baby's first manga! Based on the groundbreaking series Cells at Work! , these beginner-level comics take kids on an exiting adventure while learning about the human body. The mega-hit anime and best-selling manga is now an edutainment picture book series! Red Blood Cell, White Blood Cell, and their team guide young readers on an exciting behind-the-scenes exploration of all the hard work going on to keep the human body healthy. Adorable characters, diagrams, and simple language help make the scientific adventure fun.

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What would you risk to rule the world? Dive back into the imagination of bestselling manga creator Hiro Mashima ( FAIRY TAIL , EDENS ZERO ) with a new fantasy adventure that pits the aspiring young denizens of Hell against each other in a battle royale to claim the ultimate prize...Earth itself! Welcome to Dead Rock, the underworld's top educational institution! A spot at this training facility for demonic mischief is all the young demon Yakuto has ever wanted, but in Hell, there's no such thing as an easy A. Plenty of Yakuto's fellow prospects won’t survive the entrance exam, and even fewer will make it to graduation. So why bother? The prize, for those who survive this death game through perdition, is the world, in the palm of their hand!

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A wizard's job is never done! Get fired up for the official sequel to Fairy Tail, with story and layouts by original creator Hiro Mashima himself. ENTER THE FIRE DRAGON The battles between Fairy Tail and Diabolos continue to rage in the labyrinth, with both sides beating the living daylights out of each other. Selene’s enjoyment of the violent spectacle comes to a screeching halt when the fire dragon god Ignia suddenly appears, throwing the worst wrench in her plans. Natsu, of course, is instantly fired up to fight Ignia, but Ignia’s got plans of his own--secret plans that may spell disaster for all!

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In this hit gritty action manga, a young boy is framed for murder and cast off the edge of a floating city into the abyss, where he grapples with the monsters that the elite high above would rather forget. The more the rich glitter, the higher the price paid by the poor... With an anime adaptation from the studio behind Mob Psycho 100 and the writer behind Attack on Titan and Vinland Saga , Gachiakuta is the dystopian epic critics are calling "the next big shonen series!" Rudo lives in the slums of a floating town, where the poor scrape by under the shadow of the rich who live a sumptuous life, simply casting their garbage off the side, into the abyss. Then one day, he's falsely accused of murder, and his wrongful conviction leads to an unimaginable punishment--exile off the edge, with the rest of the trash. Down on the surface, the cast-off waste of humanity has bred vicious monsters, and if Rudo wants to have any hope of discovering the truth and seeking vengeance against those who cast him into Hell, he will have to master a new power and join a group known as the Cleaners who battle the hulking trash beasts of the Pit!

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Remember me? Relive Takumi Fujiwara's journey from tofu delivery boy to street-racing legend in an all-new, large-sized, 2-in-1 print edition of the series that made Japanese street racing into a worldwide phenomenon. Contains a new translation of Initial D Vol. 21-22. There’s a formidable new opponent swerving around the corner. The Project D team revels in their victory against the elite Todo School, but the celebration is short-lived when a rematch is proposed. Ryosuke entrusts Takumi to face off against Tomo, the pro racer and prodigal son who returns to help the Todo School reclaim their dominance. The matchup in Tochigi has Project D and local fans on the edge of their seats, but Takumi’s future nemesis might be a different legendary driver, someone much closer to home on Mount Akina. Who will be the one to finally leave Takumi in the dust? This edition is still running in the '90s but features a refreshed translation and lettering for the 2020s, as well as a special large size.

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The unforgettable classic shojo manga about two young people against the world who overcome their pain by relying on each other returns, in a glittering metallic hardcover with all-new cover illustrations and translation! Kira's life has been marked by pain. Gang violence took her father when she was young, and her mother's remarriage only inflicted even more appalling scars. She has no trust left to offer the world, so when a ravishingly handsome boy asks her for directions one day, she draws a map and hands it to him without a word. On the other side of the map is one of her drawings, which catches the eye of the boy, a motorcyclist named Rei. When the two end up in the same class, an outrageous incident will bind them together—Rei promising to model for Kira, in exchange for more of her art. But Rei has also suffered a family tragedy that has worn down his temper to a short, flashing fuse. Can these two damaged souls with nowhere else to turn heal each other, or will they burn themselves out first? Upon its release in English in 2002, MARS quickly became of the best-selling shojo manga of all time, on par with Nana . But this beloved classic has been out of print for decades—until now. Kodansha is bringing MARS back for its 30th anniversary with an all-new translation in collectible, 2-in-1 hardcovers featuring glittering metallic covers and new cover illustrations from creator Fuyumi Soryo. The new edition will be complete in 8 volumes.

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Nina was plucked off the streets because she resembled a dead priestess--but is this a lucky break, or a new kind of curse? Winner of the Kodansha Manga Award, this fantasy shojo manga features intertwining constellations of palace intrigue and perilous romance, for fans of The Ancient Magus' Bride , The Apothecary Diaries , and Snow White With the Red Hair . Nina had a rough start to life, orphaned and stealing to survive, only to be abducted for her unusual lapis lazuli eyes. But to her surprise, her captor, Prince Azure, ordained that she would live the life of a princess...specifically, that of the recently deceased princess-priestess, Alisha, who had her same eyes. Despite her changing fortune, Nina won't give up her old life without a fight. Azure might just be the one to finally match her wits, but how much can she trust him? And can she stop the feelings budding in her heart, knowing she must eventually marry another...?

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A talking wallaby who loves Japan ends up plucked out of Australia and placed in a job as a substitute teacher, where he'll learn courage, make new friends, and teach life lessons—all while being compeletely adorable. Fans of a certain marmalade-loving bear will fall in love with this heart-melting manga about a fearless marsupial from down under! On safari in Australia, a wealthy traveler meets a talking wallaby who loves Japan and never thought he'd get a chance to visit. It turns out this traveler is also the principal of a private school in Japan, and before the little wallaby knows it, he's been whisked away to the land of the rising sun and plunked in front of a class full of students as a substitute teacher! Mr. Wallaby will need all the courage in his footlong frame to take responsibility for all these kids—and they may just find his cuteness too distracting to learn anything, too! Slice-of-life manga meets Paddington Bear meets a Steve Irwin nature special in this sweet and silly three-volume manga series.

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From the creator of Perfect World comes a new josei manga about a pure romance that blossoms in the unfair world of the foster care system. Blending a realistic representation of the situation faced by the most vulnerable children in Japanese society with a page-turning love story, Sheltering Eaves is, like the teens who come to life on its pages, one of a kind. The anger inside Tenjaku finally bursts, and there are consequences legally as well as personally. He is sentenced to juvenile detention after assaulting his father in retaliation for hitting Yoru. The systems intended to support vulnerable youths have their limits, especially after children age out. As Yoru and Tenjaku work on healing themselves emotionally, they remain committed to a future together. How will their codependent relationship survive after they leave the children’s home?

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Rediscover the magic of self-discovery with Amu Hinamori and friends in a refreshed edition of this classic magical-girl manga, featuring new covers and updated translation! Collects the story from Shugo Chara! 5–6 manga and includes a beautiful color art gallery. With the battle against Easter intensifying, the Guardians have added two new members. The new Jack’s chair, Kairi, seems like an honorable, data-driven gentleman in the making…the polar opposite of the carefree, sporty Kukai. But can it be his seemingly candid exterior is hiding a secret allegiance?! And does Amu really time to worry about simmering intrigue? After all, she’s just experienced a truly mortifying catastrophe: One of her eggs has an X!

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The manga about a dangerous love between killer and heiress that went viral in Japan! A condemned criminal and a wounded, wealthy daughter are lost somewhere between an unchangeable past and an uncertain future in Snow & Ink, a mysterious human drama that combines the melancholy atmosphere of My Happy Marriage with a historical flavor and a journey full of twists. Sentenced to death for the crime of sadistically killing his entire village, Neneo is all but ready to accept his unfortunate fate when he is mysteriously bought and saved by the wealthy heiress Freya. Emotionless and numb to the world, Freya is also an outcast, hiding deep wounds of her own. Unfazed by the tales of Neneo's crimes, she enlists him to accompany her in her exile to the far north. As this unlikely pair, both shunned by a cold world, venture together into the deep snow, they begin to find warmth in each other. But the past won't let itself be so easily forgotten...

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The epic of palace intrigue and battlefield glory, from the creator of Fullmetal Alchemist , that became a hit anime franchise! Crown Prince Arslan has bided his time in the southern port city of Gilan long enough: with Hilmes’s betrayal leaving the Lusitanian forces in shambles, the time to retake the fallen capital is nigh. But as Arslan and his allies undertake their final preparations to free their country and their people from the invaders, Hilmes and King Andragoras each make their own moves to secure power over Pars for themselves.

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In this new harem rom-com manga, a lonely, rich kid's heart is stolen away by an angelic voice on a livestream. He only knows her as "Apollo," and he's dedicated himself to finding her... But his own haughty rough edges are his worst enemy! From the creator of Senryu Girl comes a high school farce set against the backdrop of Japanese voice acting, pop music, VTubers, and radio! At the end of a difficult day, the haughty but purehearted rich kid Arisu found his only solace in the voice of another girl his age, who hosted a livestream under the pseudonym "Apollo." Then, one day, the broadcasts stopped. Arisu has dedicated the years since then to finding Apollo's true identity, and he's narrowed it down to one particular high school. He transfers in as a student and figures it'll be a cinch--but then discovers it could be any of the girls in the broadcasting club! And the real Apollo isn't talking for reasons of her own! These four girls have no use for Arisu's personality, but they each harbor dreams of using their voices to build a career, and they sure could use his money... Can the blunt and blustering Arisu buy his way into the club's good graces, and find the real girl attached to his dream voice?

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A pure childhood friends-to-lovers BL series with detailed, cute, and dynamic artwork, perfect for fans of Love on the Horizon , My Summer of You , and Sasaki and Miyano . Endless Days of Longing Romance blossoms between Kazuho and Tokio after they declare their love for each other. They’re officially a couple who don’t hesitate with physical displays of affection—but only when no one else is around. School makes it tough to steal private moments together, especially when their classmates assume the two boys are simply old childhood friends. How will their relationship develop while overcoming the need to be accepted? A warmhearted childhood friends-to-lovers BL romance

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An adrenaline-filled manga set in a high school for delinquents who are now heroes protecting their town. A fierce, new student arrives at the school determined to fight his way to the top and become the strongest of them all. This edgy, action-packed manga is guaranteed to excite fans of Tokyo Revengers and other stories about high school delinquents Haruka Sakura wants nothing to do with weaklings—he's only interested in the strongest of the strong. He’s just started at Furin High School, a school of degenerates known only for their brawling strength—strength they use to protect their town from anyone who wishes it ill. But Haruka’s not interested in being a hero or being part of any sort of team—he just wants to fight his way to the top!

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The new, magical dungeon-adventure fantasy series from the author of Is It Wrong to Try to Pick Up Girls in a Dungeon? Seeking to fulfill a promise to a childhood friend, Will Serfort enters Regarden Magical Academy with the goal of making it to the top of the magical world. There’s just one problem: he can't use magic! Will his sword skills be the key to unlocking his true potential? Will Serfort dreams of keeping his promise to a childhood friend by becoming a Magia Vander, one of the mighty magicians who sit atop the Wizard's Tower. However, he is unable to cast even the simplest of spells, leaving him to fight dungeon monsters to earn credits at Regarden Magical Academy. As if that weren't enough, he finds himself putting his sword skills to the test against a bullying professor!