First Details of latest Tezuka crowdfunding project from DMP

Digital Manga Publishing has announced the first details of the latest of the projects to crowdfund the works of Osamu Tezuka.

Writing on Twitter and Facebook yesterday, the DMP accounts said: 

– Project Code BBK = Big Bang Kickstarter! Prep ya funds & be ready! It’s a BIG one, ya won’t be prepared enough.

– 3 goals total 2 are stretch goals. 50+ possible rewards (includes limited edition goods) w/ 20+ tiers to pick from

– Kickstarter is for 6 Tezuka Series = Grand total of 31 vols.
Initial Goal: Publishing 3-Eyed One + Rainbow Parakeet.
1st Stretch Goal: Publishing Wonder 3 + Alabaster
2nd Stretch Goal: TBA on DMP Twitter on Oct. 19 @10am PST [Pacific Standard Time – 18.00 BST]

This will be latest in a string of successful Kickstarter campaigns to release the works of the “Godfather of Manga” into English. Previously DMP have crowdfunded the release of Swallowing the Earth, Barbara, Unico, Atomcat, Triton of the Sea and Captain Ken.

Source: Facebook and Twitter

Ian Wolf

Ian works as an anime and manga critic for Anime UK News, and was also the manga critic for MyM Magazine. His debut book, CLAMPdown, about the manga collective CLAMP, is available now. Outside of anime, he is data specialist for the British Comedy Guide, is QI's most pedantic viewer, has written questions for both The Wall and Richard Osman's House of Games, and has been a contestant on Mastermind.

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