Manga publisher also plans to accelerate release of bestselling manga, Fairy Tail   NEW YORK, October 13, 2012 – Kodansha Comics is proud to announce the acquisition of four new manga licenses…

“Yukimura!” “Your lordship!” “Yukimura!” “Your lordship!” “YUKIMURA!” “YOUR LORDSHIP!” Takeda Shingen…

Merchant Kraft Lawrence is travelling north with his unusual companion, Holo, a wolf goddess, who has taken human form as a beautiful young woman (with, of course, ears and a splendid tail.) Holo…

Thirty-something Takase is known as the ‘Legendary Secretary’, so the company president thinks that he’s just the right man to sort out his lazy and unmotivated son Toshiaki…

“A love hotel is a place to nurture love…and love wins against all odds.” Toshio Shirosaki.

High school student Yorozu Shirosaki helps his mother run the gloriously kitsch…

Episodes 168-178

The position of Captain of the Third Court Guard Squad has been vacant since Gin Ichimaru turned traitor and left the Soul Society to follow Sōsuke Aizen. So when the name of Shūsuke…

June 19, 2012 – Kodansha Comics’ newest manga series Attack on Titan Vol. 1 debuted in US stores today. The manga written and illustrated by Hajime Isayama has sold over 7 million copies in Japan…

Episodes 160-167  

“In order to save Orihime,” as the long-suffering narrator tells us at the beginning of every episode, “who was kidnapped by Sosuke Aizen, Ichigo and his friends…

New series to join Kodansha’s stellar fall lineup, which includes New York Times bestsellers like Sailor Moon and Negima!

NEW YORK, NEW YORK (April 23, 2012) – Kodansha USA Publishing is excited…

When Kodansha Comics announced in 2010 that they would be taking over several of the titles already licensed to Del Rey in the US – and introducing many new series in 2011 – the news elicited…

Bleach Season 8 Part 1 The Arrancar 2: The Fierce Fight

Episodes 152-159

Ichigo and his companions were forced to split up as they fought their way into Las Noches to set Orihime free from Aizen’s…

Fairy Tail #1 Episodes 1-12

 “In a land far, far away…”

Lucy Heartfilia is a young, pretty, and independent-minded Celestial Wizard who wants to join a guild so that she can earn her living by practising…

@ Full Moon Volumes 1 & 2

David is a vampire; Marlo is half vampire, half werewolf. The young men have been close friends since childhood and in the two volumes of Sanami Matoh’s light-hearted…

It’s that time of year again – already? – and the writers, editors and news reporters at AUKN have been assembling their thoughts about what they’ve watched over the…

“If someone suddenly handed you ten billion yen and said, ‘Improve this country’ what would you do?”

It’s time for answers – and as Akira Takizawa (Ryohei Kimura/Jason Liebrecht) and Saki (Sakiko…

Episodes 142-151

Captain Yamamoto forbids the Soul Reapers to go to the rescue of Orihime Inoue for in his view, she must have gone to Aizen’s side of her own free will, making her – ergo –…