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Manga Mirai Announces New Licenses from Publisher To Books
posted on by Anita Tai
Media Do, NTT Docomo, Akatsuki Group, and MyAnimeList's joint digital manga distribution service Manga Mirai announced on Tuesday that it will release the first English translations for titles from publisher TO Books.
The English licenses include Erika Kamori's manga adaptation of Mochiko Mochida's I Want to Be Pampered by the Marquis of Ice! ~Reincarnated as a Girl with a Depressing Story~ novel, Azuma Hitajima and Isamu Hashihiro's The Monster Life of The Freshly Grafted: The Comic, and other unannounced titles. The works will be available first on Manga Mirai.
The platform will also add titles from J-Novel Club, including Campfire Cooking in Another World with My Absurd Skill and A Wild Last Boss Appeared!
Users can purchase a manga title's single volume (some titles can be purchased by chapter), and purchased titles can be read on the service site or on a dedicated reader app for iOS and Android.
The service aims to provide a platform where anime and manga fans can explore manga-inspired anime series, and discover new stories with the service's original manga and English editions of previously untranslated titles.
NTT Docomo is the service provider of MANGA MIRAI with MyAnimeList supporting the service's marketing effort. MANGA MIRAI's system is also integrated into MyAnimeList's website. Akatsuki Group is handling the service's system development, maintenance, service operations, and marketing. Media Do collaborates with publishers and translation companies to acquire new manga series for the platform.
Source: Press release
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