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Kodansha Comics Announces its Digital-first Debuts for November

Kodansha Comics announces its digital-first debuts for November, with shojo romance, a videogame parody, and several new manga for all ages

Lineup includes Can I Kiss You Every Day? (11/6) Alicia's Diet Quest (11/13), Good Dog, Cerberus! (11/20) and Blissful Land (11/27)

San Francisco, Calif. (October 31, 2018)—Kodansha Comics continues to launch a new “digital-first” manga series every week and has just announced it will kick off 4 new manga series in November. In keeping with its mission of increasing the diversity of manga genres available to English-reading audiences, the “digital-first” debuts this month include a steamy shojo romance, a wacky RPG videogame parody, and the kickoff to a string of all-ages manga releases that will carry over into the holidays!

Can I Kiss You Every Day? (debuting November 6), Hatsuharu's shojo romance about a now grown-up girl who reunites with a childhood friend promises lots of sweet and passionate kisses—read Chapter 1 for free here (original Japanese title: Mainichi kiss shite ii desuka);

Alicia's Diet Quest (debuting November 13), Aoi Fujiwara's wacky calorie-counting parody of videogame RPGs focuses on one high priestess fixated on losing some weight as prep for her showdown with the Demon King;

And starting November 20, Kodansha Comics gets into the holiday spirit by debuting a new digital manga for all ages every week—in addition to Good Dog, Cerberus! and Blissful Land, look for more announcements to come for December!

Good Dog, Cerberus! (debuting November 20), Moha Arimura's full-color kids' manga about the nicest 3-headed pet you'll ever see (original Japanese title: Meiken Keru-chan);

Blissful Land (debuting November 27), Ichimon Izumi's heartwarming and finely detailed saga about a family living in 18th-century Tibet. (original Japanese title: Tenju no Kuni) .

More information about Kodansha Comics's “digital-first” initiative can be found here.


About Kodansha

Kodansha Ltd. is Japan's leading publishing house, based in Tokyo, Japan. Founded in 1909, Kodansha Ltd. continues to this day to play a dominant role in media, producing books and magazines in a wide variety of genres including literature, fiction, nonfiction, children's, business, lifestyle, art, manga, fashion, and journalism. Recently, Kodansha Ltd. has focused on creating and developing a wide range of digital businesses.

Kodansha Comics is the English-language manga-publishing imprint of Kodansha USA Publishing, which was established in New York City in 2008, with the publications of two of the most groundbreaking comics of all time: Katsuhiro Ōtomo's Akira and Shirow Masamune's The Ghost in the Shell. Other major manga hits from Kodansha Comics include Sailor Moon, Attack on Titan, and Fairy Tail. Kodansha Advanced Media is a digital-content distributor and producer established in San Francisco in 2015. More about Kodansha Comics at http://www.kodanshacomics.com

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