Kodansha Reveals New Print Manga Licenses for Fall 2025 in Multi-day Announcement
Kodansha unveils their Fall 2025 print manga licenses for new series, premium editions & more in a three-day announcement event. Fans can keep track of all the new license reveals by following their social media accounts on X (Formerly Twitter), Instagram, Facebook, and Bluesky.
February 17, 2025 — Premium & New Editions:
The Fall 2025 new license reveals begin with a premium edition return of the artistically striking, supernatural mystery manga, Mushishi; along with new omnibus editions of the apocalyptic horror manga, Dragon Head; and the all-ages super hero saga, Miraculous: Tales of Ladybug & Cat Noir.
February 18, 2025 — Box Set & Surprise Update:
With the success of the first Sailor Moon (Naoko Takeuchi Collection) Manga Box Set, Kodansha is now announcing for Fall 2025 the 2nd box set collecting the remaining volumes of the main series as well as both volumes of the Codename: Sailor V prequel.
Kodansha also gives a surprise update on the Kodansha Print Club—the print-on-demand publishing program aimed at bringing digital-first manga favorites to print. Starting this week, volume 1s of the inaugural series, Love, That’s an Understatement; Blade Girl and Teppu will be available for sale across all participating vendors! See below for more details.
February 19, 2025 — New Series:
Kicking off Kodansha’s latest batch of new series is the latest artistically explosive supernatural manga Kaijin Fugeki: Kindled Spirits by Oh! Great (Air Gear); followed by the historical action–fantasy saga The Magnificent Bastard: The Legend of Keiji, with art by the inimitable Tetsuo Hara (Fist of the North Star); two new BL one-shots were also announced with stories running the spectrum from sweet to spicy with Flip Flip Slowly by Mame Ohtako, and In the Key of Love, Reprised by Guri Nojiro; and last but not lease the comes the intriguing political power struggle BL set in the omegaverse, Omega Megaera by Maki Marukido.
PREMIUM & NEW EDITIONS:
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Sailor Moon Naoko Takeuchi Collection Manga Box Set 2
By Naoko Takeuchi
Debut Date: Fall 2025
The Sailor Guardians awaken in this box set of the everlasting masterpiece, featuring 6 volumes of manga, 16 art cards, exclusive stickers, and a premium holographic box!
Includes volumes 7–10 of the Naoko Takeuchi Collection edition of the Sailor Moon manga, volumes 1-2 of the Naoko Takeuchi Collection edition of the Codename: Sailor V prequel, an exclusive set of 16 art cards, an exclusive set of stickers, and a beautiful holographic box featuring a premium magnetic enclosure.
Rated: 16+
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This week, manga fans will, once again, be able to place their print orders for the Kodansha Print Club volumes of Love, That’s an Understatement; Blade Girl and Teppu from participating retailers. A list of where fans can order their copy can be seen via the updated KPC announcement here. This updated announcement also addresses some customer and retailer questions received since the initial launch.
PREMIUM & NEW EDITIONS:
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Mushishi Collector’s Edition
By Yuki Urushibara
Debut Date: Fall 2025
The beloved fantasy manga returns in a hardcover omnibus edition featuring a
completely original translation and new cover illustrations.
Before life as we know it, there existed entities that don’t obey the laws of our reality—primordial beings known as mushi. In Japan, a man named Ginko wanders the land, investigating incursions by mushi into the human world—and by us into theirs. He is a mushi master…a mushishi.
Upon its release in the 2000s, Mushishi earned global acclaim for its poetic episodic storytelling and delicate, beautiful artwork, winning the Japan Media Arts Prize, selection as a Best Manga by the Japan Agency for Cultural Affairs, and recommendation as a top read for teens by the American Library Association. The series inspired two TV anime adaptations in 2005 and 2014 and a live-action film directed by the legendary Katsuhiro Otomo, creator of AKIRA. Unfortunately, after being out of print for 15 years, English copies of Mushishi became as elusive as the strange creatures that populate its pages—until now.
“It’s a manga with a very original vision, with a sort of ‘flowing life’ of its own, a biologist’s precision mixed with creepy fairytales and a surreal, dreamy feel… [A] feeling that there are forces in this world which humans can’t control or understand…but maybe, says the Mushi-shi and the scientist, you can at least bear witness.” –Jason Thompson, Anime News Network
Rated: 16+
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Dragon Head
By Minetaro Mochizuki
Debut Date: Fall 2025
The end of everyone was just the beginning…
Minetaro Mochizuki’s award-winning 90s head-trip disaster manga is returning to print with a brand-new translation, and will be available in four 2.5-in-1 omnibuses.
Teru and his high school class are on the train ride home from a school field trip when a catastrophic something derails their train and leaves them buried beneath tons of rubble. When Teru comes to, all his friends and teachers are lying lifeless in a hellish heap of bloody carnage. Trapped in unending darkness filled with death and decay, he and the only two other survivors must find a way to escape and make it back home—if home still exists.
Rated: 16+
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Miraculous: Tales of Ladybug & Cat Noir Complete Omnibus
By Koma Warita, Riku Tsuchida, Toei Animation, and ZAG
Debut Date: Fall 2025
All three volumes of the best-selling Miraculous manga, in a large-sized, all-in-one edition!
Marinette is your typical high school student: cheery and a little clumsy. Not so typical? She can transform into a superhero! As the confident, masked Ladybug, Marinette guards the streets of the City of Lights alongside Cat Noir, another superhero who, unbeknownst to Marinette, is her classmate Adrian, and her crush! Adrian doesn’t know who Ladybug is, either, but he’s crushing on her, too. Supervillains, school, and criss-crossed crushes? As if being a teenager and a crime fighting superhero wasn’t enough!
Rated: 8+