For a limited time, get 50% off digital volumes of thougtful, charming, and exciting series like Blue Period, Medaka Kuroiwa is Impervious to My Charms, Wandance & more!
Ready to hit the books? Kodansha is offering the perfect opportunity to stock your digital library and add some fun reading for the new school year. Whether you’re looking for a new series to obsess over, or are aleady done with classes forever but want to return to the days of school-themed drama, now you can during our Back to School digital manga sale!
For a limited time, get 50% off digital volumes of series like:
Blue Period: A powerful coming-of-age drama centered on Yatora Yaguchi, a high school student who feels hollow and unfulfilled despite his academic success, until he discovers his true passion, art!
Medaka Kuroiwa is Impervious to My Charms: A hilarious romantic comedy centered on Mona Kawaii, a popular high school girl whose charms work on everyone—except for one boy: Medaka Kuroiwa.
Blade Girl: A powerful and inspiring sports drama centered on Rin Nanami, a high school runner whose dreams are shattered after a tragic accident changes her forever.
Genshiken Omnibus: A charming and insightful slice-of-life comedy that offers a grounded look into the world of otaku culture through the eyes of a group of college students.
Sayonara, Football, a compelling and emotional sports drama, chronicles Nozomi Onda’s passionate final year of middle school as she strives to overcome the limitations of her body and her gender, proving her talent on the field.
Sale Ends Monday, September 15th, 2025!
Take advantage of these amazing discounts by purchasing on kodansha.localhost/ or by visiting any of our participating digital manga vendors:
Amazon Kindle
Barnes and Noble Nook
Bookwalker
Google Play
MyAnimeList
Mangamo
and more!
Curious to learn more about which series are discounted during the Back to School digital manga sale? Take a look below for details on five recommended series!
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Blue Period
By Tsubasa Yamaguchi
Yatora is the perfect high school student, with good grades and lots of friends. It’s an effortless performance, and, ultimately…a dull one. But he wanders into the art room one day, and a lone painting captures his eye, awakening him to a kind of beauty he never knew. Compelled and consumed, he dives in headfirst — and he’s about to learn how savage and unforgiving art can be!
Rated: 16+
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Medaka Kuroiwa is Impervious to My Charms
By Ran Kuze
Mona is the cutest girl in school, and she knows it. In fact, she has everyone wrapped around her pretty little finger—everyone, that is, except Medaka Kuroiwa, a recent transfer student. Determined to win him over and solidify her reign as unchallenged queen bee, Mona rolls out the red carpet for her newest would-be subject, only for the stone-cold stoic to glare her down at every turn! Just how far will she go to prove her charms are truly irresistible and win over the last unclaimed heart in school? And why is it that her chest keeps getting tighter the harder he proves to conquer?
Rated: 16+
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Aho-Girl: A Clueless Girl
By Hiroyuki
Equal parts cute, silly, and subversive, the four-panel comedy manga Ahogaru was a surprise hit in Japan. Fans of anarchic slice-of-life gag manga like Azumanga Daioh – these are the new laughs you’ve been waiting for! Yoshiko is a hopefully clueless high school girl. Her rock-paper-scissors strategy is “rock.” She somehow gets zeroes on multiple-choice tests. And she has an often-nearly-fatal weakness for bananas. Her devoted friends have no choice but to hang around and make sure nobody takes advantage of her. (Of course, the entertainment value might have something to do with it, too.) Cute characters, weird gags, and lots and lots of bananas!
Rated: 13+
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Wandance
By Coffee
A SHY TEENAGER HAPPENS ON A CLASSMATE DANCING ALONE, AND HER JOY TURNS A KEY, UNLOCKING SOMETHING IN HIS HEART… Kaboku Kotani is starting high school, and he plans to do what he’s always done: go along with his friends, keep quiet, and not draw too much attention to himself. After all, it’s hard enough to get by with a stutter like his— why make things worse by standing out from the crowd? But then he sees another first-year, Hikari Wanda, dancing like no one is watching—or like she doesn’t care who sees her. It makes Kaboku wonder: Could he reach that same freedom? To find his way to Wanda, he does something he never thought he could: He joins the dance club. After all, every routine begins with a single step, right? Join Kaboku and Wanda as they freestyle their way to life and love!
Rated: 13+
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Ran the Peerless Beauty
By Ammitsu
Ran is beautiful and stylish, with leading scores in her class. No boy on Earth would have the gall to try their hand with her, and no one would think that she’s so entirely innocent…except Akira. Join us in this innocent love story about Rin the “mountaintop flower” and Akira, whose parents own a floweshop. This pure love blooms in volume 1 of Ran the Peerless Beauty.
Rated: 16+
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See below for the full list of Back to School series on sale now until 9/15/25: