Read the newest chapters ahead of the next volume release through our new partnership with K MANGA!
Recent chapters from ten selected series are now available to purchase directly on kodansha.us, updated weekly or monthly with content as originally shown on K MANGA’s platform.
Titles include:
- Blue Lock
- Blue Lock: Episode Nagi
- The Fragrant Flower Blooms With Dignity
- Gachiakuta
- Nina the Starry Bride
- Shangri-La Frontier
- A Sign of Affection
- Versus
- WIND BREAKER
- Witch Hat Atelier
Please note that K MANGA chapters may differ from their counterparts in the full volume release.
Select a series to start catching up!
Series with chapters available
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Blue Lock
By Muneyuki Kaneshiro, Yusuke Nomura
After a disastrous defeat at the 2018 World Cup, Japan’s team struggles to regroup. But what’s missing? An absolute Ace Striker, who can guide them to the win. The Japan Football Union is hell-bent on creating a striker who hungers for goals and thirsts for victory, and who can be the decisive instrument in turning around a losing match...and to do so, they’ve gathered 300 of Japan’s best and brightest youth players. Who will emerge to lead the team...and will they be able to out-muscle and out-ego everyone who stands in their way?
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Blue Lock: Episode Nagi
By Muneyuki Kaneshiro, Yusuke Nomura, Kota Sannomiya
The new prequel manga to the smash-hit soccer action series Blue Lock! How does a listless slacker who thinks everything’s a huge pain turn into one of Japan’s top scorers? Find out, as high schooler Reo Mikage sets out to fan the flames of ambition in future soccer prodigy Seishiro Nagi, in Blue Lock: Episode Nagi.
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The Fragrant Flower Blooms With Dignity
By Saka Mikami
Two rival schools stand next door to each other: one for elite ladies, one for good-for-nothing boys. But one of those boys might just be a naturally chivalrous diamond in the rough, and one of those girls might be a little more open-minded than is proper…
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Gachiakuta
By Kei Urana, Hideyoshi Andou
In this highly-anticipated new action manga, a young boy is framed for murder and cast off the edge of a floating city into the abyss, where he grapples with the monsters that the elite high above would rather forget. The more the rich glitter, the higher the price paid by the poor...
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With a premise that recalls Battle Angel Alita and kinetic battles reminiscent of Attack on Titan, Gachiakuta is a must-read for fans of dark, dystopian fantasies like Deadman Wonderland! -
Nina the Starry Bride
By RIKACHI
Nina was plucked off the streets because she resembled a dead priestess—but is this a lucky break, or a new kind of curse? Winner of the Kodansha Manga Award, this fantasy shojo manga features intertwining constellations of palace intrigue and perilous romance, for fans of The Ancient Magus’ Bride, The Apothecary Diaries, and Snow White With the Red Hair.
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Shangri-La Frontier
By Ryosuke Fuji, Katarina
A fast-paced, irreverent adventure for fans of isekai and RPGs! High schooler Rakuro loves hunting down “trash games,” but one day he decides to play a AAA VR game called Shangri-La Frontier instead. He creates a character with a bird head, skips the cutscenes and jumps right in—but what awaits him in this game is different from anything he’s ever faced…
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A Sign of Affection
By suu Morishita
Yuki is a college student who’s into friends and fashion. She’s also deaf. A chance meeting on a train leads to a serious crush… but can it grow into something more? A sweet and touching manga romance from the creator of Shortcake Cake!
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Versus
By ONE, Kyoutarou Azuma, bose
The compelling and long-awaited new action epic from ONE, the author of One-Punch Man and Mob Psycho 100! Humanity cowers in fear in a world ruled by demons…but a brigade of humanity’s 47 strongest heroes band together in a final attempt to wrest the world back!
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WIND BREAKER
By Satoru Nii
Haruka Sakura wants nothing to do with weaklings—he’s only interested in the strongest of the strong. He’s from Fuurin High School, a school of near-dropout degenerates known only for their brawling strength. And in a town known for its territorial disputes, Haruka’s got only one goal—become the hero his town deserves.
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Witch Hat Atelier
By Kamome Shirahama
A beautifully-illustrated story about a girl who longs for magic in her life and learns that, on the inside, she already is what she wishes she could be. This lushly-drawn story has won an Eisner Award and a Harvey Award, and was voted one of the top 10 manga of the year in 2018 by the Japanese manga industry.
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