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ComicWalker App Launches With 18 Manga Titles in English

Japanese publisher website and app launched on Saturday with 18 titles in English. The launch titles are as follows:

• Mobile Suit Gundam: The Origin (Full-color edition)
• Yoshikazu Yasuhiko, Hajime Yatate, and Yoshiyuki Tomino's Mobile Suit Gundam: The Origin Special Edition
• Neon Genesis Evangelion (Full-color edition)
• Haganai
• Mobile Suit Gundam-san
• The Melancholy of Suzumiya Haruhi-chan
• Nozomu Yanahara's Takasugi-san's Obento
• Kagerou Daze
• Tokyo ESP
• Eishi Ozaki and Fool
• Mamare Touno's Log Horizon
• High School DxD
• Sgt. Frog
• Non Non Biyori
• Fate/kaleid liner Prisma Illya Drei!!
• Miyako Kashiwa, Nekosuke Okuma's New Sister Archfiend Testament
• Kyo Kara Ma no Tsuku Jiyuugyou!
• toi8's Archenemy and Hero "Become Mine, Hero." "I refuse!" (Maoyū Maoh Yūsha "Kono Watashi no Mono Tonare, Yuusha!" "Kotowaru!")

The Japanese version of ComicWalker also announced on Monday that it will serialize a digital version of ended publication last July.

The service's website includes a calendar so s can see when Kadokawa will update each of the series. The website also includes a blog by the editor as well as links to purchasing print and digital versions of manga already licensed, such as Yen Press' releases of The Melancholy of Suzumiya Haruhi-chan and High School DxD.

ComicWalker s are able to create their own "magazines" to follow the manga they want to read, and the app will also suggest other series based on s' history.

The service will feature 150 past and present works, and around 50 original titles. Kadokawa plans to release the original titles in collected book form under a new label. Currently, ComicWalker also has 142 manga in Japanese and 21 manga in Chinese.

Kadokawa also noted that it will host a contest for a "ComicWalker Rookie Award" and a "Kan Colle Comic Illustration Award" (temporary name) with the service.

Hideaki Kobayashi serves as ComicWalker's executive manager.

Thanks to Gwyn Campbell for the news tip