Crunchyroll Manga to Add Simulpubs + Latest Chapters From 8 More Kodansha Comics Manga Starting March 1
San Francisco, Calif. (March 1, 2018)—Kodansha Comics manga series than ever before.
New additions available for the first time on Crunchyroll Manga include Knights of Sidonia creator Tsutomu Nihei's latest, APOSIMZ.
Crunchyroll subscribers will be able to read the latest chapters of every series as part of their Crunchyroll subscription, including chapters the same day they are first published in Japan (“simulpubs”). Recent chapters that have not yet been collected into graphic-novel format are also included for all subscribers. A comprehensive list of series on the platform, and the frequency of how often new chapters come out, is provided below.
“Adding more simulpub'ed series on Crunchyroll Manga is just the latest development in Kodansha Comics's growing digital-first initiative, an exciting endeavor to broaden the diversity and distribution of manga series available in English,” said Kodansha Advanced Media. “We'll see more on this front in the near future.”
After March 1, Kodansha Comics will continue adding new series to Crunchyroll Manga in the coming months—more announcements to come. The following series will have new chapters released every week:
- Kouji Seo
- GTO: Paradise Lost by Toru Fujisawa
- Nakaba Suzuki
- Chūya Koyama (biweekly)
- To Your Eternity by Yoshitoki Ōima
- Ken Akamatsu
The following series will have new chapters released monthly:
- Gamon Sakurai
- APOSIMZ by Tsutomu Nihei
- Hajime Isayama
- Taku Kuwabara
- Naoshi Arakawa
- Kimitake Yoshioka
- Hiromu Arakawa
- Robico
- Gido Amagakure
- Kōsuke Fujishima
- Hiroaki Samura
The above represents all series Kodansha Comics currently releases as English-language simulpub chapters. For readers who don't subscribe to Crunchyroll, individual chapters, including simulpubs, from all of those series can be bought and ed on Comixology and Kindle. Crunchyroll Manga features official and authorized Kodansha Comics translations that are the same ones for purchase on Comixology and Kindle.
More information about Kodansha Comics's “digital-first” initiative can be found here.
About Kodansha
Founded in 1909, Fairy Tail. Kodansha Advanced Media is a digital-content distributor and producer established in San Francisco in 2015. More at kodanshacomics.com.
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