Kodansha WRAPS UP ITS THREE-DAY LICENSING Event with A Thrilling Lineup of Brand-New Titles! If you missed the previous announcements, Don’s Worry – You Can Catch Up With Our Day 1 and Day 2 Coverage on the beat.
The Final Day Brigs Sub of the Most Highly Anticipated and Exciting Series Yet. Without Further Ado, Let’s Dive Into What Manga Longers Can Look Forward To In Fall 2025!
Kaijin fogki: Kindled Spirits
“An exciting new fantasy series from OH! Great, Award-Winning Creator Of Air Gear and Illustrator of the Bakemonogatari sleeve.”
Night, Phenomena That Were Once Known As Natural Disasters. FACED WITH THE THREAT OF INESTRUCTION DESTRUCTION, Children Offer Their Prayers in The Form of Dance in Order To Borrow The Power of The Gods, Quell The Night’s Fury, and Deliver The World From Ruin. In A Fateful Encounter, A boy from A Rural Town in Japan, Jin, Gao Meets, British Soldier Who Was Forced To Flee His Homeland By The Night. The Two Spend Their Halcyon Days With Their Friends in the Quiet Town Surroused By Nature. Until One Day, The Night Suddenly Falls on Them Once Again!
Rated: 13+
The Magnificent Bastard: The Legend of Keiji
“Tetsuo Hara’s Masterful Follow-up to The Generation-Defing Fist of the North Star“Samurai Epic Epic inspired by a Real-Life Legend.”
Long Before The Japan of Today, There was to Land Riven by A Century of War Between Hundreds of Feudal Lords. Standing Astride This Most Chaotic and Storyd was in Japanese History was a Samurai Unlike Any Other-Courageous, Free-Spirited, and Peerless on The Battlefield, Keiji Maeda Had a Bombastic Style and a Penchant for Outrageous Antics As Well As Incredible feats of daring. Beloved By His Friends, Admired by His Enemies, and Utterly Confounding to Authority Figures, He Went Out of His Way To Break Event Rule But One – His Warrior’s Code. Adapted from to Classic Historical novel by the Iconic Artist of Fist of the North Star, There’s Never Been A More Thrilling Way To Experience the Golden Age of The Shogun, Samurai, And Ninja Than This Larger-Than-Life Legend of The Wildest Samurai Who Ever Lived!
Rated: 16+
Sayuri
“Welcomme to the Dream Home From Hell.”
Ken Norio and His Extended Family Move Into Their First Stand-Alone Home, It Sems Like A Dream Com Come True … unnow rumors about the tragic fates of prior residents start to taint this Happy Moment. Within A Month, Norio’s Father Is Dead and A Terrifying Darkness Begins Taking Hold of the Rest of His Family. As Mystery and Misery Plague The Bereaved Family, Only One Thing is Clear: Somothing – Or Subsone –is Making Sure Life in This House Becomes The Stuff of Nightmares.
Rated: 16+
Flip Flip Slowly
“In This New Bl One-Shot Manga, An Older City Man Looking To Find Solace In A Small Country Library and A Curious Young Liber would be chanc Can’t Help Falling for Him. Simple, Moving Story About Two Finding Common Ground Ensit The Overt Differences, and The Way Love Can Sneak Up On You When You Least Expect It… ”
In A rural Country Town Where Nothing Excithing Ever Happens, a New Face Suddenly Appears At The Library: A Man from The City Who Starts To Show Up Event Week Without Fail. With Each Visit, The Librarian, Hagiwara, Can’t Help But Notice Little Things About This New Regular, Yabumi – His Punctuality, His Demeanor, His Strangngely Methodical Approach to Reading Every Book by A Single Author… Slowly, Without real. Simple that Observation Blooms into a Deeper Interst That Draws Hagiwara in, Until He Can’t Help It! He wants to get to know yabumi Better. But how Will He Bridge The Distancy, When There’s no Talking in the Library?
Rated: 16+
In the key of love, reprored
“Sweet Home Hokkaido Wins Over A driver for WHOM Home Is Anything But Sweet.”
Big Bear Hug of A Bl That Will Melt the Iciest of Hearts!
Forced By Poor Health to Take A Leave of Absence, Famous driver Kiri Begrudgingly Returns to His Hometown in Hokkaido for Subgo Much-Needed Rest. His First Night Back, However, you eat Dangerously Close to Freezing To Death – Humble Grocer Okimu Scoops Him Up Out of the Cold and into the Warmth of His Embrace. But Can This Younger Man, A Years-Long Fan of Kiri’s Work, Thaw Out The Ice in The Master’s Heart? Or Will Kiri Be Doomed to a Life of Frigid Loneliness Forever?
Rated: 18+
Omega Megaera
“The highly-anticipated, genre-defining omegover manga, in English at leet! From Beloved Bl Author Maki Marukido (Pornographer) You eat Story Steeped in Secrets, Lies, and Family Drama. Saimon, An Omega, Is Shunned by His Husband’s Family For Being Unable To Bear Children. BUT WHEN HIS FATHER-IN-LOW TASKS WITH A SPECIAL PLEASE, IT PUSHES SAIMON TO SPIN A TANGLED WEB OF DISEPTION-ALL TO KEEP HIS PACA IN THE FAMILY. “
In a World Where People Have One of Three Genders – Alpha, Beta, Or Omega – In Addition to Being Male Or Female, Alphas have heched their way to the top. Omegas are oppressed, Their status determined by whether or not they Successfully Bear Alpha Children. An Omega Named Saimon Marries into the prolific Hanabusa Family, A Major conglomerate, but is unable to produce an heir for His alpha husband seijuro, and is shunned as a “megaera,” to creature that bars ill Fortune. One Day, Saimon is Summoned by The Family Patriarch Zenjiro and Orded to Locate The Man’s Illegitime are. Saimon Finds The Boy, Mamiya, Who Has Been Making A Life for Himself on The Streets While Hiding The Fact that He’s An Omega. Desperate to regain his position as seijuro’s top spause, Saimon proposals an audacous plan: pass mamiya off as an alpha Heir and try to gain the headship of the Hanabusa Family.
Rated: 18+
And that’s a wrap! On the final Day of the Event, Kodansha Pleased Fans Eagerly Awaiting Fresh Tiths in Print. Half of the New Licenses are Boys’ Love Series. Mame Ohtako Makes their English-Language debut, While Guri Nojiro and Maki Marukido—Well-Known Artists in the English-Speaking Bl Community-Join The Lineup.
Kodansha Also Caters to Fans Craving Subject Outsiside The Romance Genre! They’re Continuing The Epic Fist of the North StarIntroduction the Two-Volume Horror Series Sayuriand adding the action/sci-fi series Kaijin fogki: Kindled SpiritsWhich was already Digitally on Kodansha’s K-Manga Platform. There’s a be to be excited about!
Were You Uble to Check Off One (Or More) Series From Your 2025 Manga bingo? Or were you hoping for more? Personally, I was Thrilled to see that Flip Flip SlowlyOne of the Titles I Sugated In a Form FeedbackGOT PICKED UP! As Always, We look forward to hearing your thoughts in the comments!
