Kodansha USA has announced its latest print manga licenses for Fall 2025, which include some new titles, box sets, and premium collector editions. The new licenses were announced over a period of three days this week from February 17, 2025 to February 19, 2025.
Among the company’s newly licensed manga titles include Mushishi, Miraculous: Tales of Ladybug & Cat Noir, The Magnificent Bastard: The Legend of Keiji, Kaijin Fugeki: Kindled Spirits, and many more series.
Additionally, Kodansha USA also provided an update on its Kodansha Print Club program. Beginning this week, the first volumes of Love, That’s an Understatement, Blade Girl, and Teppu are now available for sale across several retail bookstores and services. A list of where readers can order these books can be found here, along with some FAQ responses.
Here are the details for Kodansha USA’s newest licenses:
Mushishi Collector’s Edition
Story and Art: Yuki Urushibara
Release Date: Fall 2025
The beloved fantasy manga returns in a hardcover omnibus edition featuring a completely new original translation and cover illustrations.
The series inspired two TV anime adaptations in 2005 and 2014 and a live-action film directed by Akira creator Katsuhiro Otomo.
Synopsis:
Before life as we know it, there existed entities that don’t obey the laws of our reality—primordial beings known as mushi. In Japan, a man named Ginko wanders the land, investigating incursions by mushi into the human world—and by us into theirs. He is a mushi master…a mushishi.
Dragon Head
Story and Art: Minetaro Mochizuki
Release Date: Fall 2025
Minetaro Mochizuki’s award-winning disaster manga is returning to print with a brand-new translation and lettering. It will be available in four 2.5-in-1 omnibus volumes.
Synopsis:
Teru and his high school class are on the train ride home from a school field trip when a catastrophic something derails their train and leaves them buried beneath tons of rubble. When Teru comes to, all his friends and teachers are lying lifeless in a hellish heap of bloody carnage. Trapped in unending darkness filled with death and decay, he and the only two other survivors must find a way to escape and make it back home—if home still exists.
Miraculous: Tales of Ladybug & Cat Noir Complete Omnibus
Storyboards: Koma Warita
Art: Riku Tsuchida
Original Creator: ZAG
Supervision: Toei Animation
Release Date: Fall 2025
All three volumes of the manga series will be released in a large-sized, all-in-one edition.
Synopsis:
Marinette is your typical high school student: cheery and a little clumsy. Not so typical? She can transform into a superhero! As the confident, masked Ladybug, Marinette guards the streets of the City of Lights alongside Cat Noir, another superhero who, unbeknownst to Marinette, is her classmate Adrian, and her crush! Adrian doesn’t know who Ladybug is, either, but he’s crushing on her, too. Supervillains, school, and criss-crossed crushes? As if being a teenager and a crime fighting superhero wasn’t enough!
Kaijin Fugeki: Kindled Spirits
Story and Art: Oh!Great
Release Date: Fall 2025
Synopsis:
Night, phenomena that were once known as natural disasters. Faced with the threat of inexplicable 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, meets Gao, a 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 surrounded by nature. Until one day, the Night suddenly falls on them once again!
The Magnificent Bastard: The Legend of Keiji
Art: Tetsuo Hara
Original Story: Keiichiro Ryu
Adaptation: Mio Aso
Release Date: Fall 2025
Tetsuo Hara’s follow-up manga to the popular Fist of the North Star series.
Synopsis:
Long before the Japan of today, there was a land riven by a century of war between hundreds of feudal lords. Standing astride this most chaotic and storied era 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 every rule but one — his warrior’s code. Adapted from a 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!
Sayuri
Story and Art: Rensuke Oshikiri
Release Date: Fall 2025
Synopsis:
Welcome to the Dream Home from Hell
When Norio and his extended family move into their first stand-alone home, it seems like a dream come true…until rumors about the tragic fates of previous 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: something—or someone—is making sure life in this house becomes the stuff of nightmares.
Flip Flip Slowly
Story and Art: Mame Ohtako
Release Date: Fall 2025
Synopsis:
In a rural country town where nothing exciting ever happens, a new face suddenly appears at the library: a man from the city who starts to show up every 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 strangely methodical approach to reading every single book by a single author… Slowly, without realizing it, that simple observation blooms into a deeper interest that draws Hagiwara in, until he can’t help it! He wants to get to know Yabumi better. But how will he bridge the distance, when there’s no talking in the library?
In the Key of Love, Reprised
Story and Art: Guri Nojiro
Release Date: Fall 2025
Synopsis:
Forced by poor health to take a leave of absence, famous conductor Kiri begrudgingly returns to his hometown in Hokkaido for some much-needed rest. His first night back, however, he comes dangerously close to freezing to death—until 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 maestro’s heart? Or will Kiri be doomed to a life of frigid loneliness forever?
Omega Megaera
Story and Art: Maki Marukido
Release Date: Fall 2025
Synopsis:
In a world where people have one of three genders—alpha, beta, or omega — in addition to being male or female, alphas have pushed 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,” a creature that brings ill fortune. One day, Saimon is summoned by the family patriarch Zenjiro and ordered to locate the man’s illegitimate son. 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 spouse, Saimon proposes an audacious plan: pass Mamiya off as an alpha heir and try to gain the headship of the Hanabusa family.
Sailor Moon Naoko Takeuchi Collection Manga Box Set 2
Story and Art: Naoko Takeuchi
Release Date: Fall 2025
The second Sailor Moon manga box set features six volumes of the series, 16 art cards, a set of exclusive stickers, and a premium holographic box, featuring a premium magnetic enclosure.
Volumes 7–10 of the “Naoko Takeuchi Collection” edition of the Sailor Moon manga are included, along with volumes 1-2 of the “Naoko Takeuchi Collection” edition of the Codename: Sailor V prequel.
Source: press release
