Fanfare / Ponent Mon to Reprint Manga by Jiro Taniguchi, Hideo Azuma, Kiriko Nananan
The reprints bring back out-of-print English editions of three acclaimed manga creators, with Taniguchi's mountaineering epic getting a timed release tied to a real-world anniversary.
Reporting from 1 sources: Anime News Network.
Fanfare / Ponent Mon will reprint several manga by the late Jiro Taniguchi, including The Summit of the Gods, as well as Hideo Azuma's Disappearance Diary and Kiriko Nananan's Blue. The Summit of the Gods reprint arrives in July 2026 to mark the Everest ascent anniversary; other reprints follow later this year.
Fanfare / Ponent Mon will reprint Jiro Taniguchi's The Summit of the Gods in English in July 2026, timed to the anniversary of the first recorded ascent of Mount Everest. The company will also reprint Taniguchi's Quest for the Missing Girl and The Ice Wanderer and Other Stories, along with Hideo Azuma's Disappearance Diary and Kiriko Nananan's Blue. The remaining reprints are scheduled for later this year. The Summit of the Gods, adapted from Baku Yumemakura's novel, originally ran in Shueisha's Business Jump from 2000 to 2003 and received an Ignatz nomination in 2010 and an Eisner nomination for its fourth volume in 2014. Azuma's Disappearance Diary won the Osamu Tezuka Cultural Award grand prize in 2006 and earned Azuma an Ignatz nomination in 2009. Nananan's Blue, first published in 1996, was previously released in English by Fanfare / Ponent Mon in 2006.
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