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KADOKAWA Opens KADOKAWA WORLD MANGA English Label
KADOKAWA announced on October 30 that it has opened KADOKAWA WORLD MANGA, a KadoComi label that releases English versions of manga serialized in Japan.
Reporting from 2 sources: Anime News Network, Denfaminicogamer.
Why it matters
KADOKAWA is answering overseas readers who asked to read serialized chapters in English as they run, and it is putting untranslated work by overseas creators, including KWMA projects, on the same label.
Key Facts
- KADOKAWA announced the KADOKAWA WORLD MANGA label on October 30.
- The label distributes English versions of manga serialized in Japan through the KadoComi web manga platform.
- Opening chapters and latest chapters are released free, newly translated into English.
- The launch lineup includes BRAIN ALIVE, Kung Fu Kung Fool, Spica and Voice of Books and A Peach Offering for the Imperial Court.
- ELDEN RING The Road to the Erdtree and Suikoden STAR LEAP are also in the lineup, and the title count will increase.
The opening chapters and latest chapters go up free, translated anew, so overseas readers do not wait for print volumes. The lineup is seven titles, among them BRAIN ALIVE, Kung Fu Kung Fool, Spica and Voice of Books, A Peach Offering for the Imperial Court, ELDEN RING The Road to the Erdtree and Suikoden STAR LEAP, with more to come.
The label sits inside KadoComi, KADOKAWA's web manga platform, and covers both titles that draw attention in Japan and titles by overseas creators published in Japan that had no English translation until now. Every chapter is newly translated. KADOKAWA says the title count will grow in stages, and that works born from KADOKAWA WORLD MANGA ATELIER, its project for discovering and supporting overseas creators, will be distributed in English through the same label. Before this, KADOKAWA put trial readings and similar material into English on social media and other channels.
- BRAIN ALIVE: Fantasy with an original story by Rafal Jaki, executive producer of Cyberpunk: Edgerunners Season 1
- Kung Fu Kung Fool: Action comedy by Indian creator masterlynx, Silver Award winner at the Wordless Manga Contest
- Spica and Voice of Books: Fantasy by Kimiko Ueno about an elf girl apprenticed to a bookbinder
- A Peach Offering for the Imperial Court: Romance by Yuho Uechi, nominated for the Minna ga Erabu!! E-Comic Award and other awards
- ELDEN RING The Road to the Erdtree: Comicalization by Nikiichi Tobita of the action RPG ELDEN RING
- Suikoden STAR LEAP: Comicalization by Aki Shimizu of the Suikoden series' first mobile title
- KADOKAWA WORLD MANGA ATELIER works: English versions of works from the overseas creator project will also be distributed
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