Kodama Tales Licenses Crows, Cyberblue, Beautiful Place, and 2 More Manga
The slate brings a mix of classic delinquent manga and new series to English readers, with Crows and Cyber Blue being particularly notable for their creators' reputations.
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Kodama Tales announced five new manga licenses, including Hiroshi Takahashi's Crows, Tetsuo Hara's Cyber Blue, Jiro Matsumoto's Beautiful Place, Shiten Akiyama's Horizon, and Hanaichi Nozaki and Shiro Yoshida's Casino Gui. The titles will release between January and April 2027.
Kodama Tales revealed five manga licenses over the course of a week, with releases scheduled from January through April 2027. The lineup includes Hiroshi Takahashi's long-running delinquent series Crows, which follows transfer student Harumichi Bouya into the violent Suzuran All-Boys High School, and Tetsuo Hara's sci-fi revenge story Cyber Blue, about a gunslinger resurrected as a cyborg. Jiro Matsumoto's Beautiful Place is set in a near-future Japan torn by civil war, where a prim student enlists as a trooper. Shiten Akiyama's Horizon follows a burnt-out office worker who rediscovers herself after a chance encounter, and Casino Gui, by Hanaichi Nozaki and Shiro Yoshida, centers on a young man robbing an underground casino to save his childhood friend from debt.
- Beautiful Place: by Jiro Matsumoto, releases January 2027
- Horizon: by Shiten Akiyama, releases January 2027
- Casino Gui: by Hanaichi Nozaki and Shiro Yoshida, releases April 2027
- Crows: by Hiroshi Takahashi, releases February 2027
- Cyber Blue: by Tetsuo Hara, releases Q1 2027 in hardcover
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