Battan's manga The Golden Fly is licensed for English print by BDP Press, with a Kickstarter campaign already funded and copies expected in July 2026. Battan is scheduled to appear at TCAF as a guest.
Battan's manga The Golden Fly has been licensed for English print by BDP Press, the in-house publisher of Toronto's The Beguiling comic store. The license was announced alongside a Kickstarter campaign that has already exceeded its CAD$800 goal, with backers expecting copies in July 2026. Advanced copies will be available at the Toronto Comic Arts Festival (TCAF), where Battan is a guest.
The license brings another Battan title to English readers through a small press crowdfunding model. The Golden Fly is the second story about Battan in the Yomimono archive, following a broader licensing news roundup that did not mention Battan directly. The earlier story covered Yen Press's new imprint launch and several other manga licenses but did not involve Battan.
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Canada's BDP Press, the in-house publisher of The Beguiling comic store, has licensed Battan's manga THE GOLDEN FLY for English print. A Kickstarter campaign has already exceeded its CAD$800 goal, with backers expecting copies in July. Advanced copies will be available at TCAF, where Battan is a guest.
Yen Press will debut a new imprint in October 2026, launching with two titles. The first is Ryoko Kui's The Dragon School is Atop the Mountain, an early collection of one-shots from the Delicious in Dungeon creator that treats the extraordinary as ordinary daily life. The second is Futa Kimura's Fate Rewinder: All Great Feats Require Time, a children's manga about agents who use micro-time machines implanted in their eye sockets to rescue people from tragic deaths. The imprint arrives as part of a broader wave of licensing news. Glacier Bay Books will publish Marco Kohinata's Akari in June 2026, a standalone story about mistaken identity and found family selected for the MINT manga initiative. Mangalith will release Hideko Mizuno's Fire! on October 14, 2026, bringing the 1969 shojo manga that helped open the genre's 1970s flourishing to English readers in a single volume. Kodama Tales will publish Hisae Iwaoka's The Magical Forest of Hoshigahara in November 2026. Manga Mavericks Books will release Minami Q-ta's Ball and Chain in March 2027, a story about two queer people pushing back against assigned gender roles and the expectations of marriage. The licensing announcements follow the death of Yoshiharu Tsuge on an unspecified date. Tsuge, born October 30, 1937, was the creator of the surrealist manga Nejishiki and an artist who twisted the medium with an uncompromising personal vision shaped by postwar poverty and lifelong anthropophobia.