Crunchyroll to add 8 NEW Kodansha Comics simulpubs!

Crunchyroll Manga to add simulpubs + latest chapters from 8 more Kodansha Comics manga starting March 1

Newest additions to simulpub service include Yoshitoki Oima’s To Your Eternity and Tsutomu Nihei’s APOSIMZ

San Francisco, Calif. (March 1, 2018)—Kodansha Comics announced today it has added 8 new series to the Crunchyroll Manga simulpub streaming platform starting March 1, bringing the leading manga publisher’s total on the service to 18. Subscribers to Crunchyroll can now read the latest chapters at the same time they’re published in Japan from even more Kodansha Comics manga series than ever before.

New additions available for the first time on Crunchyroll Manga include A Silent Voice creator Yoshotoki Oima’s follow-up to her smash hit, To Your Eternity, and Netflix OriginalKnights of Sidonia creator Tsutomu Nihei’s latest, APOSIMZ.

Crunchyroll subscribers will be able to read the latest chapters of every series as part of their Crunchyroll subscription, including chapters the same day they are first published in Japan (“simulpubs”). Recent chapters that have not yet been collected into graphic-novel format are also included for all subscribers. A comprehensive list of series on the platform and the frequency of how often new chapters come out is provided below.

“Adding more simulpublished series on Crunchyroll Manga is just the latest development in Kodansha Comics’ growing digital-first initiative, an exciting endeavor to broaden the diversity and distribution of manga series available in English,” said Alvin Lu, General Manager of Kodansha Advanced Media. “We’ll see more on this front in the near future.”

After March 1, Kodansha Comics will continue adding new series to Crunchyroll Manga in the coming months—more announcements to come. The following series will have new chapters released every week:

• Fuuka by Kouji Seo
• GTO: Paradise Lost by Toru Fujisawa
• The Seven Deadly Sins by Nakaba Suzuki
• Space Brothers by Chuya Koyama (biweekly)
• To Your Eternity by Yoshitoki Oima
• UQ Holder! by Ken Akamatsu

The following series will have new chapters released monthly:

• Ajin: Demi-Human by Gamon Sakurai
• APOSIMZ by Tsutomu Nihei
• Attack on Titan by Hajime Isayama
• Drifting Dragons by Taku Kuwabara
• Farewell, My Dear Cramer by Naoshi Arakawa
• Grand Blue Dreaming by Kenji Inoue and Kimitake Yoshioka
• The Heroic Legend of Arslan by Yoshiki Tanaka and Hiromu Arakawa
• Our Precious Conversations by Robico
• Sweetness and Lightning by Gido Amagakure
• Toppu GP by Kosuke Fujishima
• Wave, Listen to Me! by Hiroaki Samura

The above represents all series Kodansha Comics currently releases as English-language simulpub chapters. For readers who don’t subscribe to Crunchyroll, individual chapters, including simulpubs, from all of those series can be bought and downloaded on comiXology and Kindle. Crunchyroll Manga features official and authorized Kodansha Comics translations that are the same ones for purchase on comiXology and Kindle.

More information about Kodansha Comics’s “digital-first” initiative can be found here.

About Kodansha

Founded in 1909, Kodansha Ltd. is Japan’s leading publishing house, based in Tokyo, Japan. Under the leadership of Yoshinobu Noma, company president since 2011, Kodansha continues to play a dominant role in media, producing books and magazines in a wide variety of genres including literature, fiction, nonfiction, children’s, business, lifestyle, art, manga, fashion, and journalism. Recently, Kodansha has focused on creating and developing a wide range of digital-contents businesses. Company profile can be viewed here.

Kodansha Comics is the English-language manga-publishing imprint of Kodansha USA Publishing, which was established in New York City in 2008, with the publications of two of the most groundbreaking manga of all time: Katsuhiro Otomo’s Akira and Shirow Masamune’s The Ghost in the Shell. Other major manga hits published by Kodansha Comics include Sailor Moon, Attack on Titan, and Fairy Tail. Kodansha Advanced Media is a digital-content distributor and producer established in San Francisco in 2015. More atkodanshacomics.com.

About Crunchyroll

Crunchyroll is the world’s largest destination for anime and manga, boasting a global community of more than 35 million registered users and over 1 million subscribers. Fans connect through the most complete anime library including “Naruto Shippuden,” “Attack on Titan,” and “Dragon Ball Super,” events such as Crunchyroll Expo, Anime Awards, Crunchyroll News, and can purchase related merchandise through its online store. Through its app on game consoles, set-top boxes, mobile devices and more, Crunchyroll delivers content from leading media producers directly to viewers translated professionally in multiple languages. The service is available for free or through a premium offering that allows users to watch ad-free with access to simulcasts—top series available immediately after Japanese broadcast.

Fans can also view Crunchyroll on VRV, an audience-focused aggregation platform featuring premium SVOD channels and a curated house channel, VRV Select.