Kodansha USA Publishing has a big lineup of new manga on the way for 2027. The publisher revealed 17 titles during its New Licensing Panel at Kodansha House NY on October 15, splitting them between seven new additions to its Kodansha Print Club line and ten brand-new print licenses debuting in Fall 2027. The list includes Jackpot Girls from the creator of Aho-Girl, the yuri fantasy Powerless Without You, the monster-filled school comedy Occult Times, and a long-awaited sequel to the BL one-shot Hitorijime Boyfriend.
Kodansha Manga shared the announcement on X with a thread covering each title. Check it out below:
The New Kodansha Print Club Titles
The Kodansha Print Club is the publisher's print-on-demand program for bringing its digital-first manga to print. Starting in early 2027, it will add print editions of digital favorites along with titles that are new to English entirely, including When Arika Went Missing, Umwelt and Other Stories, and Ark of the Canaries.
The first three arrive in January 2027. Burn the House Down by Moyashi Fujisawa is an eight-volume revenge thriller that already has a live-action adaptation streaming on Netflix. It follows a woman who takes on the false identity of a housekeeper named "Shizuka Yamauchi" to get inside the wealthy Mitarai household, 13 years after her mother was forced to take the blame for a fire that burned the family home. Her first target is Makiko, the beautiful second wife of Dr. Mitarai, who has sinister secrets of her own. It is rated 16+.
Fujisawa also wrote When Arika Went Missing, with art by Kumakazu. Popular idol Arika Mamiya has been missing for a year, and her best friend Nana Miyajima decides to find out what happened by joining Arika's idol group herself, which is a tall order for a rude, tone-deaf loner. Once auditions begin and Nana sinks in the fan rankings, she has to fight for the spotlight while uncovering the ugly side of idol life. It is also rated 16+.
The third January release is Manchuria Opium Squad, with art by Shikako and story by Tsukasa Monma. Set in the Japanese puppet state of Manchukuo, the historical crime story follows Isamu Higata, a young man who uses his knowledge of plants to produce powerful opium in a desperate attempt to save his family, only to be pulled deeper into a dangerous world of gangs and state oppression. Kodansha rates it 18+ and warns that it contains graphic violence and drug abuse.
Daisuke Igarashi, the award-winning artist behind Children of the Sea and Witches, has two books in the lineup. Kamakura Bakeneko Club: Uncanny Cat Tales arrives in February 2027 and centers on a rumor in the old coastal city of Kamakura that finding the elusive Bakeneko Club will reunite you with a lost or departed cat. Remote worker Arisa listens in as visitors share their uncanny cat stories at a local cafe. Umwelt and Other Stories follows in March 2027, collecting ten short stories that range from modern folklore to surreal science fiction. Both are rated 16+.
Also coming in March 2027 is Futarijime Romantic by Chihiro Kanisawa, a three-volume shojo rom-com rated 13+. Kokomi Kumamori has been waiting for a storybook romance ever since a kindergarten first kiss, and when a boy with the same name as her childhood prince shows up, he turns out to be rude and completely uninterested in romance, though he keeps making her heart skip anyway.
Closing out the Print Club batch in April 2027 is Ark of the Canaries, a single-volume sci-fi story from Misaki Takamatsu, the creator of Skip and Loafer. High schooler Yuri watches a flying mass swallow the sky and rain destruction on everything around her, then wakes up in a quiet place where the only other being is a man in a lab coat. It is rated 16+.
The Fall 2027 Licenses
The headliner for many fans will be Jackpot Girls by Hiroyuki, the comedy creator behind Aho-Girl and Girlfriend, Girlfriend. Studious Chie is aiming for Tokyo University, while her air-headed best friend Kanae just wants to enjoy life, until Kanae wins the lottery's first prize of 700 million yen. The girls split the money, but the pressure causes Chie to flunk her entrance exams, so she decides to throw out her plans and use her fortune to live the best life possible. It is rated 13+.
Powerless Without You by Tama Tamasaki is a yuri fantasy about Nana, a recent college graduate working part-time jobs who is pulled into a magical world and told she is the great Saintess. The problem is that she has zero magical power, and the princess she has been summoned to serve with cannot cast a single spell either, which leaves the pair to either become a laughingstock or grow into something more. It is rated 16+.
Occult Times by Idonchi follows Rei, an aspiring photojournalist who joins her school newspaper at Hazama Academy and finds that its only other member is Shiro, a girl obsessed with the occult. Rei agrees to a nighttime ghost stakeout in exchange for a plushie, and in the dark Shiro gets so excited that she transforms into a catgirl. The 16+ series promises a school full of ghosts, demons, and werewolves.
The BL side of the slate includes Hitorijime Boyfriend: Re by Memeco Arii, a single-volume sequel that returns to Kensuke and Hasekura more than a decade after the original one-shot, which also launched the spinoff Hitorijime My Hero. Now out of high school and living together, Hasekura's jealousy flares up again when he spots bite marks on Kensuke. Kazari's I Remember the Color of the Wind is a friends-to-lovers story about Mori, who falls for popular classmate Michioto at first sight. Both are rated 18+.
On the romance front, Tell Me, Dear Butler by Michi Masaki is a 13+ rom-com about the hot-headed Kikyo and her unrequited love for her butler Hanayagi, and it was the first winner of the Honto Aotagai Comic Award for up-and-coming manga. Asumi Takabuchi's My Rebound Has Too Much Game! follows Kohane, who gets ghosted by her boyfriend and fake-dates the shy, bespectacled Mizuma as revenge. Nori Arashiyama's Zacha's Undying Love brings a handsome vampire to the home of an elderly woman and her granddaughters in search of his lost love. The last two are rated 16+.\
Rounding things out are two darker stories. Prisoners of Twilight Town, with story by Nagoya Shoki and art by Morohoshi Fuji, sends a wrongfully convicted young man to a lawless region where death row inmates have to buy basic necessities with the corpses of fellow prisoners, and it is rated 17+. Rie Kano's 16+ Snow Globe Town follows two aspiring writers in Takaoka, a town cut off from the world by a mysterious, endless snowfall for the past 10 years, whose lives are shaken up when a famous novelist arrives.
Where To Buy
The Fall 2027 titles will be sold at bookstores such as Barnes & Noble, Books-A-Million, and Amazon, with select digital editions available at launch on Bookwalker, Amazon Kindle, Apple Books, Google Play, Nook, Kobo, and Kodansha's own website. Kodansha Print Club titles will open for pre-order in the coming months through retailers like Amazon, Barnes & Noble, Bookshop.org, Books-A-Million, Kinokuniya, Hudson Booksellers, and Powell's, and local bookstores can special order them. Kodansha is also asking fans to suggest series they want added to the Print Club through its publishing feedback form.
Are you grabbing a lottery-fueled comedy like Jackpot Girls first, or is a darker pick like Manchuria Opium Squad more your speed?
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