Posted in: Comics, Current News, san diego comedian con | Tagged: Blood Blade, kodansha
At San Diego Comic-Con as we speak, Kodansha USA introduced that they’ve commissioned a model new authentic manga sequence, Blood Blade.
At San Diego Comic-Con as we speak, Kodansha USA introduced that they’ve commissioned a model new authentic manga sequence, Blood Blade, by Japanese creator Oma Sei. It will debut first in English, digitally on Kodansha.us, operating weekly from October. Subscribers to the brand new Kodansha Reader Portal will get free entry to the sequence till the discharge of the collected quantity, which can be within the spring of 2024 and distributed by Penguin Random House.
An exhilarating action-adventure saga about Count Dracula reborn and on the run from a corporation that’s capturing and utilizing weapons of monstrous destruction, “Blood Blade is an all-new kind of manga publishing effort, in which Kodansha premieres the works of an outstanding Japanese talent like Oma Sei to a worldwide English-reading audience first,” says Alvin Lu, Kodansha USA Publishing President & CEO. “And we are inviting anyone to jump right into this manga series by offering each exciting new episode of Blood Blade free for a limited time at the new Kodansha Reader Portal.”
“Blood Blade was heavily inspired by classic horror films and dramas,” says Oma Sei, BLOOD BLADE sequence creator. “Though it is filled with vampires, golems, and mummies, many of these monsters have waned in popularity since their heyday on the silver screen. Monsters that once inspired terror in humans have been left behind by the passage of time, to the point that one might call them an endangered species. In writing this series, I aim to bring the spotlight back onto these monsters of yore.”
“In the world of Blood Blade, Count Dracula is reborn as a katana-wielding young vampiress in a new, never-before-seen action manga set in a gritty, alternate-history Europe. Fans of cinematic, gory, supernatural alternate histories, like Vampire Hunter D, Hellsing, and Vampire in the Garden, will want to sink their fangs into Blood Blade.”
“After the reincarnated Dracula rescues a girl named Clara from a mysterious stranger, Clara explains that she is the creation of a certain Victor Frankenstein. She also reveals that she is fleeing from an organization called Cerberus, which seeks to capture and study “monsters” such as herself in order to create an army of human-monster hybrids. Clara begs the vampiress to flee with her to an island of monsters.”
Other upcoming titles from Kodansha embrace the next:
Fed Up With Being the Spoiled Queen’s Genius Butler, I Ran Away and Built the World’s Strongest Army
Manga by Reiga, Story by Skyfarm
A butler whose skills are wasted on home frivolities leaves his pampered noblewoman’s family for a lifetime of journey on this quick and humorous fantasy manga primarily based on the hit internet novel sequence from the creator of Rise of the Outlaw Tamer and His S-Rank Cat Girl!
Leet is not simply any butler. His mistress, Princess Kilik, calls for the inconceivable–and he delivers it, seven occasions earlier than breakfast. But someday, Leet decides sufficient is sufficient, and he flees for a neighboring land the place the gifted stand up by the ranks as a substitute of languishing in thankless, dead-end jobs. Under a brand new title, Lilt, he enrolls in a coaching and job placement program, and quickly discovers that, straightforward as “wax on, wax off,” his butlering expertise make him a helpful asset!
Rated: Teen 16+
Mermaid Prince
By Kaori Ozaki
Where do you belong? On the sting of loss of life and hazard, to really feel life flowing by you? Can you discover shelter in an area not meant for you? When new individuals transfer into your life, will there nonetheless be sufficient room left for you?
From the writer of the gods lie. and The Golden Sheep, Mermaid Prince explores such complicated themes in a sequence of quick tales that spotlight the wonder, surprise, ache, and loneliness that may come from feeling adrift on the planet, in addition to the enjoyment that may accompany discovering your individual anchor amidst the seas of change.
Rated: 16+
That Time I Got Reincarnated as a Slime Omnibus
Story by Fuse, Art by Taiki Kawakami, Character Design by Mitz Vah
Can a lowly slime carry the cast-off of the world collectively and construct a rustic the place they are often themselves? The bestselling manga reincarnation of the traditional fantasy journey gentle novel and anime is now obtainable in extra-large omnibus volumes.
Mikami’s center age hasn’t gone as he deliberate: He by no means discovered a girlfriend, he received caught in a dead-end job, and he was abruptly stabbed to loss of life on the street at 37. So when he wakes up in a brand new world straight out of a fantasy RPG, he is upset however not precisely shocked to search out that he is dealing with down a dragon, not as a knight or a wizard however as a blind slime demon. But there are possibilities for even a slime to turn into a hero, and perhaps even construct a rustic the place the rejects and outcasts can discover a place to belong…
Each guide accommodates three volumes for nearly 600 pages of the bestselling manga.
Rated: 16+
AUGUST 2023 NEW DIGITAL LICENSES:
The World is Dancing
By Kazuto Mihara
Release Date: August 1, 2023
Born into a lifetime of appearing and dance with a touring theater troupe in 14th-century Japan, 12-year previous Oniyasha has one drawback—he does not know what the purpose of any of it’s. Why should I step with the left foot right here as a substitute of the proper? Why is one efficiency good and one other, unhealthy? Why do individuals dance in any respect? It all appears completely arbitrary, till an opportunity encounter in a run-down shack units him down a path to revolutionizing the artwork kind and influencing a lot of Japanese tradition to return. A fictionalized account of the early lifetime of Zeami Motokiyo (Oniyasha), the founder of contemporary Noh theater—the world’s oldest surviving theater artwork—this coming-of-age artist’s journey vividly brings to life a person far forward of his time throughout certainly one of Japan’s most culturally and socially vibrant eras.
Rated: 16+
Issak
Story by Shinji Makari & Art by DOUBLE–S
Release Date: August 15, 2023
Anno Domini 1620. Europe is riven with the conflagrations that can develop into the Thirty Years War. Catholic and Protestant forces conflict throughout battlefields dominated by sword and gunpowder alike, and mercenaries of each stripe ply their commerce. Among them is Issak, a lone Japanese warrior bearing a matchlock of unusual design, and preventing in service to his sworn mission—to search out and kill the person who murdered his grasp and fled Japan for the opposite aspect of the world. Meticulously researched and gorgeously illustrated, Issak is the following character-driven, historic motion epic that followers of Vinland Saga can sink their enamel into.
Rated: 16+
Blade Girl
By Narumi Shigematsu
Release Date: August 29, 2023
One yr after shedding her leg, 16-year-old Rin is drained—bored with the painful bodily remedy, bored with being handled in another way, and bored with her silly, heavy, awkward prosthetic leg. All that adjustments when she encounters the Blade Runners, a bunch of one-legged athletes who run with “blades”—carbon fiber prosthetics specialised for aggressive operating—made by their gifted prosthetist, Kazami. The blades are gentle, versatile, and formidably tough to regulate—Rin can barely stroll with one, a lot much less dash. But as she tumbles to the bottom repeatedly, she rediscovers lots of the issues that she’d forgotten, and finds a brand new aim: to compete within the Paralympics.
Rated: 13+
Enjoyed this? Please share on social media!
Stay up-to-date and assist the positioning by following Bleeding Cool on Google News as we speak!
Discussion about this post