We’re definitely working on it! We want to be in as many bookstores as possible!
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We’re definitely working on it! We want to be in as many bookstores as possible!
23.02.2026 21:10 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0English Publisher Manga Mavericks Books announced a new distribution deal with North American distributor & logistics provider Pathway Book Service
• It was also announced select Manga Mavericks Books titles will be distributed in the EU through Gazelle Book Services Ltd.
The books we translated on are going to be available on more storefronts! This is awesome news!! It feels like we’ve finally made it big as translators thanks to Manga Mavericks!! 😭
23.02.2026 18:32 — 👍 11 🔁 3 💬 1 📌 0Something fun came in the mail!
We’re not sponsored of course, but we bought something off the @viz.com shop and were pleasantly surprised at how nice the Yaiba blanket felt.
The picture side is more velvety, but the underside is so soft.
(We apologize for the lighting.)
Check out the trailer for the newest #DetectiveConan movie!!
It opens in theaters April 10th, and features the theme “Last Dance With You” by MISIA.
Takahiro Hasui (Yaiba Samurai Legend) will direct the anime at TMS.
youtu.be/CsxkouRl7Yo
The key visual for #DetectiveConan Fallen Angel of the Highway has been revealed!
The movie will open April 10th.
The director will be Takahiro Hasui (Yaiba Samurai Legend)
It will be written by Takahiro Ohkura.
MISIA’s song “Last Dance Anata to” will serve as the theme song.
Sōichirō Yamamoto’s (Teasing Master Takagi) artwork commemorating the airing of season two of the #Frieren anime.
The Madhouse-produced anime airs every Friday and streams on Crunchyroll.
©️ Sōichirō Yamamoto/Tsukasa Abe/Kanehito Yamada/SHOGAKUKAN
Cover for volume #10 of Ai Kozaki's series about the fifth and last lord of the Tudor family, Elizabeth, and her loyal retainer William Cecil. “Cecil no joou.”
Runs in Big Comic Original.
Cover for volume #1 of Shinonome’s “Bunny Night Treatment”
Minato a college student has a peculiar night job: taking care of his not blood related sister, Mifuyu who works as a bunny girl. From massages to giving her pedicures, Minato’s got this tired bunny girl’s back!
Runs in Big Comic Spirits
Cover for volume 3 of Satoshi Miyakawa’s “Namae no nai byouki.”
In this work 2 brothers have been estranged for years, and the younger of the two grapples with the guilt of abandoning his bro in their family’s dilapidated house.
Recommended by Shuzo Oshimi (Flowers of Evil.)
Runs in Big Comic.
Cover for volume two of Hata Aimu’s “Nihao! Mao Mao ryuugakusei”
A shy college student and an anxious cat go from Shanghai to Kyoto and find a whole new world of different and exciting new experiences!
The author is also Chinese born and is currently residing in Japan!
Runs in Big Comic Spirits
Cover for volume #6 of Nabekurao's “Robou no Fujii”
While others are chasing fleeting happiness through promotions at work, approval from their peers and the like, Fujii despite his barely perceptible presence lives a full life without any of these things!
Runs in Weekly Big Comic Spirits.
Cover for volume #2 of Takako Shimura’s “Souiu ie no ko no Hanashi.”
A trio of 28 year old childhood friends brought up by a certain religion find that faith is a chain that binds in adulthood. Now seeking marriage and autonomy, they realize a higher power isn’t enough.
Runs in Big Comic Spirits
Tsukishiro has a unique condition. When he’s happy his hair glows. To fit in he packs his feelings into orbs and tosses them over a bridge. Unable to bear such a life, he’s about to join his feelings over the bridge side, until a kappa who has thrived off his feelings reveals herself…
21.02.2026 13:20 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0Covers for volume 1 and 2 of Haru Abiko’s “Hikatte! Tsukishiro-san”
Runs in Big Comic Superior.
Arisu, a pretty and smart girl, was once taught to be bilingual by her parents until they pass away, and she loses proficiency in both languages. Her classmate a lone genius promises to help her recover her language in this story about the world's first Japanese female astronaut captain.
21.02.2026 12:32 — 👍 4 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0Cover for volume #6 of Kiko Urino's “Alice, doko made mo”
Winner of the 18th Manga Taisho, reccomended by Tatsuki (Look Back) Fujimoto.
Runs in Big Comic Spirits.
Cover for volume #8 of Homura Kawamoto, Hikaru Muno and Posuka Demizu's "Beyblade X."
This series runs in Monthly Corocoro Comic, and has an anime by OLM Currently airing.
@viz.com has licensed the series in English.
Cover for volume #35 of Kenjiro Hata's "Tonikaku Cawaii."
@viz.com is releasing the series under the title "Fly me to the moon" in English.
Noeve Grafx releases it in French
Goen releases it in Italian
Runs in Weekly Shonen Sunday
Psychological manga virtuoso Shuzo Oshimi took on the twisted relationship of a mother and son in Chi no Wadachi, and now he examines the bond between brothers in a memoir that broods in self reflection.
21.02.2026 12:27 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0Cover for volume three of Shuzo Oshimi’s “Sound of a Blink”
Licensed by @viz.com
Runs in Big Comic Superior.
Watanabe has the power to see people's bonds. Due to this, he avoids standing out and lives a reclusive life…until a police officer asks for help on a case, and he learns he has the “Psycho Eyes” ability. Thus begins an buddy cop/master apprentice supernatural action series!
21.02.2026 12:26 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0Cover for volume #6 of Takahiro Kato's “Psycho Eyes.”
Runs in Sunday Webry.
Cover for volume #7 of Miho Isshiki and Naoki Mizuguchi's “MizuPolo.”
Check out our review of the series here: wsstalkback.blogspot.com/2023/12/new-...
Runs in Weekly Shonen Sunday.
Geima Nishikyo aims to be a top class pro gamer! Though when he has a run in with Miko, a demon slayer with terrific stats & a great weapon but no skills, his gamer soul can't ignore her plight and thus the ultimate team is born!
21.02.2026 12:24 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0Cover for volume #7 of Seitaro Komatsu's “Gamer ga Youkai taiji yatte mita!”
Runs in Corocoro Comics.
A strange college student teams up with a police officer to take on special cases during the Japanese economic bubble in the 80's. Armed with a unique martial art and a keen sense of smell, no case is too big or too small for this unlikely team.
21.02.2026 12:23 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0Cover for volume #7 of Fujihiko Hosono's "Bubble Zamurai."
Runs in Monthly Big Comic.
A yuri buddy cop series where rookie cop Kiku is injured in the past, cryogenically frozen and awakens in a crime filled future with a psionic power wielding criminal Kaori as her new partner.
21.02.2026 12:22 — 👍 1 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0Cover for volume #8 of "Double Helix Blossom" By Asaura, with character designs by SWAV and art by Gomeyuki Nishima.
Asaura is the creator of "Lycoris Recoil."
Runs on Corocoro Online.