Responding to an increasingly global demand for Japanese pop culture, the Kodansha comic book publishing firm is to debut a web version of K Manga, its recently-launched U.S. serialization app. The…
The storied firm will mark the launch of the ‘browser version’ of K Manga with a June 22 online party that is held in Japan, but hosted in English and targets manga and anime fans in the U.S.
Highlights include: a live drawing session with Mashima Hiro, the artist behind “Fairy Tail”; a live talk with Miyajima Reiji, behind “Rent-A-Girlfriend”; an interview session with the manga artist behind hit “Kodansha is publisher of many of the best-known manga titles in history including “Attack on Titan” and “.” These and some 400 others were available at the launch of the K Manga platform.
Anime and manga are currently hugely popular and have been boosted by the operations of global video streaming platforms which are competing for content and are able to distribute globally. Sony, which acquired the Crunchyroll streaming platform, recently reported record levels of international anime consumption. Kodansha says that its manga sales in the U.S. tripled in 2022, to an all-time company record level.
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