The manga publisher Kodama Tales, which opened its doors in 2025, has announced five new manga, all seinen titles, four action and one romance.
Cyber Blue, by Fist of the North Star creator Tetsuo Hara, is a futuristic cyberpunk adventure set on a bleak planet, where a young man murdered by corrupt officials is resurrected as a cyborg bent on revenge. The series originally ran from 1988 to 1989 and was collected in four volumes. The series will launch in Q1 2027.
Hara is best known for his magnum opus Fist of the North Star, and Kodansha has licensed The Magnificent Bastard: The Legend of Keiji, a samurai epic for which Hara was the artist (see “Kodansha Announces Collector’s Editions“).
Crows, by Hiroshi Takahashi, is a hard-boiled school story with a new student coming to a school filled with delinquents and battling his way to the top. This series, which ran from 1990 to 1998 and was collected into 26 volumes, has a number of spinoffs, three live-action movies, and two video games, none of which appear to be in English. However, Digital Manga published Worst, which is a sequel to Crows, in 2004 (see “Digital Manga to Release ‘Worst’”). Kodama Tales will publish the first volume of Crows in February 2027.
Kodama also announced Casino Gui, by Hanaichi Nozaki and Shiro Yoshida, a heist story about two buddies robbing an underground casino, due out in April 2027; Horizon, by Shiten Akiyama, a seinen romance about a burned-out office worker looking to recreate her teens, set for January 2027; and Beautiful Place, by Jiro Matsumoto, which follows two high school girls who become armed soldiers during a future civil war, also set for release in January 2027.
Kodama Tales’ launch title was the classic Baki the Grappler, and their catalog also includes Sun-Ken Rock, by Dr. Stone artist Boichi, and the full-color fantasy Magica (see “New Manga Startups Roll Out Ambitious Catalogs for 2026“).
Source: ICv2
