Kodansha USA announces 16 new manga licenses, including the anime-bound Manchuria Opium Squad
The publisher confirms print releases for several digital titles and the arrival of new series for fall 2027.
Laura Martínez 16 October 2026
Kodansha USA has used its Kodansha House event in New York to announce a good batch of licenses. Among the new titles are Zacha's Undying Love, Jackpot Girls, and Manchuria Opium Squad, which will get an anime adaptation. All the new series will arrive throughout fall 2027.
The publisher has also confirmed that several of its digital titles will make the jump to print through its Kodansha Print Club line between January and April 2027. It's good news for those who prefer the physical format and had been waiting for these editions.
The Print Club's print debuts
The list of titles moving from digital to print is long and varied. Burn the House Down, an eight-volume suspense drama that inspired a Netflix live-action series in 2023, will be one of them. The story follows Shizuka Yamauchi, who infiltrates the Mitarai household as a housekeeper to uncover the truth about the fire that marked her family thirteen years earlier.
Visual for Burn the House Down, one of the titles moving to print.Also coming is When Arika Went Missing, about a missing idol and her best friend, Nana Miyajima, who infiltrates the group to find her. And Manchuria Opium Squad, set in the Japanese puppet state of Manchukuo and following Isamu Higata, a young man who uses his knowledge of botany to make opium and save his family. This manga announced an anime adaptation earlier this month.
Cover of When Arika Went Missing, the series about a missing idol.
Manchuria Opium Squad, manga with an anime adaptation announced this month.Other additions to the Print Club are Kamakura Bakeneko Club: Uncanny Cat Tales, a collection of supernatural stories with cats; Umwelt and Other Stories, ten short stories by Daisuke Igarashi, the author of Children of the Sea; and Futarijime Romantic, the continuation of Hitorijime My Hero that picks up Kensuke and Hasekura after high school.
Kamakura Bakeneko Club: Uncanny Cat Tales, supernatural stories with cats.New licenses for fall 2027
As for the new licenses, there's a bit of everything: romance, yuri, fantasy, and suspense. Zacha's Undying Love tells the story of a vampire searching for his lost love who ends up at the home of the elderly Tsugumi and her granddaughters. Jackpot Girls follows Chie and Kanae, two high school friends who win 700 million yen in the lottery and see their plans for the future change completely.
The catalog is rounded out with titles like Mr. Wrong, Right?, a school romance with a love triangle; Twilight Town, a prison thriller in a lawless region; and The Saintess Has No Magic Power, a yuri fantasy about a saint without powers and a princess who also can't cast spells.
Kodansha USA has not yet specified the exact release dates or prices for these new licenses. What is clear is that fall 2027 is going to be busy for English-language manga readers.
Is there any title from this batch that catches your eye? Tell us in the comments which one you'll be adding to your shelf.
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