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Kodansha USA Licenses How to Grill Our Love, Small Nozomi & Big Yume, The World of Summoning Manga
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Kodansha USA Publishing announced on Thursday that it it will publish the following manga digitally in May.
Author: Shiori Hanatsuka
Debut Date: May 5
Summary: Dating can be tough when you nerd out over barbecue. Kenta, a practical pitmaster, looks for a grill-friend in Chihiro, an aloof and faultless business babe…or is she? Scared of being rejected for who they really are, the two of them find comfort in food and each other…and all is well until Kenta must transfer away. With their developing relationship at steak, Chihiro proposes they tie the knot and they marry for better or wurst. Winging a long-distance marriage is one thing, but here's the rub—they barely know each other! It's a rare marriage where all the awkwardness of dating meets a sizzling passion for grilling!
Hanatsuka debuted the manga in Kodansha's Morning magazine in September 2020. Kodansha published the manga's 10th compiled book volume on March 23.
Author: Sou Hamayumiba
Debut Date: May 16
Summary: High schooler Nozomi Koiwa wakes up and discovers she's lost her memories...and a whole lot of height. Now the size of a soda can, she flees from a feline assault into the disgusting den of Yume Okubo, a drunken shut-in NEET who's terrified of people and hasn't been outside for months. Between falling beer cans and deadly insect traps, Nozomi survives long enough to convince the airheaded Yume that she's a figment of her imagination who's come to save her from hitting rock bottom...all while investigating how she ended up funsized. But despite their differences—height, brains, and otherwise—each half of this quirky combo might just be what the other needs!
Hamayumiba launched the manga in Morning two in May 2019, and ended it in January 2021. Kodansha published the manga's third and final compiled book volume in March 2021.
Author: Yūki Kodama
Debut Date: May 30
Summary: Tokoyo was raised in the Fantasy District—not notable in and of itself, except for the fact that he's human. That fact alone gives him the ability to become a Summoner—one who can bring people and items from other worlds into his own. He's the pride of the district, as all those who live there were themselves summoned from another world. But when he emerges into the city of Tokyo, a human city where the summoned are discriminated against, he finds that being a Summoner isn't what he thought it was at all…and that, perhaps, his utopian vision of a world shared by human and summoned alike isn't shared by all… A brand-new adventure from the creator of Blood Lad!
Kodama (Blood Lad) launched the manga in Bessatsu Shōnen Magazine in February 2022. The manga will end with its next chapter. The manga has a worldwide simultaneous release in English and French. Kodansha published the manga's second compiled book volume on January 6.
Update: Corrected summary for The World of Summoning. Thanks, Blanchimont.
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