Anime NYC Announcements: New Series from SOZO Comics, Glacier Bay, and Star Fruit
At our Anime NYC panel today, Azuki announced 12 new series! These include four new simulpubs and six new catalog series from digital manga publisher SOZO Comics, plus a boys love one-shot from Star Fruit Books and a surreal high-school romance from Glacier Bay Books.
All of these series are available to read on Web, iOS, and Android RIGHT NOW. Keep reading for the full list!
Enchanted Racer: A race to win control over the transportation and logistics of an entire country. Turbo will have to defeat Enemon-sters and turn them into coins to win. From the manga artist of Yu-Gi-Oh R and Cardfight!! Vanguard!
New simulpub chapters coming soon!
ZAN: ZAN is on a journey filled with battles to release a light that is being caught by darkness. What is he fighting for? An action samurai fantasy manga from legendary artist Yoshitaka Amano (Final Fantasy) and Spawn director Mark A.Z. Dippé.
New simulpub chapters every one or two months (depending on production schedule)!
Egwin & Friends: Just a lazy, forty-something couch potato looking to breeze through life with as little effort as possible. Off-kilter 4-panel comedy.
New simulpub chapters every two months!
Fade-Away Bunny: A four-panel manga about Suutan, a bunny suffering from poor mental health. She faces depression, plastic surgery, shopaholicism, a gaming addiction, insomnia, and more… She’s a frail spirit, so try not to get her too worked up…
New simulpub chapters every two months!
When Pink Rain Falls: Hanao, a young man who excels at flower arrangement, runs out in the middle of a close friend’s wedding ceremony. He ends up meeting a mysterious florist who recognizes his talent, and they start working together…
One shot.
Rabbit Game: The perpetually winding, emotionally erotic turmoil in youth’s meddling heart… Kiritani Tooru has been haunted by strange dreams. Are they real or fake, dream or reality? Or perhaps they’re simply memories of the past? Cults, exotic foods, riding late on the train past the edge of the world……. High school life obliterated in a mysterious, deadly game.
One shot.
Marin: Umimonogatari Marin, the number one Japanese pachinko character, gets her very own manga. Beautiful dancer Marin finds herself at the center of a conspiracy to steal the Power Stones, gems that govern the emotions of her world. What will be her fate? Art by Zelda mangaka Akira Himekawa!
Prince of Lan Ling: Hanao, a young man who excels at flower arrangement, runs out in the middle of a close friend’s wedding ceremony. He ends up meeting a mysterious florist who recognizes his talent, and they start working together…
Shin Henkei Shoujo: Undercover, robot high school girls transform into cute battle vehicles to protect, serve and destroy enemy terrorists!
The Warrior Demigods: Champions of Sparta: This is a historical piece that takes place in Ancient Greece. The story follows the nephew of Leonidas, Pausanias, a Spartan warrior who utilizes the all-powerful gifts bestowed upon him by a Greek god to triumph over the massive Persian Empire!
The Most Tsundere Boss in History: Turns out, most of history’s famous female figures were actually tsundere! Now just imagine what it would be like if one of them… was your boss? Which tsundere will reign supreme?!
Guardy Girls: Three amazing girls–the far-too-strong Silvia, the gun-totin’, bullet-blastin’ Laurie, and the scientific magical girl Fumi–have formed the Guardy Girls, a brand new team of heroes! They’re faced with a rogues gallery of wacky, off-kilter villains–and fellow do-gooders, too! It’s a grand way to kick off the Girls’ daunting, amazing dream of a hero run!