Kodansha Comics announced two important print editions at Anime NYC, along with a new middle-grade license.

The publisher will bring back the indie-rock manga Beck, by Harold Sakuishi, in a print edition with a new translation.  The new edition will reformat the series, originally published as 34 volumes, into 2-in-1 omnibi, each about 400 pages.  The series, about a teenage rock band, was originally published in North America by Tokyopop in 2005 (see “Tokyopop to Publish Beck”) but was left unfinished when Kodansha pulled its licenses from Tokyopop (see “Tokyopop Germany Loses Kodansha”).  ComiXology later published the series digitally in its entirety. Kodansha’s new edition, rated 16+, will launch in Fall 2026.

Also due out in Fall 2026 is a print edition of Yuna Hirasawa’s My Journey to Her, a memoir of the creator’s life with gender dysphoria that led to her traveling to Thailand for gender-affirming surgery. Kodansha published the one-volume manga digitally in 2024 and it won the 2025 Eisner Award for Best Digital Comic.  This manga is rated 13+.

Kodansha also announced another Hirasawa manga, Luca the Dragon Vet, a magical tale of a girl training to be a dragon vet; this manga will be rated 8+.