Azuki Announces Exclusive New Manga License and More at Anime NYC

 

Disclosure: Three former Crunchyroll employees are among the founders of Azuki. 

 

Digital manga subscription service Azuki just announced some more acquisitions during its Anime NYC panel today, including the exclusive license of Shunsuke Sorato’s romantic comedy manga Natsume & Natsume. The series will be available worldwide in English when the first three chapters launch on December 2, and you can check out a free preview right now.

 

Azuki is also adding three more titles from indie manga publisher Star Fruit Books, including Yoshiaki Tabata and Yuki Yogo’s Tribals, Tatsuya Ihara’s one-shot Toki and Minami Q-ta’s one-shot Myosotis. Dig into more details on each below.

 

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Natsume & Natsume – December 2, preview live now

By Shunsuke Sorato

 

 

High schooler Natsume Shiranui has the face of a villain, but secretly he yearns to be a hero like his childhood friend — the kind, brave, and beautiful Natsume Minazuki. Can he become her hero, or is he destined to always be the one getting rescued?

 

Tribals – Available now

By Yoshiaki Tabata and Yuki Yogo (Ninja Slayer)

 

 

High schooler Natsume Shiranui has the face of a villain, but secretly he yearns to be a hero like his childhood friend — the kind, brave, and beautiful Natsume Minazuki. Can he become her hero, or is he destined to always be the one getting rescued?

 

Toki – Available now

By Tatsuya Ihara

 

 

A one-shot set in 1959 about a rural midwife maintaining traditional Japanese birthing practices in the face of an increasingly Westernized medical system. At once an educational manga and a poignant human drama, it’s a story that will leave readers with lots to think about.

 

Myosotis (Cover TBD) by Minami Q-ta (Pop Life, The Blood Red Boy) is coming to Azuki on December 3 and will also be available in the first issue of Star Fruit Books’ upcoming Comic Bright manga magazine.

 

Source: Press release

 

 

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