Tokyopop Previews a Variety of New Manga Series Set to Launch During Q1 of 2024
Titles set to include 4 new LoveLove BL series debuts as well as an award-winning slice-of-life manga and an iconic video game-inspired action adventure
Los Angeles, CA – Publisher TOKYOPOP gives a preview of a variety of upcoming manga series scheduled to launch in Q1 of 2024.
The series include new BL manga releases from the LoveLove imprint such as NEVER LET GO, STAR CROSSED, THE PRINCE IS IN THE VILLAINESS' WAY, COVER MY SCARS WITH YOUR KISS and HEAT X BEAT: I MAY BE AN OMEGA BUT I'M GOING TO BE AN IDOL!.
Also set for release from TOKYOPOP comes the award-winning slice-of-life drama, SINCE I COULD DIE TOMORROW, and the kinetic action of RESIDENT EVIL: INFINITE DARKNESS - THE BEGINNING.
NEVER LET GO, VOL. 1, by Saki Sakamoto ∙
Print SRP: $13.99 ∙ 224 pages ∙ ISBN: 978-1-4278-7560 ∙∙
For Mature Audiences ∙ Available January 16, 2024∙
Rich-kid Haruto is used to being flattered and fawned over by
fellow students, so when he's kicked out of his elite Alpha school,
he finds himself as the ultra-desirable Alpha transfer student at a
mixed-gender high school. Everyone is quick to try to befriend him
— everyone, that is, except student council president Miyabi, who
seems to despise him.
Haruto swore he wouldn't get involved with anyone at his new school, but something about openly hostile, sickly-looking Miyabi keeps drawing Haruto in...
**This book contains sexual content and is intended for an audience aged 18 years and up.
STAR CROSSED, by Crimson Chains ∙ Print SRP: $19.99 ∙
208 pages ∙ ISBN: 978-1427875495 ∙ For Older Teens ∙∙
Available February 6, 2024∙
This is a story about a king and his knight...
Polaris is king of the stars; with his celestial paint brush he breathes life into constellations, which protect his kingdom. Yildun is his loyal knight, ever at his side, but always in shadow as his station dictates him to remain unseen. Together, they will face a battle for the throne from Polaris' brother — as well as their own conflicting feelings. A love story written in the stars!
SINCE I COULD DIE TOMORROW, VOL. 1, by Sumako Kari ∙ Print SRP:∙
$13.99 ∙ 160 pages ∙ ISBN: 978-1427875273 ∙∙
For Teen Readers ∙ Available February 6, 2024∙
Sawako Honna, 42, single; she works hard at a film promotion
company. One night, suddenly, her heart palpitates, and her body
goes cold... Could it be that she's going through menopause!?
Not as hard-working as in your 20s. Not as flippant as in your 30s. The mental and physical changes, and the obstacles you face in your 40s. Sudden illness, menopause, fatigue you can't get rid of, changes in working patterns, money worries, life, and plans for the future.
Winner of the 23 rd Japan Media Arts Festival Excellence Award winner.∙
Nominated for the 2020 Manga Taisho Award.
THE PRINCE IS IN THE VILLAINESS' WAY, VOL. 1 by Minami Shiima ∙ Print∙
SRP: $13.99 ∙ 176 pages ∙ ISBN: 978-1427874368 ∙ For Teen Readers ∙∙
Available February 6, 2024∙
Iris, the "Wise Princess Who Never Smiles," has just remembered
her past life as Fiona, Warrior Princess from the neighboring
kingdom. In this lifetime, however, the events that lead to Fiona's
death have yet to happen, and Iris becomes determined to use the
knowledge from her reincarnation to stop the person she suspects
is behind her murder: Fiona's cousin, Prince Alvin.
In disguise, Iris moves to the neighboring country and becomes the princess' educator. But when she meets Prince Al, he turns out to be a cool-headed flirt, who, most-shockingly of all, is actually very sweet with Fiona... Can Iris figure out the truth in time to save Fiona from her fate?
COVER MY SCARS WITH YOUR KISS, VOL. 1 by Io Imaki ∙ Print SRP: $13.99∙
∙ 210 pages ∙ ISBN: 978-1427875310 ∙∙
For Older Teen Readers ∙ Available March 5, 2024∙
Seiichi Kurusu is the handsome eldest son in line to inherit a large
company. After running into insecure dentist Nao Seto not once but
twice coincidentally, Seiichi wonders if fate is at play. When Nao
reveals that Seiichi reminds him of the man he's been unrequitedly
in love with, Seiichi proposes a deal with him: for the length of time,
he receives his dental treatment from Nao, the two of them will date.
Nao's tragic love history, combined with Seiichi's status as family
heir and the impending countdown... can something good come from
such a relationship?
RESIDENT EVIL: INFINITE DARKNESS - THE BEGINNING, by Keith R.A. DeCandido ∙ Print SRP: $15.99 ∙ 128 pages ∙ ISBN: 978-1427868428 ∙ For Teen Readers∙ Available March 12, 2024∙
Before the events of the 2021 animated series, Resident Evil:
Infinite Darkness, Leon Kennedy is called in to investigate
alongside Pittsburgh PD when a bomb kills a guard at the
Carnegie Museum of Art. But when that guard rises from the
autopsy table and begins a chain reaction of undead corpses
hunting for blood, Leon is once again caught in a complex web of
intrigue. A terrorist cult, a mysterious virus, and the corpses of the
dead returning to life to assault the living...
HEAT X BEAT: I MAY BE AN OMEGA BUT I'M GOING TO BE AN IDOL! by Ken Homerun ∙ Print SRP: $13.99 ∙ 232 pages ∙∙
ISBN: 978-1427875365 ∙ For Older Teen Readers ∙∙
Available March 19, 2024∙
Asahi wants nothing more than to be an idol, and when he's chosen
as the latest member of boyband B-Marks he's over the moon.
Except for one little detail; Asahi is an omega, and one of the other
members, Madoka, is an alpha. Insisting on staying unmated to
remain loyal to their fanbase, Asahi agrees to a "friends with
benefits" arrangement to appease their hormonal urges without
commitment. At least, that's what he intends...
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