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Ize Press Announces Print Licenses for Codename: Anastasia, Mignon BL Webtoons – News
Mignon box set to bundle hour-long uncensored animated film, exclusive 11-minute side-story animation
Ize Press announced at its San Diego Comic-Con 2026 industry panel on Friday that it has licensed two boys-love webcomics, Codename: Anastasia and Mignon, for English print publication.
Codename: Anastasia, written by Boyseason and illustrated by Han, is an espionage thriller following Taekjoo Kwon, an agent of South Korea’s National Intelligence Service, who is sent to Russia to investigate a mysterious weapon known as “Anastasia.” The ongoing webtoon is currently serialized digitally on Tappytoon and has surpassed 2 million views. Its English print edition is scheduled for March 2027.
Ize Press also announced Mignon: Special Box Set w/USB, collecting Bboungbbangkkyu’s BL romance between an underground boxer and a vampire doctor. The set will include both print volumes, photocards, and a USB containing the complete uncensored hour-long animated film alongside an exclusive 11-minute side-story animation. The box set is slated for release in January 2027. The digital version of the webtoon is available on Lezhin.
Both titles mark their first English print editions and will be available through major bookstores, online retailers, and comic shops.
Source: Press release
Disclosure: Kadokawa World Entertainment (KWE), a wholly owned subsidiary of Kadokawa Corporation, is the majority owner of Anime News Network, LLC. Yen Press, BookWalker Global, and J-Novel Club are subsidiaries of KWE.
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The staff of Star Wars: Visions Presents – The Ninth Jedi, the limited anime series spinoff from the Star Wars: Visions project, revealed the Japanese cast on Friday.
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©Lucasfilm
The series will premiere on August 5 on Disney+ and Hulu.
The Star Wars Celebration Japan 2025 event announced in April 2025 that the Star Wars: Visions anthology is expanding with Star Wars: Visions Presents, an opportunity to tell its animated stories in a longer narrative. “The Ninth Jedi” short is the first story to be expanded this way.
Kenji Kamiyama (Ghost in the Shell: Stand Alone Complex, Eden of the East) returns from the previous “The Ninth Jedi” short in the first Star Wars: Visions volume, but as the supervising director and series script supervisor on the new series. Shunsuke Tada (Kuroko’s Basketball, STARMYU, Legend of the Galactic Heroes: Die Neue These – Collision film) is directing the new series. Hitoshi Itō (Star Wars: Visions, Attack on Titan The Final Season) is producing, and the executive producers are Lucasfilm‘s Jacqui Lopez and Josh Rimes.
© Lucasfilm Ltd.
The first volume of Star Wars: Visions debuted on Disney+ in September 2021. Studios such as Trigger, Kinema Citrus, Kamikaze Douga, Science SARU, Production I.G, and Geno Studio produced the shorts.
Volume 2 of the Star Wars: Visions project debuted on Disney+ on May 4, 2023 (Star Wars Day). Unlike the first anthology, which consisted of nine shorts from Japanese creators and anime studios, the second volume features nine shorts from animation studios from around the world, including Japan, India, the United Kingdom, Ireland, Spain, Chile, France, South Africa, South Korea, and the United States.
Star Wars: Visions Volume 3 debuted on Disney+ in October 2025. The latest anthology continued the storylines of three shorts from the first volume: “The Duel,” “Village Bride,” and “The Ninth Jedi.” Separate from the limited anime series, “The Ninth Jedi: Child of Hope” short tells the story of a war that has been going on since before the first short’s character Kara was born.
Sources: Star Wars Japan’s X/Twitter account, Comic Natalie
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Udon Entertainment revealed at its panel at San Diego Comic-Con on Friday that it has licensed Hiromi Matsuo‘s Department Store Waltz (Hyakkaten Waltz) and Rondo: The Ladies’ Graphic Magazine manga.
© Hiromi Matsuo, Jitsugyo no Nihon Sha, Ltd.
Department Store Waltz is an all-color manga and illustration book set in an early 20th century department store in a provincial city. Jitsugyo no Nihon Sha, Ltd. released the book in January 2016.
© Hiromi Matsuo, Jitsugyo no Nihon Sha, Ltd.
Jitsugyo no Nihon Sha, Ltd. released Rondo: The Ladies’ Graphic Magazine in December 2022. The book is also an all-color manga and illustration book. The setting is a women’s fashion magazine titled “Rondo” that is celebrating its 100th anniversary.
© Jitsugyo no Nihon Sha, Ltd.
Additionally, Udon Entertainment revealed it has licensed the Belles Ruelles anthology manga series. The anthology series currently has four volumes, and each volume features various artists who write about shops and facilities in a fictional town called Euphemia. Jitsugyo no Nihon Sha, Ltd. released the first volume in November 2023, and released the fourth volume in December 2025.
Udon Entertainment will release the previously revealed Manga Biographies: Momofuku Ando – The Inventor of Instant Noodles from Kenji Ishikawa and Sorata Unno, and Manga Biographies: Amelia Earhart – The Amazing Pilot from Masakazu Horinouchi and Miyoko Sano, both on September 1.
Udon Entertainment also revealed it will release the 224-page hardcover Spy x Family: Animation Art Book on January 27, 2027. Wit Studio released the book in Japan in December 2023.
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Udon Entertainment had revealed earlier this month it will release two artbooks from illustrator Shinkiro, who is also attending San Diego Comic-Con this week. Udon Entertainment will release both CAPCOM Masterworks: Shinkiro (264-page hardcover) and SNK Masterworks: Shinkiro (272-page hardcover) on December 1.
UDON Entertainment is proud to welcome the incredible illustrator SHINKIRO to San Diego Comic-Con 2026!
Shinkiro’s art has helped define the look and feel of countless game universes, and they’re all represented in CAPCOM MASTERWORKS: SHINKIRO and SNK MASTERWORKS: SHINKIRO!… pic.twitter.com/7Sh4Vh86YM
— UDON Entertainment (@UdonEnt) July 7, 2026
The company also mentioned the previously revealed Hidetaka Tenjin‘s Artistry of Gundam book at its panel on Friday. The 144-page hardcover book will ship on September 22.
Udon Entertainment will also release the 352-page hardcover The Art of Clair Obscur: Expedition 33 artbook.
Source: E-mail correspondence
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