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Young Magazine USA Special Gets 2nd Issue – News

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2nd issue looks for more Japanese creators who want their story published overseas



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This year’s 45th issue of Kodansha‘s Young Magazine revealed on Monday that it is launching a second issue of Young Magazine USA, a special edition of the magazine for the U.S. The staff is again looking for Japanese manga creators who want their story published for overseas readers. Interested applicants must submit a storyboard for a chapter as well as three sample manuscript pages by December 13. The staff is looking for stories themed around an outcast who is overlooked by society and has issues fitting in.

Kodansha had teased in November 2025 that it was preparing a second issue of Young Magazine USA.

The first Young Magazine US special issue commemorated the magazine’s 45th anniversary. The 1,044-page magazine had 18 new series from Japanese artists, as well as the first chapter of Kengo Hanazawa‘s Under Ninja manga, and Shūichi Shigeno‘s (Initial D, MF Ghost) new manga Subaru and Subaru. The magazine also featured a cover illustration by Ghost in the Shell creator Masamune Shirow.

The magazine’s special issue was distributed for free to attendees at Anime NYC in August 2025, and was distributed at specific Kinokuniya locations from August to November 2025.

The titles are available to read on the magazine’s official website, which launched in August 2025. Digital reading and distribution platform GlobalComix also released the special issue for free. Azuki (now Omoi) also released the issue for free for all users, which was available until last December.

The top five winners of the magazine’s reader poll campaign are guaranteed serialization on Kodansha‘s K MANGA app. The winners also get serialized in Japan in Monthly Young Magazine and/or YanMaga Web, serializing at the same time on K MANGA.

Winning titles include Still You, Godmother, The Knight of Blasphemy, The Journey of a Dark Elf with Fading Powers, and Fascination. Additional titles getting that have earned seraliziations include To Dusk and Twilight, Boys Run the Riot -In Transition-, Protocol Ryugu, and The Last Terran.

Source: Young Magazine issue 45


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NieR:Automata’s 2B & A2 Survive the Night in Dead by Daylight Collaboration – Interest

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Will they weather the horror of being hunted by Emil?



Behaviour Interactive, creators of the asymmetrical multiplayer survival horror video game Dead by Daylight, launched a collaboration with the popular video game NieR:Automata on Tuesday. The staff first teased on Saturday, “The fight for humanity continues in The Fog,” and then posted a promotional video:


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The collaboration’s “Legendary Outfits” include a 2B costume for Feng Min and A2 costume for Yui Kimura. Killer players will receive a Very Rare Outfit inspired by Emil for The Legion.

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2B Feng Min
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A2 Yui Kimura
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Dead by Daylight is no stranger to collaborations with anime and manga. In July 2022, the game partnered with popular anime series Attack on Titan for a set of player cosmetics. The game also had two anime related collaborations in early 2025 with manga creator Junji Ito that January and popular horror anime series Tokyo Ghoul that March.

Dead by Daylight is an asymmetric multiplayer game where one player takes control of a savage killer, who hunts down four other non-killer players in a killing ground. The goal of the non-killer players is to escape the killing ground. The game is well-known for featuring a wide cast of killers from other media franchises including Silent Hill, Halloween, Stranger Things, and many others. The game launched in June 2016 for PlayStation 4 and for the Xbox One in 2017. It was ported to Nintendo Switch in 2019, and PlayStation 5, Stadia, and Xbox Series X|S in 2020.

The NieR:Automata game shipped for PlayStation 4 in Japan in February 2017, followed by North America and Europe in March 2017. Square Enix also released the game on PC via Steam in March 2017, and on Xbox One in June 2018. The game launched on Switch in October 2022.

The game inspired a television anime NieR:Automata Ver 1.1a, which premiered in January 2023. The second cours (quarter of year) premiered in July 2024. Crunchyroll is streaming the anime.

Sources: Press release, Dead by Daylight game’s X/Twitter account and YouTube channel


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Toshiaki Yamada’s Tokyo Duel Manga Ends – News

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Action manga launched in 2020



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Coamix‘s Comic Zenon+ manga website published the final chapter of Toshiaki Yamada‘s Tokyo Duel (Tokyo Kettō Kanjōsen) manga on September 23. The final chapter became free to read on Wednesday. 

Coamix publishes the manga volumes in English digitally. Comikey also releases the manga and describes the story:

In post-war Japan, a government-funded program of organized violence called the “Tokyo Loop Line Duels” is promoted to maintain law and order—and it works. Representatives from each station on the Yamanote line battle for control of their territory. Any defeat could mean losing family members, friends, money—or worse. Fast-forward to now, in 2020; a new station has opened up. Everyone, including the popular rookie, Koinosuke, is itching to join the fray for the top spot. Will he be victorious? Or will violence consume them all?

Yamada launched the manga on Comic Zenon+ in 2020. Coamix will publish the manga’s 22nd and final compiled book volume on November 20. 

Source: Comic Zenon+


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Monster Hunter Rise Game Sells 20 Million Copies Worldwide – News

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Game launched in March 2021



The official X/Twitter account for CAPCOM‘s Monster Hunter franchise announced on Friday that the Monster Hunter Rise game has surpassed 20 million copies sold worldwide.

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Monster Hunter Rise launched on Nintendo Switch in March 2021 and then launched on PC via Steam in January 2022. CAPCOM released the game on PlayStation 5, PlayStation 4, Xbox Series X|S, Xbox One, Windows, and Xbox Game Pass in January 2023. The Monster Hunter Rise: Sunbreak expansion for the game debuted for Switch and PC via Steam in June 2022, and launched on PS5, PS4, Xbox Series X|S, Xbox One, Windows, and Xbox Game Pass in April 2023.

Monster Hunter Wilds, the latest main game in the franchise, debuted globally on PS5, Xbox X|S, and PC via Steam in February 2025. The game sold over 8 million copies worldwide in its first three days. According to the company, this is the fastest that one of its titles has reached this milestone. As of March 2025, the game had sold 10 million copies worldwide. The game’s Monster Hunter Wilds Ascendance expansion will launch in 2027. The game will get a Nintendo Switch 2 release on December 4.

Source: Monster Hunter Rise game’s X/Twitter account


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