Kodansha is ready to rumble with its Fall 2025 premium & new edition licenses! The manga publisher announced the beginning of three days filled with new licenses for this fall. The first day includes re-releases that will come in premium and new editions with bonus features and updated translations. These titles are Mushishi, Dragon Head, and Miraculous: Tales of Ladybug & Cat Noir.
About Kodansha Fall 2025 Premium & New Edition Licenses
Kodansha unveils their Fall 2025 print manga licenses for new series, premium editions & more in a three-day announcement event. Fans can keep track of all the new license reveals by following their social media accounts on X(Formerly Twitter), Instagram, Facebook, and Bluesky.
February 17, 2025 — Premium & New Editions:
The Fall 2025 new license reveals begin with a premium edition return of the artistically striking, supernatural mystery manga, Mushishi; along with new omnibus editions of the apocalyptic horror manga, Dragon Head; and the all-ages super hero saga, Miraculous: Tales of Ladybug & Cat Noir.
Mushishi Collector’s Edition By Yuki Urushibara (Debut Date: Fall 2025)
The beloved fantasy manga returns in a hardcover omnibus edition featuring a
completely original translation and new cover illustrations.
Before life as we know it, there existed entities that don’t obey the laws of our reality—primordial beings known as mushi. In Japan, a man named Ginko wanders the land, investigating incursions by mushi into the human world—and by us into theirs. He is a mushi master…a mushishi.
Upon its release in the 2000s, Mushishi earned global acclaim for its poetic episodic storytelling and delicate, beautiful artwork, winning the Japan Media Arts Prize, selection as a Best Manga by the Japan Agency for Cultural Affairs, and recommendation as a top read for teens by the American Library Association. The series inspired two TV anime adaptations in 2005 and 2014 and a live-action film directed by the legendary Katsuhiro Otomo, creator of AKIRA. Unfortunately, after being out of print for 15 years, English copies of Mushishi became as elusive as the strange creatures that populate its pages—until now.
“It’s a manga with a very original vision, with a sort of ‘flowing life’ of its own, a biologist’s precision mixed with creepy fairytales and a surreal, dreamy feel… [A] feeling that there are forces in this world which humans can’t control or understand…but maybe, says the Mushi-shi and the scientist, you can at least bear witness.” –Jason Thompson, Anime News Network
Rated: 16+
Dragon Head By Minetaro Mochizuki (Debut Date: Fall 2025)
The end of everyone was just the beginning…
Minetaro Mochizuki’s award-winning 90s head-trip disaster manga is returning to print with a brand-new translation and lettering, and will be available in four 2.5-in-1 omnibuses.
Teru and his high school class are on the train ride home from a school field trip when a catastrophic something derails their train and leaves them buried beneath tons of rubble. When Teru comes to, all his friends and teachers are lying lifeless in a hellish heap of bloody carnage. Trapped in unending darkness filled with death and decay, he and the only two other survivors must find a way to escape and make it back home—if home still exists.
Rated: 16+
Miraculous: Tales of Ladybug & Cat Noir Complete Omnibus By Koma Warita, Riku Tsuchida, Toei Animation, and ZAG (Debut Date: Fall 2025)
All three volumes of the best-selling Miraculous manga, in a large-sized, all-in-one edition!
Marinette is your typical high school student: cheery and a little clumsy. Not so typical? She can transform into a superhero! As the confident, masked Ladybug, Marinette guards the streets of the City of Lights alongside Cat Noir, another superhero who, unbeknownst to Marinette, is her classmate Adrian, and her crush! Adrian doesn’t know who Ladybug is, either, but he’s crushing on her, too. Supervillains, school, and criss-crossed crushes? As if being a teenager and a crime fighting superhero wasn’t enough!
Rated: 8+
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