#Star Fruit Books, Glacier Bay Books Announce New Manga Acquisitions

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“Star Fruit Books, Glacier Bay Books Announce New Manga Acquisitions”

Image via Star Fruit Books

Small press manga publishers Star Fruit Books and Glacier Bay Books took to Twitter on Saturday to announce their latest acquisitions and offer updates to previous announcements. Starting with Star Fruit, the publisher has announced the start of a new collaboration with recent Ax Manga Newcomer award ESDRO to publish some of the heralded creator’s most recent work, with more details being revealed in the future:

NEW LICENSE

We are excited to announce that we will be working with the mangaka ESDRO who won the 24th Ax Manga Newcomer award. They have a few things in the magazine as well as “YUMEMANGA” zine which faithfully reproduces dreams and relives a magical world~ pic.twitter.com/GzokqvJsq3

— Star Fruit Books (@starfruitbooks) January 21, 2023

In addition to the above, Star Fruit confirmed that its forthcoming release of author Hideshi Hino’s Panorama of Hell anthology will feature two previously Japan-exclusive red ink pages that will now be included in the English-language version of the manga, a first outside of Japan:

ANNOUCEMENT

We are excited to announce that the two red ink color pages will be included in our release of Panorama of Hell by Hideshi Hino. This is the only edition outside of Japan using these pages.

We thank @hino_hideshi and @hino_pro for approving pic.twitter.com/7dlBgXC2vk

— Star Fruit Books (@starfruitbooks) January 21, 2023

Finally, fellow small press publisher Glacier Bay Books announced a new slate of licenses and are featured below:

To, Aru Hi no Sugoku Fushigi by Natsujikei Miyazaki:

ANNOUNCEMENT

TO, ARU HI NO SUGOKU FUSHIGI by NATSUJIKEI MIYAZAKI

Planned for a late 2023 print release.

A profoundly creative voice from a new generation of artists, we will release their English debut SF short story collection filled with zany moments of whimsy and beauty pic.twitter.com/ZjdLeY4TPD

— Glacier Bay Books (@glacierbaybooks) January 21, 2023

Give Her Back to Me by Hana Chatani:

ANNOUNCEMENT

GIVE HER BACK TO ME by HANA CHATANI

Planned for a 2023 release, in print and digital.

A digital debut at 2022’s Shortbox Comics Fair ( @SBComicsFair ), we are very proud to announce we will be releasing it in print and digital editions. pic.twitter.com/TxIMACylmb

— Glacier Bay Books (@glacierbaybooks) January 21, 2023

D’Artagnan’s Horse by Tomohiro Tsugawa:

ANNOUNCEMENT D’ARTAGNAN’S HORSE

by TOMOHIRO TSUGAWA

Planned for a late 2023 release, in print and digital.

Tsugawa’s sequel to their dream journal short story collection MERMAID TOWN, prepare for more curious dream episodes + author commentary. pic.twitter.com/y9gKw8WpAu

— Glacier Bay Books (@glacierbaybooks) January 21, 2023

Sources: Glacier Bay Books, Star Fruit Books on Twitter

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