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Jungle Emperor (Kimba) manga English release?

I think it's only a matter of time, honestly.

And even with the Mouse denying any relation to Kimba, the movies and the TV show are still available int he US. Heck, the movie just got relicensed and re-released within the past few months (on bluray, at that!)

DMP currently has the rights for all the Tezuka goodness and they run Kickstarters every few months to try and bring more over. But keep in mind the audience that pledges on the Kickstarters: mostly a lot older. It's both the older audience that has the money to spare for a Kickstarter and know who Tezuka is to begin with, and a lot of them prefer his seinen works to his shonen works. A while back, they tried to do Wonder 3, but it failed (I honestly think it could've succeeded, had they gone for cheaper soft covers instead of more expensive hardcovers), but the ones that get the most money are for Tezuka's seinen series, particular 1-2 volume things that are like "one and done" sorts of things, or maybe a collection of short stories (those are pretty popular too). So I think they're going to be sticking with safe bets for a little while in order to get more Tezuka out period. Most of the shonen that they have published have been stretch goals, and it's typically for things that are already available in digital, but not yet in print (Brave Dan, for example).

So I think it's mostly a matter of patience, but you could always try to encourage DMP to perhaps have Kimba on their next Kickstarter (I bet it would go better if it were published in two volumes instead of 3 though, they'd also have to pay less fees to Japan if they did in 2, rather than 3, books), and to go softcover, since hardcover doesn't seem to win for them (I'd like nice shiny hardcovers too, but their softcovers are perfectly nice too).

In the meantime, I believe it was published in German (at this point, I think the US has almost everything various parts of Europe does, but there are some exceptions)