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Blood Lad Creator Yūki Kodama's The World of Summoning Manga Gets Global Simultaneous Launch
posted on by Rafael Antonio Pineda
The official Twitter account for Kodansha's Bessatsu Shōnen Magazine announced on Friday that Yūki Kodama's upcoming new manga The World of Summoning (Shо̄kan Suru Sekai) will have a worldwide simultaneous release in English and French. The account showed a banner illustration for the manga's French version and also links to the Twitter accounts of France's Pika Édition and North America's Kodansha Manga.
The manga will launch in the March issue of Bessatsu Shōnen Magazine on February 9. The manga's first chapter will have 58 pages, including color pages, and the series will be featured on the magazine's front cover. The battle fantasy takes place in present-day Tokyo and combines the themes of summoners and an academy. The story follows Tokoyo, a boy who does not know his parents and who admires summoners. There is a secret about Tokoyo that could be world-shaking.
Kodama launched the vampire comedy manga Blood Lad in Kadokawa's Young Ace magazine in 2009, and ended it in September 2016. The manga's 17th and final compiled volume shipped in Japan in December 2016. Yen Press publishes the manga and the spinoff manga Bloody Brat in North America. The manga inspired a 10-episode television anime adaptation, which premiered in 2013. Viz Media streamed the series on Hulu as it aired in Japan, and released it on DVD and Blu-ray Disc in September 2014.
Kodama and Yukinori Kitajima launched the manga Hamatora in Shueisha's Weekly Young Jump in November 2013, and ended it in December 2014. Shueisha shipped the third and final compiled volume of the manga in February 2015. The manga was part of a multimedia project that also featured two anime series, two stage plays, and a Nintendo 3DS game by FuRyu. Crunchyroll streamed both anime series as they aired in Japan. Sentai Filmworks released both anime seasons on Blu-ray Disc and DVD in 2015 and 2016.
Kodama launched the Demon Tune series in Jump SQ. in January 2018, and the manga moved to Shonen Jump+ in December 2018. The series ended in May 2019.
Sources: Bessatsu Shōnen Magazine's Twitter account
