PRESS RELEASE: Digital Manga Service Azuki Coming to Web, iOS, and Android on June 28

SAN FRANCISCO, CA — Azuki is a new digital manga service offering hundreds of manga chapters soon after they hit stores in Japan, officially licensed and in high quality. The service will launch on June 28, 2021 on Web, iOS, and Android and will offer content for both free and subscription users. Free users will be able to access select chapters with advertisements, while those who pay a monthly subscription fee of $4.99 can read Azuki’s expansive catalog with no ads. Comment threads are available on each chapter for registered users to discuss the stories with fellow fans.

At launch, Azuki will be available in English worldwide excluding Japan, so fans everywhere can read manga in their web browser or on their mobile devices.

Azuki has announced their first publisher partnership, with Kodansha USA Publishing. Titles available at launch include worldwide hits like Attack on Titan, Tokyo Revengers, and Fairy Tail, as well as critical darlings like Land of the Lustrous and Chihayafuru. Simulpub titles, including To Your Eternity, EDENS ZERO, Cardcaptor Sakura: Clear Card, and A Sign of Affection, will go live on the website and apps shortly after their Japanese release. Fans can also catch up on classic Kodansha titles like Battle Angel Alita, Chi’s Sweet Home, and Love Hina. The full list of titles is included below.

“We started Azuki to create a place where fans like us can come together in our shared passion for manga,” said Abbas Jaffery, co-founder and CEO. “Our goal is to not only reach the manga fans of today but to expand readership of manga as a whole by making it easier for everyone to experience all the wonderfully inventive stories manga has to offer. Kodansha shares in our vision for the future and has been an important ally in bringing Azuki to fruition.”

“We’re excited to be on the ground floor of this new digital manga service to help expand the worldwide reach of our amazing manga titles,” said Alvin Lu, President and CEO of Kodansha USA Publishing. “We are very much aligned with Azuki’s mission of expanding manga readership, and are happy to help this launch with such fan-favorite series like Attack on Titan, Battle Angel Alita, EDENS ZERO, Cardcaptor Sakura: Clear Card, and more! We’re sure you’ll find a new favorite series by diving into the Kodansha catalog on Azuki.”

Readers can sign up to be reminded when the service launches by visiting https://azuki.co or following Azuki’s social media accounts at twitter.com/ReadAzuki, facebook.com/ReadAzuki, and instagram.com/readazuki.

About Azuki and KiraKira Media Inc.

Azuki is created by KiraKira Media Inc., a proudly worker-owned business dedicated to improving access to legally licensed manga, led by a small team of passionate manga fans and tech experts in San Francisco, CA. KiraKira Media Inc.’s founders are Adela Chang, Abbas Jaffery, Evan Minto, and Krystyn Neisess.

About Kodansha USA Publishing, LLC

A subsidiary of Kodansha, Japan’s largest publisher, Kodansha USA Publishing is the English-language publisher of some of the world’s most recognizable manga properties, including Katsuhiro Otomo’s AKIRA and Naoko Takeuchi’s Pretty Guardian Sailor Moon, along with a robust catalog of English-language Japanese novels, cookbooks, craft guides, historical and cultural literature, and more. Today, thanks to recent fan-favorite and critically acclaimed hits like Attack on Titan, Battle Angel Alita, Witch Hat Atelier, and the popular MONOGATARI novels, Kodansha USA Publishing is one of the best-selling manga publishers in the United States. Kodansha USA Publishing’s print offerings are distributed by Penguin Random House Publisher Services, and their digital manga and select digital books are available across a number of digital comics, manga, and book vendors. For more information visit kodansha.us.

Full List of Titles Available on Azuki

• A Sign of Affection
• Ace of the Diamond
• Again!!
• Aho-Girl
• Air Gear
• Ajin Demi-Human
• Alicia’s Diet Quest
• ALIVE
• All Out!!
• All-Rounder Meguru
• Ao-chan Can’t Study
• Aoba-kun’s Confessions
• APOSIMZ
• Are You Lost?
• Arisa
• As Gods Will The Second Series
• ASHIDAKA -The Iron Hero-
• Atsumori-kun’s Bride-to-Be
• Attack on Titan
• Attack on Titan Anthology
• Attack on Titan Before the Fall
• Attack on Titan Junior High
• Ayanashi
• Basilisk
• Battle Angel Alita
• Battle Angel Alita Last Order
• Battle Angel Alita Mars Chronicle
• Beauty Bunny
• Beware the Kamiki Brothers!
• Black Panther and Sweet 16
• BLAME!
• BLAME! Academy and So On
• Bloody Monday
• Boarding School Juliet
• Cage of Eden
• Can I Kiss You Every Day?
• Can You Just Die My Darling?
• Cardcaptor Sakura: Clear Card
• Cells at Work
• Chi’s Sweet Home
• Chihayafuru
• Clockwork Planet
• Complex Age
• COPPELION
• DAYS
• DEATHTOPIA
• Defying Kurosaki-kun
• Descending Stories
• Devils’ Line
• Domestic Girlfriend
• Drifting Dragons
• Drowning Love
• EDENS ZERO
• Elegant Yokai Apartment Life
• Fairy Girls
• Fairy Tail
• Fairy Tail 100 Years Quest
• Fairy Tail Blue Mistral
• Fairy Tail City Hero
• Fairy Tail Ice Trail
• Fairy Tail S
• Fire Force
• Flowers of Evil
• Flying Witch
• Fort of Apocalypse
• FukuFuku Kitten Tales
• Full-Time Wife Escapist
• Fuuka
• Gakuen Prince
• Ghost in the Shell Stand Alone Complex
• Giant Killing
• Gleipnir
• Golosseum
• Goodbye! I’m Being Reincarnated!
• Grand Blue Dreaming
• Happiness
• Heroic Legend of Arslan
• Hotaru’s Way
• House of the Sun
• Hozuki’s Coolheadedness
• I Am Here
• I Want to Hold Aono-kun so Badly I Could Die
• I’m in Love and It’s the End of the World
• I’m Standing on a Million Lives
• In/Spectre
• Interviews With Monster Girls
• Inuyashiki
• Kakafukaka
• Kakushigoto: My Dad’s Secret Ambition
• Kamikamikaeshi
• Karate Heat
• Kasane
• Kira-kun Today
• Kiss for Real
• Kiss Him Not Me
• Kiss Me at the Stroke of Midnight
• Kitchen Princess
• Knights of Sidonia
• Kokkoku Moment by Moment
• Land of the Lustrous
• LDK
• Let’s Dance a Waltz
• Love and Lies
• Love Hina
• Love In Focus
• Love Massage: Melting Beauty Treatment
• Magatsuki
• Magical Sempai
• Manga Dogs
• Mardock Scramble
• Missions of Love
• My Boss’s Kitten
• My Boy in Blue
• My Boyfriend in Orange
• My Little Monster
• My Sweet Girl
• My Wife Is Wagatsuma-san
• Mysterious Girlfriend X
• Negima!
• Nekogahara
• Nodame Cantabile
• Noragami
• O Maidens in Your Savage Season
• Our Fake Marriage
• Our Precious Conversations
• Parasyte
• Peach Girl
• Peach Heaven
• Pitch-Black Ten
• Prince in His Dark Days
• Princess Jellyfish
• Princess Resurrection
• Pumpkin Scissors
• Rave Master
• Real Account
• Real Girl
• Sankarea
• Say I Love You.
• Sayonara Zetsubo Sensei
• School Rumble
• Seven Deadly Sins: Four Knights of the Apocalypse
• Shangri-La Frontier
• Sherlock Bones
• Shojo Fight
• Shugo Chara
• Shugo Chara Chan
• Silent Voice
• Smile Down the Runway
• Space Brothers
• Spoof on Titan
• Springtime with Ninjas
• Starving Anonymous
• Suzuka
• Sweetness and Lightning
• That Time I Got Reincarnated as a Slime
• That Wolf-Boy Is Mine
• The Ghost in the Shell: The Human Algorithm
• The Knight Cartoonist and Her Orc Editor
• The Quintessential Quintuplets
• To The Abandoned Sacred Beasts
• To Your Eternity
• Tokyo Revengers
• Tokyo Tarareba Girls
• Toppu GP
• Tsuredure Children
• Until Your Bones Rot
• UQ Holder
• Wake Up Sleeping Beauty
• Walls Between Us
• Watari-kun’s ****** Is about to Collapse
• Wave, Listen to Me!
• Welcome to the Ballroom
• Yagyu Ninja Scrolls
• Yamada-kun and Seven Witches
• Your Lie in April
• Yozakura Quartet