L’Manga price increase, starting January 1, n’will not prevent the’year 2023’be rich in news some are d’elsewhere eagerly awaited. Starting with the new volume of jojolioneighth part of jojo’s strange adventure by Hirohiko Araki, postponed from the start of the school year due to lack of paper. Note also the translations of new works by’iconoclastic authors such as Tatsuki Fujimoto, Atsushi Kaneko and Suehiro Maruo and reissues of key shojo titles such as The Poe Clan by Moto Hagio.
Attention, some release dates may change depending on the paper crisis.
“jojo’s strange adventure”
Double serving of Hirohiko Araki in 2023. After many postponements, volume 25 of jojolionthe eighth arc of delirious and cult jojo’s strange adventure, it will finally be available in bookstores. Volume 26 will follow in March. Meanwhile, Araki will have presented the first chapters of his ninth part on February 17 in Japan. jojoland.
Release date: January 11
“bye bye eri”
Waiting for the French translation of the second part of chainsaw manCrunchyroll offers the latest one-shot of Tatsuki Fujimoto, bye eri. A story that mixes melancholy, macabre humor and reflection on the’art, where the young mangaka displays once again the’expanded his directing talents.
Release date: January 18
The triple helping of Suehiro Maruo
Sakka, Casterman’s manga label, focuses on Suehiro Maruo, master of the’ero-guro (cross between the’eroticism and the macabre). L’editorial offers a collection of previously unpublished short stories, Paradiseas well as the reissue of two emblematic works of his style, L’panoramic island Y L’hell in a bottle.
Release date: January 18
Installed in the landscape of the’A French edition for almost two years, Mangetsu proposes, after its reissues of Junji Ito and Tetsuo Hara, to rediscover the work of Takumi Nagayasu, considered the’one of the greatest designers of the’manga story, with samurai tale Mibu Gishi’s Lair (written by Jiro Asada).
Release date: February 1st
“The Poe Clan”
classic shōjo, The Poe Clan (1972-1976) by Moto Hagion’it never had a French translation. Affront finally repaired: this flagship work will finally be available in French thanks to the Akata editions. We follow through several centuries the life of’Edgar, a vampire with the body of a teenager plagued by loneliness and regret.
Release date: February 2
“Designs”
After the miraculous reissue of children of the sea by Daisuke Igarashi, the latest series by this important author, designs (2015-2019), will be entitled to a French version on Noeve Grafx. The first visuals of this work in 5 volumes reveal mutant beings halfway between animals and humans.
Release date: February 24th
“Hunter X Hunter”
Expected for more than four years, volume 37 of hunter x hunter (containing chapters 381 to 390) will finally be released in March. L’author, Yoshihiro Togashi, who was able to resume his brushes after being immobilized due to health problems, n’it has lost none of its vigor in drawing.
Release date: March 3rd
“Strategist”
Not found since its initial publication in the 2000s, Strategist by Hideki Mori and Kenichi Sakemi is renewed in Vega-Dupuis. L’opportunity to rediscover the’story of soldier Ke-ri, sent to organize the resistance of’a city besieged by 15,000 soldiers. The only drawback: of the 4,500 inhabitants, only 1,500 are of fighting age.
Release date: march
“Sakura Saku”
Kana chases the’exploring the’artwork by Io Sakisaka, l’author of strobing edge Y blue spring walk. To celebrate the tenth anniversary of his arrival in France, Kana publishes her new series, sakura-sakuwhere a young woman suffering from’Anemia has an encounter that will change her life. An art book on the author’s work is also planned for July.
Release date: March 31st
“Arion” and “Venus Wars”
Yoshikazu Yasuhiko, the character designer for Gundamis back in force in France thanks to the NaBan editions, which will publish two of his early works for the first time in French: Venus Wars and Arion. L’together they will be translated by Jean-Philippe Dubrulle, a great specialist in’Yoshikazu Yasuhiko’s work.
Release date: April (Arion) and November (venus wars)
“evol”
Atsushi Kaneko, the punk mangaka from Baby Y Search and destroy, returns with a new series, to be published this spring by Delcourt/Tonkam. L’story of two girls and’a boy, disappointed by the world he finds himself in’strange powers after a suicide attempt.
Release date: April
“One piece”
the fans of’work’Eiichiro Oda l’I have already read it in Manga Plus, but the next volume of the Luffy saga, 104, should surprise those who are waiting for the publication on paper. The cover, which shows Luffy’s transformation into “Gear 5”, will be metallic at launch, Glénat editions announced.
Release date: April 19th
“Red flower”
The French manga is doing well. Seen with a self-publishing series Stories of red flowersLoui goes to the main protagonist of the manga in France, Glénat, and expands his universe with Red flower. He tells the’The story of Kéli, a fiery teenager who dreams of becoming a skilled warrior.
Release date: June 21
“Show me, Shoten!”
The new series by Takeshi Obata, the designer of Hikaru don’t go Y Death Note, will be released just in time for the next edition of Japan Expo. She is working this time with screenwriter Akinari Asakura. L’French publisher s’has not yet been announced. The series follows high school students whose’ambition is to become the best comedy duo in Japan.
Release date: end of june
“Silence”
Another hope of the French manga, Yoann Vonnière, will premiere at the end of’year in Kana editions Silence, a series planned in three volumes. A teaser poster posted on social media by the designer announces the color.
Release date: October
“March”
After having restored their letters of nobility to the works of’Akimi Yoshida (banana fish, Yasha), Panini will reissue another flagship shojo title: march by Fuyumi Soyo. It will be available in 8 volumes from’fall 2023. L’history of’an absolute love between Kira Asou, a lonely girl, and Rei Kashino, a thug who loves motorcycle racing.
Release date: autumn
“jun”
Shotarō Ishinomori, the great manga master of the 60s and 70s, returns to France thanks to Imho. L’the editor will post soon June, a story in two volumes. A young man dreams of becoming a mangaka like his father, but has to face fierce opposition from him…
Release date: to be confirmed
Source: BFM TV
