J-POP Manga: the news from the last day of COMICON Napoli 2024

The new J-POP Manga announcements at COMICON Napoli 2024

Dark Souls – Redemption, Frieren – Beyond the End of the Journey Artbook, and other news announced at the fair

Sunday April 28last day of the fair COMICON Naplesat the end of the panel “Anime or Manga?”, J-POP Manga reveals a second tranche of announcements! After the announcement in recent days of novel de My happy marriage and Kodansha's Afternoon magazine reveal, Quartz Kingdomthe imminent arrival on the shelves of Italian comic shops and bookshops of the former has been announced artbook dedicated to Frieren – Beyond the end of the journeywith previously unpublished color illustrations and a cover created by Abe Tsukasa specifically for the volume.

The manga set in the world of the famous video game will also be released imminently Dark Souls Dark Souls – Redemption; the series Shimazaki of the Peaceful Land, nominated for the latest Manga Taisho; the mystery Chaos Game and the supernatural rom-com Occult Clash.

More information below:

Frieren – Beyond the End of the Journey Artbook
by Kanehito Yamada, Abe Tsukasa

A premium publication dedicated to the artwork of the award-winning post-fantasy series that inspired the hit anime!

The Italian edition of the magnificent artbook by Frieren – Beyond the end of the journey, the series written by Kanehito Yamada and illustrated by Abe Tsukasa that begins where all other fantasy stories end, at the end of the adventure, to follow the point of view of the long-lived elf Frieren! The volume collects Abe Tsukasa's splendid illustrations, including some

exclusive color plates and many unpublished works. The cover was designed by sensei Tsukasa specifically for the volume.

Dark Souls – Redemption
by Julien Blondel and Shonen
1 volume – CURRENT SERIES

The dark fantasy video game with over 35 million copies sold worldwide becomes a manga!

The last dragons have fallen and the fire has long gone out… But at a certain point the flame was suddenly reborn and brought light to a devastated world. At that moment, a young woman came back to life, with no memory of who she is. What is her past? Time is running out, she will have to reconstruct her story before being captured by the gang of mysterious men who are hunting her.

Shimazaki from the Peaceful Land
by Hamada Goten and Takeshi Seshimo
5 volumes – CURRENT SERIES

The action series loved in Japan and nominated for the 2024 Manga Taisho awards!

As a child, Shimazaki Shingo was kidnapped by an international terrorist organization and trained to be a soldier. After 30 years, thanks to a blitz, he is saved and brought back to Japan. But after spending most of his life on a battlefield it is not so easy to get used to a “normal” and peaceful life. Has the terrorist cell from which he managed to escape really been defeated or could the past be knocking on his door again?

Chaos Game
by Yamazaki Daiki
4 volumes – CURRENT SERIES

An exciting thriller from Kodansha.

A journalist from an important magazine receives evidence of the collusion of some prominent politicians with a criminal ring. What she doesn't know is that this scoop will lead her to investigate an even bigger mystery, to discover that she is the protagonist and prey of a supernatural hunt.

Occult Clash
by Yuchan Sasaki
2 volumes – COMPLETE SERIES

An irreverent school comedy between romance and exorcism!

Kira is in love with the beautiful and sunny classmate Minchi. But one day, to her misfortune, he sees her fighting a monster and discovers her secret: Minchi possesses supernatural powers that she uses to exorcise evil spirits. Not only that, her true character is far from sweet, but wicked and domineering. Now that she knows her secret, Kira will be forced by Minchi to assist her in her reckless missions…