J-POP Manga presents the new releases coming out in January 2025: among these we find Shin Nosferatu, Firefly Wedding, Endroll Back, The Dragon and the Chameleon, My Dress-Up Darling Official Anime Fanbook and much more. More details below.
BD & J-POP Manga Editions present the news for January 2025
Shin Nosferatu, Firefly Wedding, The Dragon and the Chameleon, Endroll back and much more!
A promising start to the new year with the news from Edizioni BD & J-POP Manga! We start again on January 2nd with the arrival in bookshops, comic shops and all online stores of Shin Nosferatu by RRobe alias Roberto Recchioni, published under the Edizioni BD brand as “J-POP Manga presents”. The acclaimed author of Battaglia e Il Corvo: Memento mori reinterprets a timeless icon of horror cinema in comics: Nosferatu.
The long-awaited josei Firefly Wedding by Oreco Tachibana then lands on the shelves under the J-POP Manga brand. An original romance set in the Meji era which sees the completely unexpected union between a young noblewoman and a mad and lethal murderer.
The screenwriter of Girl Without a Cause signs another high-voltage thriller: Endroll back! The three-volume miniseries will be available in an elegant box set.
Fans of My Dress-Up Darling – Bisque Doll won’t be able to miss My Dress-Up Darling Official Anime Fanbook, a full-color book full of exclusive content dedicated to the first season of the famous romcom anime set in the world of cosplay.
While waiting for the second season of the anime, the fifth volume of My Happy Wedding is also arriving in bookstores and comic shops in both a regular edition and a deluxe edition with variant cover and special free booklet.
Some of the series of the moment continue with the release of DanDaDan 16, Saint Seiya Next Dimension 15, The 100 girls who love you so much 6, Takahashi from the bicycle shop 6, Girl Crush 6, Skip & Loafer 10 and much more other!
More details below:
January 2
RRobe or Roberto Recchioni, prolific creator of stories including comics, books, games, films and author of Il Corvo: Memento mori and Battaglia for Edizioni BD, confronts one of the most iconic characters of horror cinema: Nosferatu.
Just like a vampire destined not to die and to regenerate forever, the character created by the German director Murnau starting from Bram Stoker’s Dracula and already the subject of numerous remakes (including the brand new film by Robert Eggers), lives a new life thanks to spectacular comic reinterpretation written and illustrated by RRobe! The volume Shin Nosferatu, where “Shin” indicates both “new” and “true”, arrives in bookshops, comic shops and in all Edizioni BD branded online stores, as “J-POP Manga presents”, on Thursday 2 January.
January 10th
Upon returning from the Christmas holidays, the most die-hard Bisque Doll fans won’t be able to miss My Dress-Up Darling Official Anime Fanbook published by J-POP! An entirely color book dedicated to the animated adaptation of Shinichi Fukuda’s cult manga about the world of cosplay. The volume contains many galleries of images and exclusive extra content including interviews with the director, screenwriter, costume designer and many of the other professionals who worked on the anime transposition!
For those who cried while watching the seventh episode of the DanDaDan anime and can’t wait to know how the story continues after the end of the first season, volume 16 of the brilliant manga created by Yokinobu Tatsu arrives on the shelves on January 10th. The adventures of Momo and Okarun continue as they deal with spirits and aliens amidst avalanches of gags and unbridled madness!
The sequel to the Knights of the Zodiac continues with Saint Seiya Next Dimension 15, available in both regular edition and Black Edition.
January 17th
On January 17th, many long-awaited J-POP Manga branded continuity products will arrive in bookstores and comic shops!
After the announcement of the second season of the anime adaptation, volume 10 of Skip & Loafer, the tender slice of life school comedy created by Misaki Takamatsu, arrives on the shelves.
One audition after another, Girl Crush also continues with the release of the sixth volume of the series. Will Tenka be able to fulfill her dream of becoming a K-pop idol?
Continuano, inoltre, Game of Familia 11, Good Night World 5, Komi Can’t Communicate 33, Re:Zero Stag. IV – 9, Rosen Garten Saga 7, Shota Oni 5 e The War of Greedy Witches 10.
January 22nd
What would happen if two artists of very different levels, an acclaimed manga artist and a still unknown artist eager to make a career, had the chance to swap bodies and live each other’s lives? On Wednesday 22 January J-POP Manga brings to the shelves the first volume of The Dragon and the Chameleon by Ryo Ishiyama, a surprising new shonen series recommended by Kōhei Horikoshi (My Hero Academia) and winner of the U-Next Prize.
The adventures of the legendary robotic child created by the God of the manga Osamu Tezuka continue in the new full edition by J-POP which follows the order chosen by the Sensei himself for the Akita Shoten edition! After the debut of the first two volumes at Lucca Comics & Games, the long-awaited third volume of Astro Boy arrives in bookstores and comic shops.
After the release in box set, the fifth volume of GuruGuru – The Circle of Magic by Hiroyuki Eto, a brilliant manga parody of Dragon Quest-style role-playing video games, also becomes available individually.
They continue The 100 girls who love you so much 6, She and her guard dog 9, Medalist 10, Mr. Villain’s Day Off 4, Persona 5 – 13, Shadows House 17.
January 29th
A beautiful and fragile high-class girl and a cruel murderer cross their paths in a completely unexpected way… The highly anticipated historical romance series Firefly Wedding by Oreco Tachibana arrives on the shelves in the last week of the month. In addition to the regular version, the first volume will also be available with an exclusive variant cover!
Meiji era. Satoko Kirigaya is the beautiful daughter of an earl… but an illness condemns her to a short life. All he wants is a beneficial marriage for his family. Her life is turned upside down when a mysterious hitman, Shinpei Goto, is tasked with killing her. Driven by a desperate desire to live as long as possible, Satoko makes a proposal to her killer. “Marry me, please! If you do this, you can get everything you want…!” It’s just a false promise to save your life, but Shinpei takes it
instead his words are taken very seriously and Satoko finds herself forced to keep her commitment…
From the pen of the screenwriter of La Ragazza Bruciata, another novelty will also enter the J-POP Manga catalog on January 28th: Endroll Back by Kantetsu with drawings by Haruna Nakazato. An adrenaline-filled three-volume thriller miniseries that will be available complete in a collector’s box.
Yuka, Asaharu’s younger sister, committed suicide due to the bullying she suffered. Suddenly, an angel appears before the grieving brother and tells him: “Kill the one who pushed Yuka Mamiya to his death. Do that, and I will bring her back to life.” The boy decides to participate in this bizarre hunt for the culprit, but there is a retaliation: for every mistake, he will lose 10 years of his life and will have to do it all over again. Will he be able to save her in time or will he lose his life too?
While waiting for the second season of the anime, the fifth volume of My Happy Marriage arrives on the shelves in a double edition! In addition to the regular version, the deluxe edition will be available with variant cover and an exclusive attached booklet. The booklet will give the opportunity to take a look behind the scenes of the creation of the manga with interviews with the authors, an unpublished story and much more!
Continue Call of the night 18, La Luna e l’Acciaio 7, My charms are wasted 11, Smoking behind the supermarket with you 4, Takahashi of the bicycle shop 6.