All Omnibuses Now Available As Add-ons!  + New Tiers!

Gardena, CA (April 25, 2016)

Due to a recent request by the creator of Kimagure Orange Road, Izumi Matsumoto, Digital Manga will now be offering the remaining Kimagure Orange Road Omnibuses, vol. 3-6 as early Add-Ons before reaching their originally intended stretch goals. Omnibuses vol.3-6 are now available for backers to add on to their existing pledges. Omnibus vol.2 is currently available also as an add-on, as it has reached its originally intended stretch goal.

For more information for these Add-Ons, click the following link and scroll down to the ADD-ONS section of the campaign.

https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/digitalmanga/publish-kimagure-orange-road-classic-manga

In addition, we have added three new reward tiers to streamline the collection into bundles for backers to easily order them. Backers can easily switch to these reward tiers during the campaign.

They are as followed…

$85

ALL DIGITAL KOR GOODNESS

We’ve opened up this tier just for you in one nice neat little digital package. No messy add-ons to keep track of for you and us, and a little bit of $avings in the long run!!!

WHAT YOU GET:

• e-thank you
• KOR Wallpaper
• Omnibus Vol.1 – 6 Digital Edition only

(Print Add-ons NOT offered for this tier.)

$170

JUST THE KOR PRINT BOOKS (+PLUS)

Another tier just opened up just for you in one package. “I just want the books!” Here it is! No messy add-ons to keep track of for you and us, and a little bit of $avings in the long run!!!

WHAT YOU GET:

• e-thank you
• KOR Wallpaper
• Thank you card from the president of DMI
• Omnibus Vol.1 – 6 Print Edition

DOMESTIC SHIPPING INCLUDED

(Digital Add-ons NOT offered for this tier.)

$250

FAMILY OF ESPERS

Move over to this rewards package to get the full digital and print collection! You’ll want this, to make sure you don’t miss a moment of drama with our favorite KOR characters! No messy add-ons to keep track of for you and us, and a little bit of $avings in the long run!!!

WHAT YOU GET:

• e-thank you
• KOR Wallpaper
• Thank you card from the president of DMI
• Omnibus Vol.1 – 6 Digital Edition
• Omnibus Vol.1 – 6 Print Edition

DOMESTIC SHIPPING INCLUDED

(Digital Add-ons NOT offered for this tier.)

https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/digitalmanga/publish-kimagure-orange-road-classic-manga

Questions? Contact us at: contact@emanga.com

About Digital Manga Inc.

Located in Gardena, CA, Digital Manga Inc. is one of the industry’s most unconventional and innovative companies, specializing in building corporate and cultural bridges from Japan to the West – specifically through the licensing, importation, and preparation of anime (Japanese animation), manga (Japanese comic books) and related merchandise for North America’s mainstream and niche markets. In this capacity, DMI serves as a catalyst for the spread of Japanese pop culture institutions into the global arena. The company’s imprint lines include DMP (its mainstream imprint), DMP Platinum (its classic manga imprint), JUNÉ (its boys love imprint), 801 MEDIA (its adult boys love imprint), Project H (its Seinen Hentai manga imprint) and DMG (a new forefront for its digital distribution initiative).

For more information about Digital Manga Publishing, visit http://www.digitalmanga.com as well as:

http://www.dmpplatinum.com/
www.dmpbooks.com

www.junemanga.com

www.digitalmangaguild.com

https://www.emanga.com

https://www.akadot.com/

Follow us on twitter @digitalmanga
Find us on Facebook: Digital Manga Inc. 

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Merchandise Add-ons, And New Orange Bikini PVC Figurine Reward Tier! 

Gardena, CA (April 13, 2016)
Digital Manga, Inc.’s latest crowd funding campaign to fund omnibus editions of the classic manga series, Kimagure Orange Road, has answered the call for merchandise add-ons to be available from other reward tiers to be added to backer’s existing tiers. From pub glasses to wall scrolls, check out the list of available add-ons, instructions to add them to your existing pledge and pricing here.
https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/digitalmanga/publish-kimagure-orange-road-classic-manga/posts/1540715

One of the more popular reward tier of this campaign which quickly sold out is the “$850-Orange PVC Madness” pledge tier, which features a PVC figurine of fan favorite character, Madoka, sporting a RED-hot bikini. Because of the strong demand for this specialized item, DMI has gone out of their way to bring in an additional 6 more available spots for this reward tier. Pledge here now!

https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/digitalmanga/publish-kimagure-orange-road-classic-manga

Continuing with that momentum, Digital Manga is now also offering a brand new reward tier—Madoka’s Bikini Orange. This is a $950 level tier, which features a figurine of beautiful Madoka, this time in a sexy ORANGE bikini! Highly detailed, this PVC/ABS figure, approximately 1/8 scale (height 22 cm), comes from Heroine Memories Series Collection from the manufacturer, Megahouse. This also extremely limited imported item from Japan, is only being offer them to the first 5 pledges! The packaging will be signed by author, Izumi Matsumoto, making this item itself worth over $500! The $950-Madoka’s Bikini Orange reward tier will also include items from the KOR Beach, Madoka The “Tsundere”, Teen Romance and EMOTION reward tiers. Pledge here now!

https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/digitalmanga/publish-kimagure-orange-road-classic-manga

Digital Manga Inc. (DMI), has high hopes that these additional updates will help shoot up the pledges to help fund the first stretch goal, Kimagure Orange Road Omnibus vol.2, which will then momentum the funding for the rest of the omnibus volumes at a much easier and faster pace.
Questions? Contact us at: contact@emanga.com
About Digital Manga Inc.
Located in Gardena, CA, Digital Manga Inc. is one of the industry’s most unconventional and innovative companies, specializing in building corporate and cultural bridges from Japan to the West – specifically through the licensing, importation, and preparation of anime (Japanese animation), manga (Japanese comic books) and related merchandise for North America’s mainstream and niche markets. In this capacity, DMI serves as a catalyst for the spread of Japanese pop culture institutions into the global arena. The company’s imprint lines include DMP (its mainstream imprint), DMP Platinum (its classic manga imprint), JUNÉ (its boys love imprint), 801 MEDIA (its adult boys love imprint), Project H (its Seinen Hentai manga imprint) and DMG (a new forefront for its digital distribution initiative).
For more information about Digital Manga Publishing, visit http://www.digitalmanga.com as well as:

http://www.dmpplatinum.com/

www.dmpbooks.com

www.junemanga.com

www.digitalmangaguild.com

https://www.emanga.com/tezuka

https://www.akadot.com/

Follow us on twitter @digitalmanga
Find us on Facebook: Digital Manga Inc. 
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Initial Goal Funded! DMI’s Crowd Funding For A Favorite 80’s Classic Is On Its Way!

Gardena, CA (April 6, 2016)
With almost amazing speed, the crowd funding power of the people has spoken… within a few day’s time, the initial goal of Digital Manga, Inc.’s project is funded! But it’s far from over. The funding is only for the first Omnibus. There are 5 volumes more to go! The first stretch goal of the campaign, of $56,900, will unlock Omnibus 2, (which collects the next 3 volumes of the original Japanese release.) Once unlocked, Kickstarter backers will be able to add-on this second volume to their new or existing pledge. From that, the momentum will easily pickup for funding of Omnibus 3, and so forth.

https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/digitalmanga/publish-kimagure-orange-road-classic-manga

We have several reward tiers that have sold out! And requests for add-ons to be available from other reward tiers to be added to backer’s existing tiers. Comments and feedback from our supporters do not go ignored, and  considerations for new add-ons and new tiers will be made over the course of the campaign, pending on the progress of the funding.

Again, Digital Manga Inc. (DMI), thanks all backers for their continued support, and would to remind all that the mission is not over! As of the 6^th day into the campaign, we are still about 79K short from funding all volumes. Only with backer support can we hope to bring this wonder work to your hands.

https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/digitalmanga/publish-kimagure-orange-road-classic-manga

Questions? Contact us at: contact@emanga.com
About Digital Manga Inc.
Located in Gardena, CA, Digital Manga Inc. is one of the industry’s most unconventional and innovative companies, specializing in building corporate and cultural bridges from Japan to the West – specifically through the licensing, importation, and preparation of anime (Japanese animation), manga (Japanese comic books) and related merchandise for North America’s mainstream and niche markets. In this capacity, DMI serves as a catalyst for the spread of Japanese pop culture institutions into the global arena. The company’s imprint lines include DMP (its mainstream imprint), DMP Platinum (its classic manga imprint), JUNÉ (its boys love imprint), 801 MEDIA (its adult boys love imprint), Project H (its Seinen Hentai manga imprint) and DMG (a new forefront for its digital distribution initiative).
For more information about Digital Manga Publishing, visit http://www.digitalmanga.com as well as:

http://www.dmpplatinum.com/

www.dmpbooks.com

www.junemanga.com

www.digitalmangaguild.com

https://www.emanga.com/tezuka

https://www.akadot.com/

Follow us on twitter @digitalmanga
Find us on Facebook: Digital Manga Inc. 
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We’re down to the last 72 hours of our Wonder 3 campaign and we have quite a hurdle to reach if we want to see this great three-book series published in English (in hardcover!). If you haven’t already let your friends and family know about this great Tezuka title, now’s the time!

Remember, you can pledge as little as $70 to get ALL THREE hardcovers in the “Shinichi Hoshi” pledge tier. We also still have several limited tiers open for pledges.

• Black Jack at $151 (just THREE left!)
• Go on a picnic! at $174 (limited to ONE!)
• Leo/Kimba #2 at $218 (limited to TWO!)

We need 262 more backers at the $70 tier in the next three days to make this happen, and I know we can do it… That means that if you, our current backers, convinced just ONE person each to pledge for the “Shinichi Hoshi” tier, we’d make the goal with some $$ to spare. Let’s get a move on!

Thanks for sticking with us on this amazing journey. Ganbaru! -VED

Yesterday, we added 6 high-end tiers for discerning Tezuka fans,  including one with the very, VERY rare “Goast Man” Japanese language hardcover (two now already gone). A couple include the ever popular Jungle Emperor Leo (or, you may know him as Kimba the White Lion!), and a couple more include the irrepressible characters from Black Jack.

Our indomitable production team is in the process of putting together images for you to peruse at your leisure, and I will upload those to the main page as soon as I have them, but for now I wanted to let you get a jump start on pledging for these great items. (I will send another update when I have the images up.) Plus, all the following tiers come with the Wonder 3 three-volume set in both digital AND hardcover formats.

Make sure to check out the tiers themselves before you pledge so that you know exactly what you’re pledging for!

30% off on all novels on eManga!

Want something to read this weekend? Check out eManga this weekend and take 30% off all novels! This sale starts July 15th and lasts through July 20th!

https://www.emanga.com/search?categoryid=2

Less than a day left in our latest Tezuka kickstarter!

So far at the time of writing this we have hit our initial goal along with stretch goal 1 and 1.5! Just a bit more and we will be able to publish and print Crime and Punishment for the first time!

https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/digitalmanga/publish-tezukas-storm-fairy-and-reprint-unico

GARDENA, CA
With successful Kickstarter campaigns like Captain Ken, Lugwig B, Alabaster, and the recent Clockwork Apple, Digital Manga isn’t slowing down their Kickstarter train to publish “God of Manga” Osamu Tezuka titles, and their next project is a shojo (girl’s) title called Storm Fairy. This manga is a collection of three short stories with the first being the longest at the length of half the book, and the other two make up the rest. Their new standard will have the book printed in high-quality off-set white paper, and is scheduled to be released in October, 2015. The Kickstarter campaign is planned to start June 16th, and will run for 30 days.

https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/digitalmanga/publish-tezukas-storm-fairy-and-reprint-unico

In Storm Fairy, Kuwagata Castle is in the midst of being invaded by enemy forces and the Empress flees to a nearby forest to implore a forest fairy to save her husband and her kingdom. A deal was struck and in exchange for the fairy’s favor, the empress must give up the face of her next born child. Thus, two girls life become entwined, one who has to wear a mask to hide her disfigured face, another born with the face of the other. One day, while the Emperor and Empress are away, a usurper finds out about Princess Ruri’s curse and steals her mask so he can place his own daughter on the throne. They oust Princess Ruri from her kingdom, and while on the run she meets a samurai, Tonosuke, who takes pity on her and takes her under his wing. Hakobe, the forest fairy blessed with another woman’s face, is tasked with tricking unwary travelers but her sweet heart always leads her to help others. While on a trip into the town, she finds out the real Princess Ruri is on the run and decides to help her win back her kingdom. But, little does she know, she wears the face of the woman she’s trying to save…

The second short story, “Kokeshi Detective Agency,” has a similar tone and feel to young adult book series, Encyclopedia Brown. Little fearless Paco goes around solving mysteries for she is not afraid of things that go bump in the night while her dog friend Waco does his best to protect her. In the third story, fairy Pink from the realm of beautiful sunsets morphs into whatever she wants so she may help those who are unhappy and in need, but King Brown and Sepia from the realm of thunderstorms do their best to make people miserable.

Even though this manga is classified as a shojo manga, Tezuka still questions what is perceived as beautiful or ugly, and I love it. – Hikaru Sasahara, President of DMI

Shojo is a type of genre born in Japanese magazines that were segregated according to gender. Shonen and shojo was printed similarly like the funnies in your Sunday newspaper. Magazines aimed at boys to sympathize with WWII created the genre shonen whereas magazines aimed at girls focused on their feelings and home life created the genre shojo. Post-WWII showed a surge of girls interested in manga, and when Tezuka published Princess Knight, he raised the bar on what was acceptable for Japanese girls to read. There are not a lot of shojo titles created by men (including Tezuka), so Digital Manga, Inc. is proud to add this teen shojo title to their library.

There will also be a stretch goal to reprint Unico in sharper color, and another stretch goal to print Crime and Punishment which was previously released as digital-only. More information regarding swag for stretch goals when it becomes unlocked.

https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/digitalmanga/publish-tezukas-storm-fairy-and-reprint-unico

About DMI and Tezuka Productions

Digital Manga Inc. has over 20 years of experience publishing manga, and president and founder, Hikaru Sasahara, personally knew Tezuka and his dreams of world unity. Hikaru had created Digital Manga, Inc. in order to bring about his concept of “East meets West,” and has published many manga including other Tezuka titles like Barbara, Unico, Triton of the Sea, and Captain Ken.
Tezuka Productions has brought to the anime and manga industry controversial books that always pushed the boundaries of what it means to be human. Tezuka does not shy away from showing all the facets of humanity, whether it be sorrow, joy, humor, tragedy, these things encompass what it means to live no matter what type of skin, color, shape, or gender others have. Some famous books Tezuka and his production company have published are Astro Boy, Blackjack, Unico, and Buddha.

Questions? Contact us at: contact@emanga.com

Digital Manga Inc.
Located in Gardena, CA, Digital Manga Inc. is one of the industry’s most unconventional and innovative companies, specializing in building corporate and cultural bridges from Japan to the West – specifically through the licensing, importation, and preparation of anime (Japanese animation), manga (Japanese comic books) and related merchandise for North America’s mainstream and niche markets. In this capacity, DMI serves as a catalyst for the spread of Japanese pop culture institutions into the global arena. The company’s imprint lines include DMP (its mainstream imprint), DMP Platinum (its classic manga imprint), JUNÉ (its boys love imprint), 801 MEDIA (its adult boys love imprint), DokiDoki (its exclusive co-publishing imprint with Shinshokan Publishing), DH/DMP (a co-publishing venture with Dark Horse Comics, Project H (its Seinen Hentai manga imprint) and DMG (a new forefront for its digital distribution initiative).
For more information about Digital Manga Publishing, visit http://www.digitalmanga.com as well as:

http://www.dmpplatinum.com/
www.dmpbooks.com
www.junemanga.com
www.digitalmangaguild.com
https://www.emanga.com/tezuka
https://www.akadot.com/

Follow us on twitter @digitalmanga


Find us on Facebook: Digital Manga Inc.

Kickstarter Link: https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/digitalmanga/finder-vol-1-6-restock

Trotting past the $30,000 milestone mark!! o(*ﾟ▽ﾟ*)o

Again, super thanks to everyone who’ve pledged and helped support thus far! Officially at $31,458 and at 69% funded with 9 days to go! We’re counting down the single digit days!! I especially love the “69%” funded part, it’s like #yaoi69 fate? Come on guys, we can totally make this happen, less than $15,000 to go and we’ll be 100% funded in no time! ^__^

Also! Please help spread the word around if you can. We haven’t gotten many backers lately and it’s just been our devoted backers generously increasing their pledges. Remember, any pledges help no matter how small so let’s get those smaller/bigger pledges in guys! Still hoping to get at least 300 backers by the end of this campaign!! ~

Just letting you guys know as well, anyone who wants a YaoiCon 2016 Bishounen Calender or the YaoiCon Anthology is welcome to request them as add-on. Yes, you can add them onto any reward pledge from $1 – $610. The calendar is an extra $20 and the anthology is an extra $18. Remember to message us to let us know you’re adding them on so we don’t forget to send them to you!

P.S. There’s still a possibility of having stretch goal #1 getting unlocked; Restocking “A Foreign Love Affair” by Ayano Yamane. Let’s do our best to make it happen! * ^ * PLUS!! I really want those Fujoshi/Fudanshi tanks!! Just saying ;D Just imagine showing those off at Yaoi-Con? It’ll be amazing. If it happens, I’m totally going to make it June’s work attire! xD

Kickstarter Link: https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/digitalmanga/finder-vol-1-6-restock

New Rewards Tier Added: YaoiCon 2015 Bundle – VIP Style v(｡･ω･｡)♪

Kickstarter Link: https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/digitalmanga/finder-vol-1-6-restock

Hello everyone!! So, we’re back again with another brand new tier! This tier is for all our lovely international backers or anyone in general who aren’t able to make it to YaoiCon 2015 but still want to experience some YaoiCon VIP treatment. We know it’s expensive to attend YaoiCon from out of state so we hope this can help bring some of the YaoiCon love to you guys instead. ^_^

Some of the must have perks in this tier includes;

• VIP badge swag bag (Bag of goodies that comes with VIP badge. Last year’s came with a YaoiCon tumblr/shotglass/very nice fabric bag, and more!)
• Collector’s item – YaoiCon 2015 VIP Badge (We will mail you the badge. Please remember, this badge doesn’t give you access to YaoiCon 2015, it’s just a memento)
• Variety of YaoiCon merchandise (Mascot stickers/pens/posters/etc.)
• ** GOH signed book (Max of 1 per pledge)** <– YOU NEED THIS! * ^ *
• June Event VIP swag box (The “VIP” only swag box that we’re giving away during the June event!)

More perks are included so check out the update posts for more information! 

• https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/digitalmanga/finder-vol-1-6-restock/posts