During a San Diego Comic-Con 2025 panel, Kodansha USA Publishing announced new manga licenses set for release in spring 2026. The new licenses include Stella Must Die, Magical Karina, and many more. The company also revealed that the second volume of the Blade Girl, Teppu, and Love, That’s an Understatement manga titles from its Kodansha Print Club.
The new licenses from Kodansha for spring 2026 are as follows:
- DRAGON CIRCUS
- Stella Must Die
- Magical Karina
- Whoever You Are, I Love You
- That’s Not Love
- Lonely Deaths Lie Thick as Snow
- Cat-Life Balance
- Chi’s Sweet France
- Attack on Titan Definitive Hardcover Collection
- Blue Lock Omnibus
- Witch Hat Atelier: Grimoire Edition
It has already been confirmed that the anime adaptation of Witch Hat Atelier will be released this year. Additionally, the anime’s official website has released several visuals for the series. Bug Films will produce the anime with Ayumu Watanabe directing.
Kodansha describes Witch Hat Atelier as follows:
In a world where everyone takes wonders like magic spells and dragons for granted, Coco is a girl with a simple dream: She wants to be a witch. But everybody knows magicians are born, not made, and Coco was not born with a gift for magic.
Resigned to her un-magical life, Coco is about to give up on her dream to become a witch…until the day she meets Qifrey, a mysterious, traveling magician. After secretly seeing Qifrey perform magic in a way she’s never seen before, Coco soon learns what everybody “knows” might not be the truth, and discovers that her magical dream may not be as far away as it may seem…
