Catch-up on Summertime anime-inspiring series with volume 1s only $0.99
This summer was packed with awesome series that made the jump to screen, and now it’s your turn to return the favor and jump into the manga that inspired them… and what better way to than with the Summertime Anime digital sale!
Add digital volumes the recently adapted manga to your collection including the dark yuri romance, I Want to Love You Till Your Dying Day; the origins Noh theater saga, The World is Dancing, the bro-tastic sea-side comedy, Grand Blue Dreaming, the genre-defining cyberpunk adventure The Ghost in the Shell and spin-off The Ghost in the Shell: The Human Algorithm. Sample each at a steep discount with first volumes available for only $0.99 and additional volumes available for up to 50% off!
Sale ends Monday, August 3, 2026!
You can pick these titles up for your collection by purchasing them on Kodansha.us or through one of our participating digital manga venders:
Amazon Kindle
Barnes & Noble Nook
Bookwalker
Google Play
Apple Books
MyAnimeList
Mangamo
and more!
See the full details on these discounted titles for the Summertime Anime digital sale below:
The Ghost in the Shell
By Shirow Masamune
An epic dystopian tale of politics, technology, and metaphysics, The Ghost in the Shell has been hailed worldwide as an unparalleled visionary work of graphic fiction. Deep into the twenty-first century, the line between man and machine has been inexorably blurred as humans rely on the enhancement of mechanical implants and robots are upgraded with human tissue. In this rapidly converging landscape, cyborg superagent Major Motoko Kusanagi is charged to track down the craftiest and most dangerous terrorists and cybercriminals, including “ghost hackers” who are capable of exploiting the human/machine interfance and reprogramming humans to become puppets to carry out the hackers’ criminal ends. When Major Kusanagi tracks the cybertrail of one such master hacker, the Puppeteer, her quest leads her into a world beyond information and technology where the very nature of consciousness and the human soul are turned upside down.
Rated: 18+
I Want to Love You Till Your Dying Day
By Nachi Aono
An orphanage for girls is actually a boot camp, turning out magical child soldiers for a gruesome war. Yet love finds a way to blossom amid bloodshed, in this dramatic, much-anticipated yuri manga that is spiritual kin to the likes of Revolutionary Girl Utena, Otherside Picnic, and Mobile Suit Gundam: The Witch From Mercury.
Rated: 16+
Grand Blue Dreaming
By Kenji Inoue
The hit comedy manga is now in print by popular demand! Swimsuits! Ramen! Dumb jokes! Beer! Uncomfortable nudity! After moving out on his own to a seaside town, Iori Kitahara makes a college debut he never anticipated. A new chapter of his life unfolds, full of diving with beautiful girls and shenanigans with a gaggle of lovable bastards! Idiot-expert Kenji Inoue and au naturel authority Kimitake Yoshioka bring you a glorious college tale filled with booze-fueled antics!
Rated: 16+
The World is Dancing
By Kazuto Mihara
Born into a life of acting and dance with a traveling theater troupe in 14th-century Japan, 12-year old Oniyasha has one problem-he doesn’t know what the point of any of it is. Why must I step with the left foot here instead of the right? Why is one performance good and another, bad? Why do people dance at all? It all seems perfectly arbitrary, until a chance encounter in a run-down shack sets him down a path to revolutionizing the art form and influencing much of Japanese culture to come. A fictionalized account of the early life of Zeami Motokiyo (Oniyasha), the founder of modern Noh theater-the world’s oldest surviving theater art-this coming-of-age artist’s journey vividly brings to life a man far ahead of his time during one of Japan’s most culturally and socially vibrant eras.
Rated: 16+
The Ghost in the Shell: The Human Algorithm
Story by Junichi Fujisaku, Art by Yuki Yoshimoto
Based on the The Ghost in the Shell by Shirow Masamune
Togusa, Batou, and the rest of Public Security Section 9 are back in The Ghost in The Shell: Human Algorithm, a new story set after the events of The Ghost in the Shell 1.5: Human Error Processer! With the Major missing, Section 9 continues along, solving cases with the help of their newest recruit, Tsunagi!
Rated: 16+