Kodama has revealed some very top-secret titles.
The independent publisher teased five titles to be revealed over the course of five days earlier last week and has now revealed its full slate, scheduled to be released in 2027. Fans were pleasantly surprised to see a few names like Horizon and delighted by others like Crows and Beautiful Place.
Beautiful Place
Jiro Matsumoto
In a near-future Japan shaped by civil war, high school students are organized into armed “volunteer” units to help maintain order.
Shimon Hanazawa decides to enroll at Seishin Girls’ Academy as a trooper, an unprecedented move for a prim and proper Advanced Placement student. But she ends up placed under the direction of Momoko Takasaka, the most unruly and unpredictable student around…
Does Shimon have what it takes to survive Momoko’s chaos…and the battlefield itself?
Beautiful Place will release in January 2027.
Horizon
Shiten Akiyama
Mieko Fujiwara is a burnt-out office worker nearing the end of her twenties. After observing a group of carefree teens and longing for the life she used to have, Mieko drunkenly puts on her old school uniform and heads to the park, hoping to recapture even just the tiniest bit of who she used to be. Once there, she has a chance encounter with an impossibly handsome young man that will change her life forever.
Horizon comes out in January 2027.
Casino Gui
Hanaichi Nozaki and Shiro Yoshida
Gen Suzuki has never had the best luck; raised in an orphanage, the only light in his life is his childhood friend, Mayu. When she gets saddled with a life-destroying amount of debt, Gen decides to bet both of their futures on a daring plan to rob an illegal underground casino. Can Gen turn his fortunes around, or will he lose more than his money in this world of high-stakes gambling and dangerous criminals?
Casino Gui lands on bookshelves on April 2027.
Crows
Hiroshi Takahashi
Harumichi Bouya transfers into Suzuran All-Boys High School, a school so notorious for its uniformed delinquents that locals call them the Crows. What begins as one transfer student’s casual brawls becomes an escalating war between factions, gangs, and legends, with bonds forged in violence and loyalty pushed past the breaking point.
Crows takes flight in February 2027,
Cyberblue
Tetsuo Hara
On the harsh and unforgiving planet of Tinos, no one notices when a corrupt government official brutally murders Blue, a young gunslinger. However, the planet’s corrupt elite have unwittingly set the stage for their own downfall, as Blue is soon resurrected as an unstoppable cyborg intent on carving a bloody path of vengeance across the galaxy!
Cyberblue releases in the first quarter of 2027.
