image source: Azuki / KiraKira Media Inc.During its panel at Anime NYC 2025, digital manga platform and publisher Azuki announced the addition of Kodansha’s special English edition of Young Magazine to its app service. This special edition includes over 1000 pages of new manga and is available at no cost to all users.
All chapters of the magazine can be accessed digitally on Azuki’s website here.
Thanks to @KodanshaManga we have a rare opportunity to read a full issue of seinen magazine Young Magazine in English! For FREE! 1000+ pages of new manga by emerging artists and famous artists alike, available now on Azuki.
📰 READ: https://t.co/6T9BjyYrPi pic.twitter.com/LrEawzJPCp— Azuki: Manga App & Publisher (@ReadAzuki) August 22, 2025
The special edition magazine will launch in the U.S. featuring 20 new manga series. It introduces a concept called “[UN-filtered MANGA]” which includes “sci-fi, dark horror, and cyberpunk stories for adults that portray the raw, unfiltered realities of ordinary human beings in extraordinary situations.”
New titles were also revealed from various well-known manga creators accompanying the magazine’s U.S. launch, including Shuzo Oshimi (The Flowers of Evil, Blood on the Tracks), Masaaki Nakayama (PTSD Radio), and Shuichi Shigeno (Initial D).
Fans can vote for their preferred titles among 16 eligible works on the magazine’s official English website (launched on August 21, 2025) and official Twitter/X account from August 21, 2025 to November 10, 2025. The winning manga series will be serialized on Kodansha’s K MANGA app service. Results will be available on the official website on December 15, 2025.
The English version of Young Magazine featured over 1,044 pages of content and was distributed for free to attendees at this year’s Anime NYC convention and at participating Kinokuniya locations for a limited time.
Source: press release
