North American comic publisher Alien Books has licensed three new manga series that are slated for print paperback release this fall: Badducks, Kill Logger, and Akatsubaki.
Here are the details on the publisher’s newest licenses:
Badducks
Story and Art: Toryumon Takeda
Release Date: September 22, 2026
Synopsis:
Two outlaws and a baby search for freedom in this road-trip epic that combines sci-fi thrills with endearing family comedy!
Morgan never had any luck. At 10 years old, he was abandoned by his parents, and 20 years later the mob began to demand payment of the debt they left him. Penniless, the only way to pay it off was to become a lab rat for Nguyen, master of the criminal world. Society’s rejects, and nonhumans in particular, end up under his orders as killers, prostitutes or forced laborers.
Morgan wakes up with a tube on his back and…an exceptional force! His identity is gone: He’s damned to a life of servitude. When everything seems lost, Lisa, the last of her species and a slave to the mob, proposes a plan to escape. It doesn’t go so smoothly, and the fugitives find themselves with a baby in their luggage—and they choose to bring him with them! The two protagonists have neither combat experience nor resources, but their thirst for freedom is unparalleled.
Kill Logger
Story and Art: Keita Sugaware
Release Date: October 20, 2026
Synopsis:
The blood-stained truth can’t be hidden…
Hiromu Morinaga has lived through the unspeakable. Traumatized since witnessing the murder of his parents, the high school student is cursed with a haunting ability:
He can now see the terrified faces of victims on the backs of the murderers he encounters. When transfer student Yuzuka Kohaku arrives, a staggering number of ghosts cling to her back. This mysterious girl may be an unstoppable killer!
Akatsubaki
Story: Mita Rokuju
Art: Natsumi Inoue
Release Date: November 17, 2026
Synopsis:
“It’s a promise, we’ll meet again.”
Many years ago, Sakichi found a strange demon baby abandoned in the woods. He decided to raise him and gave him a name, Aka. When the child grew, he returned to his habitat, but Sakichi never forgot him. Years later, their cursed reunion finds them as a desperate man and a demon. Their relationship should be impossible, but the attraction is inevitable. And when they both succumb to their passions, they’ll put in motion a tragic series of events that will dye the untouched snow bloody red.
Mita Rokuju presents a heart-wrenching, passionate romance between a human and a demon that displays the warmth and frustration of two men who don’t share a common language, but find a way to share their feelings and their bodies.
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