Kodansha Comics went big recently with a lot of manga showing up in digital form with a backlog of chapters and new chapters arriving for a lot of great books. The problem was that for some of them, it was a couple of hundred chapters in already! So there’s definitely some attention to be given to a new series that kicks off and getting in on the ground floor. And when that series comes from Naoshi Arakawa, the creator behind Your Lie in April? It’s time to pay attention. The first chapter of Farewell, My Dear Cramer has gone live (see available services below) priced at $1.99 a chapter – at the exactly same time it’s available in Japan. And it’s a 70page chapter at that!
The future of manga is here!
Here’s what Kodansha had to say:
“Right now, it’s morning in the Land of the Rising Sun. Manga fans across Japan are at their local convenience store picking up the just released issue of Monthly Shonen Magazine, where they will find the 70-page Chapter 1 of Farewell, My Dear Cramer (Sayonara Watashi no Cramer), the new series by Your Lie in April creator Naoshi Arakawa …
… and you, everywhere outside of Japan, can read the debut of Farewell, My Dear Cramer at the same time as Japan in English—only on Kindle and comiXology!
Enjoy! Look for Chapter 2 on June 5!”
