Glacier Bay Books' Kickstarter campaign to crowdfund the English release of Aoi Mukoubi's To the Sea manga, ohuton's Seaside Beta manga, Byu Kijitori's One Hundred Views of Reality manga, and the second volume of Sayaka Mogi's Final Testament to the Moon manga reached its US$50,000 goal on Sunday. The campaign has raised US$50,512 from 386 backers as of press time.
Glacier Bay Books launched the Kickstarter campaign on March 23. The campaign will end on April 22 at 12:05 p.m. EDT. The campaign is also accepting advance reservations for the simultaneous English release of Natsujikei Miyazaki's ...and the Strange and Funky Happenings One Day manga and Yoruno Hitsujigumo's The Other Side of the Clouds manga.
Estimated delivery dates for all the reward tiers are July 2024. All reward tiers will ship internationally aside from the ones that include T-shirts, stickers, and Mogi's False Stars manga, which will only ship to addresses in the United States. Upon successful completion of the campaign, Glacier Bay Books will begin publishing the titles by April 2024.
Glacier Bay Books describes To the Sea:
Luca no longer approaches the human citieslike she sometimes would... These days, it'srare to even see the silhouette of a ship. It's asif I've wandered into a completely differentworld...The voices of dolphins reach hundreds ofkilometers in the water. The creatures of thesea have a network wider than earthboundhumans could ever imagine.
I am a member of the Triton tribe, a protectorof the ocean's peace. Although, I can't reallyclaim that I've been defending anything. AllI've been doing is running away.
I want to return to the world of humans...
A dolphin wanders the quiet tributaries ofTokyo. A green-haired girl carrying herfather's blade disappears into the night. Adream of a world as unkind as our own,and a story of the youth forever cast downwith the burden of their forebearers.
This is the world of orichalcum, themysterious, seemingly unlimited power ofthe Tritons, and the world of Poseidon,whose dominion continuously extends,reaching inexorably into the heart of allliving things.
Mukoubi published the manga from 2007 to 2012. Glacier Bay Books announced the license in October 2022.
Glacier Bay Books describes Seaside Beta:
Speech balloons, or balloons for short, areobjects that appear once spoken, showing thespeaker's exact words right near them.Balloons and the language they show arecontrolled by the black towers. There existapproximately 6900 in the world, and withinthem...
Their newest work, ohuton's SEASIDEBETA is a contemporary coming of age /Sci-Fi comic inspired by the Sci-Fi classicFlatland. Seaside Beta is a story about astory within a story that is unraveled withinitself. The quest for “color”, and theobsessive search for “an escape” into the“real”.
A startling work that glimmers with thedepiction of childish youth and the occult.A physics mystery about individuals'attempt to escape from the very pages ofthe comic itself.
ohuton published the manga as a dōjin at the Comitia 141 event in 2022. Glacier Bay Books announced the license in October 2022.
Glacier Bay Books describes One Hundred Views of Reality:
The American Dream... The meaning of thosewords has completely changed.Everyone has realized that capital success isno more than an endpoint, and money canonly be used for something as impractical asvases. No one desires anything like thatanymore. What they desire is growth,maturation.
The American Dream... What does this phrasemean now, then?
Byu is an independent cartoonist active inthe Comitia doujin scene whose stylemixes surreal, sometimes humoroussituations, with abstract subject matter anda simplified line effected to deeplythought-provoking and poignant result.
Their self-published collection Zenbu Tokini Atta, which One Hundred Views ofReality draws from and expands on, wasa jury selection for the 20th Japan MediaArts Award.
One Hundred Views of Reality collects300+ pages worth of Byu's short storymanga for the first time, including theirhighly-regarded cult classic works A LongStay, BYTE, A Country Called America,and many more. A rare glimpse into theslightly surreal alternative Comitia doujinscene of the early 2010s.
Glacier Bay Books describes the second volume of Final Testament to the Moon:
There used to be many werewolves, nowonly few remain... Here is detailed thetragic fate of werewolf twins Sköll and Hatiin this, the Final Testament to the Moon.I want to hurry and grow up...
The second volume of Sayaka Mogi'sbeloved ongoing epic adventure series,this episode develops the explosive firstencounter of the mysterious hunter Raiteiand the young werewolf exile Sköll, bothof whom play an integral role in the storyof the wolfkin tribe.
Red Riding Hood's Wolf Apprentice:Final Testament to the Moon standsalone as an independent story while alsofunctioning as a sequel to / reboot of theKodansha digital series Red RidingHood's Wolf Apprentice, and of SayakaMogi's overarching world of Humans,Beastkin, and Hunters.
A new epic fantasy / adventure / dramaseries unfolds.
Mogi published the first volume of the Final Testament to the Moon (Akazukin no Ōkami Deshi - Tsuki he no Tsuigon) sequel manga to her Red Riding Hood's Wolf Apprentice manga at the Comitia dōjinshi event in Tokyo in May 2019. The digital version debuted in July 2019. She had previously self-published an English e-book version of the manga. Mogi published the end of the "first part" of the manga in December 2018, and announced that she would self-publish the rest of the manga. Glacier Bay Books licensed the manga and published the first volume in print in May 2022. Azuki added it in August 2022.
Mogi launched the original Red Riding Hood's Wolf Apprentice manga in Kodansha's Bessatsu Shōnen Magazine in September 2017. Kodansha published the manga's third compiled book volume in February 2019. Kodansha Comics is publishing the manga in English digitally, and it released the third volume in September 2019.
Glacier Bay Books describes ...And the Strange and Funky Happenings One Day:
Natsujikei Miyazaki has been hailed asone of the most imaginative newcartoonists of her generation, and herworks recognized on industry best-of listsand at the Japan Media Arts Festival....AND THE STRANGE AND FUNKYHAPPENINGS ONE DAY brings to life 33small sci-fi fragments infused with anecstatic sense of playfulness and wonderwhich slice through that mysterious,inescapable thing "everyday life". Acollection of short story masterpiecesshowcasing the dynamism of ordinarypeople under mundanely extraordinarycirc*mstances.
A girl with near-nonexistent supernaturalpowers is actually just a normal kid, apotter who keeps breaking his ownpottery, a man whose job is to putprotective cling film on things yet strugglesto protect what he treasures most, a boywho wakes up one day with a tag hangingfrom his ear labeled "Pull", two people thatare the only ones left on the planet andconsider whether to risk meeting up inperson, a group of planets return to their"home" orbit for a long overdue stardustreunion, and many, many more. Gorgeousand eclectic, these stories almost casuallyaffirm what it means to live, and all waysof life.
Glacier Bay Books describes the second volume of The Other Side of the Clouds:
To all of you who wish to go somewhere faraway, I hope you wake up one day to a worldin which you can.A young girl moves to the seaside town ofKumogaura. Wandering under dazzlingsun and ever-changing stars, shesearches for meaning in an item from herpast.
The Other Side of the Clouds is a recordof hazy, dream-like days in the mysteriouslittle town by the sea. An atmosphericsnapshot into casual youth, blossomingfriendship, and the desire to travel.
To Mayowa and the many curiousindividuals who find themselves drawn toKumogaura, each day might just be achance to explore and create memories,experience new things in a new place, andinvoke an entire new language; one ofsubtle, playful secret meanings tuckedhidden within the folds of everydaymoments.
Source: Glacier Bay Books' Kickstarter campaign
