Glacier Bay Books Launches Kickstarter Campaign for Its Fall Manga Releases
Campaign includes True Blue Never Fades, Universe from the Balcony, The Cursed Body, Box Garden Beetle, Baku Chan titles
Glacier Bay Books launched on Tuesday a Kickstarter campaign for its previously announced manga titles including Yumi Tada's True Blue Never Fades (True Blue wa Kesshite Iroasenai), Konomi Oumi's Universe from the Balcony (Veranda kara Uchū), Tokushige Kawakatsu's The Cursed Body, and Akino Kondoh's Box Garden Beetle (Hako Niwa Mushi). The campaign also includes the new manga title Baku Chan by Jūshichi Masumura. The titles are scheduled for release this fall. After a naïve, pure-hearted young man enters their orbit, things slowly begin to change… Shodensha originally published the manga in March 1995 under its Feel Comics imprint.Oumi originally released the manga at the COMITIA 145 event in September 2023.Glacier Bay Books first announced in 2022 that it would release Tokushige Kawakatsu's The Cursed Body manga in 2023. The company describes the story:
Glacier Bay Books first announced the manga's release on May 15. Seirinkogeisha published the short story collection manga in Japan in 2004.Masumura released the manga's original version in 2016, and Kadokawa serialized the manga in its Monthly Comic Beam magazine in 2019. Kadokawa published two compiled book volumes of the manga in 2020 and 2021, respectively.Glacier Bay Books' campaign has 315 backers and US$36,147 of pledge out of its US$60,000 goal as of press time. The campaign will end on September 11.Sources: Email correspondence, Kickstarter