Glacier Bay Books announced on Sunday the following new manga licenses:
Title: Oedo-chan of Moguraya
Author: Serata Naminami
Summary: A heartwarming errand-running manga of Edo…
Oedo-chan works at Moguraya with Captain.
Captain is a mole, and Oedo-chan is a stray cat.
The world can be so big, so cruel and mysterious.
But Oedo-chan is a hard worker, she isn’t afraid of anything.
And you shouldn’t be either.
A sweet story around various lives in a fable-like old Edo, including hard-working Oedo-chan’s tragic backstory.
This release includes the SFB bonus story.
Title: A Vase of Life
Author: Aoi Mukoubi
Summary: A sparing glimpse of those shimmering, fragmented moments at the very end of the line…
“When I die, will you hear my story?”
From the author of TO THE SEA comes a beautiful and disturbing selection of their early sci-fi flavored work.
Title: Faraway Blue
Author: Akino Kogomi
Summary: Two poetic & ephemeral stories about love, and what comes after. A debut collection from a new illustrator and comic artist.
“I feel myself beginning to disappear from this world.”
Pre-orders for the above titles as well as Codomopaper‘s Juji and Aichi and Courtney Loberg’s We Don’t Go Through the Angelgrass open next week on Kickstarter.
Title: All I Can Do
Author: Aoi Ikebe
Summary: A tender examination of what it means to be human. Especially poignant, looking headlong into a world rushing to remove that which is human, which can be human.
Title: The Dovecote Express
Author: Ikuko Hatoyama
Summary: The strange, luminous journey of a young boy aboard a mysterious train. A romantic vision of the voyage of the souls of wartime carrier pigeons.
The company is also releasing Ding Pao-Yen’s Future Unfolding.
Glacier Bay Books is also continuing Star Fruit Books‘ reprint releases, including Hideshi Hino‘s Occult Detective Club / Graveyard of the Death Dolls, Hino’s Panorama of Hell manga. Yōichi Abe‘s PRISM -short story collection-, Noroi Michiru’s The Horrors of Noroi Michiru Part 2, Sachiko Asuka‘s The Phantom Thief Baron Bat, Taro Kanafuro‘s Suburban Hell, Yamazaki’s Let’s Meet in the Next Life, Tatari Takayama‘s TATARISM, and Minami Q-ta‘s Not All Girls Are Stupid.
Glacier Bay Books had announced in February that Star Fruit Books was transferring its publishing line and inventory to Glacier Bay Books following the death of Star Fruit Books‘ founder Matt Haasch in September 2025. Glacier Bay Books previously stated it has received most of Star Fruit Books‘ inventory.
Source: Glacier Bay Books‘ Bluesky account
