{"site":"Yomimono","license":"CC BY 4.0 (citation required)","generated_at":"2026-05-22T21:19:11.060Z","story":{"id":"r_8c539653507040538974c2cf","slug":"yoshiharu-tsuge-manga-artist-who-twisted-the-form-dies-at-88","url":"https://yomimono.id/yoshiharu-tsuge-manga-artist-who-twisted-the-form-dies-at-88","headline":"Yen Press Launches New Manga Imprint With Ryoko Kui Collection","summary":"Yen Press will debut a new imprint in October 2026, launching with two titles. The first is Ryoko Kui's The Dragon School is Atop the Mountain, an early collection of one-shots from the Delicious in Dungeon creator that treats the extraordinary as ordinary daily life. The second is Futa Kimura's Fate Rewinder: All Great Feats Require Time, a children's manga about agents who use micro-time machines implanted in their eye sockets to rescue people from tragic deaths. The imprint arrives as part of a broader wave of licensing news. Glacier Bay Books will publish Marco Kohinata's Akari in June 2026, a standalone story about mistaken identity and found family selected for the MINT manga initiative. Mangalith will release Hideko Mizuno's Fire! on October 14, 2026, bringing the 1969 shojo manga that helped open the genre's 1970s flourishing to English readers in a single volume. Kodama Tales will publish Hisae Iwaoka's The Magical Forest of Hoshigahara in November 2026. Manga Mavericks Books will release Minami Q-ta's Ball and Chain in March 2027, a story about two queer people pushing back against assigned gender roles and the expectations of marriage. The licensing announcements follow the death of Yoshiharu Tsuge on an unspecified date. Tsuge, born October 30, 1937, was the creator of the surrealist manga Nejishiki and an artist who twisted the medium with an uncompromising personal vision shaped by postwar poverty and lifelong anthropophobia.","why_it_matters":"The October launch pairs a proven hitmaker with a title already tapped for an anime adaptation by Rie Matsumoto, giving the unnamed imprint an immediate two-pronged push into both bookstore shelves and future multimedia visibility.","published_at":"2026-05-16T13:15:43.000Z","source_count":2,"sources":["Yatta-Tachi","The Comics Journal"],"citations":[{"source":"Yatta-Tachi","title":"Hachi Report! May 2026","url":"https://yattatachi.com/hachi-report-may-2026"},{"source":"The Comics Journal","title":"Yoshiharu Tsuge, 1937-2026","url":"https://www.tcj.com/yoshiharu-tsuge-1937-2026/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=yoshiharu-tsuge-1937-2026"}],"license_url":"https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/","entities":{"anime_titles":[],"manga_titles":[],"studios":["Yen Press"],"people":["Battan","Yoshiharu Tsuge","Zack Davisson"],"type":"news","domain":"manga","is_roundup":false}}}