Manga Mavericks made two new manga license pickups this weekend at Anime Boston that folks will definitely want to check out more of.
First, they picked up Oni & Dawn: Bakumatsu High School Girls from creator Hana Ikuta. The first volume is planned for an October 2026 debut. The series was completed in Japan with three volumes.
Plot concept: Pack your bags and grab your sword, because class is now in session for this dramatic GL series.
Somewhere in Japan, very special students have gathered at Koharu Girls’ High School. What makes them special, you ask?
Sakamoto, Takasugi, Katsura, Katsu, Hijikata, Okita, Kondo…
All these girls possess the souls of the great samurai from the Bakumatsu period! Living as teenage girls with their memories intact, they must navigate modern society, deal with messy historical baggage, and fight for love in a school that forbids romance.
Second, they’ve also acquired Ball & Chain by Minami Q-ta. It’s planned for a March 2027 release, which is ongoing with three volumes out so far in Japan.
Plot Concept: “Maybe I could have chosen something different…”
Keito is a late-20s company employee who’s planning to get married as a “woman,” despite not feeling cemented into a specific gender or sexuality.
Meanwhile, Aya is a married woman in her 50s who continues playing out the role of “wife” despite being in a marriage that’s long since gone cold.
They both struggle with a gender that was decided upon birth and the “wife” role that became nothing more than a pantomime at some point.
This is a story of two queer people who harbor doubts about how they’ve been treated and shoved into a “normalized” box, and try to take back their true selves.
Chris Beveridge
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