Glacier Bay Books announced that it has licensed several new indie manga titles and will also release a couple of titles from Star Fruit Books.
Here are the details on Glacier Bay Books’ upcoming releases:
Juji and Aichi
Story and Art: codomopaper
The English version of the manga will be released this coming fall.
Synopsis:
A mysterious story depicting the complicated relationship between a popular novelist & an unsellable manga artist in the Meiji era.
Hyou Hyou
Story and Art: nerunodaisuki
The manga will be released sometime in late 2026 or early 2027. More details will be announced later.
Full of surreal whimsy & silliness juxtaposed with pencil-&-ink showmanship, Hyou Hyou introduces the world of nerunodaisuki, a peculiar & lively universe, and the straight-faced characters residing within.
Glacier Bay edition coming later 2026 / early 2027, more details to come pic.twitter.com/hwvi38g9w2
— Glacier Bay Books (@glacierbaybooks) April 25, 2026
Description:
The debut short story collection of a wildly popular alternative cartoonist from Japan’s small press scene, nerunodaisuki’s stories have been previously featured in GLAEOLIA and POPOCOMI to great acclaim.
Full of surreal whimsy & silliness juxtaposed with pencil-&-ink showmanship, Hyou Hyou introduces the world of nerunodaisuki, a peculiar & lively universe, and the straight-faced characters residing within.
Akari
Story and Art: Marco Kohinata
The debut work of Marco Kohinata was originally published in Japan by HERO’S and was previously translated in several languages. It will be available for the first time in English in print format on A5 paper, containing a total of 240 pages. The print release will include black and white pages (with select colored pages), a full color dust jacket, and an afterword by the author.
We’re proud to announce Marco’s English debut, originally published in Japan by HERO’S and already translated in several languages abroad, has found a home with Glacier Bay Books and will be available in print format shortly. In fact, I’m happy to share this book is printing now! pic.twitter.com/0EgV0yXegR
— Glacier Bay Books (@glacierbaybooks) April 24, 2026
Advance pre-orders are now available on Glacier Bay Books’ website, along with a pre-order bundle with Courtney Loberg’s Godhead. Orders made on the publisher’s website will receive the book first, as well as a special preorder gift. The pre-orders for the book are scheduled to ship in June 2026.
Description:
A quietly beautiful standalone story about mistaken identity, found family, and the profound power of art. Marco Kohinata’s warm, softly textured lines and shading subtly evoke the color and shape, the fullness and complexity of human emotion.
Star Fruit Books Edition Titles
Occult Detective Club / Graveyard of the Death Dolls
Story and Art: Hideshi Hino
The manga will be released sometime in Fall 2026, as part of Star Fruit Books release slate of Hino titles. Glacier Bay Books will fulfill all existing pre-orders for this title.
Only with help of Shiratori Fuyumi, president of the Occult Research Club, will Chika be able to solve the mystery of these deadly dreams.
The first complete story from horror master Hideshi Hino in English since PANORAMA OF HELL & TOWN OF PIGS (Star Fruit Books), pic.twitter.com/lh64RehSjv
— Glacier Bay Books (@glacierbaybooks) April 25, 2026
Synopsis:
Visions of discarded dolls plague Chika’s nights, following a foreboding encounter with a possessed doll resting among a collection of occult curiosities…
Only with help of Shiratori Fuyumi, president of the Occult Research Club, will Chika be able to solve the mystery of these deadly dreams.
Grin Grin Grin
UPCOMING TITLE
Grin Grin Grin by SangatouThe child of morning and night, the thunder bird, the great tree, the spirit… An anthology spun from beautiful, strange, and slightly eerie lives.
We are reviewing the materials, and hope to release this summer.
✪ STAR FRUIT Edition pic.twitter.com/g4z3YkqMeL
— Glacier Bay Books (@glacierbaybooks) April 25, 2026
Story and Art: Sangatou
The materials are currently being reviewed and Glacier Bay Books aims to release the manga sometime this summer.
Synopsis:
The child of morning and night, the thunder bird, the great tree, the spirit… An anthology spun from beautiful, strange, and slightly eerie lives.
PRISM
Story and Art: Yoichi Abe
The materials for the manga are currently being reviewed. Glacier Bay Books states it is nearly finished and is targeting a summer release.
An exciting, surprising, artful collection of short stories from the author of Sheeply Horned Witch Romi.
We are reviewing the materials for this title now – it is nearly finished, and we hope to release this summer. pic.twitter.com/ArgGRmcA32
— Glacier Bay Books (@glacierbaybooks) April 25, 2026
Description:
When you walk up to the moon… or flip over a tatami mat straight to HELL… if your best friend is a rice ball, or even a kappa… or you’ve ever had to sever the ponytails from innocent acquaintances… then you just might know what to expect from the stories in this volume.
If not, dear reader, please be advised to look elsewhere or risk sinking deep, deep, into the the unplumbable crevasse of imagination that is Yoichi Abe’s bold new collection PRISM.
Glacier Bay Books also announced that it will reprint a new edition of Hideshi Hino’s Panorama of Hell manga, which was previously published in English by Star Fruit Books. The reprint is tentatively scheduled for release later this year.
Additionally, more updates will be unveiled for the upcoming English release of Hino’s RED SNAKE manga, which is currently being lettered.
Glacier Bay Books also confirmed that it has received most of Star Fruit Books inventory and will be processing them for pre-order shipment soon. Excess stock of Handyman Quincy, Ending Theme, and The Horrors of Noroi Michiru will also be made available on the publisher’s website after existing pre-orders are fulfilled.
Moreover, the publisher confirmed that Baku Chan, Box Garden Beetle, The Cursed Body, and Star Clock Liddell have recently finished printing/are close to being finished printing. They will be shipped from the printer soon before being fulfilled for pre-orders.