Mangamo, the mobile manga subscription service, has announced an expanded catalog with new additions from TOKYOPOP, SOZO and SB Creative.
TOKYOPOP, in particular, carries significant name-brand recognition for anime and manga consumers. Established in 1997, TOKYOPOP had its heyday in the mid-'00s when it became the largest manga publisher in the U.S. Following lowered sales, company restructuring and the loss of key licenses, the original incarnation of the publisher closed its doors in 2011. It relaunched in 2012 with a focus on e-books and print-on-demand technologies and began publishing again in North America in 2016.
Building on its launch in April, Mangamo has also announced that it's rolling out a new Monthly Featured Titles initiative. Beginning in August, the initiative will spotlight different manga from the digital Mangamo library each month, with a mixture of popular hits and lesser-known gems.
The first Featured titles will include Kodansha USA's Seven Deadly Sins, coinciding with the arrival of the anime adaptation's fourth season on Netflix, August 6, and Fire Force, which also has its own successful anime adaptation that is currently airing its second season. Mangamo and Comicsmart's Japan Sinks 2020, a tie-in manga to Netflix's anime miniseries of the same name, is also a Featured title for August. Both titles launched on Mangamo and Netflix respectively in early July.
Alongside these are Flex Comix's Dropkick My Devil! and North Star Pictures' Arte and Somali and the Forest Spirit, all of which have benefitted in popularity boosts from recent anime iterations, as well as Comicsmart's Loving Yamada at Lv999! and I Fell in Love so I Started Streaming It, which were both nominated in the Manga 2020 Awards in the Reader-Chosen Tsugi ni Kuru (Up-And-Coming) category.