Manga Mavericks Licences Oni & Dawn and Ball & Chain Manga
During Anime Boston 2026, Manga Mavericks Books revealed that they have licensed two new manga series for release starting in 2026 and 2027. The new titles are Oni & Dawn: Bakumatsu High School Girls and Ball & Chain.
Both series will be released in print and digitally across a variety of retailers, and pre-orders are already open through the Manga Mavericks Store. The details of the licenses are as follows.
Oni & Dawn: Bakumatsu High School Girls
ONI & DAWN: BAKUMATSU HIGH SCHOOL GIRLS, VOLUME 1, by Hana Ikuta ∙ Print SRP: $14.99 / Digital SRP: $6.99 ∙ 176 pages ∙ ISBN: 9781968054403 ∙ For Readers 13+ ∙ Available October 2026
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.
Ball & Chain
BALL & CHAIN, OMNIBUS 1, by Minami Q-ta ∙ Print SRP: $19.99 / Digital SRP: $9.99 ∙ 320 pages ∙ ISBN: 9781968054465 ∙ For Readers 13+ ∙ Available March 2027
"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.
Source: Press Release
© 2022 Ikuta Hana/TWO VIRGINS Co., Ltd. / 2024 Qta Minami/MAGAZINE HOUSE Co., Ltd
