2025 Nikkei Releases

January

  • Usagi Yojimbo Volume 40: The Crow – Stan Sakai (1.21.25)
  • Bat Eater and Other Names for Cora Zeng – Kylie Lee Baker (1.28.25)

February

  • Tetra Nova – Sophia Terazawa (2.4.25)
  • Waiting for Hanami – J.P. Takahashi (2.4.25)
  • Rick Kotani’s 400 Million Dollar Summer – Waka T. Brown (2.18.25)
  • Made for More – Chloe Ito Ward (2.25.25)
  • Momo Arashima Duels the Queen of Death – Misa Sugiura (2.25.25)

March

  • The Legend of Korra: The Mystery of Penquan Island – Kiku Hughes (3.4.25)
  • Forget Me Knot – Emery Lee (3.11.25)
  • Last Chance Academy: A Study in Secrets – Debbi Michiko Florence (3.11.25)
  • Mural Island – Katie Yamasaki (3.11.25)
  • She Waits for You Beyond the Dark – Kristen Simmons (3.11.25)

April

  • Firebred – Julie Kagawa (4.1.25)
  • Love Me Tomorrow – Emiko Jean (4.1.25)
  • The Gate of Memory: Poems by Descendants of Nikkei Wartime Incarceration – Brynn Saito & Brandon Shimoda, eds. (4.1.25)
  • Audition – Katie Kitamura (4.8.25)
  • Hyo the Hellmaker – Mina Ikemoto Ghosh (4.15.25)
  • Shell Song – Sharon Fujimoto-Johnson (4.15.25)

May

  • The Girls of Good Fortune – Kristina McMorris (5.20.25)
  • Heir of Light – Michelle Sagara (5.27.25)
  • Space Usagi: White Star Rising – Stan Sakai (5.27.25)

June

  • Don’t Drag This Out – Emery Lee (6.10.25)
  • It Rhymes With Takei – George Takei (6.10.25)

July

  • The Yomigaeri Tunnel – Kelly Murashige (7.1.25)
  • Fateless – Julie Kagawa (7.15.25)

August

  • Nisei Soldiers – Debbi Michiko Florence (8.1.25)
  • Good Night, Ninjas – Sanae Ishida (8.5.25)
  • This Place Kills Me – Mariko Tamaki (8.19.25)

September

  • Fiend – Alma Katsu (9.16.25)
  • Folk Remedy – Jem Yoshioka (9.23.25)
  • Saltcrop – Yume Kitasei (9.30.25)

October

  • City Terrace Field Manual – Sesshu Foster (10.14.25)
  • Red Threads – Ila Nguyen-Hayama (10.28.25)

November

  • Shibui: The Japanese Art of Finding Beauty in Aging – Sanae Ishida (11.4.25)
  • Monster Maker – Debbi Michiko Florence (11.11.25)
  • I’ll Find You Where the Timeline Ends – Kylie Lee Baker (11.18.25)
  • Usagi Yojimbo Volume 41: Ten Thousand Plums – Stan Sakai (11.25.25)

December