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ANN has develop into conscious that the preview pages offered by Titan Comics‘ new imprint Titan Manga for Shotaro Ishinomori, Toshiki Inoue, and Hitotsu Yokoshima‘s Kamen Rider Kuuga manga don’t mirror the precise remaining product and are totally different within the remaining product. ANN reached out to Titan Manga, which offered the next remark:

In response to fan dialogue on-line relating to the latest manga releases of Kamen Rider Kuuga Volumes 1 and a pair of, we needed to deal with some factors which were raised and supply readability. We admire the followers bringing this to our consideration.

In April 2022, early draft pages (three pages for Quantity 1 and 4 pages for Quantity 2) have been translated for advertising and marketing functions, as we needed to get the art work out as quickly as attainable for the followers. These should be circulating on the internet. The precise translation for the printed books (permitted by Titan and licensors) have been labored on by two extremely revered translators within the enterprise.

We’re thrilled to be releasing such a beloved franchise as Kamen Rider Kuuga to English-language audiences, and worth the followers’ feedback.

Titan Manga licensed the manga and revealed preview pages for Kamen Rider Kuuga and Osamu Tezuka, Tetsuro Kasahara, and Masami Yuuki‘s ATOM: The Beginning manga in April 2022.

Titan Manga printed the primary quantity of Kamen Rider Kuuga on November 8 and the second quantity on January 10.

Titan Comics launched its new Titan Manga imprint in March 2022 when it announced a launch of a director’s reduce version of Takashi Okazaki‘s 1999 Afro Samurai seinen manga on July 26.

Penguin Random House describes Kamen Rider Kuuga:

Kamen Rider Kuuga is a manga adaptation of the well-known Japanese TV drama sequence of the identical identify, centered across the first incarnation of the Kamen Rider hero for the Heisei Period (the start of the twenty first century). This manga goes past the bounds of a standard adaptation and redefines its hero for contemporary audiences, increasing its universe and connecting it to different incarnations of the bug-eyed hero in a totally approachable method for brand spanking new readers who have not encountered a Kamen Rider story earlier than. It is an ideal start line for anybody who desires to know why Kamen Rider is so beloved by folks all over the world.

Artist Hitotsu Yokoshima launched the manga, the third one based mostly on the live-action Kamen Rider Kuuga tv sequence, in Hero’s Inc.‘s Monthly Hero’s journal in November 2014. Toshiki Inoue, one of many scriptwriters for the live-action sequence, writes the scripts for the manga, and producer Shinichiro Shirakura (Gekijōban Kamen Rider 555: Paradise Lost) plans the sequence.

The manga moved to the Comiplex website when Month-to-month Hero’s ended publication in October 2020. The nineteenth compiled guide quantity within the sequence shipped in Japan on March 29.

The “Kamen Rider fiftieth Anniversary and Past” panel on the Comedian-Con Particular Version occasion final November had announced that StoneBot Studios could be publishing the manga in English.

The Kamen Rider Kuuga tv sequence aired from 2000 to 2001. The sequence was Toei‘s first new Kamen Rider sequence following the passing of creator Shotaro Ishinomori, and it marked the start of the Heisei-era Kamen Rider sequence. Shout! Factory TV is streaming the sequence on-line.

Sources: Electronic mail correspondence, Kaylyn Saucedo‘s Twitter account