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Manga Planet Licenses Five Manga Titles from Thirdline

Hiroshi Motomiya's Salary Man Kintaro, Akira Miyashita's Charge!! Men's School and three more titles to be released on Manga Planet in August 2020.

Ikebukuro, Japan - As announced in Anime North presents Momiji's Online Experience (MOE), the Manga Planet team is releasing the following titles from Thirdline in August 2020:

Salary Man Kintaro
Story and Art: Hiroshi Motomiya
Release Date: August 3, 2020

Retired ex-bike gang leader of the "Hasshu" Kintaro Yajima leaves his hometown where he worked as a fisherman until his wife, Akemi, passed away. With his son, Ryouta, they go to Tokyo, where Kintaro would start with his new job: a salaryman. Now, the question is: would Kintaro be able to handle the office work and office politics being a salaryman brings?

Charge!! Men's School
Story and Art: Akira Miyashita
Release Date: August 4, 2020

Otokojuku is the kind of school that seems like it's up to no good. For most of their students, this is the only place that will take them despite or even because of their violence issues. Headmaster Heihachi Edajima believes that giving young men a military education will provide them with brighter futures, but how much is wishful thinking?

Peacock King
Story and Art: Makoto Ogino
Release Date: August 5, 2020

When people have problems of a spiritual nature, they know who to go to for help - high up in Mt. Koya, where the Koya Hijiri live, there is a young man named Kujaku, after the Peacock Wisdom King Mahamayuri. With his spiritual skills, chasing back malicious spirits is a piece of cake for fearless Kujaku - but are these daily threats all that life has in store for him?

Silver Fang -The Shooting Star Gin- -
Story and Art: Yoshihiro Takahashi
Release Date: August 6, 2020

In the snowy mountains of Akita, Daisuke and his parents manage a skiing ground. Daisuke grows up with great tales of bear hunter Gohee Takeda and his bear hounds, among them their skirmish with the dangerous Akakabuto, a great bear that's terrorizing the mountains.

On the day, old man Takeda decides to hunt for Akakabuto again with his loyal bear hound, Riki is the day a rare brindle puppy was born. Daisuke names the pup "Gin," and thus begins a pup's journey to being a great bear hound.

Magical☆Taruruto
Story and Art: Tatsuya Egawa
Release Date: August 7, 2020

If you say the right words, one of Honmaru's dad's old books can summon a magician. His name is Taruruto, and he can grant wishes - but doing good deeds makes him weaker! All that Honmaru wants is to stop being bullied and to get to hang out with his new friend Iyona. Can Taruruto do something about that?

*Release dates may change without prior notice.

The first chapters of these titles from Thirdline will be available for free in the Manga Planet Library. Subscribers to the Library get to read the succeeding chapters in addition to other manga titles from SOZO Comics, Tokuma Shoten, Home-sha, Inc., LEED Publishing Co., Ltd., San-Ei Corporation, WANIBOOKS Co., Ltd., SHONENGAHOSHA, and by mangakas Masaya Hokazono and Nakashima723.

Negotiations with other publishers such as Shodensha Publishing Co., Ltd., Bunkasha Publishing Co., Ltd., KAIOHSHA PUBLISHING Co., Ltd., Starts Publishing Corporation, K.K. HarperCollins Japan, MUGENUP Inc., are going smoothly and we will post information on upcoming licensed titles on mangaplanet.com soon.

About Manga Planet: Read manga, support artists

In 2012, Manga Planet started as a joint project between Dai Nippon Printing Co., Ltd. and FANTASISTA, INC. to research and explore the ways manga is read throughout the world. Aiming to bring new manga to fans from all over the world and support artists and the industry, Manga Planet pushes for affordability and access to manga through a subscription-based service.

Readers who subscribe to Manga Planet and pay a flat monthly fee of $6.99 will have access to our expanding library of English-language manga. Subscribers will have access to 500 titles by the end of 2020. To subscribe, please go to read.mangaplanet.com and create an account. More information is in our guide.

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