I love comics. More specifically I love manga, a Japanese style comic that is usually drawn in black and white and is read right to left.

I’ll be honest though, I’m gonna use manga and comic interchangeably in this opinion because they’re both the same thing.

Around August Kodansha, a Japanese publishing company, for the 45th anniversary of Weekly 

Young Magazine decided to release a special edition of it in the U.S.

Now this isn’t the first time these magazines were released in America, because Viz Media, another publishing company, released Shonen Jump magazines from 2002 to 2012.

What’s different about this release of Young Magazine is the impact it could have. 

I only know this for Weekly Shonen Jump but in Japan they’ll usually release a magazine weekly with a bunch of series. Stuff like Chainsaw Man, Dragon Ball or Death Note.

But these series have either ended or are no longer in the magazine. So they usually replace them by serializing new series.

To do this they have a mail in voting system, unluckily though this basically only works in Japan. 

So sometimes there’ll be series people like but they can’t do anything about it when it gets  cancelled since they can’t vote for it to stay popular.

What’s special about the Young Magazine release is that the voting is catered towards Americans. There are 16 pilot chapters, with only the top five most popular getting serialized.

I really love this, I read all the different chapters and there are basically two series I didn’t like. 

You can read them all free digitally on young-magazine-usa.com and vote for them there too. It shows the top 5 list on there and I’ll be honest I like all of them, but I am really sad that the one series I wanted to be popular isn’t there.

One thing about this though is that it sucks that the only physical releases of the magazine were basically only available if you lived near a Kinokuniya or went to Anime Expo NYC.

Luckily for me I was able to beg my friend who was visiting New York to get me one and they did. There’s just something about reading these series physically that I will always love.

I hope in the future they do a wider release of the magazines in the future.