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Six original manga series. 230 pages. Every month. In print.
The anthology that doesn't ask you to choose.
The world ended. New York survived. Five gangs rule the boroughs with swords and chi energy — no guns, just steel and spirit.
Vampires rule the world. One warrior from the last free village walks down the mountain with a sword and a list of every vampire lord's name.
The elves lost their magic in one terrible night. One generation later, a half-elf girl discovers she can do what no living elf can.
80% of the world has a superpower. Juno's Edge has never done the same thing twice. His teachers call it unquantifiable. He calls it Tuesday.
God is dead — and the divine order that kept the world's monsters in check is unraveling. One fallen saint has seven days to decide who inherits the heavens.
The Golden Stars are a myth — seven warriors who mastered the Eternal Style. Ren doesn't know he's the eighth. Everyone serious is trying to find him.
I've been reading manga for 15 years. I don't remember the last time an Issue 1 felt this good. The pacing, the art — these creators know exactly what they're doing.
School of Life alone would have me subscribing. Six series like that in one magazine? TAG Manga just became my most anticipated monthly.
Finally. An anthology with the courage to tell stories that go beyond the template. This is the manga publisher I've been waiting for.
Six ongoing series — action, horror, fantasy, school, adventure, and epic mythology — all in one monthly magazine. Subscribe to get all six.
The world broke forty years ago — not with a bang but with a long grinding silence as infrastructure collapsed and governments dissolved. New York survived by becoming something else: five boroughs, five gangs, five territories. No guns. No electricity. The age of gunpowder is over. What remains is steel, chi — the internal energy that the strongest fighters have learned to weaponize — and whatever code of honor each gang lives by. When the leaders of all five boroughs are assassinated in a single night, the fragile truce holding the city together collapses. Dante, enforcer for the Bronx Kings, watches his leader die and realizes: no one is coming to fix this. Someone has to step into the vacuum — and whoever does will have to face every gang in the city to earn it.
The vampires didn't conquer the world in war — they acquired it, slowly, over three centuries, infiltrating governments and militaries until humanity woke up one morning and realized the people in power weren't people at all. Most accepted the new order. Some were turned. A few escaped into mountains and deep forests — places the vampire lords don't bother patrolling. Kira grew up in one of these hidden villages, until the day a blood count's scouts found it. She is the only one who escapes. When she reaches the lowlands, sword in hand and nothing else, she asks a single question to the first person she meets: how many vampire lords are there? The answer is seventeen. She starts making a list.
For three thousand years, the Aelfen — the elves — were the keepers of magic. They didn't hoard it; they tended it like a garden, regulating the flow of magical energy through the world's ley lines. Then came the Severing: a single catastrophic night when every elf alive lost their connection to magic simultaneously. No one knows what caused it. The Aelfen have been fractured and desperate ever since. Lyra is seventeen, half-elf, born the year after the Severing. She has never known magic. Neither has any living elf. When she accidentally reaches into a ley line and feels it respond, the implications are enormous — either the Severing is healing, or something else is happening entirely. Something that begins and ends with her.
In a world where 80% of the population develops an "Edge" — a unique superhuman ability — one school stands above all others: Vida Academy, where the next generation of Edge-users is trained, tested, and occasionally almost killed in the process. Juno's Edge has never done the same thing twice. In his first week at Vida, it manifested as super strength, then as the ability to slow time by thirty percent, then as the ability to understand any language spoken to him. The admissions board classified it as "unquantifiable" and admitted him anyway — partly out of curiosity, partly because they couldn't justify rejecting someone with any one of those abilities. His classmates are fascinated. His instructors are concerned. And a shadowy organization that tracks anomalous Edges is paying very close attention.
Three thousand years ago, a God made a covenant with humanity: I will hold the darkness back, and you will believe. Then on a Tuesday in March, God died — not in battle, not in betrayal, but quietly, the way a fire goes out when there's nothing left to burn. Within hours the creatures that God's presence had kept beyond the edges of reality begin to press through. Within days the first of the divine seraphim dissolve. Ezra is a disgraced saint — stripped of his rank for asking questions the Church couldn't answer. He was the only person in the room when God drew the last breath. And God's final act was to press something into Ezra's hand: a single key, and a name. What it unlocks, and what the name belongs to, will determine who inherits the heavens — and whether what comes next is salvation or something far older and far less merciful.
The Eternal Style is the oldest fighting system in the world — seven forms, each a lifetime of mastery. Legend holds that seven warriors across history each achieved one form's perfect expression and became the Golden Stars. The last one died two hundred years ago. Ren is sixteen, from a mountain town no one has heard of, trained since childhood by a grandmother who refused to explain why she knew so much about a tradition most people think is mythology. When Ren enters his first real tournament and something wakes up in his fighting that his opponents have never felt before, word gets out fast. Some want to train him. Some want to challenge him. The ones who know what the Golden Stars really are want him to stop — before he awakens something that was deliberately put to sleep.
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CONTACT RETAIL TEAM →TAG Manga is hiring six manga artists for six ongoing monthly series. We pay above-market page rates, offer co-creator credit, and a royalty pool at scale. This is a career, not a gig.
"Gritty, kinetic, street-level epic. Five gangs, five fighting styles — sword combat and chi energy in a destroyed New York. Samurai Champloo meets Kengan Ashura."
"Brutal and gothic. One warrior against seventeen vampire lords — high-impact action with a dark, oppressive atmosphere. Demon Slayer meets Attack on Titan."
"Lush, magical world-building — ancient elven civilization, ley line magic, a world rediscovering something it lost. Witch Hat Atelier meets Frieren."
"High-energy school action — superpowered students, training sequences, ensemble cast dynamics. My Hero Academia energy with its own identity."
"Theological dread and divine beauty. God has died — now draw what falls apart. Berserk's darkness meets Saint Seiya's celestial scale."
We review every portfolio personally. Shortlisted artists receive an invitation to complete a paid test page — $150 flat, compensated regardless of outcome. We do not ask for free work at any stage.
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TAG Manga is a North American manga anthology publisher. We release monthly — five original ongoing series per issue, 230 pages, in print. Every series is original. Every artist is global. No reprints. No adaptations. No compromises on page count.
The anthology format is not new — Shonen Jump proved it works decades ago. What's new is who's at the table: our creators bring perspectives and storytelling instincts that the major publishers have systematically overlooked. TAG Manga was built to give those stories the platform they deserve.
We are distributed through Ingram Publisher Services, available at Barnes & Noble, Books-A-Million, and local comic shops through Lunar Distribution. We are launching our convenience store channel through Core-Mark, and our direct subscription program ships worldwide.
Morakinyo Araoye is a physician based in Hartford, Connecticut. He is also the founder of TAG Comics, a creative enterprise that spans comics publishing, film production, and digital media. TAG Manga is his most personal venture: the publishing house he built because the one he wanted didn't exist.
The name TAG reflects a simple ethos: mark your place in the story. Every series in TAG Manga is an ongoing serialization — not a one-shot, not a limited run. We are building a world of stories with you, issue by issue, month by month.
We hire artists on a co-creator model: you get credit, you participate in royalties at scale, and you retain your artistic identity. We believe the work is better when the people making it have a real stake in what it becomes.
We believe the physical manga issue is not a nostalgia product — it is the highest-quality version of the reading experience. We build for print and distribute digitally, never the reverse.
Co-creator credit, above-market page rates, royalty participation, and no blanket exclusivity clauses. We attract serious talent by offering what the industry doesn't.
Every series in TAG Manga is original. No licensed adaptations. No retreads. Five new worlds, built from scratch, owned by the people who create them.
We hire globally, distribute globally, and think globally. The North American manga market is our launch market — not our limit.