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ABLAZE Licenses Shingo Honda’s Horror Manga Happyland For English Release This Summer

cover art for upcoming horror manga Happyland

Portland, OR – Comics and graphic novel publisher expands its ABLAZE Manga imprint this summer with the September advance solicitation for , the manga series by creator about an extreme amusement park where nothing is as it seems and the horror that lies in store for an unsuspecting family that visits the park. 

HAPPYLAND will be published in-print and digitally. ABLAZE titles are distributed in-print worldwide by Diamond Comic and Diamond Book Distributors. Digital versions of ABLAZE titles are available via most major digital platforms.

HAPPYLAND, Vol. 1, story and art by Shingo Honda ∙ SRP: $12.99 ∙ 180 Pages ∙  ISBN: 9781684973040 ∙ Available September 11th 

Welcome to Happyland, an extreme amusement park! The Komiya family is not unusual is any way, two parents love each other and their two children, who are healthy, happy, and accomplished at school and with extracurriculars. In appearance, they're an ideal family that has everything going for them!

At least… That's what they believed until the father decided to take them to spend a day at Happyland Park. In this park with its extreme attractions, the most shameful secrets will emerge in the most literally explosive way possible! A horrifying and gory tale of survival begins in this first of two volumes by Shingo Honda!

Manga creator Shingo Honda is best known for as author and artist of series including Saiko Kuro (Saiko Black), Kiriko, Kiriko Kill, Crows Respect, Hakaijuu Vs. Mahou Shoujo of the End Vs. Earth, and Creature!.

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ABOUT ABLAZE:

ABLAZE is a publishing company releasing a variety of titles—in different formats, genres, and age ranges—original material, crowdfunded titles, reprints, art books, including international titles from Europe, Asia (manga, manhwa), Webtoons and more.  

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About the author

Adam Symchuk

Adam Symchuk is a Canadian born freelance writer and editor who has been writing for Asian Movie Pulse since 2018. He is currently focused on covering manga, manhwa and light novels having reviewed hundreds of titles in the past two years.

His love of film came from horror and exploitation films from Japan that he devoured in his teens. His love of comics came from falling in love with the works of Shuzo Oshimi, Junji Ito, Hideshi Hino, and Inio Asano but has expanded to a general love of the medium and all its genres.

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