Tokyopop Adds Five Manga to Its Spring–Summer 2027 Lineup

Tokyopop announced on Friday that it has licensed five manga for English publication in spring–summer 2027.

The titles and creators are:

• Can't Buy My Love — Pitari Mishima
• A Fangirl's Guide to Learning How to Date 3D Men — art by Ari Asato, original work by Chizu Aoi, original character designs by Kagari Mizuno
• Romantically Challenged — Hi Calo
• LOVE IS PAIN — Arata Minami
• How to Fall In Love with You Again — Kazuma Akutagawa

Can't Buy My Love follows university student Yu after a fire destroys his home and everything he owns. With no money, no luck and nobody to turn to, he receives help from Madoka, who handles odd jobs.

Madoka gives Yu a place to live and part-time work, caring for him when he needs support most. His kindness moves Yu, who begins falling for him. But the seemingly angelic Madoka turns out to be obsessed with money, treating work as nothing beyond a way to earn it.

Yu's illusions crumble as his messy, blunt boss and roommate works him to exhaustion. Still, glimpses of Madoka's mature, sexy side stay with him. Soon, Yu becomes caught up in Madoka's hidden past.

A Fangirl's Guide to Learning How to Date 3D Men centers on Kaoruko, a 24-year-old otome game obsessive. She has never cared about real-world men, reserving her affection for fictional, two-dimensional characters.

Her parents force her into a matchmaking meeting with someone who looks exactly like her favorite character. Kaoruko immediately agrees to marry him, but he refuses. Unlike her game's princely character, Tsukasa is cold and unfriendly, leaving her jolted by reality.

Even so, a real man has stirred her heart for the first time. Kaoruko decides she must win over Tsukasa as though completing his game route to reach her happy ending.

In Romantically Challenged, omega Haruki orders a secondhand T-shirt. When the package arrives covered in alpha pheromones, he realizes their owner must be his destined mate.

Haruki has always dreamed of a dramatic, romantic encounter with his alpha and forming a bond with them. Meeting the pheromones' owner challenges that dream: the gloomy, dark alpha is the opposite of his ideal man.

His instincts nevertheless pull him toward the alpha. Caught between desire and his expectations, Haruki must decide whether to reject his destined partner or surrender to an overwhelming pleasure he never sought.

LOVE IS PAIN follows Yui, who desperately needs to secure a client or face ruin. Seeing an opportunity, he prepares to impress his newest customer with his skills in bed.

That customer is Gichi, a tall, frightening-looking man with an intimidating presence. Their encounter initially unfolds as Yui expects, until Gichi takes charge. Yui finds himself under Gichi's sway, caught in feelings unlike anything he has experienced.

Gichi questions Yui's professionalism and pushes him to make more effort. Yui angrily rejects both him and his money, insisting that even being showered with cash would not change his refusal.

Determined never to accept Gichi as a client again, Yui still cannot stop thinking about him. When chance reunites them, Yui begins to see kindness beneath Gichi's intimidating, muscular exterior.

How to Fall In Love with You Again introduces Shoma Yagi as an 18-year-old with an unrequited crush on his childhood friend, Mizuki—or so he remembers.

Shoma wakes to find an adult Mizuki beside him, claiming they are boyfriends. He discovers that he has lost every memory from the past seven years.

The grown-up Mizuki is mature, sexy and unlike the friend Shoma recalls. Shoma's latest memory is recognizing his crush on Mizuki, leaving him struggling to process their suddenly transformed relationship.