For Immediate release

UDON Entertainment and Manga Classics halt all shipments to Diamond Comic Distributors until further notice.

Retailers advised that all Diamond orders should be considered “Cancelled”

May 29, 2025: UDON Entertainment and its sister-company Manga Classics Inc. announce today that they have halted all shipments of product to Diamond Comic Distributors, until further notice. Any retailers with outstanding orders for new, upcoming, or even existing products should consider those orders cancelled. UDON and Manga Classics ask Retailers and Vendors to seek alternate sources (listed below) to obtain their wide variety of comic books, graphic novels, manga, art books, and other materials.

“With the current state of uncertainty and lack of communication from the new owners to both retailers as well as many publishers, we have to do what is best to serve our customers,” said UDON Chief of Operations Erik Ko. “We realize this is a deep inconvenience for many retailers, but we’re trying to do our best to serve our partners and fans, while minimizing risk and moving forward in an uncertain time.”

UDON Entertainment is well known for their line of Capcom licensed original comics based on Street Fighter, Darkstalkers, and Mega Man, and for manga and artbooks based on top game and anime properties including Elden Ring, Persona, Neon Genesis Evangelion, and more. Manga Classics is the premier publisher of manga adaptations of classic novels, featuring authors from Jane Austen to Charles Dickens to William Shakespeare. Their newest title features Sir Arthur Conan Doyle’s Sherlock Holmes.

For “Direct Market” retailers (i.e. Comic Shops):

All Diamond Comics Distribution pre-orders for previously solicited titles releasing in May-August 2025 can be ordered instead through Lunar Distribution.

One key title affected will be the forthcoming Mega Man Timelines #1, which will receive a new release date of June 25, 2025. 20% of UDON’s initial orders on the title came from Diamond Comics accounts. To cover new orders from any former Diamond customers switching over to Lunar, UDON will be producing a 25% overprint on all direct market editions of Mega Man Timelines #1 (ordering info below).

Also to retailers, please update your distribution information. For comic book products, retailers can find UDON’s monthly comics offered through Lunar and Universal (in future). For Graphic Novels, Manga, Art books, and Manga Classics titles, please order through our new distribution partner Simon and Schuster.

A message to UDON’s Fans:

We’re sorry for all of the uncertainty and stress that the ongoing Diamond bankruptcy situation is causing you! We hope to continue to make our comics and books available to you with little-to-no interruption. The best thing you can do is remind your local comic shop that you want our comics, and that they are available through Lunar Distribution and Simon & Schuster!

UDON Chief Erik Ko and the entire team would like to thank all of their fans and retail partners for their continued support.

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The complete Mega Man Timelines series will be available in comic book shops serviced by Lunar Distribution. Pre-order with your comic shop today!

Mega Man Timelines #1
By Tavis Maiden (Tenko King, Binwin’s Minnions) & Kenny Ruiz (Team Phoenix, Star Wars: Path of the Lightsaber)
NEW RELEASE DATE: JUNE 25th, 2025

The Blue Bomber is back! MEGA MAN returns in five connected 1-shot comics spanning five different eras of robotic heroes! In this first issue, the original Mega Man squares off against two explosive and fiery Robot Masters bent on city-wide destruction! Fight, Mega Man! For everlasting peace!

Cover A – $4.99
Lunar: 0325UE616

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UDON Entertainment is a publisher of original and translated art books, graphic novels, and manga. Our best-known projects are those based on popular video game franchises, including Street Fighter, Mega Man, Monster Hunter, Dark Souls, Persona, and more. UDON also publishes art books and manga based on top transmedia properties including More Than a Married Couple, But Not Lovers, Summertime Rendering, Neon Genesis Evangelion, Kill la Kill, FLCL, Rose of Versailles, and Yu-Gi-Oh!.

*****Sourced from an UDON Entertainment email. This post has recreated the email from hand to be as accurate as possible to how it originally appeared, but some limitations (such as having to turn the Preview and Coming Soon boxes into images instead of active text, as well as being unable to utilize a smaller text size for some portions) prevented a 100% accurate translation.

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