Company also announces 3 more Manga Classics releases, 5 more artbooks

Udon Entertainment announced at its panel at Comic Con International in San Diego on Thursday that it will release Street Fighter The Novel , Atlus and yuztan's Dragon's Crown manga, and the The Count of Monte Cristo, The Jungle Book , and The Stories of Edgar Allan Poe Manga Classics. The company also announced five new artbook releases.

Street Fighter The Novel will be Udon Entertainment's first novel release. Takashi Yano (Naruto: Itachi's Story, Naruto: Shikamaru's Story) wrote the original novel, which PHP published in Japan. The novel features illustrations by Eyeshield 21 and One-Punch Man illustrator Yuusuke Murata.



yuztan drew the two-volume Dragon's Crown manga, which ran in Kadokawa's Monthly Comptiq magazine from 2013-2014.

Vanillaware and Atlus released the original"2D action RPG" in Japan in July 2013 and in North America in August 2013.



Udon Entertainment describes the new "Manga Classics" releases as follows:

Manga Classics: The Count of Monte Cristo

The classic tale of love and revenge by Alexandre Dumas told in this 400 page volume! Our biggest book yet!



Manga Classics: The Jungle Book

This adaptation will feature ALL the stories in Rudyard Kipling's novel. So the readers will be able to read about Mowgli's adventures as well as a lot of the lesser known tales that have been omitted from movie and other adaptations!



Manga Classics: The Stories of Edgar Allan Poe

Manga Classics first anthology book, featuring 5 must read stories from Edgar Allan Poe's poetry and short stories. The list of works includes: The Raven, The Cask of Amontillado,