Random House’s Ink Pop to Release Print Edition of Azuki Series ‘Our Aimless Nights’ Summer 2026

After launching their first two print releases with Scholastic Graphix this past spring, digital manga service Azuki announced today that Random House’s Ink Pop line will release Our Aimless Nights by Koumori in paperback and hardcover print editions in Summer 2026. Ink Pop is a new line for manga, manhwa, and webtoons for kids and teens from Random House Graphic, an imprint of Random House Children’s Books. Our Aimless Nights was originally released by Futabasha in Japan and was released digitally in English by Azuki. Ink Pop’s print production of Our Aimless Nights will make use of Azuki’s translation and lettering and is being overseen by Azuki, Futabasha, and author Koumori.

If you missed our site’s review of Our Aimless Nights–I got you, here! Koumori’s sweet, coming-of-age tale in manga form. This manga series features the very cheerful, well-known, and well-liked high school girl Chika and the much more reserved, quiet, and introverted Waya. As they are as different as the sun and the moon, they find that spending time together outside the convenience store where Waya works a special time that they start to look forward to. In my review of the first eleven chapters of so of the series, I wrote what makes Our Aimless Nights stand out is that it’s a well-paced, inviting story of connections and finding someone in your adolescence who makes you want to share parts of yourself with them. I am a big fan of coming-of-age stories in just about every form of media, and I…