Georgie, the 1980s shoujo manga by Man Izawa and Yumiko Igarashi, is finally getting an English release. Omoi and Manga Mavericks Books announced a joint licence on Monday. Omoi will publish the series digitally in spring 2027, and Manga Mavericks Books will follow with print editions in August 2027.
The split is deliberate. Omoi handles the digital side through its app and browser reader, while Manga Mavericks Books takes the physical editions.
What Georgie is about
Georgie follows a lively girl who lives with her mother and two older brothers in the Australian countryside. Her life changes when she meets Lowell, a young English noble, and that meeting sends her to England to find out where she actually comes from.
The original manga ran in Shogakukan's Sho-Comi magazine from 1982 to 1984. Fairbell published the series in print and shipped the final volume in April 2014. It also inspired an anime titled Lady Georgie in 1983.
Who is publishing it
Both halves of this announcement are small operations with a specific taste. Manga Mavericks Books is the publishing arm of the Manga Mavericks website and podcast, set up in April 2025 to license and localise work from independent creators in Japan. It is the same outfit that picked up Gago Hunters earlier this month for a July 2027 release, so the pipeline is filling up.
Omoi has a longer history. The service launched in June 2021 as Azuki on iOS, Android and the web, offering chapters shortly after they appear in Japan alongside a back catalogue. Its first partner was Kodansha USA, which supplied titles at launch until Kodansha pulled simulpub distribution from the platform and others in January 2023. Azuki renamed itself Omoi in November 2025.
Why this licence matters
Georgie is a sensible pick for a publisher that size. It is a known title with a finished run and an anime that older fans remember, and it has never been legally available in English. For a small press, that combination means there is a clean run at the market with no competing edition in the way.
It also fills a gap that has been open for a long time. The manga finished in 1984, the anime aired in 1983, and until now there has been no licensed English edition of either. A complete shoujo series from that decade, with four decades of nostalgia attached, is exactly the sort of thing that usually sits in licensing limbo.
The timing puts it in crowded company. Yen Press used MCM London this week to announce ten licences, and Seven Seas has been steadily adding older and webtoon material to its print schedule. August 2027 is filling up with titles chasing the same shelf space, and a forty-year-old shoujo series will need the anime crowd to show up for it.
When it arrives
The digital edition arrives first in spring 2027, with print volumes following in August. Neither publisher has announced a volume count, a translation credit or pricing yet. If you want to read it legally, the digital release is the one to watch first, since it comes months ahead of the paper.
Source: Anime News Network — Manga Mavericks Books, Omoi License Georgie Manga in English
Featured image: Georgie English release announcement artwork, via Anime News Network.
