Kansai Club Publishing previously ran a successful Kickstarter campaign for The Crater in 2013, but the company never released the manga.
North American publisher Digital Manga Inc.’s (DMI) current Kickstarter campaign to publish Osamu Tezuka’s Under the Air and The Crater manga added Tezuka’s Record of the Glass Castle (Garasu no Shiro no Kiroku) as an add-on to the campaign on Saturday.
DMI told ANN regarding the previous license by Kansai Club Publishing that it has “no affiliation with, or connection to” Kansai Club Publishing, and that it has no “leverage within Kickstarter to issue any direct refunds to the previous backers” of the Kansai Club Publishing campaign.
The Crater is an Add-On item in the campaign, and DMI plans to release the three-volume manga in a single omnibus volume.