SEAN: Spring is here, tra-la, tra-la. It’s raining every day. Just like winter, actually.
ASH: Life is skittles!
SEAN: We start with Airship’s print releases, as they have the 2nd volume of I’m in Love with the Villainess: She’s so Cheeky for a Commoner.
And for early digital it’s Kuma Kuma Kuma Bear 18.
Dark Horse Comics has the 6th volume of their Hellsing re-release.
J-Novel Club has some print. We get the first volume of the third arc of Ascendance of a Bookworm: The Manga, where Myne is dead but Rozemyne lives on. As with all the manga adaptations, this runs in Comic Corona.
ASH: I should maybe give the adaptation a try at some point.
SEAN: There’s also An Archdemon’s Dilemma: How to Love Your Elf Bride 16 and The Unwanted Undead Adventurer 11.
In digital, things are very quiet on the JN-C front, but we do get two debuts, both manga. Death’s Daughter and the Ebony Blade (Shinigami ni Sodaterareta Shoujo wa Shikkoku no Tsurugi wo Mune ni Idaku) is the manga adaptation of the light novels also released, and it runs in Dengeki Daioh.
The Banished Former Hero Lives as He Pleases (Dekisokonai to Yobareta Moto Eiyuu wa, Jikka kara Tsuihou sareta no de Suki Katte ni Ikiru koto ni shita) is also a manga adaptations of the light novels also released, and the anime debuted this week. The manga runs in Comic Corona.
There’s also Monster and Parent 4 (the final volume) and Sword Saint Adel’s Second Chance 2.
Kodansha Manga has some print titles. Debuting is The Fable Omnibus 1, a collection of the first two volumes of this yakuza series that will soon have an anime. It ran in Young Magazine.
ASH: Okay, I’m intrigued; the pet parrot seals the deal.
SEAN: Also debuting is Sketchy, the story of a woman who works in a movie rental store and is pretty burned out… till she sees girls skateboarding. It reignites the fire in her life! This ran in Young Magazine the 3rd. I am here for a womens’ skateboarding manga, even if it’s not the one that became a meme.
MICHELLE: Interesting!
ANNA: Indeed!
ASH: Oh!
SEAN: Also in print: Immortal Hounds 7 (the final volume), Medaka Kuroiwa is Impervious to My Charms 6, Pass the Monster Meat, Milady! 3, Quality Assurance in Another World 7, Shikimori’s Not Just a Cutie 16, and WIND BREAKER 5.
The digital debut is You Must Be This Tall to Propose! (Ookiku Nattara Kekkon suru!), which ran in Young Magazine. A boy has a crush on his neighbor, who’s two years older than he is. She says propose to her once he gets taller than her. Unfortunately, he had no idea how tall she was going to get!
Also in digital: Because I, the True Saint, was Banished, that Country is Done For! 2, Gang King 16, Giant Killing 42, Medaka Kuroiwa is Impervious to My Charms 11, and WIND BREAKER 14.
A shoujo debut from One Peace Books is Tales of the Tendo Family (Tendou-ke Monogatari), which is by Ken Saito, the creator of The Name of the Flower and Oh My Brother! from the old CMX label. This is a long-running LaLa title about a woman who is supposed to marry into the Tendo family… which has a reputation for people dying! So she runs, and replaces herself with a fake, who is determined to do her best! This gets an Anna and Michelle alert.
MICHELLE: I never managed to finish either of those CMX series (well, they didn’t finish Oh! My Brother, either) but am still somewhat intrigued.
ANNA: I liked both these series, so I’m definitely interested.
ASH: I just wrote a little about the first volume! So far, I’m liking it.
SEAN: We’ll start Seven Seas with a new danmei debut. The Disabled Tyrant’s Beloved Pet Fish: Canji Baojun De Zhangxin Yu Chong. This comedy series is about a man who falls asleep reading a webnovel about a ruthless tyrant who falls for his male concubine. Then our hero wakes up… as the tyrant’s pet carp. Now he has to somehow stop the tyrant becoming a tyrant in order to become human again.
MICHELLE: Could be fun, I suppose!
ASH: Sometimes these sorts of ridiculous premises actually work.
SEAN: The manga debut is The Condemned Villainess Goes Back in Time and Aims to Become the Ultimate Villain (Danzaisareta Akuyaku Reijou wa, Gyakkou shite Kanpeki na Akujo wo Mezasu @COMIC), the manga adaptation of the light novel also released by Seven Seas. It runs in Comic Corona.
Also from Seven Seas: Chronicles of an Aristocrat Reborn in Another World 9, Crossplay Love: Otaku x Punk 8, Dinosaur Sanctuary 4, The Dungeon of Black Company 10, I Married My Female Friend 2, Life with an Ordinary Guy Who Reincarnated into a Total Fantasy Knockout 3, Magika Swordsman and Summoner 17, Marmalade Boy: Collector’s Edition 5 (the final volume), My Girlfriend’s Child 4, Time Stop Hero 9, and We Started a Threesome!! 2.
MICHELLE: Yay Marmalade Boy.
ANNA: Woo!
SEAN: From Square Enix we see Daemons of the Shadow Realm 4, The Ice Guy and the Cool Girl 4, and My Isekai Life: I Gained a Second Character Class and Became the Strongest Sage in the World! 12.
ANNA: I do enjoy some Ice Guy and Cool Girl.
ASH: Likewise!
SEAN: From SuBLime, we see the debut of Engage, the latest title from Yuu Minaduki, and the latest in the connected series that includes Sayonara Game, Change World, and Love Nest. A chef who only sees a customer once a year is determined to confess.
ASH: Ooooh, BL that seems to be at least tangentially related to food? That’s a subgenre I usually enjoy.
SEAN: And there is also Black or White 8.
The debut for Viz is Splatoon 3: Splatlands (Splatoon Bankara!), for fans of the game franchise. It runs in Monthly Corocoro Comic.
Also from Viz: Akane-banashi 5, Case Closed 90, Dandadan 7, Demon Slayer: Kimetsu Academy 2, Kakuriyo: Bed & Breakfast for Spirits 9, Komi Can’t Communicate 29, and Pokémon: Sword & Shield 9.
MICHELLE: I should probably read Akane-banashi.
ASH: Ack! I need to catch up, too!
SEAN: And nothing from Yen Press, but wait till the week after next. What entices you?
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