SEAN: It’s officially hurricane season, and there’s a hurricane of manga.
The debut from Viz Media is Naruto: Sasuke’s Story—The Uchiha and the Heavenly Stardust (Naruto: Sasuke Retsuden – Uchiha no Matsuei to Tenkyu no Hoshikuzu), a manga adaptation of the light novel. The manga ran in Shonen Jump +.
Also from Viz: Akane-banashi 6, Call of the Night 16, Love’s in Sight! 7, Mao 17, Mashle: Magic and Muscles 16, One Piece: Ace’s Story 2 (the manga version, and the final volume), Skip Beat! 3-in-1 16, and Sleepy Princess in the Demon Castle 24.
ASH: Oooh, some good stuff there!
ANNA: Nice! I can’t believe there are so many volumes of Sleepy Princess.
SEAN: SuBLime gives us Birds of Shangri-La 3 and Finder Deluxe Edition 13.
From Square Enix we see The Ice Guy and the Cool Girl 5, My Clueless First Friend 6, and My Isekai Life: I Gained a Second Character Class and Became the Strongest Sage in the World! 13.
Seven Seas time. Danmei fans will enjoy The Untamed: The Official Artbook, an artbook for the Netflix series that was based on Grandmaster of Demonic Cultivation.
ASH: Very nice.
SEAN: Seven Seas proper has one debut. Marriage to Kitsune-sama (Okitsune-sama ni Totsugimashite) is a BL title from Comic Marginal, and complete in one volume. A young man is betrothed to a handsome fox spirit, and both of them are happy. Unfortunately, the fox spirit is under a curse that makes him want to eat his husband.
MICHELLE: Oops.
ASH: When you say “eat”…
ANNA: Hmm……
SEAN: Also from Seven Seas: The Eccentric Doctor of the Moon Flower Kingdom 6, Even Though We’re Adults 8, I Think I Turned My Childhood Friend Into a Girl 6, Miss Kobayashi’s Dragon Maid: Elma’s Office Lady Diary 9, Night of the Living Cat 4, and Re: Monster 9.
ASH: I really need to get caught up with Even Though We’re Adults.
SEAN: One Peace Books has the 7th manga volume of The Wrong Way to Use Healing Magic.
Kodansha Books has a 6th light novel of The Dawn of the Witch. This is the final volume.
Kodansha Manga has one debut, Ninja Vs. Gokudo (Ninja to Gokudou), a Comic Days series showing ninja fighting yakuza.
Also in print: The Fable Omnibus 3-4, How I Met My Soulmate 3, I Can’t Say No to the Lonely Girl 2, The Moon on a Rainy Night 5, Shonen Note: Boy Soprano 7, Sketchy 2, and That Time I Got Reincarnated as a Slime Omnibus 4-6.
ASH: Shonen Note is another great series I’m sadly behind on.
SEAN: Digitally we see Fungus and Iron 5, Gang King 18, Giant Killing 43, Having an Idol-Loving Boyfriend is the Best! 5, How to Treat a Lady Knight Right 5, I Have a Crush at Work 4, Medaka Kuroiwa is Impervious to My Charms 12, My Unique Skill Makes Me OP even at Level 1 13, and You Must Be This Tall to Propose! 3 (the final volume).
MICHELLE: One of these days, I really will get caught up on Giant Killing.
ASH: If it was ever released in print, I’d buy it in a heartbeat.
SEAN: J-Novel Club has some print. We get Ascendance of a Bookworm: Short Story Collection 1, My Friend’s Little Sister Has It In For Me! 9, the 7th Seirei Gensouki: Spirit Chronicles manga volume, the 5th Slayers Collector’s Edition, and Tearmoon Empire 10.
One debut from J-Novel Club in digital, and it’s a manga. My Quiet Blacksmith Life in Another World (Kajiya de Hajimeru Isekai Slow Life) is the manga adaptation of the light novel JNC already released. It runs in Dengeki Playstation.
They also have After-School Dungeon Diver: Level Grinding in Another World 2, The Brilliant Healer’s New Life in the Shadows 3, the 5th Full Clearing Another World under a Goddess with Zero Believers manga, Now I’m a Demon Lord! Happily Ever After with Monster Girls in My Dungeon 9, the 9th Now I’m a Demon Lord! Happily Ever After with Monster Girls in My Dungeon manga, the 2nd The Otome Heroine’s Fight for Survival manga, the 10th Seirei Gensouki: Spirit Chronicles manga, and You Like Me, Not My Daughter?! 6.
Ghost Ship has a 10th volume of The 100 Girlfriends Who Really, Really, Really, Really, REALLY Love You.
ASH: Still haven’t managed to get around to reading the first volume, although I’ve heard I should.
SEAN: And for “not Ghost Ship but mature”, we get the 7th and final PULSE and the 2nd Punch Drunk Love.
Dark Horse has the 8th volume of its Hellsing re-release.
Airship, in print, debuts True Love Fades Away When the Contract Ends – One Star in the Night Sky (Unmei no Koibito wa Kigen Tsuki). This is from the author of Making Jam in the Woods, I’d Rather Have a Cat Than a Harem, and The Apothecary Witch Turned Divorce Agent. A young woman trying to avoid getting married meets a young man with the same goal. Can they solve the problem by pretending to be in a relationship?
ASH: That will definitely work.
ANNA: Best way to avoid relationships. Except for I assume running off to make jam in the woods.
SEAN: It also gives us Disciple of the Lich: Or How I Was Cursed by the Gods and Dropped Into the Abyss! 7 (the final volume).
And in early digital we see The Case Files of Jeweler Richard 8 and Reincarnated Into a Game as the Hero’s Friend: Running the Kingdom Behind the Scenes 2.
And that’s the story of the hurricane. What manga are you getting?
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