SEAN: Next week is Anime NYC and also Yen Press week. Yikes!
ASH: Here we go!
SEAN: Several debuts for Yen On. Hell Is Dark with No Flowers (Jigoku Kura Yami Hana mo Naki), a horror title about a boy who can see monsters getting room and board in exchange for sending those possessed by yokai… to Hell!
ASH: Well, now, that sounds exactly like something I would read.
SEAN: My First Love’s Kiss (Watashi no Hatsukoi Aite ga Kiss Shiteta) is a yuri light novel series from the creator of Adachi and Shimamura. Our heroine is annoyed when her classmate and her mother are now living with them. It doesn’t help that the classmate is so pretty. But where does she go at night?
ASH: Glad to see more yuri novels being licensed.
SEAN: Re:ZERO -Starting Life in Another World- Short Story Collection is what it sounds. This collection takes place after Vol. 3 of the main series, and also is the introduction of a character we were supposed to already know from the 5th arc. The dangers of licensing short story collections.
Sword Art Online Alternative Clover’s Regret is the second in the Alternative series, now that we’ve caught up with Gun Gale Online. This series follows the adventures of the Sleeping Knights in a Japanese-themed game.
Also from Yen On: Alya Sometimes Hides Her Feelings in Russian 5, Blade & Bastard 2 (a JN-C print release), The Ephemeral Scenes of Setsuna’s Journey 4, Hell Mode 5 (a JN-C print release), The Hero Laughs While Walking the Path of Vengeance a Second Time 7, High School DxD 14, I Kept Pressing the 100-Million-Year Button and Came Out on Top 8, Is It Wrong to Try to Pick Up Girls in a Dungeon? 19, King’s Proposal 5, Magical Girl Raising Project 18 (the final volume), The Misfit of Demon King Academy 4-1 (a J-NC print release), My Happy Marriage 7, My Instant Death Ability Is So Overpowered, No One in This Other World Stands a Chance Against Me! 5 (a JN-C print release), Rascal Does Not Dream of Santa Claus (the 13th in the series), Riviere and the Land of Prayer 2, Sabikui Bisco 8, Sentenced to Be a Hero 3, That Time I Got Reincarnated as a Slime 19, and Your Forma 6.
ASH: So many books.
SEAN: As for Yen Press, they also have debuts. The Hachioji Specialty: Tengu’s Love (Hachiouji Meibutsu Tengu no Koi) is a shoujo title from Asuka. A young man returns to his home village… where he has to marry a tengu demon he met as a child! He doesn’t want this, but she won’t let that stop her.
ASH: Interesting, that plot is more commonly encountered the other way around.
SEAN: In Another World, My Sister Stole My Name (Isekai de Ane ni Namae wo Ubawaremashita) is a shoujo title from Flos Comic. A girl has been communicating with a boy from another world via a magic hand mirror… then her older sister and the mirror disappear. Now her sister has stolen her life in another world?
ASH: Uh-oh!
SEAN: The Magical Girl and the Evil Lieutenant Used to Be Archenemies (Katsute Mahou Shoujo to Aku wa Tekitai Shite Ita) is an omnibus containing the entire series before the author’s unfortunate death. She also wrote Inu x Buku SS, and this is getting an anime. It ran in Gangan Joker, and is another one of those “good guy and bad guy fall in love” series.
Rejected by the Hero’s Party, a Princess Decided to Live a Quiet Life in the Countryside (Shin no Nakama ni Narenakatta Ohime-sama wa, Henkyou de Slow Life Suru Koto ni Shimashita) is a spinoff of Banished from the Hero’s Party, showing what Rit was up to between the first time she met Red/Gideon and the second. It runs in Shonen Ace Plus.
ASH: I highly recommend the quiet countryside life when dealing with rejection. Or anytime, really.
SEAN: Strategic Lovers is a shonen title from (oh dear) Dragon Age. The son of a wealthy businessman and his mistress, our hero didn’t think he was in the line of succession… but he is! Now he’s been kidnapped by young women, all of whom are after his body! This is basically softcore porn, for that sort of audience.
ASH: It does have that vibe, doesn’t it.
SEAN: Also from Yen Press: Breasts Are My Favorite Things in the World! 8 (the final volume), Bungo Stray Dogs 24, Cheeky Brat 11, Friday at the Atelier 2, I Got a Cheat Skill in Another World and Became Unrivaled in the Real World, Too 5, I Kept Pressing the 100-Million-Year Button and Came Out on Top 6, The Illustrated Guide to Monster Girls 4 (the final volume), My Youth Romantic Comedy Is Wrong, As I Expected @ comic 22 (the final volume), She Likes Gays, but Not Me 2, The Summer Hikaru Died 4, The Tiger Won’t Eat the Dragon Yet 2, and Witch Life in a Micro Room 3.
ASH: The Summer Hikaru Died is definitely the one that interests me the most out of that batch.
SEAN: Onward. Debuting from Viz this week is I Wanna Do Bad Things with You (Kimi to Warui Koto ga Shitai), a romcom from Shonen Sunday. A girl offers to help a jealous younger brother derail his perfect older brother’s student council campaign. But is he just a “villain”?
Also from Viz: Hirasuyumi 2, Jujutsu Kaisen 23, Magilumiere Magical Girls Inc. 3, Mission: Yozakura Family 12, The Way of the Househusband 12, and Zom 100: Bucket List of the Dead 15.
ASH: Oops, I’ve got some The Way of the Househusband catching up to do.
SEAN: Steamship has a 3rd volume of Revenge: Mrs. Wrong.
From Square Enix we get Mr. Villain’s Day Off 5 and Ragna Crimson 13.
Seven Seas has two debuts. Hate Me, but Let Me Stay (Kiraide Isasete) is a BL title from Be x Boy Omegaverse. Yes, that’s now an entire magazine. I… look, it’s A/B/O. You know what the premise will be, I don’t need to summarize it.
And Too Many Losing Heroines! (Make Heroine ga Oosugiru!) is the manga version of the light novel we’ve talked about, and runs in Ura Sunday.
Also from Seven Seas: 365 Days to the Wedding 4, Black Night Parade 4, Cat on the Hero’s Lap 3, Don’t Call it Mystery 9-10, How NOT to Summon a Demon Lord 19, My Girlfriend’s Child 5, Orb: On the Movements of the Earth 5-6, A White Rose in Bloom 3, and You Like Me, Not My Daughter?! 4.
MICHELLE: I’ll never not cheer for Yumi Tamura!
ASH: Ditto!
SEAN: One Peace Books has the 5th and final volume of It Takes Two Tomorrow, Too.
KUMA gives us Even if There’s No Rainbow Tomorrow (Ashita Niji ga Denakute mo), a one-shot title from On Blue. An online romance between a drag queen and a sleepy salaryman.
MICHELLE: This looks really interesting!
ASH: I am likewise intrigued.
SEAN: The print debut from Kodansha Manga is Kusunoki’s Flunking Her High School Glow-Up (Kusunoki-san wa Koukou Debut ni Shippai shite Iru), a josei title from Comic Pool. A new high school boy is determined to be rid of his horrible middle school life and remake himself. Unfortunately, one classmate from his middle school knows the real him… and she’s trying to do the same thing! For those who enjoy seeing introverts attempt to change.
ASH: Hooray for josei!
SEAN: Also in print: Bakemonogatari 22 (the final volume), I Was Reincarnated as the 7th Prince so I Can Take My Time Perfecting My Magical Ability 13, Ogami-san Can’t Keep It In 6, and Welcome Back, Alice 7 (the final volume).
And digitally we get Issak 9, Medalist 10, and WIND BREAKER 16.
No new volumes for J-Novel Club, as they had so many last time. But we do see The Crown of Rutile Quartz 2, Duchess in the Attic manga volume 3, The Frontier Lord Begins with Zero Subjects manga volume 5, The Invincible Little Lady manga volume 4, Private Tutor to the Duke’s Daughter 13, Sweet Reincarnation 10, Taking My Reincarnation One Step at a Time: No One Told Me There Would Be Monsters! 6, and VTuber Legend: How I Went Viral after Forgetting to Turn Off My Stream 7.
Ghost Ship debuts an omnibus of a previously released title with Do You Like Big Girls? 1-2. There’s also the 7th and final volume of JK Haru is a Sex Worker in Another World. And in mature Seven Seas stuff, we get The Husky and His White Cat Shizun: Erha He Ta De Bai Mao Shizun 6.
Apologies to Drawn & Quarterly, who I missed in last week’s list. They’ve got another Yoshihara Tsuge title, Oba Electroplating Factory (Nejishiki), a collection of short stories from Garo.
ASH: I just picked up my copy!
SEAN: Airship, in print, has Free Life Fantasy Online: Immortal Princess 7 and I’m the Evil Lord of an Intergalactic Empire! 7.
And digitally we see a one-shot debut, An Autumn in Amber, a Zero-Second Journey (Kohaku no Aki, 0-byō no Tabi), another book by Mei Hachimoku, Seven Seas’ resident “bittersweet sci-fi teen romance” author. Not sure if this is bittersweet, but there’s sci-fi and teens. A boy who hates being touched and a snarky delinquent girl find time has stopped for everyone but them.
And there’s also Kuma Kuma Kuma Bear 19.
I’m so tired. So very, very tired after writing all that.
ASH: You’ve more than earned you rest. Thank you for your service.
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