SEAN: The end of September drifts into the start of October, which means it’s SPOOKY TIME.
MICHELLE: THE BEST TIME!
ANNA: Here for it!
ASH: Woohoo!
SEAN: We start with Yen On, which gives us Wolf & Parchment: New Theory Spice & Wolf 9 and You Can Have My Back 3 (the final volume).
And Yen Press has Combatants Will Be Dispatched! 10, A Terrified Teacher at Ghoul School! 15, Triage X 27, Uncle from Another World 10, and Yowamushi Pedal 26.
ANNA: Yowamushi Pedal is a favorite in my house.
ASH: I am so far behind, but I’ve been enjoying it.
SEAN: The debut for Viz Media is Otaku Vampire’s Love Bite (Oshi ni Amagami), a shoujo title from Hana to Yume, and from the creator of Kamisama Kiss. A vampire girl is a massive otaku, and has come to Japan to fuel her habits. Then she finds her next door neighbor looks just like her anime crush!
MICHELLE: I was just thinking fondly of Kamisama Kiss the other day. I’ll definitely be checking this out.
ANNA: OOOH, me too!
SEAN: Also from Viz: Blade of the Moon Princess 5 (the final volume), Blue Box 12, Kaiju No. 8 11, Kimi ni Todoke: From Me to You: Soulmate 3 (the final volume), Marriage Toxin 4, Moriarty the Patriot 17, My Hero Academia 39, Rainbow Days 12, Tamon’s B-Side 5, and Vampire Knight: Memories 9.
MICHELLE: I am so in the mood for more Tamon’s B-Side. And I may be in the minority, but I’ve been enjoying Kimi ni Todoke: From Me to You: Soulmate, as well.
SEAN: Udon Entertainment has a biography. Manga Biographies: Charles M. Schulz The Creator of Snoopy and Peanuts (Kadokawa Manga Gakushuu Series: Manga Jinbutsu-den Charles Schulz Snoopy no Umi no Oya). The biography series has, in the past, done Thomas Edison, Helen Keller, Florence Nightingale, etc. None of those came out over here, but Sparky is different, and this is his (manga) life!
ASH: Interesting!
SEAN: Steamship has a 5th volume of GAME: Between the Suits and a 6th volume of Outbride: Beauty and the Beasts.
Square Enix gives us The Great Jahy Will Not Be Defeated! 10 and Victoria’s Electric Coffin 3 (the final volume).
Seven Seas debuts Magical Buffs: The Support Caster is Stronger Than He Realized! (Zatsuyou Fuyojutsushi ga Jibun no Saikyou ni Kidzuku made), a manga based on an as-yet unlicensed light novel, that runs in Futabasha’s Gaugau Monster. Let’s face it, you can guess the plot of this one.
ASH: That’s probably true.
SEAN: Also from Seven Seas: Does it Count if You Lose Your Virginity to an Android? 4, Dungeon Friends Forever 3, Free Life Fantasy Online: Immortal Princess 8, The Great Snake’s Bride 4, I Get the Feeling That Nobukuni-san Likes Me 4, Imaginary 2, The Legend of Dororo and Hyakkimaru 8, Magic Artisan Dahlia Wilts No More 6, Malevolent Spirits: Mononogatari 8, My [Repair] Skill Became a Versatile Cheat, So I Think I’ll Open a Weapon Shop 5, My Wife Has No Emotion 7, Time Stop Hero 10, and The Valiant Must Fall 3.
ASH: I really should catch up with The Legend of Dororo and Hyakkimaru.
Kodansha Manga has one print debut. Mobile Suit Gundam Cucuruz Doan’s Island (Kidou Senshi Gundam The Origin – Cucuruz Doan no Shima) ran in Gundam Ace, and is an examination of the Cucuruz Doan’s Island events from the Zeon Soldier perspective.
Also in print: Bless 3, A Condition Called Love 10, and WIND BREAKER 8.
Digitally, we see Chihayafuru 46, Life 19, That Beauty Is a Tramp 3, and Those Snow White Notes 21.
MICHELLE: Just a few volumes left of Chihayafuru!
ANNA: I can’t believe it.
SEAN: I’ve been saying that Yen Press took over J-NC’s print release distribution, but that’s not quite true. Hachette, Yen’s parent company, took over distribution. So I’ll put them back with the other JNC titles. We get a print release for Reborn to Master the Blade: From Hero-King to Extraordinary Squire 4 (the manga version).
ASH: Ooooooh, okay. That makes sense.
SEAN: Also from J-Novel Club: the 4th D-Genesis: Three Years after the Dungeons Appeared manga volume, The Frontier Lord Begins with Zero Subjects 5, and An Introvert’s Hookup Hiccups: This Gyaru Is Head Over Heels for Me! 8.
From Hanashi Media we see Tsukimichi: Moonlit Fantasy 3.
No Ghost Ship next week, but we get a mature Seven Seas title. KinnPorsche is a Thai novel that inspired a live-action series, and, as you likely guessed, it’s BL. A college student gets caught up with a crime family.
MICHELLE: Intriguing!
ASH: A Thai novel! That’s not something you see everyday.
SEAN: From Denpa Books we see Under Ninja 4.
Cross Infinite World’s debut, Ayakashi and the Fairy Tales We Tell Ourselves, is another book from the pen of Kosuzu Kobato, author of Making Jam in the Woods, Apothecary Witch Turned Divorce Agent, etc. Our heroine meets a young man who can see ayakashi.
ASH: I like the sound of the title, at least.
SEAN: Also from CIW: The Do-Over Damsel Conquers the Dragon Emperor 6, The Dragon’s Soulmate is a Mushroom Princess! 4, and Fluffy Paradise 5.
In print, for Airship, we see the debut of I Abandoned My Engagement Because My Sister is a Tragic Heroine, but Somehow I Became Entangled with a Righteous Prince (Higeki no Heroine Buru Imouto no Sei de Konyaku Hakishita no desu ga, Naze ka Seigikan no Tsuyoi Outaishi ni Karamareru you ni narimashita). A saint is rather stunned when her little sister says she’s being bullied by her sister, and even more stunned when this means her fiance breaks off the engagement to her. And now the Crown Prince is investigating her? Isn’t this all about her sister being a spoiled brat!?!
Also in print: I’m in Love with the Villainess: She’s so Cheeky for a Commoner 3 (the final volume) and A Tale of the Secret Saint 6.
The early digital debut is a one-shot light novel spinoff of the popular manga: The 100 Girlfriends Who Really, Really, Really, Really, Really Love You: Secret Love Story is a short story collection that hopefully is as bonkers as the main series.
Also in early digital: Reincarnated as a Dragon Hatchling 8.
It’s fall, so the manga pages are turning colors! What are you buying?
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