SEAN: It’s March! The time when all the AO3 writers get out their Lion/Lamb omegaverse stories.

MICHELLE: It had not occurred to me that this existed, but surely it must.

ASH: Of course it does.

SEAN: Yen On has Brunhild and Kriemhild, the third in the Brunhild series, as well as Hollow Regalia 5.

And Yen Press gives us the 2nd Lycoris Recoil and Uncle from Another World 11.

Two debuts from Viz, though the first is a one-shot. Four Lives Remain: Tatsuya Endo Before Spy x Family (Shihou Yuugi) is a short story collection featuring some of Endo’s earliest work that ran in Weekly Shonen Jump and Akamaru Jump. Expect it to be darker than Spy x Family, and probably have more elves too.

ASH: Definitely curious about this one!

SEAN: A Star Brighter than the Sun (Taiyou Yori mo Mabushii Hoshi) is the latest series from High School Debut/My Love Story!! author Kazune Kawahara, and of course it runs in Betsuma. A girl realizes that her weak childhood friend has grown up and is not so weak any more. Does she like him?

MICHELLE: I love Kazune Kawahara, and am so here for this.

ANNA: Me too!

ASH: Same!

SEAN: Also from Viz: Blue Box 14, Dark Gathering 12, Let’s Do It Already! 4, Like a Butterfly 11, My Hero Academia: Team-Up Missions 6, My Love Story!! 14 (a one-shot epilogue showing the cast in college), My Special One 9, One Piece 108, Sakamoto Days 16, Skip Beat! 50, and Wolf Girl and Black Prince 12.

MICHELLE: The only thing that could possibly overshadow a new volume of Skip Beat! is a My Love Story!! epilogue!

ANNA: This is an unusually good week!

ASH: I’m looking forward to it.

Tokyopop has My Beautiful Man 3 and World’s End Blue Bird 3.

Steamship has a 2nd volume of Guilty Smile.

Square Enix Manga debuts The Emperor’s Caretaker (Koutei Heika no Osewagakari – Jokan Kurashi ga Shiawase sugite Koukyuu kara Deraremasen), a manga adaptation of an as-yet unlicensed light novel. Do you like Ancient China once removed stories that take place in the Inner Palace with lots of court intrigue? This is another one. It runs in Manga Up!.

ASH: That does sound like something I would read.

SEAN: Also coming out from Square Enix: The Apothecary Diaries 13, Daemons of the Shadow Realm 7, and Mr. Villain’s Day Off 6.

Two debuts from Seven Seas. I Got Married to the Girl I Hate Most in Class (Class no Daikirai na Joshi to Kekkon suru Koto ni Natta) is a manga based on a light novel that Seven Seas will release this fall. It runs in Shonen Ace +. Two high schoolers who hate each other are forced to marry to save his family business. His only worry… why did she agree to this? This also has an anime currently airing.

Rozen Maiden Collector’s Edition is a new omnibus of the classic manga Tokyopop released almost 20 years ago. Now it’s back, and it’s 450 pages. A weird combination of death game and battle manga, its main appeal is the gothic lolita fashion.

ASH: Everything old is new again.

SEAN: Also from Seven Seas: Asumi-chan is Interested in Lesbian Brothels! 5, D-Frag! 18, Grandmaster of Demonic Cultivation 9, I Think I Turned My Childhood Friend Into a Girl 8, The Invisible Man and His Soon-to-Be Wife 5, Killer Shark in Another World 3, Monster Guild: The Dark Lord’s (No-Good) Comeback! 8, and Re-Living My Life with a Boyfriend Who Doesn’t Remember Me 3.

And in… not light novel, not danmei, but Korean novel news, we get Lout of Count’s Family 3.

A debut from One Peace Books. You Talk Too Much, So Just Shut It Already! (Kimi wa Yakamashi Tojite yo Kuchi wo!) is a shonen title from Dra-Dra-Sharp#. A deaf girl is surprised that the guy in her class keeps talking to her… then, as she reads his lips, realizes he’s talking nonsense!

Kodansha Manga debuts DEAD ROCK, the latest series from Fairy Tail creator Hiro Mashima. This Weekly Shonen Magazine series is about a school for demon kings, but mostly it’s an excuse for Mashima to draw more Mashima stuff.

Also in print: A-DO 7, Anyway, I’m Falling in Love with You 6, Initial D Omnibus 5, Medalist 7, Rent-A-Girlfriend 29, and Thunder 3 3.

Digitally we get Blue Lock 30, The Café Terrace and Its Goddesses 16, How to Grill Our Love 13, Those Snow White Notes 26, and Tying the Knot with an Amagami Sister 17.

One light novel debut for J-Novel Club: Imperial Reincarnation: I Came, I Saw, I Survived (Tensei Shitara Koutei deshita – Umare Nagara no Koutei wa Kono Saki Ikinokoreru ka), whose manga JNC released a little bit ago. A history nerd reincarnates as a child emperor… and he knows how long child emperors tend to live. If he wants to avoid assassination, he’ll have to be both clever AND adorable.

ASH: It’s not a bad strategy.

SEAN: Also in light novels: The Dorky NPC Mercenary Knows His Place 3, No One Gets Past This Gatekeeper 3, and Zilbagias the Demon Prince: How the Seventh Prince Brought Down the Kingdom 4.

No manga debuts, but J-Novel Club does have The Coppersmith’s Bride 5, The Invincible Little Lady 7, Safe & Sound in the Arms of an Elite Knight 3, and Stuck in a Time Loop 3.

Ghost Ship has The 100 Girlfriends Who Really, Really, Really, Really, REALLY Love You 13 and Becoming a Princess Knight and Working at a Yuri Brothel 4.

Dark Horse Comics is going back to one of their bestsellers. Gunsmith Cats: Omnibus Edition is a collection of the first three volumes of this Guns, Cars, and Girls (in order of importance) series. Yes, digital as well. No, I don’t know if it will have THAT scene. Please move on, 2000s manga fandom. In any case, recommended if you like girls blowing things up and shooting things, and if you don’t mind a lot of fanservice.

ASH: Somehow, I’ve never actually read Gunsmith Cats.

SEAN: Also from Dark Horse: Keep Your Hands Off Eizouken! 7.

And Airship, in print, has the second volume of Witch and Mercenary.

While digitally we get The Case Files of Jeweler Richard 10.

Lots of old favorites being released anew. Anything catch your eye?