SEAN: Mid-June, and oh look, it’s raining again. I guess April showers bring May showers bring June showers.
Airship, in print, gives us The Mimosa Confessions 4 and Reborn as a Space Mercenary 12.
And for early digital we see The Condemned Villainess Goes Back in Time and Aims to Become the Ultimate Villain 5 and A Tale of the Secret Saint 8.
Dark Horse Comics has the 5th and final volume of the deluxe edition of Trigun Maximum.
Ghost Ship has The 100 Girlfriends Who Really, Really, Really, Really, REALLY Love You 14 and The Cursed Sword Master’s Harem Life 3.
ASH: One day I will really, really, really get around to reading one of these. (Can you guess which?)
SEAN: Ize Press debut Radio Storm. A young man is suffering through the standard “I’m in a magic school with weak powers”, but a plague sends him out of the school to find his “Caller”. This is whatever the Korean term for BL is.
Also from Ize Press: DARK MOON: THE BLOOD ALTAR 7 (the final volume), Finding Camellia 4, I Tamed My Ex-Husband’s Mad Dog 3, Men of the Harem 3, My Secretly Hot Husband 3, Not-Sew-Wicked Stepmom 6, and Omniscient Reader’s Viewpoint 7.
No debuts for J-Novel Club, though technically the 14th volume of Arifureta: From Commonplace to World’s Strongest should count, as it’s the first of the “After Story” books showing what life is like for Hajime and his polycule back on Earth.
On the light novel side, we see The Banished Former Hero Lives as He Pleases 5, Chivalry of a Failed Knight 6, Haibara’s Teenage New Game+ 8, Invaders of the Rokujouma!? 47, Mercedes and the Waning Moon 2, The Mythical Hero’s Otherworld Chronicles 11, Private Tutor to the Duke’s Daughter 16, and They Don’t Know I’m Too Young for the Adventurer’s Guild 2.
For manga, they have Campfire Cooking in Another World with My Absurd Skill: Sui’s Great Adventure 7, A Cave King’s Road to Paradise 6, Dragon Daddy Diaries 5, The Eternal Fool’s Words of Wisdom 5, The Invincible Summoner Who Crawled Up from Level 1 3, Only I Know That This World Is a Game 8, Sweet Reincarnation 11, and A Wild Last Boss Appeared! 6.
There’s several print debuts for Kodansha, especially if we count repackagings. The first and final volumes of Codename: Sailor V are out in the Naoko Takeuchi Collector’s Edition.
MICHELLE: Oooh.
ASH: Pretty!
ANNA: Sweet!!!
SEAN: Senpai is an Otokonoko: My Crossdressing Classmate (Senpai wa Otokonoko) is a LINE Manga title that had an anime recently. Given it’s LINE Manga, you know what that means, it’s a webtoon, which also means it’s in color throughout. A girl confesses to the cool upperclassman… only to find the cool upperclassman is a boy in the girls’ uniform.
ASH: I’d read at least the first volume of this.
SEAN: Shout Loud, My Heart is a BL title from Gateau, complete in one volume. A college student and budding guitarist meets a man at a gig and is attracted to his voice.
MICHELLE: Interesting. The cover to this has a nice vibe, too.
ASH: I am intrigued.
SEAN: And there’s a box set with all of Twilight Out of Focus.
Also in print: Am I Actually the Strongest? 10, The Ghost in the Shell: The Human Algorithm 5, Rent-A-Girlfriend 31, and Saving 80,000 Gold in Another World for My Retirement 11.
And we get digital releases of Medalist 12, Parasyte Reversi 5, and Quality Assurance in Another World 14.
One Peace Books debuts My Death Flags Show No Sign of Ending (Ore no Shibou Flag ga Todomaru Tokoro o Shiranai), a Manga Box title based on an as-yet-unlicensed light novel. This is a male version of the villainess story, as our protagonist finds himself in his favorite game as the most evil character.
ASH: A potentially interesting variant of the genre.
SEAN: Seven Seas releases Cats With Jobs (Neko no Oshigoto), another cat manga from the author of Monster Cats, Yokai Cats, etc. The subject should be obvious.
ASH: Kitties!
ANNA: It is nice to know that there’s so much cat manga out there.
SEAN: Seven Seas also have SHWD: The Complete Yuri Collection. This is an odd one. They licensed and released Vol. 1, but then it vanished for three years. Now they’re releasing the whole thing at once, including that first volume. SHWD is from Comic Ruelle. It stands for Special Hazardous Waste Disposal, and has been described as “yuri buddy cop story meets horror”.
ASH: That is rather odd.
SEAN: Also from Seven Seas: 7th Time Loop 7, After School Etude 3, Arifureta: From Commonplace to World’s Strongest 14 (not to be confused with the light novel with the exact same title being released by J-Novel Club the day before), Dungeon Builder: The Demon King’s Labyrinth is a Modern City! 11, Failure Frame 10, Last Game 9, Love is an Illusion! 7, My Stepmother and Stepsisters Aren’t Wicked 6, Nakamura-san, the Uninvited Gyaru3, The New Recruit 3 (the final volume), Too Many Losing Heroines! 3, Trapped in a Dating Sim 12, and You Like Me, Not My Daughter?! 6.
Square Enix Manga has Always a Catch! 3, Ragna Crimson 14, and Wash It All Away 2.
Steamship has a third light novel for The Villainess and the Demon Knight.
Tokyopop’s debut is My Adorable Betrothed (Kawaii yo Gikei-san), a one-shot BL title that ran in from RED. Two men are betrothed to each other after birth, and years later one of them is adopted into the family of the other. Does this lead to forbidden passion? Does this lead to piles of sex? Yes.
Also from Tokyopop: My Contract With the Apothecary Monster 2.
No debuts from Viz, but we do see Choujin X 9, Dogsred 2, Fool Night 5, Haikyu!! 3-in-1 5, Heart Gear 5, Insomniacs After School 10, Magilumiere Magical Girls Inc. 8, Mission: Yozakura Family 17, Undead Unluck 20, and Zom 100: Bucket List of the Dead 17.
ASH: Ack, I still need to read the first volume of Dogsred!
SEAN: Yen Press have three debuts. The 13th Footprint (13-kaime no Ashiato) is the latest from the creator of Erased and The Kid I Saw in My Dreams. A teacher living a happy life with his family finds that coming to an end when he begins receiving anonymous postcards that foretell the future. This gets a swank hardcover, also like the author’s other titles.
MICHELLE: I’d always meant to read those other titles but, predictably, I failed.
ASH: It’s been a while, but I recall liking them.
ANNA: Michelle and I can be failure buddies together.
SEAN: The Ragnarok System of the Desperate Reincarnated Demon Lord and the Seven Aggressive Maidens (Kojirase Tensei Maou to 7-ri no Oshikake Otome no Ragnarok System) is from the author of Trinity Seven, and runs in… oh dear… Champion RED. A former hero is reincarnated as a dorky college student… and suddenly everyone wants to have sex with him! This is exactly what it looks like.
ASH: Hmmm.
SEAN: There’s also Spice and Wolf Collector’s Edition, which collects the manga in 2-in-1 volumes with new art.
Also from Yen: Aria of the Beech Forest 3 (the final volume), I’m Here, Beside You 2 (the final volume), and Tougen Anki: Legend of the Cursed Blood 3 (not remotely the final volume).
MICHELLE: The first volume of I’m Here, Beside You was kinda disappointing, but I reckon I’ll still finish the series, given there’s only one more volume.
SEAN: How are you keeping your manga dry?
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