SEAN: Say goodbye to July with these titles.
ASH: So soon? I seem to have misplaced a week or two somewhere.
SEAN: Lots of print from Airship, as we get Failure Frame 12, Free Life Fantasy Online 9, A Tale of the Secret Saint 8, and Witch and Mercenary 3.
And in early digital we get Survival in Another World with My Mistress! 8 and Trapped in a Dating Sim: Otome Games Are Tough For Us, Too! 4.
Aloha Comics have a massive hardcover box set of all 6 volumes of the Heaven Official’s Blessing manhua.
ASH: I’d somehow managed to forget about Aloha Comics, but what a fantastic reminder! This set looks gorgeous.
SEAN: Cross Infinite World has a one-shot debut, The Hired Heroine Wants the Villainess to Gloat (Yatoware Heroine wa Akuyaku Reijou ni Zamaa Saretai). Our protagonist is hired by God to try and get the plot of an otome game back on the rails, despite the prince wanting to be a farmer and the villainess not being that evil.
ASH: I am amused by this premise.
ANNA: Me too.
SEAN: They also have Apocalypse Bringer Mynoghra 7 and So You Want to Live the Slow Life? 5.
Dark Horse debuts Cat + Crazy (Nekottake!), which is not a spinoff of Cat + Gamer – it actually predates it – but is from the same author. A boy whose family is allergic to cats loves them, so is happy when he meets someone who is renowned in the ways of cat. This seems silly. It ran in Shonen Sunday S.
ASH: Silly cat manga has really established itself as a genre.
SEAN: Dark Horse also has a deluxe hardcover edition of Planetes coming out, and if you don’t know what Planetes is, buy this now. If you already have all the various editions of Planetes that have come out… buy this anyway.
ASH: Join me for a third time! Seriously though, this series is great and am thrilled to see it getting the deluxe treatment.
ANNA: For sure deserving of the deluxe hardcover.
SEAN: And they also have the 2nd Gunsmith Cats omnibus.
From Ghost Ship we see Betrayed by the Hero, I Formed a MILF Party With His Mom! 2 and The Witches of Adamas 11 (the final volume).
Hanashi Media has an 8th volume of Tsukimichi: Moonlit Fantasy.
One debut for J-Novel Club: Notorious No More: The Villainess Enjoys Feigning Incompetence (Kitai no Akujo, Sandome no Jinsei de “Musai Munou” wo Tanoshimu) stars a young woman whose been reincarnated TWICE. In her first life, she was an evil mage. In her second life, she lived in Japan as an ordinary woman into her eighties. Now, she decides to take it easy by faking being an incompetent dimbulb. This is a comedy, as you might gather.
ASH: Twice, you say? Not sure I’ve seen that before!
SEAN: Other light novels include D-Genesis 9, Long Story Short, I’m Living in the Mountains 2, The Misfit of Demon King Academy 10-1, and Taking My Reincarnation One Step at a Time 8.
And in manga, there is Ascendance of a Bookworm Part 4 Volume 4.
No new Kodansha Manga titles. But we see The Ayakashi Hunter’s Tainted Bride 3, A Condition Called Love 14, EDENS ZERO 32, Flying Witch 13, GAEA-TIMA the Gigantis 2, Honeko Akabane’s Bodyguards 4, Shimazaki in the Land of Peace 5, and Vampire Dormitory 14 (the final volume).
And for digital-only… there is nothing. You may have noticed Kodansha is trying to quietly sunset the glut of digital-only series.
MICHELLE: Pout. But my dreams for Big Windup!
SEAN: One Peace has a 9th volume of the manga version of The Wrong Way to Use Healing Magic.
Seven Seas has a danmei one-shot. Astrolabe Rebirth is from the author of Dinghai Fusheng Records, and is about two young men fighting against a sci-fi dystopia.
ASH: Count me as intrigued.
SEAN: The big debut is Ichi the Killer (Koroshiya 1), a late 90s manga from the creator of Homunculus and Hikari-Man – this was their breakout hit. It’s in a 2-volume omnibus format, and is about a cowardly young man who, when he starts to cry uncontrollably, turns into a vicious killer.
ASH: I should probably make a point to read this; the film adaptation has been on my radar for quite some time, too.
SEAN: Seven Seas also has Gravitation: Collector’s Edition 6 (not QUITE the final volume, there’s an EX), His Majesty the Demon King’s Housekeeper 10, Mysterious Disappearances 6, and No Longer Allowed In Another World 9.
Steamship debuts Shindou-kun’s Tight Squeeze: Helpless Against His Alluring Touch (Shindou-kun wa Toriatsukai Chuui), a josei title from Choco Love. A young woman is in her dream job, and she’s damn good at it. But now she has to mentor the new guy, adn the new guy is better than her… both at work and in bed!
ASH: Uh-oh!
ANNA: This sounds like quite a predicament.
SEAN: They also have the 4th and final volume of Before You Discard Me, I Shall Have My Way With You.
Titan Manga has a 2nd volume of Welcome to Ghost Mansion.
Yen On debuts Lord of Mysteries, the newest Chinese hit that has an anime going right now. A man wakes up in a steampunk universe, and finds vast conspiracies all around him.
ASH: I do enjoy a good conspiracy.
SEAN: Yen Press theoretically (I can’t find it anywhere but their website) debuts Sailor Zombie digitally. Zombies and idols compete to see which genre this is. It runs in Heros.
Also from Yen Press: Super String: Marco Polo’s Travel to the Multiverse (Super String: Isekai Kenbunroku) is… sort of a Weekly Shonen Sunday title, but it’s also a webtoon, and Boichi is the artist, for those who are fans/need to be warned. “What if Marco Polo was a shonen hero and also there were beastgirls” seems to be the plot.
ASH: Huh. That’s quite the combination.
SEAN: And on that bizarre note, what are you buying?
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