SEAN: Still hot. Still humid. Apologies to readers in Nunavut, who must feel left out. But what about manga?
MICHELLE: Florida is a literal and figurative hellscape at present.
ASH: It’s been pretty bad where I am, too.
SEAN: Yen Press have one debut, Guillotine Bride: I’m Just a Dragon Girl Who’ll Destroy the World (Dantoudai no Hanayome – Sekai wo Horobosu Futsutsuka na Tatsuki desu ga) is a manga based on the light novel that Yen put out last year. It’s a harem action series, and the LN was bad. This runs in Dra-Dra-Flat b.
Yen also has April Showers Bring May Flowers 3.
Viz Media debut Astro Royale, a series from the creator of Tokyo Revengers. As a gang battles to decide who their new leader is, a meteor hits, and suddenly everyone has superpowers! I think this was announced for print by Viz right before Weekly Shonen Jump cancelled it.
ASH: Ope!
SEAN: We also get The Bugle Call: Song of War 2, Colette Decides to Die 4, Dandadan 14, Demon Slayer: Kimetsu Academy 6 (the final volume), The Elusive Samurai 16, In the Name of the Mermaid Princess 7 (the final volume), Kagurabachi 4, Kill Blue 2, Marriage Toxin 8, Natsume’s Book of Friends 31, Queen’s Quality 23, RuriDragon 2, Sakamoto Days 18, Spy x Family 14, and You and I Are Polar Opposites 6.
MICHELLE: I really need to check out Colette Decides to Die and catch up on Natsume!
ANNA: Me too!!!!
ASH: Yup.
SEAN: Tokyopop has The Margrave’s Daughter & the Enemy Prince 4 and The Person I Loved Asked Me to Die in My Sister’s Stead 4.
Titan Manga has a 10th volume of Kamen Rider Kuuga.
Steamship debuts Don’t Hold Back, Lord Hades (Gaman shinaide, Hades-sama. ~Reikoku na Meiou no Jun’ai wa Michishirenai hodo Fukakude, Omoi~), a josei title from Otomitsu Mangosteen that asks “what if the tale of Hades and Persephone had more sex?”.
ANNA: There are a lot of romance novels that investigate this line of inquiry.
ASH: I’ve read a comic or two, as well. I might have to read this one, too.
SEAN: And they also have Outbride: Beauty and the Beasts 8.
Square Enix Books has the 6th volume of The Apothecary Diaries light novel in print.
ASH: Which reminds me that I need to start reading the prose version.
SEAN: Square Enix Manga has YoRHa: Pearl Harbor Descent Record – A NieR:Automata Story 4 (the final volume).
Seven Seas has a new danmei title, Joyful Reunion. An abused, neglected child one day has a man show up and say he’s the boy’s father. Now the boy is taken away to a web of political intrigue.
MICHELLE: Hm. I do like political intrigue.
ASH: Same.
SEAN: No God in Eden (Kamisama Nanka Shinjinai Bokura no Eden) is an omegaverse manga that runs in Magazine Be x Boy. Two high schoolers, supposedly total opposites, one day find that they’re alpha and omega. In fact… they’re the world’s FIRST alpha and omega.
Werewolves Going Crazy Over Me is a manwha whose premise sounds exactly like an omegaverse title, but replace omega with “mate” and you’ll get the gist. Young single mom whose child is fighting illness meets a CEO who has a secret. You can guess the secret.
ANNA: I know! Is he…..a vampire??????????
ASH: That must be it!
SEAN: Also from Seven Seas: Cat Companions Maruru and Hachi 4, The Dangers in My Heart 11, Gene Bride 2, How NOT to Summon a Demon Lord 22, Hunting in Another World With My Elf Wife 6, Life with an Ordinary Guy Who Reincarnated into a Total Fantasy Knockout 7, Mii-chan Wants to Be Kept 2, My Deer Friend Nokotan 6, Pet Shop of Horrors: Collector’s Edition 3, and Soara and the House of Monsters 5.
ASH: I recently read the first volume of Soara and the House of Monsters; I should probably read more.
SEAN: One Peace Books has a 4th volume of Hero Without a Class.
No debuts at all or Kodansha. In print, we get A-DO 8, Blade Girl 2, FAIRY TAIL: 100 Years Quest 18, The Fragrant Flower Blooms With Dignity 8, Kaina of the Great Snow Sea 4 (the final volume), Love, That’s an Understatement 2, Sheltering Eaves 4, Teppu 2, WIND BREAKER 13, and Welcome to Demon School! Iruma-kun 15.
MICHELLE: I really liked what I read of Sheltering Eaves.
SEAN: The only digital volume is the 31st and final volume of Those Snow White Notes.
J-Novel Club has one debut, a light novel. No Wife, No Problem: A Mage’s Life with His Beloved Daughter (Kekkon wo Akirameta Majutsushi, Dekiaisuru Manamusume ga Dekita node Issho ni Shiawase ni Narimasu) stars a powerful mage who is now in his forties and lonely. He asks the gods for a daughter, and they give him one from his own blood – and this daughter is even more OP than her dad. This seems to be in the “no incest, just heartwarming” dad/daughter genre.
ASH: Oh, good!
SEAN: Other JNC novels: Ascendance of a Bookworm: Fanbook 6, Cooking with Wild Game 29, My Quiet Blacksmith Life in Another World 11, and The White Cat’s Revenge as Plotted from the Dragon King’s Lap 8.
For manga, they have 8th Loop for the Win! 5, The 100th Time’s the Charm 4, The Conqueror from a Dying Kingdom 5, Did I Seriously Just Get Reincarnated as My Gag Character?! 6, Hell Mode 7, and Rebuild World 12.
Ghost Ship has a 15th volume of World’s End Harem: Fantasia.
In print, Airship has The Too-Perfect Saint 3.
And for early digital, we get Reincarnated Into a Game as the Hero’s Friend 5 and Too Many Losing Heroines! 5.
What manga will you get to cool you off (unless you’re in Nunavut)?
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