SEAN: It’s the start of September, so I must still be asleep. Probably for the best, I’m tired.
ASH: Agreed. A rest sounds really good right now.
SEAN: Yen Press have two runoff titles from August, Blend-S 3 and mono 3.
No debuts for Viz, but we get new volumes! Blue Box 17, Dark Gathering 15, Gokurakugai 4, Kaiju No. 8 14, Kaiju No. 8: B-Side 2, Kaze Hikaru 33 (just 12 years to go till it’s finished!), The King’s Beast 16, Let’s Do It Already 6, Nue’s Exorcist 2, A Star Brighter Than the Sun 3, and Wolf Girl and Black Prince 15.
MICHELLE: Insert annual Kaze Hikaru squee.
ANNA: I am joining in on this squee.
ASH: As will I!
SEAN: Two debuts for Tokyopop. Do You Really Want Only a Meal? (Mitasu no wa Kuufuku Dake desuka?) is a BL series from Comic Qurie. A tired office worker hires a housekeeping service, and gets a quiet young college student… who immediately admits to love at first sight!
Eternal Covenant is a BL series that’s Korean, so the Korean BL equivalent? A man who has grown up thinking he’s a monster is told that no, he actually just can use magic.
Tokyopop also has the 2nd volume of Reincarnated in a Mafia Dating Sim.
ASH: I actually just got my hands on the first volume of this.
SEAN: Square Enix Manga has Assassin & Cinderella 2, Just Like Mona Lisa 7, and The Strongest Sage with the Weakest Crest 26.
Seven Seas has some new stuff. I’m Running for Crown Princess, but All I Want is a Steady Paycheck! (Taikouhi Kouho Dakedo, Kenjitsu ni Ikou to Omoimasu) is a shoujo title from B’s-LOG Comic. A poor minor noble is encouraged to run for Betrothed to the Crown Prince, as even the losers could get steady work as ladies in waiting. But the competition is fierce. Fortunately, our heroine is blunt and has common sense.
ANNA: I enjoy a practical shoujo heroine.
ASH: Likewise!
SEAN: Let Me See the Real You, Senpai! (Senpai, Naka Misete) is a BL series from the creator of Punks Triangle. Our main character is an introverted recluse, but on Youtube he’s a popular VTuber! Then he meets another VTuber, and they agree to meet up… and the other guy is so handsome! It’s in Magazine Be x Boy.
The Princess I Loved in My Past Life is Now a Middle-Aged Dad (Zense de Aishita Hime ga Tensei Shitara Oji-san deshita) is a seinen series from Web Action. The title is the plot.
MICHELLE: This may be the most “the title is the plot” I’ve ever seen!
SEAN: There’s also a novel debut that’s not part of Airship. Godzilla Minus One is the novelization of the hit movie.
ASH: Oh, nice!
SEAN: And there’s danmei, as we get Heaven Official’s Blessing: Tian Guan Ci Fu 6 (deluxe hardcover) and You’ve Got Mail: The Perils of Pigeon Post – Fei Ge Jiao You Xu Jin Shen 4 (the final volume). And Lout of Count’s Family 5, which is Korean danmei.
Also from Seven Seas: Choking on Love 3, Drugstore in Another World 11, Heroine? Saint? No, I’m an All-Works Maid (And Proud of It)! 4, I Got Married to the Girl I Hate Most in Class 3, Kuma Kuma Kuma Bear 12, Level 1 Demon Lord and One Room Hero 9, Skip and Loafer 11, The Strange House 4, and The World’s Fastest Level Up 6.
MICHELLE: I think I would probably like Skip and Loafer.
ASH: I’m pretty sure I would, too.
SEAN: One Peace Books has a 5th and final volume of Kurokiya-san Wants to Lead Him Around by the Nose.
KUMA has the 3rd and final volume of Happy of the End.
No debuts for Kodansha, but we see Anyway, I’m Falling in Love with You 8, Initial D Omnibus 7, Roar: A Star in the Abyss 2, Tune In to the Midnight Heart 3, and Vinland Saga Deluxe 8.
ASH: I’m still eyeing those deluxe volumes.
SEAN: And in digital we get How to Grill Our Love 16 and Shangri-La Frontier 22.
J-Novel Club has one debut, and it’s a manga. Old Knight, New Post: From Retiree to Her Majesty’s Blade (Inkyogurashi no Ossan, Joou Heika no Ken to naru) is a Drecomics series about a retired knight who has to go back into service to protect his daughter.
ASH: I’m potentially intrigued.
SEAN: Light novels from J-Novel Club next week: Butareba -The Story of a Man Turned into a Pig- 7, Campfire Cooking in Another World with My Absurd Skill 16, Chivalry of a Failed Knight 7, Hell Mode 10, Imperial Reincarnation 3, Private Tutor to the Duke’s Daughter 17, The Tiny Witch from the Deep Woods 2, and You Were Experienced, I Was Not 8.
New manga includes Butareba -The Story of a Man Turned into a Pig- 7 (yes, the LN and the manga), From Villainess to Healer 3, The Frontier Lord Begins with Zero Subjects 10, Infinite Dendrogram 13, and Oversummoned, Overpowered, and Over It! 9.
Whoops, I forgot about Hanashi again. They have three light novel debuts! Technically out this week, but let’s ignore that. The Abandoned Reincarnation Sage: Building a Mighty Empire of Monsters Within the Monsters’ Forest (Suterareta Tensei Kenja: Mamono no Mori de Saikyou no Daima Teikoku wo Tsukuriageru) A wise man casts a spell to let him maintain his memories into his next life… then gets abandoned as a baby. Whoops. Fortunately, he’s raised by demons.
I Got Reincarnated as a Cultist Mob in an Eroge Full of Maniacs with Death Wishes (Zenin Kakugo Gangimari na Eroge no Jakyouto Mob ni Tenseishiteshimatta Ken) is, I hope, a comedy. Guy reincarnated in a game as a background male, but the background males tend to get sacrificed. He tries to run away, but every woman around him suddenly notices him, and they’re all yanderes. I’m sure fans of this sort of thing are delighted.
I’m Just a Villager, So What? (Murabito desu ga Nani ka?) stars a guy in a village whose “class” is villager. Despite this, he’s friends with two OP kids his own age. Then, when he turns 15, one of them kills him. That’s when he finds that, like Subaru he can return by death. Now he’s going to do things differently.
Ghost Ship has the 15th volume of The 100 Girlfriends Who Really, Really, Really, Really, REALLY Love You.
I usually skip FAKKU, for obvious reasons, but they are starting the sequel to Nana & Kaoru, subtitled Black Label. For over 18s.
Dark Horse Comics debuts Adabana, from the creator of Harem Marriage. Two brutal murders occur, and someone confesses to the crime. But there’s a much darker story going on here. This ran in Grand Jump, and is apparently excellent but tragic.
MICHELLE: Intriguing!
ANNA: Hmmmm….
ASH: I have heard good things.
SEAN: Dark Horse also has a new re-release, as we see Blood Blockade Battlefront Omnibus 1. More from the creator of Trigun, playing in the world of superheroes.
Cross Infinite World has How I Became King by Eating Monsters 3, Welcome to Monstrous Miss Sophie’s Enchanted Salon of Healing 2 (the final volume) and Welcome to Olivia’s Magic Jewelers 2.
Airship has Drugstore in Another World 7, How a Realist Hero Rebuilt the Kingdom 19, and Too Many Losing Heroines! 5 in print.
Any back-to-school manga? Honestly, most schools opened before Labor Day.
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