SEAN: Slowly Halloween creeps closer. Can you feel its hand on your shoulder?

ASH: Not yet! Please, we can’t possibly be that far into October yet!

SEAN: Viz Media debuts Phantom Busters, a Jump Square title about an honor student and skeptic who meets a boy who eats ghosts! Given everything else the author has written, this is shonen for BL fans but with no actual BL, I’m gonna guess.

ANNA: That is a genre!

ASH: It is! And I often read it.

SEAN: Also from Viz: Beyblade X 4, Case Closed 96, Destroy All Humans 5, Disney Twisted-Wonderland: The Manga – Book of Savanaclaw 2, Firefly Wedding 4, Hayate the Combat Butler 46, Kill Blue 3, Pokémon: Scarlet & Violet 3, Rainbows After Storms 6, and Yaiba: Samurai Legend 2.

ANNA: Need to get caught up on Firefly Wedding!

SEAN: Tokyopop has the 5th volume of The Prince Is in the Villainess’ Way!.

Titan Manga debut Isekai Metaller, a Comiplex series based on a webmanga about a heavy metal fan who dies and finds himself reincarnated in a world based around the sort of subjects heavy metal gets into – werewolves, dragons, etc. He’s so excited!

ANNA: Is this wholesome? It sounds cute.

ASH: I have no idea, but I’m loving the character designs.

SEAN: SuBLime debuts Sleeping on Paper Boats (Kami no Fune de Nemuru), a BL series from Canna by the author of The Yakuza’s Bias. A writer finds that everyone who inspires his writing ends up dead, and resolves to never write again. But then he meets the perfect muse…

ASH: Uh, oh!

They also have Ask and You Will Receive 3.

Square Enix Manga gives us My Isekai Life 21, Tokyo Aliens 9, and Wash It All Away 4.

Seven Seas debuts I Can’t Stand Being Your Childhood Friend (Osananajimi ja Gaman Dekinai) about two lifelong friends who are now roommates and things might be getting steamier? It ran in Daria.

Sensei’s Mail-Order Food: The Complete BL Manga Collection (Sensei no Otoriyose) is a 2-in-1 omnibus BL title from Kurofune Zero. A writer and artist find they’re total opposites in every way. How can they work together? Well, they both love food!

ANNA: it is good to have shared interests!

MICHELLE: The cover on this is cute!

ASH: I am really looking forward to this one.

SEAN: Also from Seven Seas: Classmates 7, Hate Me, but Let Me Stay 5, The Lady Knight and the Beast-Eared Child 4, Malevolent Spirits: Mononogatari 12, My Dear Detective: Mitsuko’s Case Files 4, Only I Know the World Is Ending and Getting Killed by Rampaging Beasts Only Makes Me Stronger 3, Reborn as a Barrier Master 8, Reborn Rich 4, and She Professed Herself Pupil of the Wise Man 13.

MICHELLE: Ooh, more Classmates!

ASH: Always good to see.

SEAN: And in non-Airship novels, we get Legend of Exorcism: Tianbao Fuyao Lu 3, Run Wild: Sa Ye 3, and The Twelve Kingdoms 1 Part 2.

ASH: I am still so incredibly excited that we’re getting The Twelve Kingdoms again.

SEAN: One Peace Books gives us the 25th manga volume of The Rising of the Shield Hero.

No debuts for Kodansha. In print we see Blue Lock: Episode Nagi 5, I Want to Love You Till Your Dying Day 5, Medaka Kuroiwa is Impervious to My Charms 13, Shimazaki in the Land of Peace 6, and Tying the Knot with an Amagami Sister 12.

And digitally we see Because I, the True Saint, was Banished, that Country is Done For! 9, Gang King 34, Giant Killing 51, and Quality Assurance in Another World 15.

MICHELLE: I am literally dozens of volumes behind in Giant Killing now.

ASH: As am I, but I still frequently think fondly of the anime adaptation, which was great.

SEAN: J-Novel Club has a bunch of print titles. The 4th volume of the Ascendance of a Bookworm Part 3 manga, The Brilliant Healer’s New Life in the Shadows 2, Campfire Cooking in Another World with My Absurd Skill 3, Gushing Over Magical Girls 4, In Another World With My Smartphone 30, and the 2nd Isekai Tensei: Recruited to Another World manga.

Digitally, J-Novel Club has another contest winner from their Original Novel contest. The Adorable Dungeon Master stars a young woman who plays a cute mobile game filled with adorable things… then she’s hit by a stray bullet during a gang war and dies. No truck? Good news: she’s now inside her favorite game. Bad news: it’s some weird grimdark version of her favorite game. Well, she can fix that. She’s making things cute again!

ASH: Wishing her better luck!

SEAN: J-NC also has Long Story Short, I’m Living in the Mountains 3 and The Water Magician Arc 1 5.

And for manga they have Fushi no Kami 8 and Hell Mode 8.

Inkpop debuts My Life as an Internet Novel, a manhwa based off a webnovel about a girl reincarnated into an obvious romance novel where she’s the plain-looking best friend of the heroine. OR IS SHE?

ANNA: DRAMATIC SOUND EFFECT!

ASH: Dun-dun-duuuuuun!

SEAN: Two debuts for Ghost Ship. Makina-san’s a Love Bot?! (Kakushite! Makina-san!!) is a Monthly Action title about a high schooler who finds his classmate is actually a sexbot. He’s desperate to cover up who she really is. She just wants to show what she can do. Especially since she knows he’s a robot otaku.

ASH: Oh, myyyyyy.

SEAN: Virgin Knight: I Became the Frontier Lord in a World Ruled by Women (Teisou Gyakuten Sekai no Doutei Henkyou Ryoushu Kishi) is the manga version of the light novel Seven Seas also puts out. It runs in Comic Gardo.

Airship, in print, gives us Reincarnated As a Sword 17.

Digitally, there’s a debut from the creator of Who Killed the Hero?. The Wicked Princess and Her Twelve Eyes: The Legendary Villainess and Her Elite Assassins (Aku no Reijou to Juuni no Hitomi: Saikyou Juusha-tachi to Densetsu no Akujo, Jinsei Nidome no Kareinaru Musouroku) seems to be a one-shot. This is a “rewind to do it over” villainess book, so you know how it starts. That said, this villainess genuinely seems to be evil, and she realizes what she did wrong was not having evil minions. Time to fix that.

ASH: That’s an interesting twist! We could probably all use some minions.

SEAN: Also digital: Reincarnated as a Dragon Hatchling 12.

A medium-sized week, but be ready for landslides soon. What interests you?