SEAN: Boo! No, wait, still not yet. Stand down.
ASH: That scared me.
SEAN: No print for Airship next week, but they do have early digital for The Condemned Villainess Goes Back in Time and Aims to Become the Ultimate Villain 6 and Loner Life in Another World 13.
Dark Horse debuts Innocent Rouge, the sequel to Innocent, which was gorgeous but dark. This promises to be more gorgeous and even darker. It ran in Grand Jump.
ASH: Gorgeous and dark is an incredibly apt description.
SEAN: Ize Press have a big hardcover. 7FATES: CHAKHO imagines the K-Pop band BTS in a fantasy, and this book apparently comes with photos of the band.
ASH: Well, that’s fun!
SEAN: Also from Ize Press: Lady Devil 3, Lover Boy 3, and The World After the Fall 11.
It’s a tiny week for J-Novel Club. No debuts. For light novels, we see The Bladesmith’s Enchanted Weapons 2 and Knight’s & Magic 8. And for manga, they have The Engagement of Marielle Clarac 9.
One debut for Kodansha Manga: You Can’t Bluff the Sharp-Eyed Sister (Seijo ni Uso wa Tsuujinai) is based on an as-yet-unlicensed light novel, and runs in Monthly Shonen Magazine. An intelligent but greedy nun is asked to pretend to be a candidate for sainthood to solve a mystery.
ASH: I am intrigued.
MICHELLE: Yeah, from the title I was thinking it was a romcom or something. Mystery-solving intelligent nuns is a more intriguing concept!
ANNA: Ok, this does sound fun.
SEAN: Also in print: Ajin: Demi-Human Complete 5, The Blue Wolves of Mibu 7, Gachiakuta 8, The Moon on a Rainy Night 7, nichijou 12, Rent-A-Girlfriend 33, Shangri-La Frontier 19, and To Your Eternity 23.
ASH: I really need to catch up with To Your Eternity; what I’ve read so far has been great.
SEAN: One Peace Books debuts My New Devil Wife (Negai o Kanaete Moraou to Akuma o Shoukan Shita Kedo, Kawaikatta node Kekkon Shimashita – Akuma no Niidzuma), based on an as-yet-unlicensed light novel. It runs in Comic Earth Star. A struggling adventurer tries to make a deal with the devil. But the devil is so gorgeous that he proposes!
ASH: Whoops!
ANNA: These things happen.
SEAN: Three debuts for Seven Seas, though we’ve seen one before. Monster Musume: Deluxe Edition is a hardcover omnibus of the popular fantasy series, apparently with new extras, so you’ll have to buy it again.
Ripples in the River (Kawa ni Sazanami) is a BL series that runs in Hug Pixiv. Two young men have been together for a decade now, but still are head over heels for each other! From the creator of 5 Seconds Before a Witch Falls in Love.
ASH: Awww, this sounds really sweet.
MICHELLE: It does.
SEAN: SMELL is the latest BL title from Nagabe. If you liked Beastars but wished it was sweeter and gayer, this is for you. It ran in Ciel.
ASH: The range of Nagabe’s work is really interesting.
MICHELLE: Oooh.
ANNA: Interesting.
SEAN: Also from Seven Seas: Blood Night Market 3 (the final volume), Fairy Cat 2, The Feisty Omega and His Twin Mates 2, Glasses with a Chance of Delinquent 4, IDOL x IDOL STORY! 3, I’m in Love with the Villainess 9, Kemono Jihen 18, Machimaho: I Messed Up and Made the Wrong Person Into a Magical Girl! 13, My New Life as a Cat 11, and Now That We Draw 3.
And for danmei we have the 5th and final volume of Peerless.
Square Enix Manga has My Dress-Up Darling 14 and The Otaku Love Connection 3.
From Steamship we see Shindou-kun’s Tight Squeeze 2 and The Villainess and the Demon Knight 4 (the light novel).
Tokyopop has four debuts. Boyfriend, Sometimes Girlfriend (Kareshi Tokidoki Kanojo) ran in Bessatsu Shonen Magazine, and is from the creator of Love & Lies. A guy is so happy, he’s dating his dream girl, and she likes him too! But she has a secret…
ASH: Cautiously curious.
SEAN: My Fluffy Moody Crush (Hoeru Inu to Kubittake) is a from RED BL title. A half human half vampire tries to resist the delicious blood of his childhood friend.
The Love We Share (Ai wa Futari no Ai da kara) also ran in from RED. After a tragedy, a young man is raising his daughter on his own. But then a childhood friend shows up! This is also BL, as the magazine likely told you.
ASH: Bonus dad!
SEAN: Star and Hedgehog (Hoshi to Harinezumi)is so BL and also from RED. It’s an extrovert/introvert romance title. It’s also from the author of My Fluffy Moody Crush, see above.
MICHELLE: BL with characters that can be described as “a prickly hedgehog” is always my kind of BL.
SEAN: Tokyopop also has Confessions of a Shy Baker 5 (the final volume) and The Margrave’s Daughter & the Enemy Prince 5.
Viz Media has Nana 25th Anniversary Edition, which is exactly what it sounds like. 2-volume omnibuses. If you haven’t read Nana, go read Nana in all its problematic glory.
ASH: I am so happy for this re-release. Nana is such a great series.
SEAN: Also from Viz: The Climber 3, Girl Crush 3, Insomniacs After School 11, Mission: Yozakura Family 19, My Hero Academia 42 (the final volume), Record of Ragnarok 16, Red River 3-in-1 5, Tokyo Fears Rhapsody 2, Twin Star Exorcists 35 (the final volume), and Vagabond Definitive Edition 4.
ASH: A good week for Viz!
MICHELLE: Welp. I guess it’s time for a My Hero Academia marathon!
ANNA: Still happy about Red River reprints.
SEAN: No debuts for Yen On, but they have some long-awaited titles for folks instead. We see Before the Tutorial Starts 3 (last April 2025), The BS Situation of Tougetsu Umidori 3 (April 2025), Chitose Is in the Ramune Bottle 7 (September 2024), Demon Lord 2099 4 (October 2024), Is It Wrong to Try to Pick Up Girls in a Dungeon? On the Side: Sword Oratoria 14 (December 2024), The Kept Man of the Princess Knight 5 (April 2025), The Saga of Tanya the Evil 14 (December 2024), and Sasaki and Peeps 9 (January 2025).
As for Yen Press, they bounced everything a week, so all we get is The Do-Over Damsel Conquers the Dragon Emperor 6.
Have you bought candy to give out yet? What manga are you getting to not give out?
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