SEAN: It’s the last month of 2025, but there’s still plenty to go.
ASH: How did this even happen???
SEAN: Yen On has two one-shot debuts. Bone Ash is a novel from the creator of Psycho-Pass and Mardock Scramble. A manager of a building site that’s going up investigates rumors of fires at the site, and ends up in a horror novel, basically.
ASH: Okay, that seems like one I should probably read.
SEAN: Lila and the Winds of War is a novel from a different famous Japanese sci-fi author, and it’s about an orphaned girl living with an immortal being who tries to protect her homeland.
ASH: This one, too! (Uh-oh, seems to have found my number…)
SEAN: Yen On also has I Got a Cheat Skill in Another World and Became Unrivaled in the Real World, Too 7 and Secrets of the Silent Witch 7.
No debuts for Yen Press, but we see The 13th Footprint 2, The Alchemist Who Survived Now Dreams of a Quiet City Life II 3, Cheeky Brat 15, The Color of the End: Mission in the Apocalypse 3, I Kept Pressing the 100-Million-Year Button and Came Out on Top 7, The Saga of Tanya the Evil 27, Spice and Wolf Collector’s Edition 2, To Save the World, Can You Wake Up the Morning After with a Demi-Human? 8, and Yowamushi Pedal 28.
MICHELLE: Man, I haven’t read Yowamushi Pedal in ages.
ASH: It’s been a while since I have, too, but I still thoroughly enjoy it when I do.
ANNA: My kids were really into it at one time!
SEAN: Viz Manga debuts Kaiju No. 8: Relax, the obligatory gag manga spinoff that really popular Jump titles always seem to get.
Also from Viz: Astro Royale 3, The Bugle Call: Song of War 4, Fushigi Yûgi: Byakko Senki 3, Let’s Do It Already! 7, Marriage Toxin 10, My Hero Academia: Team-Up Missions 7, Nana 25th Anniversary Edition 2, Queen’s Quality 24, Spy x Family 15, A Star Brighter Than the Sun 4, Wolf Girl and Black Prince 16 (the final volume), and Yona of the Dawn 45.
MICHELLE: Oh, a new Byakko Senki! And other good shoujo, too.
ASH: Indeed! Some really great releases.
ANNA: Yay for more Byakko Senki!
SEAN: Tokyopop has the 2nd volume of Boyfriend, Sometimes Girlfriend.
Titan Manga debuts Stray (Haguremono), a one-shot seinen manga from Manga Goraku. A man who served time for a crime he was innocent of gets out of prison and meets Hana, a daughter he didn’t know about. Together, they uncover a conspiracy. This is getting rave reviews.
ASH: I wasn’t previously aware of this one, but I am intrigued!
ANNA: Huh, interesting.
SEAN: Steamship has a 10th volume of Fire in His Fingertips: A Flirty Fireman Ravishes Me with His Smoldering Gaze.
Square Enix Manga gives us Holoearth Chronicles Side:E Yamato Phantasia 2 and A Man and His Cat 14.
Seven Seas has a couple of debuts. I Won’t Let Mistress Suck My Blood (Goshujin-sama ni wa Suwasemasen!) is a yuri series from Manga Life STORIA Dash. A woman looking for work finds a job as a maid in a spooky mansion. But is her mistress all that she seems?
ANNA: I don’t know, this all sounds perfectly normal to me.
SEAN: Far From Romance (Romance ni wa Hodo Tooi) is a BL one-shot from Dear +. A quiet IT guy in a small remote town finds his world upended when an extroverted Brit arrives – and seems to know him?
ASH: Those could both have some potential.
SEAN: In danmei, Seven Seas has Ballad of Sword and Wine: Qiang Jin Jiu 6 and Lout of Count’s Family 6.
In non-Airship novels, we see The Twelve Kingdoms 3.
ASH: Yes!!!
ANNA: Woo!!!
SEAN: For manga, we see How Heavy are the Dumbbells You Lift? 19, I Got Married to the Girl I Hate Most in Class 4, I’m the Evil Lord of an Intergalactic Empire! 7, It Takes More Than a Pretty Face to Fall in Love 4, Last Game 11 (the final volume), Life with an Ordinary Guy Who Reincarnated into a Total Fantasy Knockout 8, and Rozen Maiden Collector’s Edition 4.
No debuts for Kodansha Manga, but they have Grand Blue Dreaming 23, The Heroic Legend of Arslan 21, Hitorijime My Hero 16, Initial D Omnibus 8, Kusunoki’s Flunking Her High School Glow-Up 5, Roar: A Star in the Abyss 3, A Sign of Affection 12, and Welcome to Demon School! Iruma-kun 17.
MICHELLE: Some good stuff.
SEAN: And in digital volumes we get SHAMAN KING: THE SUPER STAR 10 and Tying the Knot with an Amagami Sister 19.
Kodama, determined to drown everyone in this title, have the 5th and 6th Baki the Grappler omnibus.
ASH: I hope it works out for Kodama!
SEAN: J-Novel Club has one print volume, a manga. We get My Instant Death Ability Is So Overpowered, No One in This Other World Stands a Chance Against Me! ―AO― 9.
No debuts for J-Novel Club. For digital light novels, we see The Brilliant Healer’s New Life in the Shadows 8, The Diary of a Middle-Aged Sage’s Carefree Life in Another World 8, The Hero and the Sage, Reincarnated and Engaged 6, In Another World with Household Spells 3, and My Friend’s Little Sister Has It In for Me! 11.
And digital manga includes Cooking With Wild Game 12, I’m a Noble on the Brink of Ruin, So I Might as Well Try Mastering Magic 5, The Invincible Summoner Who Crawled Up from Level 1 5, Isekai Tensei: Recruited to Another World 12, Sweet Reincarnation 12, and A Wild Last Boss Appeared! 8.
Inklore debuts Heaven Official’s Blessing (The Comic), the webtoon version of the bestselling danmei.
ASH: Excellent.
SEAN: Hanashi Media has a pile of light novels, as we get The Abandoned Reincarnation Sage 2, I Got Reincarnated as a Cultist Mob in an Eroge Full of Maniacs with Death Wishes 2, I’m Just a Villager, So What? 2, and Tsukimichi: Moonlit Fantasy 10.
Ghost Ship debuts The Cuckolding Wizard’s Adventure (Netori Mahoutsukai no Bouken) is a seinen manga from Manga Cross. A wizard is recruited into the hero’s party… and begins screwing all the women in the party… and their enemies who are women as well!
Also from Ghost Ship: The 100 Girlfriends Who Really, Really, Really, Really, REALLY Love You 16.
Dark Horse Comics has Gunsmith Cats Omnibus 3 and Planetes Deluxe Edition 2.
ASH: The first Planetes volume was really something special even among all the various deluxe editions that are being published these days.
SEAN: Cross Infinite World has a spin-off: The Do-Over Damsel Conquers the Dragon Emperor: The Official History of the Continent of Platy. This is a Bad End short story volume telling us what would happen if Jill had not gone back in time and become the Dragon Consort.
Cross Infinite World also has Onmyoji and Tengu Eyes 4.
Airship’s print debut is I Got Married to the Girl I Hate Most in Class (Class no Daikirai na Joshi to Kekkonsuru Koto ni Natta), a romcom title, as you might have guessed. Two high school rivals are forced to marry due to family politics. Now they have to live together, share meals, and share a bed! But they hate each other! Right?
Also in print: Restaurant to Another World 6.
Airship’s digital debut is Chronicles of an Aristocrat Reborn in Another World (Tensei Kizoku no Isekai Boukenroku – Jichou o Shiranai Kamigami no Shito). Seven Seas has released the manga for years, and we’ve also had the anime. Now we get the light novel. The title is the plot.
They’ve also got ROLL OVER AND DIE: I Will Fight for an Ordinary Life with My Love and Cursed Sword! 5.
December only gets busier from now on. What are you buying?
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