SEAN: As we get closer to Christmas, publishers try to step up their game. Let’s start with Yen.
ASH: Buckle up!
SEAN: No debuts for Yen On, but we do see Classroom for Heroes 5, Date a Live 15, If the Villainess and Villain Met and Fell in Love 4, Re:ZERO -Starting Life in Another World- 28, Sentenced to Be a Hero 5, and The Unimplemented Overlords Have Joined the Party! 5.
Yen Press has debuts. Alya Sometimes Hides Her Feelings in Russian: Momoco’s Art Book is an artbook of the popular romcom, and includes an exclusive short story.
Animan (Doubutsu Ningen) is a horror title from Young Animal. A father and daughter come across a group of humanoid animals that like to eat humans. This is a morality play, and is apparently dark as pitch.
ASH: It really looks to be!
SEAN: Demon Lord 2099: The Complete Omnibus (Maou 2099) is a manga adaptation of the light novel already released by Yen. It ran in Shonen Ace Plus.
Even a Replica Can Fall in Love (Replica Datte, Koi wo suru) is a manga adaptation of the light novel already released by Yen. It runs in Dengeki Maoh.
Out of the Cocoon (yes, that’s the Japanese title as well) is half-short story collection, half-sequel to Cocoon Entwined, as the author has a few BL and yuri stories to tell, then gives us a story about the stars of her earlier series. Expect less hair but just as much angst. These ran in Comic Beam.
MICHELLE: Interesting!
ASH: I thought that name looked familiar.
SEAN: Also from Yen Press: The 31st Consort 3, Black Butler 34, The Boy Who Ruled the Monsters 2, A Bride’s Story 15, A Certain Magical Index 31, Chained Soldier 13, The Demon Sword Master of Excalibur Academy 9, Goblin Slayer: A Day in the Life 3 (the final volume), Guillotine Bride 2 (the final volume), The Heroic Tale of the Villainous Prince 2, I Don’t Know Which Is Love 4, I May Be a Guild Receptionist, but I’ll Solo Any Boss to Clock Out on Time 5, Kakegurui – Compulsive Gambler – 19, A Misanthrope Teaches a Class for Demi-Humans 2, Monster Tribe 2, [Oshi No Ko] 12, Overlord: The Undead King Oh! 13, Phantom Invasion 2, A Reincarnated Witch Spells Doom 7, Super String: Marco Polo’s Travel to the Multiverse 2, and Suzuki-kun’s Mindful Life 2.
ASH: That’s quite a list.
SEAN: Viz Media has a debut. If Love Bullet wasn’t the biggest meme of the last year, this may have been. Maid to Skate started as a Twitter comic and gradually became a real manga running in EastPress’s Matogrosso. They’re maids. They’re on skateboards. I don’t think I need to elaborate.
ASH: This sounds absolutely delightful.
ANNA: Amazing.
SEAN: Also from Viz: Dogsred 4, Fool Night 7, Haikyu!! 3-in-1 7, Heart Gear 7 (the final volume), Insomniacs After School 12, Kingdom 2, Mission: Yozakura Family 20, Mujina into the Deep 3, One-Punch Man 32, Show-ha Shoten! 9, and Zom 100: Bucket List of the Dead 18.
ASH: I’ve been enjoying Dogsred quite a bit so far.
SEAN: Tokyopop has two titles. I’ll Never Fall In Love With Amano! 2 and The Prince Is in the Villainess’ Way! 5.
Titan Manga gives us Saint Seiya: Dark Wing 2.
Steamship has a 2nd volume of Werewolves Going Crazy Over Me.
Square Enix Books has Final Fantasy XIV: Chronicles of Light, Volume II, a hardcover short story collection.
Square Enix Manga has Wash It All Away 5.
Seven Seas time! Starting with the danmei, there’s a debut. The Wife Comes First: Qi Wei Shang is a timeloop fantasy, as a philandering prince dies, and finds the only one who bothered to be at his side till death was the consort he didn’t care about. Now that he gets a do-over, he’s fixing that. That said, um, political intrigue is hard.
ASH: Under a different imprint that title would have an entirely different plot.
SEAN: There’s also Copper Coins: Tong Qian Kan Shi 2 and Dinghai Fusheng Records 3.
Three other debuts for Seven Seas. Lovers on the Last Train (Saishuu Densha no Koibitotachi) is a BL oneshot from Magazine Be x Boy. A nervous guy who’s over 40 and has never dated tries an app, and gets a guy who seems to be too good to be true.
ASH: Awww, I hope it all works out for them!
SEAN: My Bias is Showing?! is a webtoon manhwa about a high school teacher who is absolutely obsessed with an idol singer. What’s he going to do when the idol singer shows up at his school to film?!?! Also BL, in case it wasn’t clear.
A Ninja and an Assassin Under One Roof (Ninja to Koroshiya no Futarigurashi) is a shonen series from Dengeki Daioh “g”, which also has an anime. It’s “yuri-ish”. A girl trying to escape her ninja clan ends up at the apartment of a girl who’s secretly an assassin. This is a comedy, but expect corpses galore.
ASH: Could be fun!
ANNA: I enjoy assassins and comedy!
SEAN: Also from Seven Seas: Cat Companions Maruru and Hachi 5, The Demon King is Way Too Overprotective! 2, The Eccentric Doctor of the Moon Flower Kingdom 12, The Fed-Up Office Lady Wants to Serve the Villainess 2, Kemono Jihen 19, Long Period 2 (the final volume), Monster Musume 20, The Most Notorious “Talker” Runs the World’s Greatest Clan 10, My Cat is Such a Weirdo 8, My Girlfriend is 8 Meters Tall 2, Sacrifice of My Manly Soul 2, and Though I Am an Inept Villainess 8.
Nakama Press have a 5th volume of Infini-T Force.
And Last Gasp have the 2nd volume of Ultra Heaven.
ASH: This was delayed, so I’m glad to see this coming out!
SEAN: Kodansha has Magnolia: Fairy Tail Illustrations in print, apparently the first Fairy Tail artbook out over here.
It’s also got an omnibus edition of classic manga Dragon Head, which they had rescued and put out digitally in 2018. This is a 3-in-1.
ASH: Great to see this back in print!
SEAN: And it has Parasyte Paperback Collection, another edition of the classic horror title.
ASH: This is still one of my favorite series.
SEAN: It even has an actual new manga, as we get Flip Flip Slowly, a BL one-shot from Gateau. A librarian notices a new guy who keeps coming to the library every week. What’s his deal?
MICHELLE: Library romance!
ASH: Whaaaaaaat. I’m here for it!
ANNA: Maybe he just likes books???
SEAN: Also in print: Attack on Titan Coloring Book 2, Blue Lock 25, Fall in Love, You False Angels 4, The Ghost in the Shell: The Human Algorithm 7, How I Met My Soulmate 5, and Tying the Knot with an Amagami Sister 13.
And for digital, we see My Home Hero 23 and TenPuru -No One Can Live on Loneliness- 13.
J-Novel Club has some print titles. We get Black Summoner 6 (the light novel) Black Summoner 7 (the manga), and Hell Mode 9 (the light novel).
Two debuts for J-Novel Club. Cogs of Time is another of the JNC Original Light Novel Contest winners. A young woman who can move into the very recent past is dealing with an oppressive upbringing, but after witnessing a murder she finds that maybe it’s time to stop trusting dear old dad and start trusting Mr. Cop.
ASH: Hmmm.
Fluffy-Eared Realm Restoration: Taking It Slow with My Cool Big Brother (Tensei Mofumofu Reijou no Mattari Ryouchi Kaikaku-ki: Cool na Ogikei-sama to Amama Slow Life wo Tanoshin de Imasu) is the manga adaptation of the light novel also released by J-Novel Club. It runs in Dre Comics.
Other J-Novel Club light novels: Cooking with Wild Game 31, Imperial Reincarnation 4, Infinite Dendrogram SP 2, Isekai Tensei 12, Nia Liston 8, Peddler in Another World 11, Rebuild World 7, and The Trials and Tribulations of My Next Life as a Noblewoman 3-2.
HarperAlley has Plus-Sized Misadventures in Love! 2.
From Ghost Ship we see Into the Deepest, Most Unknowable Dungeon 12 and Tamamori’s Fantasies Never Stop! 3.
Airship has one print light novel, The Weakest Tamer Began a Journey to Pick Up Trash 11.
And for early digital we see Mushoku Tensei: Redundant Reincarnation 3 and Reborn as a Space Mercenary 14.
Not as bad as I feared, but we still have one more Manga the Week of before Christmas. What are you buying?
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