SEAN: I don’t have any witty “Martin Luther King Day” manga remarks, alas.
ASH: Maybe next year.
SEAN: The print debut for Airship is Betrothed to My Sister’s Ex (Zutaboro Reijou wa Ane no Moto Konyakusha ni Dekiai Sareru), which has already had an anime. A girl who grows up with her sister being given all the nice things suddenly finds herself engaged after her sister is killed in an accident. But then it turns out the engagement is a misunderstanding. What’s really going on here? From what I hear, this is another “it turns out being raised as an abused child is bad, actually” Cinderella story.
ASH: There are a few of those, it seems.
SEAN: And they also have I’m the Evil Lord of an Intergalactic Empire! 10.
Digitally we see the debut of Magical Buffs: The Support Caster is Stronger Than He Realized! (Zatsuyou Fuyojutsushi ga Jibun no Saikyou ni Kidzuku Made), which starts as a “thrown out of the party for having support magic” title, but at least this guy has a childhood friend to help him realize he’s actually awesome.
ASH: I saw “magical buffs” and my mind went to magical girls but beefcakes. But that’s a different genre.
SEAN: Ghost Ship has the 5th The Cursed Sword Master’s Harem Life and the 4th Yandere Dark Elf.
Ize Press has two debuts. Revenge of the Baskerville Bloodhound stars a man who was trained to be a “loyal hound” (assassin, I’m guessing) but is betrayed and then killed. Luckily for him, this is an “I’ve rewound back into my past” manhwa.
Semantic Error is the original novel that inspired the BL manhwa also released by Ize. An uptight college student screws over his lazy classmates… then finds one of them is the designer he desperately wants to work with!
MICHELLE: Oopsies.
ASH: Gotta hate when that happens.
SEAN: Also from Ize Press: Beware the Villainess! 6, The Boxer 12, Itaewon Class 8 (the final volume), Lover Boy 4, Not-Sew-Wicked Stepmom 8, Overgeared 9, and The World After the Fall 12.
So Dearly Reckless (Sore wa Mubou to Iu Mono da) is the J-Novel debut, and it’s from their Knight line. A young orphan wants to escape poverty, and adventuring may be the answer, especially when a handsome young man reaches out to him. But is this handsome young man really who he seems? Also, could there be… love?
ASH: Maybe?!
SEAN: Other light novels: An Archdemon’s Dilemma 20, By the Grace of the Gods 17, Flung into a New World? Time to Lift the 200-Year Curse! 3, Making Magic: The Sweet Life of a Witch Who Knows an Infinite MP Loophole 9, and To Another World… with Land Mines! 12.
For manga, they have Death’s Daughter and the Ebony Blade 7, The Fearsome Witch Teaches in Another World 2, The Otome Heroine’s Fight for Survival 6, Young Lady Albert Is Courting Disaster 7.
No debuts for Kodansha Manga, but we get, in print, Ajin: Demi-Human Complete 6, The Ayakashi Hunter’s Tainted Bride 6, Blue Lock 26, The Blue Wolves of Mibu 8, Gachiakuta 9, Kei X Yaku: Bound By Law 10, Nezumi’s First Love 2, and Sheeta’s Little Big World 3 (the final volume).
ASH: It’s been a while since I’ve thought about Ajin, but there were things about the series I really liked.
SEAN: Digitally we get Matcha Made in Heaven 13, Medaka Kuroiwa is Impervious to My Charms 19, and My Wife is a Little Intimidating 13.
ANNA: I need to catch up on Matcha Made in Heaven!
ASH: I haven’t read it yet, but I still love that title.
SEAN: After an entire week without a danmei debut, sanity has returned to Seven Seas. Twin Jades of Jiangdong is from the Legend of Exorcism and Dinghai Fusheng Records. Two childhood friends vow to always help each other and remain true, forgetting that they’re in a danmei novel.
MICHELLE: Heh.
ASH: Gotta love when that happens.
SEAN: There’s also the 3rd volume of Joyful Reunion.
Seven Seas’ manga debut is Betrothed to My Sister’s Ex (Zutaboro Reijou wa Ane no Moto Konyakusha ni Dekiai Sareru), about which see above, The manga runs in Gaugau Monster.
Low Tide in Twilight is a manhwa omegaverse title, about a suicidal omega who is saved by a suspicious man. (Could the man be an alpha? Hmmmmmm… could be!)
ANNA: He’s probably just a normal dude who is not connected with the omegaverse at all.
SEAN: Also from Seven Seas: Arifureta: From Commonplace to World’s Strongest 15, Cats With Jobs 2, DEAR. DOOR 2, Dungeon Builder: The Demon King’s Labyrinth is a Modern City! 12 (the final volume), HIKARI-MAN 7-8 (the final volume), Level 1 Demon Lord and One Room Hero 10, My New Life as a Cat 12, Reincarnated as a Sword 16, Someone’s Girlfriend 5, and What It Means to Be You 3.
From Square Enix Manga we get Cherry Magic! Thirty Years of Virginity Can Make You a Wizard?! 15 and Smoking Behind the Supermarket with You 6.
MICHELLE: I really, really need to catch up with Cherry Magic!.
ASH: Same! But I’ve enjoyed what I’ve read so far.
SEAN: Steamship has early digital for the 5th volume of The Villainess and the Demon Knight.
Titan Manga debuts Scavengers Another Sky, a Young Champion Retsu title about young girls who go between worlds scavenging.
It also gives us ATOM: The Beginning 13.
Tokyopop has Merry Witches’ Life 3.
ASH: I enjoyed the first volume; I should probably read more.
SEAN: Viz Media gives us After God 8, The Climber 4, Kingdom 3, Magilumiere Magical Girls Inc. 11, Record of Ragnarök 17, Red River 3-in-1 6, Rooster Fighter 9, Trillion Game 9, Undead Unluck 23, and The Way of the Househusband 15.
ASH: The Way of the Househusband is another series I’ve been meaning to catch up on, too.
SEAN: Yen On has one title: About a Place in the Kinki Region (Kinki Chihou no Aru Basho ni Tsuite). It’s a horror mystery about a missing occult editor and what he was researching.
MICHELLE: Ooh.
ANNA: Sounds cool!
ASH: Yup, I’d read that.
SEAN: Yen Press has the bulk of its monthly titles out next week. Immortality and Punishment (Fushi to Batsu) is a zombie apocalypse story from the creator of Magical Girl of the End. It ran in Bessatsu Shonen Champion.
Scenes from Awajima (Awajima Hyakkei) is an award-winning manga from Pocopoco. It’s about a prestigious opera school and the girls who strive to succeed in it.
MICHELLE: Double ooh. And it’s by Takako Shimura!
ANNA: Consider me intrigued!
ASH: I’ve been wanting to read this since it started!
SEAN: And, while not technically new, Rascal Does Not Dream of a Dreaming Girl is the latest omnibus to cover an “arc” of the series.
Also from Yen Press: Bocchi the Rock! Comic Anthology 2, Bride of the Barrier Master 5, Bungo Stray Dogs 26, Dead Mount Death Play Side Story: Phantom Solitaire’s Art of Disguising Oneself as a Supernatural Being 2, Double the Trouble, Twice as Nice 2, The Girl I Saved on the Train Turned Out to Be My Childhood Friend 10, Goblin Slayer Side Story: Year One 13, Hakumei & Mikochi 13, Heterogenia Linguistico 6, Hi, I’m a Witch, and My Crush Wants Me to Make a Love Potion 5, In Another World with My Smartphone 15, Killed Again, Mr. Detective? 2, Kindergarten Wars 3, Konosuba: Even More Explosions on This Wonderful World! 2, L’il Miss Vampire Can’t Suck Right 2, The Maid I Hired Recently Is Mysterious 8, Maiden of the Needle 5, Minato’s Laundromat 6, The Other World’s Books Depend on the Bean Counter 6, The Ragnarok System of the Desperate Reincarnated Demon Lord and the Seven Aggressive Maidens 2, Shadows House 10, Sister and Giant: A Young Lady Is Reborn in Another World 5, Strategic Lovers 4, Sword Art Online Re: Aincrad 4, The Villainess Stans the Heroes 5, Triage X 29, Unnamed Memory 7, and When I Became a Commoner, They Broke Off Our Engagement! 6.
ASH: That… was a lot. Probably some good stuff in there, though.
SEAN: I was waiting for that Yen deluge. What are you buying?
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