SEAN: Buckle up, kids, the end of the month is stacked.
ASH: Are we there yet?
SEAN: Airship has four print volumes. We get Loner Life in Another World 14, Too Many Losing Heroines! 7, The Weakest Tamer Began a Journey to Pick Up Trash 12, and Witch and Mercenary 6 Part 1.
And for early digital we get Magical Buffs: The Support Caster is Stronger Than He Realized! 2 and Reborn as a Space Mercenary: I Woke Up Piloting the Strongest Starship! 15.
No debuts for Cross Infinite World, but they do have Apocalypse Bringer Mynoghra 8, Fluffy Paradise 8, and How I Became King by Eating Monsters 5.
Dark Horse Manga has the 2nd and final omnibus volume of Gunsmith Cats: Burst.
ASH: I feel like this is a series that I should be reading, for some reason.
SEAN: Ghost Ship gives us Into the Deepest, Most Unknowable Dungeon 13 and Tamamori’s Fantasies Never Stop! 4.
Hanashi Media has a debut. A Journey Through Another World: Raising Kids While Adventuring (Isekai Yururi Kikou: Kosodateshinagara Boukensha Shimasu) has a guy accidentally killed by a god isekai’d into a deadly monster forest, where he meets adorable twins who know kung fu. As one does.
ASH: While I’m a little worn out by the sheer amount of isekai titles being released these days, I do appreciate the parenting angle.
SEAN: Also from Hanashi Media: The New Gate 3, An Observation Log of My Wife Who Calls Herself a Villainess 3, Re:Monster 3, and Tsukimichi: Moonlit Fantasy 15.
J-Novel Club has print debuts for two of its contest winners. ATLAS: Her, the Combatant, and Him, the Hero is a futuristic dystopia that lives and dies on its main characters.
ASH: I will admit to being intrigued by the JNC Original Light Novel Contest.
SEAN: The Adorable Dungeon Master is exactly what it sounds like. She’s reincarnated and she wants cute.
They also have My Instant Death Ability Is So Overpowered, No One in This Other World Stands a Chance Against Me! ―AO― 10 in print.
J-Novel Club has one debut, a manga in their J-Novel Knight line. All Eyes on Nekoyashiki-kun! Notice Me, Not My Characters (Kabesaa Doujin Sakka no Nekoyashiki-kun wa Shounin Yokkyuu wo Kojirasete iru) is a BL manga from Comic Ryu. An indie artist who draws gay manga is startled to find that his childhood friend, an idol, is back in his orbit.
ASH: Lucky him!
SEAN: Digital light novels from JNC: The Bladesmith’s Enchanted Weapons 4, The Canon Fodder’s Ascension from Pawn to World Unifier 2, Earl and Fairy 12, Holmes of Kyoto 0 (a prequel short-story volume), Rebuild World 8 Part 1, and Worthless at Home, Whiz to the World 4.
Other digital manga from JNC: Fired? But I Maintain All the Software! 3, Hell Mode 10, Rebuild World 14, and The Skull Dragon’s Precious Daughter 6.
Kodama have the 15th and 16th Baki the Grappler volumes, as well as MAGICA 2 and Smile! 3.
ASH: Pretty sure I should be reading all of these, too.
SEAN: Kodansha Manga debuts Kirio Fan Club, a comedy manga from Comic Ruelle. This just got an anime. Two girls are obsessed with the boy they like in class. Let’s put it this way, the first bit is about the smell of his farts. We’re talking COM, not Romcom.
MICHELLE: Yeesh.
ASH: Huh.
SEAN: In print they have Ashita no Joe: Fighting for Tomorrow 5, Blue Lock Omnibus 2, Cells at Work! Lady 2, The Great Cleric 13, I Want to Love You Till Your Dying Day 8, Killing Line 2, Nina the Starry Bride 15, Pupposites Attract 4, Rent-A-Girlfriend 36, Tokyo Tarareba Girls Returns 2 2, Toppu GP 14, and You Must Be This Tall to Propose! 2.
MICHELLE: Hooray for more Tokyo Tarareba Girls in print!
ASH: Indeed! And Ashita no Joe, too!
SEAN: Digitally we get Am I Actually the Strongest? 17, And Yet, You Are So Sweet 13, Anyway, I’m Falling in Love with You 12, Drops of God: Mariage 15, and I Left my A-Rank Party to Help My Former Students Reach the Dungeon Depths! 6.
One Peace Books has a 16th manga volume of The New Gate.
Seven Seas time, which means we start with danmei. There’s Dinghai Fusheng Records 4, Legend of Exorcism: Tianbao Fuyao Lu 5, and The White Cat’s Divine Scratching Post 2.
ASH: That it does. I’m delighted.
SEAN: There’s only one manga debut, and it is DOGGO (INNU). This Young Magazine title stars a down-on-his-luck pug who gets picked up by a cute high school girl. Little does she know… he can talk. And fight! And is hiding from the yakuza. Little does he know… she’s the daughter of a yakuza boss. This looks very silly.
Also from Seven Seas: Backstabbed in a Backwater Dungeon 11, Cat Companions Maruru and Hachi 6, Failure Frame 12, The Fed-Up Office Lady Wants to Serve the Villainess 3, The Ideal Sponger Life 21, Mii-chan Wants to Be Kept 4 (the final volume), Monster Musume: I Heart Monster Girls 6, My Girlfriend is 8 Meters Tall 3, My Girlfriend’s Child 10 (the final volume), My Lovey-Dovey Wife is a Stone Cold Killer 8, My New Life as a Cat 13, Painter of the Night 3, Romelia War Chronicle 2, Servamp 23, There’s No Freaking Way I’ll be Your Lover! Unless… 8, Yakuza Reincarnation 15, Yonoi Tsukihiko’s Happy Hell 5, and Young Ladies Don’t Play Fighting Games 9.
Steamship has a 6th volume of A Suitable Fetish.
Titan Manga debuts Grendizer U: The Inception, based off the giant robot manga. It runs in Hero’s.
Tokyopop debuts Bride of Ignat (Ignat no Hanayome). It’s in from RED, so no worries, this is BL despite the title. A survivor of an epidemic is seen as cursed, so is “volunteered” to be the sacrifice to the dragon. We know how that will go.
ASH: I must say, it does have a very pretty cover.
SEAN: Also from Tokyopop: I’ll Never Fall In Love With Amano! 3 (the final volume), If My Favorite Pop Idol Made It to the Budokan, I Would Die 11, The Prince Is in the Villainess’ Way! 6, and Wandervogel 2.
MICHELLE: I need to read Wandervogel!
SEAN: Viz Media has one spinoff debut. JoJo’s Bizarre Adventure: Purple Smoke Distortion (Hajishirazu no Purple Haze: JoJo no Kimyou na Bouken yori), a one-volume light novel about what happened to Pannacotta Fugo.
ASH: Unsurprisingly, I’m interested.
SEAN: Make that two spinoff debuts, as we also get Splatoon: Squid Kids Comedy Show. You know what this will be like. It’s for your 8-year-old.
Also from Viz: Boy’s Abyss 13.
Yen On has only one title, and it’s a debut. Our Party Nearly Wiped and Then Everything Went Downhill (Zenmetsu End wo Shi ni Monogurui de Kaihishita. Party ga Yanda) stars a man who wakes up in his favorite grimdark manga, in the body of the schmuck who dies to set the series’ tone. He somehow manages to not die, though he’s gravely wounded. Only now… why are all these women so obsessed with him?
ASH: Why, indeed.
SEAN: And here comes Yen Press. Debuts first. Merit and the Egyptian God (Merit Aikyuu God) is a shoujo title from Hana to Yume. (When I was much younger, I typed those words multiple times a month.) A girl winds up trapped in the underworld, and has to talk a grump God into bringing her home.
MICHELLE: Possibly fun!
SEAN: My Lover Is Just Too Innocent to Handle (Koibito ga Ubusugite Komaru) is a BL title which ran as a web manga. A gloomy, introverted guy is confessed to by a hot, outgoing guy. How to get to know each other? Exchange diaries!
MICHELLE: Also possibly fun!
ASH: Sounds cute, for sure.
SEAN: My Super-Cute Black Mage! (Uchi no Kuro Madoushi ga Kawaisugiru!) is (gasp!) another shoujo title from Hana to Yume. At a magic school, our heroine avoids the scary-looking black mage. Then when she accidentally gets close to him, she can hear his thoughts… and they’re kinda cute?
MICHELLE: Hm. Less sold on this, but Hana to Yume!
ASH: But cute is even in the title, this time!
SEAN: You Can’t Escape from Mizudako-chan! (Mizudako-chan kara wa Nigerarenai!) is a romantic comedy from Comic Fuz. An average high school guy finds a very strange girl transferred into his class… who is half-octopus!
MICHELLE: That sounds handy. (Smirk.)
ASH: Lol.
SEAN: Also from Yen Press: Ako and Bambi 7, Alya Sometimes Hides Her Feelings in Russian 3, Banished from the Hero’s Party, I Decided to Live a Quiet Life in the Countryside 12, Chitose Is in the Ramune Bottle 8 (the final volume), The Dark History of the Reincarnated Villainess 14, Days with My Stepsister 5, The Do-Over Damsel Conquers the Dragon Emperor 7, The Eminence in Shadow 14, From Old Country Bumpkin to Master Swordsman 5, Hell Is Dark with No Flowers 4, Hirano and Kagiura 5, Honey Lemon Soda 11, I Want to Be a Receptionist in This Magical World 8, If the Villainess and Villain Met and Fell in Love 5, Interspecies Reviewers 11, Kindergarten Wars 4, Land 2, Lycoris Recoil Official Comic Anthology: Repeat 2, Mieruko-chan 12, Oshi no Ko 13, The Princess of Convenient Plot Devices 6, The Reformation of the World as Overseen by a Realist Demon King 8, A Returner’s Magic Should Be Special 6, So I’m a Spider, So What? 15, Stomp, Kick, Love 4, The Summer Hikaru Died 7, To Sir, Without Love: I’m Divorcing You 3, and Touring After the Apocalypse 7.
MICHELLE: I’m definitely intrigued by The Summer Hikaru Died.
ASH: As you should be!
SEAN: That’s a lot! Anything jump out at you?
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