SEAN: It’s another week of manga! What do we have next week?
Airship has two ongoing print series: Heroine? Saint? No, I’m an All-Works Maid (And Proud of It)! 6 and Virgin Knight: I Became the Frontier Lord in a World Ruled by Women 3.
And for early digital we see The Condemned Villainess Goes Back in Time and Aims to Become the Ultimate Villain 8, My Girlfriend Cheated on Me, and Now My Flirty Underclassman Won’t Leave Me Alone 2, and Witch and Mercenary 6 Part 2.
Ghost Ship have a 2nd volume of Lilia’s Pregnancy Spells the World’s End and a 5th volume of She’s the Strongest Bride, But I’m Stronger in Night Battles.
J-Novel Club have a bunch of print. We get Ascendance of a Bookworm (manga) Arc 4 Part 4, Black Summoner 7, The Brilliant Healer’s New Life in the Shadows (manga) 4, Campfire Cooking in Another World With My Absurd Skill Omnibus 6, Invaders of the Rokujouma!? Collector’s Edition 14, Isekai Tensei: Recruited to Another World (manga) 6, My Quiet Blacksmith Life in Another World 7, My Quiet Blacksmith Life in Another World (manga) 3, and Reborn to Master the Blade 9.
ASH: That is a bunch! And some good stuff in there, too.
SEAN: Their digital calendar next week is light. We get Backstabbed in a Backwater Dungeon 12, Private Tutor to the Duke’s Daughter 20 and Scooped Up by an S-Rank Adventurer! 3.
No debuts for Kodansha Manga, but we get print volumes for The Fragrant Flower Blooms With Dignity 13, Love Out on a Limb 2, A Kingdom of Quartz 5, Mobile Suit Gundam: THE ORIGIN Deluxe 6 (the final volume), OMORI 2, A Sign of Affection Omnibus 4, and Shugo Chara! Jewel Joker 2.
ASH: I really need to read more of Sign of Affection.
SEAN: And digital volumes are Giant Killing 55, My Wife is a Little Intimidating 14, Otherworldly Munchkin: Let’s Speedrun the Dungeon with Only 1 HP! 13, and WIND BREAKER 24.
One Peace Books has a 2nd volume of The B-Rank Adventurer with a Scary Face Becomes a Father for the Hero and His Friends.
ASH: I actually rather enjoyed the first volume.
SEAN: Seven Seas’s danmei volume is Silent Reading: Mo Du 3.
Seven Seas has two debuts. The Babe at My Back Has Her Eye on Me. I’m Done For (Ushiro no Seki no Gyaru ni Sukarete Shimatta. Mou Ore wa Dame Kamo Shirenai) runs in Comic Dengeki Daioh G. A gloomy otaku sort jumps into a ditch to rescue a beautiful classmate who fell into it. Now she’s talking with him all the time. Is kindness all it takes?
ASH: It certainly doesn’t hurt!
SEAN: Let’s Run an Inn on Dungeon Island! (In a World Ruled by Women) (Dungeon Tou de Yadoya wo Yarou! Souzou Mahou wo Moratta Ore no Hosoude Hanjouki) is a Comic Rex title coming out in omnibuses. Another overworked office worker dies. Another isekai’d guy has a fantastic new power. Another potato-kun protagonist tries to live a quiet life, but there’s just all these women!
MICHELLE: Snerk.
ANNA: Wow, why does this keep happening????
ASH: It is rather curious.
SEAN: They also have BL Game Rebirth: My New Life as the Hero’s Younger Brother 4, The Dangerous Convenience Store 7, Grim Night Tales 2, I Can’t Stand Being Your Childhood Friend 3 (the final volume), Night of the Living Cat 7, A Ninja and an Assassin Under One Roof 3, No God in Eden 4, Reincarnated as a Sword 17, and The Tale of a Little Alchemist Blessed by the Spirits 2.
Square Enix Manga has The Ice Guy and the Cool Girl 11, My Isekai Life 25, My Favorite VTuber Is Scary IRL 2, and Ragna Crimson 15.
SuBLime Manga debuts Bride of the Shark Clan (Samezoku e no Sasagemono), a BL manga from Moment. A guy is tired of sacrifices to the guy with shark attributes who’s really strong. But he’s really strong, and kind of nice… provided he doesn’t see blood.
ANNA: I wonder if he’ll see some blood.
ASH: I initially read that as the Snark Clan, but that’s a different sort of blood thirst.
SEAN: And they also have The World’s Greatest First Love 19.
Titan Manga have a big debut for sports manga fans. Aoashi is a soccer manga that ran for a decade, mostly in Big Comic Spirits. It also got an anime. Titan is releasing it in 3-in-1 omnibuses. A kid is destined to get into a really good high school for soccer… till he gets in a fight in his final middle school game and is blackballed. What now?
MICHELLE: Ooh.
ANNA: Nice, always happy to see more sports manga coming out.
ASH: Always!
SEAN: Titan also has Saint Seiya: Dark Wing 3.
Tokyopop debut Strobe in the Dark (Kurayami ni Strobe), a one-shot BL manga from Cab. A guy takes photos of his attractive and sporty childhood friend, while hiding his growing attraction.
No debuts for Viz, but we get Dandadan 19, Fly Me to the Moon 32, Fushigi Yûgi: Byakko Senki 4, Girl Crush 7, Kamudo 2, Kill Blue 7, Marriagetoxin 13, Minecraft: the Manga 6, Pokémon: Scarlet & Violet 5, Sakamoto Days 22, Sleepy Princess in the Demon Castle 30, and Vagabond Definitive Edition 5.
MICHELLE: I’m always happy to see more Byakko Senki!
ANNA: Absolutely!!!!
SEAN: Yen On debuts Melody of the Boundary (Kyoukai no Melody), a one-shot that is in the favorite Yen On genre of “heartwarming tragedy”. Two musicians are poised to make their debut… then one dies in an accident. Three years later, his ghost appears to try to get his friend to love music again. This got an anime.
ASH: Music-related tragedy? Sounds like something I would read.
SEAN: Also from Yen On: Before the Tutorial Starts 4, Days with My Stepsister 7, Demon Lord 2099 5, Kusunoki’s Garden of Gods 4, The Magical Revolution of the Reincarnated Princess and the Genius Young Lady 9, New Game Plus After Defeating the Last Boss 2, Once Upon a Witch’s Death 3, The Only Thing I’d Do in a No-Boys-Allowed Game World 4, and Re:ZERO -Starting Life in Another World- Short Story Collection 5.
And Yen Press has Everyone’s Darling Has a Secret 4 and Pink & Habanero 5.
Yay, manga!
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