SEAN: July is here, in full force, with all the manga you can handle.
ASH: Here we go!
And light novels, of course. Airship debuts Distorted I Love You (Waikyokuzumi I Love You), another one-shot from the creator of I Want to Eat Your Pancreas. A livestream channel announces the end of the world… and people start to believe it when weird things begin to happen.
ASH: Apocalypse stories are in right now.
SEAN: Also in print: Magic Maker: How to Create Magic in Another World 2, The Misdeeds of an Extremely Arrogant Villain Aristocrat 3, My Status as an Assassin Obviously Exceeds the Hero’s 5, The Too-Perfect Saint: Tossed Aside By My Fiancé and Sold to Another Kingdom 6, and Witch and Mercenary 6 Part 2.
And for early digital we get 7th Time Loop: The Villainess Enjoys a Carefree Life Married to Her Worst Enemy! Short Story Collection, The Devil Princess 4, and Reincarnated as a Sword 19.
Dark Horse Manga debut The Credits Roll into the Sea (Umi ga Hashiru End Roll), a shoujo series from Mystery Bonita. A recently widowed woman goes to a theater as she and her husband used to, and bonds with a young man in film school. Deciding to enroll in the same school, she finds herself dealing with a generation much younger than herself. This looks fantastic, to be honest.
ASH: It really does! I’ve been looking forward to this series.
SEAN: Ghost Ship gives us Imaizumi Brings All the Gals to His House 6.
Graphix has the 4th and final volume of Hikaru in the Light!.
ASH: I feel like I was supposed to read that series.
SEAN: Inklore gives us Heaven Official’s Blessing (The Comic) 2.
Another quiet week for J-Novel Club. For light novels, they have Formerly, the Fallen Daughter of the Duke 6, The Tanaka Family Reincarnates 7, and Worthless at Home, Whiz to the World 5.
For manga, we see D-Genesis: Three Years after the Dungeons Appeared 8, The Invincible Little Lady 13, Isekai Tensei: Recruited to Another World 13, A Late-Start Tamer’s Laid-Back Life 10, Oversummoned, Overpowered, and Over It! 11, and This Alluring Dark Elf Has the Heart of a Middle-Aged Man! 3.
Kodansha Manga’s big debut is Blue Summer Haze (Ao to Kagero), a BL baseball manga from Honey Milk. A pitcher and his childhood friend are a great pitcher-catcher duo, but one moves away, and they promise to reunite at Koshien. Which they do, but on different teams… and with repressed teenage feelings.
MICHELLE: Could this be more my thing?! I don’t think it could.
ASH: A sports manga, you say?
SEAN: Also in print: Flying Witch 14, Parasyte Reversi 7, Rent-a-Girlfriend 37, The Seven Deadly Sins: Four Knights of the Apocalypse 22, Shimazaki in the Land of Peace 9, Spacewalking with You 5, and Tune In to the Midnight Heart 8.
ASH: I had forgotten about Parasyte Reversi! I loved the original series, so I should probably give this one a try at some point.
SEAN: Digitally they have Giant Killing 56, How to Grill Our Love 21, Manchuria Opium Squad 13, Shangri-La Frontier 26, and Wind Breaker 25.
Mahjong Pros have all the stuff I already mentioned back in April and May. It got bumped. It may get bumped again. Sorry, Koizumi.
ASH: It’s okay, I’ll still read them all.
SEAN: Nakama Press have Infini-T Force 8.
The lone Seven Seas debut is History of the Kingdom of Orcsen: How the Barbarian Orcish Nation Came to Burn Down the Peaceful Elfland (Orcsen Oukokushi: Yaban na Orc no Kuni wa, Ikanishite Heiwa na Elf no Kuni wo Yakiharau ni Itatta ka). A manga adaptation in Comic Nova of the light novel we just talked about a couple weeks ago.
Also from Seven Seas: The Barbarian’s Bride 7, I Got Caught Up in a Hero Summons, but the Other World Was at Peace! 10, I Want to Escape from Princess Lessons 5, Killer Shark in Another World 7, The Lady Knight and the Beast-Eared Child 6, Mocha the Cat and His Forever Family 3, Skip and Loafer 12, Sword of the Demon Hunter: Kijin Gentōshō 9, and When a Clueless First-Person Shooter Player Falls into Another World 2.
Square Enix Books gives us The Prince’s Keeper 2 and Smoking Behind the Supermarket with You 7.
Tokyopop has one item, the one-shot A Boring Man and an Extraordinary Man (Saenai Ore no Ijou na Kouhai), a BL title that is in from RED. A dull office worker is reunited with his handsome former classmate, who wants to deepen their relationship? Why? He’s just a boring guy!
ANNA: Maybe he’s secretly not so boring to the right person????
ASH: Whatever do you mean?
SEAN: Udon Entertainment has another massive artbook coming out, The Art of Wo Long: Fallen Dynasty.
ASH: I’ve not played the game, but Udon does release some nice artbooks.
SEAN: Viz Media debuts Hima-Ten!, a Weekly Shonen Jump romantic comedy. A guy has a part-time job cleaning apartments. Then he finds the next apartment he cleans is that of new transfer student and hot model Himari! This is a Weekly Shonen Jump series, and therefore the fanbase is perfectly sensible and it has a romantic ending everyone agrees on.
ASH: Sounds about right.
SEAN: Also from Viz: The King’s Beast 18 (the final volume, with a Limited Edition as well), My Hero Academia: Team-Up Missions 8 (the final volume), Not Your Idol 4, Nue’s Exorcist 7, One Piece 112, Otaku Vampire’s Love Bite 8, Phantom Busters 4, Snow White with the Red Hair 27 (the first volume in two years), Super Psychic Policeman Chojo 4, Thus Spoke Rohan Kishibe 3, and Yona of the Dawn 46.
ANNA: Always hyped for more Yona, and one day I will get caught up on Snow White with the Red Hair.
MICHELLE: Ooh, a bit of Yona would go down smooth, about now.
ASH: That it would! I’m also interested in reading more about Rohan.
SEAN: That’s it! Some promising stuff! Beginnings! Endings! What interests you?
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