SEAN: Things are getting busy here with NYCC happening this week, but that doesn’t mean we can’t tell you about all the manga coming in once it’s over.
Kodansha has the 8th volume of Animal Land. I dropped this quickly due to its somewhat juvenile mood, but I’ve heard tell that I was wrong to do so as it matures later on. I should try to catch up.
ASH: Animal Land is such a quirky series. It took a volume or two for it to really grow on me, but I ended up quite liking it. Animal Land is cute, but it can also be very, very dark.
MJ: I tried getting into this and initially failed. Given Ash’s reaction, I wonder if I should give it another shot?
SEAN: By now Negima’s omnibuses have caught up with the translator changes, so the best reason to get this 8th volume is if you missed the series the first time around.
Seven Seas has its October titles coming out this week. First off, Alice in the Country of Joker has the 3rd volume of Circus and Liar’s Game, one of the more interesting spinoffs it puts out.
MICHELLE: I’ve reached my Alice saturation point, methinks.
ANNA: I still mean to get caught up on a couple of these series.
SEAN: Speaking of franchises, we have Dive in the Vampire Bund, a side story to Dance. Both Vol. 1 and Vol. 2 are out this week.
Haganai: I Don’t Have Many Friends is the title I’ve called the best by default of last fall’s otaku-oriented licenses, and I still enjoy it despite it still pandering much of the time. The 4th volume is already out digitally, but print waits a week.
Speaking of which, it’s fall again, so it’s time for a new series of Seven Seas licenses that make me raise an eyebrow. First of all, gotta love that cover for Love In Hell, with a demon in scanty leathers looking like she’d rather be anywhere but on the cover of this book. The synopsis notes it stars a regular guy who meets a whole bunch of crazy girls. What can I possibly say to top such originality?
And there’s also the first volume of Monster Musume, which is about a hapless regular guy and all the crazy sexy supernatural women who make his life… wait, did I get this mixed up with Love in Hell? No? Right, moving on…
MICHELLE: *snerk*
ASH: With Love in Hell, Monster Musume, and A Centaur’s Life I think Seven Seas has a corner on cute monster girl manga.
SEAN: I have occasionally been taken to task for forgetting that manwha exists, so best to note that there’s a new Jack The Ripper: Hell Blade (Vol. 5) from Seven Seas, as well as a new Omnibus of the Witch Buster, containing Books 5 and 6.
MJ: I only wish we were seeing more manhwa releases! (Or perhaps I should say, more manhwa releases I like.)
SEAN: Flowers of Evil has reached Volume 7, which means the cover design is all new. Not so sure if the content is less dark and seedy. I doubt it.
ASH: I think we get a time skip to go along with the new covers this time, too!
MJ: I’m looking forward to it!
SEAN: Knights of Sidonia 5 is out as well. I keep waiting for this to be the volume where I drop it for being too depressing, but it’s keeping me hooked.
MICHELLE: Yay for Sidonia!
ASH: I’m hooked on Sidonia, too.
MJ: What they said!
ANNA: Indeed!
SEAN: I’ve long since lost track of Afterschool Charisma, but it’s quietly reached Vol. 8, and is an Ikki title, so I automatically respect it. Has it run out of celebrity clones yet?
MICHELLE: I sincerely mean to catch up on this, but haven’t done so yet.
ANNA: Me too. I enjoyed the first few volumes.
SEAN: It’s also time for Vol. 12 of Real, the basketball title for those who think Slam Dunk is too cute and girly.
MICHELLE: Super yay!
ASH: Real! One of my favorite series and I’m not even all that into basketball.
MJ: Mine, too! I’m so happy that it’s time for a new volume!
ANNA: You can never go wrong with Inoue.
SEAN: Lastly, the big re-release this week is an omnibus containing all three volumes of Uzumaki, by horror manga author Junji Ito. You’ll read it, you’ll love it, and the spiraling shape will make you go insane.
MICHELLE: Go on, give it a whirl!
ASH: Yes, do!
MJ: Indeed!
SEAN: That’s a lot of manga! Getting any of it?
AshLynx says
October 10, 2013 at 4:38 amI need to get Witch Buster 5 and 6. It’s been ages since they’ve released an actually new volume (I’m not counting the re-release of Witch Hunter with a new title as a new release here), all because of copyright problems, so seeing it return will be nice! I’ll be skipping all the other Seven Seas stuff though, I want more shonen manhwa over here, so I’ll pay for it!
If I can stumble across the Uzumaki omnibus for cheap, I will so be getting it. I try to re-read my volumes every October as the one and only horror manga I truly need. Depends on how nice/cheap the omnibus is I suppose. Also on the Viz side, I’ll be getting Afterschool Charisma. I haven’t read the last couple vols, but it’s pretty sweet nonetheless.
chloes_fork says
October 10, 2013 at 10:45 am“Getting any of it?” A lot of it, actually. Really looking forward to both “Love in Hell” and “Monster Musume,” despite your snark. Even more excited about the latest “Flowers of Evil”; it’s an amazing series, probably my favorite in current release. And I’m getting the “Uzumaki” hardcover omnibus, despite already owning the three paperback volumes, because it’s a masterpiece and Ito’s a god and they richly deserve this deluxe treatment.
Aaron says
October 10, 2013 at 11:23 amI’d order Love In Hell and Monster Musume but seeing how I already asked for those for Christmas along with Love In Hell and Haganai I won’t be ordering those I’ll probably end pre ordering Showa although Uzumaki looks promiseing as well. Also I don’t think Haganai is that pandering as it’s poorly written and the characterization is spread really thin . I mean when after three volumes the Mary Sue parody character (Sena) has more growth than the rest of the cast or the lead protagonist you know you’ve got problems. That being said Rika is still best girl in that series