I’m pretty pleased with my manga haul in December. I finally gave in and bought a complete set of Yumi Tamura’s series Basara on ebay. I ended up paying a little more than I really wanted (some of the volumes are very out of print), but the fact I had a couple of gift cards to use made me feel a little better about the whole transaction. Plus, the seller threw in copies of the two Basara artbooks as a bonus. As for preorders this month, my copy of Gengoroh Tagame’s Endless Game arrived which made me pretty happy. The English translation is actually the manga’s debut; it hasn’t even been collected in Japan yet. The next volume of Q Hayashida’s Dorohedoro was also released in December. We only get three Dorohedoro volumes a year, so I’m always excited when a new volume comes out. I got a great batch of queer comics in December which I’m looking forward to reading, too.
Manga!
Attack on Titan, Volume 10 by Hajime Isayama
Basara, Volumes 1-27 by Yumi Tamura
Between the Sheets by Erica Sakurazawa
Dorohedoro, Volume 11 by Q Hayashida
Endless Game by Gengoroh Tagame
Fairy Tail, Volume 33 by Hiro Mashima
Hetalia: Axis Powers, Volumes 4-5 by Himaruya Hidekaz
Knights of Sidonia, Volume 6 by Tsutomu Nihei
Lies Are a Gentleman’s Manners by Marta Matsuo
Mobile Suit Gundam: The Origin, Volume 4: Jaburo by Yoshikazu Yasuhiko
No. 6, Volume 4 by Hinoki Kino
Otomen, Volume 17 by Aya Kanno
Pink by Kyoko Okazaki
Red Colored Elegy by Seiichi Hayashi
Sankarea: Undying Love, Volume 4 by Mitsuru Hattori
Sekine-kun no Koi, Volumes 1-3 by Haruka Kawachi
Smuggler by Shohei Manabe
Soul Rescue, Volumes 1-2 by Aya Kanno
Wild Com. by Yumi Tamura
Manhwa!
Evyione: Ocean Fantasy, Volume 1 by Young-Hee Kim
Comics!
Flutter written by Jennie Wood, illustrated by Jeff McComsey
QU33R edited by Rob Kirby
Queerotica edited by Allie Kleber
What’s Normal Anyway? by Morgan Boecher
Artbooks!
Basara: Earth by Yumi Tamura
Basara: Flame by Yumi Tamura
The Sky: The Art of Final Fantasy by Yoshitaka Amano
Anime!
Sword of the Stranger directed by Masahiro Andō
Film!
Zoo directed by Various