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April 28, 2016 by Sean Gaffney, Ash Brown, Michelle Smith, MJ and Anna N Leave a Comment

Manga the Week of 5/4

SEAN: Let’s face it, there are no light weeks anymore. There’s 21 titles next week, and that’s our new normal. We just have to accept it, manga is popular again.

ASH: All right!

MICHELLE: Yay! Now, can we have back some of those series that disappeared in less prosperous times? Like Silver Diamond? Please?

MJ: I’ll second Michelle on this. :)

ANNA: Silver Diamond, Demon Sacred, I could go on!

SEAN: Dark Horse gives us a 5th volume of Oreimo: Kuroneko, showing that non-canon love interests are always more popular than canon ones, especially when they aren’t related.

Seven Seas gives us a 7th volume of underrated techno-thriller Arpeggio of Blue Steel.

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Shomin Sample is a harem comedy based on a light novel, whose title I am abbreviating as it’s too long, and I think that says it all. Vol. 1 comes out from Seven Seas next week.

And there’s a second Testament of Sister New Devil, whose title I actually got wrong in my review of the first volume, it’s that hard for me to keep straight.

Vertical has a 2nd volume of Nichijou, whose first volume I was delighted to see was a big hit. Keep it up!

MICHELLE: I will soon be catching up on Nichijou!

SEAN: There’s a Takeshi Obata artbook coming out, blanc et noir, whose title is very e.e. cummings. MJwill, I’m sure, have more to say.

ASH: My copy arrived early, and it’s gorgeous. The volume includes a fair amount of art from Death Note, but also from Hikaru no Go and some of Obata’s other works, too.

MJ: I haven’t seen this, but you can bet I’ll be picking it up. Whatever I have thought about some of his collaborations, I’ve always loved his artwork. This is a must-buy.

SEAN: Relive those days when everything was Aizen with the 15th Bleach 3-in-1 omnibus.

Blue Exorcist also has a 15th volume, and finally wraps up the Izumo arc, I believe.

Dragon Ball Full Color adds Freeza Arc to its title, in case people had forgotten which edition they were re-re-re-rebuying.

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The Heiress and the Chauffeur is Viz’s debut this month, and give it’s a LaLa DX series I am contractually obligated to love it. It’s also only 2 volumes, so not a huge investment. Also, Taisho era!

MICHELLE: I’m looking forward to this one, though preemptively sad that it’s so short.

MJ: Same here!

ANNA: Not surprisingly I am too!

SEAN: JoJo’s Bizarre Adventure has been given the go-ahead for hardcovers of the previously released 3rd arc, which is great news. First though, it’s back to Joseph for the 3rd volume of Battle Tendency.

ASH: I’ve really been enjoying these releases. I hope Viz will pick up the later arcs, too!

ANNA: I need to get caught up!

SEAN: Kimi ni Todoke has seemingly finished with its Ayane angst, and so I suspect the 24th volume will give a bit more focus to the other two major couples.

With its 4th volume of omnibuses, Maid-sama! has finally caught up with the Tokyopop releases, and so will feature all new material next time.

MICHELLE: As problematic as this series is, I still wanna see what happens in the volumes we never saw before. Hey, you know what else could get rescued as a 2-in-1 omnibus? Silver Diamond!

MJ: Heh.

SEAN: My Hero Academia 4 has more to tell us about superheroes.

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The new Naruto novel is technically called Sakura’s Story, but I’ve heard that Sakura fans are going to be disappointed. Still, it’s Naruto, you have to get all 6 novels to complete the set.

Nisekoi has reached 15 volumes, and it’s still trying to balance its high-wire harem act.

One Piece. 78 volumes. Still in Dressrosa.

One-Punch Man is at its 6th volume. Sadly, this volume has no punching… I kid. There’s always punching.

ASH: I’m still greatly enjoying One-Punch Man.

MICHELLE: I am starting to feel like maybe I would like this.

MJ: You would.

ANNA: I feel like One-Punch Man should be universally beloved.

SEAN: Oresama Teacher reached the big 2-0! Have we learned all of Hayasaka’s secrets? And what of poor, neglected Super Bun?

ANNA: Where is Super Bun? The world wants to know!!!

SEAN: And World Trigger is up to double digits, increasing exponentially the likelihood that I will never succeed in catching up to it.

Lastly, Yu-Gi-Oh has a 6th 3-in-1. Collect ‘em all!

Which of these manga titles makes you cry out in ecstasy and rapture?

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