MICHELLE: It’s the first week of August and that can mean only one thing: my annual opportunity to pick Kaze Hikaru! I am also super excited about the new volume of What Did You Eat Yesterday?, however.
ASH: As Sean recently noted, there’s lots and lots and lots being released this week. Shoujo, shonen, seinen, and even josei manga are all represented and I’m reading SO MUCH of it. However, the release that I’m perhaps most interested in this week actually isn’t manga at all but Shinsuke Nakamura’s autobiography King of Strong Style.
SEAN: I suspect Anna will also be picking Kaze Hikaru, so I’ll pitch in for her and make my pick the lucky 13th volume of Yona of the Dawn. Every volume deserves to be read and reread, like a favorite childhood story. I love it to bits.
ANNA: It is such a tough choice because I love Kaze Hikaru and Yona of the Dawn so much! But with only one volume of Kaze Hikaru coming out a year, I have to take the opportunity to highlight it whenever I can. It is such a great, underappreciated series.
KATE: Kaze Hikaru. ‘Nuff said.
Hilolilo says
August 14, 2018 at 2:44 amI love Kaze Hikaru so much, and join the manga bookshelf crew in rejoicing this month’s annual release, but am bewildered & frustrated at Viz’s decision to publish this title only once a year. I know Kaze Hikaru is more cult favorite than blockbuster hit, but it is well-received by critics, and has a very devoted fan base. We’re nowhere close to being caught up with Japan, and at a snail’s pace of one volume a year, most of us readers will eventually lose interest, find other interests in retirement, or actually die of old age before we see how this wonderful manga finally ends. I guess I’ll have to keep asking Santa for Viz to publish Kaze Hikaru at least quarterly and/or in omnibus form.