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December 26, 2016 by Sean Gaffney, Michelle Smith, Ash Brown, MJ and Anna N 2 Comments

Pick of the Week: Farewell to 2016

SEAN: A bit of the post-Christmas blah, as there’s stuff I’m getting this week but nothing I’m wild about. I’ll make my pick the 2nd volume of The Ghost and the Lady from Kodansha, which features a great interpretation of Florence Nightingale.

MICHELLE: I think Cells At Work! Volume Two is the only thing I’m getting this week, so that makes picking it the obvious choice.

ASH: I’ll definitely be picking up the finale of The Ghost and the Lady, too, but my pick of the week has to go to Vinland Saga. For a time there it didn’t look like the rest of series would be translated, so I’m very happy to see more of the incredible manga finally being released.

MJ: I gotta admit there’s nothing I’m really keen to slap my money down for this week, so I’m going to go way off list. Sometime last week, Michelle convinced me that I needed to check out a digital-only series from SuBLime, The Night Beyond the Tricornered Window, and I have a feeling I’m going to be picking up all the available volumes pretty quickly this week, in my post-Christmas haze. I haven’t paid enough attention to these digital series, which is a shame, since so often the kind of BL that I love best is not the kind that is popular enough to warrant print releases. At $5.99 a volume, they’re decently affordable, too, at least for a short series! So that’s my major purchase for the week.

ANNA: I’m with Ash, I’m most excited about the next volume of Vinland Saga. I thought that we weren’t going to see another volume translated, so seeing a new volume released is a wonderful surprise.

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  1. st_owly says

    December 26, 2016 at 11:44 am

    Hoo boy guess I need to read the first seven volumes of Vinland Saga then xD

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  2. Olivia says

    December 28, 2016 at 11:03 pm

    So happy to be seeing more Vinland Saga! It’s such a long-running series, and I’m grateful Kodansha’s still releasing it. Also glad to see more people getting into The Night Beyond the Tricornered Window! I love that series to bits, but from some comments that have been made by Viz it sounds like it’s been selling poorly. I’m sensing a trend with my favourite comics.

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