SEAN: June arrives this Friday, and with it comes even more manga. Here’s what’s out next week.
Bookwalker has a 4th volume of The Combat Baker and Automaton Waitress light novel, reminding me that I’m behind on it.
J-Novel Club has a large number of releases out next week: Demon King Daimaou 5, Invaders of the Rokujouma!? 13, I Saved Too Many Girls and Caused the Apocalypse 8, and Me, a Genius? I Was Reborn into Another World and I Think They’ve Got the Wrong Idea! 2. That’s a lot of light novel title damage.
Kodansha has a nice number of print titles coming out. The biggie for Manga Bookshelf peeps is the final omnibus of Princess Jellyfish, Vol. 9. There’s also a 3rd Battle Angel Alita: Mars Chronicle, a 7th Descending Stories, and a 10th Vinland Saga.
MICHELLE: I am really, really looking forward to Princess Jellyfish, though I can’t believe it’ll actually be over.
ASH: Yes! Princess Jellyfish has been wonderful; I’m so glad that it was released in print. I’m looking forward to continuing Descending Stories, too, and am thrilled for more Vinland Saga! (This is a good Kodansha week for me.)
ANNA: Also very happy about Princess Jellyfish and Vinland Saga!
MJ: I’m embarrassed to admit that I never even started Princess Jellyfish. Maybe the release of the final omnibus is what I need to spur me on.
SEAN: Digitally we have the debut of Those Summer Days (Ano Natsu), an Aria shoujo title about time travel and bittersweet romance.
MICHELLE: I’m in for bittersweet romance. The cover’s very pretty, too.
SEAN: We also have a 2nd You Got Me, Sempai!, and a 2nd Beware the Kamiki Brothers.
Seven Seas has two debuts. My Solo Exchange Diary is the sequel to My Lesbian Experience with Loneliness, and I am really looking forward to it.
ASH: My Lesbian Experience with Loneliness was tremendous, so the sequel is very high on my list.
MJ: This!
SEAN: Satan’s Secretary (Maou no Hisho) is a bit more typical manga title, about how well a demon invasion would actually go if the Demon King had a really capable secretary at his side. It’s from Earth Star Entertainment, and runs in their Comic Earth Star magazine.
Vertical gives us a 6th volume of Flying Witch.
Viz, as you’d expect, has a large pile. No debuts this time, so let’s divide into Jump and Beat titles. For Jump, we see Astra: Lost in Space 3, Blue Exorcist 19, Food Wars! 24, Haikyu!! 24, the 12th Kuroko’s Basketball 2-in-1, My Hero Academia 13, One Piece’s 24th 3-in-1, and The Promised Neverland 4. MHA and TPN are my choice from there.
MICHELLE: Forsooth, though there are a few other faves in that mix for me, too.
SEAN: On the shoujo end, we have Queen’s Quality 4, Takane & Hana 3, Yona of the Dawn 12, and The Young Master’s Revenge 2. Yona always jumps to the top of my pile whenever it comes out.
MICHELLE: I’ll be getting all of these!
ASH: So much Viz! (And so many that I’m following!)
ANNA: Yay for Viz shoujo!!!!!!
SEAN: And Yen Press has some stragglers. On the novel side we have Napping Princess, an adaptation of the movie of the same name.
Éclair: A Girls’ Love Anthology That Resonates in Your Heart is what it sounds like, a collection of short stories that deal with romance between girls. I’d expect a lot of school settings. The authors of Kiss & White Lily, Gosick, and Bloom into You make contributions.
ASH: I’m really looking forward to this anthology.
MJ: This sounds great.
SEAN: After being delayed for over a year, we now finally have the continuation of the Durarara!! manga, with the start of the Re;Dollars arc, weird punctuation and all.
There’s also a 3rd ACCA: 13-Territory Inspection Department, a 7th Akame Ga Kill! ZERO, a 3rd Angels of Death, a 6th Kiss & White Lily for My Dearest Girl (so a double dose of Canno next week), and the 2nd Laid-Back Camp.
ASH: ACCA may not be for everyone, but it’s definitely for me.
ANNA: I still need to read the first volume, for some reason I have not been in an ACCA frame of mind. Glad it is being translated!
SEAN: Bare your soul! What manga are you buying?
My Hero Academia and every single Kodansha print release for me ^^ Fortunately, Right Stuf shipped MHA vol. 13 and Descending Stories vol. 7 to me a little early, but seems like I’ll have to wait longer for the latest Vinland Saga and the end of Princess Jellyfish– argh!
Oh wait, actually that’s Descending Stories vol. 6 I have in my current pile. Ah well, that’s four books I’m waiting on from this week’s releases then, instead of three.
I’ve been patiently awaiting the release of Éclair (or really any Yuri anthology… for what feels like decades?) and am a little choked up. ;)
Also, ACCA 13, My Solo Exchange Diary and the other Canno series. *opens wallet, flies emerge*