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July 4, 2018 by Sean Gaffney, Michelle Smith, Ash Brown, Anna N and MJ 2 Comments

Manga the Week of 7/11/18

SEAN: Manga, manga, manga! Last chance sale! Everything must go!

Dark Horse gives us a 39th volume of Berserk, a series that without hiatuses might have 139 volumes.

ASH: Ha! That may be true. I still greatly anticipate this one, though!

SEAN: J-Novel Club has the 9th volume of guilty pleasure In Another World With My Smartphone.

Kodansha did it again, releasing their new digital manga press release just after I posted Manga the Week of. So, already released, we have I’m Standing on a Million Lives (100-man no Inochi no Ue ni Ore wa Tatte Iru), an isekai fantasy that runs in Bessatsu Shonen Magazine. The artist may be familiar for Psycho Busters.

Meanwhile, next week’s debut is Tokyo Alice, a long-runing josei series from Kiss magazine that recently got a live-action series. The heroine is looking for love and looking to shop, possibly not in that order.

MICHELLE: I’m not especially into shopping, but who can resist long-running josei?

ANNA: Did someone say long-running josei!?

SEAN: Also digitally we have Kamikamikaeshi 2 and Starving Anonymous 5.

Print-wise, we have another digital debut that’s now getting a print release. Grand Blue Dreaming is a romantic comedy from the creator of Bakas, Tests and Summoned Beasts. It runs in good! Afternoon.

ASH: I’m curious about this one! What could possibly go wrong when mixing drinking and diving? (Plus, I’m always happy when one of Kodansha’s digital titles makes its way into print.)

SEAN: Amazon also tells me that there is an Attack on Titan Character Encyclopedia coming out next week, though I don’t see that on Kodansha’s site. Learn more about your favorite characters who are now dead. NOT THAT I’M BITTER.

Kiss Him, Not Me! comes to an end with its 14th volume. The series had its ups and downs, but overall I enjoyed it.

And there is a 7th Waiting for Spring.

MICHELLE: I always enjoy this series.

SEAN: Seven Seas debuts Little Devils (Maou Kyoudai), the latest in a long line of slice-of-monster-girl life. Or monster kids, in this case, as a hero has to raise demon children to become model citizens. It runs in Tokuma Shoten’s Comic Ryu, and looks more cutesy than pervey.

ASH: It does look really cute. I plan on giving it a try.

MJ: This sounds pretty cute.

SEAN: There’s also a 7th print novel for Grimgar of Fantasy and Ash, a 2nd Sorry for My Familiar, and a 4th Spirit Circle. I’ll definitely be getting the last of those.

ASH: Same!

SEAN: Vertical gives us a 7th volume of the Mobile Suit Gundam Wing manga.

Lastly, there is Viz, which has a 67th Case Closed (still not over in Japan), and a 27th Rin-Ne (which has ended, but we have a long way to go to catch up.)

MICHELLE: I had no idea RIN-NE had ended! It makes me wonder if there was some actual plot there at the end.

MJ: *snort*

SEAN: Not too bad, right? Which of these MANGA BARGAINS are you getting?

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  1. Ash Lynx says

    July 4, 2018 at 12:29 pm

    I think I just need Berserk and Spirit Circle! Whew, a nice light week for once! Though I still need to play catch up….

    More importantly, Banana Fish anime!!

    Reply
  2. Jocilyn Wagner says

    July 4, 2018 at 12:47 pm

    He’s a manga, manga, manga maniac
    He loves them all the ladies in the paperback
    Some pretty girls are dancing on the cover
    In white and black
    Cause he’s a manga, manga maniac

    oh manga… manga

    Some boys like to flirt with every pretty girl they see
    Some boys want to touch a beauty in their fantasies
    Some boys come home drunk in the middle of the night
    Some boys like their cigarettes and some boys really love to fight

    He’s a manga, manga, manga maniac
    He loves them all the ladies in the paperback
    Some pretty girls are dancing on the cover
    And in his dreams he wants to be their lover
    Manga, manga, manga maniac

    The way he acts is giving me a heart attack
    Wants me to look like a hooker in a comicbook
    In white and black
    Cause he’s a manga, manga maniac

    He’s such a maniac

    [Problematic timing changes to prevent you from getting a AAA]

    Some boys do it once and some boys do it twice a day
    Some boys are making love in their very special way
    Some boys love to kiss every single little spot
    Some boys like it cool and some boys want it really hot

    But I like something that is really fun
    I want to be alone, when my baby is gone
    Unpack all my stuff, well I can’t get enough
    With a manga in my hand I jump into my wonderland

    Reply


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