Kicking off this week’s news round-up is Shueisha’s announcement that it will launch its own manga app in 2024. The twist? Jump Toon will publish stories in a vertical scrolling format… will Netflix’s upcoming One Piece adaptation satisfy fans or alienate them?… Golden Kamuy creator Satoru Noda will be launching a new series this summer in the pages of Weekly Young Jump… Yen Press just unveiled six new licensing acquisitions… and Shueisha has teamed up with Marvel on a new manga: Spider-Man: Octopus Girl, in which Doc Oc finds himself trapped inside the body of a Japanese schoolgirl.
AROUND THE WEB
The Manga Machinations gang dig into the VIZ Signature archives to review three titles: Orochi, House of Five Leaves, and Saturn Apartments, all of which are now available on the VIZ Manga app. [Manga Machinations]
Robert Adams has the scoop on Yumi Tamura’s much-anticipated series Don’t Call It a Mystery. [Dad Needs to Talk]
Andy and Elliot dedicate the latest installment of Screentone Club to March Comes in Like a Lion and Crescent Moon Marching. [Screentone Club]
The hosts of Manga Kaiwa gush over the first new chapters of Berserk to be published since Kentaro Miura’s untimely death in 2021. [Manga Kaiwa]
Bill Curtis compiles a list of June’s new manga and light novel releases. [Yatta-Tachi]
If you’ve been curious about Dandadan, let Muraktama Rodrigues persuade you to give this exuberant supernatural comedy a try. “The creature designs are amazing,” he notes, “borrowing from different mythologies, urban legends, and even western horror comics, once again favoring the weird, ridiculous, and funny rather than the horrifying and disgusting.” [How to Love Comics]
REVIEWS
Palomo Lin-Linares pronounces The Strange Tale of Panorama Island “quite tame compared to other Suehiro Maruo works”… Kristin gives high marks to the 35th anniversary edition of AKIRA…. Megan D. revisits Shirahime-Syo, “a beautiful little oddity from CLAMP”… That Manga Hunter reviews the full run of Love and Lies… and my Manga Bookshelf colleague Sean Gaffney offers brief reviews of Blue Box, Dead Dead Demon’s Dededede Destruction, and The Yakuza’s Bias.
New and Noteworthy
- Assorted Entanglements, Vol. 1 (Erica Friedman, Okazu)
- Crescent Moon Marching, Vol. 1 (Adam Symchuk, Asian Movie Pulse)
- Lovely Muco!, Vol. 1 (Sarah, Anime UK News)
- Magus of the Library, Vol. 1 (SKJAM! Reviews)
- March Comes in Like a Lion, Vol. 1 (Anna N., Manga Report)
- Prince Freya, Vol. 1 (Megan D., The Manga Test Drive)
- School-Live!: Letters (Rene Scott, Good Comics for Kids)
- Small Nozomi and Big Yume, Vol. 1 (MrAJCosplay, ANN)
- Tsugumi Project, Vol. 1 (Adam Symchuk, Asian Movie Pulse)
Complete, OOP, and Ongoing Series
- Chasing After Aoi Koshiba, Vol. 4 (Erica Friedman, Okazu)
- Cherry Juice, Vol. 1 (Megan D., The Manga Test Drive)
- Chitose Is in the Ramune Bottle, Vol. 3 (Josh Piedra, The Outerhaven)
- Choujin X, Vol. 2 (Josh Piedra, The Outerhaven)
- Fly Me to the Moon, Vol. 16 (Sarah Smith, The Graphic Library)
- Fly Me to the Moon, Vols. 16-17 (King Baby Duck, Boston Bastard Brigade)
- Fly Me to the Moon, Vol. 17 (Jos Piedra, The Outerhaven)
- The Food Diary of Miss Maid, Vols. 3-4 (Justin, The OASG)
- Honey Lemon Soda, Vol. 2 (Josh Piedra, The Outerhaven)
- I Cannot Reach You, Vol. 6 (Sarah, Anime UK News)
- I Think Our Son Is Gay, Vols. 3-4 (Andy Oliver, Broken Frontier)
- Jujutsu Kaiden, Vol. 19 (King Baby Duck, Boston Bastard Brigade)
- Magus of the Library, Vol. 6 (Demelza, Anime UK News)
- The Other World’s Books Depend on the Bean Counter, Vol. 3 (Rebecca Silverman, ANN)
- New Vampire Miyu, Vol. 1 (Megan D., The Manga Test Drive)
- Usotoki Rhetoric, Vol. 2 (Demelza, Anime UK News)
- Villains Are Destined to Die, Vols. 2-3 (Adam Symchuk, Asian Movie Pulse)
- Villains Are Destined to Die, Vol. 3 (Noemi10, Anime UK News)
- Yuri Espoir, Vol. 4 (Luce, Okazu)