SEAN: It’s almost Christmas, so get your Noddy Holder screams ready.
No debuts for Viz, but we do see Alice in Borderland 8, Insomniacs After School 4, Love’s in Sight! 5, Mission: Yozakura Family 8, Persona 5 11, and Rooster Fighter 5.
From Square Enix we see Daemons of the Shadow Realm 3, The Great Jahy Will Not Be Defeated! 7, and Otherside Picnic 8.
Two manga debuts from Seven Seas. Breakfast with My Two-Tailed Cat (Nekomata to Asa Gohan) is a slice of life manga from Matogrosso. A man and his wife achieve their dream of retiring to the countryside, but then she dies. To stave off loneliness, he befriends a yokai cat, and the two of them turn this into a foodie manga.
MICHELLE: Huh. Potentially interesting!
ASH: Yokai, cats, and food? I’m in!
SEAN: Obey Me! The Comic is a josei title from MAGKAN. It’s based on an otome game (but is not, for once, in the “reborn in an otome game” genre) and also had an anime. A human is an exchange student at a school for demons! Can they escape?
ASH: Josei, you say?
SEAN: I mean, the audience is adult women, but it’s sort of for BL fans, but not quite BL… honestly trying to assign the big four genres to Mag Garden titles is like trying to catch fog.
ASH: Ha!
ANNA: I enjoy josei, otome games, and weird things from Mag Garden.
SEAN: Seven Seas also gives us Dance in the Vampire Bund: Age of Scarlet Order 10, Homunculus 5-6, Miss Kobayashi’s Dragon Maid 13, Miss Kobayashi’s Dragon Maid: Kanna’s Daily Life 11, Toradora! 11 (only one year after 10! The artist is improving!), and Uzaki-chan Wants to Hang Out! 10.
ASH: I really need to get started on Homunculus.
SEAN: One Peace Books has a 3rd volume of Parallel World Pharmacy.
Kodansha Books has the 4th volume of My Unique Skill Makes Me OP Even at Level 1.
Kodansha Manga debuts She’s My Knight (Ikemen Kanojo to Heroine na Ore!?) in print. The three volumes in this series were previously released digital only. It’s a shoujo title from Palcy that’s basically “what if Kashima and Hori were the stars of Nozaki-kun?”.
ASH: Okay, I’m sold on it based on that description.
SEAN: Also in print: Drifting Dragons 15, I Was Reincarnated as the 7th Prince so I Can Take My Time Perfecting My Magical Ability 9, In the Clear Moonlit Dusk 6, Orient 18, Quality Assurance in Another World 5, Rent-A-Girlfriend 22, The Seven Deadly Sins Omnibus 13, and That Time I Got Reincarnated as a Slime 23.
ASH: I have a small stack of Drifting Dragons ready for me to read; better get to it!
SEAN: The digital debut is Don’t Tempt Me, VP! (Amayakasanaide Fuku Shachou: Danna-sama wa SSR), a josei manga from Ane Friend about an OL, deep in debt thanks to her horrible ex, getting a proposition from her company’s vice-president: marriage. It’s an 18-rated title, FYI.
ANNA: Alright!
SEAN: Also digital: Gamaran 16, Rocopon 2, TenPuru -No One Can Live on Loneliness- 9, and Ya Boy Kongming! 14.
Two debuts from J-Novel Club. The Crown of Rutile Quartz (Rutile Quartz no Taikan: Ō no Tanjō) starts off with a humble commoner finding out he’s really a prince… and that the rest of the royal family is dead. Oh, and they’re at war. This looks like a military fantasy type book, I like those.
ASH: I often do, too, especially when there’s court intrigue to go along with.
SEAN: Finding Avalon: The Quest of a Chaosbringer (Saiaku no Avalon) is a villainess book, only it’s a villain, similar to Reincarnated as the Piggy Duke. Can our hero lose weight and get powerful fast?
Also out from J-Novel Club: Black Summoner 15, the 4th A Cave King’s Road to Paradise: Climbing to the Top with My Almighty Mining Skills! manga volume, The Conqueror from a Dying Kingdom 6, Fake Saint of the Year: You Wanted the Perfect Saint? Too Bad! 3, I Only Have Six Months to Live, So I’m Gonna Break the Curse with Light Magic or Die Trying 3, My Quiet Blacksmith Life in Another World 8, My Stepmom’s Daughter Is My Ex 9, the 6th Rebuild World manga, and the 5th Young Lady Albert Is Courting Disaster manga.
Ghost Ship has an 8th volume of Sundome!! Milky Way.
Dark Horse has a 2nd volume of the Hellsing re-release.
Airship, in print, gives us I Swear I Won’t Bother You Again! 4, Raven of the Inner Palace 4, A Tale of the Secret Saint 5, and Though I Am an Inept Villainess: Tale of the Butterfly-Rat Body Swap in the Maiden Court 5.
ASH: I’m so far behind on everything, but still interested in reading Raven of the Inner Palace at some point.
SEAN: And in early digital we see Irina: The Vampire Cosmonaut 7 (the final volume), Though I Am an Inept Villainess: Tale of the Butterfly-Rat Body Swap in the Maiden Court 6, and Yes, No, or Maybe? 2.
Are you hanging up your stocking on your wall? It’s the time when every Santa has a ball.