SEAN: It’s a new year, and this is the year we surely keep up with all the manga… right?
MICHELLE: Suuuuuuure.
ASH: Uh, yeah! No problem!
SEAN: We start with Viz, who have a new debut. Marriage Toxin is from ShonenJump+. An assassin has vowed to never settle down and get married. Then his clan declares his sister will marry a man and carry on the dynasty. But his sister is already in a happy relationship… with another woman. Now, to save her, he resolves to find a wife, even if it means dealing with a marriage swindler.
ASH: Interesting.
SEAN: Also from Viz: Blue Box 8, Kaiju No. 8 9, Kubo Won’t Let Me Be Invisible 11, Like a Butterfly 4, Moriarty the Patriot 14, Tamon’s B-Side 2, and Wolf Girl and Black Prince 5.
MICHELLE: I should really try to read Like a Butterfly and Tamon’s B-Side.
SEAN: Udon Entertainment has the 2nd volume of Robotics;Notes.
Steamship has a 2nd volume of I Can’t Refuse S.
Seven Seas has one debut, A Cat from Our World and the Forgotten Witch (Isekai Neko to Fukigen na Majo). Running in the seinen magazine Yawaraka Spirits, it stars an old witch, once powerful but now forgotten. She summons a cat from our world to hers… and in her world, the cat is HUGE! Can they bond with each other?
ASH: Certainly a type of cat manga we’ve not seen previously.
SEAN: Also from Seven Seas: Cinderella Closet 4, The Duke of Death and His Maid 10, Kemono Jihen 9, Malevolent Spirits: Monogatari 5, MoMo -the blood taker- 7, My Room is a Dungeon Rest Stop 7 (the final volume), and This Is Screwed Up, but I Was Reincarnated as a GIRL in Another World! 10.
And they have a new danmei novel, Thousand Autumns: Qian Qiu 3.
ASH: I have so much danmei to catch up on! Which is not a bad problem to have.
SEAN: One Peace Books gives us the 19th and final volume of Hinamatsuri.
Just one print volume for Kodansha Manga: Shonen Note: Boy Soprano 6.
ASH: I’ve been making a point to pick up this series as it’s been released.
SEAN: And for digital titles we get Blue Lock 23, How to Grill Our Love 6, Life 11, My Unique Skill Makes Me OP Even at Level 1 12, My Wife is a Little Intimidating 6, Our Fake Marriage: Rosé 3, and Shangri-La Frontier 14.
MICHELLE: I liked what I read of Blue Lock. I should get back to it.
SEAN: Kaiten Books has a 4th print volume for Gacha Girls Corps.
J-Novel Club has new volumes for the 11th manga volume of The Faraway Paladin, Knight’s & Magic 2, Sweet Reincarnation 9, The Tales of Marielle Clarac 10, Tearmoon Empire 11, and the 8th Welcome to Japan, Ms. Elf! manga volume.
From Ghost Ship we see Ayakashi Triangle 7 and Please Go Home, Miss Akutsu! 4.
And from Airship, in print (and same-day digital, must be contractual), we get Didn’t I Say to Make My Abilities Average in the Next Life?! 17.
And for early digital we have Sword of the Demon Hunter: Kijin Gentōshō 4.
Seems like everyone’s in holiday mode still. What are you reading?