SEAN: May day, may day!
ASH: Danger, danger!
SEAN: We start with Airship. In print, they have a 4th volume of There’s No Freaking Way I’ll be Your Lover! Unless…
The digital debut is a one-shot light novel, True Love Fades Away When the Contract Ends – One Star in the Night Sky (Unmei no Koibito wa Kigen Tsuki). This is from the author of Making Jam in the Woods, I’d Rather Have a Cat Than a Harem, and The Apothecary Witch Turned Divorce Agent. A young woman trying to avoid getting married meets a young man with the same goal. Can they solve the problem by pretending to be in a relationship?
ANNA: Can they pretend to be married AND make jam in the woods?
ASH: I don’t see why not!
SEAN: Dark Horse has the 7th volume of its Hellsing re-release.
Ghost Ship has a 12th volume of Peter Grill and the Philosopher’s Time.
From J-Novel Club, we see 8th Loop for the Win! With Seven Lives’ Worth of XP and the Third Princess’s Appraisal Skill, My Behemoth and I Are Unstoppable! 3 (the manga version), Ascendance of a Bookworm Arc 2 Vol. 9 (the manga version), Enough with This Slow Life! I Was Reincarnated as a High Elf and Now I’m Bored 6, Fiancée No More: The Forsaken Lady, the Prince, and Their Make-Believe Love 2, The Invincible Little Lady 6, The Invincible Little Lady 3 (the manga version), Let This Grieving Soul Retire 4, Making Magic: The Sweet Life of a Witch Who Knows an Infinite MP Loophole 7, Nia Liston: The Merciless Maiden 2, Rebuild World 4, Seirei Gensouki: Spirit Chronicles 24, Seventh 7, and You Were Experienced, I Was Not: Our Dating Story 3.
ASH: That sure is a lot of words.
SEAN: One debut in print for Kodansha Manga. I See Your Face, Turned Away (Kimi no Yokogao wo Miteita) is a Betsufure series from the creator of My Sweet Girl. A high school girl enjoys shipping her friend with the hot guy in class. It’s only happening in her head… but what happens when reality starts intruding?
ANNA: Whoops!
MICHELLE: Hate when that happens.
ASH: Right?
SEAN: Also in print: A-DO 2, Anyway, I’m Falling in Love with You 2, The Darwin Incident 5, Drifting Dragons 16, Fire Force Omnibus 10, I’m Giving the Disgraced Noble Lady I Rescued a Crash Course in Naughtiness 5, Medalist 2, The Seven Deadly Sins: Four Knights of the Apocalypse 12, and That Time I Got Reincarnated as a Slime: Trinity in Tempest 8.
ASH: I need to catch up with Drifting Dragons.
SEAN: Digitally we see Blue Lock 25, Gazing at the Star Next Door 2, How to Grill Our Love 8, Life 14, My Wife is a Little Intimidating 8, Otherworldly Munchkin: Let’s Speedrun the Dungeon with Only 1 HP! 9, Shangri-La Frontier 16, Those Snow White Notes 17, and Tying the Knot with an Amagami Sister 13.
One Peace Books has the 4th volume of The Wrong Way to Use Healing Magic.
Seven Seas debuts Monster Cats, the latest full-color manga from the creator of Yokai Cats and The Evil Secret Society of Cats. It’s complete in one volume, and came from Manga Life Win. Surprisingly, it’s about dogs. (It’s not, it’s about cats. I kid.)
ASH: You almost had me there.
SEAN: Also debuting is True Love Fades Away When the Contract Ends, the manga version of the light novel I mentioned above. It runs in Comic Ride.
From their danmei line they have Stars of Chaos: Sha Po Lang 3.
Also from Seven Seas: 365 Days to the Wedding 3, CANDY AND CIGARETTES 8, Free Life Fantasy Online: Immortal Princess 7, Hitomi-chan is Shy With Strangers 8, I’m in Love with the Villainess 6, My Status as an Assassin Obviously Exceeds the Hero’s 5, What He Who Doesn’t Believe in Fate Says 4, and The White Mage Doesn’t Want to Raise the Hero’s Level 2.
Square Enix debuts Mobsters in Love (Koisuru Gokudou Onii-san), a BL series from Gangan BLiss. A subordinate is hopelessly in love with his boss… who keeps seducing him by accident!
ASH: Whoops!
SEAN: They also have The Great Jahy Will Not Be Defeated! 8.
Steamship has the 3rd volume of I Can’t Refuse S.
Two debuts from Tokyopop. A Beast’s Love Is Like the Moon (Tsuki wa Michikake Kemono no Koi) is from a magazine called Cab. (insert joke here) A city boy goes to the woods to be a caretaker for his family home, and ends up bonding with a hot yokai dude.
ANNA: As one does.
ASH: It is to be expected.
SEAN: This Reincarnated Cross-Dressing Princess Won’t Be Looking for a Fiancé (Tensei Danzou Oujo wa Kekkon Aite o Sagasanai) is a new josei series from the creator of I’ll Never Be Your Crown Princess!. It runs in FK Comics, and is based on an unlicensed light novel. A princess is disguised as a boy to get a fiancé at the academy, till she realizes that this academy is based on a BL game, and everyone is gay! Then she meets the new transfer student. Smut ensues.
ANNA: Ok, I’m curious.
ASH: Likewise, though I would probably be even moreso were “reincarnated” not in the title. But, hooray, for josei!
SEAN: Also from Tokyopop: If My Favorite Pop Idol Made It to the Budokan, I Would Die 6.
Udon Entertainment has Team Phoenix 4.
The debut from Viz is Star Wars: Visions: The Manga Anthology, with adaptations from the creator of Witch Hat Atelier, Little Witch Academia, and others.
ANNA: Ooh!
ASH: That could be fun.
SEAN: Also from Viz: Black Clover 35, Blue Box 10, Chainsaw Man 15, The Elusive Samurai 11, In the Name of the Mermaid Princess 2, Like a Butterfly 6, My Special One 6, Star Wars: The Mandalorian: The Manga 2, Wolf Girl and Black Prince 7, and Yona of the Dawn 41.
ANNA: Yes more Yona!!!!!
MICHELLE: *Kermit flailing*
ASH: Huzzah!
SEAN: Lastly, two stragglers from Yen. Yen On has Magical Explorer: Reborn as a Side Character in a Fantasy Dating Sim 7.
And Yen Press has Banished from the Hero’s Party, I Decided to Live a Quiet Life in the Countryside 7.
Maaaaaaaaay!