SEAN: February’s end, and it brings us (well, me) snow, ice, and manga.
ASH: Take comfort in knowing you are not alone.
SEAN: Airship, in print, has Failure Frame 11.5, The Most Heretical Last Boss Queen 8, and Trapped in a Dating Sim: Otome Games Are Tough For Us, Too! 3.
And in early digital we see Classroom of the Elite: Year 2 10 and Heroine? Saint? No, I’m an All-Works Maid (And Proud of It)! 2.
Cross Infinite World has a 5th volume of The Drab Princess, the Black Cat, and the Satisfying Break-up.
Dark Horse Comics has Cat + Gamer 7 and Trigun Maximum Deluxe Edition 4.
Retailers say Denpa Books has Nana & Kaoru 6 and Short Game: Mitsuru Adachi’s Baseball Short Story Collection. The latter is, well, exactly what it says. Can’t wait, but I’m fairly sure this date is wrong.
ASH: Looking forward to Short Game, whenever it’s released (i.e. probably not next week).
MICHELLE: Oh, man. I am so here for Mitsuru Adachi!
ANNA: Me too, whenever it might arrive!
SEAN: Ghost Ship debuts Tamamori’s Fantasies Never Stop! (Tamamori Buchou no Mousou wa Tomaranai), a seinen series from Manga Cross. The perfect beauty of the high school is in the drama club with her male classmate. There’s just one problem… she’s a massive pervert inside her own mind!
Hanashi Media has the 2nd volume of Observation Records of My Fiancée.
J-Novel Club has some digital light novels. We get The Boy Who Ruled the Monsters 2, Fiancée No More 3, Goodbye, Overtime! 3, Lady Bumpkin and Her Lord Villain 2, Lucia and the Loom 3, Management of a Novice Alchemist 4, and The Tanaka Family Reincarnates 2.
For J-Novel digital manga, we get An Archdemon’s (Friend’s) Dilemma 2, Ascendance of a Bookworm Arc 4 part 1, and Oversummoned, Overpowered, and Over It! 7.
Kodansha Books has Saving 80,000 Gold in Another World for My Retirement 7.
Kodansha Manga debuts Hauntress (Zashiki Onna), a 1993 horror volume from the creator of Dragon Head. It ran in Young Magazine. A man finds a scary woman ringing his neighbor’s doorbell… and now the woman is interested in him!
ASH: Okay, this one I’m interested in based on the impression Dragon Head made on me ages ago. (Which, for those of you who missed it, will be back in print later this year!)
SEAN: Also in print: Bless 4, Blue Lock 17, The Blue Wolves of Mibu 4, I Cross-Dressed for the IRL Meetup 3 (the final volume), I Was Reincarnated as the 7th Prince so I Can Take My Time Perfecting My Magical Ability 14, Shangri-La Frontier 15, and Your Lie in April Omnibus 3.
Digitally we get Anyway, I’m Falling in Love with You 9, As the Gods Will 4, Fate/Grand Order -Epic of Remnant- Pseudo-Singularity III 5, Fungus and Iron 6, Gamaran: Shura 29, The God-Tier Guardian and the Love of Six Princesses 15, Killing Line 2, and My Home Hero 20.
KUMA is, according to retailers, debuting Yata-Momo. A BL title that ran in Qpa, it’s from the creator of Happy Crappy Life. Two complete messes get closer while still being complete messes is how I’d summarize this. As with Denpa, fairly sure this release date is wrong.
ASH: Probably. But I’m still glad to see Harada manga in English.
MICHELLE: It does look good, though!
ANNA: I’m intrigued by this summary.
SEAN: One Peace Books has the 14th volume of The New Gate.
Seven Seas has some debuts. EAT is a one-shot BL title from the creator of The Girl from the Other Side, so you can assume it’s a horror sort of BL. A professor loves to watch people eat… and realize he may in fact want to be eaten. This ran in Be x Boy Gold.
ASH: Interested in this one, for sure! I find Nagabe’s work really interesting.
MICHELLE: Vore makes a comeback!
SEAN: It Takes More Than a Pretty Face to Fall in Love (Kao Dake ja Suki ni Narimasen) is a shoujo manga from Hana to Yume. A girl has the hots for the hunkiest guy at school… but he’s about to be expelled for never attending class! Can she save him with the power of social media?
ASH: Signs point to maybe?
SEAN: Also from Seven Seas: The Dangers in My Heart 10, How Do I Turn My Best Friend Into My Girlfriend? 3, Let’s Buy the Land and Cultivate It in a Different World 7, Love is an Illusion! – The Queen 2, Plus-Sized Elf: Second Helping! 4, Reincarnated as a Dragon Hatchling 7, Servamp 21, and The Valiant Must Fall 4.
Square Enix Manga has The Ice Guy and the Cool Girl 9.
Tokyopop debuts The Inconvenient Life of an Arousing Priestess (Kon’yaku Hakida, Hatsujou Seijou), a shoujo series from Comic Pash! based on the light novel that Cross Infinite World releases over here. A priestess is very good at what she does… unfortunately, her powers make both her and the people she’s using them on horny! Despite the plot, this is less sex-filled than it sounds.
ANNA: I dunno….
SEAN: Also from Tokyopop: This Reincarnated Countess Is Trying to Escape From Her Prince 2 and Sanctify 3 (the final volume).
Debuting from Udon is Ottoman: Henshin Hero Husband, a Weekly Young Jump title. A salaryman is infected by an alien… but that’s OK, as his wife is in danger from the forces of evil! He and the alien will have to join forces to win. This is an omnibus of the first 2 volumes. (This has been bumped a couple of times, so YMMV)
Debuting from Viz is Spirited Away Film Comic: All-in-One Edition, the perfect gift for people who hate watching things and don’t want to buy multiple books, as this is 850 pages long.
ASH: Hahaha.
SEAN: Also from Viz: Kaiju No. 8 12 and My Name Is Shingo: The Perfect Edition 4.
ASH: Need to catch up with My Name Is Shingo sooner rather than later.
SEAN: Yen Press has one debut: Helena and Mr. Big Bad Wolf, a shoujo manga that debuted as a doujinshi. A girl meets her favorite author, and even though he’s cold and quiet… and has a wolf head… they get to know each other better.
Yen Press also has a 2nd volume of Goblin Slayer: A Day in the Life.
Hooray! February’s ending! What are you getting?