SEAN: May is here, and the weather is turning into spring! Which is good, depending on where you live!
ASH: I’ve been appreciating it!
SEAN: Viz Media has one debut. Ultimate Exorcist Kiyoshi (Exorcist no Kiyoshi-kun) runs in Weekly Shonen Jump. Kiyoshi is a fantastic exorcist. If only he wasn’t scared of demons. And girls. And making friends. He’s actually pretty useless… but boy, can he exorcise.
ASH: At least he’s got something going for himself.
ANNA: It is good to have some sort of direction in life.
SEAN: Also from Viz: Blue Box 20, Boruto: Two Blue Vortex 5, Colette Decides to Die 7, Kagurabachi 7, My Special One 11 (the final volume), Natsume’s Book of Friends 32, Nue’s Exorcist 6, Prince Freya 13, Queen’s Quality 25 (the final volume), Star Wars: The Mandalorian: The Manga 4 (the final volume), and Super Psychic Policeman Chojo 3.
MICHELLE: Natsume! I look forward to a catch-up binge.
ASH: Oh, yes, that is an excellent plan.
SEAN: Tokyopop has a 2nd volume of Monster and Ghost.
Titan Manga gives us Gran Familia 3.
Square Enix Books has a new artbook tome. The Art of Final Fantasy XVI: Echoes of the Rising Tide is exactly what it sounds like.
ASH: Hooray for artbooks!
SEAN: They also have the 9th Apothecary Diaries light novel. Miss Chue, Miss Chue!
ASH: And hooray for Apothecary Diaries!
SEAN: And Square Enix Manga has Otherside Picnic 14.
No debuts for Seven Seas (they’re having a quiet week), but we get Dai Dark 9, Lost in the Cloud 3, Pet Shop of Horrors: Collector’s Edition 6, Re-Living My Life with a Boyfriend Who Doesn’t Remember Me 6, and A Tale of the Secret Saint 11.
ASH: I’ve been meaning to catch up with Dai Dark, but I might just hold out for the deluxe edition now that that will be releasing soon.
SEAN: Kodansha Manga has a couple of new print books. Stella Must Die (Zettai Shinanai Stella-hime) is a Suiyoubi no Sirius series about a princess whose father passes away… and now her stepsister is trying to kill her! Fortunately, she has someone protecting her from the shadows.
ASH: That does help.
ANNA: I can see how that might be handy!
SEAN: Voices in the Sea Foam (Utakata no Koe wo Kiite) is a one-shot BL manga from Magazine Be x Boy. Our protagonist falls in love with a boy at school… then remembers he’s the reincarnation of a mermaid who died for her love!
MICHELLE: Hm. Potentially interesting.
ASH: I am likewise curious.
SEAN: Witch Hat Atelier: Grimoire Edition is a handsome hardcover omnibus of the first 3 volumes, with color pages and unspecified bonus content.
ASH: It’s such a gorgeous edition of such a gorgeous series.
ANNA: I don’t often buy more than one edition of something but I’m tempted!
SEAN: Also in print: In/Spectre 21, Pupposites Attract 4, Tower Dungeon 5, Tune In to the Midnight Heart 7, and WIND BREAKER 21.
Digitally we see The Food Diary of Miss Maid 5, How to Grill Our Love 20, Manchuria Opium Squad 12, and Tying the Knot with an Amagami Sister 21.
Kana has the 3rd omnibus volume of Cat’s Eye.
No debuts for J-Novel Club. For digital light novels, there is The Amazing Village Creator 3, Cooking with Wild Game 33, and VTuber Legend 10 (the final volume).
For manga they have An Archdemon’s Dilemma 11, Ascendance of a Bookworm Arc 2 11, Even Exiled, She’s Still the Beloved Saint! 3, and I’m a Noble on the Brink of Ruin, So I Might as Well Try Mastering Magic 7.
Inklore has a 3rd volume of Wet Sand.
Ghost Ship gives us The Cursed Sword Master’s Harem Life 6, Desire Pandora 5, and Makina-san’s a Love Bot?! 3.
Dark Horse Manga has the 16th and final volume of Mob Psycho 100.
ASH: Another series I should probably catch up on at some point.
SEAN: Airship, in print, has the debut of Classroom of the Elite: Year 3. Or, to be more accurate, Classroom of the Elite 30.
There’s also Betrothed to My Sister’s Ex 2 and Though I Am an Inept Villainess 10.
And there are early digital volumes of Heroine? Saint? No, I’m an All-Works Maid (And Proud of It)! 6, I Like Villains, so I Reincarnated as One 2, and Virgin Knight: I Became the Frontier Lord in a World Ruled by Women 3.
What manga title Springs out at you?