Ash Brown

SEAN: Manga the Week of appears despite it being too cold to actually type.

There’s a deluge from Yen On, with several titles that were delayed a few weeks. Moscow 2160 is a light novel from the author of Goblin Slayer. Set in a dystopian cyberpunk future Moscow, this stars a mercenary trying to make a good life for his younger siblings.

ASH: A promising premise.

SEAN: New Game Plus After Defeating the Last Boss: All These Beautiful, Problematic Girls in the First Town Have Gotten Really Attached to Me… (Last Boss Toubatsugo ni Hajimeru Nishuume Boukensha Life – Hajimari no Machi de Wakeari Bishoujo-tachi ga Mechakucha Natsuite kimasu) stars a man who gives his life saving the world. Now he’s resurrected, and back at Level 1, though… he’s just as strong as he was when he died. And also, well, women are flocking to him. And possibly something else rhyming with flocking, but I suspect this one won’t quite go that far.

ASH: Ah, got it, problematic.

SEAN: Also from Yen On: The Contract Between a Specter and a Servant 5, The Detective Is Already Dead 11, Even a Replica Can Fall in Love 4, Gods’ Games We Play 6, The Irregular at Magic High School 26, Kunon the Sorcerer Can See 5, Nagisa Natsunagi Still Wants to Be a High School Girl 2, Once Upon a Witch’s Death 2, The Only Thing I’d Do in a No-Boys-Allowed Game World 3, Orc Eroica 6, Playing Death Games to Put Food on the Table 5, Re:ZERO -Starting Life in Another World- Short Story Collection 4, Sabikui Bisco 10 (the final volume), Secrets of the Silent Witch ~another~ 2, That Time I Got Reincarnated As a Slime 22, The Vexations of a Shut-In Vampire Princess 10, The World’s Finest Assassin Gets Reincarnated in Another World as an Aristocrat 8, and This Is the Wizard’s Secret Weapon 2.

ASH: The list just keeps going!

SEAN: Significantly less from Yen Press, but there is some. The debut is Please Look After the Dragon (Dragon Yashinatte Kudasai), a Manga One series about a guy who comes across a dragon who is essentially on a trip to find herself, and asks that he take her in.

ASH: This could be cute.

SEAN: There’s also The Holy Grail of Eris 11, Let This Grieving Soul Retire! 10, Level Up with the Gods 2, The Small-Animallike Lady Is Adored by the Ice Prince 4, and Victoria of Many Faces 3.

ASH: Okay, that is significantly less.

SEAN: Viz Media gives us Disney Twisted-Wonderland: The Manga – Book of Octavinelle 2, Frieren: Beyond Journey’s End 14, Girl Crush 5, Hayate the Combat Butler 47, Mao 23, Not So Shoujo Love Story 3, Pokémon: Scarlet & Violet 4, Rai Rai Rai 3, and Rainbows After Storms 8.

Two Tokyopop debuts. First Love Reunion: A Decade Later, My High School Crush Is Determined to Make Me His! (Tsugi ni Attara Dakutte Kimeteta node. Saikai Shita Hatsukoi no Kare ga Moujuuka Shitara…) is a Love Kiss! more oneshot (yes, that’s the magazine) about a girl who crushed on a guy from afar in high school, but is startled at their reunion when he walks up and kisses her!

Wandervogel is a BL manga from Chara, and stars a vagrant who takes refuge with a novelist during a storm, and then finds the novelist… can read minds?

MICHELLE: Hm…

SEAN: SuBLime has Scattering His Virgin Bloom: Love Frenzy, a sequel to a manga they put out in 2022, an omegaverse title about an omega whose heat comes in his mid-20s.

There’s also a 3rd volume of A Man Who Defies the World of BL.

ASH: I haven’t read the earlier volumes yet, but I am curious about this series.

SEAN: Square Enix Manga debuts Otaku x Gal (Gal ni Yasashii Otaku-kun), whose plot sounds EXACTLY like My Dress-Up Darling but this apparently skews less romancey and more slice of life-y.

They also have Exquisite Blood: The Heretic Onmyoji 3 and My Isekai Life 23.

Seven Seas has some danmei, as we see Silent Reading: Mo Du 2 and Thrice Married to a Salted Fish 2.

Seven Seas manga debuts Aharen-san is Indecipherable (Aharen-san wa Hakarenai), a Shonen Jump + series with a recent anime. It’s coming out in 2-volume omnibuses. Aharen doesn’t get social cues, but that’s fine, as she now has a best friend who can understand her! Maybe?

ASH: Only maybe.

SEAN: The Beast King: Master of Medicines (Juuou to Yakusou) is a Manga One title about a novice adventurer who’s saved when near death by the Beast King. Now he wants her to help him heal other monsters!

ASH: This is definitely something I would read.

SEAN: He Craves to be Teased by His Favorite ASMR Streamer (Minami-kun wa Sono Koe ni Jirasaretai) is a BL manga from Equal. An ASMR artist is asked to do “private sessions” for another guy who can only be turned on by his voice.

Also from Seven Seas: I Can’t Stand Being Your Childhood Friend 2, Monster Musume: I Heart Monster Girls 5, Natsume Wants to Blossom (Vol. 2 in the series), No God in Eden 3, Ripples in the River 2, and Tease Me Harder: A Sweet and Kinky Romance 2.

Kodansha Manga, in print, has Battle Angel Alita: Mars Chronicle 11 (the final volume), Bless 7, Issak Omnibus 5, Mobile Suit Gundam: THE ORIGIN Deluxe 4, Thunder 3 8, and Wistoria: Wand and Sword 11.

ASH: I really need to read Issak before I get too much further behind.

SEAN: Digitally we have A Condition Called Love 18 (the final volume), Giant Killing 53, and Nina the Starry Bride 17.

MICHELLE: Long ago, I read a bit of A Condition Called Love. I guess now that it’s ending, I should get back to it.

SEAN: J-Novel Club has some print titles. Ascendance of a Bookworm manga Part 4 Vol. 2, Campfire Cooking in Another World with My Absurd Skill 7, Gushing over Magical Girls 8, How a Realist Hero Rebuilt the Kingdom Omnibus 6, Isekai Tensei: Recruited to Another World manga 4, The Misfit of Demon King Academy 7, and My Quiet Blacksmith Life in Another World 3.

ASH: Obligatory “Yay, Bookworm!”.

SEAN: Two JNC digital debuts, both light novels. The Canon Fodder’s Ascension from Pawn to World Unifier (Kamaseinu kara Hajimeru Tenka Touitsu: Jinrui Saikouhou no Last Boss wo Enjite Gensaku Break) is another “villain” novel where a guy wakes up in the body of a loser villain and tries to make him awesome.

It’s Tough Being a Necromancer is a J-Novel Club contest winner, about an apprentice necromancer sent off on an adventure to get experience. He finds it with a bunch of monster girls.

ASH: How tough could it be?

SEAN: Other light novels out next week: Disowned but Not Disheartened! 3, Duchess in the Attic 5, Heir to a Monstermancer 2, The Isle of Paramounts 2, Knight’s & Magic 9, Let This Grieving Soul Retire! 9, Mercedes and the Waning Moon 4, The Reincarnation of the Strongest Exorcist in Another World 7, Royal Spirits Are a Royal Pain! 2, and Worthless at Home, Whiz to the World 3.

Other manga out next week: Bibliophile Princess 10, The Crown of Rutile Quartz 2, From Villainess to Healer 5, I’m a Noble on the Brink of Ruin, So I Might as Well Try Mastering Magic 6, Peddler in Another World 6, and A Royal Rebound 3.

Ghost Ship debuts Lilia’s Pregnancy Spells the World’s End (Lilia Pregnant The World End), a Web Every Sunday series about the hero who has defeated the demon lord… only now the demon lord’s daughter wants his baby! And will try any seduction to get it.

Airship has the print debut of A Good Day Starts with Cats and Books (Shodana no Hon to Neko Biyori), a short story collection masquerading as a novel, about a bookstore and the many readers who contribute to its shelves.

ASH: The cozy cats and cozy bookstore subgenres have combined forces?!

SEAN: Also in print: Reincarnated Into a Game as the Hero’s Friend 6 and Virgin Knight: I Became the Frontier Lord in a World Ruled by Women 2.

For early digital, we see Reincarnated as a Sword 18, The Too-Perfect Saint 5, and True Love Fades Away When the Contract Ends 3.

What manga are you reading as you shiver in the cold?

MICHELLE: I don’t know, man. There’s less and less that interests me, these days.

SEAN: Time for the shortest and worst month! What manga do we get to see?

ASH: At least one or two different things.

SEAN: Airship has one print debut. The Tale of a Little Alchemist Blessed by the Spirits (Outo no Hazure no Renkinjutsushi: Hazure Shokugyou datta node, Nonbiri Omise Keieishimasu) stars a woman who was cast out by her family and died alone and unloved. You know why? You got it, bad skill from the gods. Now she’s reincarnated, loved and a viscount’s daughter. And while she still has the same skill, she also has appraisal, and we know how protagonists with appraisal do. She’ll be fine.

ASH: I do have a fondness for alchemists, even if this particular genre isn’t generally my thing.

SEAN: Also in print: Adachi and Shimamura: Short Stories 2 and Heroine? Saint? No, I’m an All-Works Maid (And Proud of It)! 5.

For early digital we get The Misdeeds of an Extremely Arrogant Villain Aristocrat 2 and A Tale of the Secret Saint ZERO 4.

Two debuts for J-Novel Club. The Petty Villain Plays by the Rules: Rewriting This Otome Game with Honest Work! (Yarikonda Otome Game no Akuyaku desu ga, Danzai wa Iya nano de Mattou ni Ikimasu) is another one of those “male villainess” books. Guy wakes up as the eldest son of a villainous family doomed to ruin. Can he fix things?

ASH: Probably? Or maybe make them worse somehow.

SEAN: The Young Lady Is the Substitute Harvest Goddess is another JNC contest winner. A young gamer is sent to a different world by a goddess, who wants her to take over as harvest goddess. Fortunately, this world runs along the lines of her beloved farming games.

ASH: That’s helpful!

SEAN: Also from JNC: The Frontier Lord Begins with Zero Subjects 12, Isekai Walking 5, Miss Blossom’s Backward Beauty Standards 2 (the final volume), and Tearmoon Empire 16.

No debuts for Kodansha Manga, but we see A-DO 9, Blue Period 17, DEAD ROCK 4, The Fragrant Flower Blooms With Dignity 11, Tower Dungeon 4, WIND BREAKER 19, and Welcome to Demon School! Iruma-kun 18 in print. (No digital-only next week.)

Seven Seas debuts The Ancient Magus’ Bride: Collected Fragments (Mahou Tsukai no Yome: Fragment), a manga short story collection revolving around people who are not Chise.

MICHELLE: Potentially interesting!

ASH: I’d read it!

SEAN: Speaking of the author of The Ancient Magus’ Bride, Ghost and Witch is a charming young story about a girl and the thing possessing her going to Ireland for supernatural shenanigans. It runs in Comic Growl.

ASH: I’d read this one, too!

SEAN: And the BL debut is Perfect Addiction, the story of a guy who loves sex but finds the girl he’s after loves another guy. He quickly discovers a) the other guy is gay, and b) has trouble enjoying sex. These two can solve each other’s problems. This runs in Gush.

ASH: They do say opposites attract.

SEAN: For danmei, we get Run Wild: Sa Ye 4 and Three Hundred Years of Longing: Bu Jian Shang Xian San Bai Nian 2.

Also from Seven Seas: The Feisty Omega and His Twin Mates 3, Hate Me, but Let Me Stay 6, I’m the Heroic Knight of an Intergalactic Empire! 2, Kaiju Kamui 2, The Long Summer of August 31 4, Mushoku Tensei: Jobless Reincarnation 22, My Deer Friend Nokotan 7, Pet Shop of Horrors: Collector’s Edition 5, and Tokyo Revengers: A Letter from Keisuke Baji 6 (the final volume).

Square Enix Manga has the 6th volume of The Emperor’s Caretaker.

Steamship debuts The Scheming Crown Prince’s Wicked Consort (Akujo (to Gokaisareru Watashi) ga Haraguro Outaishi You no Aisare Kisaki ni Nari sou desu!) runs in Opa x Comi. A young woman is an “ice queen” who has driven off everyone near her, including her ex-fiancé. But she desperately needs an heir for her family. Wait, what’s the Crown Prince doing here?

ASH: Well, then!

SEAN: Tokyopop debuts In So Deep, It’s Love Already (Numa Sugite Mohaya Koi), a shoujo series from Dessert. (K Manga has been releasing it in chapter form.) A fan finds the new transfer student is just her type, but does he have a secret side?

Viz Manga debuts Ichi the Witch. From the author of Welcome to Demon School! Iruma-kun and the artist behind ACT-AGE, this is the story of a young hunter who learns that, despite being a boy, he can be a witch! This is really good, read it.

MICHELLE: Neat!

ASH: I’ve definitely heard good things.

SEAN: Also from Viz: Astro Royale 4, Blue Box 19, Boruto: Two Blue Vortex 4, The Bugle Call: Song of War 5, Colette Decides to Die 6, Dandadan 17, Kagurabachi 6, Kill Blue 5, The King’s Beast 17, Marriage Toxin 11, and You and I Are Polar Opposites 8 (the final volume).

What a small week? Taking a break? Or getting more?

SEAN: January may be ending, but of STUFF to get through.

ASH: How? Already??

SEAN: Yen On has a bunch of ongoing light novels. We get Ishura 10, I’ll Become a Villainess Who Goes Down in History 3, King’s Proposal 7, The Magical Revolution of the Reincarnated Princess and the Genius Young Lady 8.5, Rascal Does Not Dream of a Dear Friend (the 15th and final volume), Sugar Apple Fairy Tale 9, and Wolf & Parchment: New Theory Spice & Wolf 11.

Yen Press has a license rescue, as we get a 3-in-1 hardcover omnibus of Battle Royale Deluxe Edition. The OG death game manga, this will be great news for people who are not me, as I hate things like this.

MICHELLE: I think I may have the novel around here somewhere.

ASH: The novel is great and definitely my preferred version of the story.

SEAN: And there’s also the 2nd Sword Art Online Unital Ring.

Viz’s debut is Disney Twisted-Wonderland: Usurper from the Wilds, a novel based on the franchise. This is basically The Lion King version of the title.

And they also have Princess Mononoke Film Comic: All-in-One Edition, a massive 850-page hardcover.

They also have Asadora! 9, Boy’s Abyss 12, Firefly Wedding 5, and JoJo’s Bizarre Adventure: Part 7–Steel Ball Run 5.

ASH: Yeah, JoJo!

Tokyopop gives us The Margrave’s Daughter & the Enemy Prince 6.

Titan Manga has The Raven Dark Hero 2

Steamship has the 4th and final volume of The Yakuza and His Omega: Raw Desire.

Seven Seas have two danmei titles, Case File Compendium: Bing An Ben 7 and Heaven Official’s Blessing: Tian Guan Ci Fu (Deluxe Hardcover Novel) 8 (the final volume).

Debuting on the manga side is My Former Student Is a Hunk?! (Oshiego-kun to wa Dekimasen), which runs in Monthly Magazine Base. A 35-year-old teacher is startled when her former student, who is now 18, tall, and buff, proposes to her! Right, he was the kid who kept saying he would marry her for years and she kept saying “when you turn 18”. She never expected him to turn into THIS! This was originally a Twitter comic.

ASH: Uh-oh!

SEAN: Also from Seven Seas: Free Life Fantasy Online: Immortal Princess 12, Let’s Buy the Land and Cultivate It in a Different World 9, ROLL OVER AND DIE 7, The Strange House 5, and The Titan’s Bride 8.

MICHELLE: Something mildly creepy (presumably) like The Strange House sounds appealing, at present.

SEAN: Manga Mavericks debuts Path From Tanuki Temple, an indie manga that I believe is full color. A princess raised in seclusion wants to see the world. That always goes well.

ASH: Scrappy tanuki princess in full color? That’s absolutely something I will read. I’ve really been enjoying Manga Mavericks’ indie releases.

SEAN: Last Gasp has the 2nd Ultra Heaven.

ASH: A good time for me to get around to reading the first volume!

SEAN: KUMA may have some debuts (Denpa/Kuma is switching printers atm, so dates are more in the air than usual). Betrayers Love Song (Uragirimono no Love Song) is a childhood friends-turned-rivals mafia title. It runs in Be x Boy Gold.

Only My Psycho is a BL title from i Hertz, and done in one. Hit squad partners turned lovers.

MICHELLE: Huh.

SEAN: Kodansha’s debut is Sayuri, which is from the author of Hi-Score Girl but is far more of a horror/tragedy. A family moves into a terrific house, only to find a spirit haunting it. This is done-in-1, and ran in Comic Birz.

Also in print: GAEA-TIMA the Gigantis 5, Honeko Akabane’s Bodyguards 7, Omega Megaera 2, Shangri-La Frontier 20, and Shimazaki in the Land of Peace 7.

Digitally we see Anyway, I’m Falling in Love with You 11, Drops of God: Mariage 14, I Want to Hold Aono-Kun So Badly I Could Die 13, ONIMAI: I’m Now Your Sister! 10, and Our Fake Marriage: Rosé 4 (the final volume).

J-Novel Club has two print titles. We get My Instant Death Ability Is So Overpowered, No One in This Other World Stands a Chance Against Me! 10 and Reborn to Master the Blade 8.

No digital debuts for JNC. For light novels, we get The Amazing Village Creator 2, Blade Skill Online 3, The Bladesmith’s Enchanted Weapons 3, The Blue Sea of Marielle Clarac (the 13th in the series), Chivalry of a Failed Knight 8, and Old Knight, New Post 2.

The sole manga volume is Even Exiled, She’s Still the Beloved Saint! 2.

Ize Press has a giant 900-page novel, DARK MOON: THE BLOOD ALTAR. An adaptation of the webtoon, this is vampires, baby, and also Enhypen, who are the Kpop band that are connected to it.

Ghost Ship debuts A Reincarnated Carrier’s Strategy for Another World (Tensei ni Hakobijin no Isekai Kouryakuhou), which runs in Young Champion Web. A guy is reincarnated and gets to choose his class, but chooses “carrier”, the weakest one, so that he’s not tied to anything. Then he starts meeting women who need his help. And his “help”, given this is a Ghost Ship title.

I don’t cover FAKKU titles, but for those curious about the Nana & Kaoru: Black Label spinoff, it has moved from Denpa to that imprint. The 3rd volume is out next week.

ASH: Well, that’s good to know.

SEAN: Cross Infinite World has the 6th volume of Even Dogs Go to Other Worlds.

Airship, in print, has I’m the Heroic Knight of an Intergalactic Empire! 4.

And for early digital… well, wait, this is ONLY digital. No print is planned. We debut When a Clueless First-Person Shooter Player Falls into Another World (Manuke na FPS Player ga Isekai e Ochita Baai). The title is the plot. FPS guy in a fantasy/magic world.

ASH: Seems like we’ve heard that somewhere before.

SEAN: For actual early digital we get Sword of the Demon Hunter: Kijin Gentōshō 12 and Witch and Mercenary 5.

Hooray, slightly smaller! What are you buying?

SEAN: I don’t have any witty “Martin Luther King Day” manga remarks, alas.

ASH: Maybe next year.

SEAN: The print debut for Airship is Betrothed to My Sister’s Ex (Zutaboro Reijou wa Ane no Moto Konyakusha ni Dekiai Sareru), which has already had an anime. A girl who grows up with her sister being given all the nice things suddenly finds herself engaged after her sister is killed in an accident. But then it turns out the engagement is a misunderstanding. What’s really going on here? From what I hear, this is another “it turns out being raised as an abused child is bad, actually” Cinderella story.

ASH: There are a few of those, it seems.

SEAN: And they also have I’m the Evil Lord of an Intergalactic Empire! 10.

Digitally we see the debut of Magical Buffs: The Support Caster is Stronger Than He Realized! (Zatsuyou Fuyojutsushi ga Jibun no Saikyou ni Kidzuku Made), which starts as a “thrown out of the party for having support magic” title, but at least this guy has a childhood friend to help him realize he’s actually awesome.

ASH: I saw “magical buffs” and my mind went to magical girls but beefcakes. But that’s a different genre.

SEAN: Ghost Ship has the 5th The Cursed Sword Master’s Harem Life and the 4th Yandere Dark Elf.

Ize Press has two debuts. Revenge of the Baskerville Bloodhound stars a man who was trained to be a “loyal hound” (assassin, I’m guessing) but is betrayed and then killed. Luckily for him, this is an “I’ve rewound back into my past” manhwa.

Semantic Error is the original novel that inspired the BL manhwa also released by Ize. An uptight college student screws over his lazy classmates… then finds one of them is the designer he desperately wants to work with!

MICHELLE: Oopsies.

ASH: Gotta hate when that happens.

SEAN: Also from Ize Press: Beware the Villainess! 6, The Boxer 12, Itaewon Class 8 (the final volume), Lover Boy 4, Not-Sew-Wicked Stepmom 8, Overgeared 9, and The World After the Fall 12.

So Dearly Reckless (Sore wa Mubou to Iu Mono da) is the J-Novel debut, and it’s from their Knight line. A young orphan wants to escape poverty, and adventuring may be the answer, especially when a handsome young man reaches out to him. But is this handsome young man really who he seems? Also, could there be… love?

ASH: Maybe?!

SEAN: Other light novels: An Archdemon’s Dilemma 20, By the Grace of the Gods 17, Flung into a New World? Time to Lift the 200-Year Curse! 3, Making Magic: The Sweet Life of a Witch Who Knows an Infinite MP Loophole 9, and To Another World… with Land Mines! 12.

For manga, they have Death’s Daughter and the Ebony Blade 7, The Fearsome Witch Teaches in Another World 2, The Otome Heroine’s Fight for Survival 6, Young Lady Albert Is Courting Disaster 7.

No debuts for Kodansha Manga, but we get, in print, Ajin: Demi-Human Complete 6, The Ayakashi Hunter’s Tainted Bride 6, Blue Lock 26, The Blue Wolves of Mibu 8, Gachiakuta 9, Kei X Yaku: Bound By Law 10, Nezumi’s First Love 2, and Sheeta’s Little Big World 3 (the final volume).

ASH: It’s been a while since I’ve thought about Ajin, but there were things about the series I really liked.

SEAN: Digitally we get Matcha Made in Heaven 13, Medaka Kuroiwa is Impervious to My Charms 19, and My Wife is a Little Intimidating 13.

ANNA: I need to catch up on Matcha Made in Heaven!

ASH: I haven’t read it yet, but I still love that title.

SEAN: After an entire week without a danmei debut, sanity has returned to Seven Seas. Twin Jades of Jiangdong is from the Legend of Exorcism and Dinghai Fusheng Records. Two childhood friends vow to always help each other and remain true, forgetting that they’re in a danmei novel.

MICHELLE: Heh.

ASH: Gotta love when that happens.

SEAN: There’s also the 3rd volume of Joyful Reunion.

Seven Seas’ manga debut is Betrothed to My Sister’s Ex (Zutaboro Reijou wa Ane no Moto Konyakusha ni Dekiai Sareru), about which see above, The manga runs in Gaugau Monster.

Low Tide in Twilight is a manhwa omegaverse title, about a suicidal omega who is saved by a suspicious man. (Could the man be an alpha? Hmmmmmm… could be!)

ANNA: He’s probably just a normal dude who is not connected with the omegaverse at all.

SEAN: Also from Seven Seas: Arifureta: From Commonplace to World’s Strongest 15, Cats With Jobs 2, DEAR. DOOR 2, Dungeon Builder: The Demon King’s Labyrinth is a Modern City! 12 (the final volume), HIKARI-MAN 7-8 (the final volume), Level 1 Demon Lord and One Room Hero 10, My New Life as a Cat 12, Reincarnated as a Sword 16, Someone’s Girlfriend 5, and What It Means to Be You 3.

From Square Enix Manga we get Cherry Magic! Thirty Years of Virginity Can Make You a Wizard?! 15 and Smoking Behind the Supermarket with You 6.

MICHELLE: I really, really need to catch up with Cherry Magic!.

ASH: Same! But I’ve enjoyed what I’ve read so far.

SEAN: Steamship has early digital for the 5th volume of The Villainess and the Demon Knight.

Titan Manga debuts Scavengers Another Sky, a Young Champion Retsu title about young girls who go between worlds scavenging.

It also gives us ATOM: The Beginning 13.

Tokyopop has Merry Witches’ Life 3.

ASH: I enjoyed the first volume; I should probably read more.

SEAN: Viz Media gives us After God 8, The Climber 4, Kingdom 3, Magilumiere Magical Girls Inc. 11, Record of Ragnarök 17, Red River 3-in-1 6, Rooster Fighter 9, Trillion Game 9, Undead Unluck 23, and The Way of the Househusband 15.

ASH: The Way of the Househusband is another series I’ve been meaning to catch up on, too.

SEAN: Yen On has one title: About a Place in the Kinki Region (Kinki Chihou no Aru Basho ni Tsuite). It’s a horror mystery about a missing occult editor and what he was researching.

MICHELLE: Ooh.

ANNA: Sounds cool!

ASH: Yup, I’d read that.

SEAN: Yen Press has the bulk of its monthly titles out next week. Immortality and Punishment (Fushi to Batsu) is a zombie apocalypse story from the creator of Magical Girl of the End. It ran in Bessatsu Shonen Champion.

Scenes from Awajima (Awajima Hyakkei) is an award-winning manga from Pocopoco. It’s about a prestigious opera school and the girls who strive to succeed in it.

MICHELLE: Double ooh. And it’s by Takako Shimura!

ANNA: Consider me intrigued!

ASH: I’ve been wanting to read this since it started!

SEAN: And, while not technically new, Rascal Does Not Dream of a Dreaming Girl is the latest omnibus to cover an “arc” of the series.

Also from Yen Press: Bocchi the Rock! Comic Anthology 2, Bride of the Barrier Master 5, Bungo Stray Dogs 26, Dead Mount Death Play Side Story: Phantom Solitaire’s Art of Disguising Oneself as a Supernatural Being 2, Double the Trouble, Twice as Nice 2, The Girl I Saved on the Train Turned Out to Be My Childhood Friend 10, Goblin Slayer Side Story: Year One 13, Hakumei & Mikochi 13, Heterogenia Linguistico 6, Hi, I’m a Witch, and My Crush Wants Me to Make a Love Potion 5, In Another World with My Smartphone 15, Killed Again, Mr. Detective? 2, Kindergarten Wars 3, Konosuba: Even More Explosions on This Wonderful World! 2, L’il Miss Vampire Can’t Suck Right 2, The Maid I Hired Recently Is Mysterious 8, Maiden of the Needle 5, Minato’s Laundromat 6, The Other World’s Books Depend on the Bean Counter 6, The Ragnarok System of the Desperate Reincarnated Demon Lord and the Seven Aggressive Maidens 2, Shadows House 10, Sister and Giant: A Young Lady Is Reborn in Another World 5, Strategic Lovers 4, Sword Art Online Re: Aincrad 4, The Villainess Stans the Heroes 5, Triage X 29, Unnamed Memory 7, and When I Became a Commoner, They Broke Off Our Engagement! 6.

ASH: That… was a lot. Probably some good stuff in there, though.

SEAN: I was waiting for that Yen deluge. What are you buying?

SEAN: As 2026 begins to take hold, let’s see what manga we have coming out in this traditionally quiet month.

ASH: Oh, right, it is 2026 now, isn’t it? Somehow.

SEAN: Yen On starts us off with Goblin Slayer Side Story: Year One 4 and The World Bows Down Before My Flames 3.

Yes Press’ one release is Wonder Boy (Fushigi na Shounen), a massive 800-page hardcover containing the first half of this seinen series that ran in both Morning and Morning Two about 20-25 years ago, and is from the creator of Land. It’s an episodic story about a traveler who watches humanity.

ASH: That is quite the volume! And probably something I should read.

SEAN: No debuts for Viz Manga, but we do get Beyblade X 5, Case Closed 97, Destroy All Humans, They Can’t Be Regenerated 6, Kakuriyo: Bed & Breakfast for Spirits 11, Snow Angel 3, Star Wars: The Mandalorian: The Manga 3, Tsumiki Ogami’s Not-So-Ordinary Life 4, Yaiba: Samurai Legend 3, and Yashahime: Princess Half-Demon 8.

Tokyopop has a 2nd volume of Eternal Covenant.

Titan Manga debuts 3 Minute Bodyguard Yoko-chan (3-bu Youjinbou Yoko-chan), a comedy manga from Comic Zenon about a young heir who’s always dodging assassinations… and his bodyguard only works for him 3 minutes a day!

ASH: Could be entertaining.

SEAN: They also have Isekai Metaller 2.

SuBLime has new volumes! Sleeping on Paper Boats 2 (the final volume) and Yarichin Bitch Club 6.

Square Enix debuts Mechanical Buddy Universe 1.0, a sequel to, well, Mechanical Buddy Universe. It runs in Young Gangan.

They also have Bride of the Death God 2 and The Strongest Sage with the Weakest Crest 28.

There is, amazingly, no danmei debut this week for Seven Seas. They do have Grandmaster of Demonic Cultivation Deluxe Hardcover 3 and There’s Something Wrong with the Chief 2.

ASH: No debuts, but still going strong.

SEAN: For manga, SS debuts Romelia War Chronicle: The Count’s Daughter Rallies an Army in the Wake of Mankind’s Victory (Romelia Senki ~Maou wo Taoshita Ato mo Jinrui Yabasou Dakara Guntai Soshiki Shita~) is based on an as-yet unlicensed light novel and has an anime coming. It starts with the traditional broken engagement, and the fact that women with no engagement have no value even if they did save the kingdom, and goes on from there. It runs in MAGCOMI.

ASH: You would think that would be worth something.

SEAN: A Yuri Love Story That Begins with Getting Dumped in a Dream (Yume de Furarete Hajimaru Yuri) is a yuri manga (duh) from Web Comic Gamma Plus. Two girls have always been besties since childhood. But when one of them has a dream of confessing and getting rejected by the other one, new feelings start to come out.

ASH: Sounds like this one will have lots of feelings.

SEAN: Other Seven Seas titles: BL Game Rebirth: My New Life as the Hero’s Younger Brother 3, Diary of a Female Lead: Shujinkou Nikki 5, Glasses with a Chance of Delinquent 5, Hope You’re Happy, Lemon 2, IDOL x IDOL STORY! 4, Killer Shark in Another World 6, Magic Maker: How to Create Magic in Another World 2, Malevolent Spirits: Mononogatari 13, Miss Kobayashi’s Dragon Maid: Fafnir the Recluse 5, The Princess I Loved in My Past Life is Now a Middle-Aged Dad 2, and Roses and Champagne 3.

ASH: Not so bad for a relatively quiet week.

SEAN: One Peace Books has a 2nd volume of I Want Your Mother to be With Me!.

Kodansha debuts Kaijin Fugeki: Kindled Spirits, the latest title by Oh! Great. two young holy warriors are all that stand between the Earth and destruction, through the power of their dance. Also, it’s by Oh! Great, expect gorgeous art, lots of action set pieces, and women with big breasts. This is what he does. This runs in Weekly Shonen Magazine.

ANNA: I mean, Oh! Great! does do what one would expect of Oh! Great!

ASH: It’s true.

SEAN: Also in print: The Drops of God 2, Last Samurai Standing 4, Medalist 12, Ninja Vs. Gokudo 11, Parasyte Paperback Collection 2, Tune In to the Midnight Heart 5, and You Can’t Bluff the Sharp-Eyed Sister 2.

ASH: If anyone hasn’t gotten around to reading one of the various editions of Parasyte yet, you should. It’s still one of my favorite series.

SEAN: And for digital we see And Yet, You Are So Sweet 12, Because I, the True Saint, was Banished, that Country is Done For! 10, Gang King 37 (the final volume), Koigakubo-kun Stole My First Time 9, Medalist 13, and Undead Girl Murder Farce 8.

MICHELLE: A double Medalist week!

ANNA: I need to get caught up!

SEAN: Kana has the 2nd omnibus volumes for Cat’s Eye and City Hunter.

ANNA: Need to check these out.

ASH: Likewise!

SEAN: J-Novel Club has some print titles. We get (light novels) The Brilliant Healer’s New Life in the Shadows 4, I Shall Survive Using Potions! 10, Isekai Tensei: Recruited to Another World Omnibus 3, Making Magic: The Sweet Life of a Witch Who Knows an Infinite MP Loophole 3, and My Quiet Blacksmith Life in Another World 2, and (manga) Campfire Cooking in Another World With My Absurd Skill 3, Gushing Over Magical Girls 7, Seirei Gensouki: Spirit Chronicles 11, and Tearmoon Empire 7.

ASH: Once again, not a bad list for a relatively quiet week.

SEAN: Digitally they have three debuts, all light novels. Reforming an Icy Final Boss: Getting Back at the Self-Proclaimed Villainess with the Power of Friendship (“Jishou Akuyaku Reijou” ni Korosareta Last Boss no Yarinaoshi: Bocchi na Reitetsu Koujo wa, Dai Ni no Jinsei de Riajuu wo Mezashimasu) stars a cold young woman who is murdered by someone claiming this world is an otome game. Now she’s back in the past, and determined to get a happy life… and figure out what that otome game thing meant.

Scooped Up by an S-Rank Adventurer! This White Mage Is One Heck of a Healer (Yuusha Party wo Tsuihousareta Shiro Madoushi, S Rank Boukensha ni Hirowareru: Kono Shiro Madoushi ga Kikakugaisugiru) is a kicked out of the hero’s party for being weak but is actually really strong book, and I can’t anymore, I just can’t.

ASH: It’s okay, Sean, I see you.

SEAN: Sowing Vengeance: The Eldest Son’s Disgraceful Green Thumb (Tsuihousareta Meika no Chounan: Baka ni Sareta Hazure Skill de Saikyou e to Nobori Tsumeru) is one of those “everyone in the world gets a skill, and if yours isn’t cool enough everyone tries to kill you, including your own family” books. See above.

Other light novels out next week: The Countess Is a Coward No More! 4, EXP Is Golden 4, From Old Country Bumpkin to Master Swordsman 9, Min-Maxing My TRPG Build in Another World 11 Part 1, Now I’m a Demon Lord! Happily Ever After with Monster Girls in My Dungeon 14, and Zero Damage Sword Saint 2.

For manga they have Ascendance of a Bookworm Arc 3 Vol. 5, Fired? But I Maintain All the Software! 2, How a Realist Hero Rebuilt the Kingdom 13, I Parry Everything 4, My Instant Death Ability Is So Overpowered, No One in This Other World Stands a Chance Against Me! —AΩ— 12, and Tearmoon Empire 9.

Ghost Ship debuts Let’s Make a Harem in a Zombie World! (Zombie Sekai de Harem o Tsukurou!), a Young Magazine Web title from the creator of The Witches of Adamas. A young man figures out he can stop hot girls from turning into zombies by having sex with them. Hijinx ensue. Coitus also ensues.

ASH: As it does.

SEAN: Ghost Ship also has Rebel Hero: I Will Use My Skills to Control the Scheming Princess’s Heart and Bod 2.

Dark Horse Manga has a 2nd volume of Adabana.

ASH: I meant to read the first volume before the second volume came out…

SEAN: No print debuts for Airship, but we see Reborn as a Space Mercenary: I Woke Up Piloting the Strongest Starship! 14, ROLL OVER AND DIE 5, and She Professed Herself Pupil of the Wise Man 15.

Two early digital debuts, though. A Good Day Starts with Cats and Books (Shodana no Hon to Neko Biyori) is a short story collection masquerading as a novel, about a bookstore and the many readers who contribute to its shelves.

ANNA: I agree with both of these points!

ASH: They are very good points.

SEAN: The Tale of a Little Alchemist Blessed by the Spirits (Outo no Hazure no Renkinjutsushi: Hazure Shokugyou datta node, Nonbiri Omise Keieishimasu) stars a woman who was cast out by her family and died alone and unloved. You know why? You got it, bad skill from the gods. Now she’s reincarnated, loved and a viscount’s daughter. And while she still has the same skill, she also has appraisal, and we know how protagonists with appraisal do. She’ll be fine.

And they also have a 5th volume of Heroine? Saint? No, I’m an All-Works Maid (And Proud of It)!.

Pretty big 2nd week, especially with barely any Yen! What are you buying?

MICHELLE: Not much, evidently!

SEAN: This new year will be filled with so much good manga, you cannot begin to even.

ASH: Honestly, I haven’t been able to for a while now.

SEAN: But we start with light novels. Airship has a print debut for Chronicles of an Aristocrat Reborn in Another World (Tensei Kizoku no Isekai Boukenroku – Jichou o Shiranai Kamigami no Shito). Seven Seas has released the manga for years, and we’ve also had the anime. Now we get the light novel. The title is the plot.

Also in print, Classroom of the Elite: Year 2 12.5 and Easygoing Territory Defense by the Optimistic Lord 6.

Airship also has a digital debut, with I Like Villains, so I Reincarnated as One (Akuyaku Suki no Ore, Oshi Character ni Tensei: Game Joban ni Shujinkou ni Korosareru Oshi ni Tenseishita node, Ore dake Shitteru Game Chishiki de Hametsu Flag wo Tsubushitara Akuyaku-tachi no Teiou ni Natteta Ken). It’s another “guy reincarnated into his favorite game as the pathetic villain who dies” story, and you know he’s not going to take that lying down.

ASH: The title leads me to believe he likes villains, after all.

SEAN: Also in early digital: Virgin Knight: I Became the Frontier Lord in a World Ruled by Women 2.

Dark Horse Comics has a massive, 830-page hardcover of the first four volumes of Old Boy, the manga they first released 20 years ago. A man imprisoned for ten years for reasons he never figures out is now released, and tries to figure out why him. This ran in Weekly Manga Action.

ASH: I saw the exceptional film adaptation before I read the original manga, but they’re both intense.

SEAN: From Ghost Ship we get Makina-san’s a Love Bot?! 2 and Please Go Home, Miss Akutsu! 10.

Ize Press has no debuts, but we do get Finding Camellia 6, I Tamed My Ex-husband’s Mad Dog 5, Men of the Harem 5, My Secretly Hot Husband 5, Omniscient Reader’s Viewpoint 9, Radio Storm 3, and the 2nd novel volume of Villains Are Destined to Die.

J-Novel Club has two debuts, both light novels. Even Exiled, She’s Still the Beloved Saint! St. Evelyn’s Weird and Wonderful Friends (Tsuihousareta Seijo desu ga, Jitsu wa Kunijuu kara Aisaresugitete Kowain desu kedo!?) already has a manga from JNC, and now we get the light novel. Every single “saint” cliche you’ve seen in prior series is in this one as well, only the heroine is an airhead.

ASH: Done well, this can be endearing.

SEAN: Repeated Vice: I Refuse to Be Important Enough to Die (Repeat Vice: Akuyaku Kizoku wa Shinitakunai node Shitennou ni Naru no wo Yamemashita) stars a bad guy who lives a dissolute life… till he gets a vision of his ignoble death. Now he has to at least pretend to turn over a new leaf.

Other light novels from JNC: Long Story Short, I’m Living in the Mountains 4 and Taking My Reincarnation One Step at a Time 9.

Other manga from JNC: The 100th Time’s the Charm 5, D-Genesis: Three Years after the Dungeons Appeared 7, and Now I’m a Demon Lord! Happily Ever After with Monster Girls in My Dungeon 11.

Kodama Books debuts Smile! (Smiley), a psychological horror series from Manga Goraku. A man loses his daughter, and the grief also drives his wife from him. Now a religious cult is trying to interest him…

ASH: I’ve heard good things about this one, if it’s a genre you read (which I do).

ANNA: It sounds creepy!

MICHELLE: It does! I am intrigued.

SEAN: They also have the 7th and 8th Baki the Grappler.

ASH: This is coming out so fast!

SEAN: Kodansha Books has the 10th volume of Saving 80,000 Gold in Another World for My Retirement, Volume 9. (No, I will never get tired of this joke.)

No debuts for Kodansha Manga. In print, they have Blue Lock: Episode Nagi 6, The Dashing Zaddy and His Icy Protégé 4, Medaka Kuroiwa is Impervious to My Charms 14, The Spellbook Library 4, Tank Chair 6, and WIND BREAKER 18.

And for digital titles we have Blue Lock 35, The Café Terrace and its Goddesses 19, How to Grill Our Love 18, Manchuria Opium Squad 10, Parasyte Reversi 6, and Shangri-La Frontier 23.

One Peace Books has a 2nd volume of Teppeki Honeymoon.

MICHELLE: I was just looking at the cover of the first volume t’other day!

SEAN: Does Seven Seas have a danmei debut? Of course! After the Disabled God of War Became My Concubine has a history professor read a seemingly made-up thesis about a general forced to cater to the whims of a villainous prince. Then the professor ends up in another world… as that prince.

ASH: So much danmei! Love to see it.

SEAN: Aside from that, no debuts for Seven Seas. But we do see 365 Days to the Wedding 10, Choking on Love 4, Heroine? Saint? No, I’m an All-Works Maid (And Proud of It)! 5, I’m Running for Crown Princess, but All I Want is a Steady Paycheck! 2, Kaya-chan Isn’t Scary 4, Let Me See the Real You, Senpai! 2, Lost in the Cloud 2, Magical Buffs: The Support Caster is Stronger Than He Realized! 5, Re:Monster 12, and Sword of the Demon Hunter: Kijin Gentōshō 8.

Square Enix Manga gives us The God-Slaying Demon King 4 and The Villainess’s Guide to (Not) Falling in Love 5.

Steamship has a 5th volume of A Suitable Fetish.

Viz Media debuts Super Psychic Policeman Chojo (Choujun! Choujou-senpai), a Weekly Shonen Jump series. She’s a judo expert. He’s a psychic. Together, they fight crime!

ASH: Sounds like it could be entertaining.

ANNA: I’m curious!

MICHELLE: Same!

SEAN: Also from Viz: Dark Gathering 17, The Demon Prince of Momochi House: Succession 2, The Elusive Samurai 18, Hunter x Hunter 38, Nue’s Exorcist 4, Otaku Vampire’s Love Bite 6, Phantom Busters 2, Pink Candy Kiss 4, Sakamoto Days 20 and Tamon’s B-Side 10.

MICHELLE: I had somehow missed there was a The Demon Prince of Momochi House sequel. I definitely would like to have a Tamon binge soon.

SEAN: Yen On gives us The Angel Next Door Spoils Me Rotten 9 and Wandering Witch: The Journey of Elaina 16.

Yen Press debut a manhwa, Beatrice. A princess has her country invaded and is stripped of her status. But because she was once a commoner, this is fine with her. But try as she might, she can’t escape her old life.

ANNA: Sounds interesting, I might check this out.

SEAN: Lilies Blooming in 100 Days is a collection of yuri stories that the artist took upon themselves to do as part of a 100 Days of Yuri Challenge. Originally coming out on Twitter, it was picked up by Kadokawa, and now arrives here.

ASH: You have my attention.

Also from Yen Press, The Kept Man of the Princess Knight 3.

ASH: Wait, that’s it?

SEAN: I mean, it’s still January, the quietest month. There’s only so much I can do.

ANNA: More time to attack the piles of unread manga in the house!

SEAN: Is it 2025 or 2026? Depends when you ask.

ASH: Time has no meaning these days.

SEAN: Yen On debuts Divine Incursions (Ryoukai Shinpan). In a world where supernatural chaos is commonplace, an agent devoted to dealing with such incidents searches for his missing wife. This seems like one of those mysteries with yokai in them that are so popular with the kids these days.

ASH: Oh! Did you say yokai?

ANNA: This is one of those plot elements I do not get tired of!

SEAN: Also from Yen On: Brunhild the King’s Sister (the 4th in the series), A Certain Magical Index NT 5, Demon’s Crest 3, Hell Is Dark with No Flowers 4, Lord of Mysteries 2, and Monsterholic 3. One of those titles will sell ten times more than any of the others. Hint: It’s the one that’s not Japanese.

Yen Press debuts Divine Incursions (Ryoukai Shinpan). In a world where supernatural chaos is commonplace, an agent devoted to dealing with such incidents searches for his missing wife. This seems like one of those mysteries with yokai in them that are so popular with the kids these days. The manga version runs in Comic Newtype.

MICHELLE: I just got the weirdest sense of déjà vu…

ASH: Wait a minute.

ANNA: I have never heard of this before.

SEAN: Also on the manga side: The Executioner and Her Way of Life 7, Gabriel Dropout 15, GOGOGOGO-GO-GHOST! 5 (the final volume), Honey Trap Shared House 6, Is It Wrong to Try to Pick Up Girls in a Dungeon? II 6, Pandora Seven 6, and Sasaki and Peeps 4.

Titan Manga has Gran Familia 2.

Steamship has a 3rd volume of Sweet Heat Before Falling in Love: The CEO and His Fated Omega.

Seven Seas has a danmei debut, because of course it does. The Villain’s White Halo stars a man who has reincarnated and wants to be an absolute bastard, this world’s Last Boss. Unfortunately, everyone sees him as a good guy!

MICHELLE: I’m glad danmei seems to be doing so well for them!

ASH: Seriously!

ANNA: Yes, good to have some bright spots in the publishing industry!

SEAN: There’s also the 2nd and final volume of My Husband and I Sleep in a Coffin.

No debuts for Seven Seas proper, but lots of volumes. We get Bastard 3, Berserk of Gluttony 13, Box of Light 4, Dance in the Vampire Bund: Age of Scarlet Order 16, Does it Count if You Lose Your Virginity to an Android? 6, Grandmaster of Demonic Cultivation (The Comic / Manhua) 12, The Invisible Man and His Soon-to-Be Wife 6, My Stepmother and Stepsisters Aren’t Wicked 7, No Love Zone 5, Reincarnated as a Dragon Hatchling 8, and Slow Life In Another World (I Wish!) 9.

No debuts for Kodansha Manga either, but we get Anyway, I’m Falling in Love with You 9, Fate/Grand Order -mortalis:stella- 5, I’m Giving the Disgraced Noble Lady I Rescued a Crash Course in Naughtiness 9, My Noisy Roommate 4, Nina the Starry Bride 13, Pass the Monster Meat, Milady! 9, Rent-A-Girlfriend 34, and The Seven Deadly Sins: Four Knights of the Apocalypse 20.

ASH: One of these days I really will read Nina the Starry Bride.

ANNA: It is so good! I also liked the anime. I need to get caught up on the manga.

SEAN: For digital titles they have Gamaran: Shura 35 (the final volume), The God-Tier Guardian and the Love of Six Princesses 16, Our Fake Marriage 16 (the final volume, though the spinoff is ongoing), and Space Brothers 45.

J-Novel Club has three digital debuts. The Azure Dragon’s Devotion: An Offering of Three Centuries to You (Seiryuu no Kenshin: Anata ni Sasageru 300-nen) is a one-shot BL light novel from their Knight line. Two close friends split up and have spent centuries apart and distrusting. But when a matchmaking effort pulls up that same old friend, can they patch up their differences? Or, and they’re Tiger Clan and Dragon Clan, because of course they are.

ASH: Of course they are, and of course this is something I would read.

ANNA: Are there yokai though???

SEAN: Beautiful Daydream is another of the Original Light Novel contestants. A guy who loves his little sister and light novels/games.anime also loves girls, but he can’t interact with them properly. A visit to a shrine may change that, though…

What’s with the Bag, Kamiyama-san? (Kamiyama-san no Kamibukuro no Nakaniha) is a manga title from Comic Fire. If you’re sad that Komi Can’t Communicate is coming to an end, and wish she was even worse, this title is for you.

ASH: My mind immediately went to “What’s in the box?!?!” which has absolutely nothing to do with any of this.

Other light novels from JNC: The Boy Who Ruled the Monsters 5, Dahlia in Bloom 11, Dimension Wave 6, The Goddess Says, “Kill the Tsundere Witch!” 2, Grimgar of Fantasy and Ash 21, How a Realist Hero Rebuilt the Kingdom 20 (the final volume, though there’s a SS collection coming), The Invincible Summoner Who Crawled Up from Level 1 4, The Tanaka Family Reincarnates 5, and Yuri Tama: From Third Wheel to Trifecta 5.

Other manga from JNC: The Eternal Fool’s Words of Wisdom 7, Forget Being the Villainess, I Want to Be an Adventurer! 5, My Tiny Senpai 3, Old Knight, New Post 2, and The Water Magician 5.

Ize Press has one debut, I Love Amy. The copy makes it sound like it’s about a girl who tries to get rid of her rival to the boy she loves, but finds herself falling for the girl instead. I have heard the reality of this book is a lot darker than the cute summary they’re choosing to use.

Also from Ize: Marriage of Convenience 2, Solo Leveling 14, and Tomb Raider King 13.

Ghost Ship has the 3nd and final volume of 12 Dirty Deeds to Unite the Princess and Her Heroine.

Denpa Books has a debut, according to retailers. Renjoh Desperado runs in Gessan, and stars a girl looking for her true love in a world where she’s far more likely to have to use her gun or her sword.

ASH: I’ve been curious about this one.

ANNA: Oh, interesting!

SEAN: Two similar-sounding debuts for Cross Infinite World. Breaking Up Was the Plan, the Duke Falling For the Villainess Was Not! (Hakyoku Yotei no Akujo no Hazu ga, Reitetsu Koushaku-sama ga Wakaretekuremasen!) stars a reincarnated woman who knows she has to engineer her own demise, because if she doesn’t war breaks out. So why is the duke not believing she’s evil?

If the Heroine Wants My Fiancé, I’ll Marry a Yandere Villain Instead! (Heroine ni Konyakusha wo Torareru Mitai node, Akuyaki Reisoku (Yandere Character) wo Neraimasu) stars a reincarnated woman who has no interest in remaining engaged to her fiancé, because she likes the creepy yandere guy.

ASH: Hmmm.

ANNA: I support her choices, I guess!

SEAN: And they also have How I Became King by Eating Monsters 4.

Airship has three print releases. We get The Case Files of Jeweler Richard 11, Drugstore in Another World: The Slow Life of a Cheat Pharmacist 8 (the final volume), and Grimgar of Fantasy and Ash 20.

And for digital releases they have Adachi and Shimamura: Short Stories 2 and Reincarnated Into a Game as the Hero’s Friend 6.

Should auld manga be forgot and never brought to mind? Hell no! What manga are you getting?