Wednesday, July 4, 2012

Manga the Week of 7/11

As one would expect after this week's huge stack of manga after manga, next week is slightly quieter. But there are still a few new manga out there to please everyone.

Digital Manga Publishing starts us off with a new volume of the ever popular Finder. It's a big title with yaoi fans, despite reviews tending to use the word 'sexplosion' when describing it. There is also Flutter, whose cover features two really depressed-looking guys. And they have Secretary's Job as well, which does not seem to be a sexplosion, but at least the cover doesn't feature leads who want to kill themselves. So it's a nice balance.

Fanfare/Ponent Mon has Vol. 3 of mountain climbing epic Summit of the Gods. Even if it wasn't illustrated by Jiro Taniguchi (which it is), you should get this anyway as one should always support any Business Jump manga that actually gets brought over here.

Kodansha has the 5th volume of Tarzan-ish shonen manga Animal Land, which should appeal to anyone who liked Zatch Bell, the author's other imported series.

Despite the cover, which looks remarkably like Seven Seas' other OEL titles, Angel Para Bellum is in fact Japanese. It's from the artist who does Dance in the Vampire Bund, and runs in Softbank Creative's Flex Comics! Remember them? That's right, CMX's old buddies. And now Seven Seas has them! They also have the start of a new Alice spinoff, this one featuring Boris. At 7+ volumes, it promises to be longer than the original series. There's also some Korean titles: Jack the Ripper/Hell Blade, and an omnibus of Vol. 5-6 of My Boyfriend Is A Vampire, which I presume is one of those titles that is also the plot.

Lastly, Viz has Vol. 4 of the adorable Fluffy Fluffy Cinnamoroll, which I always misspell. But not this time! Ha!

Be patriotic, Americans! Buy Japanese manga! Which one are you getting?



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