New Releases For 10/7/09
Manga releases are back on schedule, with a whole of great titles this week. Viz once again strikes with a tidal wave of titles, covering shonen, shojo and the kids.
Saint Seiya and
Yu Yu Hakusho, to fairly old school titles (
Seiya is older!) stand at their penultimate volumes, as well as Dark Horse's
Shaman Warrior. Fanfare/Ponent Mon debuts two title for more mature readers, and Seven Seas brings out
Wicked City, a Hideyuki Kikuchi novel is a universe very different from the
Vampire Hunter D series. Get those Christmas lists started now!
BANDAICode Geass Lelouch Of The Rebellion GN Vol 5, $10.99
CMXBallad Of A Shinigami Vol 2 TP, $9.99
Oh My Brother Vol 1 TP, $9.99
DARK HORSEShaman Warrior Vol 8 TP, $12.95 **Weekly Pick**FANFARE/PONENT MONDistant Neighborhood Vol 1 GN, $23.00 **2xWeekly Pick**Summit Of Gods Vol 1 GN (of 5), $25.00 **Weekly Pick**SEVEN SEAS ENTERTAINMENTDestinys Hand Omnibus GN, $14.99
Hollow Fields Omnibus GN, $14.99
Venus Versus Virus GN Vol 7, $10.99
Wicked City Novel Vol 1, $9.99 **3xWeekly Pick**UDON ENTERTAINMENTFairy Idol Kanon GN Vol 2 (of 4), $7.99 **Weekly Pick**VIZ MEDIABaby & Me Vol 16 GN, $9.99
BakeGyamon Vol 4 GN, $7.99 **Weekly Pick**Choco Mimi Vol 2 GN, $7.99
Eyeshield 21 Vol 28 TP, $9.99
Gentlemens Alliance + Vol 10 TP, $8.99
Happy Happy Clover Vol 3 GN, $7.99 **Weekly Pick**Hoshin Engi Vol 15 TP, $9.99
Kimi Ni Todoke Vol 2 From Me To You GN, $9.99 **3xWeekly Pick**Knights Of The Zodiac Vol 27 TP, $9.99 **Weekly Pick**La Corda Doro Vol 11 TP, $9.99
Leave It To PET Vol 3 GN, $7.99 **Weekly Pick**Legend Of Zelda Vol 7 Four Swords Part 2 GN, $7.99
Magic Touch Vol 4 GN, $8.99
Muhyo & Rojis Bureau Of Supernatural Investigation Vol 13 TP, $9.99
Naruto Vol 46 TP, $9.99
NORA Last Chronicle Of Devildom Vol 7 GN, $9.99
One Piece Vol 22 TP, $9.99 **2xWeekly Picks**Pokemon Adventures Vol 3 TP (2nd Edition), $7.99
Pokemon Diamond And Pearl Adventure Vol 5 GN, $7.99
Reborn Vol 13 GN, $9.99
Rosario + Vampire Vol 9 GN, $9.99
Shonen Jump Vol 7 #11 (Nov 2009), $4.99
Skip Beat Vol 19 TP, $9.99 **Weekly Pick**Slam Dunk Vol 6 GN, $9.99
Strawberry 100 % Vol 10 TP, $9.99
Wild Ones Vol 8 GN, $9.99
Yu Gi Oh R Vol 1 GN, $9.99
Yu Yu Hakusho Vol 18 TP, $9.99
YEN PRESSYen Plus Magazine Vol 2 #11 (Nov 2009), $8.99 **Weekly Pick**Alex Hoffman's Picks: While it is true that the 9th volume of
Rosario + Vampire comes out today, this week's picks are actually
Kimi Ni Todoke: From Me To You Vol 2 for its sweet premise and wonderful characters, and
A Distant Neighborhood Vol 1 from Ponent Mon. I can't wait to get my hands on these books.
John Thomas's Pick: I have enjoyed the
Vampire Hunter D novels I have read, so the idea of jumping into a different Hideyuki Kikuchi universe is enticing. I am only a few pages into
Wicked City, but already it has sucked me in like a bad cold. The first-person perspective of this novel gives it an enticing, trance-like feel.
Matthew Rozier's Picks: A little something for everyone this week! First, from Fanfare/Potent Mon, are two highly polished, mature titles in
A Distant Neighborhood v1 and
Summit of the Gods v1. Both are titles that everyone absolutely must check out. Next, from Viz Media, are two great shojo titles in
Kimi ni Todoke v2 and
Skip Beat v19.
Kimi ni Todoke's first volume was a pleasant surprise and anyone reading
Skip Beat should know how much of a fun read it has been to this point. Viz is also releasing
Slam Dunk v6 this week. More great basketball action is certainly not a bad thing.
Justin Colussy-Estes' Picks: I'll pick up almost anything from Fanfare/Ponent Mon, and Taniguchi is a phenomenal artist (both titles from them this week are his), but it's also a good week to be a kid-- both Viz's and Udon's kids lines are really kicking into high gear with some great titles, several of which come out this week. For girls,
Fairy Idol Kanon or
Happy Happy Clover is the go to. For boys, it's
Leave it to PET and
BakeGyamon.
Alain Mendez's Picks: I have not read Hideyuki Kikuchi's
Wicked City yet but I am always interested in Japanese novels so I will always give one a whirl. I always recommend
One Piece. It might not have the best art of all the Shonen Jump properties but Eiichiro Oda is one of the best writers in shonen. He clearly plots out his stories well in advance which give the stories an overall meatier appeal. Volume 22 is the penultimate book in the Baroque Works Arc which is one of the most exciting and engaging arcs in the series.
Amy Grocki's Picks: Out of all the Viz Media titles this week I'm most glad to see
Kimi ni Todoke v2 and also I'm excited for the latest
Yen Plus Magazine since I can't wait to read the next chapter of
Black Butler. I don't think I would mind having such a handsome demonic butler around my house!
Dan Polley's Pick:I don't know how I will be able to adjust with
One Piece and
Naruto coming out on the same week. And with
Wicked City and Jiro Taniguichi offerings this week, it's an overload to say the least. Whew. But I'm going to go elsewhere for my pick this week. For great action and awesome setting, you will need to go manwha this week with Dark Horse's
Shaman Warrior. The artistic style alone is worth picking up, and once you see how beautiful it is, you'll be sucked in by the plot for revenge. And with the finale of the series up next, now is the time to jump on.
Lori Henderson's Pick:Viz is just slapping me silly with all the titles they have coming out this week, for me AND the kids! I really want to read the second volume of
Kimi ni Todoke, and my kids love both of the
Pokemon titles, I have to give my pick to
Knights of the Zodiac: Saint Seiya v27. This is the penultimate volume! It's been a long road for this old school title, but I gotta give Viz props for sticking with it and seeing it through to the end, even if there's only a handful or so of us reading it.
Lori Henderson
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New Releases For 8/25/10
Written by Lori Henderson
"Short list this week, though its better than last week's non-existent list. I hope everyone enjoyed our re-readable list. This week mostly features the smaller publishers. You can't really call Dark Horse small, but they keep their manga selection to a select few. Kodansha shouldn't be called small, but their releases have been disappointing and slow to say the least. With a company that has as large of a selection of titles as they do, you would expect to see something that..."
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Written by Lori Henderson
"Alex Hoffman: Normally, the Manga Village crew goes over the list of newly released comics and give you our manga picks for the week. Since the releases for this week are a little... sparse, we've decided to talk about the series we love to re-read.One of the things I love about manga trade paperbacks is that you can re-read the series as long as it stays on your shelf...."
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New Releases for 8/11/10
Written by Lori Henderson
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Written by Lori Henderson
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New Releases for 7/28/10
Written by Lori Henderson
"Just like the Good Ol' Days! It's a well stocked list this week of titles. Del Rey releases the first of its omnibus editions to tie up Mushishi and School Rumble. Fanfare returns with the much anticipated Korea As Viewed by 12 Creators, and Tokyopop pops in with a few titles. Wallets of the fans of Yubisaki Milk Tea beware. Viz says farewell to a few titles. The beleaguered Magic Touch end this week, as does the strange supernatural action Muhyo a..."
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New Releases for 7/21/10
Written by Lori Henderson
"With San Diego Comic Con starting this week, publishers seem more interested in preparing for the con than releasing books, but the new big two of manga publishing still has titles coming out this week. Viz's selection is a potpourri of titles from Shonen Jump, Shonen Sunday and Signature lines. Yen Press' selection is just as varied with manga, manhwa and light novels, including Spice and Wolf vol 2.The List:VIZ MEDIADragon Ball Z Volume 8 GN (VIZB..."
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New Releases for 7/14/10
Written by Lori Henderson
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New Releases for 7/8/10
Written by Lori Henderson
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New Releases for 6/30/10
Written by Lori Henderson
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New Releases for 6/23/10
Written by Lori Henderson
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New Releases for 6/16/10
Written by Lori Henderson
"Wow, they're right when they say selection has dropped, but that doesn't mean the quality has! Bandai and Seven Seas has some novels out, and Yen Press has the next volume of Hero Tales, but the Big Dog this week is Viz with some great Sig titles, as well as the final Fushigi Yugi VIZBIG edition. It's kind of appropriate though, that Afterschool Charisma is coming out the week of Father's Day. Daddy!! (Get it to find out what that means.)..."
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New Releases for 6/09/10
Written by Lori Henderson
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New Releases for 6/3/10
Written by Lori Henderson
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Written by Lori Henderson
"The list is light this week, but Del Rey has some releases, one
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manga. Tokyopop says goodbye to a recent hit Alice in the Country of
Hearts, but start a new series, a 4-koma about a cat in a ramen shop.
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Warcraft manga. And don't forget to get your bi-monthly dose of the
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Written by Lori Henderson
"The new releases list is getting smaller and smaller as more
companies go under, or worse, have the carpet pulled from under them.
That is what's happened to CMX, the manga imprint from DC. On Tuesday,
DC announced the imprint would stop printing as of July 1, 2010. This
was obviously a surprise to even the CMX crew, as the CMX website had
just been updated with new titles on Monday. But even that is gone now,
and we all mourn. In hap..."
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New Releases for 5/12/10
Written by Lori Henderson
"Small list, BIG releases! Tokyopop only has one title, but it's one that
the mangasphere has been excited about. Viz brings out some of it's
Signature and Shonen Sunday titles, with Biomega being the most
outrageous. Gotta love a talking bear with a hook-hand, and a machine
gun. Yen Press has a long list of good stuff, including a new Black
Butler, the debut of the new CLAMP series Kobato, and another debut of My Girlfriend is a
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New Releases for 5/5/10
Written by Lori Henderson
"It's a Viz week this time, with plenty of shojo to go around with new
volumes of Black Bird, Otomen, Sand Chronicles and We Were There. Record
of A Fallen Vampire ends this week, and the next wave of One Piece hits
shelves. Bandai has the new Code Geass title Knight, and sci-fi titles
have a good week. Also from Bandai is the next Gundam 00F, CMX has the
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Written by Lori Henderson
"Tokyopop gets the spotlight this week. I like it when publishers
alternate weeks, it gives the pocketbook a bit of a break. The first
volume of Ratman, a superhero-inspired manga debuts this week. Fruits
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creator. And Battle Vixens, aka Ikkitosen, finally finishes its run.
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Written by Lori Henderson
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Written by Lori Henderson
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Written by Lori Henderson
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