There’s just a giant PILE of manga out June 3rd, most of it Viz.
Some series are beginning! Library Wars: Love & War is a shoujo take on the light novel series about a paramilitary organization out to protect books from evil censors! And Toriko is the manliest Iron Chef you’ll ever meet, a man who travels the world in search of the most dangerous animals – as they’re also the tastiest!
Some series are ending. Wild Ones wraps up, and I’ll miss the one a volume antics where Sachie lets her inner Yakuza shine through. Honey & Clover is also over, though I think the blogosphere never quite got over Hagu’s appearance – and, to be fair, personality. And Yu-Gi-Oh! R ends, though there’s still several other Yu-Gi-Oh spinoffs still running in V-Jump. I eagerly await Yu-Gi-Oh WTF.
There’s 5 more One Pieces, but this is the last month with 5, as we finally catch up (mostly) with Japan. Vol. 49 has one of my favorite funny moments, and the new arc after Thriller Bark changes the series forever.
Vampire Knight is out. I hear it has vampires! Do they brood? I hope they brood. Oh, and maybe they smirk, too! (swoon) Actually, there isn’t much smirking in Vampire Knight, but there sure is a lot of brooding. And politics.
And then there’s Butterflies, Flowers, which will no doubt have wacky shenanigans balanced out with hot hot lovins. And hopefully some more comedic beatings! Loved the eyes falling out last time!
There’s also (gasp!) some non-Viz stuff. Del Rey has a new Negima, where we find out that our heroes are far worse off than we thought. And a new series, Fairy Navigator Rune, which hopefully won’t be like their other recent new Nakayoshi series, but probably is. Tokyopop’s Shinobi Life continues to be a fun ninja shoujo romance, which should be marketed better than it is. And Vertical has Vol. 11 of Black Jack, which you should not need me to suggest to you. Come on… BLACK JACK!
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