Lately the next week lists have been coming out earlier, so this post is a day early as well. For the record, the Feb/Mar Tokyopop books are still MIA from our friends at Diamond Comics.

So what do we have? Well, Dark Horse has a new volume of Gantz. Comic readers love Dark Horse Manga, and Gantz is a good reason why, with a story and art that is as close as you can get to Image Comics without actually being it.

And Kodansha Comics! Remember them? They have the 5th volume of Akira out, for those who never bought the Dark Horse release. Yes, it’s still just Akira for now. Only 2 more months…

And Seven Seas, much to the surprise of those who got it from Diamond two weeks ago, is sending us the second and final Inukami! omnibus and the first volume of Toradora!, which I reviewed the other day. I understand in a couple of weeks they may have non exclamation-point titles for us as well.

And this isn’t on Midtown’s list, but it’s on my local shop’s: Diamond is finally shipping the 12th Evangelion manga, which most bookstores got last month. It continues to grind its way towards the climax at a snail’s pace, but we’re in the end run now.

Anything appealing to you?