Manga Collected Editions

[SkyMason21]

Some Amazon Fishin.

The first two volumes of "Showa Genroku Rakugo Shinju" (https://www.mangaupdates.com/series.html?id=52800) are up. Publisher is listed as Kodansha USA and they are $12.99 so its their larger format books (still annoyed they haven't give this format line a name or even mention that it would be a thing in the first place). Love what I've read of this series so far, glad it got picked up.

When a certain man is released from prison, he knows exactly where he's heading first. After falling in love with a traditional comic storyteller's rendition of the story called "Shinigami," he is determined to become his apprentice. The performer, Yakumo, has never taken an apprentice before, but to everyone's surprise, he accepts the eager ex-prisoner, nicknaming him "Yotaro."
As Yotaro happily begins his new life, he meets others in Yakumo's life, including Yakumo's ward Konatsu. Konatsu was the daughter of a famous storyteller, and Yakumo took her in after her father's tragic death. Konatsu loved her father's storytelling, and would love to become a performer in her own right--but that path is not available for women.

Volume 1 https://www.amazon.com/dp/1632364697...+Rakugo+Shinju
Volume 2 https://www.amazon.com/dp/1632364700...+Rakugo+Shinju

And the second Hardcover for Otherworld Barbara is up listed for August 15th 2017. https://www.amazon.com/Otherworld-Ba...n%3A7421485011

[SkyMason21]

It's Seven Seas Entertainment's 12th anniversary week and they are announcing new titles all week.

Seven Seas Entertainment Announces "Otome Mania!!" http://sevenseasentertainment.tumblr...come-true-with

"Otome Mania!!" will be released as two single volume editions. Vol. 1 will be released on June 20th, 2017 for $12.99, and Vol. 2 will be released on September 26th, 2017 for $12.99.

Seven Seas announces "Concrete Revolutio: The Complete Saga Omnibus Collection" http://sevenseasentertainment.tumblr...-revolutio-the

"Concrete Revolutio" will be released as a single two-in-one omnibus edition on June 27th, 2017 for $19.99.

Seven Seas announces "Generation Witch" http://sevenseasentertainment.tumblr...neration-witch

"Generation Witch" vol. 1 will be released on July 25th, 2017 for $12.99.

Seven Seas announces " Beasts of Abigaile" http://sevenseasentertainment.tumblr...ith-license-of

"Beasts of Abigaile" vol. 1 will be released on June 27th, 2017 for $12.99.

Seven Seas announces "Don’t Meddle With My Daughter" (Uchi no Musume ni Te o Dasu na!) http://sevenseasentertainment.tumblr...ly-with-nozomu

"Don't Meddle With My Daughter" vol. 1 will be released on August 27th, 2017 for $12.99. Series is three volumes long.

Seven Seas announces "Red Riding Hood and the Big Sad Wolf" (Akazukin-chan wa Ookami-san o Nakasetai!) http://sevenseasentertainment.tumblr...ith-red-riding

"Red Riding Hood and the Big Sad Wolf" vol. 1 will be released on June 13th, 2017 for $12.99.

Seven Seas announces the licencing of the "Tales of Zestiria" manga adaptation http://sevenseasentertainment.tumblr...-with-tales-of

"Tales of Zestiria" vol 1 will be released on June 13th, 2017 for $12.99.

Seven Seas announces the licencing of the " Akashic Records of the Bastard Magical Instructor" manga adaptation http://sevenseasentertainment.tumblr...n-with-akashic

"Akashic Records of the Bastard Magical Instructor" vol 1 will be released on August 29th, 2017 for $12.99.


Seven Seas annouces " My Lesbian Experience with Loneliness" (Sabishisugite Lesbian Fuzoku Ni Ikimashita Report) http://sevenseasentertainment.tumblr...y-announces-my

This single volume autobiography will be released in it's original two tone color printing on June 3rd, 2017 for $13.99.

[awayne83]

Anyone read vinland saga? Thinking of picking this up aince its hc. Looks interesting

[SkyMason21]

Anyone read vinland saga? Thinking of picking this up aince its hc. Looks interesting

Vinland Saga is a fantastic manga, great action and very good art. Quality is a little questionable (at least 3 of mine have pages that have started to turn yellow and the gluing can be sloppy), but it's worth a try.

[awayne83]

Vinland Saga is a fantastic manga, great action and very good art. Quality is a little questionable (at least 3 of mine have pages that have started to turn yellow and the gluing can be sloppy), but it's worth a try.

Thanks. Recently wrapped up Gundam: Origin and was pretty pleased overall (being my first manga). Think I'll try Vinland next. Also eyeing Planetes, Otherworld Barbara, and Nausicaa (trying to stay away from the 60+ volume mangas lol)....any thoughts?

[SkyMason21]

Yen Press announcing the licensing of "Delicious in Dungeon", "your name.", and "No Game No Life, Desu!" http://www.animenewsnetwork.com/news...novels/.108249

"Delicious in Dungeon" (Dugeon Meshi) https://www.mangaupdates.com/series.html?id=106656 will start in Spring 2017.


"No Game No Life, Desu!" https://www.mangaupdates.com/series.html?id=122147 will start in Spring 2017.


No links for "your name" but the Makoto Shinkai's other US licensed work include "5 centimeters per second" (https://www.mangaupdates.com/series.html?id=53603), "The Garden of Words" (https://www.mangaupdates.com/series.html?id=92377), and "The Voices of a Distant Star (https://www.mangaupdates.com/series.html?id=4008)

[SkyMason21]

Thanks. Recently wrapped up Gundam: Origin and was pretty pleased overall (being my first manga). Think I'll try Vinland next. Also eyeing Planetes, Otherworld Barbara, and Nausicaa (trying to stay away from the 60+ volume mangas lol)....any thoughts?

I have Nauiscaa and I'm half way through the first hardcover. It's great so far (It's Hayao Miyazaki so of course it is lol). I did pick up Otherworld Barbara but I haven't started it yet. My hardcover manga are the books I take the longest time to finish lol. Just finished Emma HC vol. 4, and started JoJo's Bizarre Adventure- Phantom Blood vol. 2.

[Melchior]

Thanks. Recently wrapped up Gundam: Origin and was pretty pleased overall (being my first manga). Think I'll try Vinland next. Also eyeing Planetes, Otherworld Barbara, and Nausicaa (trying to stay away from the 60+ volume mangas lol)....any thoughts?

Nausicaa is great, and you should be able to find complete collections for reasonable prices.

PLANETES is fairly fun, and is slightly more realistic space story than Gundam. Less politics and other opera, more garbage-man-in-space.

[SkyMason21]

Some Amazon Fishin.

The first two volumes of "Showa Genroku Rakugo Shinju" (https://www.mangaupdates.com/series.html?id=52800) are up. Publisher is listed as Kodansha USA and they are $12.99 so its their larger format books (still annoyed they haven't give this format line a name or even mention that it would be a thing in the first place). Love what I've read of this series so far, glad it got picked up.



Volume 1 https://www.amazon.com/dp/1632364697...+Rakugo+Shinju
Volume 2 https://www.amazon.com/dp/1632364700...+Rakugo+Shinju

And the second Hardcover for Otherworld Barbara is up listed for August 15th 2017. https://www.amazon.com/Otherworld-Ba...n%3A7421485011

Official announcement of "Showa Genroku Rakugo Shinju http://www.animenewsnetwork.com/news...-manga/.109716

English title will be "Descending Stories: Shōwa Genroku Rakugo Shinjū" and will start in May 2017 releasing every 2 months. Series ended in June this year with it's 10th volume.

[SkyMason21]

Haul from September through November. 63 volumes (4 not pictured are Blame! vol 1, Wandering Son vol 1, Fruit Baskets vol 7, and Dragons Rioting vol 5), and started 13 new series.

Platinum End by Ohba & Obata was great. Feels similar to Death Note but seems like it will be more action focused and have a lot few battles of wit. Series runs monthly in Japan so Obata has more time for the art on each chapter and it shows. He's always one of the best but this is probably the best looking series he's done so far. In/Spectre (Author of "Record of a Fallen Vampire" and "Spiral: The Bonds of Reasoning") was easily my second favorite new series, first chapter is one of the best I've read all year. Fire Force (Author of Soul Eater) has a lot more mystery than action. There are fights but it's more focused on investigations and has a lot of good twists.
Welcome to the Ballroom is one of my favorite sports manga. I don't like many due to lack of realism (I can't stand Kuroko's Basketball) or characters completely new to sports dominating. Pacing is fantastic and I love the way the artist shows all of the dances. I've read other dancing manga before but I always felt like they lacked too much detail in the movements of the characters.

Also Viz finally started to fix the issue with the two-page spreads in One-Punch Man vol 9, its not perfect but they all look much better the the previous volumes.

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[AJpyro]

Haul from September through November. 63 volumes (4 not pictured are Blame! vol 1, Wandering Son vol 1, Fruit Baskets vol 7, and Dragons Rioting vol 5), and started 13 new series.

Platinum End by Ohba & Obata was great. Feels similar to Death Note but seems like it will be more action focused and have a lot few battles of wit. Series runs monthly in Japan so Obata has more time for the art on each chapter and it shows. He's always one of the best but this is probably the best looking series he's done so far. In/Spectre (Author of "Record of a Fallen Vampire" and "Spiral: The Bonds of Reasoning") was easily my second favorite new series, first chapter is one of the best I've read all year. Fire Force (Author of Soul Eater) has a lot more mystery than action. There are fights but it's more focused on investigations and has a lot of good twists.
Welcome to the Ballroom is one of my favorite sports manga. I don't like many due to lack of realism (I can't stand Kuroko's Basketball) or characters completely new to sports dominating. Pacing is fantastic and I love the way the artist shows all of the dances. I've read other dancing manga before but I always felt like they lacked too much detail in the movements of the characters.

Also Viz finally started to fix the issue with the two-page spreads in One-Punch Man vol 9, its not perfect but they all look much better the the previous volumes.

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High five on Fruit's Basket. That was the manga that got me into manga.

[SkyMason21]

High five on Fruit's Basket. That was the manga that got me into manga.

I never read Shoujo manga as a kid so I missed out on Fruit's Basket, completely get why everyone loved it now.

[SkyMason21]

Veritcal-inc announced the licensing of Makoto Shinkai and Tsubasa Yamaguchi's "She & Her Cat" https://www.mangaupdates.com/series.html?id=130537 via their December Newsletter.

"She & Her Cat" is a single volume release, and due in Summer 2017. Here is a little info Vertical included about the series in the newsletter:

Adapted in 2016 by Tsubasa Yamaguchi this manga retells Makoto Shinkai's first animated work by the same title. Shinkai released She & Her Cat as a seven-minute video on CD-Roms sold at small anime/manga events. It would go on to win DoGA's CG Anime Contest Grand Prix in 2000. The success of this self produced project would eventually catch the attention of a small animation studio and distributor Comix Wave, and it serves as a primer for what would become a seventeen plus year career in animation.

A tale of loneliness and discovery, She & Her Cat in some ways lays down the foundation for the World of Shinkai. Yamaguchi does a wonderful job not only retelling Shinkai's story, she also adds more visual depth and context to this tale of a single woman and her cat.

[SkyMason21]

Sevens Seas Entertainment is having another new licensing announcement week, and it seems to include a lot of retellings of classic manga series. Also if you pick up any of these you absolutely need to give Spirit Circle a shot, it is one of the best series I've ever read.

New Ongoing Licenses:

Spirit Circle by Satoshi Mizukami (Lucifer & the Biscuit Hammer) (http://sevenseasentertainment.tumblr...oshi-mizukamis)
Series is 6 volumes long, and the first volume will be released (with a new translation, lettering and multiple color pages) on October 10th, 2017 for $12.99.

Absolute Duo by Hiiragiboshi and Art by Nariie (http://sevenseasentertainment.tumblr...h-absolute-duo)
Series has 3 volumes in Japan but has been running since 2013 so I assume its been on hiatus for a while. First volume will be released on August 29th, 2017 for $12.99.

Hatsune Miku Presents: Hachune Miku’s Everyday Vocaloid Paradise (http://sevenseasentertainment.tumblr...h-hatsune-miku).
First volume will be released on October 17th, 2017 for $12.99.

Hatsune Miku: Bad∞End∞Night (http://sevenseasentertainment.tumblr...h-hatsune-miku)
Series is 3 volumes long and the first volume will be released in an oversize trim on May 2nd, 2017 for $13.99.

The Testament of Sister New Devil Storm! by Tetsuto Useu and art by Fumihiro Kiso (http://sevenseasentertainment.tumblr...-of-sister-new)
Series is 5 volumes long and the first volume will be released on September 26th, 2017 for $12.99.

Sleeping Beauty by Yumi Unita (Bunny Drops) (http://sevenseasentertainment.tumblr...th-yumi-unitas)
First volume will be released on November 21st, 2017 for $12.99.

Dragon Half (1988) by Ryusuke Mita (http://sevenseasentertainment.tumblr...gon-half-manga)

Seven Seas will present the Dragon Half manga for the first time in English in three deluxe omnibus editions that match the collects all seven of the original manga volumes, including bonus material and the special Dragon Half Z epilogue story. Each volume will contain over 350 pages, including more than twenty full-color illustrations and wraparound silver foil covers. Dragon Half Omnibus 1 will be released on December 26th, 2017 for $19.99.

Captain Harlock: Dimensional Voyage by Leiji Masumoto (Galaxy Express 999, Queen Emeraldas) and art by Kouichi Shimahoshi (http://sevenseasentertainment.tumblr...s-with-captain).
Retelling of Masumoto's 1977 series Captain Harlock, and currently has 5 volumes in Japan. First volume will be released on October 3rd, 2017 for $12.99.
Amazon Link (https://www.amazon.com/Captain-Harlo...n%3A7421484011)

Devilman G by Go Nagai and Art by Rui Takatou (http://sevenseasentertainment.tumblr...-nagai-and-rui)
Retelling of Go Nagai's 1972 series Devilman. Series is completed in Japan with 5 volumes. First volume will be released on October 17th, 2017 for $12.99.
Amazon Link (https://www.amazon.com/Devilman-G-Vo...n%3A7421484011)

Unmagical Girl by Ryuichi Yokoyama and Art by Manmaru Kamitsuki (http://sevenseasentertainment.tumblr...cal-girl-manga)
First volume will be released September 12th, 2017 for $12.99. Amazon Link (https://www.amazon.com/Unmagical-Gir...n%3A7421484011)

Magical Girl Special Ops Asuka by Makoto Fukami and Art by Seigo Tokiya (http://sevenseasentertainment.tumblr...e-magical-girl)
Series has 3 volumes out in Japan. First Volume will be released November 28th, 2017 for $12.99.

Alice & Zouroku by Tetsuya Imai (http://sevenseasentertainment.tumblr...-zouroku-manga)
Series has 7 volumes out in Japan. First volume will be released July 4th, 2017 for $12.99.

Single Volume Licenses:

Wadanohara and The Great Blue Sea (http://sevenseasentertainment.tumblr...nohara-and-the). Will be released on July 4th, 2017 for $15.99.

Cutie Honey a Go Go! by Go Nagai (Deviliman, Getter Robo, Mazinger Z) & Hideaki Anno with art by Itou Shinpei (http://sevenseasentertainment.tumblr...-honey-a-go-go)
Volume is based in the Cutie Honey Movie and some other OVA. Will be released on September 26th, 2017 for $15.99.
Amazon Link (https://www.amazon.com/Cutie-Honey-G...n%3A7421484011)

Count of Monte Cristo by Moriyama Ena (http://sevenseasentertainment.tumblr...count-of-monte)
Will be released as a single deluxe trim volume on December 19th, 2017 for $14.99.

[drd]

Has there been any information about the Ghost in the Shell deluxe editions due at the end of the month?
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Specifically things like, how big are the books? is it the censored version? Is it a limited print run? Do I need to preorder/worry about it going out of stock before I order?