This week brings new volumes of Sailor Moon, Fairy Tail, and some lesser known but still solid manga.
Kodansha has volume 3 of Sailor Moon for us this week, and they plan to release a new volume every two months until the series is complete. Just in time for this week's release, Erin Elizabeth Fraser has a comprehensive article on Sailor Moon at Sequential Tart that takes a look at this new edition compared to Tokyopop's earlier version and puts Sailor Moon into historical context. It's a great read, especially for those new to the series.
Kodansha also has new volumes in three other series this week. A good pick for shoujo fans is Vol. 6 of Arisa a high-school mystery series by Kitchen Princess creator Natsumi Ando. The series is eight volumes long, so this volume brings the story closer to its conclusion. Also on the list this week are new volumes of two series by Hiro Mashima: vol. 17 of Fairy Tail, his cheery adventure series, and vol. 4 of Monster Hunter Orage, which is based on the Monster Hunter game.
Viz has three new releases from its SigIKKI line. My pick would be vol. 5 of Afterschool Charisma, a series about a school in which all the students are clones of famous people. It's a clever idea, and it's funny to see Freud as a teenage boy and Florence Nightingale as a girl clad in a quasi-Victorian black bikini with ruffles. This volume focuses on the clone of Adolf Hitler, who is striving to be a better artist than the original (although one wonders why anyone would bother cloning Hitler—sorry, I shouldn't introduce logic into a discussion of a book like this). Even if you haven't been following the series, the story is pretty easy to pick up in this volume, and there are some clever plot twists as the clone of one of the main characters arrives at the school, and everyone is confused. Also new from Viz this week: Vol. 5 of Bokurano: Ours and vol. 8 of Jormungand.
If you're in the mood for yaoi, Digital Manga has vol. 3 of Bad Teacher's Equation in print and a one-shot, Gentleman's Agreement Between a Rabbit and a Wolf, which is available digitally via emanga.com.
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