SEAN: It’s Hurricane Season! Are you being rocked? Are you being racially profiled and imprisoned? Or are you reading manga? Airship, in print, has the 5th Accomplishments of the Duke’s Daughter. And in early digital they have Mushoku Tensei: Jobless Reincarnation 17 and Reincarnated as a Dragon Hatchling 4. Ghost Ship gives us DARLING in the FRANXX Vol. 3-4 and Do You Like Big Girls? 4. J-Novel Club has new volumes. We get Ascendance of a Bookworm 19, Cooking with Wild Game 17, The Emperor’s Lady-in-Waiting Is Wanted as a Bride’s 4th manga volume, Reborn to Master the Blade: From Hero-King to Extraordinary Squire ♀ 5, and Slayers 14. ASH: I am so far behind, but yay Bookworm. SEAN: Kaiten Books has, this week, the 2nd Welcome to the Outcast’s...
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