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Manga the Week of 1/1/20
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Value Your Time
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Manga the Week of 1/11/23
SEAN: Manga is here for you whether it’s far too warm for January or far too cold. ASH: Far too warm and rainy here, at the moment. SEAN:…
Manga the Week of 1/27/21
SEAN: The end of January still has some choice titles coming out. Seven Seas has rolled out its Airship imprint, so given I separate Ghost Ship titles I…
Manga the Week of 1/19/22
SEAN: The third week of January brings many and varied things to help warm us up in these cold nights. Yen On has three debuts. Dragon and Ceremony…
Manga the Week of 4/1/20
SEAN: Let’s briefly talk turkey here. I try to do these lists about a week before the books come out. And given what’s going on over the world,…
Manga the Week of 6/1/22
SEAN: The beginning of June! (Or, OK, the end of May if you go by most of these release dates.) What do we get? Airship has new volumes.…
Manga the Week of 1/18/23
SEAN: Good news, Yen Press have finally decided to join 2023, and they have STUFF. ASH: I’m not sure that I’ve fully joined 2023 yet, so that’s one…
Bottom-Tier Character Tomozaki, GOBLIN SLAYER, High School DxD, Kekkaishi, Sabikui Bisco
Manga the Week of 5/1/24
SEAN: End of April, start of May, it's all the same to me. Just one straggler from Yen On: Once Upon a Witch's Death: The Tale of the…
Manga the Week of 1/8/20
SEAN: OK, now it’s actually January. You can tell as the Viz books are all pouring in. But first… J-Novel Club has a giant pile of things due…
Manga the Week of 3/1/23
SEAN: Technically March, but it's still February for most of our list. Yen On's sole release next week is Tezcatlipoca, a crime novel featuring a Mexican drug lord…
Manga the Week of 1/26/22
The last week of January brings us no manga whatsoever!… OK, I lie, there’s a lot. ASH: You almost had me there! SEAN: Airship, in print, has the…
Kuma Kuma Kuma Bear, She Professed Herself Pupil of the Wise Man, Berserk, Berserk, Keep Your Hands Off Eizouken!
Manga the Week of 1/15/20
SEAN: Remember when January was the smallest month of the year? No more! ASH: Ha! SEAN: Ghost Ship gives us a 14th volume of To-Love-Ru Darkness. J-Novel Club…
Manga the Week of 1/3/24
SEAN: It's a new year, and this is the year we surely keep up with all the manga... right? MICHELLE: Suuuuuuure. ASH: Uh, yeah! No problem! SEAN: We…
Manga the Week of 2/1/23
SEAN: It’s February 1st, but as readers of Manga the Week of know, that really means January. ASH: That it does. SEAN: It also means no Yen Press,…
Manga the Week of 1/24/24
SEAN: After waiting for Yen Press to show up this year, we are finally here. ASH: Hold on tight, folks! SEAN: No debuts for Yen On, but we…
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Manga the Week of 1/10/24
SEAN: The first 2024 manga list was a bit small. Will this week be any bigger? We start with Airship, which has the print debut of Easygoing Territory…
Berserk, Berserk, Berserk of Gluttony, Raven of the Inner Palace
Manga the Week of 1/22/20
SEAN: More January, More Manga. ASH: Huzzah! SEAN: J-Novel Club gives us another debut, Her Majesty’s Swarm (Joou Heika no Isekai Senryaku), again from Kodansha’s new Legend Novels…
Manga the Week of 1/13/21
SEAN: Next week is a very quiet week. I’ll take it! ASH: A chance to at least pretend I can catch up on my reading! SEAN: Cross Infinite…
Manga the Week of 7/1/20
SEAN: It’s the first of July! Or the last day of June, technically, as most books ship Tuesdays. As a result, this July 1st is more of a…
Manga the Week of 1/29/20
SEAN: The end of the month, and it’s time for lots and lots of stuff. What have we got? First of all, jumping to the front of the…
Manga the Week of 12/1/21
SEAN: If there’s turkey hog dogs and turkey burgers, is there turkey manga? ASH: I have no doubt. SEAN: Airship, in print, has Grimgar of Fantasy and Ash…
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Fluffy Paradise, Irina: The Vampire Cosmonaut, Mushoku Tensei: Jobless Reincarnation, She Professed Herself Pupil of the Wise Man
Manga the Week of 1/17/24
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Manga the Week of 1/20/21
SEAN: Well, that was a nice break this week, huh? Next week is back to a giant pile, I’m afraid. J-Novel Club has a quintet of light novels.…
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SEAN: Wake me when August ends or September begins, because this is technically manga from the last week of August. The theme for this week is “it got…
Manga the Week of 1/25/23
SEAN: The heavy part of January has passed us by, but there’s still lots of titles still to go. ASH: Woohoo! SEAN: No print for Airship this week,…
Manga the Week of 1/12/22
SEAN: 2022 is only just beginning and already the manga feels like it’s getting away from me. ASH: While I delight in the amount of manga being released,…
Manga the Week of 11/1/23
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Manga the Week of 1/6/21
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Manga the Week of 1/5/22
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