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 imprint, and by the author “616th Special Information Battalion”. Yes, that’s the real pen name. A college woman who plays a game as an evil character is now trapped in a very similar world… as said evil character. We also get Altina the Sword Princess 2 and Ascendance of A Bookworm 5. ASH: I need to catch up on Bookworm. Kodansha, in print, gives us Cells at Work! Code BLACK 3, I’m Standing on a Million Lives 5, Sailor Moon Eternal Edition 7, and The Seven Deadly Sins 36. In digital releases, the debut is MabuSasa (Mabuichi-kun to Sasagawa-san), which runs in...
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