SEAN: The end of March, and manga is presumably going out like a lamb. ASH: I’m not so sure about that… SEAN: From Yen On we get the one-shot Josee, the Tiger and the Fish (Joze to Tora to Sakanatachi), a short story collection which includes the title story, which has been made into a movie. For fans of Yen’s other one-shot novels that can be summed up as “beautiful but sad”. ASH: I’ve heard good things about this one. SEAN: Also from Yen On: Konosuba: God’s Blessing on This Wonderful World! TRPG, which turns the world of KonoSuba into a tabletop role playing game, and features the authors of KonoSuba and Re: Zero doing a playthrough of it. And we get The Greatest Demon Lord Is Reborn as a...
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