SEAN: As June continues, what varieties of manga do we see before us? Yen On debuts Your Forma, a sci-fi detective story that asks the question: what if getting 5G wireless injected into you from a vaccine was actually real? and it spied on your every sense? This could be very good or very bad, and I suspect that depends entirely on the politics of the writer. ASH: Hmmm. The genre certainly appeals to me, but I suspect you’re right. ANNA: Yeah, going to skip this one and I’m generally in favor of sci-fi goofiness. MELINDA: I feel a little “yikes” on this one. SEAN: Also from Yen On: The Eminence in Shadow 4 and Sword Art Online Progressive 8. Yen Press, meanwhile, has new manga volumes. Adachi and Shimamura...
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