SEAN: Is it Halloween yet? Still no. Yen On has The Angel Next Door Spoilers Me Rotten 4 and Baccano! 20. And Yen Press’s sole release is I’m a Behemoth, an S-Ranked Monster, but Mistaken for a Cat, I Live as an Elf Girl’s Pet 5. Viz Media’s debut is a one-shot horror manga from Junji Ito, Black Paradox. It ran in Big Comic Spirits. Four suicidal people meet up and have strange things befall them. MICHELLE: It is the perfect season for some Junji Ito! ASH: That it is! ANNA: Sounds quite spooky and depressing. SEAN: Viz also has a light novel, Demon Slayer: Kimetsu no Yaiba — The Flower of Happiness. It actually looks to be a short story collection. And we get a 7th volume of everyone’s...
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