Eccentric Cookiez

Between Comic Con and Anime Expo there’s been loads of new manga releases announced, I’m really excited about a lot of them so I decided to go through all the ones I’m at least a little bit interested in. It looks like my wallet will be crying for years to come

Broccoli Books

E’s by Satoru Yugia- I’ve heard a lot of really good things about this. I tried watching the anime but I didn’t like it too much but I’ll definitely try the manga out, the art does look really nice and sometimes that can be enough to get me to buy a whole series!

CMX

CMX announced a bunch of titles that I’ve never even heard of but some of them look interesting to me anyway…

Apothecaries Argentum by Tomomi Yamashita- I really love the way the art looks, the story seems different. I’ll definitely try and pick this one up.

Time Guardian by Daimurou Kishi and Tamao Ichinose- The art in this one looks nice and the story sounds interesting too. Sometimes I can’t help thinking that if separate people work on the art and story then both will be better developed so maybe it’ll be really good.

Dorothea and Variante both look nice but I’m not really sure if they’re quite my thing, I’ll take a look at them though.

DelRey

Kitchen Princess by Miyuki Kobayashi and Natsumi Andou- I don’t know anything about this at all but it looks kind of nice.

Mamotte! Lolipop by Michiyo Kikuta- The art looks like typical shoujo and the plot doesn’t sound like anything great but it still looks cute and I really want to try it out.

MUSHISHI by Yuki Urushibara- YAYAYAYAY WOOOO hehe I knew they would come out with it eventually but I’m happy they did now. I love Mushishi and I’m really looking forward to getting it… early 2007 isn’t TOO far away…

Shugo Chara by PEACH-PIT- I’ve never read anything by Peach-Pit and from what I’ve heard they’re really not that great but for some reason I’m still interested in this. I’m even more interested in Zombie Loan…

I’m also excited about the Tsubasa character guides, I’m so happy that they’re releasing them. The more Tsubasa goodness the better.

Go Comi

The Devil Within by Ryou Takagi- This one seems weird. I don’t know, I’m pretty sure I’ve read some yaoi from this mangaka and I don’t think I liked it very much. In the end I’ll probably end up getting it anyway!

Black Sun, Silver Moon by Tomo Maeda- I own the last book that came out from this mangaka (Beyond My Touch) a lot of people didn’t care for it but I liked it so I’m definitely getting this.

Both of these series are from Wings, if I could read Japanese I think Wings would be the phone book I would buy because I’ve liked almost everything I’ve read from it.

Tokyopop/BLU

Gakuen Heaven by You Higuri- Ugh I’m going to try with all my might not to buy this. I’ve managed to completely not watch the TV series. It’s just SO cheesy (I feel stupid calling a yaoi series cheesy, most yaoi is cheesy, but the thing is sometimes it’s the yummy type of cheese that I really love and can’t stop eating even though I know it’s bad for me but other times it’s the yucky type of cheese that I don’t even want to go near. Gakuen Heaven is yucky, yucky cheese.) But the power of You Higuri’s cute boys might compel me :’(

Shinsengumi Immon Peacemaker by Nanae Chrono- YES, I’ve been waiting for the first series and also the continuation of the second series and now it’s coming. I love the art and I love that the mangaka names the chapters after Beatles songs (if I’m remembering right) so I’m really looking forward to it.

Tactics by Sakura Kinoshita and Kazuko Higashiyama- Another series that ADV dropped that I love. The art is really nice (I even own the art book) and it seems pretty funny from what I’ve read so far. Hopefully TP will do a better job then ADV.

WILD ADAPTER by Kazuya Minakura- I think I’ve written about how happy this makes me before. When I started reading this all I could think of was “Why hasn’t Tokyopop licensed this yet?” I’m glad they’re publishing it under Tokyo Pop and not BLU because it does run in a BL magazine but I think it can appeal to people who don’t like yaoi at all and that people who are really in to yaoi (ok, ok rabid yaoi fangirls) might be a little put off because nothing happens in it (if you know what I mean ;-P). I hope Tokyopop looks in to licensing the alternate series as well (the Executive Committee one, which I really like because it’s lighter then WA and a more fun).

They announced quite a few series I’ve never heard of and am too lazy to look up, some of the cover art looked cute so I might be interested but I’ll wait until I’ve seen more information about them.

Viz

Gentleman’s Alliance by Arina Tanemura- This is another one I’m going to try not to get. I mean the art is really pretty but so far of what I’ve read I just don’t like Tanemura’s manga too much. It’s too sweet and cutesy for me, I never thought that would be possible but it is, and I don’t care much for the characters. It’s still on my interest though because of the art and who knows maybe I’ll like this one.

Gintama by Hideaki Sorachi- The anime can’t get subbed so I might as well read the manga. I think I tried reading the first chapter a while ago and didn’t care much for it, I’m willing to give it another chance though the anime is fun and the manga is usually better anyway.

Lovely Complex by Aya Nakahara- The cover art looks nice and almost everyone is saying it’s good and funny so I really want to read it.

Millenium Snow by Bisco Hatori- I’m not overly crazy about Hatori’s art style and the whole Host Club manga seems to busy and cramped but I still like it. So this should be pretty good too, I think it’s more serious then Host Club.

There are also a couple of other Shonen Jump series coming: Houshin Engi and Dragon Drive. I don’t really know too much about either but I like a lot of Shonen Jump series more then I should so I might take a look at them.

Other random manga news…

DrMaster says the next volume of Category Freaks is coming out in December, yay.

DMP says that J-Boy Anthology will only have one issue, this is kind of disappointing for me. I’ve never been too interested in yaoi from B-Boy because it seems to lean mostly on the yucky cheese side for me but I am interested in short stories (which I was assuming the anthology would be) and quite a lot of mangaka who I’m interested in have written short stories for Biblos, including Hinako Takanaga and Younezou D Yamada. I guess they also talked about the possibility of bringing more hardcore yaoi over, I’m not really in to that, but good for people who are…

Heh that was a really long entry… TOO long.