3/2/13

March 2013 Manga/Light Novel Releases

Hey there nettaversers! I'm going to do my utmost best to do this every month from now on. Doing manga and novel release series take a lot of work and research but I believe I have found a way to make this easier by working on this entries the month before after this March entry. The next one will actually be posted next week sometime and when I see new releases for the upcoming month I can just update the entry. Hopefully this will work much better than what I was doing before by posting during the last week of the month sometimes ending up being too late as some volumes do release earlier then the street dates. Also, I'm not going to post about every publisher as there are smaller ones... I'll do my best to get all the major ones (I will also not be posting ones that only publish one type of series. For example June who publishes yaoi comics and DokiDoki that publishes the same).

March 2013








 Type: Light Novel
 Format: Digital
 Story by: Yukito Ayatsuji 
 Release Date: March 2013
 Price: $6.99 (Barnes&Noble nook)
 Pages: 240
 
 Type: Manga
 Format: Paperback
 Art by: Yuuki Kodama
 Release Date: March 2013
 Price: $18.99US/$20.99CAN
 Pages: 352
 Rating: Older Teen
Type: Manga
Format: Paperback
Story by: Sherrilyn Kenyon
Art by: JiYoung Ahn
Release Date: March 2013
Price: $12.99US/$13.99CAN
Pages: 256
Rating: Older Teen


  Type: Manga
  Format: Paperback
  Story by: Ryohgo Narita
  Art by: Akiyo Satorigi
  Release Date: March 2013
  Price: $11.99US/$12.99CAN
  Pages:176
  Rating: Older Teen


  Type: Manga

  Format: Paperback
  Story by: Ryukishi07
  Art by: Hinase Momoyama
  Release Date: March 2013
  Price: $18.99US/$20.99CAN
  Rating: Older Teen




 Type: Manga
 Format: Paperback
 Art by: JinHo Ko
 Release Date: March 2013
 Price: $11.99US/$12.99CAN
 Rating: Older Teen

 


 Type: Manga
 Format: Paperback
 Art by: Atsushi Ohkubo
 Release Date: March 2013
 Price: $11.99US/$12.99CAN
 Rating: Older Teen

Type: Manga
Format: Paperback
Story by: James Patterson w/Jill Dembowsk
Art by: Svetlana Chmakova 
Release Date: March 2013
Price: $12.99US/$13.99CAN
Pages: 240
Rating: Teen







Type: Manga
Format: Paperback
Art by: Yuki Amemiya
Release Date: March 2013
Price: $19.99
Pages: 200
Rating: Teen


Type: Manga
Format: Paperback
Art by: Yuu Watase
Release Date: March 2013
Price: $9.99
Pages: 192
Rating: Teen

 

 Type: Manga
Format: Paperback
Story by: Tsugumi Ohba
Art By:  Takeshi Obata
Release Date: March 2013
Price: $9.99
Pages: 192
Rating: Teen



Type: Manga
Format: Paperback
Art by: Kouhei Horikoshi
Release Date: March 2013
Price: $9.99 ($4.99 digital)
Pages: 192
Rating: Teen


  
Type: Manga
Format: Paperback
Art by:  Mayu Shinjo
Release Date: March 5 2013
Price: $9.99
Pages: 192
Rating: Teen+


Type: Manga
Format: Paperback
Art by:  Hiromu Arakawa
Release Date: March 12 2013
Price: $14.99
Pages: 576
Rating: Teen
 

Type: Manga

Format: Paperback
Art by: Yuu Watase
Release Date: March 5 2013
Price: $9.99
Pages: 192
Rating: Teen+

 






Type: Manga

Format: Paperback
Art by: Naoki Urasawa
Release Date: March 19 2013
Price: $12.99
Pages: 200
Rating: Teen+



Type: Manga

Format: Paperback
Art by: Yoshiyuki Sadamoto
Release Date: March 12 2013
Price: $19.99
Pages: 576
Rating: Teen+



Type: Manga

Format: Paperback
Art by: Eiichiro Oda
Release Date: March 5 2013
Price: $9.99
Pages: 216
Rating: Teen
 

Type: Manga

Format: Paperback
Art by: Izumi Tsubaki
Release Date: March 5 2013
Price: $9.99
Pages:  200
Rating: Teen

 





Type: Manga

Format: Paperback
Art by: Toshiaki Iwashiro
Release Date: March 5 2013
Price: $9.99
Pages:  200
Rating: Teen






Type: Manga

Format: Paperback
Art by: Rumiko Takahashi
Release Date: March 12 2013
Price: $9.99
Pages: 192
Rating: Teen+



Type: Manga

Format: Paperback
Art by: Akihisa Ikeda
Release Date: March 5 2013
Price: $9.99
Pages: 208
Rating: Teen+
 


Type: Manga

Format: Paperback
Art by:Yoshiki Nakamura
Release Date: March 5 2013
Price: $9.99
Pages: 576
Rating: Teen+



Type: Manga

Format: Paperback
Art by: Io Sakisaka
Release Date: March 5 2013
Price: $9.99
Pages: 192
Rating: Teen
 

Type: Manga

Format: Paperback
Art by: Takehiko Inoue
Release Date: March 5 2013
Price: $9.95
Pages: 200
Rating: mature



Type: Manga

Format: Paperback
Art by:Matsuri Hino
Release Date: March 5 2013
Price: $9.99
Pages: 200
Rating: Teen+



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Type: Manga
Format: Paperback
Story by: QuinRose
Art by: Mamenosuke Fujimaru
Release Date: March 2013
Price: $9.99
Pages: 200
Rating: Teen+
  

Type: Manga
Format: Paperback
Story by: Hajime Asano
Art by: neet
Release Date: March 2013
Price: $9.99
Pages: 200
Rating: Teen+


[other manga releases are listed here]

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2/28/13

US cover for Sankarea Vol.1= "Guro"


I remember getting into manga during my 7th grade year of middle school. That was roughly 10 years ago (wow! I've been a full blown otaku for a decade now) when most manga released officially in English could be put into either the "shojo" or "shonen" category. Any sub-genres were rare or hard to find in bookstores (there were a few such as SaiKano). Now a days, stuff like Flowers of Evil, Oreimo and now Sankarea are very common and almost shadow the innocent manga that filled American shelves a few years ago. This is mainly thanks to the company Vertical who has been releasing a lot of the more mature, border-lining guro series- but now it seems Kodansha (who's best known for releasing Tsubasa and XXXholic) has jumped onto the guro train with the zombie love story Sankarea!

The English release of volume one is still a few months away (June 2013) but the cover has been released to some shock. This version is much more guro than the original Japanese cover. I haven't read any of this manga yet, so I can't make a judgement call on if the American cover is more accurate to the manga than the Japanese one... but based on what the series is about maybe the new cover will help is sell since America seems to LOVE ZOMBIES?

Anyways, the first volume will be avialable in June for $10.99.

[Source: Kodansha; Sankaku Complex]
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[AOW] Love Live! School Idol Project (2/24-3/2/2013)

Image copyright Sunrise

I have no real reason to feature this anime for AOW other than I've watched a few episodes and it screams "Idol M@ster x K-on!" to me which seems to be a mix that a lot of otaku like. 


Type: Manga adaptation/ Original
Genre(s): Comedy, Music
# of Episodes: 13
Synopsis:
 Their goal is simple: Become an overnight sensation and use their nationwide media exposure to promote their school and bring in a wave of new students to the ailing area. A simple but solid plan, they figure. Naturally, they're nervous and wonder if this plan can really succeed, but for better or worse their new journey has begun...

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