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Also in the new year's issue of Feel Young (# 1/2019): new chapter (plus full-color pages) of Yamashita Tomoko's Ikoku Nikki which I'm expecting to rank very high on end-of-the-year (josei-oriented) manga lists ⬆️💯 It'll also be on the cover of next month's Feel Young!

After girl-meets-middle-aged-yakuza series Sennetsu, Noda Ayako’s new seinen manga project Double will focus on 2 ambitious actors. It'll be released on Monthly Hero’s new web platform Flat Hero’s from Jan 11. Don't miss Noda’s genius metafictional Watashi no Uchū (avail. in 🇫🇷)!

- pander - at least partly - to the male gaze
- use eating or “devouring” as a sexual metaphor but *seem* to subvert it by a) being ambiguous about who will be the one devouring and the one being devoured or b) the titular "predator" girl being determined to devour the boy

In addition to Shortcake Cake in Shueisha's Margaret & Hoshokukei Heroine at Square Enix's Gangan Online, Morishita suu are set to work on a 3rd series, in Kodansha's Nakayoshi. "Wakamen ~The Mineral Boys~" will take its readers to a "secret utopia" at the bottom of the sea 🐚

"He will be Eaten within a Year by Predations Heroine" - what a mouthful! Morishita suu's slice of life food-themed shōnen series about constantly hungry moon girl Kagen and Taiyō, the earthling she's determined to eat one day, is available online: https://t.co/OrcMM2Mtpf

Nakayoshi. Home of pure-hearted shōjo manga for young girls, like its eternal classic Cardcaptor Sakura. But also of works by Toriumi Pedoro (😏) with highly suggestive artwork 🌡️ Problematic? Probably, but Kurohyō to Jūrokusai is in its 4th year, volume 10 comes out on Dec 13.

Mochida Aki's Hajimete Koi o Shita Hi ni Yomu Hanashi is on the cover of Cookie to promote the start of its TV drama adaptation starring Fukada Kyōko in January. And shoujo manga classic Tokimeki Tonight is back for a 2-part story, in this Cookie issue & the next (out Jan 26).

Excited about the Creamy Mami spin-off by BL & shoujo manga artist Mitsuki Emi, starting on Coamix’s web manga site Comic tatan on Dec 21! "Mahou no Tenshi Creamy Mami - Fukigen na Ohime-sama" will focus on idol singer Megumi who’s jealous of junior idol Mami’s success 🎤🎶

Konari Misato's other current series, josei love comedy Nagi no O'itoma (Nagi's Long Vacation), is running in Elegance Eve. It was on the shortlist for this year's Manga Taishō, received the anan Manga Award & has already sold more than 1 million copies, with 4 vols. out so far.

Popular shoujo manga artists sometimes have their works published in fashion magazines: Yazawa Ai’s Paradise Kiss & Ikuemi Ryô’s Cousin both ran in Zipper. A new series by josei manga heavyweight Konari Misato, Fuyū Kyōshitsu no Ato, just started - in fashion/culture mag Maybe!.