Diaさんのイラストまとめ

Hana Yume Ai features big names with a (Betsu) Hana to Yume past, such as HanaKimi’s Nakajō Hisaya, Takao Shigeru, Kuse Banko, Yamada Nampei, Tanaka Meca... It'll be interesting to see if they'll establish a system for debuting young manga talents like the conventional magazines.

Ono Natsume's new comic essay collection centers on the joys of food. “Dokoka de dareka mo tabeteiru” gathers mouth-watering & heart-warming vignettes about supermarket yogurt, the bakery bread after a long workday, steamed pumpkin on a winter day, manjū at the hot spring... 🥖🍲

Like Sanju Mariko, Yuria-sensei no Akai Ito is another great title with an older protag. from Kodansha’s josei mag BE LOVE. I love Yuria, she’s super tough bc her father taught her to be responsible & never leave things unfinished. The human interactions in this manga are A+++

The hands-on protagonist of Irie Kiwa’s Yuria-sensei no Akai Ito is no longer 20, nor is she 80 yet. 50-year-old Yuria is a former ballerina and now teaches embroidery. But when her husband falls into a coma, she finds out he was having an affair - with a young & attractive man!

It’s never too late to restart your life, not even when you’re an 80-y.o. novelist! That’s what the energetic heroine of Ozawa Yuki’s award-winning Sanju Mariko teaches us when she stops living with her family, finds new friends & launches a web magazine. Comic vol. 8 is out now!

The Complete Hozumi by Milky Way in Spanish:
- La víspera de la boda (Shiki no Zenjitsu), debut one-shot collection
- Sayonara, Sorcier. About Theo and Vincent van Gogh, an absolute MUST READ. (🇫🇷 Les Deux Van Gogh, Glénat)
- La posada de los objetos perdidos (Usemono no Yado)

Meanwhile, in Spain. Milky Way Ediciones have licensed Boku no Giovanni by Hozumi, master of nostalgia & one of Flowers magazine’s greatest young talents. This is a dramatic josei manga series about the friendship and rivalry between two cello players with 3 volumes out so far 🎶

But I did love Meguro Amu's Honey (So Sweet)! Disarmingly cute and innocent, the perfect romance shoujo manga to enjoy under a warm blanket when the weather is horrible! 8 volumes, transl. available by Viz, Soleil, Star Comics... It also got a movie adaptation earlier this year🍯

Meguro Amu's Te o tsunagou yo/Let's Hold Hands ends its run in this month's Betsuma. The last comic volume of the series (# 8) will hit stores on December 25. The color illustrations for it were always really sweet but I never really warmed up to the series as a whole tbh...

Rio & Kazuomi from Sakisaka Io's FuriFura are on the festive cover of Betsuma's Dec issue. Masuda Riho contributed a one-shot to the extra book coming with the mag. She also drew the cover for it. Happy to see one of my favorite young shoujo manga artists is finally back! 🏪🌟