Travelling through shoujo manga wonderland, the non-mainstream fringes & josei manga/seinen manga territories. Eyes always open to everything in its periphery.
In the new Bonita series Tensei shitara Pink Dragon by Hamada Shōko (Dark Hunter), average high school student & daydreamer Asako dies in a car accident after trying to save something lizard-like, a dragon so grateful that it brings her back to life - in the body of a dragon 🐉
Time to wake up from our Golden Week slumber. The June cover of Mystery Bonita features Ten no Shinwa Chi no Eien Crown Gall by shoujo manga veteran Akaishi Michiyo. Her 2 other current works: Memokuramu (in Flowers) & Kamakura Keshiya Yami-emaki (in Ane Petit, both Shogakukan).
In Monet no Kitchen (La cuisine de Monet) by Nishiura Some art meets French cuisine in the most delicious way 🎨🥘 The short manga series follows Claude Monet, a struggling painter in his early 30s, on his hunt for mouth-watering delicacies - usually prepared by his wife Camille.
... to contemporary Japan with Asada Nikki’s new series “Ano kane o narasu no wa sukunakutomo omae janai” and Aikawa Saki’s gender switch romcom Tsukikage Moratorium...
Time travel once around the globe with the June issue of Princess: from the ancient Eastern Mediterranean world of Hosokawa Chieko’s Ōke no Monshō, to China's imperial court in Matsurika Kanriden, Takase Waka’s manga adaptation of Ishida Rinne’s LN series (vol. 1 out May 16)...
Nao from Andō Natsumi’s Watashitachi wa douka shiteriru has prepared a special wagashi creation for the June cover of josei manga magazine Be Love. Vol. 9 is out now. 3 new series start in this BL issue: Suishō no Hibiki by Saitō Rin, Yūtaimon by Shōji Yōko & H/P by Morino Aki.
The June issue of Kodansha's Nakayoshi features Miasa Rin’s Sheik-sama to Harem de on the cover (vol. 2 in stores May 13). Its lineup also includes new series Sei-kun wa Koi o Wasureteru, a “first love revenge story” by Amazato Sugar plus CLAMP's Cardcaptor Sakura Clear Card-hen.
Hello Reiwa ✨ It's officially May 1st in Japan and the new era brings us new magazines, despite the long Golden Week. New tiny love witch series Mero to Koi no Mahō by Shinozuka Hiromu starts in the June issue of Ciao. The last volume of Shinozuka's PriPri Chi-chan!! is out now.
3 editions of Tenshi Nanka Ja Nai have been published so far: the regular 8-vol. Ribon Mascot Comics tankōbon ed., the beautiful 4-vol. Complete Edition and the small & simple 6-vol. bunko edition. A super cute artbook with tons of illustrations from 1994 also exists 👼❌
Volumes 1, 2, 3 will be in stores June 25, vols. 4+5 on July 25 (~800 yen each). TenNai ran in Ribon magazine from 1991-1994. The bittersweet love story between Midori and Akira quickly became a shoujo classic, elevating Yazawa Ai's status to one of shoujo manga’s biggest names.