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Kuko on her way through Europe 🍒 After Italy (Star Comics) & France (Akata), Carlsen is bringing Nanaji Nagamu’s Aruitou/Moving Forward to Germany. This brilliant shoujo manga series about independence, overcoming trauma through creativity and love ofc starts this December!

Blue is the color of the fresh spring breeze blowing through the May issue of Betsuma which features the start of 3 new series: Meguro Amu’s Hinata no Blue, Yuki Nojin’s Futsuu na Bokura no and young talent Shionami Nodoka’s Rin-chan wa Gaman Dekinai 🌬️🔹

Coming with the June issue of Betsucomi, to go on sale May 13th: a special 100-page booklet with Kiachi Machi’s shoujo manga adaptation of Yuasa Masaaki’s upcoming anime Kimi to, Nami ni Noretara (opening June 21) 🌊

Kodansha's Betsufure May cover is letting the sunshine in with Mikimoto Rin's girl meets hot ex-idol actor series Gozen Reiji, Kiss Shi ni Kite yo (Kiss Me at the Stroke of Midnight) which is getting a live-action movie adaptation! 🎉🌼 Volume 10 of the manga is out today.

Only one more week until April 10, the Iwamoto Nao double release day for her 15th pro anniversary! Kokon Tōzai Shigotoshū, a 224-pg collection of rare works, will include 4 exclusive one-shots, comic essay(s), color illustrations (incl. Spiritual Princess), sketches & more.

Ribon keeps it surprisingly dark (but sweet🍓) on its May cover with hit series Honey Lemon Soda by Murata Mayu. Himitsu no Meteor by young talent Koishi Riku starts in this issue. Koi bakkari no sekai de by Yuzuhara Mizuka (Rainbow Revolution) ends, last vol. (#3) coming May 24.

Notoyama Keiko’s new fantasy series Kiseki no Loreley is featured on the May cover of Ciao. Kise hasn't been going to school for some reason. When she tries to rescue a stranded whale with a boy from her school, she's forced to reveal her secret linking her with siren Loreley 🎶

3 new series will start in the June issue of BE LOVE, out May 1:
1: Suishō no Hibiki by Saitō Rin which is based on the life of violinist wunderkind Shikimachi Mizuki who was diagnosed with Cerebral Palsy but started playing the violin as part of his rehabilitation 🎻🎶

Seeing double or is this just a déjà vu? 👀 BE LOVE’s May issue is out now! Its cover twin, volume 41 of Suetsugu Yuki’s Chihayafuru, came out on March 13. So did the Official Chihayafuru Comic Guide with interviews, character profiles, story guide + a double-sided color poster.

Eban Fumi's Blue Friend is another yuri manga which ran in Ribon, a magazine for young girls, a decade after Himitsu no Hanazono. The 2 titles might seem quite different aesthetically but they can't deny their shoujo manga background. 3 vols, 2010-11; out in German from TokyoPop.