Bookshelf Overload: November 2014

Once again, November mostly brought preorders and a few review copies to my doorstep, but I also made a point of picking up some first volumes of older series that I’ve been meaning to try, like Pandora Hearts, Bakuman, and Oresama Teacher. As for the preorders I was particularly happy to see arrive, there was the penultimate volume of Blade of the Immortal by Hiroaki Samura, Kaoru Mori’s A Bride’s Story, Volume 6, and Takehiko Inoue’s Real, Volume 13. I also picked up a couple of alt-manga releases: Akino Kondoh’s Nothing Whatsoever All Out in the Open and Masahiko Matsumoto’s The Man Next Door. It was a good month for fans of Fumi Yoshinaga, too; both Ōoku: The Inner Chambers, Volume 10 and What Did You Eat Yesterday?, Volume 5 are now available. But the release that I was probably most excited about in November wasn’t actually even manga. The Early Cases of Akechi Kogoro by Edogawa Rampo, a collection of four stories featuring one of Rampo’s most famous characters, has been published by Kurodahan Press!

Manga!
Ani-Imo, Volume 1 by Haruko Kurumatani
Assassination Classroom, Volume 1 by Yusei Matsui
Attack on Titan: No Regrets, Volume 2 by Hikaru Suruga
Barakamon, Volume 1 by Satsuki Yoshino
Bakuman, Volumes 1-2 written by Tsugumi Ohba, illustrated by Takeshi Obata
Blade of the Immortal, Volume 30: Vigilance by Hiroaki Samura
A Bride’s Story, Volume 6 by Kaoru Mori
Clamp School Detectives, Volumes 1-3 by CLAMP
Devils and Realist, Volume 3 written by Madoka Takadono, illustrated by Utako Yukihiro
Food Wars!: Shokugeki no Soma, Volume 3 written by Yuto Tsukuda, illustrated by Shun Saeki
Gangsta, Volume 4 by Kohske
The Garden of Words written by Makoto Shinkai, illustrated by Midori Motohashi
Genshiken: Second Season, Volume 5 by Shimoku Kio
Love in Hell, Volume 1 by Reiji Suzumaru
Lucifer and the Biscuit Hammer, Omnibus 1 by Satoshi Mizukami
The Man Next Door by Masahiko Matsumoto
Manga Dogs, Volume 1 by Ema Toyama
Missions of Love, Volumes 8-9 by Ema Toyama
No Matter How I Look at It, It’s You Guys’ Fault I’m Not Popular!, Volume 5 by Nico Tanigawa
Nothing Whatsoever All Out in the Open by Akino Kondoh
Ōoku: The Inner Chambers, Volume 10 by Fumi Yoshinaga
Oresama Teacher, Volume 1 by Izumi Tsubaki
Pandora Hearts, Volume 1 by Jun Mochizuki
Prophecy, Part 1 by Tetsuya Tsutsui
President Momoi-Kun by Higashi Nishida
Real, Volume 13 by Takehiko Inoue
Sense and Sexuality by You Higashino
Showa: A History of Japan, 1944-1953 by Shigeru Mizuki
Tale of the Waning Moon, Volume 1 by Hyouta Fujiyama
Terra Formars, Volume 3 written by Yu Sasuga, illustrated by Ken-ichi Tachibana
Ubel Blatt, Omnibus 0 by Etorouji Shiono
Yukarism, Volume 1 by Chika Shiomi
What Did You Eat Yesterday?, Volume 5 by Fumi Yoshinaga

Manhwa!
Milkyway Hitchhiking, Omnibus 1 by Sirial

Comics!
Hotblood!: A Centaur in the Old West, Volume 2 by Toril Orlesky
Oglaf, Book Two by Doug Bayne and Trudy Cooper
Open Spaces and Closed Places, Parts 1-6 by saicoink
Outwards by Elephant Wendigo
The Tribute Album: An Authorized Less Than Epic Adventures of TJ & Amal Fan Artbook

Collections!
The Early Cases of Akechi Kogoro by Edogawa Rampo
Season of Infidelity: BDSM Tales from the Classic Master by Oniroku Dan


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