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The three pledged chapters of Alice Academy by Higuchi Tachibana-sensei turn up for their appointed appearance in HanaLaLa 25/2008, as do the two chapters of Mr. Ermine AKA Okojosan by Uno Ayumi-sensei. The front cover, as well as the bonus sticker for this edition of Elex Media’s monthly serialization of Hakusensha Hana to Yume and LaLa shōjo manga, is Nakamura Yoshiki-sensei’s Skip Beat!

Contrary to expectation, no new series has taken over and filled the gap left by the conclusion of EMURA-sensei’s Michibata no Tenshi or Roadside Angel. Likewise going against established precedents, there’s only one full-color title page: for chapter 25 of Bijo ga Yaju by Matsumoto Tomo-sensei.

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Beginnings, endings, and in-betweens this 29 April 2008 Level Comics release. And as seinen and shōnen demographics are not my forte, here’s the manga release list post-haste…

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As previously advised, Akino Matsuri-sensei’s horror fantasy manga Genjuu no Seiza starts while Nanaji Nagamu-sensei’s Parfait Tic! ends in April 2008. I’m ambivalent over the latter shōjo romance drama featuring the Fuuko, Ichi, and Daiya love triangle—which I’ve been religiously following since 2003—actually concluding, but there you go.

Another series starting is the third of Taiwanese manga-ka Selena Lin Qing Hui’s Agreement of the Glass Shoe trilogy. Bai Ye Meng Huan Qu AKA White Night Fantasia also premieres this coming 30 April 2008. It’s not all shōjo debuts, however. The first volume of the shōnen series Tokyo Deka or Cop in Tokyo by Suzuki Keiichi-sensei will also start tankōbon installment.

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I’m thinking m&c!’s anticipating that I buy manga at the end of the month will win the site poll, resulting in 14 manga releases for the last week of April—half of them new series and standalones. Of the seven, one is shōnen (Saikyou! Aoizaka Koukou Yakyuubu AKA Aoizaka High School Baseball Club by Tanaka Motoyuki-sensei), while the rest are shōjo (Cinderella wa Nemurenai; Hana no Namae; Itsuka, Kimi ga Ita; Tonari no Hijiri-kun) and the odd josei (Yayan no Kimochi).

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I guess it’s a good week if you’re a regular reader of the shōjo mangazine Cherry—the latest issue of this of Shogakukan Sho-Comi, Ciao, and Flower manga anthology (#23) is expected to release the week commencing 21 April 2008.*

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The (irregular) Chuang Yi manga release list returns! Yeah, yeah, I’m late again with the advisory, but I can’t not list, especially as the second volume of La Corda D’Oro is already out. Did I mention that I prefer the CY translations? Well, I do.

Of equal importance (for the pocket, for someone who still hasn’t gotten them) is the fact that there’s a price-off on the two volumes of Hatori Bisco-sensei’s Sennen no Yuki or A Thousand Years of Snow (2 for SGD 11.10) and a 3 for SGD 18.80 offer on the first three volumes of Beyond the Beyond (it would otherwise cost some SGD 7.90 per tankoubon.)

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After a really long absence, four popular shōjo manga-ka’s works reappear on the shelves: Obata Yuuki-sensei’s Bokura ga Ita (retitled Here we are, instead of the more usual We were there, for Indonesian distribution) continues with the much-awaited release of the 12th volume. We also get a standalone romance from Mizukami Wataru-sensei, a new paranormal series from Kawamura Mika-sensei, and the first of two volumes of Saito Chiho-sensei’s Koibitotachi no Basho.

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Save for Yoshimura Akemi-sensei’s Noraneko no Hanashi manga testing positive for XX chromosomes, it looks like another seinen/shōnen-dominated week next week, with the latest Indonesian release of Akamatsu Ken-sensei’s Negima! (volume 11) and these Level Comics manga over at the sunny side up anime blog.

I wanted to post this before the second episode aired but the Internet wouldn’t let me. *shrugs* Delayed or not, this first impressions, What about that Zero x Yuki bathroom scene? commentary on Vampire Knight anime episode one is GO!

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This Wednesday, we get the three new manga series you see in the post title plus a shōjo standalone—Love Etoile by Morioka Mari-sensei—from Elex Media.

According to Elex’s Monthly Book Reviews site, Love Etoile is a ballet story starring Asano Mayuko, who initially starts dancing on the insistence of her pushy mother. Per predictable, Asano eventually learns to love ballet so much that she dreams of becoming a professional ballerina. Seeing her senior, Tennoji, dance plays a significant part in her change of heart and Asano vows to Tennoji that one day, she will become his partner. This promise, though, seems destined to remain unfulfilled as Tennoji is involved in an accident and is no longer able to dance.

In addition to Love Etoile which is released under the Serial Cantik line and which pledges to be angsty, we also get second to the last installments of Ultra Panic, Saitoh Misaki-sensei’s BL comedy and Momoyuki Kotori-sensei’s How To Make A Prince or Ōjisama no Tsukuri Kata, serialized earlier in the Indonesian shōjo mangazine Nakayoshi Gress. And speaking of Nakayoshi, the third issue of its sister, one-shots anthology publication Nakayoshi Lovely (Sunflower) also streets the same day.

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