Summer Manga – at least what wasn’t lost in the mail

I ordered some manga at the end of June, intending to have a great end to summer reading before I return to the lovely 50+ hour work weeks. Despite receiving some books weeks ago, I haven’t posted anything yet because others never showed up.

After over ten years and hundreds of packages, I have my first lost box. It was a large order, containing almost 50 books. Honto’s packing slip and box numbering suggested they did their part. The books were packaged in three boxes, but only two showed up. A box containing 25 books has yet to show, 3 weeks after the others arrived. Yup, gone. It just had to be the biggest box too. It’s hard to believe it costs that much for the post office to lose my shit anyway. Wherever it ended up, I hope they enjoyed the dirty man porn. MY dirty man porn. That volume from Kamuro Akira/Takao Hiroi is high quality.

So here’s what made it:

• Hirunaka no Ryuusei 3
• Heroine Shikakku 7 – no Rita on the cover, small victory
• Pin to Kona 7 – been impatiently waiting for this one
• Taiyou no Ie 6 – also this one
• Clover no Kuni no Alice – Kishi no Kokoroe 2
• Saiyuki Reload Blast 1 – Minekura!! Artbooks at end of July!
• Seishun Trickers – Mizuno Minami manga that I’m missing
• Ilegenes – Giyoku no Koukyoukyoku 2
• Ikumen Father – A father story. I’m trying to give Kodaka Kazumi another go–got this new work and her classic Kizuna. This one was nice–didn’t blow me away and stuck to the formula fairly closely, but I didn’t hate it either.
• Ikumen datte Koi Shimasu – Another daddy story. The new Mishima Kazuhiko. It was decent.
• Ore wo Aishitemo Iindaze? 1 – oops, already filed away in the shelves and omitted from pic.
  
• Yuujin ga Yuusha
• El Halcon Perfect Edition – freakishly expensive, but almost 800 pages long. I was hoping for more color pages at that price.
• Shitsuren Chocolatier 3
• Matantei Loki Ragnarok – Shin Sekai no Kamigami 1
• Suppli 6-10, extra – wish these were in English like 1-5.
• Nokemono to Hanayome 3 – I don’t know what’s going on, but I keep getting it anyway
• Litteraire by Hatoyama Ikuko – a rare artbook purchase, but I couldn’t help myself waiting for Yukishiro, Barabeni which wasn’t released in time for the first order. It’s not that expensive if you consider the prices of her manga.

Favorite illustration with The Sorrows of Young Werther

Close second with The Catcher in the Rye

Comparison to illustrate the freakish size of El Halcon

A moment of silence/rage/whatever for those who were lost. I’m trying to decide which of these listed below I want to rebuy when I go for the next round of Feel Young tanks (all three look delicious). Knowing you paid for something twice lessens the appeal considerably. I might add some of the borderline ones to future orders.

• Cubism Love 2 – replaced already
• Renai Switch – replaced already
• Mahoutsukai no Neko 4 – will rebuy
• Joker no Kuni no Alice – Circus to Usotsuki Game 3 – will rebuy sometime since it’s a continuing series
  
• Hanazono Fantasica 1 – will rebuy, dem legs
  
• Saihate Keisatsu 1 – not sure
  
• Honey Sweet Kitchen 1 – probably not
  
• Suzuki-san no Oshigoto – probably not
• Hakkenden 11 reprint – I’ll rebuy, but that will technically be the third time for Vol 11
• Furachi na Kyouken no Tenazukekata – hmm.. oyaji will likely save this one from the axe
  
• Otonarisama – I really want this one again–cute oyaji on cover
• Gossho ni Ore mo Ikaga Desu ka? – maybe? if I can retain the taste for fathers/crack
  
• Honjitsu mo Jougai Rantou – not sure
  
• Himitsu ga Hanazono – not sure
• Hito wa Sore wo Koi to Yobu – probably not
  
• Mobile Sweet Honey – will rebuy
  
• Orange Days – not sure
  
• Fushigi no Kuni de Aishiyou – not sure
  
• Shinseigokumon – will rebuy
  
• Gives – at some point
  
• Tightrope – at some point
  
• Wakaba no – Shounenki – Probably not. I remembered I thought the writing of Seven Days was boring.
  
• Ore no Kokoro ni Fumikomuna! – will rebuy
  
• Dakaretai Otoko – will rebuy
  
• Torch Song Ecology 1 – will rebuy
  

Since I needed actual manga to read before the summer ends soon, I did another order and paid more for it to arrive this time.

• Cubism Love 2
• Renai Switch – oyaji love > the price for rebuying it
• Negaigoto wa Hidamari de – oyaji love > my hate for Lynx manga
• Yukishiro, Barabeni – expensive, but I wanted to try a manga from her and an endorsement from Nakamura Asumiko was all I needed
• Kozure Ookami
• Ookami no Ketsuzoku
• Tsurugi to Kiri
• Kirara no Hoshi 6
• 500-Nen no Itonami
• Yuri Danshi 2
• Tig-Hig Planet
• Loveless Limited Edition 11 – seeing ugly Seimei just enrages me.. why do I keep buying this? Oh yeah, because I have all the other limited editions.. stupid book hoarding tendencies.
• Light Novel 4 – She finished it! Now I need to sometime.
• Shiina-kun no Torikemo Hyakka 3
• Shitsuji ni Kokkyou Nante 2
• Yoshida Kyoudai Monogatari
• Kujaku no Kyoushitsu 1
• Love Kare – over 20 – I wanted to sample some Dessert manga and this is a good sampler itself
• Love Kare – under 20 – the under 20’s guys look the same as the over 20’s guys. Oh, shoujo manga!
  
• “Sensei, Oshiete.” – random shoujo student/teacher smut from Dessert, yay
• “Sensei, Oshiete.” – Zenbu, Shiritai

Yukishiro, Barabeni has book porn in it

and Negaigoto wa Hidamari de has old man sex in it. Score!

I’ve had English translated manga pile up over this past month as well.

• Kizuna 1-6 – I wanted to read a longer, classic BL series and decided to give Kizuna another go after who knows how many years. Yes, there’s two copies of volume 2–I bought them from akadot and they sent me a duplicate and left out vol 3. I pointed it out and they sent me a copy immediately. They fixed it, so no hurt feelings and I’ve already picked up Ze 1-2 from them. I bought these from a few different places to get the best prices on them. Well discounted, translated manga can be cheaper than raw+shipping these days.. scary how the times have changed.
• Gate 1-2 – amazon had them for $5.50 each–good for staring at my Subaru clone, bad for exposition hell.
• X 3 reprint – I like torturing myself by reliving my CLAMP heartbreaks. These are nice releases at least. I’m postponing my reread of Tokyo Babylon for Dark Horse re-release as well.
• Three Wolves Mountain – I wanted to try out a  SuBLime print release. Nicely done.
• Punch Up! 1 – held off buying raw once I heard it was licensed. Again, nice quality. I’ll be watching their releases for more stuff I didn’t grab raw.
• Secretary’s Love – cheap Akiba Touko to make up for the pile that was lost.
  
• House of Five Leaves 7 – almost done with the series!
  
• Hetalia 3 – surprise announcement, but I’ll take it. Reading this raw is harder for me due to the language and lettering.
  
• Ooku 7
• Sailor Moon 6
• In These Words – Seeing GuiltPleasure on the cover of BexBoy and a ~50% discount on amazon was enough to convince me. It was a good buy. I want to know what’s going on within the story. There’s lots of gorgeous color pages in this book. I went in with zero knowledge, so of course my favorite illustration ended being of an accused rapist and serial killer.

I still kinda want the print of it. I have a thing for oranges and browns.

Couple of stragglers after that pic:

• Ze 1-2 – I only found the first two volumes below MSRP. It’s been a long time since I read it, but the BL fantasy itch is making me want to revisit and maybe finish the series. I didn’t get far the first time.
• Tale of the Waning Moon 1-2 – in English for cheap, nice
• Yamada Sansuke no Muda na Teikou wa Yamemasho – Random bara manga on akadot? Nice cover, I’m in.

Geez, that’s what I get for letting it pile up for a month during the summer. I’ve made a good dent already, but still have a lot left to read.