Zettai Heiwa Daisakusen © Ogura Akane/Hakusensha [Serialized in LaLa DX]
Published in Indonesia as Absolute Peace Strategy by Elex Media
I will get to Pandora Hearts 12 (and Spiral 10, Wild Life 11 plus the other premieres) in a bit. Johanne-sama and Euda-sama (above) won't wait.
Fighting breaks out between the kingdoms of Meteora to the north and Cannan to the south. But Meteora's war hero, Prince Johanne, and Cannan's Florence Nightingale, Princess Euda, fall in love with one another and prevail upon their sovereigns to end the conflict. Peace finally reigns over the two kingdoms, now awaiting the wedding of Prince Johanne and Princess Euda. The End.
NOT!
Apparently, Johanne and Euda are in cahoots guarding The Secret to the fragile peace.
MUST-HAVE!
To find out what the “lovebirds” are hiding, GET! Absolute Peace Strategy 1. If you lurve Rome×Juli-esque (bickering) romances, you won't regret investing in this four-volume confection. Cute Couple
prolly best describes our protagonists: the Johanne × Euda combi is one of the keeyootest in the manga biz, and that's saying a lot, especially in a genre strong with pinchables. And aside from blond bishieness, Johanne-sama can open up a serious can of whoop-ass,
while Euda-sama, who normally resembles a weather paper doll
, provides the LOLarious comic relief.
Absolute Peace Strategy 1 compiles chapters 1 through 4 and the omake When They were Young.
You might already know creator Ogura Akane-sensei from Mademoiselle Butterfly, the two-volume Geisha, Live-in Lover, Older Male Younger Female
-troped shoujo manga released by m&c!.
Pandora Hearts 12 of 13+ by Mochizuki Jun
To give Oz a break from the relentless hunt for the seal, Oscar Vessalius invites his nephew and Oz's close friends to a tea party (that hopefully won't have the party-goers stuck at 6:00 forever nor require answering unanswerable riddles like Why is a raven like a writing desk?
). As Oz sips his tea on this Unbirthday, he cherishes only one wish: that these peaceful days continue... forever.
Pandora Hearts 12 Retraces XLVI through XLIX: Persona,
Unbirthday,
Isla=Yura
and Night in gale.
(NOT Elex's titles.)
NEW ELEX SERIES
Year-end debuts include the Hakusensha shoujo trifecta Absolute Peace Strategy already blurbed above, The Recipe For Gertrude by Kusakawa Nari and Welcome to Host Detective Agency by Tateno Makoto. On the kodomo and shounen side, there's Dodge Fighters, the Japan Dodge Ball Association-approved Ganbare! Dodgeball Fighters manga from Murakami Toshiya & Saito Muneo and the Demons, Summoned creatures
-troped Traumeister by Nakayama Atsushi that should've premiered months ago. All completed series. (Aren't you glad?)
Per usual, only training the spotlight on one newbie here — half of the pair that garnered the most LXO interest. (The other was Absolute Peace Strategy.)
Welcome to Host Detective Agency 1 of 5 by Tateno Makoto
Host-tan e Youkoso
© Tateno Makoto/Hakusensha
[Bessatsu Hana to Yume]
Published in Indonesia as
Welcome to Host Detective Agency
by Elex Media
Ever since he was a kid, Kobayashi has dreamed of becoming a detective — cracking mysteries and running down thieves while he's at it. So, he's understandably over the moon when he is accepted into a detective agency and meets the burning with tantei passion manager Akechi, I mean, Aketomo, a deduction paragon Kobayashi can look up to.
The same idol, however, bursts Kobayashi's euphoria bubble when he tells the newest employee of the agency's side business (because simple detecting can't pay all the bills). The detectives by day become Lady Killers
(hosts) by night! [Additional info from Twee Quidam Scans]
Despite Tateno Makoto-sensei's fame as a yaoi manga-ka (Yellow, anyone?), she does dabble into non-fujoshi offerings, one of which is this tantei meets hosuto and Host-Tan
hilarity ensues and the gender-bending Cute Guy (also released by Elex). To say that Welcome to Host Detective Agency is fujo-unfriendly, however, would be stretching it; BL sparks start flying from the get-go between newbie Kobayashi (host alias: Shinobu-kun) and ex-rookie and third most wanted host Rindo. (The other Lady Killer hosts are Aketomo, the legendary #1 host in Shinjuku, and hosts #2, 3 and 5 — Shiranui, Akane and Shigure.)
The first order of the day is solving the mystery of a host club customer's message ring, but there are three more Orders (chapters) in volume 1.
MANGAZINES: Shonen Star 78/2010 ☆ Detektif Conan by Aoyama Gosho
Meitantei Conan
© Aoyama Gosho
Shogakukan [Shonen Sunday]
Phantom Thief Kid is back! This time, Jirokichi-ojisan, Sonoko's eccentric uncle, lays a trap for Kid that leads to another showdown between Conan and the high-profile kaitou.
Aoyama Gosho's Detektif Conan rates the Shonen Star 78 front cover. The rest of the the ShoStar pack follow: Dr. Koto by Yamada Takatoshi, Inuyasha by Takahashi Rumiko, Kekkaishi by Tanabe Yellow, Magical Iroha by Inoue Kazurou, Defense Devil by Youn InWan & Yang KyungIl, Yakitate!! Japan by Hashiguchi Takashi, D-LIVE!! by Minagawa Ryouji, Katsu! by Adachi Mitsuru, My First Mr. Akuno by Fujiki Syun, Takkoku!!! by Fukuchi Tsubasa and Wild Life by Fujisaki Masato (volume 11 also streets 12.29).
Elex Media manga and manhwa (2010.12.29)
Release links are hide/unhide. Click for more details and cover scans.
- [Series Premiere] Absolute Peace Strategy (Zettai Heiwa Daisakusen) 1 of 4 by Ogura Akane
- Animal Doctor (Doubutsu no Oishasan) 5 of 12 by Sasaki Noriko
- [Series Premiere] Dodge Fighters (Ganbare! Dodgeball Fighters) 1 of 10 by Murakami Toshiya & Saito Muneo
- Kisah Edo di Abad 21 (Chotto Edo Made) 2 of 4+ by Tsuda Masami
- Legend of Nereid 12 of 15 by Hwang MiRee
- LUM, The Invader Girl (Urusei Yatsura) 27 of 34 by Takahashi Rumiko
- Pandora Hearts 12 of 13+ by Mochizuki Jun
- Pokonyan Pika-pika (Pokonyan) 3 of 3 by Fujiko F. Fujio [Finale]
- [Series Premiere] The Recipe For Gertrude (Gertrude no Recipe) 1 of 5 by Kusakawa Nari
- Spiral: The Bonds of Reason (Spiral: Suiri no Kizuna) 10 of 15 by Shirodaira Kyo & Mizuno Eita
- Summer Storm! (Natsu no Arashi!) 6 of 8 by Kobayashi Jin
- [Series Premiere] Traumeister 1 of 5 by Nakayama Atsushi
- [Series Premiere] Welcome to Host Detective Agency (Host-tan e Youkoso) 1 of 5 by Tateno Makoto
- Wild Life 11 of 27 by Fujisaki Masato
 | Doubutsu no Oishasan 「動物のお医者さん」 |
Other languages
Traditional Chinese Ai Xin Dong Wu Yi Yuan (Tong Li Taiwan; 12 volumes)
 | Ganbare! Dodgeball Fighters |
Volume 1 chapters:
1. 転校生はスーパーアタッカー!!
2. エースＶＳエース!!力の対決
3. たのもしいチームメイト
4. ファイターズ絶体絶命!?
5. 本気で勝負!!女同士の戦い
6. 華麗なミラクルキャッチ
7. こしぬけなんて言わせない!!
8. サルとカニの必殺シュート!!
9. 暴走する熱意
10. オレたちのドッジボール
11. 新生!!ドッジファイターズ
12. 敵は忍者!?強烈な自己紹介
 | Chotto Edo Made 「ちょっと江戸まで」 |
 | Legend of Nereid 「네레이드의 전설」 |
 | Urusei Yatsura 「うる星やつら」 by Takahashi Rumiko |
Volume 28 contents:
1. 星に願いを
2. 口づけ速達小包
3. 兄妹愛の闘い 前編
4. 兄妹愛の闘い 後編
5. 怒りのプール
6. つるつるソープ
7. 浜茶屋の夏
8. 風鈴樹の音色
9. 涙の家庭訪問
10. 妖精のパラソル
11. 写真の中の女
［うる星やつら］完全データファイル28
［MyLum×34］28
34くらもちふさこ
Awards
Winner, 26th Shogakukan Manga Awards, Shounen/Shoujo category
Other languages
English (VIZ Media), French and Spanish (Glenat)
Adaptations
The 195 episode-anime adaptation by Kitty Films, starring seiyuu Hirano Fumi (Lum) and Furukawa Toshio (Moroboshi Ataru), aired from October 1981 through March 1986 on Fuji TV. Eleven OAVs and six theatrical movies were also released.
 | Pandora Hearts 「Ｐａｎｄｏｒａ Ｈｅａｒｔｓ」 |
Other languages
English Pandora Hearts (Broccoli Books (dropped) and Yen Press; volume 3 per 2010.10 • volume 4 street date: 2011.01.25), French (Ki-oon tome 4 per 2010.11; tome 5 ships 2011.01.06) and traditional Chinese (Sharp Point Press Taiwan 潘朵拉之心 10 released 2010.07)
Adaptations
A 25-episode XEBEC anime adaptation starring seiyuu Minagawa Junko (Oz Vessalius), Kawasumi Ayako (Alice) and Toriumi Kousuke (Raven) that aired in Japan from April to September 2009 and a Pandora Hearts Drama CD released by Frontier works in December 2007
Related
Pandora Hearts Official Guide 8.5 mine of mine guide book (2009.03) and Pandora Hearts Official Animation Guide and the 望月 淳 画集 Pandora Hearts～odds and ends～ artbook (both released 2009.09)
 | Pokonyan 「ポコニャン」 by Fujiko F. Fujio |
Related
A 170-episode anime adaptation by Animation 21, starring seiyuu Mita Yuko as Pokonyan, aired from April 1993 to March 1996 on NHK.
 | Gertrude no Recipe 「ガートルードのレシピ」 |
Other languages
English The Recipe For Gertrude (CMX; five volumes)
 | Spiral: Suiri no Kizuna 「スパイラル 推理の絆」 |
Other languages
English Spiral: The Bonds of Reasoning (Yen Press; volume 13 released 2010.10 • volume 14 street date: 2011.01.25) and German (Carlsen Comics; Spiral - Gefährliche Wahrheit Band 9 per 2010.12.24)
Related
Spiral Alive (prequel; five volumes); a series of light novels; Mizuno Eita artbooks: ＳＰＩＲＡＬ 水野英多画集; (2003.03) and ＳＰＩＲＡＬ ＡＬＬ ＡＬＯＮＧ (2006.02; released with volume 15); and the Life is Spiral 「スパイラル完全解説本 ライフ・イズ・スパ」 guide, which includes the first draft of the Spiral: Suiri no Kizuna 「それさえも貴き日々で」 drama (2003.03)
Adaptations
A series of audio dramas and a 25-episode anime adaptation by J.C. Staff, based on the first six volumes of the manga, with an alternate ending (aired on TV Tokyo from October 2002 to March 2003, starring seiyuu Suzumura Kenichi as Narumi Ayumu, Asano Masumi as Yuizaki Hiyono and Ishida Akira as Eyes Rutherford).
 | Natsu no Arashi! 「夏のあらし！」 by Kobayashi Jin |
Other languages
Traditional Chinese 夏日風暴 (Tong Li Taiwan).
Adaptations
SHAFT's 13-episode anime adaptation aired in Japan from April through June 2009, starring seiyuu Sanpei Yuko (Yasaka Hajime) and Shiraishi Ryoko (Arashiyama Sayoko AKA “Arashi”). A 13-episode sequel Natsu no Arashi! Akinai-chū ran from October to December 2009.
 | Traumeister 「トラウマイスタ」 |
Volume 1 chapters:
1. 真実の自己（アートマン）
2. ピカソとゲルニカ
3. 可愛い赤ちゃん
4. 初陣
5. 湯煙に浮かぶ傷
6. 始めてのデート
7. 危険因子
 | Host-tan e Youkoso 「ホス探へようこそ」 |
 | Wild Life 「ワイルドライフ」 by Fujisaki Masato |
Volume 11 chapters:
87. 新展開？
88. 王様ゲーム!!
89. 盟央大の夜
90. 観月の「初めて」
91. 自分だけ寝ていた男
92. 食い逃げ？
93. 平波の受難
94. R.E.D.最後の夜
95. 犬の危機
Awards
Best Shounen Manga, 51st Shogakukan Manga Awards
Serializations
Indonesian Shonen Star (ongoing)
Zettai Heiwa Daisakusen 「絶対平和大作戦」
by Ogura Akane
Hakusensha LaLa DX, shoujo
Volume 1 (chapters 1-4 + omake) first published in Japan 2008.08