Bitter Stamp with a die by Miyake Madoka and Sleeping Beast by Yamada Komomo ~ 3L shoujo manga out naaw

Street date: 8 August 2011, or so sez Angelzon, my continuing info fount for all manga 3L because 3L's fesbuk is playing kakurenbo with me :P

Bitter na Kokuin © Miyake Madoka/Shogakukan [First serialized in Sho-Comi] · Nemureru Mori no Kedamono-tachi © Yamada Komomo/Shogakukan [First serialized in Cheese!]. Published in Indonesia as Bitter Stamp with a die and Sleeping Beast by Tiga Lancar Comic/3L

We get Good Girl Class Prez making a deal with Class Troublemaker for teacher trainee Big Bro's sake in Miyake Madoka's Bitter Stamp with a die. It's not so much what Chika exchanges for Shibuya to cooperate that's the tease; it's that two other boys find out about the dangerous arrangement, forcing our hero to...

Another class prexy Rinko dreams of love and instead meets... geek childhood buddy Haruki. Except now he's all grown-up and hawt and he's after her in Yamada Komomo's Sleeping Beast.

Per their goody-goody leads, these shoujo manga are rated for Teens. (I give you leave to :O considering this is 3L we're talkin' 'bout...)

For other Miyake Madoka and Yamada Komomo titles, scroll down.

3L shoujo manga (2011.08.08)

1. [Premiere] Bitter Stamp with a die (Bitter na Kokuin) by Miyake Madoka

Bitter na Kokuin 「ビターな刻印」 by Miyake Madoka
Shogakukan Sho-Comi, shoujo
This volume first published in Japan 2010.06

2. [Premiere] Sleeping Beast (Nemureru Mori no Kedamono-tachi) by Yamada Komomo

Nemureru Mori no Kedamono-tachi 「眠れる森の獣たち」
by Yamada Komomo
AKA Nemureru Mori no Kemomotachi
Shogakukan Cheese!, shoujo
This volume first published in Japan 2010.05

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The Fault Number 8 by Yamada Komomo, 3L shoujo manga out now

8-banme no Tsumi
© Yamada Komomo
Shogakukan [Cheese! Zoukan]
Published in Indonesia as
The Fault Number 8
by Tiga Lancar Comic/3L

Surfing around, I bumped into this advisory. 3L just released The Fault Number 8 by Yamada Komomo, the love triangle shoujo manga 8-banme no Tsumi 「８番目の罪」 originally serialized in Cheese! Zoukan and compiled into tankou in December 2009.

Okay, attempting a blurb off the synopsis I found at Angelzon. I hope Souko is the girl and Yuki is the guy. If not, then just genderbend them.

Souko and Yuki are childhood friends. Despite their youth, the love between them develops into a serious relationship. But the terrible secret Souko hides (an injury, a broken family) prompts her into later abandoning Yuki.

Now living in a new town, Souko meets Hiroto whose friendship and gentleness coax Souko into once more reaching for happiness.

Past wounds, the promise of future love, overwhelming passion and two brothers vying for the same woman.

This is shoujo smut, so rated   [DEWASA] or Mature.

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Couple who Love Buttocks 2 and My Sweet Roommate 2 of 2 (3L josei and shoujo manga out now)

Futari wa Oshiri Ai © Takada Rie/Shogakukan [First serialized in Judy]
Published in Indonesia as Couple who Love Buttocks by Tiga Lancar Comic/3L

Yes, yes, it's been at least 10 days since these 3L manga—Couple who Love Buttocks 2 and My Sweet Roommate 2—made it to bookstore shelves, but since (1) it's only one more time that I need to line up at a cashier holding a Couple who Love Buttocks tome and (2) someone asked me what I thought about Couple who Love Buttocks and (3) I need something to get me out of my blogging slump, so post we go.

In the second to the last volume of Takada Rie's genius colorectal surgeon x assistant romance, biseinen Kuraku Budou-sensei continues to treat Asako little more than a ‘lurve slave,’ saddling her with housework in addition to her clinic duties.

Can Asako make Budou 'fess up to his real feelings? At least, enough to make her job a little less onerous?

3L promises that this second volume, still rated   DEWASA or Mature, will make you laugh until your sides hurt.

Couple who Love Buttocks 2 compiles 4th to 8th Hip! (chapter): To Compete, To Confess [sic] Each Other, To Fight, To Realize [sic] Each Other and The Encounter.

My Sweet Roommate 2 of 2 by Yamada Komomo

Mainichi Kimi ni Koishiteru
© Yamada Komomo
Shogakukan [Cheese!]
Published in Indonesia
as My Sweet Roommate
by Tiga Lancar Comic

Meanwhile, Yamada Komomo's My Sweet Roommate heads toward its Happy End...or does it? Because her brother moved in with his fiancée, Mei ends up living with Akira, his former roommate and the son of Big Bro's future wife. Propinquity has conspired to make Mei fall for Akira and wonder of wonders, she has screwed up enough courage to confess her feelings to her roomie and leave the megane bishie speechless. They should be getting closer, but...?

My Sweet Roommate 2 contains chapters 5th to Last (8th) Day, plus an Extra Story.

Tiga Lancar Comic manga (2011.01.11)

1. Couple Who Love Buttocks (Futari wa Oshiri Ai) 2 of 3 by Takada Rie

Futari wa Oshiri Ai 「ふたりはおしり愛」 by Takada Rie
Shogakukan Judy, josei
Volume 2 first published in Japan 2008.08

Related series
Doctor's Love or Oshiri Ai - Shinsatsuchuu (sequel; two volumes as at 2010.05)

2. My Sweet Roommate (Mainichi Kimi ni Koishiteru) 2 of 2 by Yamada Komomo [Finale]

Mainichi Kimi ni Koishiteru 「毎日君に恋してる」
by Yamada Komomo
AKA Every Day I Fall in Love with You
Shogakukan Cheese!, shoujo
Volume 2 first published in Japan 2009.05

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My Sweet Roommate 1 by Yamada Komomo and Natural Host Boyfriend Method by Watanabe Shiho (3L shoujo manga out now)

Mainichi Kimi ni Koishiteru © Yamada Komomo
Shogakukan [First serialized in Cheese!]
Published in Indonesia as My Sweet Roommate by Tiga Lancar Semesta/3L

Two 3L shoujo romances—rated Dewasa or Mature—debut this week: My Sweet Roommate by Yamada Komomo, a two-volume series, and Natural Host Boyfriend Method by Watanabe Shiho (standalone).

My Sweet Roommate, the Cheese! serial originally titled Mainichi Kimi ni Koishiteru, stars school girl Mei who thinks her dream high school life has been granted when she moves into her brother's mansion. Little does Mei realize that she will be living with someone else!

I assume that droolicious megane on the cover of volume 1 is Mei's Sweet Roommate.

3L previously published Yamada Komomo-sensei's Master and I and Private Lesson. Her manga are Pure Guilty Pleasure, so I'm waiting for 3L to also license her Hadaka no Oujisama - Love Kingdom.

Natural Host Boyfriend Method or Tennen Kareshi Host Shiyou, meanwhile, has Shibuya habitué, Tokyo party girl Mari transplanted to the boondocks after her father loses his job. In a place where you'd be hard-pressed to find a karaoke joint, there's a Host Club?? Things don't seem too grim, Mari thinks, that is, until she finds out the most popular host is more at home farming than flirting!

Aside from title story Natural Host Boyfriend Method, this anthology also compiles Would you like it!, A naive PINK and 1/2 Lovers.

3L published another Watanabe Shiho-sensei anthology Sensei, Me, my first last July.

3L shoujo manga (2010.11.11)

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1. [Series Premiere] My Sweet Roommate (Mainichi Kimi ni Koishiteru) 1 of 2 by Yamada Komomo

Mainichi Kimi ni Koishiteru 「毎日君に恋してる」 by Yamada Komomo AKA Every Day I Fall in Love with You Shogakukan Cheese!, shoujo Volume 1 first published in Japan 2009.01

2. [Premiere] Natural Host Boyfriend Method (Tennen Kareshi Host Shiyou) by Watanabe Shiho

Tennen Kareshi Host Shiyou 「天然彼氏ホスト仕様」 by Watanabe Shiho Shogakukan Sho-Comi, shoujo This volume first published in Japan 2008.07

[Artwork and synopses ex-Angelzon.com]

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