Shiawase Kissa 3-chome © Matsuzuki Kou/Hakusensha (Serialized in Hana to Yume)
Published in Indonesia as Happy Café by PT Gramedia/m&c!
Contains [SPOILERS!]
We're thisclose to saying Ba-ha-hye! to an m&c! shoujo manga pair ex borderline-nerdy
Hana to Yume: Happy Café and Sparkling Gingachou, which have their penultimates out on the 16th.
In volume 14 of Matsuzuki Kou's reverse harem comedy turned drama with some sekuhara thrown in Happy Café:
Takamura Uru pressures Ichirou-kun and Abekawa Kazura to accompany her in tracking down a woman Uru suspects might be Shindou-san's mom. While Uru's busying herself with someone else's possible 'rent, her own family life sprouts another mystery. Uru's new neighbor is a bit too forward for comfort, the overfamiliarity apparently stemming from some kind of connection with Uru's dad.
From Shiawase Kissa 3-chome Happy Café Bonheur we hop, skip, and jump over to the Sparkling Gingachou shopping district a childhood sextet calls home. In Kirameki Gingachou Shoutengai volume 9 —
The grocery store's Mike and the fishmonger's Kuro finally admit their feelings for each other, but how will the rest of the Galaxy Street pals take to the newborn coupleship? Or is the foursome more concerned with respective love lives (or lack thereof) and post high school graduation futures to really pay attention?
k, that takes care of blurbing the first two post title mentions. Now for a preview of One of These Things is Not Like the Others, This One's from Ciao, Beauty Pop volume 7 by Arai Kiyoko:
Not!Narumi's shenanigans sling mud at the real deal, making the Scissors Project star the target of the female student body's ire. How will Kiri and honmono Narumi sideline the troublemaker?
VIZ's English Beauty Pop 7 blurb, meanwhile, points out another problem: Kiri still hasn't made up her mind over what career to pursue after graduation. Can Narumi's I'm going to turn pro, what else? resolve help Kiri decide her (hairstylist) vocation?
NEW TITLES: I Wish I Could Fly by Moto Naoko
Triple-launched I Wish I Could Fly is a hysterical, I mean, historical shoujo drama from Lady Victorian and Antique Romantic manga-ka Moto Naoko. The Princess serial originally titled Corset ni Tsubasa features orphaned tomboy Christine, sent off to a girls' boarding school by relatives after her father's death. What fate awaits her at the academy that sorts students into upper, lower, and special classes? [With additions from Which Scanlations's description, excerpted by Baka-Updates Manga]
In Japan, Corset ni Tsubasa was released in six volumes (from 2008.01 to 2010.03), but m&c! only has three, with the third designated as the finale. This makes me suspect m&c!'s either releasing omnibus editions or shipping just the first three. (Wouldn't be the first time the latter has happened; m&c! also released only one Backstage Prince volume (volume 2) and billed that a standalone.)
Other 16 June 2010 m&c! highlights:
- Giacomo Dante, architect of the “Cloche Incident,” returns in Gunslinger Girl 11, and with the Five Republics movement, demands that Aaron Cicero and 50 other imprisoned terrorists be freed. Gian and Giose vow to stop Giacomo, even if it means sacrificing the cyborgs.
I have a split personality?
Ai's mind whirls at Noda's conclusion, prompting her to ask friend Haruka to help lay the matter to rest in Jun X Ai Sensation volume 2.- Star Wars: Clone Wars Adventures:
Four more thrilling tales of planets in peril and Jedi in jeopardy!
Or so goes Dark Horse's Star Wars: Clone Wars Adventures 6 hype. The latest in the micro-series areIt Takes a Thief,
The Drop,
To the Vanishing Point,
andMeans and Ends.
m&c! manga, manhua, and AMERO comics (2010.06.16)
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- Beauty Pop 7 of 10 by Arai Kiyoko
- Gunslinger Girl 11 of 12+ by Aida Yu
- 59:
A Caged Memory
(記憶の檻Kioku no Ori
) - 60-62:
Vendetta
(ヴェンデッタ) (Parts 3-5) - 63:
Beatrice
(べアトリーチェ) - 64:
Battlefield of the Vanquished
(敗者の戦場Haisha no Senjō
) - 65:
Welcome Home, Enrica
(おかえりエンリカOkaeri Enrika
) - 66:
The Blue Prince
(青色の王子Aoi no Ōji
) - Happy Café (Shiawase Kissa 3-chome) 14 of 15 by Matsuzuki Kou
- [Premiere] I Wish I Could Fly (Corset ni Tsubasa) 1 of 3 by Moto Naoko
- [New] I Wish I Could Fly (Corset ni Tsubasa) 2 of 3 by Moto Naoko
- [New] I Wish I Could Fly (Corset ni Tsubasa) 3 of 3 by Moto Naoko
- Jun X Ai Sensation (Jun'ai Sensation) 2 of 5+ by Oobayashi Miyuki
- Long Hu Men (Oriental Heroes) 168: Pertarungan Akhir by Tony Wong
- Sparkling Gingachou (Kirameki Gingachou Shoutengai) 9 of 10 by Fujimoto Yuki
- Star Wars: Clone Wars Adventures 6 of 10 (Lucasfilm Ltd., Dark Horse Comics)
 | Gunslinger Girl by Aida Yu |
Volume 11 contains chapters:
OTHER LANGUAGE VERSIONS
Gunslinger Girl was first published in English by ADV Manga (dropped; last volume 6 released 2007.11.28). Seven Seas picked up the license and is expected to re-release the first six books in omnibus format, before releasing single volumes from volume 7. The action manga is translated into French by Asuka Comics; in Italian by Shin Vision; in German by EMA (Egmont Manga & Anime); in Russian by Sakura-Press; and in traditional Chinese by Kadokawa Media (Taiwan).
ADAPTATIONS
A 13-episode anime adaptation by Madhouse aired in Japan from October 2003 to February 2004 on Fuji TV and Animax, followed by the Artland-produced sequel, Gunslinger Girl -Il Teatrino-, also 13 episodes, telecast on Tokyo MX TV from January to March 2008. Two episodes of the Gunslinger Girl -Il Teatrino- OAV were released in October 2008.
The seiyuu cast changed from the first anime to the Il Teatrino sequel:
| Role | 1st | 2nd |
|---|---|---|
| Henrietta | Nanri Yuuka | Akutsu Kana |
| Rico | Mitsuhashi Kanako | Shiono Anri |
| Triela | Sendai Eri | Enomoto Atsuko |
| Claes | Koshimizu Ami | Mizuno Risa |
| Angelica | Terakado Hitomi | Hanazawa Kana |
 | Shiawase Kissa 3-chome 「 幸福喫茶３丁目 」 |
OTHER LANGUAGE VERSIONS
Happy Café is published in English by TOKYOPOP (volume 2 released 2010.03.30 • volume 3 street date: 2010.06.29). A traditional Chinese version is released by Sharp Point Press (Taiwan).
ADAPTATIONS
Geneon Entertainment released two 幸福喫茶３丁目 drama CDs in 2007: the first shipped 25 January; the second on 24 October. Seiyuu Kanda Akemi, Toriumi Kousuke, and Sugiyama Noriaki voiced protagonists Takamura Uru, Shindou Satsuki, and Nishikawa Ichirou.
 | Corset ni Tsubasa 「 コルセットに翼 」 |
 | Volume 2 first published in Japan 2008.06 |
 | Volume 3 first published in Japan 2008.12 |
 | Jun'ai Sensation 「 純★愛センセーション 」 |
 | Kirameki Gingachou Shoutengai |
ADAPTATIONS
A キラメキ☆銀河町商店街 drama CD about the six childhood friends who grew up in the Galaxy Street shopping district was released by Geneon Entertainment on 2007.11.21, starring seiyuu Kawakami Tomoko, Fukuyama Jun, Ikezawa Haruna, Mizuno Manabi, Hoshi Souichirou, Taniyama Kishô, and Takahashi Hiroki.
 | Star Wars: Clone Wars Adventures 6 Featuring |
NOTE
¹ Source: m&c! (artwork)
² All listed GN are priced at IDR 15,000, except Long Hu Men 168 (SRP: IDR 60,000) and Star Wars: Clone Wars Adventures 6 (IDR 45,000)
³ Links like this are Amazon.com (or other online merchants) search and/or product links (commercial), in case you're interested in another language version.
~niki DBA huamulan03 (花木蘭03)
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Beauty Pop 「 ビューティーポップ 」 by Arai Kiyoko
AKA Beauty Pop Stage 2¹
Shogakukan Ciao, shoujo
Volume 7 first published in Japan 2006.11
NOTES
¹ Beauty Pop underwent a short hiatus but returned October 2006 under the title Beauty Pop Stage 2. The “sequel” covers volumes 7 to 10. The tankoubon releases, however, are still titled Beauty Pop.
OTHER LANGUAGE VERSIONS/SERIALIZATIONS
Beauty Pop is published in English by VIZ Media (10 volumes); in French by Soleil; and in traditional Chinese by Tong Li.
Beauty Pop is serialized in Indonesian in Cherry.
ADAPTATIONS
A Beauty Pop drama CD was released in November 2004, starring seiyuu Minagawa Junko as Koshiba Kiri, Seki Tomokazu as Narumi Shogo, Makoto Aoki as Ochiai Kazuhiko, Shimono Hiro as Minami Kei, Kurata Masayo as Aoyama Kanako, Shimozaki Hiroshi as Komatsu Taro, and Hoshino Mitsuaki as Koshiba Seiji.