Pictures and Wallpaper: Bleach 36, Goong 22 and m&c!'s Love is Everwhere Valentine manga attack (19 January 2011 street date) [UPDATED]

Includes reviews of several Valentine manga — from me and new blog contributor Dalina-san or Lina-chan who is also the Typical Shoujo Triad Secretary-General (check the comments)

Namida Usagi ~Tears of First Love~ 1 (m&c!)

Namida Usagi ~Seifuku no Kataomoi~ © Minase Ai/Shogakukan
[Serialized in Sho-Comi]
Published in Indonesia as Namida Usagi ~Tears of First Love~
by Gramedia/m&c!

STRETCHING OUT the Goong Shin x ChaeKyeong angsticipation by blurbing top DO WANT! Bleach 36 first:

More than a century ago in Soul Society, Urahara Kisuke was promoted to commander of the 12th Division. At the same time, Soul Reapers start mysteriously disappearing, prompting an investigation by the 9th Division.

Bleach 36: Turn Back the Pendulum, featuring Hirako Shinji doing his turn back the back, I mean, clock on the cover, compiles flashback stories -108 through -100, Turn Back The Pendulum to Turn Back The Pendulum 9.

Goong [Palace Story] 22 of 24+ by Park SoHee

By order of the King, Shin has to place ChaeKyeong under house arrest at the Princess villa. This as ChaeKyeong promises stay by Yul's side. Meanwhile, Yul masterminds a plot to bring the monarchy down if he cannot have ChaeKyeong for himself.

m&c!'s Love is Everywhere Valentine manga, Part I ♥

Constituting m&c!'s initial Love is Everywhere Valentine manga salvo (yes, moar planned for the weeks before the 14th) are Miyawaki Yukino's Bitter Trap, obviously NOT Takagi Shigeyoshi's Kingdom of The Beast one-shot that bears the same title (this Older Female/Younger Male ChuChu manga serialized in Cherry); Shibano Yuka's Music/Vocalist-troped Diamond Beat; Konno Risa's I Love You, Sensei!; Yoshinaga Yuu's One sided Love; Kosaka Mariko's Powerful Cheers!!; the triple-launch of Chiba Kozue's Music, Singer, Painful Past, Possessive Lover, Angst Lonely Without You series; and the premieres of Usami Maki's Naive Female Lead, Platonic Love, Tease Love Button and Minase Ai's Shy Girl/Megane Bishie/Photography Namida Usagi ~Tears of First Love~ that merited the lead for its terminal Awww-someness. (Talk about burying the lead or lede.)

The overlong babble and reviews have been tucked below the manga list.

m&c! regular manga and manhwa (2011.01.19)

Bleach 36 of 48+ by Kubo Tite

Bleach 「ＢＬＥＡＣＨ－ブリーチ－」 by Kubo Tite
Shueisha Weekly Shonen Jump, shounen
Volume 36 first published in Japan 2008.12

Volume 36: Turn Back The Pendulum contains chapters:
-108. Turn Back The Pendulum
-107. Turn Back The Pendulum 2
-106. Turn Back The Pendulum 3
-105. Turn Back The Pendulum 4
-104. Turn Back The Pendulum 5
-103. Turn Back The Pendulum 6
-102. Turn Back The Pendulum 7
-101. Turn Back The Pendulum 8
-100. Turn Back The Pendulum 9

Awards
Best Shounen Manga, 50th Shogakukan Manga Awards

Other languages
English Bleach (VIZ Media: volume 33 per 2010.12 • volume 34 street date: 2011.03.01), French (Glénat; tome 40 shipped 2011.01.05), Spanish (Glénat in Spain, Grupo Editorial Vid in Mexico), German (TOKYOPOP Germany), Dutch (Kana), Russian (Эксмо), Polish (JPF), Portuguese (Planet Manga) and simplified Chinese (Chuang Yi: volume 48 per 2011.01.18)

Related
Kubo Tite and Makoto Matsubara co-authored two Bleach novels: BLEACH-letters from the other side: The Death and The Strawberry (Japan release: 2004.12) and BLEACH: The Honey Dish Rhapsody (2006.10).

The Bleach All Colour But The Black artbook, compiling color spreads from manga volumes 1 through 19 with original art and author annotations, released in Japan (2006.12), USA (The Art of Bleach, 2008.10) and France (All colour but the black: Recueil des illustrations de Bleach, 2008.11).

Companion guidebooks have also been published: Bleach SOULs and Bleach VIBEs released 2006.02 in Japan (The English Bleach SOULs. Official Character Book shipped 2008.11 in North America, while the French version streeted 2009.11). A third Bleach Official Bootleg: KaraBuri+ guidebook released 2007.08 in Japan. (English Color Bleach+: The Bleach Official Bootleg street date: 2010.08.10.)

Adaptations
Studio Pierrot's Bleach anime adaptation first broadcast in October 2004, continuing to this day. Season 14 opened with episode 266 in April 2010; latest episode 305 aired 2011.01.18). Seiyuu Morita Masakazu and Orikasa Fumiko star as Kurosaki Ichigo and Kuchiki Rukia, with Park Romi and Namikawa Daisuke playing 10th Division captain Hitsugaya Toshiro and Arrancar Ulquiorra Cifer respectively. Two OAVs and four theatrical movies—Memories of Nobody, The DiamondDust Rebellion, Another Hyōrinmaru, Fade to Black, I Call Your Name and Bleach: The Hell Verse—have been released. Additionally, Warner Bros. has confirmed it will be producing a Bleach live-action film.

At least eight drama CDs have been produced. Featuring the original anime cast, the drama CDs were bundled with the DVDs.

Bleach has also been adapted into rock musicals (spanning the the Substitute and Soul Society arcs). The first musical had its performance run in August 2005.

Goong [Palace Story] 22 of 24+ by Park SoHee

Goong 「궁(宮)」 by Park SoHee
Seoul Cultural Publishers Wink, soonjung
Volume 22 first published in Korea 2010.03

Other languages
English Goong: The Royal Palace (Yen Press: volume 10 per 2010.12 • volume 11 street date: 2011.05.31), French Palais (Samji Editions: tome 10 per 2011.01.20 • tome 11 ships 2011.02.03), Japanese (Shinshokan/Un Poco Comics: らぶきょん　ＬＯＶＥ　ｉｎ景福宮 volume 23 per 2010.10)

Adaptations
Live-action Princess Hours, starring Yoon EunHye (ChaeKyeong), Joo JiHoon (Shin), Kim JeongHoon (Yul) and Song Ji Hyo (HyoRin) aired in Korea from January to March 2006. The Goong S spin-off aired on the same MBC network from January to March 2007.