JP/ID cover mix because option ga butuh covernya, cuma butuh teksnya
(Cover not needed; give me list!) won the Elex poll.
C.M.B. Shinra Hakubutsukan no Jiken Mokuroku © Katou Motohiro
Kodansha [Serialized in Monthly Shonen Magazine]
Published in Indonesia as C.M.B. by Elex Media Komputindo
Another of Shinra's adoptive fathers pops up — Professor Stan tracking a stolen Cambodian Devata sculpture to Japan. Unlike risk-taker dad Ray though, Stan appears normal. But his (surface) serenity presages headaches for our (already) clueless genius Shinra.
Summary refers to Op.41 Stan
that first appeared in Monthly Shonen Magazine's June 2010 issue. It is one of four C.M.B 15 stories. The others are
Ariadne's Thread
(Op.39), unraveling the mystery of the wooden Minotaur behind Shinra on the cover;Fishing
(Op.40), which sees Shinra's jaunt to a fishing pier overrun with cops chasing drug traffickers; andQuilt
(Op.42), in which a British Museum director risks worsening health to ask Shinra to decipher a mysterious quilt.
You know, right, that these snap synopses—save Op.41's—didn't come from Elex? (They hail from the Japanese Ｃ．Ｍ．Ｂ． Wiki article.)
Now for the other top DO WANT! — volume 61 of the 24th longest running manga series,
according to EN Wiki's tankou tally.
Detektif Conan 61 of 71+ by Aoyama Gosho
Phantom Thief Kid appears before his fans; what teleportation magic—and jewel theft—await?
Aside from chapter 631 Purple Nail
(Kid's jewel target), Detektif Conan 61 investigates the case of peculiar paper airplanes (chapter 638 Paper Airplane
) that Conan and Okiya Subaru deduce to be...
(Go »here if you want the SPOIL.)
☆ Other manga (and manhwa) previews are after the release list.
New Elex manga
Wickedness and other Things That Don't Just Go Bump in the Night loom in the 5.11 debuts: Dream Eater Merry by Ushiki Yoshitaka, Moonlight Act by Fujita Kazuhiro and Princess Resurrection by Mitsunaga Yasunori. I already babbled about Yumekui Merry (reskedded from 4.27) and who can't claim even a passing acquaintance with Monsters, Princess, Vampires, Werewolves, Zombies, Adapted to Anime, Weak Male Lead, Strong Female Lead, Royal Family, Resurrection
Kaibutsu Oujo? So Moonlight Act gets the Above the Cut blog estate. (Don't fret; I ramble about Princess Resurrection after the release list.)
Gekkou Jourei
© Fujita Kazuhiro
Shogakukan [Shonen Sunday]
Published in Indonesia as
Moonlight Act by Elex Media
Let me tell you a troublesome story: Every few decades, the light of a blue moon illuminates the earth, causing the faerie tale world children know from bedtime stories to experience weirdness. For this reason, the council of the world of tales enacted the Moonlight Ordinance.
Baka-Updates Manga in its Gekkou Jourei description contributes the name of our Hero: Iwasaki Gekko, high school student slash enforcer of the Moonlight Ordinance or Act aimed at normalizing the strange. (I don't know who is the girl on the cover; MU didn't say.)
Best known for the award-winning Calvin and Hobbes on acid
Ushio to Tora, Fujita Kazuhiro-sensei is also the brain behind Bakegyamon. His 43-volume Karakuri Circus premieres over on Level Comics's side the same day as Moonlight Act. Both serialized in Shonen Sunday, but Gekkou Jourei is still current.
Oh, and manga-ka Raiku Makoto (Konjiki no Gash!!), Anzai Nobuyuki (Flame of Recca) and Inoue Kazurou (Midori Days) once worked as Fujita-sensei's assistants.
Box sets: Dragon Ball (You've only been drooling for this)
Dragon Ball
© Toriyama Akira/Shueisha
[Weekly Shonen Jump]
Published in Indonesia
by Elex Media
Apparently, an IDR 160,000 price ticket for a 10-volume box set isn't as hard to swallow as I'd first surmised; LX kids jumped at the chance of acquiring Dragon Ball volumes 1-10, 11-20 AND 21 to 30. Now, I don't know how many DB volumes Elex plans to bundle in total, but if we go by the original 42 tankou, one would need another IDR 192,000 on top of the IDR 480,000 for these three sets to complete the collection. So looking at an IDR 672,000 outlay or roughly USD 78.62 here.
Now if that Edisi Baru
/New Edition you can see if you squint at teh cover means Elex is releasing the kanzenban (off-off-OFF! chance), then you'd need to factor in the cost of only four more volumes. But considering the IDR 16,000/volume price—500 rupiah less than the price of a regular tank—I doubt it's the kanzenban.
Elex Media manga and manhwa (2011.05.11)
- C.M.B. (C.M.B. Shinra Hakubutsukan no Jiken Mokuroku) 15 of 17+ by Katou Motohiro
- Detektif Conan (Meitantei Conan) 61 of 71+ by Aoyama Gosho
- [Series Premiere] Dream Eater Merry (Yumekui Merry) 1 of 6+ by Ushiki Yoshitaka [Resked from 4.27]
- Godhand Teru 32 of 56+ by Yamamoto Kazuki
- Legend of the Cursed Sword (Pageomgi) 34 of 37 by Yeo BeopRyong & Park HuiJin
- Library War - Love & War (Toshokan Sensou: Love & War) 3 of 7+ by Yumi Kiiro & Arikawa Hiro
- Mokke 2 of 9 by Kumakura Takatoshi
- [Series Premiere] Moonlight Act (Gekkou Jourei) 1 of 13+ by Fujita Kazuhiro
- New Kobochan (Shin Kobo-chan) 5 of 20+ by Ueda Masashi
- Ogawa and Team Saito (Ogawa to Yukai na Saitoutachi) 6 of 8+ by Sakyo
- [Series Premiere] Princess Resurrection (Kaibutsu Oujo) 1 of 14+ by Mitsunaga Yasunori
- Topeng Kaca Deluxe (Glass no Kamen) 11 of 24+ by Miuchi Suzue
- V.B. Rose 6 of 14 by Hidaka Banri
- Wild Life 16 of 27 by Fujisaki Masato
 | Meitantei Conan 「名探偵コナン」 |
Volume 61 chapters:
631. Purple Nail
632. Instant Movement
633. Three Taboos
634. Zero
635. Burn
636. Cause of Fire
637. Crackle
638. Paper Airplane
639. Message
640. Rescue
641. Destruction
*NOT Elex/Shonen Star chapter titles
Awards
Best Shounen Manga, 46th Shogakukan Manga Awards (tied with Nishimori Hiroyuki's Cheeky Angel)
Other languages/serializations
Ongoing serialization in the Indonesian Shonen Star
English Case Closed (38 volumes per 2011.04 • volume 39 street date: 2011.07.12), French and Dutch (Kana; French Détective Conan tome 65 ships 2011.08.26), Spanish (Planeta DeAgostini Comics Spain), German and Swedish (Egmont), simplified Chinese (Chuang Yi Singapore: 名侦探柯南 #71 per 2011.04)
Related
Detektif Conan Seri Animasi TV (based on the TV series) and Detektif Conan Spesial (special editions by Aoyama-sensei's assistants that diverge from the main plot)
Adaptations
Ongoing anime (episode 615 airs 2011.05.14), starring seiyuu Takayama Minami (Edogawa Conan) and Yamazaki Wakana (Mori Ran), at least 17 OAVs (Shonen Sunday Original animation, Magic File and Detective Conan Special: Secret of the Birth of Phantom Thief Kid), 14 animated films, and three live-action TV drama, including the prequel Detective Conan: Shinichi Kudo's Written Challenge - The Good-bye Prologue (Oguri Shun as Kudo Shinichi and Kurokawa Tomoka as Ran), the follow-up Shinichi Kudo Returns! Showdown with the Black Organization (Fujisaki Nao as Conan) and a third special Shinichi Kudo's Written Challenge! The Mystery of the Legendary Strange Bird (aired 2011.04.15 starring Mizobata Junpei as Kudo Shinichi)
 | Yumekui Merry 「夢喰いメリー」 |
Adaptations
J.C. Staff's 13-episode anime adaptation starring seiyuu Okamoto Nobuhiko (Fujiwara Yumeji) and Sakura Ayane (Merry Nightmare) aired in Japan between January and April 2011.
 | GodHand Teru 「ゴッドハンド輝」 |
Awards/Recognitions
Nominee, the first Keitai Comic Taishō/Mobile Phone Comic Award (along with Ghost Sweeper Mikami by Shiina Takashi, Itazura na Kiss by Tada Kaoru, The Drops of God by Agi Tadashi and 16 other manga titles)
Other languages
Traditional Chinese (Tong Li 天生妙手 vol. 55 per 2011.04.06)
Adaptations
Live-action adaptation starring Hiraoka Yuta (Mahigashi Teru) aired on TBS from 11 April to 16 May 2009.
 | Pageomgi 「파검기」 |
Other languages
English Chronicles of the Cursed Sword (TOKYOPOP: 22 volumes per 2008.08.05, cancelled), German (Egmont Manga & Anime: The Legend of the Sword) and Swedish (B. Wahlströms Bokförlag AB)
 | Toshokan Sensou: Love & War |
Other languages
English Library Wars: Love & War (VIZ Media: four volumes per 2011.03 • volume 5 street date: 2011.06.07)
Related series
Adapted from the Toshokan Sensou light novel
An alternate shounen version, Toshokan Sensou: Spitfire!, illustrated by Furudori Yayoi, is ongoing serialization in Dengeki Daioh (one volume compiled as at 2008.06).
Adaptations
Production I.G's anime adaptation of Arikawa Hiro's Toshokan Sensou novel aired from April to June 2008 on Fuji TV starring seiyuu Inoue Marina (Kasahara Iku), Maeno Tomoaki (Dojo Atsushi) and Suzuki Tatsuhisa (Tezuka Hikaru).
 | Mokke 「もっけ」 by Kumakura Takatoshi |
 | Gekkou Jourei 「月光条例」 by Fujita Kazuhiro |
Other languages
Traditional Chinese (Ching Win Taiwan: 月光條例 11 released 2011.04.18)
 | Shin Kobo-chan 「新コボちゃん」 by Ueda Masashi |
 | Ogawa to Yukai na Saitoutachi |
Serializations
Indonesian Nakayoshi Gress! (ongoing)
 | Kaibutsu Oujo 「怪物王女」 by Mitsunaga Yasunori |
Other languages
English Princess Resurrection (Del Rey: seven volumes per 2009.11), French (PIKA Édition: Princesse Résurrection tome 10 shipped 2010.09), German (EMA)
Adaptations
A 26 (24 + 2 Extra) episode anime adaptation by Madhouse that aired April through September 2007 (starring seiyuu Kawasumi Ayako as Hime and Oura Fuyuka as Hiyorimi Hiro) and 2 OAV episodes animated by Tatsunoko (bundled with manga volumes 13 and 14 released 2010.12.09 and 2011.03.09 respectively) with a different voice cast (Hayami Saori as Hime and Irino Miyu as Hiro)
 | Glass no Kamen 「ガラスの仮面」 by Miuchi Suzue |
Related
Glass no Kamen tankoubon
Adaptations
Three anime and two seasons of a live-action drama
 | V.B. Rose 「Ｖ・Ｂ・ローズ」 by Hidaka Banri |
Other languages/serialization
Serialized in HanaLaLa (only until chapter 56 in final HanaLaLa issue #55)
English V.B. Rose (TOKYOPOP: 12 volumes as at 2011.04.05), traditional Chinese (Ever Glory Taiwan: V．B．R 絲絨藍玫瑰 14 per 2009.10)
Adaptations
A V.B. Rose drama CD was released in Japan in 2006.12, starring seiyuu Mizuki Nana as Shiroi Ageha, Sakurai Takahiro as Arisaka Yukari, and Suwabe Junichi as Kuromine Mitsuya.
 | Wild Life 「ワイルドライフ」 by Fujisaki Masato |
Serializations
Indonesian Shonen Star (ongoing)
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Box sets
- [Box set @ IDR 160,000] Dragon Ball, Vol. 1-10 (of 42) by Toriyama Akira
- [Box set @ IDR 160,000] Dragon Ball, Vol. 11-20 (of 42) by Toriyama Akira
- [Box set @ IDR 160,000] Dragon Ball, Vol. 21-30 (of 42) by Toriyama Akira
C.M.B. Shinra Hakubutsukan no Jiken Mokuroku
「Ｃ．Ｍ．Ｂ．森羅博物館の事件目録」
by Katou Motohiro
Kodansha Monthly Shonen Magazine, shounen
Volume 15 first published in Japan 2010.10
Volume 15 chapters:
Op.39: (Monthly Shonen Magazine, April 2010)
Op.40: (May 2010)
Op.41: June 2010)
Op.42: (July 2010)
*NOT Elex Media's titles; mechanically translated from the JP Ｃ．Ｍ．Ｂ． Wiki
Related series
Q.E.D. (main story, 38 volumes, ongoing)
Other languages
Traditional Chinese C.M.B.森羅博物館之事件目錄 (Tong Li Taiwan: 15 volumes per 2011.02.24)