Also, a couple of (Shueisha!) manga we haven't seen for a year: Real by Inoue Takehiko (volume 10) and Claymore by Yagi Norihiro (volume 16).
Wild Life © Fujisaki Masato/Shogakukan [First serialized in Shonen Sunday]; Dr. Koto Shinryoujo © Yamada Takatoshi/Shogakukan [First serialized in Weekly Young Sunday, currently in Big Comic Original]; Defense Devil © Youn InWan & Yang KyungIl/Shogakukan [First serialized in Shonen Sunday]. Published in Indonesia as Wild Life, Dr. Koto and Defense Devil by Elex Media
Updated with Elex artwork and blurbs and substantial NikBabble™
Tessho treats poor people's pets for free, but his goodness of ♥ just lands him in hot water with Kanebakari, Meio University's stingy administrative chief. Kanebakari demands sanctions against Tessho for his sans university permission pro bono vet care.
Yup, Tessho and 2005 Shogakukan Manga Awardee Wild Life 19 are this week's hottest Elex GET!
And from vet, we move on to another manner of doctor, the middle of nowhere kind:
Dr. Koto 6 of 25+ by Yamada Takatoshi
Goto Kensuke alias Dr. Koto is the only doctor on the remote island of Koshiki, and it's to his credit that he can even perform surgery in such an isolated place.
One day, Dr. Koto gets into an accident in the mountains. He suffers from compartment syndrome, dislocated shoulder and loses consciousness because of his internal injuries.
Who's going to treat the doctor when the doctor himself is out?
Oh, dear. Dr. Koto's sitch goes way beyond a big pinch...Will a scream in his ear rouse the good doctor? I'm convinced that everything will turn out all right — and with no busted eardrums to additionally plague our heroic doctor. (I look to volumes 7 through 25+ for 100% confirmation that Dr. Koto survives.)
Elex notes that the 2003 Shogakukan Manga Awardee Dr. Koto Shinryoujo has sold as many as nine million copies in its home country. Wonder if/when local Dr. Koto will reach an equivalent sales milestone?
More previews after the release list.
Mangazines: Shonen Magz 8/2011 and Shonen Star 14/2011
Fairy Tail's Elsa (Erza) and Natsu headline the latest Shonen Magz, albeit BECK's guitarist/singer Koyuki part-times as cover boy. Meanwhile, Idamaria is Shonen Star 14's cover exorcist nun because Defense Devil is apparently not content with just the volume 5 release this street date. [Moar babble on the Indonesian Shonen Magazine and Shonen Sunday serials (waay) below.]
Elex Media manga and manhwa (2011.08.10)
- Bride of the Water God (Habaek-eui Shinbu) 3 of 15+ by Yun MiKyung
- Claymore 16 of 20+ by Yagi Norihiro
- Defense Devil 5 of 10 by Youn InWan & Yang KyungIl
- Demon King (Majeh) 34 of 38+ by Ra InSoo & Kim JaeHwan
- Doraemon 11 of 45 by Fujiko F. Fujio (Right-to-left edition)
- Dr. Koto (Dr. Koto Shinryoujo) 6 of 25+ by Yamada Takatoshi
- Lum, The Invader Girl (Urusei Yatsura) 30 of 34 by Takahashi Rumiko
- Mixim 11 volume 4 of 12 by Anzai Nobuyuki
- Real 10 of 10+ by Inoue Takehiko
- Spiral: The Bonds of Reason (Spiral: Suiri no Kizuna) 14 of 15 by Shirodaira Kyo & Mizuno Eita
- Vinland Saga 6 of 10+ by Yukimura Makoto
- Wild Life 19 of 27 by Fujisaki Masato
 | Claymore 「ＣＬＡＹＭＯＲＥ」 |
Volume 16: Daichi no Kikoku
(The Lamentation of the Earth) chapters:
84. Daichi no Kikoku Ⅱ
(The Lamentation of the Earth, Part 2)
85. "Daichi no Kikoku Ⅲ
(The Lamentation of the Earth, Part 3)
86. Daichi no Kikoku Ⅳ
(The Lamentation of the Earth, Part 4)
87. Daichi no Kikoku Ⅴ
(The Lamentation of the Earth, Part 5)
88. Daichi no Kikoku Ⅵ
(The Lamentation of the Earth, Part 6)
89. Daichi no Kikoku Ⅶ
(The Lamentation of the Earth, Part 7)
*NOT Elex chapter titles
Other languages
English Claymore (VIZ Media: 18 volumes per 2011.06 • volume 19 street date: 2011.11.01), German (Tokyopop Germany: Band 19 ships 2011.08.11), France and Spain (Glenat; latest French tome 18 per 2011.06), Italy (Star Comics), Russia (Comix-ART), Mexico (Grupo Editorial Vid), Brazil (Panini Comics Brasil) and Taiwan (Ever Glory: 獵魔戰記 18 released 2010.11)
Adaptations
Madhouse's 26-episode anime adapted the first 11 manga volumes and aired on Japan's NTV between April and September 2007, with seiyuu Kuwashima Houko as Clare.
 | Defense Devil 「ＤＥＦＥＮＳＥ ＤＥＶＩＬ」 |
Related
Adapted from the Sunday GX Akuma Bengoshi Kucabara
one-shot
Other languages/serializations
Serialized in the Indonesian Shonen Star (ongoing)
English and simplified Chinese volumes (Chuang Yi: English volume 2 released 2010.09 • simplified Chinese #8 per 2011.06)
 | Majeh 「마제(魔帝)」 |
Other languages
English King of Hell (TOKYOPOP: 25 volumes per 2009.08.04) and simplified Chinese (Chuang Yi: 魔帝 #35 per 2011.06)
 | Doraemon 「ドラえもん」 by Fujiko F. Fujio |
Awards
Best Children's Manga, 27th Shogakukan Manga Awards, Grand Prize, the first Osamu Tezuka Culture Award (1997) and the Excellence Award, Japan Cartoonists Association Awards (1973)
Related series
Doraemon Plus (sequel; 5 of 5 volumes), Daichouhen Doraemon (side story; 24 of 24 volumes); Dorabase: Doraemon Chouyakyuu Gaiden (spin-off; 22 volumes as at 2011.05, ongoing) and The Doraemon's Special (spin-off; 12 volumes)
Adaptations
A 52-episode anime adaptation by Nippon TV (1973.04 - 1973.09), a 1,787-episode series by Shin-Ei Animation (broadcast on TV Asahi from 1979.04 - 2005.03), a 2005 adaptation by Shin-Ei Animation and Studio Pierrot (premiered 2005.04.15; 300+ episodes) and numerous movies
 | Dr. Koto Shinryoujo 「Ｄｒ．コトー診療所」 |
Awards
Best General/Seinen Manga, 49th Shogakukan Manga Awards
Serializations
Indonesian Shonen Star (ongoing)
Other languages
French (Kana: Dr Kotô tome 19 and 20 shipped 2011.07 • Tome 21-22 street date: 2011.10.21) and traditional Chinese (Ching Win Taiwan: 離島大夫日誌 25 released 2010.11)
Adaptations
The award-winning Dr. Coto's Clinic, an 11-episode live-action TV drama starring Yoshioka Hidetaka as Dr. Coto/Goto Kensuke aired from July to September 2003 on Fuji TV, followed by two specials (the first aired between 9 and 10 January 2004 and the second from 12 to 13 December of the same year). A second also award-winning 11-episode season followed between October and December 2006.
Related
Dr. Koto My First BIG Specials: The Advent!
, Miracle in the hand
(2006.10) and My First BIG editions: Suspected
, Despair
(2006.11) and Consider
(2006.12)
 | Urusei Yatsura 「新装版 うる星やつら」 |
Awards
Winner, 26th Shogakukan Manga Awards, Shounen/Shoujo category
Other languages
English (VIZ Media), French and Spanish (Glenat)
Adaptations
A 195 episode-anime adaptation by Kitty Films, starring seiyuu Hirano Fumi (Lum) and Furukawa Toshio (Moroboshi Ataru), that aired from October 1981 through March 1986 on Fuji TV, 11 OAVs and six theatrical movies.
 | MiXiM 11 「ＭＩＸＩＭ☆１１」 |
Other languages
English Mixim 11 (Chuang Yi: volume 5 released 2010.05)
 | Real 「リアル」 by Inoue Takehiko |
Awards
Excellence Prize, 2001 Japan Media Arts Festival
Other languages
English Real VIZ Media (nine volumes per 2010.11 • volume 10 street date: 2011.11.15), French (Kana: Tome 9 shipped 2010.08 • Tome 10 street date: 2011.12.02), Spanish (Editorial Ivréa;), Italian (Panini)
 | Spiral: Suiri no Kizuna 「スパイラル 推理の絆」 |
Other languages
English Spiral: The Bonds of Reasoning (Yen Press: 15 volumes per 2011.04) and German (Carlsen Comics; Spiral - Gefährliche Wahrheit: Band 12 shipped 2011.06 • Band 13 street date: 2011.09.29)
Related
Spiral Alive (prequel; five volumes); a series of light novels; Mizuno Eita artbooks: SPIRAL Mizuno Eita Gashuu (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 「Sore sae mo toutoki hibi de」 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 that aired on TV Tokyo from October 2002 to March 2003, starring seiyuu Suzumura Kenichi (Narumi Ayumu), Asano Masumi (Yuizaki Hiyono) and Ishida Akira (Eyes Rutherford).
 | Vinland Saga 「ヴィンランド・サガ」 |
Volume 6 chapters:
36. The Two on the Battlefield
37. The Meaning of Love
38. Outside the Cradle
39. The King Awakens
40. The Story of Thors
41. Joint Battle
42. Your Life or Death Is in My Hands
[*NOT Elex/Shonen Magz chapter titles]
Awards
Nominee, 2008 Manga Taisho award and Grand Prize winner, Manga division, Japan Media Arts Festival 2009
Other languages/serializations
Indonesian Shonen Magz (ongoing serialization)
French (Kurokawa: Tome 9 shipped 2011.03 • Tome 10 street date: 2011.10.13), Italian (Star Comics), traditional Chinese (Tong Li: 海盜戰記 9 released 2011.03)
 | Wild Life 「ワイルドライフ」 by Fujisaki Masato |
Awards
Winner, 51st Shogakukan Manga Awards in the Shounen category (2005)
Serializations
Indonesian Shonen Star (ongoing)
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Mangazines (2011.08.10)
- Shonen Magz 8/2011 (Kodansha Shonen Magazine)
- Shonen Star 14/2011 (Shogakukan Shonen Sunday)
Habaek-eui Shinbu 「하백의 신부」
by Yun MiKyung
Seoul Cultural Publishers Wink, soonjung
Volume 3 first published in Korea 2007.02
Other languages/serializations
English Bride of the Water God (Dark Horse: eight volumes per 2011.05 • volume 9 street date: 2011.11.01), French L'épouse du dieu de l'eau (Editions Clair de Lune: Tome 4 shipped 2011.06 • Tome 5 street date: 2011.08.18)