Bleach © Kubo Tite/Shueisha (Serialized in Weekly Shonen Jump)
Published in Indonesia by PT Gramedia/m&c!
Contains [SPOILERS!] and moar trope identification (a trend that with TV Tropes' leave hopefully endures)
And it looks like the Bleach blitzkrieg will continue—persisting, as far as I know, till next week—but for now, let's focus on the quarter-century tankou streeting on Wednesday, the 19th.
Bleach volume 25, subtitled No Shaking Throne
features Hollow!Ichigo on the cover, and with good reason. After his Messianic impulse #Fails to protect his friends, Ichigo is sent scurrying to the Visored, begging (in his fashion) for yet another Shounen Upgrade slash training. Ichigo, Heroic Resolve intact, tells Shinji and the Hollow-fortified Soul Reapers that he will take them up on their offer: establish I'm teh Man! dominance over the Hollow Enemy Within within (and later, wield its (his) power to kick teh a*ses of the Espada, Aizen's cadre of elite Arrancar).
Perpetually in PMS Hiyori starts Ichigo on his spartan training, but before the tiny, former 12th Division lieutenant completely wipes the floor with him, Ichigo's hollow emerges. It takes the Visored collective to suppress Shirosaki.
Shinji then allows Ichigo to go one on one with his hollow self, an exercise that knocks Ichigo out and gives his hollow metamorphosis free rein.
(Meanwhile, the Kudzu Plot continues to unravel, as shared by Wiki's summary: Soul Society Gotei 13 leader Yamamoto Genryūsai divulges the true objective of A God Am I Aizen to the other Shiro, 10th Division captain Hitsugaya.)
Shiawase Kissa 3-chome
© Matsuzuki Kou/
Hakusensha/Hana to Yume
Published in Indonesia
as Happy Café by m&c!
Elsewhere (though not in 3-chome), Uru goes on a picnic with friends and coincidentally (not) runs into Abekawa Sou, one of the brother pair from Abekawa-ya, the traditional Japanese bakery that is Café Bonheur's “rival.” Because of good-natured ribbing from her pals, Make Someone Happy Uru finds out (finally!) how Sou feels about her.
Was the delirious shock so great that it makes Uru contract a high fever?
What will be your next move, Shindou-san? Sou is your doppelgänger, after all. And what about you, Ichirou-kun? With Sou's rabu declaration out in the open, what will happen to the Happy Café ShinRu, IchiRu, and ShinIchiRu OTP/OT3 now?
Gakkou Hotel © Morie Satoshi/
Hakusensha/Hana to Yume
Published in Indonesia
as School Hotel by m&c!
The School Hotel (Gakkou Hotel) blurb is skosh generic:
Gakkou Hotel e Youkoso! Make yourself at home and ditch the mask and reveal your true self.
At first an invited guest, Keirin High “saint” Amano Toriko eventually joins the staff of the School Hotel and finds she's at the front desk facing a deluge of customers, each with surprising reasons for checking in.
Forget the hotel guests. I wanna know what's going to happen to Toriko x the “devilish” bishie hotel manager Ozuka Mizuchi.
The summary of the other finale, C-blossom -case 729- (volume 2), huddles under the manga lists, along with synopses for Innocent Dragon (Tenkuu Seiryuu) 5 and White Paper Ark (Hakobune Hakusho) 6.
With a little help from Hong Kong... (Non sequitur to squeeze in Fu and Dragon, the Three Kingdoms manhua on double launch; synopses and covers (way) below)
m&c!'s diversification takes it to neighboring Malaysia and nets these five standalones: Call from the Grave by Kash; Dari Alam Angker Histeria and Illusive (both by Oga); Eli by Zint; and Punch by Aliow. None of the artists' names are familiar to me; I only know of (and that barely in passing) LAT/Mohamed Nor Khalid. At any rate, of the five, only Aliow's Punch is not horror (more like a mystery thriller). You can see what I mean if you click the title links that lead to the m&c! covers/summaries.
(But the real mystery is why they cost IDR 20,000/volume.)
Release links are hide/unhide. Click for more details and cover scans.
- Bleach 25 of 45+ by Kubo Tite
- C-blossom -case 729- volume 2 of 2 by Shimotsuki Kayoko, Fukui Harutoshi [Finale]
- [Premiere] Fu and Dragon 1 of 2 by Li Zhi Qing/Zhuang Han Bo
- [New] Fu and Dragon 2 of 2 by Li Zhi Qing/Zhuang Han Bo [Finale]
- Happy Café (Shiawase Kissa 3-chome) 13 of 15 by Matsuzuki Kou
- The Impeccable Twins Final Chapters 8 of 20: Sengketa Dewa (bagian kedua) by Khu Lung, Cai Jing Dong
- Innocent Dragon (Tenkuu Seiryuu) 5 of 7+ by Yamaguchi Miyuki
- Long Hu Men (Oriental Heroes) 167: Energi Long Hu by Tony Wong
- School Hotel (Gakkou Hotel) 2 of 2 by Morie Satoshi [Finale]
- White Paper Ark (Hakobune Hakusho) 6 of 7 by Fujino Moyamu
- Monika dan Kawan-Kawan (Turma da Mônica) 134 by Mauricio
- Star Wars: Clone Wars Adventures 5 of 10 by Matt Jacobs, Fillbach Brothers, and Rick Lacy, featuring
What Goes Up,
Bailed Out,
Heroes on Both Sides,
and Order of Outcasts
- [New] Call from the Grave by Kash
- [New] Dari Alam Angker Histeria by Oga
- [New] Eli by Zint
- [New] Illusive by Oga
- [New] Punch by Aliow
NOTE
(1) Source: m&c! (advisory, artwork)
(2) All listed GN are priced at IDR 15,000 each, except the full-color Star Wars: Clone Wars Adventures 5 (SRP: IDR 45,000); the Hong Kong manhua: Long Hu Men (IDR 60,000), The Impeccable Twins Final Chapters 8 (IDR 17,500), and the Fu and Dragon volumes (each IDR 18,500); and the Malaysian comics (IDR 20,000 per volume)
(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.
Manga volume previews continued...
C-blossom -case 729-
© Shimotsuki Kayoko
& Fukui Harutoshi/
Kodansha/Betsufure
Published in Indonesia by m&c!
The “embezzling” case at the Defense Ministry sparks internal conflict within the covert organization Dice, and threatens the life of Matsumiya Kana, daughter of the Ministry bureaucrat charged with corruption. This prompts Dice higher-ups to order agent Kisaragi Kou to guard Kana and ensure her safety. Alone, what can Kisaragi Kou accomplish against a troop of Black ops operatives, one of whom bears him a homicidal grudge?
Now I also want Boukoku no Aegis (Aimless Aegis), Fukui Harutoshi- & Yokoyama Jin's seinen manga (whence Shimotsuki Kayoko's shoujo C-blossom was spun-off) for the simple Kyaaa~! Kou-sama! reason. (I'm sorry, but Kana is too much of a plot device and thus, fails to induce emotional investment.)
Since the previous Innocent Dragon volume was last seen around March 2009, you can get up to speed/refresh your memory with this Ivyscan series description (excerpted by Baka-Updates Manga). As for volume 5 of Yamaguchi Miyuki's always purtily-covered Innocent Dragon —
Sanin appears before Kanan and her savior Lamka, but she chooses to remain with the Lord of Sanwa's son. With Sanin out of the way, Lamka and allies are free to embark on a new journey, one that would take them to a monastery on Mount Lamo.
A dream allows Fune to uncover Miiko's secret past and the identity of Miiko's beloved. But now it is Fune who's bitten by the love bug. Sasuke's constant avowals of protecting Fune has made her fall for him. What will Fune do once she finds out what was behind Sasuke's disappearance when he was younger, a mystery that Yuusuke will do everything to lay bare.
Manhua volume previews
This series is apparently a manhua retelling of Romance of the Three Kingdoms.
Zhuge Liang is known as the Sleeping (or Crouching) Dragon.
When the noble Huang clan proposes Zhuge Liang's betrothal to the beauteous Ai Er, the handsome scholar refuses and instead opts for Ai Er's older sister A Fu, dubbed Ugly.
Not long after their marriage, Zhuge Liang is visited three times by general Liu Bei. Liu Bei asks Zhuge Liang for advice on confronting warlord Cao Cao, personally responsible for slaughtering 300 soldiers and commoners. Zhuge Liang thus decides to abandon his seclusion and leave the mountains.
m&c! asks what's in store for the genius strategist and inventor Zhuge Liang, whose name equals intelligence and tactics in Chinese culture, and answers in —
As Cao Cao's forces mount an assault in the south, Jing province governor Liu Bao dies from illness. This forces Zhuge Liang and A Fu to struggle to realize the plan of reviving the Han Dynasty via the Three Kingdoms strategy.
~niki DBA huamulan03 (花木蘭03)
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Bleach 「 ＢＬＥＡＣＨ－ブリーチ－ 」 by Kubo Tite
Shueisha Weekly Shonen Jump, shounen
Volume 25: No Shaking Throne first published in Japan 2006.12
Volume 25: No Shaking Throne contains:
AWARDS: Best shounen manga in the 50th Shogakukan Manga Awards
Bleach is published in English by VIZ Media (volume 30 released 2010.03.02 • volume 31 street date: 2010.06.01)
An anime adaptation by Studio Pierrot began airing in October 2004 and continues to this day (Season 15, the return to the Hueco Mundo arc, opened with episode 266 on 2010.04.13). Seiyuu Morita Masakazu and Orikasa Fumiko star as leads Kurosaki Ichigo and Kuchiki Rukia. Paku Romi and Namikawa Daisuke play 10th Division captain Hitsugaya Toshiro and Arrancar Ulquiorra Schiffer respectively. At least two OAVs and three theatrical movies—Bleach the Movie: Memories of Nobody, Bleach the Movie: The DiamondDust Rebellion, Another Hyōrinmaru, and Bleach the Movie: Fade to Black, I Call Your Name—have been released.