I Love You Suzuki kun 10, My Youth with You 6, Princess by Honda Natsumi (3L shoujo manga out naw~)

Streeted 17 October 2011, according to Angelzon, though I haven't eyeballed them yet myself.

Suki desu, Suzuki-kun!! © Ikeyamada Go/Shogakukan [Serialized in Sho-Comi] · Kimi no Tonari de Seishunchuu © Fujisawa Shizuki/Shogakukan [First serialized in Betsucomi]. Published in Indonesia as I Love You, Suzuki kun!! and My Youth With You by Tiga Lancar Comic/3L

Only one more year before Sayaka, Hikaru, Chihiro and Shinobu graduate from high school in I Love You, Suzuki kun!!. Thanks to a successful debut, Sayaka has achieved fame as an actress; Hikaru, meanwhile, busies himself with the school festival. A free time window opens up in Sayaka's busy schedule and she decides to go to Hikaru's school festival. There she accidentally sees an old picture of herself and Hikaru in Hikaru's cell phone. Meanwhile, Chihiro and Shinobu seem to have snapped out of the limbo they've been in.

Baka-Updates Manga indicates the status of Ikeyamada Go's Suki desu Suzuki-kun!! as 14 Volumes (Ongoing); available tankou, however, stands at 13 (streets 26 October in Japan). So I use the latter number for my volume tally.

Per earlier volumes, I Love You, Suzuki kun!! vol 10 is rated for [DEWASA] or Mature audiences — as is the debuting Princess, Honda Natsumi's manga adapt of HIMI's cellphone novel. Princess and My Youth with You vol 6 previewed below the release list.

3L/Tiga Lancar Comic shoujo manga (2011.10.17)

1. I Love You, Suzuki kun!! (Suki desu Suzuki-kun!!) vol 10 of 13+ by Ikeyamada Go

Suki desu Suzuki-kun!! 「好きです鈴木くん！！」 by Ikeyamada Go
AKA The Lovin' “S”
Shogakukan Sho-Comi, shoujo
Volume 10 (chapters 46-50) first published in Japan 2010.12

Adaptations
The first anime OAD was bundled with Sho-Comi's first 2010 issue (released 2009.12; chapter 1 reenactment), the second with the Suki desu Suzuki-kun!! Official Fanbook (shipped 2010.07; chapters 15 and 16 re-enactment).

Two light novels written by Tokiumi Yui and illustrated by Ikeyamada Go have also been released. The first, Suki desu Suzuki-kun!! Pure White Love (2009.12.24), detailed Hikaru and Sayaka's relationship during the couple's last year of middle school. The second Suki desu Suzuki-kun!! With Precious Heart light novel (2010.07.26) is set before the high school arc/between manga volumes 7 and 8.

A Nintendo DS game—Suki desu Suzuki-kun!! ~Yo-nin no Suzuki-kun—released in 2010.07. Per the title, the game introduces two new Ikeyamada-sensei designed characters also surnamed Suzuki: Suzuki Michiru and Suzuki Hiroto. A limited edition of the Idea Factory game came with a drama CD featuring a story about the four main characters.

2. My Youth with You (Kimi no Tonari de Seishunchuu) vol 6 of 8 by Fujisawa Shizuki

Kimi no Tonari de Seishunchuu 「キミのとなりで青春中。」
by Fujisawa Shizuki
Shogakukan Betsucomi, shoujo
Volume 6 first published in Japan 2011.01

3. [Premiere] Princess by HIMI and Honda Natsumi

Princess 「プリンセス」 by HIMI and Honda Natsumi
Shogakukan Cheese!, shoujo
This volume first published in Japan 2009.02

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Sacrificial Love Trouble by Honda Natsumi, I Can't Stop Loving You by Watanabe Shiho, Galism 4 ~ 3L shoujo manga out nau~

These 3L shoujo manga should already be available at your favorite bookstore or newsstand. I got the newbie pair already ^^v

Ikenie no Koiwazurai © Honda Natsumi/Shogakukan [Serialized in Cheese!]
Published in Indonesia as Sacrificial Love Trouble by Tiga Lancar Semesta/3L

[May contain SPOILERS!]

Imagine Noriko's consternation when one fine day, Souma, the school terror, orders her to become his “sacrifice.” Sacrifice? Does he mean he wants Noriko to serve him? Whatever that means? But when Noriko shows her reluctance, Souma backs off...and makes a quickie U-turn to “Be mine!”

What will happen to Noriko naww?

Nik sez... More than the main Sacrificial Love Trouble—which has The Kiss
(＾∇＾) rushing four pages into the story—this Honda Natsumi antho contains my all-time Guilty Pleasure read, Slight Fever of Snow AKA Binetsu Snow. (Even if The Kiss here only hurtles in 11 pages into the story, it's an atsui! French Kiss Ｏ(≧∇≦)Ｏ) Rui's eager anticipation of cousin Ritsu's visit mutates into panic after she finds out that (1) Ritsu's actually a boy and (2) she, the androphobe, has to share bathrooms live with him!

Needless to say Sacrificial Love Trouble is a GET! on the strength of Slight Fever of Snow alone. If you're not convinced, however, Honda Natsumi-sensei's second tankou also compiles Goodbye My Love, I Can't Tell Anyone and Beastly Boy in the Midnight, in addition to those two *chuu~*ful titles. All, I suppose, first debuted in Cheese!.

In the mood for even heavier angst? Then check out —

I Can't Stop Loving You by Watanabe Shiho

Gomen, Soredemo Kimi ga Suki
© Watanabe Shiho/
Shogakukan [Sho-Comi]
Published in Indonesia as
I Can't Stop Loving You
by Tiga Lancar Semesta/3L

A month before Valentine's Day, Yoriko promises to double-date with her best friend Hi-chan and her boyfriend. A 2×twosome day in Disneyland should've been fun, fun, FUN! but reality is nowhere near the mark. Yoriko can. Not. Spit. Out! that she and partner Kengo have broken up.

Desperate to keep the truth hidden, Yoriko begs Kengo to pretend to still be with her... at least, until Valentine's Day...

Watanabe Shiho's I Can't Stop Loving You, originally Gomen, Soredemo Kimi ga Suki, also includes Sho-Comi one-shots Hey, Do You Like Me?, Confession, My 15 Years of Life and You and Pure Heart Tears.

For other Watanabe Shiho and Honda Natsumi manga, scroll down. Both Sacrificial Love Trouble and I Can't Stop Loving You are Teen or Remaja-friendly. I preview Yokoyama Mayumi's Mature or   [DEWASA] rated Galism 4 after the release list.

3L shoujo manga (2011.08.19)

1. Galism ~ 3 Sisters first-class Love ~ (Galism - Renai Joutou 3 Shimai) 4 of 6 by Yokoyama Mayumi

Galism - Renai Joutou 3 Shimai 「ギャリズム」 by Yokoyama Mayumi
Shogakukan Betsucomi, shoujo
Volume 4 first published in Japan 2006.05

2. [Premiere] I Can't Stop Loving You (Gomen, Soredemo Kimi ga Suki) by Watanabe Shiho

Gomen, Soredemo Kimi ga Suki 「ごめん、それでもキミが好き」
by Watanabe Shiho
Shogakukan Sho-Comi, shoujo
This anthology first published in Japan 2010.07

3. [Premiere] Sacrificial Love Trouble (Ikenie no Koiwazurai) by Honda Natsumi

Ikenie no Koiwazurai 「いけにえの恋わずらい」
by Honda Natsumi
Shogakukan Cheese!, shoujo
This anthology first published in Japan 2007.11

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Chain of Pearl 1 by Minami Kanan, Swear Love on Your Knees by Honda Natsumi, Pet Wiz 1 by Morita Nana (3L manga out now)

Post wrote itself in the title...but NikBabble™. Will. Persist!

Shinju no Kusari © Minami Kanan/Shogakukan [Sho-Comi]
Hizamazuite Ai o Chikae © Honda Natsumi/Shogakukan [Cheese!]
Published in Indonesia as Chain of Pearl and Swear Love on Your Knees by Tiga Lancar Comic/3L

In lieu of ramping up Today the Love Begin and giving us the Christmas and hatsumode episodes of Kyou, Koi wo Hajimemasu 11, 3L procrastinates with another Minami Kanan shoujo series—only a two-volumer this time—consisting of a 9 chapter [love triangle] story with 3 side stories, Chain of Pearl.

Keito-senpai asks Hisa to re-apply as her high school's soccer club manager, and she agrees. There she meets Sakyou, the soccer club ace who scores a big fat zero in manners. But Sakyou is not your regular bishie jerk-and-a-half; he soon uncovers Hisa's secret part-time job. So, of course, the outed Hisa falls for Sakyou, which troubles My name is actually ‘Faithful’ Keito, concealing an unrequited love for Hisa.

Volume 1 contains Chain of Pearl 1 (don't know how many chapters) and A ‘Girlfriend’ with Substance (scanlated as The Fruit Called Grapefruit), Minami Kanan-sensei's debut one-shot about Sachi who forces Takanori to make her his girlfriend, much to the latter's (initial) aversion. (The remaining shorts are in volume 2.) Baka-Updates Manga adds that an additional Chain of Pearl one-shot appears in tankou 1 of LoveSupreme Principle AKA Renai Shijou Shugi.

I discuss Honda Natsumi's Swear Love on Your Knees romance antho and Morita Nana's ongoing seinen 4-koma Pet Wiz after the manga list.

3L shoujo and seinen manga (2011.04.21)

1. [Series Premiere] Chain of Pearl (Shinju no Kusari) 1 of 2 by Minami Kanan

Shinju no Kusari 「真珠の鎖」 by Minami Kanan
Shogakukan Sho-Comi, shoujo
Volume 1 first published in Japan 2002.07

2. [Series Premiere] Pet Wiz 1 of 2+ by Morita Nana

Pet Wiz 「ＰＥＴ　ＷＩＺ」 by Morita Nana
Ichijinsha 4Koma KINGS Palette Comics, seinen/4-koma
Volume 1 first published in Japan 2009.08

3. [Premiere] Swear Love On Your Knees (Hizamazuite Ai o Chikae) by Honda Natsumi

Hizamazuite Ai o Chikae 「ひざまずいて愛を誓え」
by Honda Natsumi
Shogakukan Cheese!, shoujo
This anthology first published in Japan 2008.02

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Love in Full Blossom by Honda Natsumi and Boys Girl 1 by Nagayama Ei (3L shoujo manga out now)

Hanazakari de Koi Shiteru © Honda Natsumi/Shogakukan
Published in Indonesia as Love in Full Blossom by Tiga Lancar Comic/3L

Despite the male friends surrounding you, I don't want any man to realize how sweet you are. I'm always thinking of you...

So goes Jealous BF Yukihito's thoughts on our heroine Kaede from Love in Full Blossom, Honda Natsumi's inaugural work that 3L released before 2010 closed. The romance shorts compiled in the antho (originally Hanazakari de Koi Shiteru) first appeared in Cheese! and beyond Possessive Lover, generate these Popular Boy, Tomboy, Studious Character, Tutor, Older Female/Younger Male, Rich Guy/Poor Girl, Appearance Different from Personality, Infirmary and Tsundere tags. (Bishounen is a foregone conclusion.)

GET!

I recommend Love in Full Blossom as a GET!. I give none of the stories—Love in Full Blossom, I Love You, Sweetheart, Summer, a girl and a beast and SOS Candy—a grade lower than 7 of 10 ♡. (Of course, your mileage may vary; I'm not exactly impartial when it comes to Honda Natsumi manga.)

This is shoujo smut and as such, meant for the Dewasa or Mature reader.

3L published Honda Natsumi-sensei's Love & Noise! in March 2010. Her other works include Guilty Pleasures Hizamazuite Ai o Chikae, Ikenie no Koiwazurai (which contains the guiltiest of Guilty Pleasure one-shots Binetsu Snow), Kiken na Honey and surprisingly, the supernatural troped Shinigami no Torisetsu.

Boys Girl 1 of 3+ by Nagayama Ei

I picked up this series debut, having mistaken it for a Hanaya En manga (I lurved Can I Hug You). Still, it serves the purpose of completing this 3L post.

Boys Girl © Nagayama Ei
Shogakukan
Published in Indonesia
by Tiga Lancar Comic

Kokona hates, detests, loathes—insert your SAT vocabulary word here—guys. Before school starts, she accidentally saves a ‘Sweet Girl.’ The erstwhile victim turns out to also be Misaki Hiromu, a boy who attends the same high school.

Kokona has the bad habit of knocking the lights out of any guy who touches her, but for some strange reason, she holds her punches when it comes to Misaki...

In addition to chapters 1-3 (the series is ongoing in Betsucomi), Boys Girl also contains Pasti akan bertemu lagi, pacaran yuk (We will surely meet again, let's go out) and Orang yang kukejar (The one I'm chasing).

3L has also published Nagayama Ei-sensei's Because I'm Falling In Love, Let's Sing for Love and Love Rookie.

3L Comics (2010.12.28)

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1. [Series Premiere] Boys Girl 1 of 3+ by Nagayama Ei

Boys Girl 「ボーイズ・ガール」 by Nagayama Ei
Shogakukan Betsucomi, shoujo
Volume 1 first published in Japan 2009.10

2. [Premiere] Love in Full Blossom (Hanazakari de Koi Shiteru) by Honda Natsumi

Hanazakari de Koi Shiteru 「花ざかりで恋してる」
by Honda Natsumi
Shogakukan Cheese!, shoujo
This anthology first published in Japan 2007.06

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