First Love Summer Romanesque by Fujimi Rio, Osu Mesu Kiss by Ichidou Hikaru, Boys Girl 3 of 3 (3L shoujo manga out naaw) [UPDATED]

Streeted 27 September 2011, according to Angelzon.

Update: I missed advising Boys Girl's finale the first time around *sweatdrop*

Hatsukoi Summer Romanesque © Fujimi Rio/Shogakukan [First serialized in Ciao]
Osu Mesu Kissu © Ichidou Hikaru/Shogakukan [Flower Comics]
Published in Indonesia as First Love Summer Romanesque and Osu Mesu Kiss by Tiga Lancar Comic/3L

First Love Summer Romanesque sees Yume who's just dying to experience First Love bumping into Hotaru on the first day of summer. Hotaru introduces Yume to several firsts: first time exchanging text messages with a guy, first time playing with fireworks—literally (and perhaps, figuratively?!)—with a guy...

Along with Hotaru and his cousin, Yume spends the most fun summer holiday of her life, evar. So is it any wonder she finds herself falling for... (To find x, check out First Love Summer Romanesque. Hint: Yume's after The Cool Guy.)

Besides First Love Summer Romanesque, this Fujimi Rio omnibus also collects one-shots Rinrin Vivid!, Snow Whip Christmas and Gohoubi wa Sugar Sweet or Sugar is Sweet Reward. (*NOT 3L's story titles save the antho namer.)

Other Fujimi Rio manga
Hatsukoi Summer Romanesque appears to be the first Fujimi Rio manga licensed in Indonesia. Not surprising as there's only one other shoujo one-shot tankou in her/his backlist: the Ultra-romantic comedy handsome bodyguard Futari de Mamotte Agemasu!, first serialized in Ciao and collected into one volume in July 2010.

Meanwhile, the Teacher/Student-troped Osu Mesu Kiss is not the first Ichidou Hikaru manga 3L has published. Remember Let's Do Extracurricular Lesson? (If you're blanking out, click the link.) I preview Osu Mesu Kiss below the release list, but lemme just warn that despite 3L rating it for Remaja or Teens, the manga's title Osu Mesu Kiss transliterates to Sex Kiss. That should make you pause if you're not yet legal :D That First Love Summer Romanesque first appeared in Ciao and is compiled under the Ciao Comics label, however, is your guarantee of Not!Smut. [Continued...]

3L shoujo manga (2011.09.16)

1. Boys Girl vol. 3 of 3 by Nagayama Ei [Finale]

Boys Girl 「ボーイズ・ガール」 by Nagayama Ei
Shogakukan Betsucomi, shoujo
Volume 3 first published in Japan 2010.10

2. [Premiere] First Love Summer Romanesque (Hatsukoi Summer Romanesque) by Fujimi Rio

Hatsukoi Summer Romanesque 「はつ恋サマーロマネスク」 by Fujimi Rio
Shogakukan Ciao, shoujo
This anthology first published in Japan 2008.10

3. [Premiere] Osu Mesu Kiss (Osu Mesu Kissu) by Ichidou Hikaru

Osu Mesu Kissu 「オス・メス・キッス」 by Ichidou Hikaru
Shogakukan Flower Comics, shoujo
This anthology first published in Japan 2009.11

Related series
Follow-up Osu Mesu Kissu Tsuishissu! (Japan release: 2010.09)

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Today the Love Begin 10, Boys Girl 2, He is More Than My Brother by Hattori Miki (3L shoujo manga out now) [UPDATED]

Please keep praying for Japan and/or do something to help the 3.11 quake and tsunami victims. ANN reports that all Shogakukan (and Shueisha) manga creators have checked in safe (Minami Kanan, Hattori Miki and Nagayama Ei, whose manga appear here, are all Shogakukan manga-ka).

Kyou, Koi wo Hajimemasu © Minami Kanan/Shogakukan [Serialized in Sho-Comi]
Published in Indonesia as Today, the Love begin by Tiga Lancar Semesta/3L

Conventional wisdom holds that DAL (Deep Abiding Love) grows deeper following the resolution of UST (Unresolved Sexual Tension), but in fic terms, the development doesn't make for gripping reading. (Why else do you think stories end just when They lived happily ever after?) Minami Kanan-sensei is obviously aware of this because the Happy Happy “honeymoon” between Tsubaki and Kyota soon founders on angst, or so promises the back cover blurb of Kyou, Koi wo Hajimemasu/Today, the Love begin volume 10.

The following contains   [SPOILERS!]

So even in the midst of seriously delish nookie (Tsubaki and Kyota Did It in the previous volume, remember?), Tsubaki continues to worry. Worry escalates to full-blown anxiety when Kyota's mom comes to visit him on his birthday. Kyota turns her away and refuses to accept the birthday gift she got for him. Tsubaki who wants to be Kyota's pillar of strength then decides to...

Read what's next in Today, the Love begin 10, out now.

New 3L title: He Is More Than My Brother by Hattori Miki

3L's latest shoujo anthology is He Is More Than My Brother, Hattori Miki-sensei's Sono Otoko, Oniichan Ijou, first serialized in Sho-Comi.

Sono Otoko, Oniichan Ijou
© Hattori Miki/
Shogakukan [Sho-Comi]
Published in Indonesia as
He Is More Than My Brother
by Tiga Lancar Comic

An earns the nickname Brother Complex because at sweet 16, she remains single and lives only for Big Bro. But the way An looks at it, as long as she has oniichan, she doesn't need a boyfriend. An's childhood pal Souya disagrees. Souya, the polar opposite of An's brother, then ups and confesses to An.

Herein lies the dilemma: An professes to hate Souya, but how come her heart races in his presence? Does this mean An's about to be cured of her brother complex?

Hattori Miki-sensei also created Kokoro mo Karada mo xx mo....

I preview Nagayama Ei-sensei's Boys Girl 2 after the manga list. I don't know whether Boys Girl 2 is rated for   [DEWASA] or Mature audiences, but He Is More Than My Brother and Today, the Love begin 10 definitely are.

3L shoujo manga (2011.03.14)

1. Boys Girl 2 of 3 by Nagayama Ei

Boys Girl 「ボーイズ・ガール」 by Nagayama Ei
Shogakukan Betsucomi, shoujo
Volume 2 first published in Japan 2010.04

2. [Premiere] He is More Than My Brother (Sono Otoko, Oniichan Ijou) by Hattori Miki

Sono Otoko, Oniichan Ijou 「そのオトコ、お兄ちゃん以上」
by Hattori Miki
Shogakukan Sho-Comi, shoujo
This volume first published in Japan 2009.10

3. Today, The Love Begin (Kyou, Koi wo Hajimemasu) 10 of 11+ by Minami Kanan

Kyou, Koi wo Hajimemasu 「今日、恋をはじめます」 by Minami Kanan
Shogakukan Sho-Comi and Sho-Comi Zoukan, shoujo
Volume 10 (chapters 59-65) first published in Japan 2010.10

Other languages
German 3, 2, 1... Liebe! (Tokyopop Germany; Band 9 per 2011.01) and traditional Chinese 今天開始談戀愛 (Ever Glory Taiwan)

Adaptations
A JC Staff anime OAD, starring seiyuu Itō Kanae (Hibino Tsubaki) and Namikawa Daisuke (Tsubaki Kyota). The first episode was bundled with manga volume 9 (Japan release: 2010.06.25), the second with volume 10 (2010.10.26). The third episode released as a standard and premium DVD (2011.02.25).

A Kyou, Koi wo Hajimemasu: Hatsukoi no Prelude light novel was written by Takase Yunoka. Manga-ka Minami Kanan oversaw production of the novel which reprises the Kyou, Koi wo Hajimemasu story from Kyota's point of view. The novel streeted last February.

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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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My Youth with You 3 and Because I'm Falling in Love by Nagayama Ei (3L shoujo manga out now)

Kimi no Tonari de Seishunchuu © Fujisawa Shizuki/Shogakukan (Serialized in Betsucomi)
Published in Indonesia as My Youth with You by Tiga Lancar Semesta/3L

Contains [SPOILERS!]

A botched love confession and three years of separation later, Miu and Keita are finally together. But our new My Youth with You couple has head- and heartaches already queueing. A first date at the amusement park turns disastrous when Keita walks out on Miu, jealous over how his girlfriend finds more in common with (the interfering) Kashiwagi-kun on Niko-Niko Supermarket gives more discounts! terms.

But Kashiwagi and his childhood “sweetheart,” the tsunderekko Marika, are the least of Keita and Miu's problems. What threatens their relationship to kingdom come is Alex, Keita's friend who arrives from the States to whisk Keita back. Can Miu even compete with the cool beauty Alex, full name: Alexandra Yamamoto, who was actually Keita's junior prom date?

Koishite Masukara
© Nagayama Ei
Shogakukan (Flower Comics)
Published in Indonesia as
Because I'm Falling In Love
by Tiga Lancar Semesta/3L

Aside from My Youth with You 3—which I recommend as a GET!—eyeballed a new 3L manga, Because I'm Falling In Love, which I don't. (I didn't buy it, so I can't vouch for it.)

Originally Koishite Masukara, the Flower Comics anthology compiles five short stories from Nagayama Ei, manga-ka of Love Rookie.

I've always wanted a love ordained by destiny...

Suzu finds that you should be careful of what you wish for—especially when it has anything to do with the D-word—after her love confession is accepted by her ideal guy, Ayuto. The boy she met on the train has his own agenda for saying “Yes” to Suzu's proposal.

What secret could Ayuto be hiding?

Aside from Because I'm Falling In Love, there's also Love Domino, Bloom in Snow, Lovers' Intro and Dream request. (These are not official 3L titles, just translations. I didn't buy it.)

3L has also revised its pricing; manga now go for IDR 16,500.

3L shoujo manga (2010.08.20)

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1. [New] Because I'm Falling In Love (Koishite Masukara) by Nagayama Ei

Koishite Masukara 「恋してますから。」 by Nagayama Ei
Shogakukan Flower Comics, shoujo
This volume first published in Japan 2009.01

2. My Youth with You (Kimi no Tonari de Seishunchuu) 3 of 5+ 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 3 (containing Parts 9-12 and a side story) first published in Japan 2009.09

Iamque opus exegi,
~niki DBA huamulan03 (花木蘭03)

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