Also: The Ravages of Time manhua (volume 2) and Michel Vaillant and Yakari BDs: Michel Vaillant - Di Balik Angka 13 and Yakari dan si Anjing Hutan
Ice Forest © Saito Chiho/Shogakukan (Serialized in Flowers)
Published in Indonesia by Elex Media/Level Comics
Contains [SPOILERS!]
Despite a runner-up finish in the All-Japan Ice Dancing contest, Yukino and Romain fail to stop Ikki's uncle from closing down FSC Arc. Ikki himself has to step down as FSC Arc's head. Amid all the bad tidings, some good news comes. What is about to happen? And can Ikki overturn his ouster and defeat his uncle? Find out in Ice Forest volume 5, streeting 23 June.
Summary for the second Saito Chiho manga this Level release—the penultimate A Hint of Purple (Honoka ni Purple volume 2), which should've released last year—is after the manga list. (If it can afford to wait seven months for a street date, it can afford to wait the few more seconds required for you to scroll down.)
A customer's sharp critique fires up aspiring chef Shogo Ban's resolve to become better, and off he goes to reconnoiter several restaurants with co-worker Asuka. While on recce, the pair bumps into Hayama Yasuhide, Baccanale's former head chef and Asuka's ex. Ban and Hayama get into a fight when the latter hits Asuka. Chef Shishido who happens on the fracas proposes to settle things with a cookout between Ban and Hayama.
Can Ban beat Hayama?
Hey, Ban, this is your Chance! to leave the floor and return to where you belong: the kitchen.
After freeing himself from his fetters and manacles, Scythian slave Thrax embarks on a killing spree, slaughtering even Eumenes' father Hieronymus in revenge. Hieronymus' untimely death triggers the revelation of Eumenes' true identity.
What secret lies within Eumenes?
Whatever that secret is, it will effect a 180-degree turn in the life of the boy destined to become secretary to Alexander the Great.
1 or W © Takahashi Rumiko
Shogakukan
Published in Indonesia
by Level Comics
Level releases the next Rumic World collection of Takahashi Rumiko classic short stories: the 1 or W (“1 or double”) anthology.
The 1 or W omnibus actually contains nine shorts, including the titular １orW（ワン・オア・ダブル）, but I still don't know to which story the blurb below alludes:
Miyamoto ditches kendo practice and with Ichiyanagi, flees from Wakatabe, the kendo coach in hot pursuit. But when the brakes on Wakatabe's bike fail, the trio plunges from a cliff and drowns in the river below. Miyamoto and Ichiyanagi are rescued, but Wakatabe can't be found. What's more, since the accident, Ichiyanagi's personality seems to have undergone a sea change. What really happened? And can they still find and save Wakatabe?
Release links are hide/unhide. Click for more details and cover scans.
- [New] 1 or W by Takahashi Rumiko
- Bambino! 4 of 15 by Sekiya Tetsuji
- Exit 3 of 11+ by Fujita Takami
- A Hint of Purple (Honoka ni Purple) 2 of 3 by Saito Chiho
- Historie 2 of 6+ by Iwaaki Hitoshi
- Ice Forest 5 of 7+ by Saito Chiho
- Jio 7 of 19 by Kishimoto Seishi
- Officer Monju (Seigi Keikan Monju) 6 of 10+ by Miyashita Hiroki
- The Ravages of Time (Huo Feng Liao Yuan) 3 of 38+ by Chan Mou
- Michel Vaillant - Di Balik Angka 13 (Michel Vaillant, Tome 5: Le 13 est au départ) by Jean Graton (Le Lombard, 1963)
- Yakari dan si Anjing Hutan (Yakari, Tome 12: Yakari et le coyote) by Derib, Job, Dominique (Casterman, 1986)
NOTE
¹ Sources: Elex Media STO 23 June 2010 and Komikologi (synopses, except where noted)
² All listed GN are priced at IDR 17,000 each, except 1 or W (SRP: IDR 22,000), Exit 3 and Officer Monju 6 (IDR 18,000/volume) and the ROMIC BDs: Michel Vaillant - Di Balik Angka 13 (IDR 35,000) and Yakari dan si Anjing Hutan (IDR 27,000)
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.
Volume previews continued
Methinks we need a refresher. Here's the blurb I wrote for the premiere:
Shino and Akio accidentally meet in the legendary Manyo library in Doumeikan University, where first time encounters between couples lead to love. Auspicious encounter aside, the two later discover they are actually step-siblings and have to live under one roof. Despite initial awkwardness, their love does deepen, but can this romance amount to anything? Or will their newly-wed parents have something to say about it?
K, now that we have the backstory —
Shino's father suspects Shino and Akio's relationship is the farthest from platonic and sends Akio to study in the U.S. for a year. Shino and Akio acquiesce to dad's demand, to give their newly-wed parents' marriage a chance. The year passes and Akio returns. But what is he doing, bringing with him a girl named Akiko and her father?
We enter the next Jio story arc:
Jio and companions finally reach the ruins of Dustom, where they lodge at the home of husband and wife Wick and Basil. There they also stumble upon the Kabbalah purportedly associated with Alucard Spirits, the man who brought the world to its knees with the legendary O-Parts.
Does this mean Jio is close to finding the fabled O-Parts?
Volume 6 contains chapters:
- 25.
The Legend of Spirit
(スピリッツの伝説 Supirittsu no Densetsu
) - 26.
Kabbalah
(カバラ) - 27.
Mom and Dad
(父さん 母さん Tōsan Kaasan
) - 28.
Black Market Caravan
(闇のキャラバン Yami no Kyaraban
)
Mitsuhori schemes with Hazuki to get hands on Fugen, the Red Monju prototype, and succeeds. Mitsuhori then sneaks Fugen into a Tokyo slums to eliminate a gang of arms dealers, but inscrutably decides to leave Fugen there alone.
What are Mitsuhori's actual plans for Fugen?
~niki DBA huamulan03 (花木蘭03)
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other currently available manga (23 June 2010 street date)
- Elex Media: Crayon Shinchan: Keajaiban Ilmu Pengetahuan by Usui Yoshito · Crows 9 · Detektif Conan 57 · Godhand Teru 24 · The Great Detective KIYOSHIRO YUMEMIZU 9 · Hell Girl 2 · Kindaichi Special Case: The Phantom Of The Opera 3rd Murder 1 of 2 by Amagi Seimaru & Sato Fumiya · Let's Play! 3 · New Sexy Simpleton 3 · The Pitcher 72 · Weapon Master 2 · Yotsuba&! 9 · Shonen Star 67/2010
- m&c!: Shanaou Yoshitsune: Genpei War 3 · My Prince by Aikawa Saki · The Impeccable Twins Final Chapters 9 · Cherry 44 · 10 AMERO comics too many to list
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AirGear 「エア・ギア」 by Oh! great
Kodansha Weekly Shonen Magazine, shounen
Volume 18 (Tricks 156-165) first published in Japan 2007.08
Awards
Best Shounen Manga, 2006 Kodansha Manga Awards
Other languages/serializations
English Air Gear (Del Rey: Volume 15-17 released 2010.08.31), Korean (Haksan), traditional Chinese (Tong Li Taiwan), simplified Chinese (Chuang Yi Singapore: volume 28 per 2010.08), French (Pika Édition tome 25 shipped 2011.01.05), Italy (Planet Manga), Germany (Heyne) and Sweden (Schibsted Förlagen Sverige AB/serialized in Manga Mania)
Adaptations
A 25-episode anime by Toei Animation, starring Kamakari Kenta as Ikki, a series of Satelight-animated OADs shipped with the manga tankoubon (Air Gear: Kuro no Hane to Nemuri no Mori -Break on the Sky- OAD streeted with volume 29 in July 2010 with seiyuu Okamoto Nobuhiko as Ikki; the second OAD is expected to street with volume 31 on 2011.03.17), and a series of musicals