Blast you, manga publishers! Why must you release so many titles I love in the same month? Looking through the June 2005 Previews is like a vision of future poverty.
Just look at this entry from Digital Manga Publishing:
“Ono has come a long way since the agonizing day in high school when he confessed his love to handsome Tachibana. Now, some 14 years later Ono, a world-class pastry chef and outed playboy has it all. No man can resist Ono’s charms (or his cooking skills!) but he has just found a new position under a man named Tachibana. Can this be the only man who resisted his charms, and if so, will the man who once snubbed the ‘magically gay’ Ono get his just desserts? And how the heck did a former middleweight boxing champion wind up as Ono’s cake boy? Digital Manga happily serves up the opening volume of Antique Bakery.”
Oh, Antique Bakery… you had me at “hello.”
But DMP isn’t content to tease me with hot guys baking. No, they have to throw the strangely compelling Bambi & her Pink Gun at me, too. Fiends.
Del Rey offers another volume of Othello, and a collection of short-story romance, Perfect Day for Love Letters.
Tokyopop doesn’t have any new titles that grab my eye, but what am I supposed to do in the face of new volumes of Sgt. Frog and Kindaichi Case Files?
And Viz… don’t even talk to me, Viz. The preview edition of Shojo Beat will arrive, along with several entries in its companion digest line. Then there’s more Whistle! and Case Closed. Conspiring with Viz is Miki Aihara, creator of the brilliant Hot Gimmick. Aihara unleashes the first volume of Tokyo Boys and Girls on the world. Aihara goes for a double play with the ninth volume of Hot Gimmick, which promises to focus on one of my favorite supporting characters. Yes, outgoing little sister Akane gets her digest in the sun.
Sigh. Anyone need some yard work done? Or some plasma?