So I’m looking through the release list for the week and thinking I’m going to get off fairly cheaply. Then I hit the manga publishers. Surely that isn’t all coming out tomorrow, is it? I know Tokyopop tends to list its monthly releases up front, but Viz usually breaks things down week by week. And if all of that is arriving at the same time, I’m going to need to pop by the plasma bank on the way to the shop.
Tokyopop actually isn’t so bad: just the seventh volume of Sgt. Frog. (I know… “Just?”)
Viz, on the other hand… Case Closed Vol. 4, Imadoki! Vol. 5, the debut of Times Two, Whistle! Vol. 4… plus a bunch of other titles and some of the new shojo rolling out… Ye gods.
Ah, and Oni has the second volume of Love as a Foreign Language. I liked the first installment and plan to review the title at some point, but I feel like I need to read more of it before I do.
Speaking of Oni, did I miss the second volume of Scott Pilgrim? I remember pre-ordering it from the February Previews, along with the re-issue of Lost at Sea, and neither seems to have shown up. Not that I’m begging for the extra expense this week, and I’ll be perfectly happy to get them whenever they ship. I just want to make sure I haven’t missed them and need to start backtracking.