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New on Shoujo Shelves – June 2016

June 6, 2016

It’s summer time! Grab a stack of manga and head to your favorite watering hole! Let’s find out what shoujo titles are showing up on shelves in June. We have Fruits Basket Collector’s Edition debuting this month – long awaited by those wanting to buy an out-of-print shoujo manga bestseller!! Also debuting is new josei manga – Everyone’s Getting Married. Let’s see what other shoujo and josei manga are continuing in the month of June:

Alice in Murderland, vol. 4

Our real parents, yours and mine…

The death match with Mare leaves Stella drained. Slipping in and out of consciousness, she relives the traumatic events of the airline crash. Was Stella’s white-haired bully really on the same plane? And what was in the strange box she saw with him?

Did you and I meet a long time ago? Maybe on an airplane…?

Stella’s doubts about Tsukito, her white-haired bodyguard, resurface… Is her returning memory a Pandora’s box?

…and perhaps a hundred others have died at his hand.

Story and art by Kaori Yuki.

Release Date: 6/21/16

Ani-Imo, vol. 7

Despite all the trials he and Hikaru have endured, Youta realizes that, even as they abandon their brother and sister facade, the two have never been of a like mind about the changes in their relationship brought about by the changes in their physical bodies. Seeing Oda and Mayama’s relationship blossom has only highlighted Youta’s and Hikaru’s failure to understand each other’s feelings and desires. As Hikaru continues to test Youta’s love, Youta struggles to meet her escalating demands and prove to her that he can be the man (in a girl’s body) she wants him to be!

Story and art by Haruko Kurumatani.

Release Date: 6/21/16

Bloody + Mary, vol. 3

Maria’s father Yusei was killed by vampires — and it was Maria’s own fault. Haunted by that guilt, she seals away the memory, until she remembers the face of the murderous vampire — and it looks just like Mary’s! On a mission for answers, Maria comes to the kidnapped Mary’s rescue, but Yzak’s torturing awakens someone else within him…

story and art by Akaza Samamiya.

Release Date: 6/7/16

Everyone’s Getting Married, vol. 1 **New Series**

Successful career woman Asuka Takanashi has an old-fashioned dream of getting married and becoming a housewife. After her long-term boyfriend breaks up with her to pursue his own career goals, she encounters Ryu Nanami, the popular newscaster at PTV. Asuka and Ryu get along well, but the last thing he wants is to ever get married. This levelheaded pair who want the opposite things in life should never get involved. Don’t miss the romance in the first volume of Everyone’s Getting Married!

Story and art by Izumi Miyazono

Release Date: 6/7/16

Fruits Basket Collector’s Edition, vol. 1-2 **New Edition**

After a family tragedy turns her life upside down, plucky high schooler Tohru Honda takes matters into her own hands and moves out…into a tent! Unfortunately for her, she pitches her new home on private land belonging to the mysterious Sohma clan, and it isn’t long before the owners discover her secret. But, as Tohru quickly finds out when the family offers to take her in, the Sohmas have a secret of their own–when touched by the opposite sex, they turn into the animals of the Chinese Zodiac!

Story and Art by Natsuki Takaya.

Release Date: 6/21/16

Fruits Basket Collector’s Edition, vol. 2-3

When she was living in a tent pitched on the Sohma family’s land, Tohru Honda’s primary concerns were dirt and slugs. But now that she’s living with the Sohmas, she’s gotten a crash course in magical powers and ancient curses! And as if keeping the Sohma clan secret wasn’t bad enough, Tohru has to work overtime to prevent all the jealous girls from finding out that she’s living under the same roof as the school prince, Yuki, and the school hothead, Kyo! What new drama will Valentine’s Day bring into Tohru’s life?!

Story and Art by Natsuki Takaya.

Release Date: 6/28/16

He’s My Only Vampire, vol. 7

“You said you loved me, right?”

Kana is heartbroken as Aki treats her with cold indifference after losing all memory of her and their time together. Amid this confusion, Eriya–Aki’s younger twin brother said to have been put in sleep stasis after being nearly killed by Aki–makes his entrance!! What will happen when the blood-soaked vampire twins finally meet again?!

Story and art by Aya Shouoto.

Release Date: 6/21/16

Kamisama Kiss, vol. 21

Tomoe has made up his mind—he can’t have a happily ever after with Nanami as a yokai, so he’s going to become a human! But things don’t go as planned when he drinks the water of evolution, and now he’s stuck in fox form! The only way he can turn back is with the help of the kami Ôkuninushi in Izumo, so he and Mikage set off on a road trip. Nanami is supposed to stay behind at the shrine, but she wants to be with Tomoe to give him support. But what should have been a simple shortcut to Izumo turns into a frightening ordeal when Nanami runs into one of Akura-oh’s henchmen!

Story and art by Julietta Suzuki

Release Date: 6/7/16

Kiss Him, Not Me, vol. 5

Story and art by Junko.

Release Date: 6/7/16

Komomo Confiserie, vol. 4

As a little girl, Komomo Ninomiya delighted in picking on Natsu Azumi, the son of her family’s pastry chef. Ten years later, when the family fortune is lost and she has no place to live, Komomo encounters Natsu again in her hour of need. Now that Natsu is a master pastry chef in his own right, he’ll help Komomo-but only if she works for him at his new confiserie!

Komomo attends her first festival by working in the Méli-Mélo food truck. But Natsu keeps snubbing her in front of Noel Étoile, an entitled rich girl who became attached to him while he was in France. Komomo realizes that Natsu must be in love with Noel, but why is Komomo so upset by it? Find out in volume 4 of Komomo Confiserie!

Story and art by Maki Minami.

Release Date: 6/7/16

LDK, vol. 5

Aoi still secretly pines for Shusei’s affection but constantly worries that revealing her feelings to him will bring their living situation to an end. Meanwhile, a new neighbor moves into Aoi and Shusei’s building — and it’s a student from their high school! Will this new resident bring big changes to Aoi and Shusei’s secret cohabitation?

Story and art by Ayu Watanabe.

Release Date: 6/14/16

Princess Jellyfish, vol. 3-4

Tsukimi Kurashita moves into the Amamizukan to take refuge with other geek girls. But real life has a way of crashing in, even when you’re hiding among socially-inept manga artists, history buffs, and doll fanatics.

A chance encounter with a young woman (who’s actually a man — and the black sheep in a wealthy family) puts Tsukimi on a path she never thought she’d travel: that of fashion designer and entrepreneur! But with so many valuable secrets floating around, predators are bound to smell blood in the water.

Collects volumes 3-4 in omnibus format.

Story and art by Akiko Higashimura.

Release Date: 6/14/16

QQ Sweeper, vol. 3 **Final Volume**

One day, Kyutaro Horikita, the tall, dark and handsome cleaning expert of Kurokado High, comes across a sleeping maiden named Fumi Nishioka at school… Unfortunately, their meeting is anything but a fairy-tale encounter! It turns out Kyutaro is a ‘Sweeper” who cleans away negative energy from people’s hearts-and Fumi is about to become his apprentice!

Fumi still has no memory of her past, but she begins to feel a sense of calm working and living with Kyutaro and his family of Sweepers. But when a Bug Handler goes after her, how will she overcome his dark manipulation?

Story and art by Kyousuke Motomi.

Release Date: 6/7/16

Say I Love You, vol. 14

Story and art by Akiko Higashimura.

Release Date: 6/7/16

So Cute It Hurts, vol. 7

The Kobayashi twins, Megumu and Mitsuru, were named after historical figures, but only Megumu has grown up with a taste for history. So when Mitsuru is in danger of losing his weekends to extra history classes, he convinces his sister to swap clothes with him and ace his tests! After all, how hard can it be for them to play each other?

Megumu has once again switched places with her brother, just in time to encounter Akechi’s newest student—the angry guy she met in the park! Chiharu Uesugi knows something about Aoi’s past, and seems determined to take him down. Megumu wants to protect her boyfriend, but will she be able to foil whatever nefarious plan Uesugi has cooked up when he blackmails her into a date?!

Story and art by Go Ikeyamada.

Release Date: 6/7/16