It’s October! Time for some awesome Halloween cosplay. Don’t you wish we could go trick-or-treating for manga?  If you’re looking for some good shoujo to read, here’s a list of titles showing up on shelves in October.  We have The Nightmare Before Christmas debuting this month and another tantalizing series called Scum’s Wish.  The slice of life series Kuma...

On Saturday October 1, Shojo Beat announced the acquisition of Ryoko Fukuyama’s Fukumenkei Noise manga on twitter. Two people tagged me to let me know! LOL!!   The series is planned for March 2017 in North America.  It has also been announced that Fukumenkei Noise will be getting an anime in Japan, and something else will be announced on...

That Wolf-Boy is Mine!, adapted from Watashi no Ookami-kun, is a four volume shoujo manga by Yoko Nogiri that ran in Aria manga magazine from August 2014 to March 2016. The series is being published in North America by Kodansha USA and the first volume came out in August 2016. The Gist: Kusonoki Komugi lives with her mother in...

Chihayafuru is a series I’ve wanted to read for a long time. I asked many years ago about it getting licensed, but I was told that it was too esoteric of a subject matter to appeal to a broad audience.  I’ve watched the anime, but that doesn’t cover the whole story. So I’ve started picking it up in Japanese....

Fukumenkei Noise is a series by Ryouko Fukuyama, who has been previously published in North America by Tokyopop. This newest series of hers has been running in Hana to Yume manga magazine since 2013. It was recently announced that it would be getting an anime. I’m keeping my fingers crossed that we get it streamed over here. The series...