Remember when this used to be a regular feature? Yeah, me either.

I can’t believe I got this long of a list on a week, seemingly, without Tokyopop or Viz releases. (Now, before you complain or ‘correct’ me, I’ll just note I’m not using Diamond’s release info but instead dates that are available to me at the bookstore where I work. [*cough*] Not that I’m looking up manga on the computer while on the clock or anything. …I’m sure the Viz and T’pop titles will be showing up next week.)

If the formatting looks vaguely familiar, chalk it up to one part house style and one part vast smoking tyranical engine of a spreadsheet — the same one I’m using for the Manga Charts. Handy sucker, that thing is, mighty handy.

It’s almost too much to choose from. Oh, I suppose I can find at least one…

Pick o’ the Week

Hollow Fields, vol 2.
Madeleine Rosca
Seven Seas

What can I say about Hollow Fields that I haven’t said already? Rosca won a little award for this, maybe you read about it. Sight unseen, I’ll take this over the rest of the pack, easy.

In fact, I’m a couple weeks early, methinks. While my sources show a release date of 29 April, Seven Seas is saying May. Sometime.

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Honorable Mentions: Gon 4, A Geisha’s Journey: My Life as a Kyoto Apprentice, Avalon: Web of Magic, Teppanyaki Barbecue: Japanese Cooking on a Hotplate.

Oh, and kids, would you please stop buying this thing:

I’ve been coming across this title (as a preorder) on the source charts for my manga bestsellers for weeks now, and it still creeps me out a little. I know I’m not the target demo for this — but really, it’s not the yaoi that bugs me but the vampire bit and that gods’ awful title…

If you have to buy it, order it from a store so it doesn’t come up on online sales sites — and so I don’t have to look at that cover six times a week. I’m begging you, please.
Full list after the break

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New Manga (and Manga-ish) Releases:
After School Nightmare 7 - Mizushiro, Go! Comi $10.99 ::
AI Revolution 3 - Asami, Kirishima, Go! Comi $10.99 ::
Air Gear 8 - Oh!Great, Del Rey $10.95 ::
Alive: the Final Evolution 4 - Kawashima, Del Rey $10.95 ::
Amazing Agent Luna Omnibus 1 - Defillippis, Weir, Shiei, Seven Seas $11.99 ::
Avalon: Web of Magic (novel) 3 - Roberts, Seven Seas $5.95 ::
Aventura 2 - Midorikawa, Del Rey $10.95 ::
Berserk 22 - Miura, Dark Horse $13.95 ::
Black Sun Silver Moon 5 - Maeda, Go! Comi $10.99 ::
Caged Slave (novel) - Takamure, Kanae, DMP June $8.95 ::
Cantarella 10 - Higuri, Go! Comi $10.99 ::
Crayon Shinchan 2 - Usui, CMX $7.99 ::
Dance in the Vampire Bund 1 - Tamaki, Seven Seas $9.99 ::
Dark Prince 2 - Abraham, Sambre, Yaoi Press $12.95 ::
Dear Waltz 1 - Ji-Un, Udon $11.95 ::
Devil Kings Basara 1 - Shimotsuki, Udon $12.95 ::
Dororo 1 - Tezuka, Vertical $13.95 ::
Dorothea 1 - Cuvie, CMX $12.99 ::
E’s vol 6 - Yuiga, Broccoli Books $9.99 ::
First Stage of Love - Mishima, DMP June $12.95 ::
Flamboyant - Hakua, DMP $24.95 ::
Fujoshi Rumi 2 - Konjoh, Media Blasters $11.99 ::
Gon 4 - Tanaka, CMX $5.99 ::
Hikkatsu! 3 - Yagami, Go! Comi $10.99 ::
Hollow Fields 2 - Rosca, Seven Seas $9.99 ::
Hot Steamy Glasses - Kaiya, DMP June $12.95 ::
I Hate You More Than Anyone 4 - Hidaka, CMX $9.99 ::
I, Otaku: struggle in Akihabara 2 - Suzuki, Seven Seas $9.99 ::
Kanji de Manga Special: Yojijukugo - Kardy, Hattori, Japanime’s Manga University $9.99 ::
Koi Cupid 1 - Ikumi, Broccoli $9.99 ::
Love Lesson - Sakazaki, DMP June $12.95 ::
Love Master A vol 2 - Hashimoto, Go! Comi $10.99 ::
Moe USA 2 - Okura, Japanime’s Manga University $9.99 ::
Necratoholic - Wasabi, DMP June $12.95 ::
Nephilim - Hanamaki, Aurora $10.95 ::
Ninin Ga Shinobuden 4 - Koga, Infinity Studios $9.95 ::
Now 4 - Park, Infinity Studios $10.95 ::
Oh My Goddess! 29 - Fujishima, Dark Horse $10.95 ::
Otogi Matsuri 3 - Inoue, CPM $9.99 ::
President’s Time - Kirishima, 801 Media $15.95 ::
Prince Charming 3 - Takaido, DMP June $12.95 ::
Puri Puri 5 - Chiaki, Dr. Master $9.95 ::
Renai Sousa: Love Control - Hasukawa, DMP June $12.95 ::
Rurouni Kenshin VizBig Edition 2 - Watsuki, Viz Shonen Jump $17.99 ::
Samurai Confidential - Kanzaki, Japanime’s Manga University $19.95 ::
Say Please - Miyamoto, Aurora Deux $12.95 ::
Scandalous Seiryo University 3 - Tatsukawa, Media Blasters $10.99 ::
Seduce Me After the Show - Em, Aurora Deux $12.95 ::
Star Project Shiro 3 - Hye-Kyung, Udon $11.95 ::
Sugar Milk - Jaryu, DMP June $12.95 ::
Thirsty for Love - Takaguchi, DMP June $12.95 ::
Train+Train 6 - Kurata, Takuma, Go! Comi $10.99 ::
Weekend Lovers - Fuwa, 801 Media $15.95 ::

Also of Note:
A Geisha’s Journey: My Life as a Kyoto Apprentice - Komomo, Kodansha $29.95 ::
A Modern Approach to Intelligent Animation - Zhuang, Pan, Xiao, Springer-Verlag $119 ::
Amaterasu: Return of the Sun, a Japanese Myth (kids’ title) - Storrie, Randal, Graphic Universe $8.95 ::
Animation Bible: A Practial Guide to the Art of Animating, from Flipbooks to Flash - Furniss, HNA Books $29.95 ::
Asia’s Educational Edge: Current Achievments in Japan, Korea, Taiwan, China, and India - Guo, Cummings, Lexington Books $32.95 ::
Black Velvet Masterpieces: Highlights from the Velveteria Museum - Anderson, Chronicle Books $24.95 ::
Creating CG Manga with Manga Studio: A Beginner’s Guide - , DH Publishing $19.95 ::
Designed for Pleasure: The World of Edo Japan in Prints and Painting, 1680-1860 - Meech, Carpenter, Oliver, U of Washington Press $45 ::
Emptiness and Temporality: Buddhism and Medieval Japanese Poetry - Ramirez-Christensen, Stanford University Press $55 ::
Excursions in Identity: Travel and the Intersection of Place, Gender, and Status in Edo Japan - Nenzi, U of Hawaii Press $57 ::
Fashion Illustration Techniques - , Taschen $19.95 ::
Frommer’s Japanese Phrasefinder and Culture Guide - , Wiley, John & Sons $9.99 ::
Izakya: The Japanese Pub Cookbook - Robinson, Kuma, Kodansha $25 ::
Japan 1945: A US Marine’s Photographs from Ground Zero - O’Donnell, Vanderbilt University Press $24.95 ::
Japan Rising: The Resurgence of Japanese Power and Purpose - Pyle, Perseus $19.95 ::
Japan Textures - Lee, Gresham, U of Hawaii Press $60 ::
Japanese Dreams (fiction anthology) - , Prime Books $12.95 ::
Japanese Vers & Essentials of Grammar - Lampkin, McGraw-Hill $12.95 ::
Living in Early China and Japan - Hunt, Facts on File $35 ::
Mingei: Japan’s Enduring Folk Art - Saint-Gilles, Stone Bridge Press $12.95 ::
Murder Most Modern: Detective Fiction and Japanese Culture - Kawana, U of Minnesota Press $67.5 ::
My First Book of Travel: Japan - , Chronicle Books $12.95 ::
Religious Traditions of Japan 500-1600 - Bowring, Cambridge University Press $39.99 ::
Soft Power Superpowers: Cultural and National Assets of Japan and the United States - Watanabe, McConnell, M.E. Sharpe $72.95 ::
Sparkling Rain: and other Fiction from Japan of Women Who Love Women - Summerhawk, New Victoria Publishers $16.95 ::
Teppanyaki Barbecue: Japanese Cooking on a Hotplate - Dekura, New Holland Publ. $29.95 ::
The Art of WALL.E - Disney/Pixar, Chronicle Books $40 ::
The Art of Witchblade - Silvestri, Choi, Top Cow $19.99 ::
The FLCL Source Book: Facts, Legends, Clues & Leads - Fujie, Cocoro Books $11.95 ::
The Lost Wolves of Japan - Walker, U of Washington Press $24.95 ::
Utamaro - De Goncourt, Parkstone Press $39.95 ::
Vision and Art: The Biology of Seeing - Livingstone, Hubel, HNA Books $24.95 ::
When Our Eyes No Longer See: Realism, Science, and Ecology in Japanese Literary Modernism - Golley, Harvard University Press $39.95 ::