B Class Boy's Love by Honda Natsumi and When Local Boys Fall In Love by Sazanami Raika (3L 23 May 2012 shoujo manga) [UPDATED]

Even the 3L release sked falls victim to NikBabble™ postponed... But don't fret. You know I stalk Honda Natsumi-sensei, doncha? :D
Also, the reprint run of Ikeyamada Go's Moe Kare!! proceeds with today's volume 3 redux.
Edit: NikBabble™ version

B-kyuu Danshi Gourmet © Honda Natsumi/Shogakukan [First serialized in Cheese!] · Koi o Suru nara Gotouchi Danshi! © Sazanami Raika/Akita Shoten [First serialized in Petit Princess]. Published in Indonesia as B Class Boy's Love and When Local Boys Fall In Love by PT Tiga Lancar Semesta/Tiga Lancar Comic (3L)

3L launches a pair of shoujo manga — B Class Boy's Love, Honda Natsumi's B-kyuu Danshi Gourmet released by Shogakukan's Cheese! Flower Comics in January 2011, and When Local Boys Fall In Love by new-to-3L's-lineup Sazanami Raika, originally Koi o Suru nara Gotouchi Danshi! published under Akita Shoten's Princess Comics Petit Princess label in August 2011. 3L sez both are Teen-friendly.

The B Class Boy's Love back cover cheekily asks: "Would you find these boys ‘somewhat lacking’ attractive?" (Apa kau tertarik pada anak laki-laki dengan penuh ‘kekurangan’ seperti mereka?) Well, whatever deficiency the three bishies on the cover suffer from, it certainly isn't lack of comeliness :)

B Class Boy's Love compiles three oneshots or Cases (the Japanese blurb). One of the Cases apparently involves Hikaru who's about to confess to one of the bishies — and she's already got 10 strikes against her. Will Bishie X make it an 11? [Adapted from Chibi Manga's B-kyuu Danshi Gourmet description excerpted by Baka-Updates Manga]

I've talked about the Honda Natsumi manga 3L published before the sumptuously-covered B-kyuu Danshi Gourmet (»here and »here); for nau—dragging in When Local Boys Fall In Love—lemme intro the other antho that features four romances with boys from four different prefectures:

I was born and raised in a small town. Just when I think that my days will remain the same, suddenly...!?

Obviously, our yet unidentified When Local Boys Fall In Love heroine meets someone who will have a ‘devastating’ impact on her life. [Continued...]

3L shoujo manga (2012.05.23)

1. [Premiere] B Class Boy's Love (B-kyuu Danshi Gourmet) by Honda Natsumi

B-kyuu Danshi Gourmet 「Ｂ級男子グルメ」 by Honda Natsumi
Shogakukan Cheese!, shoujo
This volume first published in Japan 2011.01

2. [Premiere] When Local Boys Fall In Love (Koi o Suru nara Gotouchi Danshi!) by Sazanami Raika

Koi o Suru nara Gotouchi Danshi! 「恋をするならご当地男子！」
by Sazanami Raika
Akita Shoten Petit Princess, shoujo
This volume first published in Japan 2011.08

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Reprints (2012.04.10)

• Moe Kare!! vol 3 of 7 by Ikeyamada Go

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Changing Seat Game by Yumachi Shin and Touch by Your Kiss 2 of 2 (3L 10 April 2012 shoujo manga)

I don't know how many of you have been waiting for the Touch By Your Kiss finale, but personally, I'm more intrigued by the 3L debut Changing Seat Game, not only for the Namida Usagi vibes (if you squint), but more for the...innocence of the cover, something I don't expect from (mostly sm*t) manga-ka Yumachi Shin.

Sekigae Game © Yumachi Shin/Shogakukan [First serialized in Cheese!] · Kimi no Kiss de Furete. © KAORI/Shogakukan [First serialized in Cheese!]. Published in Indonesia as Changing Seat Game and Touch By Your Kiss by Tiga Lancar Semesta/3L Comic

Freshman year, high school. September. The seat change after summer lands me smack beside Mitsui, the guy who, rumor has it, likes me. Me? Slow me? It's just not possible!

So that's our Clumsy Protagonist with Low Self-Esteem Tamami agonizing over whether Mitsui-kun needs glasses likes her. (Thanks, Baka-Updates, for giving our heroine a name.) But Tamami really should ditch her issues, especially when we have it on good authority that Cool Male Lead Mitsui-kun falls in love first.

Gotten sugar shock yet? :) Changing Seat Game, originally Sekigae Game ex-Cheese!, is (still) safe for Teens, just like the other two Yumachi Shin shoujo manga 3L has published (which I passed up on), Colour of Love and Love at First Sight.

Scroll down if you want to know why I deemed Changing Seat Game somewhat a rarity among Yumachi Shin titles. For nau —

Touch by Your Kiss vol 2 of 2
By KAORI

My search for a soul mate ended when I entered senior high and met this uber kewl and hawt senpai. So now, everyday is an exercise in telling my racing heart to calm down because, you know, he actually reciprocates my feelings! I want to grow closer to him—or is that being too greedy? It must be, because why else would a trouble maker show up NOW to ruin everything?

The second and last Touch by Your Kiss, rated for a Mature or   [DEWASA] audience, also contains two extra one-shots, Ai o shirane no? and Senpai no kanojo to, kōhai to.

☞ BTW, if you missed Takada Rie's Heart and Ikeyamada Go's Moe Kare!! the first time around, 3L is reprinting both series. Heart- and Moe Kare!! volume 2 street this week (the first volumes were reissued late March).

3L shoujo manga (2012.04.10)

1. [Premiere] Changing Seat Game (Sekigae Game) by Yumachi Shin

Sekigae Game 「席替えゲーム」 by Yumachi Shin
Shogakukan Cheese!, shoujo
This volume first published in Japan 2010.11

2. Touch by Your Kiss (Kimi no Kiss de Furete.) vol 2 of 2 by KAORI [Finale]

Kimi no Kiss de Furete. 「きみのキスで触れて。」 by KAORI
Shogakukan Cheese!, shoujo
Volume 2 first published in Japan 2007.12

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Reprints (2012.04.10)

1. Heart vol 2 of 10 by Takada Rie
2. Moe Kare!! vol 2 of 7 by Ikeyamada Go

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