Street date: 2 May 2012
Just add A Spirit of the Sun 15 to the title and this Level post would've written itself...NOT!
Bambino! Secondo © Sekiya Tetsuji/Shogakukan [Serialized in Big Comic Spirits] · Lost Man © Kusaba Michiteru/Shogakukan [Serialized in Big Comic Spirits]. Published in Indonesia by Level Comics
...Not, if what you came here for was NikBabble™, and I delude myself into thinking that you did. So let's get on with it. In Lost Man volume 10 —
Man U—the English premier league club Matsumoto just joined—confronts archenemy Pool C. Simpson equalizes and creates a new legend, but a leg injury soon forces him to sit out the rest of the match. Can Matsumoto dethrone Simpson and create another legend?
Fifteen Lost Man volumes have been published in Japan as of February 2012. The 16th tankou is scheduled for 30 May.
Elsewhere, in Bambino! Secondo volume 2 —
Yokohama Legare opens amid a climate of bearishness for the food industry, when restaurants left, right and center have little chance of survival, let alone profit. Staff shortage, food bloggers' thumbs-downs and resistance in the kitchen ranks — how is new boss Ban supposed to cope?
Telor Ceplok critic Lina-chan grants Bambino! Secondo vol 2 a grade of 9 of 10 for sheer excitement.
Ten Bambino! Secondo volumes have been compiled as of March 2012.03; the 11th Japanese tankou streets on 29 June 2012.
From pasta let's turn out attention to wine —
The Drops of God vol 12 of 32+
By Agi Tadashi & Okimoto Shu
To obtain the Les Amoureuses wine from manager Kawarage, Shizuku and the rest of the wine division are pressured to find the wine that harmonizes with Korean cuisine. A marriage between kimchi and wine? Impossible! What's worse, the restaurant owner who hired Kawarage bears anything vinous a grudge. Can Shizuku find what he needs in Seoul?
Lina-chan also gives The Drops of God vol 12 a grade of 9/10.
Thirty-two Kami no Shizuku: Les Gouttes de Dieu tankou have been released in its home country. The 33rd Japanese volume is expected this 23 May.
Look for A Spirit of the Sun volume 15 preview after the release list.
Level Comics manga (2012.05.02)
- A Spirit of the Sun (Taiyou no Mokushiroku) vol 15 of 17 by Kawaguchi Kaiji
- Bambino! Secondo vol 2 of 10+ by Sekiya Tetsuji
- The Drops of God (Kami no Shizuku) vol 12 of 32+ by Agi Tadashi & Okimoto Shu
- Lost Man vol 10 of 15+ by Kusaba Michiteru
 | Bambino! Secondo |
Related series
Prequel: Bambino! (15 volumes)
 | Kami no Shizuku: Les Gouttes de Dieu |
Awards Special Award of the Year
- La Revue du vin de France (French wine magazine); Nominee (Glénat's Les Gouttes de Dieu, tome 1), French Angoulême Comics Awards; Nominee, 1st Keitai Comic Taishō (Mobile Phone Comic Award, along with Hiura Satoru's Hotaru no Hikari, Miyasaka Kaho's Kare First Love and 17 other manga)
Other languages
French (Glénat: Les Gouttes de Dieu Tome 22 shipped 2012.02 • Tome 23 street date: 2012.05.09), traditional Chinese (Sharp Point Press Taiwan: 神之水滴 30 per 2011.12), English Drops of God (Vertical: three volumes as of 2012.03 • volume 4 street date: 2012.06.12)
Adaptations
A live-action renzoku starring Kamenashi Kazuya as Kanzaki Shizuku aired from January to March 2009 in Japan on NTV.
 | Lost Man 「ＬＯＳＴ ＭＡＮ」 |
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European comics/BDs (2012.05.02)
- Agatha Christie: Endless Night Malam Tanpa Akhir (Agatha Christie, Tome 6: La Nuit qui ne finit pas) by François Rivière, Frank Leclercq
- Ric Hochet: Cyber Crime (Ric Hochet, Tome 60: Crime sur Internet) by Tibet, A. P. Duchâteau
- Yakari: Yakari dan Si Telinga Panjang (Yakari, Tome 27 : Yakari et les longues oreilles) by Derib
Taiyou no Mokushiroku 「太陽の黙示録」
by Kawaguchi Kaiji
Shogakukan Big Comic, seinen
Volume 15 (chapters 101–108) first published in Japan 2007.06
Awards
Winner, 51st Shogakukan Manga Awards, in the Seinen/General category
Grand Prize winner for the comic category, 10th Japan Media Arts Festival
Other languages
French (Tonkam: Spirit of The Sun, Tome 17: per 2009.12)
Related series
Sequel: Taiyou no Mokishiroku Dainibu: Kenkokuhen (nine volumes)
Adaptations
Adapted into an anime special by Madhouse (two episodes)