Street date: 4 July 2012
Just completing the manga shopping list before posting tomorrow's —7.11—releases.
Update: Retroactive NikBabble™ edition
Judge © Tonogai Yoshiki/Square Enix [Serialized in Shonen Gangan] · PetShop of Horrors © Akino Matsuri/Ohzora Shuppan [First serialized in Missy Comics DX]. Published in Indonesia by Level Comics
The second Judgment begins and Hiro and his group agrees to put survival to a vote. Another group, however, decides to cast its vote for itself.
An already treacherous situation turns vicious. What will Hiro do? Find out in the Seven Deadly Sins
third Judge by Tonogai Yoshiki.
Pet Shop of Horrors vol 3 of 10
By Akino Matsuri
Margaret is bored with her pet dog, so Count D offers her a replacement — the younger 'sibling' she has always wanted. Things look rosy at first, but as time passes, Margaret's family begins to ignore her in favor of the new sib...
I guess it's too late to say to Margaret Be careful of what you wish for...? :p
☞ Look for previews of penultimates A Spirit of the Sun 16 and Team Medical Dragon 24 after the jump.
New Level titles: Alone ROMICs by Gazzotti & Vehlmann
Seuls, Tome 1:
La disparition
© Gazzotti & Vehlmann
(Dupuis)
Published in Indonesia as
Alone 1: Menghilang
by Level Comics
No new manga but Level double-launches Bruno Gazzotti and Fabien Vehlmann's Seuls bande dessinées that resist returning any English 411 when Gugeled. Happily, the editor of Alone 1: Menghilang (Seuls, Tome 1: La disparition) and Alone 2: Sang Ahli Pisau (Seuls, Tome 2: Le maître des couteaux) comes through with a lowdown that reminds—but hopefully not foreshadows—a Lord of the Flies-esque epic involving a group of children who find their city Fortville devoid of adults and overrun by ferocious circus escapees and rival gangs.
The French Wiki sez Seuls twice nabbed the Youth Award (for the 9-12 age group) at the Angoulême Festival in 2007 and 2010 and won two Grand Prix from Journal de Mickey. (Cette série est deux fois récompensée de Prix Jeunesse 9-12 ans au Festival d'Angoulême 2007 et 2010 ainsi que les deux Grand prix du Journal de Mickey.
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Worth investi(gati)ng, doncha think? ;)
The rest of the European comics or ROMICs streeting this week are Agatha Christie: Pembunuhan Atas Roger Ackroyd by Bruno Lachard and Cotton Kid: Z Untuk Sorro by Pearce & Léturgie.
Level Comics manga (2012.07.04)
- A Spirit of the Sun (Taiyou no Mokushiroku) vol 16 of 17 by Kawaguchi Kaiji
- Judge vol 3 of 5+ by Tonogai Yoshiki
- K2 vol 12 of 17+ by Mafune Kazuo
- Pet Shop of Horrors vol 3 of 10 by Akino Matsuri
- Team Medical Dragon (Iryuu -Team Medical Dragon-) vol 24 of 25 by Nogizaka Taro, Nagai Akira
 | Judge 「ＪＵＤＧＥ」 by Tonogai Yoshiki |
Related series
Prequel: Doubt (four volumes)
 | K2 「Ｋ２」 by Mafune Kazuo |
Related series
Prequels: Doctor K (five volumes) and Super Doctor K (44 volumes)
 | PetShop of Horrors |
Other languages
English Pet Shop of Horrors (TOKYOPOP: 10 volumes); traditional Chinese (Tong Li Taiwan: 10 恐怖寵物店 volumes), Russian (Comics Factory), German (Tokyopop Germany, 10 volumes)
Reissues/Related series
Reissued in seven bunkoban by Asahi Sonorama (Sonorama Comic Bunko: 2007.10)
Sequel: Shin Pet Shop of Horrors (10 of 10 ASAHI Comics volumes as at 2012.03, complete); AKA Pet Shop of Horrors: Tokyo (English)
Adaptations
Four-episode Pet Shop of Horrors anime produced by Madhouse aired from 1–22 March 1999 on TBS. Seiyuu Onosaka Masaya and Seki Toshihiko voiced Leon Orcot and Count D.
 | Iryuu -Team Medical Dragon- 「医龍」 |
Awards
50th Shogakukan Manga Awardee in the Seinen/General category
Other languages/Reissues
French (Glénat: Tome 20 per 2012.05 • Tome 21 street date: 2012.08.16)
Reissued in My First WIDE editions (eight volumes released between 2011.11 and 2012.06)
My First BIG Special limited edition releases: Iryuu Oyasumi (Japan release: 2011.01); Iryuu Youchi (2010.12); Iryuu Tokken (2010.11); Iryuu sennou (2010.10); Iryuu Himitsu Heiki (2010.09); Iryuu Soutei-gai (2007.12); Iryuu Hakui (2007.11); Iryuu Kyouju no Shishitsu (2007.11); Iryuu Kiken na masui (2007.10); Iryuu Kango-shi to Isha (2006.06); and Iryuu Kanja no Ishi (2006.04)
Adaptations
Three seasons of the live-action adaptation, starring Sakaguchi Kenji (Asada Ryutaro), aired on Fuji TV (Season 1: April to June 2006; Season 2: October to December 2007; Season 3: October to December 2010). The first season won the Best Drama award at the 49th Television Drama Academy Awards.
European comics/BDs (2012.07.04)
- Agatha Christie: The Murder of Roger Ackroyd • Pembunuhan Atas Roger Ackroyd (Agatha Christie, Tome 8: Le Meurtre de Roger Ackroyd) by Bruno Lachard
- [Series Premiere] Alone 1: Menghilang (Seuls, Tome 1: La disparition) by Gazzotti - Vehlmann
- [Premiere] Alone 2: Sang Ahli Pisau (Seuls, Tome 2: Le maître des couteaux) by Gazzotti - Vehlmann
- Cotton Kid: Z Untuk Sorro (Cotton Kid, Tome 3: Z comme Sorro) by Pearce - Léturgie
Restocked (Individual volumes)
- Cubitus: Kena Kau! (Cubitus, Tome 38: Ca n'arrive qu'a toi...) by Dupa
- Lucky Luke: Peternakan Terkutuk (Lucky Luke, Tome 26: Le Ranch maudit) by Morris, Claude Guylouïs, Xavier Fauche, Jean Léturgie, Michel Janvier
- Marsupilami: Ekor Marsupilami (Marsupilami, Tome 1: La Queue du Marsupilami) by Franquin, Batem, Greg
- Michel Vaillant: Operation Mirage (Michel Vaillant, Tome 64: Opération Mirage) by Philippe & Jean Graton
- Yakari dan Monster Danau (Yakari, Tome 17: Le monstre du lac) by Derib & Job
Taiyou no Mokushiroku 「太陽の黙示録」
by Kawaguchi Kaiji
Shogakukan Big Comic, seinen
Volume 16 (chapters 109–116) first published in Japan 2007.10
Awards
51st Shogakukan Manga Awardee 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 Mokushiroku Dainibu: Kenkokuhen (nine of nine volumes as of 2011.01)
Adaptations
Adapted into an anime special by Madhouse (two episodes)