Street date: 4 July 2012
I'm back — did you miss me? .::is greeted with silence::. Ah, well, even if no one noticed I was gone, still posting this NikBabble™-free Elex shopping list before the next 7.11 manga release runs me over. :p
Update: Retroactive NikBabble™.
Gekkou Jourei © Fujita Kazuhiro/Shogakukan [Serialized in Shonen Sunday]. Published in Indonesia as Moonlight Act by Elex Media
What led the faerie tale princess to go Psycho mode ON! in the real world? Cinderella bares all to Gekko! (Figuratively, that is.) Even so, the insanity doesn't stop because after Cinderella queues Kikimimi Zukin, Pinocchio, and Warashibe Choja.
Moonlight Act volume 4 annotations: You know who Pinocchio—Article 6's star—is, but Article 5's Kiki mimi zukin is a kindly poor man who saves a fox and is given a magic hat that gives him the ability to understand wildlife and thus save a rich man's daughter.
Article 7's Warashibe Choja or the Straw Millionaire is the leading man of the rags-to-riches mukashi banashi about a man who just had no luck at all. But one day this all changed, and it started with a single stalk of wara, or straw.
No matter how benign these characters sound, they're sure to turn certifiable in Fujita Kazuhiro's blue moonlight. (After all, fairy tales are really Nightmare Fuel.)
Aside from Kikimimi Zukin, Pinocchio and Warashibe Choja, Hansel and Gretel apparently enter stage left in Article 8 and we make the acquaintance of another storybook character あまんじゃくとうりこひめ
(Amanji Yakutourikohime?) in Article 9.
Eighteen Gekkou Jourei tanks have been compiled in Japan as of May this year. The 19th premieres this 17 August.
The Knight in the Area vol 8 (of 31+)
By Igano Hiroaki & Tsukiyama Kaya
The first elimination round of the Kanagawa Inter-High is over, and Enoshima plays Tsujido next. The strain of facing an unpredictably tricky opponent takes its toll and claims Kakeru as its first casualty.
If you missed these... Reissues
After classic Serial Misteri, it's Serial Cantik (shoujo standalones)'s turn. For your (re)consideration: Butterfly Loves Reading by Winnie Lin and Happiness Keyword by Kikukawa Chikako. [Continued...]
Elex Media manga and manhua (2012.07.04)
- Butterfly Loves Reading by Winnie Lin (Serial Cantik) – Reissue
- Dear Boys Act 3 vol 8 of 10+ by Yagami Hiroki
- Happiness Keyword (Shiawase no Keyword) by Kikukawa Chikako (Serial Cantik) – Reissue
- The Knight in the Area (Area no Kishi) vol 8 of 31+ by Igano Hiroaki & Tsukiyama Kaya
- Moonlight Act (Gekkou Jourei) vol 4 of 18+ by Fujita Kazuhiro
 | Dear Boys Act3 |
Related series
Prequels: Dear Boys and Dear Boys Act2
Other languages
Simplified Chinese (Chuang Yi: volume 4 released 2010.08)
 | Shiawase no Keyword 「幸せのキーワード」 |
 | Area no Kishi 「エリアの騎士」 |
Other languages
Traditional Chinese (Tong Li Taiwan: 足球騎士 27 released 2012.06.19)
Adaptations
Shin-Ei Animation's The Knight in the Area anime adaptation premiered 7 January 2012 with seiyuu Fukuyama Jun as Aizawa Suguru, Itou Shizuka as Mishima Nana and Sanpei Yuko as Aizawa Kakeru. Episode 25 aired 30 June 2012; 26 premieres on 14 July 2012.
 | Gekkou Jourei 「月光条例」 by Fujita Kazuhiro |
Other languages
Traditional Chinese (Ching Win Taiwan: 世界童話 新約 月光條例 14 released 2012.04)
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Postponed title(s)
Illusionary Boy vol 2 by Banjo Daichi, In a Distant Time vol 16 by Mizuno Tohko and Tale of the Sea King 45 of 45 by Kawahara Masatoshi. Pending new tentative street dates.
Restocked (Individual volumes)
- Bakeru kun Pika-pika vol 1 of 5 by Fujiko F. Fujio
- Bakeru kun Pika-pika vol 2 of 5 by Fujiko F. Fujio
- Bakeru kun Pika-pika vol 3 of 5 by Fujiko F. Fujio
- Bakeru kun Pika-pika vol 4 of 5 by Fujiko F. Fujio
- Bakeru kun Pika-pika vol 5 of 5 by Fujiko F. Fujio [Finale]
- Doraemon Movie: Petualangan Nobita di Kota Mainan (Eiga Doraemon: Nobita to Neji maki Toshi Boukenki) – First by Fujiko F. Fujio
- Doraemon Movie: Petualangan Nobita di Kota Mainan – Last by Fujiko F. Fujio
Butterfly Loves Reading 「蝴蝶愛看書」
by Winnie Lin)
AKA Butterfly Read Book
Sharp Point Press, shoujo
This volume first published in Taiwan 2007.12