The Person in a Villainess (Nazuna Shiraume, Makiburo)
Cross-Dressing Villainess Cecilia Sylvie (Shino Akiyama, Hiroro Akizakura)
I'm the Villainess, So I'm Taming the Final Boss (Sarasa Nagase, Anko Yuzu)
Somehow, The Villainess Who Regressed in Time Lost Her Magic Power, so She Turned into a Secluded Maiden (Bin Sakamoto, Aoi)
Even Though I'm a Super Timid Noble Girl, I Accepted the Bet From My Cunning Fiancé (Hiro Oda, Aji Murata)
Endo and Kobayashi's Live Commentary on the Villainess (Rumiwo Sakaki, Suzu Enoshima)
The Most Heretical Last Boss Queen: From Villainess to Savior (Bunko Matsuura, Tenichi)
An Observation Log of My Fiancée Who Calls Herself a Villainess (Natsume Hasumi, Shiki)
Queen Victoria Winner Ostwen Looks Like the Greatest in the World (Hajime Shinjou, Matsuri Kuragezaki)
Title: I'm the Villainess, So I'm Taming the Final Boss
By: Anko Yuzu
Genre: Romance, Comedy, Fantasy, Dragons
Summary: Avoid the bad ending at all costs! When her fiancé breaks up with her in front of the entire student body, noblewoman Aileen d’Autriche is devastated—or she would have been, if that wasn’t also the exact moment memories of her past life came crashing back! Turns out, she’s been reborn as the villainess of a dating sim... and according to the story, she’s slated to die at the hands of the demon king in three months! But Aileen’s already got a plan: Step one, get Demon King Claude to fall in love with her. Step two, live!
The Do-Over Damsel Conquers the Dragon Emperor Vol. 1 is an interesting concept
The Do-Over Damsel Conquers the Dragon Emperor Vol. 1 is an interesting concept #manga #comics #comicbooks #graphicnovel
Although Jill’s engagement to the Crown Prince should have guaranteed her a happy life, she is instead sentenced to death by her very fiancé! However, moments before her death, she is sent back in time to the party that determined her fate. In a desperate bid to avoid her doom, she proposes to the man behind her, but that man turns out to be none other than an enemy from a neighboring country,…
Manga: "The Reason Why Raeliana Ended Up at th Duke's Mansion" by MIlcha |09|
Manga: "Who Made Me a Princess" by Plutus |12|
Book: "The Signal-Man" by Charles Dickens |13|
Book: "New Pass" by Amelia Edwards |13|
Cinema: "Amsterdam" by David Russel |14|
Book: "The Portrait" by Margaret Oliphant |15|
Anime: "JoJo Bizzare Adventure" by Naokatsu Tsuba |15|
Book: "Fight with Shadow" by Carl Jung |16|
Book: "Diagnosing of Dictators" by Carl Jung |16|
Book: "Western Nationalism and Eastern Nationalism" by Benedict Anderson |22|
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6 Books; 2 Manga; 1 Cinema; 1 Anime
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Manga: "Mutant wa Ningen no Kanojo to Kiss ga Shitai" by Giba-chan |01|
Manga: "Ishuzoku Joshi ni ○○ Suru Hanashi" by
Suimin |12|
Book: "99 Stupid Questions about Art and More One" by Alina Nickonova |16|
Manga: "Frau Faust" by Kore Yamazaki |18|
Manga: "Secret Alliance" by Lero |18|
Manga: "Yuusha Goikkou no Kaerimichi" by Ryouji Hirano |19|
Anime: "Happy Sugar Life" by Nobuyoshi Nagayama |19|
Manga:"Kyuuketsuki Marguerite to Kuenai Gokinjo" by Yuu Aikawa |24|
Book: "Edgar Allan Poe. Burnt Life. Biography" by Peter Aykroyd |25|
Manga: "Hanamachi Oni" by Hina Sakurada |26|
Cinema: "2001: A Space Odyssey" by Stanley Kubrick |26|
Cinema: "The Pale Blue Eye" by Scott Cooper |27|
Cinema: "Menu" by Mark Mylod |27|
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2 Books; 7 Manga; 3 Cinema; 0 Anime
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March
Anime: "Darling in the FranXX" by Atsushi Nishigori |03|
Manga: "Bara no Tame ni" by Akemi Yoshimura |03|
Cinema: "Cowboy from Copenhagen" by Nicolas Winding Refn |04|
Cinema: "Breakfast on Pluto" by Neil Jordan |05|
Cinema: "Holy Spider" by Ali Abadasi |06|
Cinema: "Youth" by Paolo Sorrentino |07|
Manga: "I'm the Villainess, So I'm Taming the Final Boss" by Anko Yuzu |09|
Manga: "Goodbye, Eri" by Tatsuki Fujimoto |15|
Book: The Entire Collection of Prose by Edgar Allan Poe |21|
Cinema: "i am thinking of ending this" by Charlie Kaufman |23|
Cinema: "We Need Talk About Kevin" by Lynne Ramsay |24|
Manga: "Beware the Villainess!" by Yeolmae |28|
Cinema: "Phantom Thread" by Paul Thomas Anderson |29|
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1 Books; 4 Manga; 7 Cinema; 0 Anime
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April
Anime: "Konosuba" by Natsume Akatsuki, Kurone Mishima, Yuujirou Abe, Takaomi Kanasak |01|
Anime: “Only Yesterday” by Isao Takahata |02|
Manga: "My Lesbian Experience With Loneliness" by Kabi Nagata |02|
Manga: "Koroshiya 1" by Hideo Yamamoto |03|
Manga: "1" by Hideo Yamamoto |03|
Book: “Tradition of Literary Gothic” by Bella Nacpock |08|
Book: “Metamodernism. Historisity, Affect and Depth” by Robin van den Akker |10|
Anime: "GTO" by Tooru Fujisawa, Noriyuki Abe |14|
Book: “The Archetypes and the Collective Unconscious” by Carl Jung |16|
Manga: "Hell’s Paradise: Jigokuraku" by Yuuji Kaku |18|
Cinema: “All the Beauty and the Bloodshed” by Laura Poitras |24|
Cinema: “New Old Play” be Qiu Jiongjiong |25|
Book: "Octet" by David Foster Walllace |25|
Cinema: “Benedetta” by Paul Verhoeven |27|
Manga: "Cells at Work! CODE BLACK" by by Shigemitsu Harada, Akane Shimizu, Issei Hatsuyoshi |28|
Manga: "The Villainess Needs Her Tyrant" by Ta-Hong Il |30|
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4 bOOKS; 6 mANGA; 3 Cinema; 3 Anime
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May
Book: “Tell me a sto…” by Una Hurt |02|
Manga: "The Villainess's Maker" by Jeongu, I-Su Seol |02|
Book: “Lectures on aesthetics” by Georg Hegel |05|
Book: “In the Shadow of the Silent Majorities” by Jean Baudrillard |06|
Anime: "Cowboy Bibop" by Hajime Yatate, Shinichirou Watanabe, Shinichirou Watanabe, Akira Toba |14|
Anime: "Cowboy Bebop: The Movie - Knockin' on Heaven's Door" by Hajime Yatate, Shinichirou Watanabe, Toshihiro Kawamoto, Kimitoshi Yamane |14|
Cinema: "The Whale" by Darren Aronofsk |15|
Cinema: "Lamb" by Vladimar Johannsson |16|
mANGA: "Love Advice from the Great Duke of Hell" by Unfins |17|
Cinema: "Bones and All" by Luca Guadagino |18|
Cinema: "Alcarras" by Carla Simon |19|
Cinema: "Everything, Everywhere All at Once" by Daniel Scheinert, Daniel Kwan |20|
Manga: "The Villain's Savior" by Myeong Rang, Zetson, Seur-A Yeon |22|
Cinema: "The Hateful Eight" by Quentin Tarantino |26|
Book: “Chrysanthemum and Sward. Models of Japan culture” by Ruth Benedict |27|
Book: "A Perfect Day for Bananafish" by J.D. Salinger |29|
Book: "A Haunted Monastety" by Rober van Gulik |30|
Manga: "When the Villainess is in Love" by HJ, Gwi-Jo Seo |31|
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7 Books; 4 Manga; 6 Cinema; 2 Anime
June
Manga: "Croa Chimera" by Kairi Sorano |02|
Cinema: "Django Unchained" by Quentin Tarantino |02|
Cinema: "Interstellar" by Cristopher Nolan |04|
Cinema: "The Naked Gun 2½: The Smell of Fear" by David Zucker |07|
Manga: "Coffin Jackson" by Chongtak |08|
Manga: "Babelheim no Shounin" by Shouichi Furumi |08|
Book: "Seven Night" by Jorge Luis Borges |09|
Book: "Watch Cinema" by Jean-Marie Gustave Le Clézio |14|
Cinema: "Call of the Night" by Kotoyama, Tomoyuki Itamura |18|
Cinema: "Crows are White" by Ashen Nadeem |18|
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Manga: "Scroll if You Dare" compilation webtoons |08|
Manga: "Hell is Other People" by Yong-Ki Kim |08|
Cinema: "Dreams" by Akira Kurosawa |09|
Manga: "The Witch and Her Zombie Son" by Sinyura |09|
Book: "Metaphysics" by Aristotle |24|
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1 Book; 3 Manga; 1 Cinema
August
Cinema: "Master Gardener" by Paul Schrader |03|
Manga: "Nude Model" by Tsubasa Yamaguchi |09|
Book: "The Silence of the White City" by Eva García Sáenz de Urturi |10|
Anime: "Akudama Drive" by Tomohisa Taguchi |12|
Manga: "Miageru to Kimi wa" by Makoto Kobori |16|
Anime: "Elfen Lied" by Mamoru Kanbe |17|
Manga: "Shingeki no Kyojin" by Hajime Isayama |24|
Manga: "Final Girl" by You Kokikuji |24|
Manga: "Itoshi no Living Dead" by AidaIro |25|
Manga: "Adolte and Adarte" by AidaIro |25|
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1 Book; 6 Manga; 1 Cinema; 2 Anime
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September
Manga: "Vanilla Jingai x Jingai Yuri Anthology" |04|
Manga: "Cinnamon Jingai x Ningen Yuri Anthology" |04|
Anime: "Neon Genesis Evangelion" by Hideaki Anno |07|
Cinema: "Murder on the Orient Express" by Sidney Lumet |08|
Cinema: "Men" by Alex Garland |09|
Manga: "Neko no Otera no Chion-san" by Makoto Ojiro |10|
Cinema: "Amélie" by Jean-Pierre Jeunet |10|
Book: "Why I Am Not a Christian and Other Essays on Religion and Related Subjects" by Bertrand Russell |11|
Cinema: "Crimes of the Future" by David Cronenberg |11|
Cinema: "The Scent of Green Papaya" by Tran Anh Hung |16|
Anime: "Inu-Oh" by Hideo Furukawa, Taiyou Matsumoto, Masaaki Yuasa, Fuuga Yamashiro |17|
Anime: "The Duke of Death and His Maid S1" by Inoue, Yoshinobu Yamakawa |27|
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1 Book; 4 Manga; 6 Cinema; 2 Anime
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October
Cinema: "Death Proof" by Quentin Tarantino |05|
Cinema: "Jackie Brown" by Quentin Tarantino |05|
Cinema: "Once Upon a Time… in Hollywood" by Quentin Tarantino |07|
Cinema: "American Psyho" by Marry Harron |08|
Cinema: "Fight Club" by David Fincher |08|
Cinema: "Leon" by Luc Besson |09|
Cinema: "Lost in Translation" by Sofia Coppola |11|
CinemaL: "Autumn Sonata" by Ingmar Bergman |12|
Cinema: "Mona Lisa and the Blood Moon" by Ana Lily Amirpour |14|
Cinema: "El Conde" by Pablo Lorrain |14|
Cinema: "Asteroid City" by Wes Anderson |15|
Cinema: "Mona Lisa" by Neil Jordan |20|
Book: "The Master of Petersburg" by John Maxwell Coetzee |26|
Anime: "Serial Experiments Lain" |31|
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1 Book; 12 Cinema; 1 Anime
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November
Book: "Not After Midnight" by Daphne du Maurier |11|
Book: "My Lost City" by Francis Scott Key Fitzgerald |11|
Cinema: "The Killer" by David Fincher |11|
Manga: "Mariage busines" by KEN |16|
Anime: "GOLDEN BOY" by Tatsuya Egawa |17|
Book: "Men Without Women" by Ernest Hemingway |17|
Manga: "Monster and the Beast" by Renji |19|
Manga: "Shinonome Tantei Ibun Roku" by John Tarachine |19|
Manga: "Bird Collector" by Kang Se Ah |20|
Cinema: "Kurosawa’S Way" by Catherine Cadou |22|
Book: "Modern Nihilism. Chronicle" by Costantino Esposito |26|
Cinema: "Triangle of Sadness" by Ruben Östlund |27|
Cinema: "Past Lives" by Celine Song |27|
Cinema: "Rapito" by Marco Bellocchio |29|
Anime: "Angel's Egg" by Mamoru Oshii, Yoshitaka Amano |29|
Cinema: "A Haunting in Venice" by Kenneth Branagh |30|
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4 Books; 4 Manga; 6 Cinema; 2 Anime
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December
Book: "The Lake" by Banana Yoshimoto in English |05|
Book: "Aesthetics. Textbook for universities" by Victor Bychkov |10|
Cinema: "The Holdovers" by Alexander Payne |15|
Cinema: "Chinatown" by Roman Polanski |15|
Manga: "Pandora Hearts" by MOCHIZUKI Jun |19|
Book: "This Is Water" by David Foster Wallace |20|
Book: "May '68 Did Not Take Place" by Gilles Deleuze |22|
Book: "Citrons from Sicily" by Luigi Pirandello |22|
Book: "Six Characters in Search of an Author" by Luigi Pirandello |23|
Cinema: "May December" by Todd Hayness |24|
Manga: "The Wife I Loved Dearly" by Touryuumon Takeda |25|
Manga: "Our Torsos Align: Human x Monster Love" by Ryou Sumiyoshi |25|
Cinema: "The Taking of Pelham One Two Three" by Joseph Sargent |25|
Manga: "Red Riding Hood's Wolf Apprentice" by Sayaka Mogi |26|
Manga: "Tatsuki Fujimoto Before Chainsaw Man: 17-21" by Tatsuki Fujimoto |26|
Manga: "Tatsuki Fujimoto Before Chainsaw Man: 22-26" by Tatsuki Fujimoto |27|
Manga: "Just Listen to the Song" by Tatsuki Fujimoto |27|
Manga: "Look Back" by Tatsuki Fujimoto |27|
Manga: "Tetteleposan" by Tatsuki Fujimoto |27|
Manga: "Imomushi" by Suehiro Maruo |27|
Book: "Trilogy" by Jon Fosse |28|
Manga: "The King and the Paladin" by Rin-Bi Lee |29|
Cinema: "Seven Weeks" by Nobuhiko Obayashi |30|
Manga: "Stargazing Dog" by Takashi Murakami |31|
Manga: "Star Protector Dog" by Takashi Murakami |31|
Manga: "Emergency Rations & Bountiful Feasts" by Nagabe |31|
Cinema: "Between Revolutions" by Vlad Petry |31|
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7 Books; 14 Manga; 6 Cinema
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Top the Best Books of Year:
1. "The Lake" by Banana Yoshimoto in English
2. "Not After Midnight" by Daphne du Maurier
3. "The Master of Petersburg" by John Maxwell Coetzee
Top the Best Manga of Year:
1. "Frau Faust" by Kore Yamazaki
2. "Bara no Tame ni" by Akemi Yoshimura
3. "The Witch and Her Zombie Son" by Sinyura
Top the Best Cinema of Year:
1. “New Old Play” be Qiu Jiongjiong
2. "2001: A Space Odyssey" by Stanley Kubrick
3. "Between Revolutions" by Vlad Petry
Top the Best Anime of Year:
1. "Cowboy Bibop"
2. "Serial Experiments Lain"
3. "Call of the Night"
“Cozy Cats” Cedar Park, 2023
I’m so happy that our cats Yuzu and Anko get along so well. Sure, they sometimes hiss at each other, but when I see them snugging like this, it just warms my heart!
Yen Press is releasing Sixteen New titles in August 2023
Yen Press is releasing Sixteen New titles in August 2023 #manga #lightnovels #comics #comicbooks #graphicnovel
Adding to its Summer 2023 lineup, Yen Press will be releasing twelve new manga (I’ve Been Killing Slimes for 300 Years and Maxed Out My Level Spin-off: The Red Dragon Academy for Girls; Puella Magi Madoka Magica: The Movie -Rebellion-: The Complete Omnibus Edition; Mieruko-chan Anthology Comic; Associate Professor Akira Takatsuki’s Conjecture; I Don’t Need a Happy Ending; The Illustrated Guide to…