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scans_dailyWriters: John Ostrander and Timothy Truman
Pencils: Graham Nolan
Inks: Gary Kwapisz
Shayera's vengeful rampage against Byth threatens the already fragile peace between Thanagar and Earth.
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Pencils: Mitch Byrd
Inks: Dan Davis
Guy Gardner is the only one left to halt Hal Jordan's rampage.
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A limerick cycle for Obi-Wan, Anakin, and Padmé.
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Waxer asks a cogent question on a long, cold night.
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Obi-Wan came into Anakin's cabin just in time to see the monkey-lizard he'd carefully collected slump to one side and fall off of the table.
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Waxer asks a cogent question on a long, cold night.
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Luke follows in his father's footstep-hops.
Obi-Wan runs into a hookup.
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mangabookshelf_feedBy Riku Nanano and cura. Released in Japan as “Koujo Denka no Kateikyoushi” by Fujimi Fantasia Bunko. Released in North America by J-Novel Club. Translated by William Varteresian.
This is a long series already – this is the 16th volume – and we’ve just covered everything that’s happened since Allen got baited to flunk out of the academy. I’ve talked before about how I wish we could have seen Allen and Lydia’s years at the academy, and we have finally gotten a few decent flashbacks showing that, though we’re still missing most of the actual important scenes. But it can be easy to forget that this is not a world that has been at peace for years and it’s only with this generation that the world is going to hell. This is a world in a constant state of hell. There’s a reason all of the parents and grandparents of our heroines have fancy titles and superpowers of their own, and that’s because they’re needed all the time in order to make sure that things don’t just explode. Unfortunately, we’re near one of those explosion points again, and even as Allen gets some exposition explaining what happened long ago in the last, the enemy is a step ahead of him.
Battles, battles, everywhere! There are so many battles, in fact, that you’d think we wouldn’t have time for the usual harem banter, but rest assured we do, as even in the most dire of circumstances the girls cannot help but try to get Allen to praise them and say how lucky he is to have them. More lucky than usual this time around, as it turns out he needs almost the full group of potential love interests (sorry, Ellie, you’re still being sidelined) because the bad guys are also bringing their full force of bad guy-ness to bear. There’s corrupted former princesses, ghosts of long dead founders, and of course that pesky wyrm, which doesn’t stay frozen for long, and has to be put down again. To do so, they’ll need to have yet another spell gain sentience and turns into a cute girl… because let’s face it, that’s also the sort of series this is.
There’s a cliffhanger which suggests that one of the good guys is about to be killed off, but I’m not too worried – I think if the author had meant to kill them they’d have done that as the cliffhanger. Plus he has a fiancee. It does make me wonder how the author is going to try to keep the stakes higher and higher while also making sure that no cute girls who are in love with their man suffer too much. Most of them, that man is Allen, and unfortunately for him, the main villain seems to be obsessed with him… and also all her plans revolve around him winning at the last moment. Which he’s been doing. So arguably he’s playing right into her hands. On the bright side, Lydia gets to do an absolutely killer move that makes him blush heavily, and he also calls her his partner again, so she’s still in the lead, for those who are only here for that.
This is another solid volume in the series, though I would not say no to a breather that has less fighting next time.
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iamrman posting in scans_dailyWriter: Len Wein
Pencils: Dave Gibbons
Inks: Mark Farmer
Major Disaster tries to distract John Stewart by flooding the city.
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iamrman posting in scans_dailyWriter: Gerry Conway
Pencils: Pat Broderick
Inks: Rodin Rodriguez
The Justice League try to get Killer Frost to chill.
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iamrman posting in scans_dailyWords and pencils: Alan Davis
Inks: Mark Farmer
The Cross-Time distortions get worse as we head into the 50th milestone issue.
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mangabookshelf_feedBy Ryo Shirakome and Takayaki. Released in Japan as “Arifureta Shokugyou de Sekai Saikyou” by Overlap Bunko. Released in North America digitally by J-Novel Club. Translated by Ningen.
It’s been over two years since the “finale” of Arifureta came out in English, and since them we’ve had even more wannabe Hajimes, looking cool while amassing a large collection of girls who fall for them immediately for the traditional light novel reason. That said, this book does not have to worry about that. We’ve done all that, the final battle has been won, and we can leave future battles to Kouki, who no doubt has lots of making up for being awful to do, but given he’s not a cute girl, I doubt Overlap will publish whatever it is. What Overlap will publish is volumes like this, an After Story that is absolute catnip for fans of this series, showing Hajime with each of his fiancees as they integrate themselves on Earth and deal with coming out to the families as a harem. (Normally I’d say polycule, but come on. It’s Arifureta. This thing is a harem, and they all say so in the book itself.)
We pick up two months after everyone came to Earth, with the occasional flashback showing how they had to deal with their year-long disappearance. Some folks have had it good (Yue, Shea, Tio, Remia, and Myu, who are all ensconced at Hajime’s home with his otaku parents who adore him). Some folks have it less good (Kaori, dealing with an “anime dad” being mad about some cheater taking his daughter, and Shizuku, somewhat horrified to discover she really *is* from a family of ninjas). Some are doing very badly (Aiko, who not only gets the bulk of the blame for everything that happened, but is also a teacher dating a student). Some people are still stuck back in Isekai world (Liliana, as pathetic as ever but Hajime is treating her better now that they’re a couple). And some girls are wondering if there’s room for one more (wannabe chef and former bodyguard Yuka, who, since Hajime and the girls don’t immediately shut her down, likely has a good shot).
This does not pretend to be anything but fluffy, for the most part. Hajime and Yue deal with most of the serious issues on Earth by mass mind control, and he has far more difficulty dealing with the fact that he has eight fiancees than anything else. Most of the girls get a nice spotlight, either with or without Hajime. Yue gets the most, Shea the second most, which you’d expect. Myu gets a lot of attention, and she is cute as a button, has learned to shoot multiple deadly weapons, and swears she gonna grow up to marry her daddy. A typical anime child, in other words. All of this reads like typical anime, in fact. The only times it threatens to get melancholy are, as I said, when dealing with Aiko’s larger issues, or when Hajime has to tell the families of the four dead students why they didn’t come back… and that they were also sort of evil. The book even ends with a big family photograph. After so many volumes where I could describe it as “over 200 pages of just fights”, we now get 280 pages of just fluff.
It’s unclear if there will be more of these – there’s tons of webnovel material, but it likely amounts to what Overlap thinks will sell. Still, fans of Arifureta who read it for the girls and the d’awwwww will be happy.
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SEAN: I cannot decide between The 100 Girlfriends Who Really, Really, Really, Really, REALLY Love You 14 and Medalist 12, two series whose venn diagram of readers who love both may be just me.
KATE: This is one of those weeks when I’m torn between two very different titles: the part of me that likes streaming crime procedurals is intrigued by The 13th Footprint, while the part of me that has fond memories of reading Richard Scarry’s What Do People Do All Day? is excited about Cats With Jobs.
MICHELLE: My official pick would be The 13th Footprint, but if we’re doing auxiliaries, then I’ll say the swanky reissue of Codename: Sailor V.
ASH: I fully support all the picks that have been mentioned , but I’ll go ahead and highlight two more releases that have caught my attention: Senpai is an Otokonoko (which I’ve heard a few good things about in passing) and Shout Loud, My Heart (because I can’t resist a music-related BL).
ANNA: It is Codename: Sailor V for me!
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iamrman posting in scans_dailyWriter: Len Wein
Pencils: Paris Cullins
Inks: Dell Barras
Blue Beetle is on the hunt for Chronos, despite the President having just outlawed superheroes.
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iamrman posting in scans_dailyWords and pencils: Jack Kirby
Inks: Mike Royer
The search for a new MacGuffin sees the Black Panther get into a fight with an abominable snowman.
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