Metamo Kiss 3 of 3, Ariadne at Midnight 2, Hiyokoya Shop 3, Full Spec 1 and manga you wanna buy because of those two Yamaha Mios (m&c! 1 September 2008 release list)

Late manga is better than no manga, to paraphrase Douglas Coupland among others (see Eleanor Rigby on quondam blind patients being overwhelmed by stimuli upon regaining sight, yet ultimately learning to live with, if not love, the uncomfortable visions). So, Patient One, rejoice! The final volume of Metamo Kiss will finally be released in or around the 1st of September. I know you've only been waiting eighteen months for this installment, so start hounding your manga retailer now. This being m&c! we're talkin' about, stocks are sure to fly and there won't be any additional print runs.

The one manga finale taken care of, let's look at the new series and standalones. We get nine for this first week of September, six of them part of the Independence Day Surprise promo which if you're lucky, might see you taking home a Yamaha Mio motorbike: Behind the Bamboo Palace, Full Spec volume 1, Season's First Flower, The Spring Over the Hill, Two Hearts Meet in West Kyoto, and The Wandering Class 1 (which I think, given the absence of manga-ka name and based on magnifying the parsley on fish, happy school cover on the promo insert, is NOT The Drifting Classroom).

Three more titles are left from which to get the three coupons you're supposed to stick on to a postcard and mail in to m&c! by (postmarked) 26 September 2008; however, if you're an m&c! regular, you probably already amassed more than three stickers as early as 18 August.

The other series premieres and one-shots not included in this Freedom promo are: Crazy Love Game, Floating Bridge of Dreams, and Guardian of White Robe.

m&c! manga (2008.09.01)

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1. Ariadne at Midnight (Mayonaka no Ariadne) 2 of 4 by Shimotsuki Kayoko

Mayonaka no Ariadne 「 真夜中のアリアドネ 」 by Shimotsuki Kayoko Also romanized as Mayonaka no Ariadone Kodansha Betsufure, shōjo This volume first published in Japan 2007.01

2. [New] Behind the Bamboo Palace
3. [New] Crazy Love Game by Nanajima Kana

Crazy Love Game 「 クレイジーＬＯＶＥゲーム 」 by Nanajima Kana Shogakukan ChuChu, shōjo This volume first published in Japan 2007.04

4. [New] Floating Bridge of Dreams
5. [Premiere] Full Spec 1 of 4 by Sekiguchi Taro

Full Spec 「 フルスペック 」 by Sekiguchi Taro Kodansha Weekly Shounen Magazine, shōnen This volume first published in Japan 2005.11

6. [New] Guardian of White Robe
7. Hiyokoya Shop (Ikaihanjouki Hiyokoya Shoten) 3 of 6+ by Suda Yuriko

Ikaihanjouki Hiyokoya Shoten 「 異界繁盛記　ひよこや☆商店 」 by Suda Yuriko AKA Ikaihanjouki Hiyokoya Store and Pick of the Litter Kadokawa Shoten Asuka, shōjo This volume first published in Japan 2005.03 Published in English by TOKYOPOP

8. Kirarin Revolution 4 of 12+ by Nakahara An

Kirarin Revolution 「 きらりん☆レボリューション 」 by Nakahara An Shogakukan Ciao, shōjo This volume first published in Japan 2005.08

9. Metamo Kiss 3 of 3 by Omote Sora [Finale]

Metamo Kiss 「 メタモ☆キス 」 by Omote Sora AKA Fukushima Metamo Kiss and Mo Fa Kiss Kadokawa Shoten Asuka Comics imprint, shōjo This volume first published in Japan 2005.10 Published in English (3 volumes) by TOKYOPOP

10. Monika (Turma da Mônica) 114 by Mauricio (Mauricio de Sousa Produções)
11. Rainbow Miracle (Nanairo Miracle) 6 of 7 by Kanaki Shiori

Nanairo Miracle 「 なないろ☆ミラクル 」 by Kanaki Shiori Shogakukan Tentoumushi imprint, shōjo This volume first published in Japan 2006.12

12. [New] Season's First Flower
13. [New] The Spring Over the Hill
14. [New] Two Hearts Meet in West Kyoto
15. [Premiere] The Wandering Class 1

Source: m&c! forum

I'll do the translations if/when I get hold of the new and standalone synopses.

If you're eyeing that Yamaha Mio (or one of those second-prize Nokia 5610 phones), below is the list of manga that have the entry stickers you're supposed to send in (entries in bold haven't been released yet):

1. An Ancient Love Story 1
2. Angel of Life 1
3. Behind the Bamboo Palace
4. Between Two Hearts
5. Blizzard Axel 1
6. The Buried Anger
7. Charm Angel 1
8. Cross Road 1
9. Cynical Orange 1
10. Flower Bouquet
11. Full Spec 1
12. Go! Go! Ichigo
13. The Guardian at Time
14. Haunted White Van
15. A Heart for Money
16. Love Whisper
17. Mirror of Spring Water
18. Say You Love Me
19. The Red Valley
20. Season's First Flower
21. The Secret Prince in My Ring
22. The Spring Over the Hill
23. Story of a Princess
24. To Get Him in 10 Days
25. Thousand Birds in the Fall
26. Tsujitori
27. Twilight in Winter
28. Two Hearts Meet in West Kyoto
29. The Wandering Class 1
30. The Wind of Love in the War

As for me, I'm not sending my stickers in. Last in line when luck was being handed out aside, I have enough carbon guilt to force passing up on one of those bikes / cell phones / digital cameras / MP3 players.

UP NEXT
More manga. I'm thinkin' the September 2008 Komikologi Elex post or a review (Eikaiwa School Wars perhaps), though it might also be the new m&c! manga summaries

~niki DBA huamulan03 (花木蘭03)

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