It’s another slow manga release this week. While Kodansha and Viz Media do have titles coming out, only Veritical and Seven Seas Entertainment has anything I’m actually interested in.

Seven Seas continues to be a hit or miss publisher with me. Their licenses lately have tended to rely too much on the male gaze fan service, but it’s hard to fault them that since those are the titles that make it onto the New York Times Bestseller List. Hopefully, the more skeevy titles will continue to fund manga like Arpeggio of Blue Steel. Volume 2 comes out this week, and I’m still looking forward to it even through volume 1 is still sitting in my Amazon shopping cart.

Witchcraft Works is the first manga to come out under the Vertical Comics imprint, which was just announced at New York Comic Con earlier this month. It’s a romantic comedy, but I still am interested in checking out volume 1. Vertical has steered me wrong yet, so I’ll trust if they say it’s good and funny. An anime of the manga has already been streamed by Crunchyroll earlier this year, so it’s got a built-in audience, and it seems to be selling since it’s already a bestseller on Amazon on the Romance Manga top ten. No easy feat I’m sure.

The the full list per Diamond Distribution:

KODANSHA COMICS
Animal Land Volume 10 GN, $10.99
No. 6 Volume 9 GN, $10.99
Sankarea Volume 9 GN, $10.99

SEVEN SEAS ENTERTAINMENT
Alice In The Country Of Diamonds Bet On My Heart Volume 1 GN, $13.99
Arpeggio Of Blue Steel Volume 2 GN, $12.99
Dance In The Vampire Bund Secret Chronicles Volume 1 GN, $14.99
Haganai I Don’t Have Many Friends Volume 9 GN, $12.99
No Game No Life Volume 1 GN, $12.99

VERTICAL
Witch Craft Works Volume 1 GN, $12.95

VIZ MEDIA
Black Bird Complete Box Set, $149.99
Monster The Perfect Edition Volume 2 GN, $19.99
Princess Mononoke The First Story HC, $34.99
Sunny Volume 4 HC, $22.99
Vagabond Volume 36 GN, $9.95