It’s a big Viz week with both their shonen and shojo titles as well as plenty of Pokémon from their kid imprint Perfect Square. Everyone else is slumming it with one volume each. Dark Horse has New Lone Wolf and Cub Vol 4, while Kodansha releases the 5th omnibus of xxxHolic. Whispered Words from One Peace Books and is a yuri series about a girl who is secretly in love with her best friend, but who isn’t her type. It keeps getting good word of mouth, so it might be worth picking up even with the higher price point

Viz’s avalanche of shonen and shojo is hard to escape. I recently re-read the first volume of Kamisama Kiss, and now I’m feeling the itch to binge read, but catching up will hurt the pocket-book with volume 17 coming out this week, even if it were available as an e-book! Rose lovers have two titles to choose from this week, with Kiss of the Rose Princess Vol 3 being released, but even more exciting, and a week early, is Requiem of the Rose King Vol 1. This historical shojo by Aya Kanno, the creator of Otomen, is based on Shakespeare’s play Richard III, and is about one of England’s most hated and most misunderstood monarchs. I so can’t wait to read it, but I wasn’t planning for it until next week! Now I have grabby hands!!

Full list per Diamond Distributors:

DARK HORSE COMICS
New Lone Wolf And Cub Volume 4 TP, $13.99

KODANSHA COMICS
xxxHOLIC Omnibus Volume 5 TP, $19.99

ONE PEACE BOOKS
Whispered Words Volume 3 GN, $16.95

PERFECT SQUARE
LBX The Super LBX Volume 4 GN, $9.99
Pokemon Adventures Volume 27 GN, $9.99
Pokemon XY Volume 2 GN, $4.99

VIZ MEDIA
07-Ghost Volume 15 GN, $9.99
Arata The Legend Volume 21 GN, $9.99
Claymore Volume 26 GN, $9.99
D.Gray-Man 3-In-1 Edition Volume 6 TP, $14.99
Dragon Ball 3-In-1 Edition Volume 8 TP, $14.99
Eyeshield 21 Volume 1 GN (New Printing), $9.99
Kamisama Kiss Volume 17 GN, $9.99
Kiss Of The Rose Princess Volume 3 GN, $9.99
Naruto Volume 69 GN, $9.99
Nisekoi False Love Volume 8 GN, $9.99
Oresama Teacher Volume 18 GN, $9.99
Ranma 1/2 2-In-1 Edition Volume 7 TP, $14.99
Requiem Of The Rose King Volume 1 GN, $9.99
Resident Evil Marhawa Desire Volume 3 GN, $12.99
Rin-Ne Volume 17 GN, $9.99
Seraph Of The End Vampire Reighn Volume 4 GN, $9.99
Skip Beat 3-In-1 Edition Volume 10 TP, $14.99
Terra Formars Volume 5 GN, $12.99
Yu-Gi-Oh 5D’s Volume 7 GN, $9.99