Monthly Shonen Magazine May Issue

Nanaten's Random Review


It's that time of the year again. Summer Salt Turn and RiN ended in this issue to make room for next month's new series. More on that after the jump. Chinmi and Goku are on the cover for both editions.

  • Mashiro no Oto (Marimo Ragawa)
  • A flashback chapter featuring Natsu and Wakana's grandfather and a woman named Yae.
  • RiN (Sakuishi Harold)
  • Final chapter. But it ended before Fushimi ever getting that booty.
  • Bocchi Album (Satoshi Yamaguchi & Takeshi Hirai)
  • Ryusui no Tsubasa: Shiki Ryuko Seike Iden (Masatoshi Kawahara)
  • The first chapter is still not available online. Meanwhile, The final volume of Shura no Toki will be released on April 15th.
  • Convenience Store Lady (Asumu Matsumoto)
  • We have two chapters this month. First story features our lady who has a cold and she must survive on leftover convenience store riceball and ramen. Second story from a cashier's POV when our lady is going in yet another "sneaky" disguise.
  • Okitegami Kyoko no Biboroku (Nishio Ishin & Yo Asami)
  • A veteran pitcher is found dead on a baseball mount and guess who is taking the case? Yakusuke isn't in this chapter.
  • Kuro Ageha (Atsushi Kase)
  • Noragami (Adachitoka)
  • C. M. B. (Motohiro Kato)
  • Four gaming friends is taking a vacation and guess which pair is in the next room?
  • Haru yo, Kuru na (Bin Kusamizu & Mayo Hamazaki)
  • Takuya is finally joining the others in Med School as colleagues.
  • Kakushigoto (Kouji Kumeda)
  • Kakushi is feeling out of shape, so his assistants is troubled when he's bringing workout equipments to the studio. Then, there's going to be an athletic meet at Hime's school and Kakushi (inadvertently) hitting on every women while trying to make preparation.
  • Dear Boys Overtime (Hiroki Yagami)
  • Ponkotsundere na Osananajimi (Reona Umitsuki)
  • Shota and Sanae is entering highschool together for the first time and Sanae just can't hold it.
  • Sora no Platanus (Taro Nami & Sanbanchi Kawa)
  • Summer Salt Turn (Hajime Inoryu & Renji Hoshi)
  • Final chapter. Ebina finally got the showdown he'd always wanted with Mizuno. Here's an illustration from the author commemorating the final chapter taken from his twitter account.
  • Kin no Kanojo Gin no Kanojo (Maruboro Akai)
  • The gang is in doujinshi convention.
  • Pumpkin Scissors (Iwanaga Ryotaro)
  • Meanwhile in refugee site....
  • Ryuroden (Yoshito Yamahara)
  • Tekken Chinmi Legends (Takeshi Maekawa)
  • Jin Tan and others are caught by ninjas before Chinmi decided to rekt the ninjas.
  • Shin Kamen Rider Spirits (Ishinomori Shotaro & Kenichi Muraeda)

And that's it for this month. Next month will be featuring a special interview with Sakuishi Harold and a new series by Naoshi Arakawa (Your Lie in April) called "Sayonara, Watashi no Kurama" (Goodbye, My Kurama).
It's a manga about girl soccer.

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