I just got my hands on the Tokyopop release schedule for this fall. Over the next couple of months I'll list every title for the month and tell you guys which ones you cannot miss. This list is from 'Manga' a free quarterly magazine from Tokyopop. Manga was formerly known as Takuhai and I preferred that name, but since people can now pick it up at news stands they decided not to call it "home delivered" anymore. But honestly, who in their right mind names a magazine about manga Manga? Its just too complicated. I was feeling lazy so the manga descriptions are ganked from TokyoPops' official website, which may I say sucks. I absolutely hate their new site. Their manga list used to have a small thumbnail of a main character displayed next to it, but now it is just an eye blurring dance of text without a single image. Many of the menus are difficult to navigate, and the only thing the site has going for it are the colors [red/black my favorites] which are inappropriate for the company anyways. But this article is not about how much I miss their old site, this is about how much I love Takuhai and their manga.

Note:
! - Means that I have read a previous volume in this series and I liked it (the more "!" the more I liked it)
* - Means that there is a review somewhere in the archives.

September Releases:
Agent Boo 1
!+Anima 2 (The + is part of the title and as per my note doesn't mean anything)
!*Ark Angels 2
!Atomic King Daidogan (From Rising Stars of Manga)
Battle Vixens 9
Beck: Mongolian Chop Squad 5
Blade of Heaven 8
!Blazin' Barrels 6
Bus Gamers
!Chronicles of the Cursed Sword 16
Confidential Confessions -DEAI- 2
!Dazzle 3
Dears: The Official Fan Book
Death Jam 2
!D.N.Angel 11
!Dragon Hunter 15
!Faeries Landing 14
Girls Bravo 6
Grosse Adventures: The Good, The Bad & The Gassy 1
Hands Off 7
Heaven Above Heaven 6
!Hyper Police 7
Innocent W
Kamen Tantei
Laya:The Witch of Red Pooh
Mitsukazu Mihara's RIP: Requiem in Phonybrian
Mobile Suit Gundam: Ecole Du Ciel 4
Open Season: Cine-manga
Peach Fuzz 2
Rave Master 21
!Rozen Maiden 2
!Saiyuki Reload 5
Seikai- Crest of the Stars: Queen of the Empire
Shrine of the Morning Mist 2
Star Trek: Shinsei Shinsei 1
Suikoden III 10
Sukuyomi: Moon Phase 4
Vampire Doll
!*Vampire Game 15
My Little Pony 4 (I dunno where this came from)
Greatest Stars of the NBA: Dynamic Duos 7 (7? you mean they sold 6 others)
Greatest Stars of the NBA: All-Time Dunks! 8 (AND they expect to sell an 8th too?)
Your Eyes Only - Chobits Art Book

For September there are a bunch of good manga series that I have enjoyed in the past, but nothing I'm going to go wait in line for 3 days before the release. (Yeah so it'd be a one person line, so what) I do however HAVE to look at how bad the Star Trek manga is. Apparently the manga publishers didn't learn from Spawn the manga, which was terrible. People read manga because it is different from what you can find in America. Turning hokey old American TV shows into manga is not going to impress us, and is likely to make us ridicule the entire market, such as I am now-> Idiots what in the hell are you thinking. To anyone who is looking forward to reading this manga I apologize, you are mentally disturbed enough without me ruffling your feathers.

Other titles I know I'm gonna check out are Bus Gamers, Innocent W, Kamen Tantei, RIP and Vampire Doll.

Bus Gamers is by the creator of Saiyuki. It is about three guys Toki, Nobuto and Kazuo who all play the Biz Game. The Biz Game plays with company secrets and massive wealth at stake. Soon the guys realize that what they are really playing for is their very lives.

Innocent W is by the creator of Sengoku Nights (which I recommend.) The description reads like a horror movie. Someone has assembled a group of high school girls--rumored to be witches--and dropped them off in the woods. Among them is Makoto, a male 'witch' who has mysterious powers. The plot centers around people who have a grudge against the witches and who try to kill them in the woods. The story also focuses on the witches who are struggling to survive. Similar to 'Battle Royale' with characters violently dying one by one.

Kamen Tantei is by the Petshop of Horrors creator. This one is about a pair of young aspiring mystery writers who have weird incidents happen around them that need solving. Luckily for them, the Masked Detective inexplicably always shows up to help. The focus of the story is light-hearted comedy and not about solving the crimes but rather poking fun at the process. This series doesn't take itself seriously like Kindaiichi.

RIP - Transylvania Rose is a bored angel who descends to Earth to clean a few souls. When she witnesses a depressed undertaker slitting his wrists, Rose rips off one of her wings and gives it to the undertaker, trapping them both somewhere between heaven and hell - life and death.

Vampire Doll - Guilt-Na-Zan is a vampire aristocrat who was sealed into a cross by Kyouji's ancestor more than 100 years ago. Now Kyouji has revived him--although he was resurrected as a doll and can only transform into his real figure when he sucks blood from Kyouji's sister Tonae... But when you combine Goth clothes and hot vampires, slowly but surely everyone will start to feel like one big family!


All in all nothing super exciting is coming out this September, but if I have time I'm gonna go see what these new manga series' are all about.

Note: The Manga Magazine cover and Bus Gamers cover are not the right images. They are a previous cover image of the magazine and an image that popped up when I searched for Bus Gamers pics.