Latest Manga 1st Appearance Acquisitions

On my adjunct professor salary, I don’t get to buy anime collectables as often as I’d like to. So these days I have to prioritize interesting and unusual stuff over more commonplace items. I just acquired a couple of manga first appearances at prices I could afford.

The March 1990 issue of Model Graphix Magazine contains the first chapter of Hayao Miyazaki’s “Hikotei Jidai” manga, the first appearance of Porco Rosso.

The prototype first chapter of Yoshifumi Tozuka’s manga series Undead Unluck premiered in this September 2019 issue of Shuukan Shounen Jump. The prototype chapter was titled “Undead+Unluck.” The regular ongoing series launched four months later under the revised name “Undead Unluck” (without the “plus”).

I was able to purchase two copies of the first appearance of the manga adaptation of Katarina’s web novel series Shangri-La Frontier, the July 2020 issue of Shuukan Shounen Magazine. The anime television series adaptation of the story will premiere in October.

The December 2018 issue of Shuukan Shounen Sunday contains the first appearance of Kenjiro Hata’s romantic comedy Tonikaku Kawaii.

The autumn 2012 issue of Fellows Q! is the first cover appearance of Takuto Kashiki’s Hakumei to Mikochi and contains the manga serial’s second and third chapters. I haven’t yet been able to acquire the Fellows magazine containing the first chapter.

The September 2015 issue of Shuukan Shounen Magazine contains the first appearance of Atsushi Ohkubo’s En En no Shouboutai (“Fire Force”).