Swoon-Worthy My Love Story with Yamada-Kun at Lv999 Manga Announcements

My Love Story With Yamada-Kun at Lv999! at Anime nyc 2024

I had the chance to attend the My Love Story with Yamada-Kun lv999! Panel at Anime NYC 2024. Another Love Story for us to swoon over and wish we were the main characters! Unfortunately, I missed the beginning of the panel, but we were given a lot of backstory for the upcoming romance mangas. The panel was presented by Masngamo & Penguin Random House. I will go over the manga announcements in this post and share links so you can support the mangakas and their work. Let’s swoon and get giddy about all the cuteness that is set to be released this year.

If you’re a fan of romance manga, stay tuned for some exciting releases this year!

My Love Story with Yamada-kun at LV999!!

*Image Credit: Image Credit: MLSWYKAL999 Fandom Wiki*

This manga is about Akane being dumped and in the dumps of her feelings. It’s the normal rollercoaster of emotions that happens after a breakup of a relationship. Making things worse she still sees her ex-boyfriend and finds out he met a new girl in the game they both used to play. Akane is still on this emotional rollercoaster and decides to log into the game one more time. She meets Yamada during an in-game event and then later in person. Yamada is a famous pro gamer that her ex-boyfriend is a fan of. Akane starts introducing Yamada as her new boyfriend everyone she knows. She’s working backward but going forward with this plan! Read or watch the series to see everything unfold as Akane works through loving Yamada at lv999!

We all love a good rom-com manga and I’m excited to get my hands on this one. The Yamada-kun series is ongoing and the English manga is currently at volume 5. There are 9 Volumes in total for the manga and a 13-episode anime season on Crunchyroll. As a manga reader, I was hoping I could grab the series in a set but unfortunately, only 2 volumes are in English.

Volume 1 is out and volume 2 is set to release on September 3, 2024. The Manga announcement only included English-translated manga up to volume 5. The remaining release dates are Volume 3 releases on October 1, 2024, and Volume 4 releases on December 3, 2024. Volume 5 playing hard to get with a release date of February 4, 2025. With a monthly release day, I may just watch the anime and add the manga to my wait-until-it-’s-completed list. That’s a long list and it grows every day as I see new titles I want to read.

The manganka Mashiro sent a message to the overseas fans of their work thanking them and showing their support for them supporting him and his work. I always loved reading mangas and the artists leave a little note at some point in the manga. They used to have little characters that represented them and gave us little pep talks. I also liked it when they gave us tidbits of information about the characters we just met. Reading manga is a connecting experience with mangakas who interact with us as we read.

The Old-school manga reader

I’m only 33 but I’ve been reading manga since middle school at the age of 12. I have experience under my belt to let manga companies do their thing and wait for the series to be completed. I however do dislike the trend of an anime series coming out before the manga series is completed. We don’t get to see the series for what it is anymore before they start animating and cramming so much of the story into episodes. Then they don’t continue the animation and you end up reading the complete manga series anyway.

Honestly, it’s a mess what they are doing today. When I was a young fan I was able to read the entire manga series and a few years later watch it as an anime, in a season of episodes or movies/ova for the title. I miss the yearning of it all and being able to be paced with titles to look forward to while also enjoying other titles. I will probably never adapt to how fast anime is produced vs the manga and it makes me feel so left behind. Newer anime fans are spoiled with how fast every show is produced and put out but they don’t get to see different sides of the storytelling or characters because manga production isn’t as fast as anime production.

I think the pacing of the art and anticipation of what’s going to happen next by the next release made me love reading manga. Kinda like commercials between shows and movies on cable, you have a break to do something and talk about the show for a bit. Maybe I’m just old but I don’t see younger people enjoying the essence of holding a manga or e-version of it and having to wait a bit to continue the story. Now that everything is all there on demand and so fast-paced you don’t get to fall in love with the characters and story like you should if you’re given time to digest everything before the next release.

The other upcoming releases mentioned

The other titles mentioned during this panel were How Me and My Max Empathy Level Magical Beast Pals Built a Fantasy World Kingdom. That title alone is a tongue twister, lol these long titles are crazy. Max empathy level manga (because I’m not typing that again) is an action-fantasy series that centers around Ikuo Fukami a 12th grader who can sense people’s emotions in colors. Like seeing someone’s aura surround them, he wakes up in a new world, and thus his latest adventure begins. The series will be released on Mangamo, no dates were given.

A Condition Called Love is a romance manga following schoolmates Hataru and Hananoi as they experience the ups and downs of this condition we call love. A sweet high school love that shows what teenagers usually deal with as they explore this part of life for the first time. I added it to my list I look forward to seeing how this storytelling will play out.

Record of Ragnarok is an action and drama-filled fantasy series that will take you for a ride. There is a lot of eye candy in this manga and I already had it on my list because of that and I love a good fantasy read. The story is about gods that decide the fate of mankind like we aren’t at their mercy already. Fed up with mankind gods want to end it so they hold a tournament between gods and mortals. This alone should interest you as it did me, as we already live in a world we need to distract ourselves from. Why not indulge in a story that’s testing mythologies and religions we know? More Volumes were announced as coming soon for the series. The anime series is on Netflix currently 2 seasons deep. For me, with all the action it is a great series to watch animated and brought to life.

I hope that you check out some of these titles mentioned and add them to your TBR List (To Be Read). Below are links to read the manga series and support the mangaka that let us into their imagination. I love reading and the art of storytelling which helps me imagine the world you built for these characters regardless of genre. Mangas are now on digital platforms you have to pay to read and I think that’s a great way to adapt to the advancement of technology. The physicals are in bookstores that sell manga so if you are out and about pick up a copy of something to read.

Mangamo is offering a free first read on all of these titles and more manga series they have. You can download their app via the Google Store and Apple’s App Store.

Happy Reading! <3