I finished last month’s Harta!
ハルタ ９４号
The 新連載 in this issue is スパイゲーム A.D.1600 by 加藤清志, about a hardliner espionage agent from the future getting warped into the past. Has a violent, action-y vibe that reminds me a little of Golden Kamuy, with some Spy Family mixed in I suppose. And time travel.
Something tells me it’s not going to be adhering particularly strongly to historical accuracy…
A 読切 I thought was particularly interesting this issue is ウインクキラー, by 西田心. It’s a well done thriller about two schoolchildren confronting a teacher who can kill people by making eye contact and winking. The author draws pupils in unusually striking ways, which suits the material of the story.
a ショートショート that stood out immediately following that one, is ここからそっちは君のもの by 野町達也 about a ghost stopping by hoping to rent half the apartment. The author’s art style is immediately recognizable as one whose work I’ve enjoyed in the magazine before.
Otherwise, plenty of nice stuff from the usual suspects! Like the nostalgic (to me) experience of visiting a cathedral as a curious tourist in the Granada one, or another chapter in いやはや Atumi-kun which I’m enjoying watching develop, or this double page spread from the hotel one I suspect @Naphthalene would like a lot 
(spoiler tagged just in case you’d prefer to wait until whenever volume 3 comes out).
The third 八咫烏杯 competition results start up in this issue (eventually they’ll presumably be posted for free like past winners). There was an interesting one involving a Matryoshka doll inspired monster and the Butcher of Rostov, and an interesting one involving a pet hermit crab taking a human as its new shell.
Interestingly, there’s only one teaser for next month at the back – likely because next month is when all the ongoing series (including the ones that run on offset months) all show up together, before the off month in July. Since I took so long to finish this one, I won’t have long to wait!
manga report
- 高橋留美子劇場 （１）
This is a short story collection by Rumiko Takahashi (of Ranma 1/2, Inuyasha etc. fame) that I bought a long time ago. I enjoyed it! The stories are all more grounded in the everyday than the Takahashi series I’ve read before, but still have a zany charm to them it’s just mixed in more quietly. Slightly off-kilter stories about the frustrations of apartment living, that kind of thing. I think my favorite in this volume was the one where the husband’s boss’s wife keeps dumping the husband’s boss’s collection of souvenirs in front of this couple’s house (which isn’t actually a garbage pick-up site but just looks like it). That summary probably doesn’t make sense but it’s fun. Anyway I assumed there were only 2 volumes since that’s all I had from way back when, but apparently there’s 4 - 名探偵コナン （１６）
Usually Detective Conan is very reliable, but I found the first mystery that concludes in this volume (involving a suspect with a bandaged face) kind of uninteresting and so I read it in fits and starts which didn’t help. The later stuff in the volume introducing 怪盗キッド is suitably fun though!
There was also I think a story about an anatomical model running around the school at night which I assume must be a common trope / urban legend since something similar was involved in a Lost Judgment side story…