The writers at Anime UK News choose their favourite reads of 2023 – and look forward to 2024!

Ballroom dance champions Suzuki and Shinya have broken up – and the dream of excelling in the 10-Dance Competition seems further away as they start to train with different coaches.

In these two new volumes of Rent-A-Girlfriend the series swaps the comedy and harem antics for something more heartfelt as the release of Mizuhara's film grows closer.

Ken Kanashiro of the Washio clan has discovered a new meaning to his life: K-pop idol group MNW! And when this hardened gangster learns there's the chance to meet his bias in person at a handshake event, he'll do everything he can to win a ticket...

It’s assessment time for Yatora Yaguchi and his fellow art students and the assignment on the theme of ‘Guilt’ has proved the hardest one yet. Will Yatora be able to create an artwork in time for the upcoming assessment?

Ken Kanashiro, second-in-command of the feared Washio Clan, is a fan of traditional ballads until the boss’s daughter Megumi takes him to an idol concert. Suddenly, his life is transformed! Or is this all just a cover for some nefarious underworld criminal activities…?

A part-time teaching role working with children finds Yatora learning as much from his young charges as they do from him…before he’s plunged back into the second year of his art course, where he comes up against the fearsome Professor Inukai. Perhaps he’s not cut out to study art at university…?

Taking an entertaining but critical look at the world of video game QA testing, Quality Assurance in Another World sees a group of testers, along with main character Haga, trapped in the video game they were working on. After losing several of his colleagues and friends to the bugs and glitches caused by the forbidden “Debug Mode”, Haga resolves to continue to test and go through the entire game, hoping that when he eventually clears it, all those trapped within will finally be able to log out.

Volume 4 of Wandance follows Kabo and Wanda, the promising first year dancers, as they seek out new dance styles in the park at night.

It’s contest time – and Kaboku and Wanda are excited about taking part with the dance club for the first time. But how will the Ichirin High School dance club fare when competing on a public stage?

Up-and-coming idol duo ZINGS are doing well – although Yoshino, unaware of the ghostly influence of phantom idol Asahi, is increasingly troubled by the dramatic mood swings of his partner Niyodo on and off-stage. What will happen if Yoshino discovers what’s really going on?

While Guideau and Ashaf are investigating a lifesize doll, the Paladin Corps has been preparing to defend a certain castle against a magical storm that’s heading their way – one whipped up by a group of witches. But what exactly do the witches want? Find out in the ninth volume of The Witch and Beast...

It’s time for the final showdown with Madame La Médium as her evil plot reaches its climax. Can Belle and the Beast stop her before it is too late, and will the pair ever declare their love for each other and find true happiness? All the answers are here in this explosive final volume of Kaori Yuki’s Beauty and the Beast of Paradise Lost!

The end of first-year art show looms large for Yatora and his fellow students – and he’s struggling to decide what to paint. Has he fallen out of love with making art?

Art student Yatora is about to start the second term of his course at TUA – but he seems to be suffering from some crippling kind of block. Is this the end of his dreams to become an artist?

Up-and-coming J-pop duo ZINGS start to attract attention – but no one guesses that they have supernatural assistance – from the ghost of a famous young idol!