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Hinatsu Hoshikawa has a reputation at work as a "capable boss," "talented designer," "cool beauty" and "mature woman." This perfect-seeming office worker has two secrets: at home, she's a lazy goof, the complete opposite of her work persona... And she lives alone with a high school student, Touya Isshiki! Though they're not related by blood, Hinatsu sees Touya as an irreplaceable part of her family. One night, however, this young man pours his heart out and reveals his deep, mature love for the older woman... "I've waited so long for this day... When I become an adult."

Some live in the deep darkness behind your eyelids. Some eat silence. Some thoughtlessly kill. Some simply drive men mad. They are known as mushicreatures that came into being shortly after life emerged from the primordial ooze. They still exist parallel to our own lives and can only be seen by a select few. As a mushishi, Ginko is one of the few who are aware of their existense, and this young man with a sardonic smile roams from place to place with the knowledge and skill to aid those unwittingly affected by mushi.

Sting Eucliffe, the White Dragon, and Rogue Cheney, the Shadow Dragon. These two powerful Dragon Slayer wizards are the faces of the Sabertooth guild, but they didn't start out that way - both wizards have been down a road of fantastical adventures and hard-won battles to forge their own way as heroes. Learn how two of the most powerful wizards in Fiore got their start!

It's spring of freshman year, and Kanji Sasahara has a difficult dilemma. Should he declare his love for manga and anime fandom by joining an otaku club, like he has always wanted to? Is he prepared to deal with the social stigma attached to being an otaku? Meanwhile, Saki Kasakabe has her own otaku conundrum. How can she turn her boyfriend, anime fanboy Makoto, into a normal guy? Kanji follow his heart as does Saki. When both Kanji and Makoto join Genshiken: The Society for the Study of Modern Visual Culture, Saki chases Makoto through the various activities of the club from costumeplaying and comic conventions, to video gaming and anime model figures. Saki finds otaku to be more than she imagined, but not necessarily in a good way. Includes special extras after the story!

new academic year means new members for the lovably misfit Genshiken: The Society for the Study of Modern Visual Culture! Club president Chika Ogiue now has to manage a freshfaced trio of yaoi fans (one of whom dabbles in crossdressing), a surly American transfer student with a penchant for obscure anime quotes, and her own rising career as a professional manga artist. Can she actually find time to draw her own vanity project for ComicFest? This volume of Genshiken: Second Season includes special extras after the story!

A covert mission in Shanghai reunites Kusanagi with a wartime rival amid shifting loyalties. The infiltration of an anti-cyberization cult calls for Section 9's most "human" members to do things the old-fashioned way. A deep dive into the mind of a criminal forces Kusanagi to question the nature of imagination - and her own identity. The stories in Global Neural Network bring a 21st-century perspective to its questions of human identity and the border between mind and machine that made The Ghost in the Shell one of the most revered manga of all time, and unleash top Western comics artists on eye-popping action scenes starring Kusanagi, Batou, Togusa, Aramaki, and all the members of Section 9!

Original stories by:
* Alex de Campi (Twisted Romance) & Giannis Milonogiannis (Prophet)
* Brenden Fletcher (Gotham Academy, Motor Crush) & LRNZ (Golem)
* Genevieve Valentine (Mechanique, Icon), & Brent Schoonover (The Astonishing Ant-Man)
* Max Gladstone (the Craft Sequence) & David Lopez (All-New Wolverine)

Legendary novelist NISIOISIN partners up with Mitsuru Hattori in this three volume graphic novel adaptation of one of his mystery novels... "Looking back on it now, I realize that incident is what turned me into the novelist I am today." An author is someone who creates tales, but an aspiring author is someone who lies, and nothing more. This incident happened 10 years ago, when I was in college, and merely an aspiring author. If those events never took place I wouldn't have become much of anything at all, which is why I think I need to thank her, thank that girl...

Mani is a beastkin. Wul is a hunter. It was unheard of for their kinds to cohabitate...until now! Even without being able to understand her, Wul the Red Hood takes Mani in after he finds her on a hunt. Risking his life and his reputation, he decides to raise Mani as his apprentice! For what purpose? And what worlds await them on their journey? Mani and Wul team up to defy all odds in this drama-packed fantasy!

Tsukimi Kurashita has a strange fascination with jellyfish. She's loved them from a young age and has carried that love with her to her new life in the big city of Tokyo. There, she resides in Amamizukan, a safe haven for girl geeks who regularly gush over a range of things from trains to Japanese dolls. However, a chance meeting at a pet shop has Tsukimi crossing paths with one of the things that the residents of Amamizukan have been desperately trying to avoid-a beautiful and fashionable woman! But there's much more to this woman than her trendy clothes! This odd encounter is only the beginning of a new and unexpected path for Tsukimi and her friends.

Can a poem save your life? Words are powerful. Insults and rumors can derail a career; a bit of encouragement can give someone the strength to pursue their dreams. When a high school boy skipping class to sketch shoe designs and a taciturn woman drinking a morning beer meet in a Tokyo park, they say little but the woman bids farewell with an ancient tanka poem. Will the boy figure out the poem's meaning before it's too late?

Outer space, the far future. A lone seed ship, the Sidonia, plies the void, ten centuries since the obliteration of the solar system. The massive, nearly indestructible, yet barely sentient alien life forms that destroyed humanity's home world continue to pose an existential threat. Nagate Tanikaze has only known life in the vessel's bowels deep below the sparkling strata where humans have achieved photosynthesis and new genders. Not long after he emerges from the Underground, however, the youth is bequeathed a treasured legacy by the spaceship's coolheaded female captain.

Sayaka Shimada, 36 and single, loves three things: her job, her favorite singer, and her mother, who lives with her. Even with her junior coworker Sugaya tossing thoughtless comments her way, she'd poured herself into her work, and when she paused to look up she found herself on the cusp of her late 30s. Partly at her mother's suggestion, Sayaka visits a matchmaking service. The man she's introduced to is sweet and earnest, and things start moving smoothly toward marriage. Though it hasn't all sunk in yet, she is well on her way to a happy future--and that's when a sudden injury leaves her mother hospitalized. The injury is nothing too serious and Sayaka is settling her nerves, until she notices something off about her mother... A poignant and much-acclaimed depiction of the struggles of caretaking and building a future, issues faced by countless people every day!

High school senior Ao Kuroda is a completely normal girl, neither glitzy nor plain. Nothing beats peace and quiet, that's her motto. In spite of looking forward to a no-nonsense and calm final year of high school, Ao bumps shoulders with Sakuya Ozaki -- a freshman infamous for getting into a fight soon after the first day of high school and sending the other student to the hospital!! Ozaki tells her off -- "That freakin' hurt, watch where you're going, why don't you?!"-- and Ao is so terrified that she cries. She wants nothing to do with Ozaki! So why the heck did he have to get into a fight with someone right outside of her favorite record store?!

Mikako Nagamine is recruited as a pilot to fight in the interstellar war against a force of alien invaders, leaving behind her one true love. Mikako's only connection to Noboru Terao, who continues living the life of an ordinary student, is through cell phone text messages. As Mikako travels light years away, it takes longer and longer for Noboru to receive her messages, until finally one arrives eight years and seven months after she sent it...

Tropic of the Sea is a rare look at revered anime auteur Satoshi Kon's first feature-length manga. This edition includes a dozen black-and-white art plates from its original serialization, along with an essay written by Kon in 1999 detailing his transition from the manga industry to the animation business. Yosuke's family has a strange tradition-once every sixty years they receive an egg from a mermaid. When the egg matures, his family dutifully returns it to the sea, where the whole process is then repeated. In exchange for this favor, the mer-people bless his coastal town with bountiful catches of fish and calm seas. But as commercial development encroaches on the sleepy seaside village and Yosuke's father is lured away from tradition towards modern prosperity and turns the egg into a tourist trap, what will happen to the promise their family made to the mermaids generations ago?

I just met him, and now we're doing it!? He kisses me tenderly, and pushes me onto the bed... An adult's love at first sight is too thrilling...!

From the author of Dragon Zakura, the manga that shook the college admissions test-prep world in Japan to the core, comes a new work depicting high-stakes dealings in the stock market at an exceptional secondary school. The day after Takashi Zaizen entered the illustrious Dojuku Academy with top test scores, he was let in on the institution's deepest secret, an introduced to the mysterious "investment club." A six-person group made up of the top student from each class at Dojuku, the club carries a heavy responsibility: to generate an annual return of 8% or more on the school's 300 billion yen endowment, keeping the top-class schools facilities in shape and tuition at zero. "The most thrilling game in the world, the thing that sets men's blood ablaze... is money. Investment." With those words, the genius Zaizen's story of thrill and profit begins. Follow his road: read, learn, and start earning!This series has been published in Japan since 2013 which Japanese title name is "Investor Z"

Todai is a piece of cake."By producing Todai entrance exam passing students, Kenji Sakuragi had succeeded in rebuilding the "idiot school" Ryuzan High.With the major education reformation approaching in 2020, Sakuragi once again returns to Ryuzan which has fallen back down to its low. At his side is his former pupil Naomi Mizuno.With "Empress" Kumiko Tatsuno reigning supreme over Ryuzan and the completely unmotivated student body before him, Sakuragi roars."Todai is THE place! Get into Todai!

Note:This book is written in full color."In a distant time, a small country - the "Land of Bones" - discovers a strange technology, and plunges the world into fear and despair."Since the dawn of time, the Kingdom of Karan - loved by its inhabitants and neighbors alike - has existed in peace and in harmony with nature. But now, the kingdom has fallen and its citizens have scattered. Karan's sole hope? A small boy - Prince Tsunashi.Despite his reluctance to accept the challenges of reviving Karan, Tsunashi's right eye patch hides the mark of the prophesied savior: THE EYE OF GOLD. Threatened by the intensifying advance of the fearsome and mysterious Land of Bones, a skillful ploy by a vassal allows Tsunashi to discover and harness his legendary ability hidden underneath the eye patch - and fight to save his kingdom.From bestselling author Masahito Soda, creator of "Firefighter! Daigo of Fire Company" (8.3 million copies sold) - and the kart racing manga Capeta (6 million) - comes THE TENTH PRISM. Soda's new epic fantasy marks his entry into the genre and is certain to be yet another masterstroke for this author.This series has been published in Japan since 2014 which Japanese title name is "Ten Prism"

In a distant time, a small country - the Land of Bones" - discovers a strange technology, and plunges the world into fear and despair."Since the dawn of time, the Kingdom of Karan - loved by its inhabitants and neighbors alike - has existed in peace and in harmony with nature. But now, the kingdom has fallen and its citizens have scattered. Karan's sole hope? A small boy - Prince Tsunashi.Despite his reluctance to accept the challenges of reviving Karan, Tsunashi's right eye patch hides the mark of the prophesied savior: THE EYE OF GOLD. Threatened by the intensifying advance of the fearsome and mysterious Land of Bones, a skillful ploy by a vassal allows Tsunashi to discover and harness his legendary ability hidden underneath the eye patch - and fight to save his kingdom.From bestselling author Masahito Soda, creator of "Firefighter! Daigo of Fire Company" (8.3 million copies sold) - and the kart racing manga Capeta (6 million) - comes THE TENTH PRISM. Soda's new epic fantasy marks his entry into the genre and is certain to be yet another masterstroke for this author.This series has been published in Japan since 2014 which Japanese title name is "Ten Prism"

I'm 24, never had a boyfriend, and the furthest thing away from "pretty." I don't get how "cute girls" can be so touchy-feely and puppy-eyed... Out of the blue, Nakahara, a new employee at work asked me out! We were about to kiss, but it was a prank set up by the other guys at work... I wonder if I'll ever be popular with the guys. While I was mumbling at the family altar, the Onono Komachi appeared in front of me! And she's my ancestor!? And she's gonna give me tips on how to be get male attention!?

Chitose and Ken Kuraki are working parents with a 2-year-old daughter, Nanase. With help from Chitose's mother, they somehow manage a work-life balance. But one day, Chitose and Ken suddenly swap bodies! Now literally in each other shoes, they must now face their new roles at work and child-raising, which come with a whole slew of challenges, including having to deal with a group of annoying moms. Will our couple be able to break gender stereotypes, and overcome their dilemma while raising Nanase at the same time?

The most average, every day moment in the world of comic publishing: a comic artist having a meeting with her editor. It's hard to believe that one day can change all of that forever.

The world has ended.

The few humans who managed to survive fight bitterly over foodscraps --- or not...?

An apocalyptic essay about the every day lives of the people who work in the manga industry after the world has ended.

All the ideas they come up with for a new comic have, generally speaking, already been done.

Hardly anyone at first year Yuna Oka's high school has heard of her... but she's actually a published comic artist! Yuna is a newbie, but she's a professional who's scored her own serialization in a magazine for romance comics! Overwhelmed by all her deadlines, Yuna's editor decides to introduce her to an assistant. But the man who shows up to her apartment is clearly super sketchy... What's up with him?!

Will, a baby had nothing with him that shows his identity, was brought to Table Mountain by the God of Thousand Theophanies. He was brought up by the God of Sword, Healing, and Magic to become a brave, strong, and kind boy.
When he turned fourteen, a beautiful priestess, Lunamaria, visits the mountain and says that Will is destined to be a Hero. To save the world, Will needs to go on a journey with her.
Is he really the savior of the world? Would he be able to find where he came from?
Thus, the journey begins...!

After saving the world, the strongest hero Leo became someone who is not wanted in the peaceful human world. He was too strong.
Exiled, he seeks a job at the Demon King's Army, which he had defeated and needs to be rebuilt.
The Army had many problems: too much work, financial troubles, etc. Leo starts to make things better using his power.
Leo encounters Echidna again, and asks her why she invaded the human world. There was an unexpected story---!
This is the comic version of the Japanese novel which won one of the major online prizes for novels!

Eliana has done her best to be chosen as a fiancee of the prince...until her little sister falls in love with him at the first sight. And she was chosen as the fiancee instead of Eliana.
Depressed, Eliana decides to be the "Dragon Bride" and make her family happy ever after. She jumps into the magma...but was saved by a red dragon! The dragon, Greed, who never knew about the sacrifice ritual says he'd marry her...and declares that he'd take over the kingdom!
Fantasy about a girl who found her true love and her way to live.

Miyoi works at Geidontei, a Japanese-style pub (izakaya) in a remote part of the fantasy land, Gensokyo. She is charming, loved by all customers including drunk people.
Sometimes, those who are not human also come to Geidontei for a drink. A ghoul, a tanuki, a demon...all cute girls, but have special powers.
Miyoi tries to solve mysteries that troubles the village with help from some of them...but she herself is one of the mysteries!

"Do you really call that a True Love?" 10 seconds after they met, Aki and Haruto started dating. This is a story of the two in search of what "Love" is.

Shining black armor... A fluttering cape... and... a creaky school bag on his back!? The rumored beautiful female transfer student is a Demon King from another world!

"Can I really go husband hunting in another world!?" In the middle of a courting event, Rinko is thrown into a whole new world. But she's not giving up... she's determined to find her special fish in the sea!

I'm a guy but she called me "Mommy"...!? A mysterious girl got attached to this debauched me and my muscle head of a partner during one of our missions. Even though I don't want to deal with kids ever agaiiin!

"What should I do? I haven't kissed for years..." I'm confused, but for $100,000, I'll do the business kiss.

Do you have any idea what happens... when a little bunny comes to a den of wolves like this?Hinako has a dreadful fear of boys due to her past. But to save her twin brother Hinata from a crisis, she has no choice but to muster up her courage and attend his all-boys high school in his place! As luck would have it though, Rei, the school troublemaker who also turns out to be her brother's dorm roommate, sees through her ruse on her first day! Prepared to be sent home immediately for her actions, Hinako is surprised when Rei decides to help her out with her plan. And thus, with the single guy who knows her secret by her side, Hinako begins her new, sweet, exciting life as a high school boy!

Love is nothing to be afraid of. All you need is to act on instinct, just as animals do. For they... can sense matters of the human heart. A collection of stories depicting relationships between people and the animals around them. An office worker who can't seem to be honest with her feelings, and a stray kitty she picks up. A hairstylist-in-training who's in love and the salon's mascots, a pair of parrots. A young woman who tends to overthink and the tropical fish at a bar, fluttering ever gracefully in their tank. As humans, we have so much on our plate, having to constantly find a balance between relationships, work and self-improvement. That is why some envy the freedom that animals possess. Delve into these short stories. Let the curious critters quell your worries, soothe your soul, and perhaps do much more. I beseech you, human! It is time to discover your own freedom!

"You're on myturf now." When a freak accident turns back the clock for a chivalrous yakuza kingpin, the newly young (and hot!) old man gets to take another stab at romance.

Hayate Shinobu is not your regular 3rd grader; he is a fugitive ninja who keeps transferring schools in order to escape from those pursuing him.If he gets caught, the only thing waiting for him is death.On the other side, for the pursuers, the only way to compensate for failure in their mission is also death.Hayate's homeroom teacher is also a ninja, and he has decided to execute Hayate to protect the ninja code, despite the objections of the Board of Education and his own anguish at the though.Hayate must overcome numerous hardships in his pursuit of being a regular elementary school student.

"I'm a masochist, so..." He said that, then forcefully kissed me. It was so fierce, I couldn't even breathe... Umm... Are you really a masochist!?

At a particular shopping district located in an old Tokyo neighborhood, humans and cats seem to live together in peace. But these cats aren't your ordinary felines! They are spirits, whose human forms allow them to go about their days undetected amongst the other locals. And the truth is, this neighborhood attracts some rather unique problems because of its residents. Chisato, a shop owner and the only human aware of the cat spirits' presence, and Kotora, a young cat spirit band together in attempt to solve the various predicaments they encounter. But will luck be on their side?

Ichigo Kaida is in his first year of college. It's raining heavily and he's biking home along the Kamogawa river after a couple of particularly grueling shifts at his part time job. That's when, out of the blue, he finds an abandoned dog.
Whoever left the dog also left a letter, which relays two facts:
1. The dog, though truly and genuinely a dog, loves to eat bread.
2. The dog's name is Koppe Roll.
Ichigo feels for Koppe and decides to take care of him, regardless of the struggle... but what will Ichigo do when the little dog simply refuses to touch the food that Ichigo puts out for him...?!