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The year is 1967, and a young Japanese man is thinking about the future. On one side of the water, the war is raging in Vietnam; far away on the other side, the Apollo Project has just met with disaster as three astronauts die in a capsule fire. And here and now, on a long nighttime ferry ride back home, he will meet and fall in love with a mysterious young woman who carries a past deeper and more profound than his dreams and fears of tomorrow. Her name, she jokes, is no name - Emanon‚ and she can never be forgotten, any more than she can forget. From the artist of the Eisner-nominated manga Wandering Island!

English translation of the Japanese manga Bokura no Shokutaku (僕らの食卓).
BOYS' LOVE COOKED TO PERFECTION
Eating around other people is a struggle for salaryman Yutaka, despite his talent for cooking. All that changes when he meets Minoru and Tane - two brothers, many years apart in age - who ask him to teach them how to make his delicious food! It's not long before Yutaka finds himself falling hard for the meals they share together - and falling in love!

English translation of the Japanese manga Ningen Shikkaku.
In honor of the 100th birthday of Osamu Dazai, Usamaru Furuya retells Dazai's most important work No Longer Human in modern day Tokyo where modern vices can bring ruin to the self-loathing.
Furuya's adaptation of No Longer Human takes place nearly seventy years after Dazai's original. Set in modern day Tokyo, Dazai's tale details the life of a young man originally from a well-off family from Japan's far north. Yozo Oba is a troubled soul incapable of revealing his true self to others. A weak constitution and the lingering trauma from some abuse administered by a relative forces him to uphold a facade of hollow jocularity since high school. The series is composed of three parts, referred to in the novel as "memorandums," which chronicle the life of Oba from his teens to late twenties. The comic is narrated by the artist, Furuya himself, making appearances at the start of each volume. In many ways, it could be said that Furuya has traveled a path that may be similar to Dazai's. Maybe that is what led these two together after 100 years.

English translation of the Japanese manga Unicorn Otousan (ユニコーンお父さん).
Learning to live with a stepfather can be tough - especially if your new dad is a unicorn!
Uno Issei is still in high school when his mother remarries. His mom's new husband, Masaru, is a nice enough guy, he just happens to be a unicorn. Sometimes in the form of a talking horse, sometimes in the form of a beautiful man, Masaru is determined to run the household while his wife is away and win Issei over. For better or worse, now Issei is stuck teaching this unicorn man how to be a good dad in this idiosyncratic comedy about the magic of family.

The tombs are littered with the captives and corpses of friend and foe alike. The rescue mission has become a bloody massacre as wave after wave of unrelenting Gravekeepers strikes at the elite team. Will the backup's backup succeed where two other teams have failed!?

English translation of the Japanese light novel series Log Horizon (ログ・ホライズン).
When thirty thousand Japanese gamers are suddenly trapped in the online game world of "Elder Tale," a realm of swords and sorcery - that was, up until yesterday, very much a fantasy - is now their cold, hard reality. Severed from their everyday lives, they're faced with fighting monsters, eating food with no flavor, and being unable to die?! Amid the chaos in "Elder Tale" Akihabara, veteran gamer Shiroe locates his old friend Naotsugu and teams up with the beautiful female assassin Akatsuki. Together they embark on an adventure to change the world as they know it!

English translation of the Japanese manga Arte (アルテ).
16th century Firenze, Italy. One girl, One ARTistic ambition!The birthplace of the renaissance era, where art is thriving. In one small corner of this vast city, one sheltered girl's journey begins. She dreams of becoming an artist, an impossible career for a girl born into a noble family. In those days, art was an exclusively male profession, with woman facing strong discrimination. In spite of these challenges, Arte perseveres with hard work and a positive attitude!

DISCLAIMER: graphic sexuality
Yuuki Rito is your average high school student -- awkward, shy, and hopeless when it comes to confessing his feelings to the girl of his dreams. But one day, a beautiful woman suddenly materializes in his bathtub! Her name is Lala Deviluke, an alien princess on the run from an intergalactic empire. After Rito gets unwittingly engaged to Lala, he soon finds himself sucked into a battle for Lala's affections, as alien suitors from across the galaxy vie for her hand in marriage. Rito's troubles have only just begun!

Aico Tachibana is recovering from both a car accident that took her father and shattered her body, then a from a world-shaking biological disaster that engulfed her mother and brother. Her rehabilitation is like getting used to a brand-new body, but as a young transfer student shows her, that is no simile. Her body is not her own. Now she must escape shadowy forces who want to kidnap her and join a desperate mission into an organic-matter-infested valley to find the fate of her family, the truth of herself, and quite possibly, save the world. This is Hiroaki Michiaki's comic adaptation of the brand-new anime by the makers of Wolf's Rain and Space Dandy.

Softcover omnibus collecting and translating the Japanese manga Dirty Pair.
LET'S GET DIRTY!
Kei and Yuri, known as the Lovely Angels - or the notorious Dirty Pair, depending on who you ask - work as "trouble consultants" for the galactic Worlds Welfare and Works Association (WWWA). But in their pursuit of space-wide justice, they cause space-wide disaster! The chaotic (and strangely successful) exploits of these interstellar agents come alive in this two-in-one manga omnibus by Haruka Takachiho and Star Wars: A New Hope manga artist Hisao Tamaki!
"I'm delighted to see Hisao Tamaki, an almost criminally underrated mangaka, bring his high-energy sauciness to the Lovely Angels' very earliest escapades." - Adam Warren (Dirty Pair, Empowered)

In the late 26th century, overpopulation on Earth is reaching the breaking point, and humanity must find new frontiers. The terraforming of Mars has taken centuries but is now complete. The colonization of Mars by humanity is an epoch-making event, but an unintended side effect of the terraforming process unleashes a horror no one could ever have imagined...
After humanity's first manned mission to the Red Planet was lost, a second expedition arrives. The explorers prepare to exterminate the cockroaches that were used to transform the Martian environment. They are shocked to discover that the insects have mutated into giant, aggressive H with one overriding goal - exterminate the humans! But this crew of explorers has each undergone the "Bugs Procedure," terrifying experimental surgery designed to make them more than human...

Black Jack is a mysterious and charismatic young genius surgeon who travels the world performing amazing and impossible medical feats. Though a trained physician, he refuses to accept a medical license due to his hatred and mistrust of the medical community's hypocrisy and corruption. This leads Black Jack to occasional run-ins with the authorities, as well as from gangsters and criminals who approach him for illegal operations.
Black Jack charges exorbitant fees for his services, the proceeds from which he uses to fund environmental projects and to aid victims of crime and corrupt capitalists. But because Black Jack keeps his true motives secret, his ethics are perceived as questionable and he is considered a selfish, uncaring devil. The Black Jack series is told in short stories. Each volume will contain 16-20 stories, each running approximately 20-24 pages in length.
Black Jack is recognized as Osamu Tezuka's third most famous series, after Astro Boy and Kimba, the White Lion.

English translation of the Japanese manga Kaikisen (海帰線).
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?
The debut comic by the legendary animation director is also Kon's first comic work published in English. In a rural Japanese fishing village, the locals have long been blessed by the legend of a mermaid. Now the masses have gotten word of this myth and they are moving in on this community hoping to cash in on this mythological wonder!

The definitive collection of cartoon short stories from movie director Satoshi Kon. From the internationally renowned director of Paprika and Perfect Blue, comes a collection of short stories penned as he transitioned from animator to comicker to movie director. Featuring 16 shorts, including his award winning debut Toriko, this collection dives into the heart of Satoshi Kon like no book has before.

English translation of the Japanese manga Citrus.
For fans of Girl Friends and Strawberry Panic comes a breathtaking new yuri series!
Aihara Yuzu, a high school girl whose main interests are fashion, friends, and having fun, is about to get a reality check. Due to her mom's remarriage, Yuzu has transferred to a new, all-girls school that is extremely strict. Her real education is about to begin.
From day one, happy-go-lucky Yuzu makes enemies, namely the beautiful yet stern student council president Mei. So what happens when a dejected Yuzu returns home and discovers the shock of her life: that Mei is actually her new step-sister who has come to live with her? Even more surprising, when Mei catches Yuzu off guard and kisses her out of the blue, what does it all mean?

The curtain rises on a new adventure! Light and darkness engage in a battle of chess. Read the long-awaited manga adaptation of Kingdom Hearts III!

English translation of the Japanese manga Daiku no Magia (第九のマギア).
Beethoven, The Demon Hunter!
High school student Sumura Takeru has a dark secret: his parents were murdered by demons. Consumed by vengeance, Takeru seeks out the famed demon hunter, Beethoven. Beethoven is a "magia," a wizard who wields the power of music to battle demons. Taken under Beethoven's wing, Takeru joins the ranks of other renowned magia: Bach, Mozart, Schubert, Liszt and Tchaikovsky. This unique team of demon hunters will use their music-based magic to combat the world's demons. Now all Takeru needs to do is figure out how to convince Beethoven to upgrade him from his personal cleaning boy to a full-fledged apprentice!

English translation of the Japanese manga Kinoko Ningen no Kekkon (きのこ人間の結婚).
LOVERS IN A DANGEROUS WORLD
In an all-woman planet of intelligent fungi, Arriala and Erriela get married! But a member of the royal mushroom family is smitten with Erriela and is willing to start a war over her. To rescue her wife, can Arriala traverse the wild and treacherous mushroom kingdom and hope to survive?

English translation of the Japanese manga Tenjō Tenge.
Soichiro Nagi and Bob Makihara have always been the meanest street brawlers around. When they enter Todo High they plan on carving out a reputation as the strongest fighters in their new school--easier said than done in a place that's dedicated to training its students in the art of combat! After realizing they're the new fish swimming in a tank full of sharks, Soichiro and Bob enter the Juken fight club as rookie members. However, the Executive Council--the archrival of the Juken Club--soon launches a surprise attack. Soichiro and Bob have a chance to show their stuff, as long as they don't get curb-kicked in the process!

English translation of the Japanese manga Ikigami: The Ultimate Limit (イキガミ).
Dear Citizen:
Thank you for your loyalty. You've no doubt noticed that the world is a troubled place. People are apathetic, lazy, unmotivated. You've probably asked yourselfWHY ISN'T ANYTHING BEING DONE TO STOP THIS SYSTEMATIC DECLINE?
Rest assured that measures are being taken. Beginning immediately, we will randomly select a different citizen each day who will be killed within 24 hours of notification. We believe this will help remind all people how precious life is and how important it is to be a productive, active member of society.
Thank you for your continued attention and your cooperation and participation...
CONGRATULATIONS! YOU HAVE BEEN RANDOMLY SELECTED BY THE GOVERNMENT...TO DIE IN 24 HOURS!