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Nina the Starry Bride
Manga - Fantasy
Nina was plucked off the streets because she resembled a dead priestess—but is this a lucky break, or a new kind of curse? Winner of the Kodansha Manga Award, this fantasy shojo manga features intertwining constellations of palace intrigue and perilous romance, for fans of The Ancient Magus’ Bride, The Apothecary Diaries, and Snow White With the Red Hair.
BAKEMONOGATARI (manga)
Manga - Fantasy
A team-up made in manga heaven! The wildly popular Monogatari novel series by renowned bestselling author NISIOISIN has now been reimagined into a knockout manga adapation by none other than legendary artist Oh!Great (Tenjo Tenghe, Air Gear)!One day, high-school student Koyomi Araragi catches a girl named Hitagi Senjougahara when she trips. But-much to his surprise-she doesn’t weigh anything. At all. She says an encounter with a so-called “crab” took away all her weight…Monsters have been here since the beginning.Always.Everywhere.
The Garden of Words
Manga - Romance
The manga adaptation of Makoto Shinkai's acclaimed anime film.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—and its corresponding response—before it's too late?Shinkai has been hailed as the next Miyazaki, and his dreamy mindscapes often equal or surpass the anime maestro in breadth of detail and depth of emotion." —Variety"
Suzume
Manga - Fantasy
Girl meets boy. Boy turns into...a chair?Based on the Golden Globes-nominated hit blockbuster, this story blends the best of fantasy, coming-of-age, and road trip stories while also exploring the aftermath of traumatic environmental disasters on both a deeply personal and a national scale.The journey begins with this all-new adaptation of the Golden Globes-nominated worldwide hit directed by Makoto Shinkai, creator of Your Name and Weathering With You!
Voices of a Distant Star
Manga - Sci-Fi
Award-winning director and author Makoto Shinkai offers a romantic science-fiction tale about young love and space adventure, based on his 2003 animated film. 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 …
Mushishi Collector's Edition
Manga - Fantasy
The beloved fantasy manga returns in a hardcover omnibus edition featuring a completely original translation and new cover designs.
Before life as we know it, there existed entities that don’t obey the laws of our reality-primordial beings known as mushi. In Japan, a man named Ginko wanders the land, investigating incursions by mushi into the human world-and by us into theirs. He is a mushi master…a mushi-shi.
Before life as we know it, there existed entities that don’t obey the laws of our reality-primordial beings known as mushi. In Japan, a man named Ginko wanders the land, investigating incursions by mushi into the human world-and by us into theirs. He is a mushi master…a mushi-shi.