As any cat lover will tell you, felines operate under their own logic. Racing around as if chased by an invisible enemy, attacking pieces of lint– we’ll never understand why they do the things they do.
In Baron: The Cat Returns, an ordinary schoolgirl discovers that cats really do come from their own world when...
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Sakura Kinomoto is a cute, bubbly, normal fourth-grader. That is, she was until the day she opened a mysterious old book and awakened a powerful magic. Now she’s a cute, bubbly fourth-grader with a secret mission: to find and capture renegade magical beings before they destroy the world! Long ago, a great sorcerer named...
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What’s a 6th grader to do when he’s suddenly cohabiting his own body with a master Go player from the Heian period (think early medieval Europe in the West)? Well, basically, he plays go. Go is a game similar to chess (apparently, if chess is a batlle, go is a war). Hikaru Shindo finds...
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Perky, lovesick, sleepy, coy. How are you feeling today? And how would you express those feelings in manga form? Takarai’s book is here to help. From energetic to woeful, preoccupied to shy, she offers a drawing and two Japanese phrases. The drawings are shojo-cute and are all portrayed by girls. The colors are bright...
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Often mentioned in favorable comparison to the anime film Princess Mononoke and authored by one of the most loved manga authors in Japan, Nausicaä of the Valley of the Wind combines heart-thumping battle action with struggling for honor and a strong ecological message. Nausicaä is a passionate defender of the natural world on a...
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The war rages, and Nausicaä travels towards enemy lines with Princess Kushana’s retinue in an attempt to join up with the third army before Torumekian forces are overwhelmed by a Dorok siege. While troop movements unfold slowly on the ground, a more complex battle unfolds among the clouds. Nausicaä’s affinity for her polluted world’s...
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Somewhere deep below the Dorok Emperor’s palace a fearsome god warrior is growing tended by priests and an army of strange creatures. Above ground the Emperor’s aerial navy has unleashed a genetically modified mold to devour the Torumekian army and render their lands uninhabitable. The mold has mutated out of control, forming a giant...
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Nausicaä gains her most dangerous adopted child yet when the God Warrior is born. Flying in a corona of toxic light, this ages-old being carries Nausicaä to the holy crypts of the Dorok empire in the city of Shuwa, an ancient civilization’s hiding place for technology that once nearly destroyed the world. Separated again,...
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What would you do if you could buy some time? With twelve more hours you could visit friends while still getting your homework...
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High school student Miu Asahina has a hard time managing her time. She just never seems to have enough of it. When she stumbles upon a shop that loans time in exchange for memories, she is captivated by the store’s mysterious owner, Kusaka. He tells of her destiny as a go-between, helping maintain the...
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Reserved, but popular Ayu Tateishi wants to catch the eye of Tetsushi, the boy she secretly likes. But when she comes to the...
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