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Love Fights TPB Vol. 2
 The scandal surrounding the Flamer's alleged love child may very well be a fake, but that hasn't stopped it from making life difficult for both comic artist Jack and journalist Nora! It's a complicated world when flying crimefighters patrol your skies... but an old romantic like Andi Watson is ready to tackle these super affairs of the heart with the usual wry wit and skillful brush strokes! |
Zippy Ziggy Vol. 1 GN
 by Kim Eun-jeong & Hwang Seung-man Reputation is everything in a world of icons and popularity contests. Shinghi Ghang armed with above average looks and a (completely false) angel-like personality has every girl in school head over heals and all the guys looking to him for guidance. Shinghi's life is a perfection until one day Soong-he transfers to his school. While being a complete martial artist freak she also likes to fib acting like she's just a scared little girl who'd play with kittens rather than break brick walls with her head! Fate has brought these two masters of lies together and the two must battle it out to see who will be crowned the undefeated heavy-weight champion of fakeness! |
Doubt Vol. 1 GN
 by Isumi Kaneyoshi First Time in Previews! Previously offered in Previews Update #653! Shy junior-high anime geek undergoes an extreme makeover to become a high-school princess-but can she overcome her DOUBT!? Meet Ai Maekawa unremarkable junior high school girl. Life goes on in total anonymity for this nobody until one day she gets 'pantsed' by a bitchy girl named Yumi-right in front of Ai's #1 crush Oshita-revealing Ai's 'Cutie Bunny' granny panties! Utterly utterly humiliated Ai undergoes an extreme makeover before she enters her new high school-where nobody she hopes knows of her past! And right from the get-go So the hottest guy in the school is all over her! It's like a dream come true but will she be able to have the confidence to battle against all the jealous girls in her new school? And who is the creepy guy sending her love letters who seems to know all about her shameful past? And then her old nemesis Yumi pops up threatening to expose all! T+ Rating |
Happy Hustle High Vol. 1 GN
 by Isumi Kaneyoshi First Time in Previews! Previously offered in Previews Update #653! What happens when an all-girls' high school reigning tomboy finds out her school is about to be filled with boys!? Hanabi Oozora is a rambunctious 16-year-old tomboy who comes to the rescue of her less assertive friends-sometimes in exchange for food. So what does she do when all of a sudden her all-girls' school is about to be integrated with an all-boys' school? She meets and falls in love-naturally-with one of the three most popular and handsome boys in the Student Council Yasuaki Garaku! Unfortunately Yasuaki doesn't care for girls... and when the girls' Student Council clashes head-on with the boys' Student Council Hanabi steps in to become a member-hoping she'll change Yasuaki's mind! T+ Rating |
W Juliet Vol. 4 GN
 by Emura Makoto Amano wants to become an actor but his stern father has declared that the only way Makoto can pursue his dream is to spend the last two years of high school as a girl! He quickly makes friends with popular tomboy Ito Miura another drama enthusiast at his new high school and the only student to find out his secret-but are they more than pals? A trip to Hokkaido sends Ito into the arms of a brand new paramour. Then Makoto's dysfunctional family secrets are revealed when his oldest sister returns home. It turns out Makoto is not the only rebel in the family! T Rating |
Ai Yori Aoshi Vol. 9 GN (Of 13)
 Author: Kou Fumizuki Art By: Kou Fumizuki When Kaoru receives too much chocolate on Valentine's Day... he might just end up tossing a few cookies. However Kaoru isn't the only one a little under the weather... Aoi is struck with the green sickness when she finds Tina spending some extra special time with Kaoru. All this is nothing a little exercise can't fix as the gang heads out to play tennis. Here Kaoru realizes there's still a lot about Aoi that he doesn't know. |
Dnangel Vol. 8 GN (Of 8)
 Author: Yukiru Sugisaki Art By: Yukiru Sugisaki The Artist and the Thief Dark has retrieved the painting from Riku...but the sisters decide to get it back. What they don't know is that Daisuke is actually trapped in the painting and Dark has to set him free before time runs out! Humanity is questioned and love put to the test in this exciting volume of DNAngel! |
Happy Hustle High Vol. 2 GN
 by Rie Takada What happens when the reigning tomboy of an all-girls' high school finds out her school is about to be filled with boys? Hanabi Ozora never expected she'd fall for a guy least of all Yasuaki the Vice President of the school council. Now that she and the dreamy V.P. have spent some quality time together will Hanabi finally admit to herself - and everyone else - that she has a thing for this popular member of the student body? T+ Rating |
Visitor Vol. 2 GN (Of 5)
 by Yee-Jung No The class tries to get the resident palm-reading expert to read the fortunes of Hyo-Bin and Mi-Soo. However when he reads Hyo-Bin's hand he is forced to let it go in fear leaving the class wondering what happened. He quickly diverts the attention by reading Mi-Soo's hand...but the result is just as frightening. Will the class be able to coerce him into telling them just what he saw? |
Full Moon Vol. 1 TPB
 by Arina Tanemura A bittersweet tale of puppy love tragedy and aspirations of pop-star fame. A spark of hope ignites to a blaze in twelve-year-old Mitsuki Koyama's life when a comical pair of magical beings appears to prove to her that dreams really do come true. Young Mitsuki loves singing and dreams of becoming a pop star. Unfortunately a malignant tumor in her throat prevents her from pursuing her passion. However her life turns around when two surprisingly fun-loving harbingers of death appear to grant Mitsuki a temporary reprieve from her illness and give her singing career a magical push start. T Rating |
Nhs Pkt Manga Vol. 6 TPB
 by Ben Dunn Jeremy's latest lovely female pursuer is an android named May who wants to kidnap him across time and space! If she isn't stopped it'll mean a near-lifeless future Earth ruled by the HNC and the Zardons! Then Ichi faces what may an even greater challenge: trying out for Quagmire's Combat Cheerleaders! Collecting Ninja High School # 23-27. |
Rizelmine GN
 by Yukiru Sugisaki Tomonori Iwaki is a hapless fifteen year-old student who just had his heart broken when the teacher he had a crush on got engaged. He goes home to find that he's got a wife of his own though even if she may look like a grade-schooler. Rizel a very cute girl who is apparently made of nanomachines does her best to win her new husband's heart and hilarity and romance ensue. |
Gacha Gacha Vol. 1 GN
 by Hiroyuki Tamakoshi The first book of a hilarious new Del Rey Manga series - featuring the misadventures of a hapless high school student in love with a girl who's transformed from bookish to boy-crazy! |
Off Beat Vol. 1 GN (Of 3)
 Author: Art: Jen Lee Quick Synopsis: Tory Blake is an average-looking 15- year-old boy who possesses an uncanny sense of time and photographic memory. A self - proclaimed genius; he is spoiled anti-social and cynical. His boredom is cured when a beautiful but secretive boy his own age moves across the street from his apartment. From transferring schools taking detailed notes in a journal and raiding the guidance office Tory is determined to find out who- or what- his curious neighbor really is! Rating: T |
Kare Kano Vol. 17 GN (Of 20)
 Yukino and Soichiro visit Soichiro's family vacation home. When Soichiro visits the guesthouse memories of his birth father playing the piano are evoked. Strangely enough as Yukino and Soichiro are channel surfing when they come across a performance by Reiji Arima who they realize is Soichiro's father. They learn that he will soon return to Japan. Soichiro is anxious about his father's return. Will this be the beginning of a beautiful relationship? |
Meru Puri Vol. 1 TPB
 Story and Art by: Matsuri Hino All high-school freshman Airi Hoshina ever wanted was to someday live in a cozy home with a loving husband and find joy in the little things in life. As a result she makes it her daily mission to get to school on time because school legend has it that the longer one's non-tardy streak is the better boyfriend one will find. But just when her daily routine is working like clockwork an occurrence of fairytale proportions threatens to disrupt her grand plan. Rating: T |
Happy Hustle High Vol. 3 GN
 by Rie Takada Hanabi wants to discover the origin of Student Council V.P. Yasuaki's dislike of women. Her solution-the ancient art of hypnosis! Through her prestigious powers of prestidigitation Hanabi successfully lulls Yasuaki into a deep slumber but will this voyage into his male subconscious yield proof-positive that Yasuaki's aversion is unfounded or further drive a wedge between the dashing V.P. and all of womankind? Rating: T+ |
W Juliet Vol. 6 GN
 by Emura Makoto's doting sister Tsubaki finds out that Makoto hasn't kept his secret from Ito! She threatens to tell Makoto's father unless Makoto and Ito's homeroom can win a school competition. Then Makoto accompanies the entire Miura household to their ancestral home to meet Ito's eccentric sharp-witted grandmother. Little does Ito know that her past will catch up with her there...literally! Rating: T |
Darling Cheri A Blab Storybook HC
 by Walter Minus Darling Chéri is the sensually illustrated story of a young career woman who awakens one morning to not only the light of an early dawn but also to the realization that love has left her current relationship. Immediately she begins penning a brisk farewell note to her soundly sleeping boyfriend before pursuing the love that has since left. Celebrated throughout Europe for his captivating illustrations of fashionable and scantily clad females Walter Minus' colorful work is featured in the third BLAB! Storybook a series of graphic novels showcasing artists from Monte Beauchamp's annual BLAB! Anthology presented in a faux-children's book format though this volume is aimed at older readers. |
Crossroad Vol. 1 GN
 by Shioko Mizuki Kajitsu has never known a proper family. Her dad and her mom change husbands like most people change socks. Her long-lost stepbrothers Taro and Natsu are also refugees from negligent parents. Abandoned by everyone but each other the three teens make one last attempt at building a family. It's hard enough getting along in a home with rampant hormones and no adults but when an unexpected bundle of joy is dropped in their laps they have to learn to be parents too! |
Tenshi Ja Nai (Im No Angel) Vol. 1 GN
 by Takako Shigematsu Former child model Hikaru has been tormented by jealous classmates all her life. Transferring to a new school should have given her a chance to blend in but anonymity isn't in the cards - her new roommate Izumi is a super-popular idol! But Izumi is far from the perfect girlfriend of her onscreen persona. When Hikaru learns her shocking secret Izumi and her stern (and sexy!) bodyguard will do whatever it takes to keep her silent. Wherever Izumi goes scandal follows and now Hikaru's along for the ride. |
Honey Mustard Vol. 2 GN (Of 4)
 Author: Ho-Kyung Yeo Ara is getting married...to Young-Woo! After signing the marriage certificate the new couple moves to a new school and is given a tiny studio to live in by Young-Woo's grandfather. However Young-Woo decides that he and Ara should act like strangers so he sleeps on the floor and refuses to eat what she cooks. How did this mess happen to Ara...especially when she is really in love with someone else? And what will Hanil- the one Ara really loves -do when he finds out? Rating: T |
Snow Drop Vol. 11 GN (Of 12)
 Author: Choi Kyung-ah Hae-Gi and So-Na just cannot be apart and they decide to fight hard to keep their relationship together. However just as they redouble their resolve a knife wielding Ko-Mo breaks into So-Na's father's room demanding an apology. Somehow Co-Mo's mother appears and falls to her knees pleading with him to stop. Although Ko-Mo-who can't bear to see his mother on her knees-removes his knife from So-Na's father's throat two people none-the-less end up in the hospital. Crack open this volume of Snow Drop to find out who! |
Doubt Vol. 5 GN
 by Izumi Kaneyoshi During a trip to her boyfriend So's beach house Ai learns that his parents are pushing him to break up with Ai and date Sakurako a girl they've chosen because of her family connections. Could he really cave-in to his parents' demands? And will Ai's anxiety over losing her beau- along with peer pressure- force her to 'go all the way' before she's ready? Rating: T+ |
W Juliet Vol. 7 GN
 by Emura Makoto's doting sister Tsubaki finds out that Makoto hasn't kept his sceret from Ito! She threatens to tell Makoto's father unless Makoto and Ito's homeroom can win a school competition. Then Makoto accompanies the entire Miura household to their ancestral home to meet Ito's eccentric sharp-witted grandmother. Little does Ito know that her past will catch up with her there... literally! Rating: T |
Beauty Is The Beast Vol. 1 TPB
 by Tomo Matsumoto When bubbly eleventh-grader Eimi Yamashita finds out that her parents must relocate for work she strikes out on her own and moves into a dormitory for girls. Little does Eimi suspect the exciting romantic adventures that await her there! Rating: T |