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It’s three years after the popular video game 

The World was shut down, and Tokio Kuryuu 

can’t wait for The World R:X to come out. 

Unfortunately for him, he forgets to reserve 

a copy and fi nds himself with no access to 

the game. That is, until a mysterious new 

transfer student forces him into the game 

and makes him her servant! 

Vol. 1 

13+ • #9781427817761 • 192 pgs • $8.24 

Vol. 2 Released 11/2/10 

13+ • #9781427818683 • 212 pgs • $8.24 


13+ • #9781427825827 • N/A pgs • $8.24 

7 BILLION NEEDLES 

STAFF 

PICK 

Always sporting her headphones to try to 

close out the people and world around her, 

Hikaru is a somewhat reclusive teenaged 

girl. But within her body resides another 

lifeform known as Ciel, a hunter in search 

of an intergalactic murderer intent on wiping 

out humanity. Two lives share one heart as 

they race to protect both each other and 

what they most cherish. 

Vol. 1 

16+ • #9781934287873 • 192 pgs • $8.21 


16+ • #9781934287958 • 192 pgs • $8.21 

20TH CENTURY BOYS 

Humanity, having faced extinction at the end 

of the 20th century, would not have entered 

the new millennium if it weren’t for them. 

In 1969, during their youth, they created 

a symbol. In 1997, as the coming disaster 

slowly starts to unfold, that symbol returns. 

This is the story of a gang of boys who try 

to save the world. 

Vol. 1 

17+ • #9781591169222 • 216 pgs • $9.74 


17+ • #9781421523460 • 232 pgs • $9.74 


17+ • #9781421523651 • 232 pgs • $9.74 

More volumes also available! 

A PLACE IN THE SUN 

The men in these sweet stories may 

fi ght over silly things like recipes and 

remembering their chores, but deep within 

their hearts, they all long to fi nd the single, 

perfect soulmate who loves them just the 

way they are! Who will be lucky enough to 

bask in the warm glow of love’s fi rst heady 

rush? 

Released 12/15/10 

16+ • #9781569700860 • 200 pgs • $9.71 

GURREN LAGANN 

ADVENTURES OF 

PANDA MAN 

The world’s greatest martial artist is on a 

mission to defeat a band of milk-stealing 

thieves. But even with the power of 

fl atulence and super-stinky feet, Panda Man 

can’t fi ght this fi ght on his own! Solve the 

puzzles and mazes that stand in his way 

and help Panda Man become the hero he 

thinks he’s meant to be. 

Vol. 1: Panda Man To the Rescue! 

ALL • #9781421535203 • 96 pgs • $5.99 


ALL • #9781421535210 • 96 pgs • $5.99 

ADVENTURES OF TARO 

Taro loves to draw comic books. He used 

to think the comics he created were nothing 

more than fl at pieces of paper - until they 

came to life! Now Taro’s characters are 

being erased! How can a real boy save 

a comic book world? With the wave of a 

magic pencil, of course! 

Vol. 1: Taro and the Magic Pencil 

ALL • #9781421535241 • 104 pgs • $5.99 


ALL • #9781421535258 • N/A pgs • $5.99 

AFTERSCHOOL 

CHARISMA 

St. Kleio Academy is a very exclusive 

school: all of the students are clones 

of famous historical fi gures such as 

Beethoven, Queen Elizabeth I, Napoleon, 

Mozart, and Freud. All of them, that is, 

except for Shiro Kamiya. As Shiro struggles 

to adapt to this unusual campus, St. Kleio’s 

fi rst graduate, the clone of John F. Kennedy, 

is killed. Are the clones doomed to repeat 

the fate of their genetic progenitors, or can 

they create their own destinies? 

Vol. 1 

17+ • #9781421533971 • 208 pgs • $9.74 


17+ • #9781421533988 • 200 pgs • $9.74 

AKIRA 

Welcome to Neo-Tokyo, built on the 

ashes of a Tokyo annihilated by a blast of 

unknown origin that triggered World War III. 

The lives of two streetwise teenage friends, 

Tetsuo and Kaneda, change forever when 

paranormal abilities begin to waken in 

Tetsuo, making him a target for a shadowy 

agency. At the core of the agency’s 

motivation is a raw, all-consuming fear of 

an unthinkable, monstrous power known 

only as Akira. 

Vol. 1 

16+ • #9781935429005 • 368 pgs • $18.74 

Vol. 4 

16+ • #9781935429067 • 400 pgs • $20.99 


ALICE IN THE 

COUNTRY OF HEARTS 

STAFF 

PICK 

A sudden kidnapping and a dark, mysterious 

hole... Handsome men with guns and bunny 

ears... A suspicious game of survival... 

Wonderland is offi cially at war! And Alice 

is trapped in the middle of it all. Will she 

ever make it out alive? A little arrogant, 

stubborn, and determined to get back 

home, Alice isn’t fazed by these challenges 

- until she wanders further into the strange 

country only to fi nd that the inhabitants are 

gun crazy and ready to kill without remorse. 

What is going on in Wonderland?! 

Vol. 1 

16+ • #9781427817693 • 184 pgs • $8.24 

Vol. 4 

16+ • #9781427818904 • 224 pgs • $8.24 


16+ • #9781427831477 • 192 pgs • $8.24 


ALICE THE 101ST 

Mondonville Music Academy attracts 

thousands of elite musician applicants from 

around the world, but only 100 students are 

accepted each year. But this year, Alistair 

Lang - who has no formal music training 

and is unable to even read a musical score 

- is somehow accepted into the program as 

the 101st student! His classmates wonder 

how he even made it into the program, and 

proceed to treat him like an outcast. One 

day, Alistair steps up and begins to play 

his violin... 

Vol. 1 

16+ • #9781569701669 • 200 pgs • $9.71 

Vol. 2 

16+ • #9781569701690 • 200 pgs • $9.71 

AMNESIA LABYRINTH 

When Souji Kushiki returns home from 

boarding school, he fi nds that his sisters 

have changed. Their strangely clingy 

behavior borders on the inappropriate and 

bizarre. The next day he learns that during 

the summer one of the students was 

pushed to his death in front of a subway 

train. And what’s more, two other students 

were stabbed by an unknown culprit. Are 

the victims linked, and could Souji’s sisters 

have anything to do with the murders? 


16+ • #9781934876930 • 192 pgs • $10.99 

ANIMAL ACADEMY: 

HAKOBUNE HAKUSHO 

The only thing special about 15-year-old 

Neko is her peculiar name that means cat. 

After being rejected from every high school 

she tried to enroll in due to her bad grades, 

Neko is fi nally accepted to a mysterious 

school called Morimori. Neko immediately 

senses that something is off about this 

school... and it turns out that all the other 

students are magical animals who can 

transform into human form! 

Vol. 1 

10+ • #9781427810953 • 192 pgs • $8.24 

Vol. 5 

10+ • #9781427816313 • 192 pgs • $8.24 


10+ • #9781427816320 • 192 pgs • $8.24 


APOLLO’S SONG 

Shogo’s abusive childhood instilled in him a 

loathing for love so profound he fi nds himself 

compelled to acts of violence when he is 

witness to any act of intimacy or affection, 

whether by human or beast. The gods 

intervene, cursing Shogo to experience 

love throughout the ages only to ultimately 

have it ripped from his heart every time. 

From the Nazi atrocities of World War II to 

a dystopian future of human cloning, Shogo 

loses his heart, and, in so doing, heals the 

psychological scars of his childhood hatred. 

Vol. 1 

16+ • #9781935654049 • 272 pgs • $8.21 

Vol. 2 

16+ • #9781935654056 • 272 pgs • $8.21 

APPLE 

Join dozens of Korea’s best illustrators 

and animators as they present their 

wildest fantasies through original stories 

and illustrations. 

Vol. 1 

16+ • #9781897376362 • 164 pgs • $27.99 

Vol. 4 

16+ • #9781897376706 • 256 pgs • $27.99 


ARATA: THE LEGEND 

In a mythical world where humans and gods 

co-exist, Arata has the unfortunate honor of 

being the successor to the matriarchal Hime 

Clan. This means he has to pretend to be 

a girl or face death if his true gender is 

discovered! On the day of his inauguration, 

an assassination plot forces him to fl ee, and 

he somehow winds up in Japan! Meanwhile, 

a boy named Arata Hinohara gets sucked 

into the fi rst Arata’s world and fi nds himself 

dealing with people after his life! 

Vol. 1 

13+ • #9781421534206 • 208 pgs • $7.49 

Vol. 3 

13+ • #9781421534220 • 208 pgs • $7.49 


13+ • #9781421534237 • 200 pgs • $7.49 


ARIA 

On the planet Aqua lies the watery city of 

Neo Venezia, a tourist hub in which people 

travel in gondolas. Professional gondoliers 

known as Undines are well-revered as they 

act as tour guides for the people. Akari 

Mizunashi is a gondolier in training and also 

an employee of Aria Company. She gets to 

meet all sorts of people as she takes them 

on gondola rides amidst the beautiful scenic 

backdrop of the entire city. 

Vol. 1 

16+ • #MM1427805105 • 208 pgs • $7.49 


16+ • #9781427805157 • 192 pgs • $8.24 


ARISA 

Tsubasa thinks that her pretty and popular 

twin sister, Arisa, has the perfect life. 

Everyone at school loves Arisa, unlike the 

hot-tempered Tsubasa, whose nickname is 

the “Demon Princess.” When Arisa attempts 

suicide, however, Tsubasa learns that her 

seemingly perfect sister has been keeping 

some dark secrets. Now Tsubasa is going 

undercover at school - disguised as Arisa - 

in search of the truth. But will Arisa’s secrets 

shatter Tsubasa’s life, too? 


13+ • #9780345522412 • 208 pgs • $8.24 

AX: A COLLECTION OF 

ALTERNATIVE MANGA 

Ax is the premier Japanese magazine for 

alternative comics. Published bi-monthly for 

over ten years now, Ax contains some of 

the most creative and cutting-edge works of 

independent comics. Now comes this 400- 

page collection of stories from ten years of 

Ax history! Includes works by 33 artists, 

including Yoshihiro Tatsumi (A Drifting Life), 

Imiri Sakabashira (The Box Man), Kazuichi 

Hanawa (Doing Time), Akino Kondoh, 

Shin’ichi Abe, and many many more! 

Vol. 1 

17+ • #9781603090421 • 400 pgs • $29.95 

AYAKO 

“Y’all always have what I’m looking for and 

usually you have the best pricing on it as 

well.” - Billy B. 

It is the aftermath of WWII, and the Tenge 

clan is a once powerful family of landowners 

living in a rural community in northern 

Japan. The increasing infl uence of political, 

economic, and social change begins to tear 

into the many Tenge siblings, while a strange 

marriage agreement creates resentment 

between the eldest son and his sire. When 

the family seems to have completely fallen 

apart, they decide to turn their collective 

rage on who they believe to be the source 

of their troubles: the youngest sister Ayako. 

Hardcover Released 10/19/10 

16+ • #9781934287514 • 704 pgs • $20.21 

B.O.D.Y. 

Everyone thinks 16-year-old Sakura has 

weird taste in guys because she can’t stop 

drooling over Fuji, the strong, silent type. 

When she discovers he works for a host 

club, will she fi nally wise up? Or will she take 

a job at the club so he can quit so she can 

be with him so...? Only one thing’s for sure 

in B.O.D.Y.: you can’t put a price on love! 

Vol. 1 

16+ • #VIZ1421518023 • 200 pgs • $6.74 


16+ • #9781421527932 • 184 pgs • $7.49 


B’T X 

Kotaro Takamiya creates a robot with an 

extremely powerful A.I. and is taken captive 

by the Machine Empire. In order to save 

him, his brother Teppei must awaken the 

legendary B’t X. Together they battle their 

way into the Machine Empire to rescue 

Kotaro against impossible odds. 


13+ • #9781595323866 • 192 pgs • $9.74 


BAKUMAN 

Average student Moritaka Mashiro enjoys 

drawing for fun. When his classmate and 

aspiring writer Akito Takagi discovers his 

talent, he begs Moritaka to team up with 

him as a manga-creating duo. But what 

exactly does it take to make it in the 

manga-publishing world? Moritaka knows 

how diffi cult reaching the professional level 

can be. Still, encouragement from persistent 

Akito and motivation from his crush push 

Moritaka to test his limits! 

Vol. 1 

13+ • #9781421535135 • 208 pgs • $7.49 


13+ • #9781421535142 • 200 pgs • $7.49 

BAMBOO BLADE 

STAFF 

PICK 

Kojiro is an impoverished young teacher and 

the supervisor of his high school’s kendo 

club. He can barely feed himself as it is, so 

when an old friend makes him a bet with 

an entire year’s worth of deluxe sushi on 

the line, Kojiro fi nds a new purpose in life: 

to beat his friend’s kendo team! But before 

he can arrange a kendo meet for both 

schools’ kendo teams, he needs to actually 

put together a fi ve-woman squad - and the 

fi rst girl he needs is Tamaki Kawazoe, kendo 

athlete extraordinaire. 

Vol. 1 

16+ • #9780759530058 • 192 pgs • $8.24 

Vol. 6 

16+ • #9780316072991 • 224 pgs • $8.24 


16+ • #9780316073059 • 208 pgs • $8.24 


BATTLE ANGEL ALITA 

LAST ORDER 

Reconstructed by Doc Ido, Alita has lost 

her memory. But there’s one thing her 

body hasn’t forgotten: the Panzer Kunst, 

the most powerful fi ghting technique ever 

known. Can Alita stop the war between the 

robotic denizens of the M.I.B. Bureau and 

the Tipharians? 

Vol. 1: Angel Reborn 

16+ • #VIZ1569318247 • 200 pgs • $7.46 


16+ • #9781421537955 • 208 pgs • $7.49 


BERSERK 

BEAT X 

SEE B’T X 

His name is Guts, a feared warrior spoken of 

only in whispers. Bearer of a gigantic sword, 

an iron hand, and countless scars, his fl esh 

is also indelibly marked with The Brand, 

an unholy symbol that draws the forces of 

darkness to him and dooms him as their 

sacrifi ce. But Guts won’t take his fate lying 

down: he’ll cut a swath of carnage through 

the damned and anyone else foolish enough 

to oppose him! 

Vol. 1 

17+ • #DHGN1593070209 • 224 pgs • $11.21 

Vol. 34 

17+ • #9781595825322 • 240 pgs • $11.24 


BIG ADVENTURES 

OF MAJOKO 

While cleaning her room, Nana fi nds a 

mysterious diary. As soon as she opens it, 

out pops Majoko, a rambunctious wizardgirl 

from the Land of Magic! Together, 

these two girls explore a fantastic world 

full of magic spells, wondrous creatures, 

and endless surprises. Every day is a big 

adventure when Majoko is around! 

Vol. 1 

7+ • #9781897376812 • 200 pgs • $6.39 

Vol. 4 

7+ • #9781897376843 • 200 pgs • $6.39 

Vol. 5 

7+ • #9781897376850 • 200 pgs • $6.39 


BIOMEGA 

The N5S virus has swept across the earth, 

turning most of the population into zombielike 

drones. Zoichi Kanoe, an agent of Toa 

Heavy Industry, is humanity’s last hope, 

and he’s not even human! With the help of 

Fuyu, an artifi cial intelligence built into the 

computer system of his Heavy Duty Coil 

motorcycle, Zoichi’s search for the key to 

salvation will take him on a journey across 

surreal landscapes and hurl him into battle 

against mind-bending evil. 

Vol. 1 

17+ • #9781421531847 • 220 pgs • $9.74 


17+ • #9781421531878 • 192 pgs • $9.74 


BLACK BIRD 

STAFF 

PICK 

Misao Harada just wants to have a normal 

high school life and maybe get a boyfriend, 

but that changes when she’s suddenly 

attacked by a demon. Her childhood friend 

Kyo appears to save her and tend to her 

cuts - with his tongue! It turns out Misao is 

the bride of prophecy, whose blood gives 

power to the demon clan who claims her. 

But most demons want to keep her power 

for themselves... by eating her! 

Vol. 1 

16+ • #9781421527642 • 194 pgs • $6.74 


16+ • #9781421530666 • 192 pgs • $7.49 


BLACK BUTLER 

When a terrible fi re claims his parents, Ciel 

Phantomhive must step up as the head 

of his father’s company and as Earl of 

Phantomhive Manor. It would be a lot for 

the young boy to handle were it not for his 

faithful butler, Sebastian. Ever at Ciel’s side, 

it seems there’s little Sebastian can’t do, 

whether it’s saving a dinner party gone awry 

or probing the dark secrets of London’s 

underbelly. He’s almost too good to be 

true... or at least, too good to be human... 

Vol. 1 

16+ • #9780316080842 • 192 pgs • $8.24 


16+ • #9780316084260 • 192 pgs • $8.24 


16+ • #9780316084284 • 192 pgs • $8.24 


BLACK GATE 

Typically when a person dies, the soul 

escapes the body, passes through the White 

Gate, and moves on into the next world. At 

times, however, the Black Gate opens. The 

Black Gate does not wait for death, and 

forcefully draws out souls of living bodies. 

Causing unexplainable accidents and 

fi res, the Black Gate continues to devour 

innumerable souls. In turn, there also exist 

the Mitedamashi, the chosen ones able 

to see the Black Gate and prevent the 

destruction it causes. This is their story. 

Vol. 1 

13+ • #9781427818829 • 640 pgs • $14.99 

BLACK JACK 

Black Jack is a mysterious and charismatic 

genius surgeon who travels the world 

performing amazing medical feats. Though 

a trained physician, he refuses to accept 

a medical license due to his hatred of 

the medical community’s hypocrisy and 

corruption. This leads Black Jack to 

occasional run-ins with the authorities - as 

well as criminals who approach him for 

illegal operations. 

Vol. 1 

13+ • #9781934287279 • 300 pgs • $12.71 

Vol. 12 

13+ • #9781934287798 • 300 pgs • $12.71 

Vol. 13 

13+ • #9781934287897 • 300 pgs • $12.71 


13+ • #9781934287941 • 300 pgs • $12.71 


BLADE OF THE IMMORTAL 

Manji, a ronin warrior of feudal Japan, has 

been cursed with immortality. To rid himself 

of this curse and end his life of misery, he 

must slay one thousand evil men! His quest 

begins when a young girl seeks his help in 

taking revenge on her parents’ killers... and 

his quest won’t end until the blood of a 

thousand has spilled! 

Vol. 1 

17+ • #DHGN2395 • 136 pgs • $11.21 


17+ • #9781595826718 • 224 pgs • $14.99 


BLEACH 

Ichigo Kurosaki has always been able to see 

ghosts, but this ability doesn’t change his life 

nearly as much as his close encounter with 

Rukia Kuchiki, a soul reaper and member of 

the mysterious Soul Society. While fi ghting a 

Hollow, an evil spirit that preys on humans 

who display psychic energy, Rukia attempts 

to lend Ichigo some of her powers, but 

much to her surprise, Ichigo absorbs every 

last drop of her energy. Now her temporary 

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