KODANSHA COMICS
AGAIN GN #3
(W) Mitsurou Kubo (A) Mitsurou Kubo (CA) Mitsurou Kubo
From the co-creator of Yuri!!! on Ice comes a dramatic, funny time-traveling high school story about what it means to cheer on a friend! What would you do if you had the chance to do everything... Again? Kinichiro isn't even that bad. It's just that on the first day of high school, his narrow eyes made him look shifty, so people assumed he was trouble. Now it's graduation, and he's looking back on three years with no friends. He never even joined a club. But after a bloody collision and an accidental fall, he wakes up a high school freshman, with the chance to try it all over!
AHO GIRL (CLUELESS GIRL) GN #7
(W) Hiroyuki (A) Hiroyuki (CA) Hiroyuki
Yoshiko is a hopefully clueless high school girl. Her rock-paper-scissors strategy is "rock." She somehow gets zeroes on multiple-choice tests. And she has an often-nearly-fatal weakness for bananas. Her devoted friends have no choice but to hang around and make sure nobody takes advantage of her. (Of course, the entertainment value might have something to do with it, too.) Cute characters, weird gags, and lots and lots of bananas!
AIR GEAR GN #37
(W) Oh Great (A) Oh Great (CA) Oh Great
Final Volume! The final battle for the fate of the world of the Air Trecks is underway, pitting Ikki and Ringo against Sora and Rika! It's a white-knuckled, no-holds-barred race to the surface through the massive Tower of Trophaeum, and now that the best riders on the planet are finally facing off, victory will only come with great sacrifice. But when Sora reveals a stunning secret, Ikki realizes that the game has changed, and winning is more important than even he could have imagined.
BATTLE ANGEL ALITA MARS CHRONICLE GN #3
(W) Yukito Kishiro (A) Yukito Kishiro (CA) Yukito Kishiro
The cyber-martial arts saga that has spanned a solar system and over two decades in print returns, with creator Yukito Kishiro's new sequel that reveals the true story of Alita's childhood on Mars, and the mind-bending adventures that still await her... For centuries, war has raged on the dusty, red surface of Mars. This apocalyptic crucible will produce the solar system's most fearsome warrior, Alita. But for now that warrior is just a little girl named Yoko. The future and past of the Battle Angel fan out across the reaches of space in the final chapter of one of the greatest sci-fi epics of all time!
CARDCAPTOR SAKURA CLEAR CARD GN #4
(W) Clamp (A) Clamp (CA) Clamp
Seventeen years after the original Cardcaptor Sakura manga ended, CLAMP returns with more magical clow card adventures! Clear Card picks up right where Cardcaptor Sakura left off, with Sakura and Syaoran starting junior high school. With the Final Judgment passed, Sakura thinks school life will be quiet, but then all her cards suddenly turn blank! The mysterious new power she discovers will change how she thinks about her powers!
DESCENDING STORIES GN #7
(W) Haruko Kumota (A) Haruko Kumota (CA) Haruko Kumota
A multi-generational human drama set in the world of rakugo, a traditional form of Japanese comedic storytelling, Descending Stories follows an ex-convict whose life is changed by his apprenticeship to a famed storyteller, and Konatsu, who yearns to perform rakugo but cannot because women are not permitted in the craft. Small-time crook Yotaro has never forgotten the rakugo tale "Shinigami," which the master Yurakutei Yakumo performed for Yotaro during his time in prison. After his release, he goes to Yakumo's theater and pleads to be made his apprentice. Yakumo reluctantly accepts, but Yotaro quckly finds the world of rakugo is complex, and grapples with a growing bond with Yakumo's ward, Konatsu, and reminders from his own inescapable past.
FIRE FORCE GN #10
(W) Atsushi Ohkubo (A) Atsushi Ohkubo (CA) Atsushi Ohkubo
The city of Tokyo is in the grip of a reign of terror! Possessed by demons, people have begun to burst into flame, leading to the establishment of a special firefighting team: the Pyrofighters, ready to roll on a moment's notice to fight spontaneous combustion anywhere it might break out. But the team is about to get a very unique addition: Shinra, a boy who possesses the unique power to run at the speed of a rocket, leaving behind the famous "devil's footprints" (and destroying his shoes in the process). Can the Pyrofighters discover the source of this strange phenomenon and put a stop to it? Or will the city burn to ashes first?
INTERVIEWS WITH MONSTER GIRLS GN #6
(W) Petos (A) Petos (CA) Petos
They were once feared and forced to live in the shadows. But as modern society grew more enlightened, human beings began to realize that monsters like succubi, dullahans, and vampires deserve public services as much as anyone. Still, a girls' high school for monsters? It sounds like a nightmare, but for one man it's a dream job. Tetsuo has always been fascinated by "demi-humans," and a job opening for a biology teacher at this school is his chance to see them firsthand!
LDK GN #11
(W) Ayu Watanabe (A) Ayu Watanabe (CA) Ayu Watanabe
Aoi's best friend Moe is in love with their high school's prince, Shusei Kugayama. But when Moe confesses her feelings, Shusei turns her down hard, and a furious Aoi takes him to task. So it's quite a shock when Aoi finds out that the boy moving into the apartment next to hers is Shusei! Things go from awkward to intolerable when Aoi accidentally starts a kitchen fire in Shusei's apartment, and is forced to let him move in while the damage gets cleaned up.
LOVE AND LIES GN #6
(W) Musao Tsumugi (A) Musao Tsumugi (CA) Musao Tsumugi
Yukari is dull. He doesn't even stand out enough to be bullied; he's just a generally lower-middle-class kid. He's in love with Misaki, the most popular girl in school. There's just one problem: He's 15, one year away from receiving his government-assigned marriage partner. He normally wouldn't have the courage to defy the law, but his sickly classmate Ririna still believes in love, and won't stop goading him into confessing his feelings!
MISSIONS OF LOVE GN #15
(W) Ema Toyama (A) Ema Toyama (CA) Ema Toyama
The delightfully risqué high-school rom-com continues! In school, Yukina is a cold and distant girl, while Shigure appears to be a perfect, good-looking guy. But the two of them have a secret, and their extraordinary "love" is about to start! Yukina, under the pen name "Yupina," is actually a popular cell phone novelist. When she discovers Shigure's devious womanizing ways, she blackmails him to complete daring "missions of love" for her to write about. Will these missions give them an opportunity to fall in love with each other?
PRINCESS JELLYFISH GN #9 (OF 9)
(W) Akiko Higashimura (A) Akiko Higashimura (CA) Akiko Higashimura
This final volume of Princess Jellyfish contains over 100 pages of exclusive bonus content for fans! Unreleased color art gallery! Interviews with the author and editor! Bonus, unreleased Princess Jellyfish manga! And a preview of Akiko Higashimura's new series, Tokyo Tarareba Girls!
THAT TIME I GOT REINCARNATED AS A SLIME GN #6
(W) Fuse (A) Taiki Kawakami (CA) Taiki Kawakami
Mikami's middle age hasn't gone as he planned: He never found a girlfriend, he got stuck in a dead-end job, and he was abruptly stabbed to death in the street at 37. So when he wakes up in a new world straight out of a fantasy RPG, he's disappointed but not exactly surprised to find that he's facing down a dragon, not as a knight or a wizard but as a blind slime demon. As players of Monster Hunter and Dungeons & Dragons know, the slime is not exactly the king of the fantasy monsters. But there are chances for even a slime to become a hero!
TO YOUR ETERNITY GN #5
(W) Yoshitoki Oima (A) Yoshitoki Oima (CA) Yoshitoki Oima
A lonely boy wandering the Arctic regions of North America meets a wolf, and the two become fast friends, depending on each other to survive the harsh environment. But the boy has a history, and the wolf is more than meets the eye as well. To Your Eternity is a totally unique and moving manga about death, life, reincarnation, and the nature of love.
TOKYO TARAREBA GIRLS GN #1
(W) Akiko Higashimura (A) Akiko Higashimura (CA) Akiko Higashimura
A sharp new comedy about female friendship from the creator of Princess Jellyfish! "I spent all my time wondering 'What if?' Then one day I woke up and I was 33." Rinko has hustled her whole life, but one day she wakes up and finds herself a writer of a cheap online soap opera with only two friends (with whom she goes drinking most nights). In a booze-fueled delusion, she swears to get married by the time the Tokyo Olympics roll around in 2020, but it's not going to be a straight line... and there won't be any fairy tale endings!
VINLAND SAGA GN #10
(W) Makoto Yukimura (A) Makoto Yukimura (CA) Makoto Yukimura
One of the greatest European historical epic comics ever written continues. After months of hard labor as a farm slave, Thorfinn begins to realize what his father meant by the words, "A true warrior needs no sword." Perhaps he can find a new purchase on life in the mysterious land he heard tell of in his childhood: the continent to the west known as Vinland.
WELCOME TO BALLROOM GN #10
(W) Tomo Takeuchi (A) Tomo Takeuchi (CA) Tomo Takeuchi
Fujita has drifted through middle school aimlessly, unable to find friends or anything that can hold his attention. Then, one day, he's attacked by a gang and saved by a mysterious man. But this isn't a karate master. Fujita's Mr. Miyagi is a ballroom dance instructor! Reluctantly, Fujita takes a few beginner's classes, only to find his inspiration - an entrancing, teenage dance prodigy named Shizuku. It's Fujita's first step into the high-octane world of competitive dance!
WOTAKOI LOVE IS HARD FOR OTAKU GN #1
(W) Fujita (A) Fujita (CA) Fujita
The awkward, romantic comedy manga about geeks in love that inspired the new anime! Can a professional man who's secretly a hardcore gamer and a woman who's secretly a fujoshi date without their hobbies getting in the way, or revealing each other's secrets? Narumi and Hirotaka are, by all appearances, a power couple. They're young, good-looking professionals. But they have secrets from everyone but each other: They're serious geeks! Narumi is a fujoshi, and Hirotaka's a hardcore gamer. Their sweet, awkward love story started life as a webcomic before becoming a full-blown manga series by popular demand, and is about to become a major anime series!
WOTAKOI LOVE IS HARD FOR OTAKU GN #2
(W) Fujita (A) Fujita (CA) Fujita
The awkward, romantic comedy manga about geeks in love that inspired the new anime! Narumi and Hirotaka are, by all appearances, a power couple. They're young, good-looking professionals. Can a professional man who's secretly a hardcore gamer and a woman who's secretly a fujoshi date without their hobbies getting in the way, or revealing each other's secrets?