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ABSOLUTE DUO GN #4

(W) Takumi Hiiragiboshi (A) Shinichirou Nariie (CA) Shinichirou Nariie

To avenge the death of his younger sister, Tor Kokonoe enters the prestigious Koryo Academy, a high school dedicated to training its students to wield Blaze, individualized weapons that are manifestations of one's soul. While the future of a student is often determined by the form their weapon takes, Tor is an Irregular, whose Blaze appears as a shield instead of a melee weapon. How can Tor possibly learn to use his defensive abilities to fight effectively? That's when the Duo system comes in, a program where students are paired up as battle mates, classmates, and roommates. Tor's is paired with a silver-haired girl from Scandinavia named Julie Sigtuna, who possesses a power the likes of which has never been seen, and shares his thirst for revenge.

AKASHIC RECORDS OF BASTARD MAGICAL INSTRUCTOR GN #5

(W) Tarou Hitsuji (A) Aosa Tsunemi (CA) Aosa Tsunemi

Sisti is a young magic-user in training who attends prestigious magical academy where she hopes to be trained by the best of the best. However, when her instructor suddenly retires, his replacement is anything but what Sisti had hoped for - lazy, incompetent, and always late! Can Sisti still learn magic and unravel the mystery of Sky Castle with such a terrible teacher to lead her?

ARIFUTA COMMONPLACE TO WORLDS STRONGEST GN #3

(W) Ryo Shirakome (A) RoGa (CA) RoGa

The manga adaptation of the fan-favorite light novel series--with an anime coming in 2019! When a classroom of students is transported to another world to act as its saviors, Hajime Nagumo finds himself the weakest link. As his friends and classmates are granted strong classes and impressive abilities due to their existing skills, he is given the weak title of Synergist. When a dungeon quest leaves him separated from his group, Hajime must discover his own talents or be left to rot in this world forever.

BRIDE & EXORCIST KNIGHT GN #2

(W) Keiko Ishihara (A) Keiko Ishihara (CA) Keiko Ishihara

Monsters and marriage await in this new supernatural shojo series! Demons have been attracted to Anne her entire life. At age seventeen, she learns that a demon lord wants to marry her and literally drag her into hell! Luckily, she's got a talented young exorcist to keep her safe from the powerful fiend. There's just one issue: the brash exorcist is in love with her too.

CAPTAIN HARLOCK DIMENSIONAL VOYAGE GN #6

(W) Leiji Matsumoto (A) Kouichi Shimahoshi (CA) Kouichi Shimahoshi

When Tadashi Daiba's father is murdered by invaders known as the Mazon, he becomes frustrated in the face of the Earth government's flippant attitude. Landing himself in prison, Tadashi finds himself invited aboard the battleship Arcadia, controlled by none other than the legendary Captain Harlock. Joining his crew on their journey through space, Tadashi's future will lead him to confront not only the Mazon, but the many other forces across the universe threatening humanity's very existence.

CLOCKWORK PLANET LIGHT NOVEL #3

(W) Yuu Kamiya (A) Shino (CA) Shino

The Earth has died, but the entire planet has been reconstructed using gears and clockwork. One thousand years later, a mysterious black box crashes into the house of a high school gearhead named Naoto Miura, a machine otaku who is obsessed with tinkering. The box contains the broken body of an automaton girl. When Naoto repairs the automaton and she becomes his clockwork companion, Naoto's world will never be the same again.

DEVILMAN GRIMOIRE GN #5

(W) Go Nagai (A) Rui Takatou (CA) Rui Takatou

A modern retelling of the horror manga epic spanning generations of fans! When demons begin taking over the bodies of humans, only the strongest survive. When a practicing young witch named Miki Makimura asks her friend Akira Fudo for help with a ritual, the spell is interrupted and Akira is left on the brink of death. His body is overtaken by a powerful being named Amon. Now torn between his humanity and the demon within him, Akira uses his abilities to fight in the war between demons and humans for the future of the world itself!

DIDNT I SAY MAKE ABILITIES AVERAGE NOVEL SC #4

(W) FUNA (A) Itsuki Akata (CA) Itsuki Akata

Be careful what you wish for in this magical comedy about the pitfalls of rebirth! When she turns ten years old, Adele von Ascham is hit with a horrible headache - and memories of her previous life as an eighteen-year-old Japanese girl named Kurihara Misato. That life changed abruptly, however, when Misato died trying to aid a little girl and met god. During that meeting, she made an odd request and asked for average abilities in her next life. But few things, especially wishes, ever go quite as planned.

DRAGON HALF OMNIBUS GN #3

(W) Ryusuke Mita (A) Ryusuke Mita (CA) Ryusuke Mita

Meet Mink, the love struck, demon-hunting dragon-girl who took early anime fandom by storm! A young girl named Mink falls for the dreamy Dick Saucer, a famous idol. There's only one problem: Dick's not just an idol, he's a dragon slayer, too - and Mink is half dragon! To solve this conundrum, Mink and her friends set out on a playful quest to destroy the Demon Lord Azatodeth and gain a potion that will make Mink completely human!

DUNGEON OF BLACK COMPANY GN #2

(W) Youhei Yasumura (A) Youhei Yasumura (CA) Youhei Yasumura

A corporate dungeon fantasy where our hero is a slave to his work, literally! Kinji, who lacks any kind of work ethic, is a layabout in his modern life. One day, he finds himself transported to another world--but not in a grand fantasy of a hero welcomed with open arms. He's immediately shoved into a terrible job! Now enslaved by the corporate evil of a fantasy mining company, Kinji's about to really learn the meaning of hard work!

HIGH SCHOOL LIFE OF FUDANSHI GN #4

(W) Michinoku Atami (A) Michinoku Atami (CA) Michinoku Atami

For fans of Monthly Girls' Nozaki-kun and Princess Jellyfish comes an all-new comedy about one man's obsession with BL! Ryo Sakaguchi has a deep, dark secret: he's a fudanshi, a straight boy obsessed with BL. While he has trouble understanding how others don't find the same bliss he does from his unusual hobby, that doesn't make it any easier for Ryo to buy his precious manga from the "girls" section of the store, or any simpler explaining the world of boys' love, shipping wars, and doujinshi circles to his best friend Nakamura. Will Ryo find other fanboys to share his hobby with or is he doomed to sit alone on his throne of BL romance?

I WANT TO EAT YOUR PANCREAS LIGHT NOVEL SC

(W) Yoru Sumino (A) loundraw (CA) loundraw

The coming-of-age tearjerker that inspired two films! Also known as Let Me Eat Your Pancreas, this deeply moving first-person story is about a high school boy who finds the diary of his classmate and discovers that she's dying. Yamauchi Sakura has been silently suffering from a pancreatic disease in school, and now exactly one person outside her family knows. He swears to her that he won't tell anyone what he learned, and the shared secret brings them closer together. The two have very little in common, but they find themselves drawn to each other in Sakura's final months to live.

JUANA & DRAGONEWTS SEVEN KINGDOMS GN #3

(W) Kiyohisa Tanaka (A) Kiyohisa Tanaka (CA) Kiyohisa Tanaka

Welcome to a world ruled by dragons, for fans of The Ancient Magus' Bride! In a fantastical future ruled by dragonewts, human dominance is a thing of the past. Despite humanity's extinction, Nid, a young dragonewt with a passion for ancient history, makes a startling discovery: a young human girl who calls herself Juana. Together, the unlikely pair sets out to explore the strange world of the Seven Kingdoms.

MASAMUNE KUNS REVENGE GN #9

(W) Takeoka Hazuki (A) Tiv (CA) Tiv

As an overweight child, Makabe Masamune was mercilessly teased and bullied by one particular girl, Adagaki Aki. Determined to one day exact his revenge upon her, Makabe begins a rigorous regimen of self-improvement and personal transformation. Years later, Masamune reemerges as a new man. Handsome, popular, athletic, and with perfect grades, Masamune-kun transfers to Aki's school and is unrecognizable to her. Now, Masamune-kun is ready to confront the girl who bullied him so many years ago and humiliate her at last. Revenge is sweet!

MERMAN IN MY TUB GN #8

(W) Itokichi (A) Itokichi (CA) Itokichi

What happens when an intruder from the sea stakes claim to your bathtub? A cool yet demure teenage boy named Tatsumi must learn to live with the self-obsessed and playful merman Wakasa in a small Tokyo apartment. These two dissimilar young men will learn what it takes to deal with one another in their everyday lives. Of course, impromptu visits by Wakasa's anthropomorphic ocean friends - an octopus, jelly fish, and hermit crab - do not make things easier. Welcome to Tatsumi's bathtub. It's getting crowded!

MISS KOBAYASHIS DRAGON MAID GN #7

(W) Coolkyoushinja (A) Coolkyoushinja (CA) Coolkyoushinja

Miss Kobayashi is your average office worker who lives a boring life, alone in her small apartment -- until she saves the life of a female dragon in distress. The dragon, named Tohru, has the ability to magically transform into an adorable human girl (albeit with horns and a long tail!), who will do anything to pay off her debt of gratitude, whether Miss Kobayashi likes it or not. With a very persistent and amorous dragon as a roommate, nothing comes easy, and Miss Kobayashi's normal life is about to go off the deep end!

NIRVANA GN #3

(W) ZOWLS (A) Sayuki (CA) Sayuki

Hitose Yachiyo has always striven to be helpful: volunteering and sacrificing her time and energy in respect of her late mother's memory. When the opportunity arises to travel overseas as a relief volunteer, Hitose is quick to accept. But when her plane crashes, she suddenly awakens to find herself in a strange world of magic and mysticism. In a realm where reincarnations and fate dictate the lives of those within it, Hitose must discover how to get home and why a mysterious keepsake from her mother may be more important than she ever imagined.

SAINT SEIYA SAINTIA SHO GN #4

(W) Chimaki Kuori (A) Chimaki Kuori (CA) Chimaki Kuori

In the wake of a space-wide civil war, instigated by Saga, the Gemini Gold Saint, a new team of Saints comes together with the goal of protecting their goddess Athena. This first all-women team of armored warriors, powered by the Zodiac, will use all their cunning, strength, and compassion to defend their worlds and oppose their very destinies.

SHOMIN SAMPLE ABDUCTED BY ELITE ALL GIRLS SCHOOL GN #9

(W) Nanatsuki Takafumi (A) Risumai (CA) Risumai

Seikain Girls' School: an elite boarding academy for girls from only the richest and most prestigious of families. Here, the students are raised to be perfect young ladies, cut off from the real world to preserve their innocence and ensure that they're free from all distractions. This student body has never even met a boy their own age, until they abduct Kagurazaka Kimito, an average high school boy who will teach them about the world beyond the school's ivory gates - whether he likes it or not!

SORRY FOR MY FAMILIAR GN #3

(W) Tekka Yagruba (A) Tekka Yagruba (CA) Tekka Yagruba

When the demon girl Patty finds she's too weak to summon an animal familiar, she chooses an old man named Norman to be her companion instead. Norman has a quirky appreciation for life in all its many forms and is quite the unconventional familiar for a demon like Patty. Together, they embark on an adventure driven by their shared weirdness!

SOUL LIQUID CHAMBERS GN #3

(W) Nozomu Tamaki (A) Nozomu Tamaki (CA) Nozomu Tamaki

A girl with prosthetic limbs and a tragic past wanders a zombie-ridden 23rd century Earth now known as Death's Amusement Park. Overrun by monsters, the post-apocalyptic wasteland is the last place a little girl should call home, but she's developed a unique coping mechanism.

TESTAMENT OF SISTER NEW DEVIL STORM GN #5

(W) Tetsuo Uesu (A) Fumihiro Kiso (CA) Fumihiro Kiso

High school student Toujo Basara's life has taken a turn for the strange. When his father remarries, a step parent isn't Basara's only new family member; he also gets two step-sisters, drop-dead gorgeous step sisters, who also happen to be members of a demon clan. Mio Naruse is a Demon Lord and Mario Naruse her succubus servant. Chaos and passionate antics ensue as Basara gets acquainted with his new demonic siblings, trying to protect them from dangerous demon rivals and struggling to keep up with their lusty, devilish appetites.

TORADORA LIGHT NOVEL #3

(W) Yuyuko Takemiya (A) Yasu (CA) Yasu

It's Ryuuji's first day of his second year of high school, and it seems as if things are looking up. He gets to sit in between his only friend, Yuusaku, and more importantly, the girl he's secretly crushing on, Kushieda Minori. But just when he thinks the stars are aligned in his favor, he unwittingly crosses the most feared girl in school, Aisaka Taiga, making her into his arch enemy. To top it off, Taiga has moved in right next door to Ryuuji and happens to be Minori's best friend! Can this school year possibly get any worse?

WONDERLAND GN #1

(W) Yugo Ishikawa (A) Yugo Ishikawa (CA) Yugo Ishikawa

An Alice in Wonderland-inspired horror of humans shrinking - and learning to survive in their suddenly frightening world. When humans en masse shrink down to a tiny size, a girl named Alice and her pup Poco find themselves struggling to survive. Surrounded by strange yet familiar sights, they work to make a new life. That's easier said than done, however, in a world that's bigger - and more dangerous - than ever.