VERTICAL COMICS
BAKEMONOGATARI GN #8
From the best selling novel series by renouned author NISIOISIN, comes the manga adaptation of the Monogatari Series! Artwork by Oh! great. One day, high-school student Koyomi Araragi catches a girl named Hitagi Senjougahara when she trips. But-much to his surprise-she doesn't weigh anything. At all. She says an encounter with a so-called "crab" took away all her weight...Monsters have been here since the beginning. Always. Everywhere.
DAILY LIVES OF HIGH SCHOOL BOYS GN #5
(W) Yasunobu Yamauchi (A) Yasunobu Yamauchi (CA) Yasunobu Yamauchi
High school boys, be fools! Follow the bizarre adventures of Tadakuni, Hidenori and Yoshitake at the all boys, Sanada North High School. This is a high school slice of life comedy that will keep you laughing. Story Locale: High School
KINOS JOURNEY BEAUTIFUL WORLD GN #8
(W) Keiichi Sigsawa (A) Iruka Shiomiya
Based on the hit novel series, Kino's Journey now has a beautiful manga adaptation with illustrations by Iruka Shiomiya (Ningen Series). Kino's Journey is about a character named Kino who travels around the world with a talking motorcycle named Hermes. Together they travel to different countries and meet the inhabitants there. Kino's policy is to only stay three days in every town without exception, saying it's enough time to learn about the each place and moving on to explore the next new place.
SCHOOL FROZEN IN TIME GN #1
(W) Naoshi Arakawa (A) Naoshi Arakawa
From two star creators Naoshi Arawakawa (Your Lie in April) and award winning writer Mizuki Tsujimura (Anime Supremacy!) comes a psychological horror story filled with twists, turns, and hard truths about the lives of high school students and the pressures they face in modern society. On a snowy school day like any other, classmates and childhood friends Hiroshi and Mizuki arrive at school to find the campus eerily empty. Before long, they find themselves trapped inside with six other friends, and even stranger, all the clocks have stopped at a very specific moment-the exact time when a former classmate jumped off the school roof to their death three months earlier. It turns out that this departed friend is their way out of their current predicament and may even be among their group...but no one can remember who it was that took their life on that sad day. The students must face themselves and their past memories to piece together the identity of this suicide victim or risk a similar fate-with their lives lost and forgotten inside these frigid school walls.
WITCHCRAFT WORKS GN #15
(W) Ryu Mizunagi (A) Ryu Mizunagi (CA) Ryu Mizunagi
Basis of the anime series, Witchcraft Works is a romance comedy where magic and supernational powers shape the lives of a handful of high school kids. Takamiya Honoka is just an ordinary high school student who sits next to Kagari Ayaka, the "Princess" of the school, and has never said a word to her. However, one day when Takamiya's life is put in danger, Kagari arrives to his rescue and it's revealed that Kagari is what is known as a Workshop Witch within the city and Takamiya is under her protection.... Story Locale: Japan Series Overview: High schooler Honoka Takamiya finds himself in the middle of a battle between witches...for his body.