KODANSHA COMICS
ATTACK ON TITAN ANTHOLOGY PX ED
(W) Isayama Hajime (A) Isayama Hajime (CA) Phil Jimenez
The manga megahit Attack on Titan, reinterpreted by some of comics' top talent! Featuring original stories by a long roster of comic superstars such as Scott Snyder (, ), Gail Simone (), Faith Erin Hicks (), Michael Avon Oeming (), Paolo Rivera (, ), and Cameron Stewart (, )! This unprecedented, full-color collaboration between East and West will be released first in English, making it indispensable for fans and curious comic fans. Additional contributors include: Brenden Fletcher, Cameron Stewart, and Babs Tarr (the team behind the new ); Eisner Award nominee Phil Jimenez (, ); Kate Leth and Jeremy Lambert (, ) & Top Cow Pilot winner Afua Richardson (); Eisner Award winner Evan Dorkin (, ); Eisner Award nominee Simon Spurrier () and Kate Brown (); Crawford Award winner Genevieve Valentine () and David Lopez (, ); and many more!
ATTACK ON TITAN COLOSSAL ED TP #3
(W) Isayama Hajime (A) Isayama Hajime (CA) Isayama Hajime
Attack on Titan: Colossal Edition 3 is an oversized collection of volumes 11-15 of the Attack on Titan manga series. Weighing in at a massive 944 pages and a 7" by 10 1/2" trim, Colossal Edition 3, like its predecessor last year, contains the same material as the original volumes, but bigger and on higher-quality paper. The follow-up to last year's Colossal Edition, this is certain to be a hit with collectors, gift-givers, and new fans alike!
ATTACK ON TITAN JUNIOR HIGH GN #5
(W) Isayama Hajime (A) Saki Nakagawa (CA) Saki Nakagawa
Eren and Mikasa enter a new school - Titan Junior High! However, Eren's hated Titans for years; can he now get along with his (harmless?) classmates? Featuring fan favorite characters as you've never seen them before, this series is sure to delight, with a human-Titan volleyball match, a Titan rock band, and more! A spin-off to the series that spawned the hottest anime of the past decade!
ATTACK ON TITAN LOST GIRLS GN #1
(W) Hiroshi Seko
This new story of two of Titan's most beloved characters - Annie Leonhart and Mikasa Ackerman - is a prequel series to the number one bestselling Attack on Titan series. Beloved cast members Mikasa and Annie are given a side story of their own set within the original Attack on Titan world. By expanding on both the comics and the animated TV series, Lost Girls gives a more complete look at the women of Attack on Titan. Note: Previously offered in PREVIEWS Plus #1231.
COMPLEX AGE GN #2
(W) Yui Sakuma (A) Yui Sakuma (CA) Yui Sakuma
Twentysomething temp worker Nagisa Kataura lives like an average young woman, but she has a secret life. When she's not sitting at her day job, she spends most of her time transforming into her favorite anime and manga characters through the art of cosplay. Worried about being thought childish and nerdy, Nagisa struggles to keep her hobby a secret. One of the few realistic manga told from the perspective of a young, geeky Japanese woman, this dramatic storyline looks beneath the surface of cosplaying to show what it really takes to live the life of someone devoted to fandom.
DEVIL SURVIVOR GN #7
(W) Satoru Matsuba (A) Satoru Matsuba (CA) Satoru Matsuba
The manga version of the successful Nintendo 3DS game, part of the Shin Megami Tensei franchise that also includes the hit Persona games. After demons break through into the human world, Tokyo must be quarantined. Without power and stuck in a supernatural warzone, 17-year-old Kazuya has only one hope: He must use the COMP, a device created by his cousin Naoya capable of summoning and subduing demons, to defeat the invaders and take back the city.
FAIRY TAIL GN #56
(W) Hiro Mashima (A) Hiro Mashima (CA) Hiro Mashima
Seventeen year-old Lucy is an attractive mage-in-training who wants to join a magician's guild so that she can become a full-fledged magician. The guild she dreams about joining is the most famous in the world, and it is known as the Fairy Tail. One day she meets Natsu, a boy raised by a Dragon who mysteriously left him when he was young. Natsu has devoted his life to finding his Dragon father. When Natsu helps Lucy out of a tricky situation, she discovers that he is a member of the Fairy Tail magician's guild, and our heroes' adventure together begins.
FORGET ME NOT GN #4
(W) Mag Hsu (A) Nao Emoto (CA) Nao Emoto
Serizawa is a twentysomething working at a divorce attorney's office. Walking home from work one day, he gets into an accident, and a woman carries him to an ambulance. Later, at the hospital, still bleary, he receives a phone call from the woman who saved his life. This person knows intimate details about him... but he's not sure who it is. Serizawa's gentle personality has drawn lots of girls to him since his childhood, but he's far from perfect. Was it someone he loved and lost? Or perhaps someone he wronged, to whom he failed to make amends?
GENSHIKEN SECOND SEASON GN #9
(W) Shimoku Kio (A) Shimoku Kio (CA) Shimoku Kio
Welcome to the world of the Genshiken, home of the true otaku, the Japanese term for ubergeek. School festival season is here! With friends of Yajima and Yoshitake visiting, someone from Hato's past chooses just the moment to reappear. Amid the chaos, an essential turning point arrives for Madarame!
HAPPINESS GN #1
(W) Shuzo Oshimi (A) Shuzo Oshimi (CA) Shuzo Oshimi
A creepy and suspenseful coming-of-age story (with vampires!) from the creator of the hit Flowers of Evil. The biggest loser in high school goes out one night to return a DVD and gets attacked by a blood-sucking woman. She asks if he wants to die or live. He chooses to live, but when he's back in school he finds himself craving blood. When his desire becomes unbearable, he realizes he has climbed onto a female classmate and is trying to bite her neck. He stops himself, but she hugs him close. She asks, "Did you really want me that much?" A supernatural story of sexual awakening, growing up, and suburban vampirism, Happiness follows a dorky boy who is attacked by a girl in an alley.
PARADISE RESIDENCE GN #3
(W) Kosuke Fujishima (A) Kosuke Fujishima (CA) Kosuke Fujishima
The new series from the creator of the classic manga Oh My Goddess! Hatsune Takanashi is not the best of students--her grades are subpar, she hates homework, and the only thing that will rouse her from bed in the morning is the promise of pudding. But for all her drawbacks, Hatsune is full of energy and intends to make the best of her time at Ritsukan Boarding School, an all-girls high school atop a mountain that has been called a high-school girl's paradise.
PERSONA Q SHADOW OF LABYRINTH SIDE P4 GN #2
A crossover manga based on Persona 4, the widely acclaimed RPG from Atlus, that ties into the new 3DS game, Persona Q: Shadow of the Labyrinth. P4 = Persona 4. A companion to Persona Q: Shadow of the Labyrinth: P3, this crossover comic focuses on the Investigation Team from Persona 4 as they battle through a mysterious, Alice in Wonderland themed labyrinth. While trying to find their way back to Yasogami High, they will encounter new enemies and few friends from the Persona series of RPG videogames - and have to work together to find their way home. Note: Previously offered in PREVIEWS Plus #1231.
PRINCE IN HIS DARK DAYS GN #1
(W) Yoshinobu Yamada (A) Hiko Yamanaka (CA) Hiko Yamanaka
A cross-dressing dramedy about a girl from a poor family who is thrust into Japanese high society as a rich classmate's body double. Atsuko's father is a drunk, and she's shunned by her classmates as "the poor kid." Walking the streets in a dark fog of despair, Atsuko cons perverts out of their money to survive. Then, one day, she meets Itaru, the heir to a wealthy family, who happens to look exactly like her. Itaru hatches a plan: Atsuko will live his tedious public life for him, and she will get a taste of the luxuries enjoyed by the 1%. Everybody's (finally) happy. Right?
REAL ACCOUNT GN #4
(W) Okushou (A) Shizumu Watanabe (CA) Shizumu Watanabe
After the death of their parents, Ataru Kashiwagi and his younger sister, Yuri, depend on each other. Ataru works hard at high school and his job, and spends his leisure time on a social media site: Real Account. Eventually, he hits 1,500 followers, but he sometimes wonders how much they really care about him. One night, the screen ominously begins to glitch, only displaying: The Game Will Now Begin. In the blink of an eye, Ataru finds himself transported into Real Account's loading screen - except now it's a 3-D lobby! Before them stands Marble, the smiley-faced announcer. With a sinister cheerfulness, Marble says, "If you die in here, you die out there... and so do all your followers!"
SEVEN DEADLY SINS GN #16
(W) Nakaba Suzuki (A) Nakaba Suzuki (CA) Nakaba Suzuki
Welcome to the land of Britannia, a picturesque country ruled by the benevolent King Lyonnesse - or at least it was, until the king's guard assassinated him and started a full-blown Holy War! When they were accused of trying to overthrow the monarchy, the feared warriors the Seven Deadly Sins were sent into exile. Princess Elizabeth discovers the truth - the Sins were framed by the king's guard, the Holy Knights - too late to prevent them from assassinating her father and seizing the throne! Now the princess is on the run, seeking the Sins to help her reclaim the kingdom. But the first Sin she meets, Meliodas, is a little innkeeper with a talking pig. He doesn't even have a real sword! Have the legends of the Sins' strength been exaggerated?
SPOOF ON TITAN (ATTACK ON TITAN) GN
Hilarious four-panel (newspaper-style) comics based on the popular Atack on Titan, previously available through the online service Mangabox. Set in the world of Attack on Titan, but with cutesy versions of the characters, Spoof on Titan will appeal to the series' large fanbase!
SWEETNESS & LIGHTNING GN #2
(W) Gido Amagakure (A) Gido Amagakure (CA) Gido Amagakure
Teacher Kouhei is a single father who is terrible at cooking. His adorable little daughter Tsumugi barely remembers the cooking of her mother, who's passed away. But, then, the pair comes across a teenage girl eating rice balls and crying (in joy?) at the park. She takes Kouhei and Tsumugi to her mother's restaurant, where they taste their first home-cooked meal in ages. A tribute to the power of food to bind people together. Each chapter ends with a recipe, with detailed illustrated advice on executing modern Japanese cuisine.
TSUBASA WORLD CHRONICLE GN #3
(W) Clamp (A) Clamp (CA) Clamp
Syaoran and his companions embark on a new journey after receiving precious items from Watanuki. The items having come at a heavy cost, Syaoran's journey begins with the burden of Watanuki's pain. Fortunately, he has his friends Fai and Kurogane, as well as the cheerful Mokona to help carry any burden and overcome any obstacle.
WELCOME TO BALLROOM GN #1
(W) Tomo Takeuchi (A) Tomo Takeuchi (CA) Tomo Takeuchi
A battle manga with ballroom dance! 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! Intriguing premise, frenetic action, and badass male and female characters will make this a must-read for both shonen and shojo manga readers.
YAMADA KUN & SEVEN WITCHES GN #10
(W) Miki Yoshikawa (A) Miki Yoshikawa (CA) Miki Yoshikawa
Class troublemaker Ryu Yamada is already having a bad day when he stumbles down a staircase along with star student Urara Shiraishi. When he wakes up, he realizes they have switched bodies - and that Ryu has the power to trade places with anyone with only a kiss! Plus, it turns out he's not the only kid at school with a few magic tricks up his sleeve! This hilarious supernatural romantic comedy will appeal to older teens.