KODANSHA COMICS
AGAIN GN #4
(W) Mitsurou Kubo (A) Mitsurou Kubo (CA) Mitsurou Kubo
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... again!
AHO GIRL (CLUELESS GIRL) GN
(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!
ATTACK ON TITAN BEFORE THE FALL GN #14
(W) Isayama Hajime (A) Satoshi Shiki (CA) Satoshi Shiki
The prequel to the number one bestselling Attack on Titan and winner of the Diamond Gem Award for best manga continues! Humanity has learned to live in complacency behind its high walls, protected from the giant Titans. But when a Titan-worshipping cult opens one of the gates, a Titan wreaks havoc, consuming the cultists. After the rampage is over, two young Survey Corps members are shocked to discover a pregnant woman's partially digested corpse, with her baby still alive inside it! What will the fate of this "child of the Titans" be? And how will humanity learn to cope with the Titan threat?
ATTACK ON TITAN COLOSSAL ED TP #4
(W) Isayama Hajime (A) Isayama Hajime (CA) Isayama Hajime
Attack on Titan: Colossal Edition 4 is an oversized collection of volumes 16-20 of the Attack on Titan manga series. Weighing in at a massive 944 pages and a 7" by 10 1/2" trim, Colossal Edition 4, like its predecessor last year, contains the same material as the original volumes, but bigger and on higher-quality paper.
BATTLE ANGEL ALITA DELUXE ED HC #5
(W) Yukito Kishiro (A) Yukito Kishiro (CA) Yukito Kishiro
After more than a decade out of print, the original cyberpunk action classic returns in glorious 400-page hardcover deluxe editions, featuring an all-new translation, color pages, and new cover designs! In a dump in the lawless settlement of Scrapyard, far beneath the mysterious space city of Zalem, disgraced cyber-doctor Daisuke Ido makes a strange find: the detached head of a cyborg woman who has lost all her memories. He names her Alita and equips her with a powerful new body, the Berserker. While Alita remembers no details of her former life, a moment of desperation reawakens in her nerves the legendary school of martial arts known as Panzer Kunst. In a place where there is no justice but what people make for themselves, Alita decides to become a hunter-killer, tracking down those who prey on the weak. But can she hold onto her humanity as she revels in her bloodlust?
BATTLE ANGEL ALITA MARS CHRONICLE GN #4
(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!
DESCENDING STORIES GN #8
(W) Haruko Kumota (A) Haruko Kumota (CA) Haruko Kumota
After apprenticing for ten years under the great Yakumo Yurakutei VIII, Yotaro has finally become a shin'uchi and taken the name Sukeroku, a lineage with its own fraught history. But the newly-minted Sukeroku III cannot rest on his laurels for long, as ghosts from his own past come to haunt him in the wake of his achievement. With his family and his art on the line, can he find his way forward? Or will he be doomed to mediocrity as the rakugo tradition languishes? The story of the next generation begins here.
DIE WERGELDER GN #2
(W) Hiroaki Samura (A) Hiroaki Samura (CA) Hiroaki Samura
An exquisitely drawn tale of vengeance, blood, and sex from creator of the classic samurai comic Blade of the Immortal! A mysterious murder takes place in a shopping arcade in China, while in Japan a yakuza gang discovers a large amount of money is missing. These volatile ingredients will combine to set off an explosion of violence on a remote island, that will eventually grow to consume more and more lives across the world!
FIRE FORCE GN #11
(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?
IN SPECTRE GN #8
(W) Kyo Shirodaira (A) Chasiba Katase (CA) Chasiba Katase
Both touched by spirits called yokai, Kotoko and Kuro have gained unique superhuman powers. But to gain her powers Kotoko has given up an eye and a leg, and Kuro's personal life is in shambles. So when Kotoko suggests they team up to deal with renegades from the spirit world, Kuro doesn't have many other choices, but Kotoko might just have a few ulterior motives...
LOVE AND LIES GN #7
(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!
THAT TIME I GOT REINCARNATED AS A SLIME GN #7
(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. But there are chances for even a slime to become a hero!
TO YOUR ETERNITY GN #6
(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 #2
(W) Akiko Higashimura (A) Akiko Higashimura (CA) Akiko Higashimura
"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!
TOPPU GP GN #3
(W) Kosuke Fujishima (A) Kosuke Fujishima (CA) Kosuke Fujishima
Toppu Uno never wanted to race motorcycles. He was perfectly content watching his sister ride - with his eagle eyes, he knew her lap times before the the stopwatch did. When he's convinced to take a ride on a minibike for the first time, his hours of observation translate into instant skill on the track. But turning a quick lap and winning a race are two very different things, and Toppu's got a long way to go before he's ready for the big leagues - MotoGP, the highest level of two-wheeled road racing.