KODANSHA COMICS
FAIRY TAIL GN #58
(W) Hiro Mashima (A) Hiro Mashima (CA) Hiro Mashima
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 #6
(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?
GHOST IN SHELL DLX RTL HC ED #1
(W) Shirow Masamune (A) Shirow Masamune (CA) Shirow Masamune
This deluxe edition will mark the first time the book has been published in its original Japanese right-to-left format in English. Supervised by the creator, this will be the definitive edition of . Deep into the twenty-first century, the line between man and machine has been blurred as humans rely on the enhancement of mechanical implants and robots are upgraded with human tissue. In this rapidly converging landscape, cyborg superagent Major Motoko Kusanagi is charged to track down the craftiest and most dangerous terrorists and cybercriminals, including "ghost hackers" who are capable of exploiting the human/machine interface and reprogramming humans to become puppets to carry out the hackers' criminal ends.
GHOST IN SHELL DLX RTL HC ED #2
(W) Shirow Masamune (A) Shirow Masamune (CA) Shirow Masamune
This deluxe edition will mark the first time the book has been published in its original Japanese right-to-left format in English. Supervised by the creator, this will be the definitive edition of The Ghost in the Shell. Released simultaneously with new deluxe editions of the other two books in the original series. Mature/18+ The long-awaited sequel to Shirow Masamune's groundbreaking The Ghost in the Shell, and one of the most highly anticipated graphic novel events in many years, Man-Machine Interface is Shirow's most ambitious and complex story yet, with deep forays into philosophy and the meaning of artificial life, intelligence, and existence. Utilizing awe-inspiring digital effects on a level never before seen in the annals of graphic fiction, Shirow has raised the bar for what can be achieved, page after page! Story Locale: Tokyo Series Overview: Following World Wars III and IV a Japanese-led Asian block dominates the world. A key element in the maintenance of the block's position is the elite Japanese security police, the SHELL task force. To give them an edge in their ruthless battles against terrorist groups, most of the force have had extensive cybernetic transplants that have left them only questionably human. This is an exciting and skillful work that realistically probes uses of artificial intelligence and "direct interfacing" with machines, and which questions where mankind's technological and medical progress will lead.
GHOST IN SHELL MOVIE ED GN
(W) Shirow Masamune (A) Shirow Masamune (CA) Shirow Masamune
The movie tie-in edition of the previously published version of the manga, in a left-to-right American-style reading format, with a cover featuring Scarlett Johansson. Following World Wars III and IV a Japanese-led Asian block dominates the world. A key element in the maintenance of the block's position is the elite Japanese security police, the SHELL task force. To give them an edge in their ruthless battles against terrorist groups, most of the force have had extensive cybernetic transplants that have left them only questionably human. This is an exciting and skillful work that realistically probes uses of artificial intelligence and "direct interfacing" with machines, and which questions where mankind's technological and medical progress will lead.
GHOST IN THE SHELL 1.5 DLX RTL HC ED
(W) Shirow Masamune (A) Shirow Masamune (CA) Shirow Masamune
This deluxe edition will mark the first time the book has been published in its original Japanese right-to-left format in English. Supervised by the creator, this will be the definitive edition of . presents for the first time in America the "lost" stories, created by Shirow Masamune after completing work on the original manga. Focusing on Section 9 agents in their daily battle against technocrime, Human-Error Processor has all the mind-twisting cybermadness you've come to expect from Ghost in the Shell but set in a more police-procedural context with action and suspense galore. Features the stories "Fat Cat," "Drive Slave," "Mines of Mind," and "Lost Past."
HAPPINESS GN #3
(W) Shuzo Oshimi (A) Shuzo Oshimi (CA) Shuzo Oshimi
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 back in school he finds himself craving blood. When his desire becomes unbearable, and 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?"
HEROIC LEGEND OF ARSLAN GN #6
(W) Yoshiki Tanaka (A) Hiromu Arakawa (CA) Hiromu Arakawa
Arslan is the teenaged prince of the ancient kingdom of Pars who doesn't seem to have what it takes to be a great ruler like his father, Andragoras III. A fateful encounter with a slave from the neighboring country of Lusitania leads Arslan to question the world outside of the royal capital's walls but before he can indulge his curiosity, war breaks out. Arslan is rushed off to his first war, only to see his kingdom crumble in front of his eyes. This series of events leads the young Arslan on a journey to reclaim his lost kingdom.
IN SPECTRE GN #2
(W) Kyo Shirodaira (A) Chasiba Katase (CA) Chasiba Katase
When she was still just a girl, Kotoko was kidnapped by (spirits). They made her into a powerful intermediary between spirits and humans, but this power came with a price: one eye, and one leg. Now she's falling in love with a young man named Kuro, who is also special: an incident with a has given him healing powers. He's surprised when Kotoko asks him to team up to handle renegade , preserving the thin line between the human world and the spirit world.
INTERVIEWS WITH MONSTER GIRLS GN #2
(W) Petos (A) Petos (CA) Petos
Monsters of legend walk among us, going by the name "demi-humans." Ever since he's discovered the "demis," one young man has become obsessed with them. So when he gets a job as a teacher at a high school for demi-girls, it's a dream come true! But these girls have all the problems normal teenagers have, on top of their supernatural conditions. How will he handle a classroom full of them?
NEKOGAHARA STRAY CAT SAMURAI GN #2
(W) Hiroyuki Takei (A) Hiroyuki Takei (CA) Hiroyuki Takei
A gritty historical action story, starring samurai cats, will appeal to fans of everything from Japanese-flavored fantasy like to more adult historical action like . In medieval Japan, a bell hanging on the collar is a sign that a cat has a master. Norachiyo's bell hangs from his katana sheath, but he is nonetheless a stray - a ronin. This one-eyed cat samurai travels across a dishonest world, cutting through pretense and deception with his blade.
PRINCE IN HIS DARK DAYS GN #3
(W) Yoshinobu Yamada (A) Hiko Yamanaka (CA) Hiko Yamanaka
Atsuko's family is impoverished, and her parents don't care about her. Her 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 can't imagine a brighter future and 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. But is this really the brighter future she so recently found unthinkable?
SEVEN DEADLY SINS GN #18
(W) Nakaba Suzuki (A) Nakaba Suzuki (CA) Nakaba Suzuki
After regaining his demonic power and delivering a warning to the Ten Commandments, Meliodas rejoins the Sins in the land of the Druids! But with the rest of the gang's training complete, he's not the only one who's powered up; even Hawk is looking tougher! With no time to spare, the search for the final Sin, Escanor, begins! According to Meliodas, Escanor's even stronger than he is, but with the Ten Commandments launching their invasion of Britannia, will they be able to find him in time?
SWEETNESS & LIGHTNING GN #4
(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.
WELCOME TO BALLROOM GN #3
(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!
YAMADA KUN & SEVEN WITCHES GN #12
(W) Miki Yoshikawa (A) Miki Yoshikawa (CA) Miki Yoshikawa
Suzaku High School student and problem kid, Ryu Yamada, is in a bad mood after being chewed out again by the teacher today. As if his day couldn't get any worse, he falls down the top of the stairs with honor 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!