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ATTACK ON TITAN BEFORE THE FALL GN #9

(W) Isayama Hajime (A) Satoshi Shiki (CA) Satoshi Shiki

A prequel series to the number one bestseller! 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 GN #20

(W) Isayama Hajime (A) Isayama Hajime (CA) Isayama Hajime

Humanity has been devastated by the bizarre, giant humanoids known as the Titans. Little is known about where they came from or why they are bent on consuming humanity. For the past century, what's left of mankind has hidden in a giant, three-walled city. Now, a young boy consumed with rage displays a strange ability: The power to transform into a Titan! Is this the lucky break humanity needs to survive?

ATTACK ON TITAN GN #20

SPECIAL ED WITH DVD

(W) Isayama Hajime (A) Isayama Hajime (CA) Isayama Hajime

Humanity has been devastated by the bizarre, giant humanoids known as the Titans. Little is known about where they came from or why they are bent on consuming humanity. For the past century, what's left of mankind has hidden in a giant, three-walled city. Now, a young boy consumed with rage displays a strange ability: The power to transform into a Titan! Is this the lucky break humanity needs to survive? Includes exclusive half-hour anime episode "The Sudden Visitor" on DVD, and exclusive variant dust jacket! "The Sudden Visitor" anime episode returns to the more lighthearted days of Mikasa, Eren, and Armin's cadet training, starring fans' favorite characters (before Titans started eating them). Sasha and Jean get into a fight, and decide to settle it with a cooking competition! But in a world where meat is prized above all, they'll have to acquire their meals first. Jean, typically, decides to steal it, while Sasha goes the more exotic route, and chooses to hunt down the most vicious boar in the woods...

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!

CELLS AT WORK GN #2

(W) Akane Shimizu (A) Akane Shimizu (CA) Akane Shimizu

An adventure set inside a human body, is a fun, fast-paced manga that's even a little bit educational (kind of). Strep throat! Hay fever! Influenza! The world is a dangerous place for a red blood cell just trying to get her deliveries finished. Fortunately, she's not alone; she's got a whole human body's worth of cells ready to help out! The mysterious white blood cell, the buff and brash killer T-cell, the nerdy neuron, even the cute little platelets - everyone's got to come together if they want to keep you healthy!

COMPLEX AGE GN #3

(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. To enjoy her passion and still function as a normal member of society, Nagisa has to struggle with the pressures of two very distinct lifestyles, while doing her best to keep her two worlds from colliding. One of the few realistic manga told from the perspective of a young, geeky Japanese woman.

FAIRY TAIL TWIN DRAGONS OF SABERTOOTH GN

(W) Hiro Mashima (A) Kyouta Shibano (CA) Kyouta Shibano

A new spinoff following the adventures of 's most popular dragon slayer duo, Sting and Rogue of the Sabertooth guild. An argument over one of their companions splits the Twin Dragons up! But when Sting tries to take on the golems of Obstone Village on his own, he's left crushed, with his magic stolen. Could this job actually be a sinister trap set for Sting? And will Rogue forgive him and arrive in time to save his life?

GHOST & LADY GN #2 (OF 2)

(W) Kazuhiro Fujita (A) Kazuhiro Fujita (CA) Kazuhiro Fujita

Deep in Scotland Yard in London sits an evidence room, where artifacts of the greatest mysteries in London history are kept. In this "Black Museum" sits two bullets, fused together after a head-on collision. This was the key piece of evidence in a case that brought together a supernatural Man in Gray and the famous nurse and activist Florence Nightingale, the only person who can see him. Surrounded by war and suffering, the lady enters into a desperate pact with this ghost-like man. A tale of suspense, intrigue, and war set against a beautifully rendered Victorian backdrop.

KISS HIM NOT ME GN #8

(W) Junko (A) Junko (CA) Junko

Kae is a hardcore , the type of female manga fan who loves to read stories of handsome boys getting into initimate situations with each other and often "ships" together characters from her favorite titles. However, her fervent passion for manga and anime causes an accident that comes with surprising results. The once homely and overweight fangirl has become an overwhelmingly cute girl who now turns heads everywhere she goes. With her new looks, Kae has caught the attention of a group of handsome boys who all want to date her, but in the end, Kae is still a at heart, and rather than receive kisses from them, she would get much more enjoyment out of seeing those boys make out with each other!

LDK GN #8

(W) Ayu Watanabe (A) Ayu Watanabe (CA) Ayu Watanabe

Aoi's best friend Moe is in love with their high school's prince, Shusei Kugayama. But when Moe confesses her feelings, Shusei turns her down hard, and a furious Aoi takes him to task. So it's quite a shock when Aoi finds out that the boy moving into the apartment next to hers is Shusei! Things go from awkward to intolerable when Aoi accidentally starts a kitchen fire in Shusei's apartment, and is forced to let him move in while the damage gets cleaned up. Readers will love watching the funny and touching situations this unlikely couple experience as they slowly begin to warm to each other.

MAGATSUKI GN #6

(W) Hoshino Taguchi (A) Hoshino Taguchi (CA) Hoshino Taguchi

Yasuke, 15 years old, is about to build up the courage to confess his love to his childhood friend Akari, who's fallen for him, too. There's just one problem: Yasuke's family lives in a Japanese shrine, and when he breaks the shrine's sacred mirror, it triggers a curse, releasing the cute and well-endowed goddess of misfortune, Orihime, into the real world! Now Yasuke can't ever be out of Orihime's sight; if he gets too far away, he dies, and can only be brought back to life with a quick kiss from Orihime!

SAY I LOVE YOU GN #17

(W) Kanae Hazuki (A) Kanae Hazuki (CA) Kanae Hazuki

Since her "friends" framed her for the death of the class rabbit in elementary school, Mei Tachibana has given up on other people. But when Mei kicks Yamato, the most popular boy at her high school, in the head (she was aiming for someone else), she becomes enemy No. 1 among the student body while Yamato himself grows more and more fascinated with her! How long can Mei keep her heart closed off? How long will she refuse to say, "I love you"?

SPOOF ON TITAN (ATTACK ON TITAN) GN

(W) Hounori (A) Hounori

A spin-off series to the number one bestseller, full of hilarious gags and cute character art! This hilarious four-panel (newspaper-style) comics based on the popular is set in the world of , but with cutesy versions of the characters.

THAT WOLF BOY IS MINE GN #3

(W) Yoko Nogiri (A) Yoshitoki Oima (CA) Yoshitoki Oima

Komugi's not sure what to expect when her family moves to the remote northern island of Hokkaido, and she starts at a new high school. But she certainly didn't expect a boy to come up to her and say, "Gee... you smell good, somehow!" That boy is Yu Ogami, and Komugi finds herself strangely drawn to him. But when she sees him in an unguarded moment, she discovers he's a werewolf! Now she has a choice to make: to keep his secret, or to ask for help and risk angering a wolf-boy?

VINLAND SAGA GN #8

(W) Makoto Yukimura (A) Makoto Yukimura (CA) Makoto Yukimura

After months of hard labor as a farm slave, Thorfinn begins to realize what his father meant by the words, "A true warrior needs no sword." Perhaps he can find a new purchase on life in the mysterious land he heard tell of in his childhood: the continent to the west known as Vinland.

YOUR LIE IN APRIL GN #11

(W) Naoshi Arakawa (A) Naoshi Arakawa (CA) Naoshi Arakawa

Kosei Arima was a piano prodigy until his cruel taskmaster of a mother died suddenly, changing his life forever. Driven by his pain to abandon piano, Kosei now lives in a monotonous, colorless world. Having resigned himself to a bland life, he is surprised when he meets Kaori Miyazono, a violinist with an unorthodox style. Can she teach Kosei not just how to play, but how to start living again?