In this second volume, we go on an adventure with our main characters as the student council representatives and volunteers go on a leadership retreat. This includes Futaba and Kou, as reps, and Makita, Murao, and Kuminato as club volunteers. This team from couldn't be more different, and they don't work well together at the outset. But, through Futaba's encouragement and the five teens actually opening up to each other, we find out that each one has their own motivations for getting involved in leadership, and what the high school experience means for them. Futaba is still, unsuccessfully, trying to figure out what happened to Kou in their absent years to make him change so much from the boy she knew in junior high.
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Ellsmere is an elite all-girls private school with a reputation for turning out top-notch candidates for ivy-league schools. Juniper comes to Ellsmere by way of scholarship, where she meets Cassie, her assigned roommate. Cassie and Jun become fast friends. While trying to keep her grades up and compete with others, Juniper and Cassie have several run ins with a bully, Emily, who looks down on Jun for not being elite enough to get in by way of her family heritage. Emily ensnares Jun in a devious plots to get her expelled.
This story is based on the concept of Library Intellectual Freedom, which governs a library's freedom to purchase all kinds of books without subject to censorship, and what happens if that is challenged by authorities to be taken out of circulation. The concept is sort of like Fahrenheit 451, but with people fighting back at the onset instead of letting society decide to take the books. On the two sides of this fight are the Library Defense Force (LDF), a militaristic entity tasked with protecting the books from the Media Betterment Committee (MBC), who wants to remove books that will ultimately harm society. Iku Kasahara, a trainee and later Page for the LDF, is a cute and inept main character, bad at everything except physical feats. Her instructor, Dojo, is angry almost all the time, but shows soft spots every once in a while to Kasahara.
Adapted by Damian Duffy, illustrated by John Jennings
Dana and her husband Kevin are unpacking into their new home in 1970s Los Angeles. Suddenly, she is inexplicably transported to pre-Civil War south and saves a young boy who is drowning in a river. She returns to her home shortly after and has no way of explaining to Kevin why she is soaking wet. A short while later, she is transported again to the boy's bedroom, where he is setting fire to his drapes. Through talking with the boy, she realizes that he is part of her ancestry, as the slave owner who fathered her great-grandmother. Dana is transported back and forth several times, with Kevin hurriedly coming with her on one occasion. They realize that Dana is taken back any time Rufus' life is in danger, and she is returned home when her life is in danger. Through many trips to Rufus' plantation and discussion with slaves and slave owners, Dana becomes a part of life, with all the horrors that slavery possess. She is beaten on several occasions, nurses other beaten slaves back to health, helps Rufus in obtaining the slave woman he desires, and tries to teach the children how to read. 
In the second volume of our communicatively challenged heroine, Komi continues on her quest to make 100 friends, but is truly oblivious to those around her who are obsessed with her. First, there is Yadano, who is determined to beat her in the physical test (and fails), then there's Kawai, who has a huge stalker-like crush on Komi and is willing to get rid of Tadano to get close to her. Then, there's Nakanaka, who lives in a fantasy world where Komi is the princess giving her quests.
Illustrated by Wyeth Yates
Join ambitious high schooler Nadia and her mentor, ISS Pilot Eleanor, as they discuss the main problems that are face us today in getting a manned mission to Mars. The topic is presented as a conversation between the two with various diagrams and “trips” to the International Space Station, Mars, and others as Eleanor describes the hurdles scientists and engineers have to overcome. Some of the issues include the Rocket Equation, the formula for calculating how much fuel you will need to get the mass of your rocket off the ground, how to keep humans alive in space, how to safely land on Mars, and how to return home, among others. 
In the world of Seraph of the End, a deadly virus broke out and killed humans over the age of 13. With chaos reigning, the vampires rose up from their underground world and stole many of the remaining children. Underground, the children are "milked" for their blood and ferried out to the powerful. Yūichirō dreams of escaping, and thanks to his clever friend Mikaela, he gets to, but not before seeing his "family" from the orphanage slaughtered, including Mikaela. Flash forward four years, and Yūichirō is enrolled to train for the Imperial Demon army. He is assigned a surveilance officer, Shinoa, who is there to make sure Yūichirō learns teamwork by either making friends or getting a girlfriend. Shinoa has her own Cursed Gear, a sword imbued with a demon, and Yūichirō is obsessed with obaining his own Curse Gear so that he can destroy vampires and get reveng for his family.
Sweet and innocent Princess Yona has a devastating crush on her cousin, Lord Su-Won. He comes to the palace for a visit and to celebrate her 16th Birthday. However, Yona is betrayed the night of her party when she witnesses Su-Won murder her father. It turns out, Su-Won has been harboring intense hatred towards the king since he was a small boy because the king murdered his father, a potential rival to the throne. Yona has to flee the palace with her personal guard General Hak, who is taking her to the only safe place he knows: his home, the seat of the Wind Clan. The author also presents several chapters of Yona’s childhood to explain her crush on Lord Su-Won, and how Hak because her body guard.
In volume 2, Rin continues to train as an exorcist and hide his parentage, which means no one can see his strange ears, his tail (which he keeps coiled around his body under his shirt), or his blue flame, the signature mark of Satan and his kin. In this volume, Rin and his exorcism classmates must undergo the Exwire examination that will test their knowledge on getting rid of demons, their teamwork, and their combat skills. We meet more characters as there are now more students at True Cross Academy. We also find out there are different classes of exorcists: the Knight, who is a sword-fighter; the Dragoon, who uses guns; the Tamer, who can summon demons to fight with them; the Aria, who recites fatal versus from the Bible; and the Doctor, who treats wounds inflicted by demons. Classes can be mixed and students can excel at multiple classes. Students in this volume choose specialties and start to explore those skills during the Exwire exam.
Meet Rin, the son of Satan, raised by an exorcist monk, Father Fujimoto. Rin has sworn revenge on his real father and vows to become the best exorcist in all the land! Father Fujimoto gives Rin a sword that contains his demonic powers, and tells Rin never to draw the sword, for his power will overtake his humanity. Rin and his twin brother Yukio attend True Cross Academy, a prestigious school with an exorcism training ground. Yukio is a teacher and has also vowed to become a great exorcist, and knows Rin’s true heritage. Through teaching, Yukio make several friends (as his students are all his age), and Rin struggles to learn and keep his heritage a secret from all his exorcist buddies.
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