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You can't live all on your own! vol 1 by Mizoko Tsuno

6/28/2025

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Cover of You Can't Live All On Your Own volume 1. Four women all walking in different directions about to do different tasks -- bake, play guitar, go to work, go on a date perhaps -- and the background is solid pink.
Four women close to thirty live together, and they're all in very different places in their lives. Shuu works hard at her day job and is mostly waiting for love to find her spontaneously, but she’s feeling the pressure to marry as those around her are finding relationships. Mii is a guitarist and has been seeing the drummer in her band, but he drops a bombshell on her that makes her question where their relationship is and where it’s headed. Eika is solidly a career woman who continuously takes on big projects, and she doesn’t let anyone doubt her ability to handle the workload. Shio used to work at a large, successful corporation, but the long hours and stress were not what she was looking for in life.


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Witch hat atelier vol 13 by kamome shirahama

6/27/2025

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Cover of Witch Hat Atelier volume 13. Cuestas is flourishing his cape and flying upwards with his special stilts that let him walk despite being paralyzed. His brimmed hat is meacingly on his head.
The Knights continue to battle the Leech monster and try to get the wounded citizens to the doctors, who are secluded away from the festival and the city. With Coco being attended to by doctors, Qilfrey has to go after Cuestas alone. Beldarut watches over Coco while Qilfrey is away, and he shows Coco a handy spell where she can make her essence into a smoke creature to follow her master. She hopes to convince Cuestas to come with Qilfrey, but a brimmed hat unexpectedly shows up, and the entire plan goes awry.


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Deadman wonderland vol 2 by jinsei kataoka

6/25/2025

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Cover of Deadman Wonderland volume 2. Shiro is sitting on the ground with her legs stretched out before her. Her hair is fallling around her.
A deadly power lurks in Ganta, and a prisoner being held in solitary in G-Ward may have answers, including more information about the mysterious Red Man who actually murdered all of Ganta's classmates. But, G-Ward isn’t on any known maps, and nobody seems to know of its existence. Shiro and Ganta’s semi-prisoner friend help break a way into the secret ward where a prisoner known as “Crow” is locked up. He refers to Ganta as “Woodpecker” and reveals little else except that he and Ganta share the same mysterious powers in their blood.


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Jungle juice vol 5 by hyeong eun

6/24/2025

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Cover of Jungle Juice volume 5. Suchan is grimacing as he surges with power
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The Pet Shop continues their raid on Nest, and there are fights happening all over the campus. The students and professors are all trying to keep the predators away from their main target: Professor Ji. A pink praying mantis and an exploding ant take on Professor Jun, who is one of the last lines of defense before the predators get to Ji, while Suchan and his classmates try to slow down some of the other predators who are trying to infiltrate the Nest compound with other nefarious missions.


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Snegurochka of the Spring Breeze by Hiroaki Samura

6/23/2025

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Cover of Snegurochka of the Spring Breeze. A woman is in a wheelchair and a man kneels in front of her and kisses her outstretched hand.
Two seemingly lost young Russians at the beginning of the Bolshevik era find themselves more or less indentured as servants at a large home, though one must utilize a wheelchair and the other has a serious medical condition. Both are each other’s lifeline, and they stay close to the home despite the hardships it brings them because they are looking for something very valuable from before the fall of Tsar Nicolas II. They endure terrible treatment, endentured servitude masquerading as work for The Party, and much more to achieve their goals. 



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Aria of the beech forest vol 1 by Yugiri Aika

6/22/2025

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Cover of Aria of the Beech Forest volume 1. Aria and Gwyn are sitting with an outline of a town behind them. Around them is a wreath of foods and juices.
Aria is a young witch who lives all alone in a secluded forest, protected by a magical barrier put in place by her dearly departed grandmother. She has to keep to herself to keep the existence of magic and witches safe. One day, a talking white wolf wanders into her sphere, cold and alone, and the two become friends due to their want of companionship. Aria names the wolf Gwyn and offers to let him stay with her. Gwyn begins to notice a few off things, like Aria seems to never do magic, and he wonders about the barrier that seems to have let him and other humans into Aria’s space… there’s more to this world than Aria may know or has been told about!


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Suzume vol 3 by makoto shinkai

6/21/2025

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Cover of Suzume volume 3. Suzume and Souta sit on a dilapidated door in an open field.
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Suzume sets off on her own to find a way back into the Everafter. Her first stop is to talk with Souta’s grandfather, who tells her the only way in is how she entered as a child. This means she must revisit her destroyed childhood home in Northern Japan. As she begins her journey, she is waylaid by her aunt and Souta’s schoolmate, both of whom force their way into her journey. Suzume confronts the memories of her childhood and finds her portal into the Everafter, and the fierce battle waiting for her on the other side.


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Soul eater the perfect edition vol 1 by atsushi ohkubo

6/20/2025

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Cover of Soul Eater: The Perfect Edition volume 1. Maka is contorted a bit so her hands are wrapped around her body and she looks surprised. She's in her school outfit with a tailored black suit jacket, tie, and a red plaid skirt.
Three aspiring agents of Death come together (eventually) at school and learn to be better collectors of souls. For two characters, Maka and Black Star, they are on a mission to create an ultimate weapon for Death, and to do so, they need to collect 99 souls of humans and one witch, which they feed to their weapons. Their weapons also can become anthropomorphic entities with strong personalities that must match their weapon-masters soul energy. Otherwise, wielding them is nearly impossible. Our third character is none other than Death’s son — Death the Kid — a reaper with a powerful pair of guns as his weapons.


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fool night vols 2-3 by Kasumi yasuda

6/19/2025

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Kamiya's transfloration into a plant begins sooner than he anticipated and grants him the unique, unsettling ability to "hear" the thoughts of other transformed individuals. This overwhelming influx of voices forces him to confront his own mortality and the limited time he has left with his humanity.  A transformed individual, a spiriflor, begins moving and killing, which is a presumed impossibility. When a surviving victim, possibly the only witness to the killer's identity, is in danger of dying, authorities force the transfloration process. There is no discussion with the family. There is no consent. Kamiya may be the only one capable of finding and stopping this new serial killer.

Volume three delivers the twisted backstory to this world. People are being taxed to breathe, and the taxes are increasing. Many spend 1/3 of their income to breathe. Basic living is harder, and expenses are increasing. "Unwanted" children are paraded in front of the rich to be selected for transflorication to later be turned into furniture. 

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Cover of Fool night volume 3

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Witch hat atelier vol 12 by kamome shirahama

6/18/2025

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Cover of Witch Hat Atelier volume 12. Master Qifrey is flying through the sky with the leech monster's tentacles seen behind him.
On the other side of the castle, away from Silver Eve, a few witches plot in a jail cell. A wizened old man draws many glyphs on a young man and promises that he will turn into an ooze and be able to escape this cell. What he fails to tell him is that there is a horrifying leech guarding the outside of the castle walls, and the man fuses with the leech to create a large monster that invades the castle town during the festivities. The Knights are deployed but have a difficult time fighting the many arms of the monster, and most witches cannot figure out what type of monster they’re fighting. As the giant leech feeds on blood, it grows stronger and covers more of the city, seeking out even more victims.


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