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In volume 2, Yatora attends a summer prep academy to help hone his skills for the TUA (Tokyo University of the Arts). The classes focus on oil paintings, which is one part of the lengthy admissions process to get into the university. The instructor, Ooba-sensei, doesn’t pull any punches when letting Yatora know that his art is lacking in composition, originality, and expression. She urges him to study composition, and to look at art to figure out what he likes. Yatora goes to a couple of museums with some classmates and finds a few pieces he likes. He also practices with tons of different art pieces and enrages his classmates with his lack of understanding of composition, but by the end of the volume, he's done a lot of hard work and improved moderately in these important aspects of creating art.
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Vol 1: Jewel of the Gravesend, illustrated by Jacquelin De Leon
Zatanna Starr, the daughter of renowned Coney Island illusionist Ezra Starr, is not a fan of crowds and performing. She’s much rather hang out with her friends or boyfriend and ride Coney Island’s coasters, grab cotton candy, walk her pet rabbit, or laze around at the beach. Her whole life changes when they visit a traveling band and find Mirror Script, a backwards script trick magicians used to use to hide their spells and tricks. Everyone else seems to have difficulty reading it, but Zatanna is able to read it just fine. What's more, whatever she reads comes true, and she can't figure out how this illusion is working! Diving deeper into this mysterious world unlocks other secrets about her family and her past that she must confront in order to truly understand what she's capable of. ![]()
Ruka gets kicked off her handball team for the entirety of summer vacation, but she can’t stand to be at home with her mother, so she leaves her home every day in search of something to quell her spirit. On one of her unfulfilling adventures, she meets Umi, a strange boy who swims at length in the ocean and says Ruka has the same curiosity as him and his brother. Once released from the hospital, brother Sora joins the two and gets them into more trouble out on the open water with a “commandeered” boat belonging to the local aquarium. One of the workers there has been looking after Sora and umi, and tells Ruka he believes the boys were raised in the ocean by dugongs. Out in the deep water, Ruka witnesses a whale shark glowing and becoming lights that resemble stars, just like a ghost in the aquarium she saw as a young child.
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Sara's Rating: 8/10 Suitability Level: Grades 10-Adult Publisher: Yen Press Publication Date: May 17, 2022 ISBN: 9781975338961 (Paperback) Tags: Rating: 8/10, Suitability: High School, Suitability: Adult, Manga, LGBTQ+, Romance, Friendship, Family, Yen Press ![]() Booklist starred review Sara's Rating: 9/10 Suitability Level: Grades 9-12 Publisher: Kodansha Publication Date: June 28, 2022 ISBN: 9781646514663 (Paperback) Tags: Rating: 9/10, Suitability: High School, Manga, School Life, Art, Romance, Friendship, Kodansha ![]() Booklist review Sara's Rating: 8/10 Suitability Level: Grades 8-12 Reviews of previous volumes in this series: vol 1* Publisher: Dark Horse Manga Publication Date: August 23, 2022 ISBN: 9781506727424 (Paperback) Tags: Rating: 8/10, Suitability: Middle School, Suitability: High School, Manga, Animals, Slice Of Life, Video Games, Dark Horse ![]() Booklist review Sara's Rating: 8/10 Suitability Level: Grades 8-12 Publisher: VIZ Media Publication Date: July 5, 2022 ISBN: 9781974732517 (Paperback) Tags: Rating: 8/10, Suitability: Middle School, Suitability: High School, Manga, Historical Fiction, Fantasy, War, VIZ Media ![]() Booklist review Sara's Rating: 8/10 Suitability Level: Grades 8-12 Publisher: Dark Horse Manga Publication Date: May 24, 2022 ISBN: 9781506727417 (Paperback) Tags: Rating: 8/10, Suitability: Middle School, Suitability: High School, Manga, Animals, Slice Of Life, Video Games, Dark Horse |
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