Hime Sakuragaike and Akira Yonezawa have been friends since childhood. Going into high school, Akira decides to live her true self, the self she has only told to Hime up to this time. She has decided to live and dress as a girl. Hime is fiercely protective of her best friend, but her feelings may be more than just friendship and protectiveness. Fighting through the peers who tease and don’t accept Akira are two girls who want to become Akira’s friends: Yukka Ishiyama and Anzu Taneno. Hime questions their intentions, but Akira is relieved to have more girl friends.
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Adapted by Shiori Shiono, illustrated by Ren Sakuma
Our villainess is an isekai-ed 30-something who finds herself in the world of her favorite otome game, though she’s been reincarnated as Luciana, the villainess. The version she’s always played was the free version, and this is the full paid for version, starting at least six months before the game actually begins. Knowing that her character will meet a terrible end, she creates a plan to live in the shadows and not attract the attention of the love interests, thereby slipping under the radar when the heroine shows up later. But details come to light and she can’t sit idly by while some folks potentially meet horrible deaths! And getting involved also leads to a revelation regarding her magic, which, to her knowledge, has been lackluster even in the game! 
Rintaro invites Subaru and Kaoruku to meet so he can get permission to tell his best friends everything going on and finally have no more secrets, just trusted friendships. He doesn’t know his mates have tailed him and are eavesdropping. But, it turns out good for all of them that they did because a group from another school is waiting to jump Rintaro just outside the restaurant. In order to thank Kaoruku for helping him pass his tests, Rintaro invites her to the aquarium, and a lost little girl at the aquarium helps him realize the truth of his feelings for Kaoruku.
 This family-centric story starts with Ao being released from the hospital for the third time. His parents worry he will get sick again and also want him to enjoy life. They come home to a new house they have prepped with a scavenger hunt for him to find seven stickers that leads Ao to explore their new home. Ao wants to have freedoms of other well children. A new bicycle gives Ao access to friends and life outside of the hospital, but concerns for Ao's mom as to Ao's safety. Cryptic postcards start up showing at the home foretelling events that will happen tomorrow unless they are stopped. We don’t know who is sending them or who the postcards are for.
Illustrated by Ernie Najera
In the land of Krogladon, lizards of science and magic must come together to defeat a common enemy: the evil robot Commander E.K.O. Two mighty lizard wizards use their powers to beat back the robot, and all is right with the world, for a time. Now, a new evil mastermind has emerged — Pineapple Pete — and he’s scooping up important people and plopping them into his video game simulator for his own enjoyment! Now, Dizzy Doom and his sister must face off against the Commander once more, except there’s a whole host of new and exciting characters along side them this time. 
A promposal sent via email gets accidentally opened instead of the presentation. Flip Henderson denies Chi-Chi in front of the entire class. Chi-Chi runs out of class to the amphitheater currently under construction. She tries to leave when a sudden downpour starts, and she slips and falls. She wakes up in Flip’s body! As Chi-Chi’s two genius best friends try to reverse the curse, the four of them spend more time together leading to rumors, an education in K-Pop, Black culture, and swimming lessons. Of course, there are rules for what they can and cannot do when in each other’s bodies. Along the way, Chi-Chi and Flip both learn more about themselves and what they truly value.
Lu's ah-ma is a famous geozoologist who travels the world and studies fascinating creatures. For Lu's whole life, she's wanted nothing more than to accompany her ah-ma on one of her journeys, or to have her ah-ma stay a little bit longer and tell more stories of her exploits. Ah-ma sends Lu plenty of letters, but one year in Lu's teens, the letters stop. It's just before Ah-ma is supposed to take Lu to see the sun-fish eclipse. Lu convinces her mother that she and her friend Ren should travel south together, along with Ah-ma's journal that Lu can barely read, in hopes of finding Ah-man or what happned to her. Lu and Ren set off on a journey of a lifetime.
Illustrated by David Perry
Peanut and Jelly are humble workers at the Crumb Dump and members of the lowest social class at the bottom of the food pyramid. That doesn't seem to bother Jelly, who is constantly cracking jokes and making light of even the worst situations. But Peanut wants to social climb so that he can make it to the height of the pyramid and live a life of luxury amongst the Toppings. His chances become imperiled when one day they accidentally let out a Crumb Feeder, a giant, dangerous worm who begins hoovering up every edible thing in sight -- which is a lot in a place like Foodtopia! 
As captain of the basketball team, Lilico is looking forward to leading her team to finals this year. Then, her parents announce that they’re moving the whole family to New York City. Lilico is devastated and scared to be starting over in a new country with no friends, but hopes to at least join the team at her new school. It turns out, the school bully is the captain of the girls’ team, and she doesn’t care much for the new girl. Lilico is destroyed until the Otaku of her new school find her — Nala and Henry. They instantly love going to Lilico’s house and learning about her dad’s embarrassingly large collection of katana. To round out everything, Lilico finds herself with a guardian spirit who borrows the body of her family cat, making everything closer to an episode of Sailor Moon! Nicco promises to help Lilico’s transition to America be a bit smoother, including getting on the basketball team and finding her footing with Emma, her bully.
Always a catch: How I Punched My Way into Marrying a Prince vol 3 by maya momoyo & itsuki mito9/5/2025 
Adapted and illustrated by Kaki Nagato
Mimi heads back to Rubini after staying with her family, but something doesn’t sit well with her about the kidnapped village lady. She decides to detour and figure out if the nobleman is holding the young girl hostage since she realizes she can investigate sooner than the royal knights can. She takes some villagers along to the noble’s estate and breaks in while all the men cause a distraction at the gate. Using her family’s secret techniques, Mimi sneaks around the house, employing her self-defense hair ornament, aka the Knuckle-Duster, only when absolutely necessary. |
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