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Your forma vol 1 by Marcho Kikuishi

1/10/2023

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Cover of Your Forma volume 1. Echika is standing in the foreground wearing a short black dress. Her arm is outstretched, and in between her torso and arm looks like another world. Behind her is Lucraft, who is looking at us over his shoulder, but facing away from us. He has a grey jacket on, and his scarf has a red and black plaid pattern to it.
Adapted and illustrated by Yoshinori Kisaragi
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Sometime in the near future, humans willingly submitted to the installation of “Your Forma” devices - thin, string-like machines implanted in the brain that record everything the user interacts with. This was initially used to combat an outbreak of encephaitis, but it became a normal part of everyday life very quickly. Inspector Echika is with the Electronic Crimes Division of Interpol, and she’s a diver - someone who connects to another human's "your forma" and dives through the Mnemosynes of their brain to look for clues in solving crimes. She’s so gifted at this that she often burns out her Belayers - the aides who help a diver from going too deep into another person’s memories. Echika has newly been paired with Harold Lucraft, who is actually an Amicus - an advanced android, whose particular processing speeds can match hers. The main problem now? Echika hates Amici. But the two have been forced together on one of the biggest cases of Echika’s career: they must find the source of a machine-viral outbreak that causes its victims to hallucinate and believe they are in a blizzard.


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The world after the fall vol 1 by singNsong

12/26/2022

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Cover of The World After the Fall volume 1. Jaehwan has light skin and dark brown hair. He's glaring at us with a golden iris. His face is covered in dirt, and half of it is obscured by a falling sky.
Illustrated by Undead Gamja, adapted by S-Cynan
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Jaehwan and many others suddenly find themselves as "Walkers" in a Tower that has crashed to Earth. They must complete the 100 levels in order to save the human race. There are many obstacles and mini-boss fights that clear out most of the other Walkers, until Jaehwan is the last man standing. What he finds out in the room of the final boss throws everything of the past years into complete disarray, and Jaehwan has to reconcile what he believes and what is his perceived reality. 


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The Remarried empress vol 1 by alphatart

11/29/2022

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The Remarried Empress volume 1. Navier sits in a lavish red and gold throne with ornate details above her head. She's wearing a red flowing dress with gold accents and white gloves. Her blonde hair is pinned up and a red crown sits atop her head.
Adapted by HereLee, illustrated by SUMPUL
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Navier, Empress of the western kingdom, finds herself in a difficult political position as her husband decides to instate a former slave as his mistress. This puts particular strain on Navier because official mistresses are supposed to be from the noble class. Navier finds herself struggling to keep power in court while losing ladies-in-waiting to Rashta, the mistress. While struggling with how to handle this new addition to her life, Navier starts receiving visits from a cockatiel she nicknames Queen. The bird brings written notes tied to its leg, and they appear to be from a secret admirer who wants to become the empress' lover. The two continue to exchange notes until the admirer is ready to publicly ask the Empress for permission to pursue her. 


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Neverlanders by tom taylor

10/19/2022

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Cover of Neverlanders. The six kids stand in an array in their battle armor. Above them are the airships of the Pirates from Otherland. Behind them all is the mountain at the center of Neverland.
Illustrated by Jon Sommariva
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While panhandling in the subway one day, Luz is bumped onto the train tracks and saved in part by her friend Bee, but mostly a stranger named Paco. Paco turns out to be an orphan just like Bee and Luz, so Bee invites him back to their hideout: a trailer in a junkyard. There, he meets Felix, Gracie, and Justin. Paco asks them all if they wish for a better life, and when they say yes, he and a fairy whisk them away to Neverland! Paco has brought them into the middle of a war between the Neverlanders and the pirates from Otherland who want to harvest the magic from the island. 


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Dune vol 2 by Frank Herbert

9/14/2022

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Cover of Dune volume 2. The background of the cover is blue with bolts of lightning arcing across the top. In the middle of the cover, a sand worm crests a dune. Its red mouth is wide open.
Book 2: Muad'Dib, adapted by Brian K. Herbert and Kevin J. Anderson, illustrated by Raúl Allén and Patricia Martín
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Paul and Jessica are trying to survive in the terrifying desert of Arrakis. They are equipped with stillsuits, which help keep them from dying of dehydration, but they also have to be careful not to attract the giant sandworms nor the attention of the Harkonens, who are still looking for them or any survivors from their hostile takeover in volume one. The two search for the Fremen and hope to win them to their cause against the Harkonens, who are sure to make like difficult for them as they have before. 


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The handmaid’s tale by Margaret atwood

8/18/2022

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Cover of The Handmaid’s Tale. The cover is completely black with white lettering. A handmaid in her puffy red dress and white winged headdress is above the title.
Adapted and illustrated by Renee Nault

This dystopian story follows Offred, a handmaid to a powerful man in a relatively new society based on the Old Testament of the Bible. For many reasons, many of the people in Gilead are infertile, so fertile women are trained and assigned to powerful men for procreation. Offred is sent to the home of Mr. And Mrs. Waterford in the hopes that Frederick Waterford will impregnate her and the family will be able to have a child. Offred manages simple chores with her partner, another handmaid, attends the birth of a child from another handmaid, and navigates a scandalous friendship with Commander Fred. She also shows how Gilead was formed and the torturous training she went through to become a handmaid, as well as ponder often what happened to her daughter and husband she had before the fall of America. 


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Pluto vol 2 by Naoko Urasawa and Takahashi Nagasaki

3/18/2022

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Pluto vol 2 by Naoko Urasawa and Takahashi Nagasaki
Based on Astro Boy by Osamu Tezuka

Geischt chats with one of the other seven deadliest robots, a young boy robot name Atom. Geischt is there to warn him about the deadly attacks and murders, but Atom thinks he can help the investigation. He asks Geischt for his memory chip and becomes entangled in the investigation of the murder of Dr. Junichiro Tasaki, a professor of law who was instrumental in writing and passing the Robot Laws. Atom discovers that, in his final moments, Dr. Tasaki was trying to contact Professor Ochanomizu, a man who was on the Survey team into Persia with Dr. Tasaki before the war broke out. The group was tasked with finding the deadly Persian robot army, but found nothing, and its remaining members also seem to be targets as well as the deadly robots.


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the abandoned empress vol 1 by Yuna

2/27/2022

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Cover of The Abandoned Empress volume 1. Tia is in a blue and white dress with lots of frills and embroidery around the edge. Her sleeves are light blue, while the bodice and skirt are white. Her grey curly hair cascades all around her, and blue flowers are dotted around her.
Aristia, or Tia, grew up in a privileged position. She was mistaken as the girl from a prophecy that promised her as the companion of the crown prince. When a girl from another world lands, the country realizes she is the promised companion. Tia is relegated to imperial consort and is highly mistreated by the emperor, her former would-be husband. When Tia finally stands up for herself, she is sentenced to death, and she begs the gods for a do-over, to be born again to correct her mistakes. She wakes up to find herself in her ten-year-old body, and all her memories intact!


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Pluto vol 1 by naoki urasawa and takahashi nagasaki

12/30/2021

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Cover of Pluto volume 1. Detective Geischt scowls at the
Based on Astro Boy by Osamu Tezuka
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A beloved robot and a man are murdered and have their bodies staged in similar manners, but what do they have to do with each other? Enter Geischt, one of Europol’s best detectives, who happens to also be a sentient robot. He discovers that someone or something is out to destroy the world’s seven best robots, and he’s one of them. The first target was a wilderness loving gentle giant. Another target is a fierce killing machine who has a second life as a Butler fit an eccentric movie score composer who wants nothing to do with a destructive menace. Geischt suspects another target is a robot skilled at hand-to-hand combat and adoptive father to many children. Geischt must fighter out who the remaining targets are and how to stop the killer before all of them, including himself, are destroyed.


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Slaughterhouse five by Kurt Vonnegut

8/1/2021

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Cover of Slaughterhouse Five
Adapted by Ryan North, illustrated by Albert Monteys

This story starts out in World War II with a scrawny soldier, Billy Pilgrim, and three others, sneaking through Germany and trying to evade detection. There are some odd things about Billy, besides the fact that he's in the Army and has no muscle - Billy doesn't live his life entirely chronologically. He's become unstuck in time, and he periodically visits future points in his life, like after he's opened a successful optometry practice, or that one time he cheats on his wife, or when aliens from the planet Tralfamadore scoop him up in their flying saucer and place him in a zoo where they can view him like an exhibit. Billy learns much from his time amongst the aliens, like the saying "so it goes" after someone dies, or how they view time as if they are seeing a slice of the Rocky Mountains - kind of all at once. In between all of these moments, Billy is captured and center to a labor camp in Dresden - just before it is taken off the face of the map by the Allied Forces.


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