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Sara's Rating: 8/10 Suitability Level: Grades 10-12 Publisher: VIZ Media Publication Date: November 19, 2024 ISBN: 9781974749706 (Paperback) Tags: Rating: 8/10, Suitability: High School, Manga, Dystopian, Horror, Surrealism, VIZ Media
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Sara's Rating: 8/10 Suitability Level: Grades 7-12 Publisher: Yen Press Publication Date: January 28, 2025 ISBN: 9781975397227 (Paperback) Tags: Rating: 8/10, Suitability: Middle School, Suitability: High School, Manga, Dystopian, Science Fiction, Survival, Yen Press 
Humans have all but destroyed the world and now live in hiding. Creatures across the world hunt and eat humans as tasty treats. One day, a guardian forest spirit, himself towards the end of his life, discovers a human child alone in the woods bound and abandoned. Moved to kindness, the guardian golem determines to bring the poor creature to other humans, rather than leave it to the ravenous others lurking in the woods. Somali is filled with wonder and a passion for tasting lots of dishes that amuses the forest spirit and brings out a defensiveness they didn't know they had, and the two venture forth through the wild world in search of Somali's people.
 Illustrated by Yumeji
School Library Journal review Sara's Rating: 8/10 Suitability Level: Grades 7-12 Publisher: Kana Publication Date: November 12, 2024 ISBN: 9781419777936 (Paperback) Tags: Rating: 8/10, Suitability: Middle School, Suitability: High School, Manga, Dystopian, Magic, Survival, Kana  Booklist review
Sara's Rating: 9/10 Suitability Level: Grades 10-Adult Publisher: Fantagraphics Publication Date: July 23, 2024 ISBN: 9781683969327 (Paperback) Tags: Rating: 9/10, Suitability: High School, Manga, Dystopian, Science Fiction, Action Adventure, Fantagraphics 
In a dystopian-esque world full of deadly assassins and criminals, Shizuka is a seemingly pleasant young girl trying to get by and survive. Few know that she is the contact for one of the most fearsome assassins - her brother Nagi, who has been left paralyzed and comatose after a bullet became lodged in his brain during an attack against Shizuka. However, Nagi can sense someone’s murderous intent, even from long distances away, and he springs to action to defend himself or Shizuka and kill whoever is coming after them. Shizuka, in turn, designs increasingly more destructive wheel chairs to compliment Nagi’s needs to fit the jobs they’ve been hired to complete.
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Sara's Rating: 9/10 Suitability Level: Grades 9-12 Publisher: VIZ Media Publication Date: Jun 18, 2024 ISBN: 9781974746934 (Paperback) Tags: Rating: 9/10, Suitability: High School, Suitability: Adult, Manga, Horror, Dystopian, Science Fiction, VIZ Media 
Illustrated by Kei Urana and Hideyoshi Andou
Rudo meets one of the best cleaners and his would-be trainer, should he join, but his first conversation with Zanka gets off to a less that stellar start thanks to how awkward Rudo can be. After that, Riyo and Rudo go off on what was supposed to be an easy, routine mission, but a giant trash beast bulldozes the barricade and forces Riyo to unleash her vital instrument to cut the beast down. In doing so, the cleaners discover something unsettling and unusual about this beast. Another mission comes in that brings Enjin, Riyo, and Zanka on assignment and Rudo along for the ride as reports of another Sphereite being spotted pique his curiosity. 
Illustrated by Shūhei Kamo
In a future that seems much closer to reality than science fiction, the Tokyo Metropolitan Government is aided by private company Blume Japan and its powerful data-collection system, J-ctOS, to help fight, predict, and solve crimes. Some of this doesn’t sit well with Inspector Goda, who thinks J-ctOS incapable of chasing down leads who leave behind no data points. To complicate things further, a cyber activist group known as DEDSEC takes an interest in Goda because he may not be as dumb as all cops, and might prove useful in the fight against corrupt artificial intelligence. 
Adapted by Jun Yokoyama
Mysteriously one day, a layer of circular space ships appeared in Earth’s atmosphere but did little else to impact the day to day life on the planet. After the initial shock, humans went about their business, until one day, the little ships started sending down their inhabitants. The elderly people, termed progenitors, needed a place to go and people to care for them. With a promise of a government subsidy, many families took in one or more progenitors. The government was sure they would, in exchange, receive technological advances from these wizened older humanoids. Zhihan, meanwhile, was untrusting and disgruntled, just as her grandma was at first. With few resources for her family, how could she expect to keep another mouth fed? |
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