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D. Gray-man vol 2 by katsura hoshino

8/11/2025

Cover of D. Gray-Man volume 2. Kanda is sitting in his Black Order overcoat with his katana next to him. Red ribbons intersect around him.

Allen sets off on his first mission as part of the black order with a partner who doesn’t like anyone very much, Allen included. The two are sent to Italy to retrieve some Innocence that is under the attack of many akuma. Kanda, Allen’s new partner, explains that humans find pieces of Innocence around the world and they are the basis of many ghost story and tall tales, so the Order investigates many of these happenings to recover the Innocence materials behind them. Once Allen and Kanda arrive in Italy, they find an akuma that has transformed thanks to the deaths of many humans, and it had many powers that other akuma haven’t had before.

Deadman wonderland vol 2 by jinsei kataoka

6/25/2025

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.

fool night vols 2-3 by Kasumi yasuda

6/19/2025

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.

Cover of Fool night volume 2

Cover of Fool night volume 3

Alice in borderland vol 3 by haro aso

6/16/2025

Cover of Alice in Borderland volume 3.

Trapped in a game within The Beach, Usagi races to find Arisu who has been tied up and left in a room while his time winds down towards certain death in Borderland. Usagi is desperate to avoid the militant faction who are trying to root out the witch by pulling innocent people to the beach and threatening to throw them into the bonfire. Others are murdering any and all people they come across in case they are the Witch in order to end the Ten of Hearts game.

D. Gray-man vol 1 by katsura hoshino

6/12/2025

Cover of D. Gray-man volume 1. Allen is back to back with Millennium Earl. Allen is holding up his left arm, which is red and contains the weapon to fight Akuma. The Millennium Earl is holding up his right hand, and he's smiling wide like he always does.

At a young age, Allen Walker was constricted into the fight against the Millennium Earl and his deadly cruel Akuma, machines built upon the grief and sin of humans longing for the souls of a dearly departed loved one. With a powerful weapon embedded into his left hand and a cursed eye that can see Akuma trapped inside their human hosts, Allen is on a mission to find Innocence, a material that can be manufactured into new weapons to take on the Earl. This will help build up the power of the Black Order, the group of exorcists sworn to protect humanity and fight the Millennium Earl's Akuma weapons.

Tokyo ghoul vol 2 by sui ishida

6/9/2025

Cover of Tokyo Ghoul volume 2. Touka is standing and looking upwards at us through the part in her hair. She is holding a weapon.

Kaneki begins working at the coffee shop he once frequented and integrates into ghoul life while trying to hide his double life from his best friend, Hide. But, the feeding habits of ghouls in the neighborhood have attracted the attention of ghoul hunters who begin following and investigating customers of the coffee shop, many of whom are ghouls. Touka begins a brutal training regime with Kaneki to try and get him to use his ghoul powers he inherited from his donor.

Horror collector vol 1 by Midori Sato and Norio Tsuruta

6/7/2025

Cover of Horror Collector volume 1. The Boy in the Red Hood holds out his horror collector book which glows red and has a horror bleeding into its pages.

Illustrations by Yon

A young boy travels the land and tries to head off horrors that are preying on people. As he finds them, he collects them into a special book designed to contain them. These horrors set curses on people, make them act in strange ways, and even endanger their lives at times. The young boy follows clues and online chatter to discover new urban legends and ghost stories to sift out these curses and ghosts as they find new victims.

Deadman wonderland vol 1 by jinsei kataoka

6/4/2025

Cover of Deadman Wonderland volume 1. Ganta has his head in his hands and he's wearing the jumpsuit of Deadman Wonderland prison. Next to him is the strange girl in her flesh-colored jumpsuite with red circles around her body.

Illustrated by Kazuma Kondou

On the worst day of Ganta’s life, a mysterious figure shrouded entirely in red cloth and diabolical power breaks into his junior high classroom and murders everyone but Ganta. As the sole survivor, Ganta is convicted and given a death sentence and sent to a prison called Deadman Wonderland where the prisoners perform in games and different shows for the entertainment of the population. But, even the prison isn’t straightforward as there are people inside trying to take advantage of Ganta, and there’s a weird girl with other-worldly powers who wants to be his friend.

Uzumaki by junji ito

5/22/2025

Cover of Uzumaki. Shadowy figures stare hauntingly at us as their hair makes spirals above their heads.

Kirie is a simple young girl from the town of Kurouzu-cho, a town that is slowly descending more and more into maddening problems all to do with spirals. Along with her brooding boyfriend Shuichi, Kirie narrowly escapes many horrific encounters with creatures and monsters inspired by spiral shapes. Kirie’s father, a local pottery artisan, even becomes infected as he dredges the pond by their house, Dragonfly Pond, for material, but it seems to be a magnet and a source for many spiral-shaped disasters.

Tokyo ghoul vol 1 by sui ishida

5/10/2025

Cover of Tokyo Ghoul volume 1. Ken Kaneki is sitting in a chair with his one ghoul eye exposed, shining red. He's smiling devilishly.

Ken Kaneki is a reserved, bookish college student with a sweet crush on a fellow customer in a coffee shop. When he finally gets up the courage to ask her out on a date, things go well until she reveals she’s a ghoul, hungry for Kaneki. But her attack goes awry, leaving both in critical condition. The doctors decide to use her organs to save Kaneki’s life, but in doing so, they damn him to a half human, half ghoul existence, constantly hungry for human flesh and unable to consume any of the foods that once brought him joy. Kaneki tries to slip back into his human life, but his unceasing hunger threatens to expose him.