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Darwin incident vol 2 by Shun Umezawa

7/4/2025

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Cover of The Darwin Incident volume 2. Lucy and Charlie, who is a humanzee, sit with their backs towards each other. Lucy is wearing a red shirt and looks to be mid-sentence. Charlie is wearing a white shirt and is holding a semi-automatic weapon.
Charlie heads back to school after the bombing incident, but everyone thinks he’s become embroiled with the terrorists, and now making friends has become even harder. Charlie’s parents have confided in Lucy, the one friend Charlie did manage to make, and they expressed upon her their struggle to try to win rights for Charlie in the eyes of the law. The Animal Liberation Alliance is not giving up, though, and their next attempt includes radicalization of Charlie’s classmates.


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issak vol 1 by shinji makari

7/1/2025

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Cover of Issak volume 1. Issak is holding a long rifle and looking down the barrel. He is wearing a white kimono with silver armor and he has a katana hanging from his belt.
Booklist starred review

Sara's Rating: 10/10
Suitability Level: Grades 10-12

Publisher: Kodansha
Publication Date: June 10, 2025
ISBN: 9798888774953 (Paperback)

​Tags: Rating: 10/10, Suitability: High School, Suitability: Adult, Manga, Historical Fiction, War, Kodansha

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Senpai is an Otokonoko vol 1 by pom

6/27/2025

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Senpai is an Otokonoko volume 1. A girl with blonde hair draped around her face looks very sadly at us. She's wearing a purple shirt with a white collar peaking out over the top.
School Library Journal review

Sara's Rating: 8/10
Suitability Level: Grades 9-12

Publisher: Kodansha
Publication Date:  June 17, 2025
ISBN: 9798888773611 (Paperback)

​Tags: Rating: 8/10, Suitability: High School, Manga, LGBTQ+, School Life, Romance, Friendship, Kodansha

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Witch hat atelier vol 13 by kamome shirahama

6/27/2025

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Cover of Witch Hat Atelier volume 13. Cuestas is flourishing his cape and flying upwards with his special stilts that let him walk despite being paralyzed. His brimmed hat is meacingly on his head.
The Knights continue to battle the Leech monster and try to get the wounded citizens to the doctors, who are secluded away from the festival and the city. With Coco being attended to by doctors, Qilfrey has to go after Cuestas alone. Beldarut watches over Coco while Qilfrey is away, and he shows Coco a handy spell where she can make her essence into a smoke creature to follow her master. She hopes to convince Cuestas to come with Qilfrey, but a brimmed hat unexpectedly shows up, and the entire plan goes awry.


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Snegurochka of the Spring Breeze by Hiroaki Samura

6/23/2025

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Cover of Snegurochka of the Spring Breeze. A woman is in a wheelchair and a man kneels in front of her and kisses her outstretched hand.
Two seemingly lost young Russians at the beginning of the Bolshevik era find themselves more or less indentured as servants at a large home, though one must utilize a wheelchair and the other has a serious medical condition. Both are each other’s lifeline, and they stay close to the home despite the hardships it brings them because they are looking for something very valuable from before the fall of Tsar Nicolas II. They endure terrible treatment, endentured servitude masquerading as work for The Party, and much more to achieve their goals. 



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Suzume vol 3 by makoto shinkai

6/21/2025

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Cover of Suzume volume 3. Suzume and Souta sit on a dilapidated door in an open field.
Illustrated by Denki Amashima
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Suzume sets off on her own to find a way back into the Everafter. Her first stop is to talk with Souta’s grandfather, who tells her the only way in is how she entered as a child. This means she must revisit her destroyed childhood home in Northern Japan. As she begins her journey, she is waylaid by her aunt and Souta’s schoolmate, both of whom force their way into her journey. Suzume confronts the memories of her childhood and finds her portal into the Everafter, and the fierce battle waiting for her on the other side.


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Witch hat atelier vol 12 by kamome shirahama

6/18/2025

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Cover of Witch Hat Atelier volume 12. Master Qifrey is flying through the sky with the leech monster's tentacles seen behind him.
On the other side of the castle, away from Silver Eve, a few witches plot in a jail cell. A wizened old man draws many glyphs on a young man and promises that he will turn into an ooze and be able to escape this cell. What he fails to tell him is that there is a horrifying leech guarding the outside of the castle walls, and the man fuses with the leech to create a large monster that invades the castle town during the festivities. The Knights are deployed but have a difficult time fighting the many arms of the monster, and most witches cannot figure out what type of monster they’re fighting. As the giant leech feeds on blood, it grows stronger and covers more of the city, seeking out even more victims.


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Pretty boy detective club vol 1 by NisiOisiN

6/18/2025

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Cover of Pretty Boy Detective Club volume 1. The five boys of the club all pose in perfectly victorious poses, looking grand and handsom.
Adapted by Suzuka Oda

Mayumi had been searching for a mysterious star she saw when she was four years old, and her obsession had fueled her dream to become an astronaut. But years of dead ends and nagging from her parents have caused her to all but give up her dream, something she’s decided to do on the day of her fourteenth birthday. The day before is when she fatefully meets the president of the Pretty Boy Detective Club, a group of dreamily beautiful young men with unique talents who agree to take up the case to help find her missing star. All of them get swept up in something much larger than an astronomy conundrum, and Mayumi comes to accept several things about herself that she had mostly spurned until that point.


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Kaina of the Great Snow Sea VOL 3 BY Tsutomu Nihei

5/13/2025

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Cover of Kaina of the Great Snow Sea volume 3. Kaina is in his snow suit looking back over his shoulder.
School Library Journal review - part of Spring 2025 Fiction Made Simple, "8 Manga Fiction Series with Emotion, Drama, and All the Feels"

Sara's Rating: 7/10
Suitability Level: Grades 7-12


Reviews of previous volumes in this series: vol 1*, vol 2

Publisher: Kodansha
Publication Date: October 22, 2024
ISBNs: 9781647293642 (Paperback)​

​Tags: Rating: 7/10, Suitability: Middle School, ​Suitability: High School, Manga, Science Fiction, Survival, Action Adventure, Kodansha

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Blue Lock: Episode Nagi vol 2 by Muneyuki Kaneshiro & Kota Sannomiya

5/13/2025

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Cover of Blue Lock: Episode Nagi volume 2. Nagi is hold a soccer ball on his shoulder while Zantetsu is standing with his back to Nagi.
Illustrated by Yusuke Nomura

School Library Journal review - part of Spring 2025 Fiction Made Simple, "8 Manga Fiction Series with Emotion, Drama, and All the Feels"

Sara's Rating: 8/10
Suitability Level: Grades 9-12

Reviews of previous volumes in this series: vol 1*

Publisher: Kodansha
Publication Date: 9798888771754
ISBN: October 15, 2024 (Paperback)​

Tags: Rating: 8/10, Suitability: High School, Manga, Sports, Action Adventure, Survival, Kodansha

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