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Beauty and the Beast of Paradise Lost vol 3 by kaori yuki

1/30/2023

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Cover of Beauty and the Beast of Paradise Lost volume 3. Belle is in a high-collared white button-up shirt that also extends all the way to her wrists. Her lilac hair is billowing all around her, and there is a sadness in her amber eyes. There are a few blue butterflies flying around her.
Belle has followed the Beast into the lair of la Médium, and she's come face to face with the villain who carted off her mother all those years ago. Belle learns more about the history between the Beast and la Médium, and the Beast denies none of it. He savagely asked la Médium to kill his parents so that he could ascend to the throne, but when la Médium found out he was just using her for her powers, she lashed out jealously and cured the Beast and his people. She then swore to find a face he could fall in love with so that he would finally reciprocate her feelings. Belle gets further entangled in the stand-off between the two, and the Beast discovers there is a spy amongst his subjects who has been feeding la Médium valuable information!


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A school frozen in time vol 4 by naoshi arakawa

12/28/2022

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Cover of A School Frozen in Time volume 4. A student lays on his back with random school items surrounding him. He's wearing a grey jacket, white button-up shirt, and red tie. His gray hair is disheveled. Around him are ballet shoes, a wallet on a chain attached to his belt loop, a sunflower, a bag, and a composition notebook.
Takano has precious little time to finish solving the mystery, as the clock has started again, and there are only a few classmates left. Suddenly, he realizes what he's been missing the whole time. We get a few scenes of flashback to fill in some details between Takano and some of the other students, including the one who took their own life and set this all in motion. There are a couple of other reveals that make the timeline of events make more sense, and there are a few characters who have been illustrated similarly that Arakawa makes sense of as well. 


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Shonen note: boy soprano vol 1 by yuhki kamatani

12/6/2022

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Aoi is starting middle school, and he is supremely sensitive to sound. He's just moved to town and will start middle school with the new term. While exploring his new city, he is drawn to the sound of the choir for his new school during their practice, and he knows he has to join them. Some of the other students, however, resent Aoi’s beautiful soprano voice and his innocent faith. Aoi is also approached by the band's sponsor to join the local Opera association. Her thought is that Aoi needs to show off his beautiful gift before his voice changes and its lost forever, but members of the choir see it as a betrayal, especially because the competition falls on the same weekend as the Opera's performances.


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A sign of affection vol 3 by suu morishita

11/14/2022

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Cover of A Sign of Affection volume 3. Istuomi is sitting in the foreground with a white shirt and orange cardigan. Behind him is Yuki with her pink hair and white button-down blouse.
Itsuomi tells Yuki he’s leaving the country for a little over a month, but before he leaves, he asks her to be his girlfriend. Yuki is shocked and still a little doubtful that Itsuomi could really fall for a girl like her, but she accepts. While he’s gone, Itsuomi sends Yuki photos of his adventures and asks her to send sign language videos so he can practice. When he returns, Yuki misreads his lips, and she ends up acquiescing to her first kiss accidentally!


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SwEetness and lightning vol 1 by gido amagakure

11/4/2022

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Cover of Sweetness and Lightning volume 1. Tsugumi is wrapped around Inuzuke's neck as if she's jumped on his back. He's shocked and holding something that he's working on with his hands. Inuzuke has a blue apron on over his white button-up shirt. Tsugumi has a red dress with yellow shapes, and a yellow shirt underneath. Her fuzzy brown hair is flying everywhere.
Widower Inuzuka is very busy teaching and raising his young daughter, and he relies often on food from the Konbini (convenience store). While at a park celebrating the bloom of the Sakura trees, Inuzuka runs into a young woman who has a delicious picnic lunch from her professional chef mother. She invites the two of them to the restaurant to try the food for themselves. One night, Tsumugi, Inuzuka’s daughter, asks for something delicious, and he rushes to the restaurant only to find it closed. Kotori, the girl from the park, is there and laments that her mother is often too busy now to keep the restaurant open. The two come to find out that neither one knows how to cook very well, and after some goading from Inuzuka, they decide to get together once a week to practice cooking. Inuzuka is also embarrassed to find out Kotori is in his homeroom class, and he didn't recognize her!


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Parasyte vol 4 by hitoshi iwaaki

10/24/2022

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Cover of Parasyte volume 4. A parasite-infested human in a blue button-down shirt and yellow tie has a warped head from the neck up. His face is horribly stretched into a question-mark shape.
Kana tells Shinichi more about her unique power to be able to sense when people are "different," and she wonders why Shinichi gives off that feeling to her. Shinichi desperately wants to tell Kana everything, but Migi threatens to cut her down if he does, so he waits until Migi is asleep. Kana doesn't really believe Shinichi and wants some proof, but she also wants to hone her skills to be able to pick out Shinichi from the other monsters. Shinichi warns her not to as she might be putting herself in danger chasing after monsters. Migi and Kana both sense a large gathering of parasites and find several at a gathering for a local politician delivering a speech about protecting the Earth. Migi zeroes in on the monsters and they're all shocked to find out that one of the parasites is the candidate himself! 


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Grand blue dreaming vol 1 by kenji inoue

10/22/2022

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Cover of Grand Blue Dreaming volume 1. A gaggle of boys holding beer mugs are laughing and drinking in the background. In the forefront are Iori's two girl cousins, one of whom is reading a magazine called
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​Iori has just moved to a seaside town to attend university. Luckily, he has an uncle with a dive shop in the town, which means he has a place to stay. What no one warned Iori about was the dive club, a super intense group of (mostly) guys who host lots of drinking competitions and play lots of drinking and other games that rely on losing clothing. Iori gets sucked in to their competitiveness, even though he desperately wants to avoid this type of college experience. He’d rather go to class, meet cute girls, and be low-key. But, two straight nights of drunkenness and arriving to class mostly naked already has Iori starting down the path to a bad reputation.


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Boys run the riot vol 3  by keito gaku

10/21/2022

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Cover of Boys Run the Riot volume 3. Ryō and Tsubasa are both on the cover staring straight at us. They both have on 2 halves of an outfit - one half is the school uniform for boys, the other half is a track suit.
Ryō has to deal with the fallout of having a popular YouTuber out him as transgender. At first, many people at school are supportive, but that quickly diminishes as classmates start asking inappropriate questions about Ryō’s body and sexual attraction. Ryō skips school for a couple of days to do some soul searching while Jin and Itsuka plead with Tsubasa to take down the video. Ryō returns to school and announces to his whole class who he is and apologizes for his silence. No one is more hurt than Chika, Ryō’s crush, who admits she thought they were closer friends. Meanwhile, Tsubasa has an intimate night with a woman, and she posts a photo online that goes viral. This causes Tsubasa's fans to question Tsubasa and criticize them for potentially lying to garner views and profits. The "Boys" create a new shirt supporting Tsubasa and their right to some privacy.


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Penguin and house vol 1 by Akiho Ieda

10/18/2022

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Cover of Penguin and House volume 1. Hayakawa is sitting lazily with his hands behind his head. He's wearing a white sweatshirt and blue pants with white socks. All around him, and on his lap, are depictions of Pen-chan doing various chores. Pen-chan is a small, circular grey penguin with yellow feet.
Hayakawa and his pet Penguin, Pen-chan, live in a normal apartment while Hayakawa attends university classes. Pen is an amazing pet - he helps around the house, does the shopping, cooks delicious and elaborate meals, cleans the apartment and does Hayakawa's laundry, and tries to do everything he can to make Hayakawa happy. But, most days, Hayakawa doesn't notice what Pen-chan has done for him! Hayakawa's friends realize what a great penguin he has, but Pen's owner remains oblivious. 


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A school frozen in time vol 3 by mizuki tsujimura

10/17/2022

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Cover of A School Frozen in Time volume 3. One of the students is surrounded by candies and other food products. Her pink hair is in pigtails. Her school uniform is a little disheveled.
Akihito relives the day of the festival when their classmate commits suicide, and particular focus is on one student who Akihito could have done more for. Akihito witnesses him constantly being bullied, and often stands up for him, but lets a couple of encounters slide without helping. Akihito wonders if this is the person who committed suicide and trapped them here, and whether it was entirely his fault. After this, Akihito disappears and doesn't get a chance to discuss with the others what he has discovered. Rika also gets separated from the group and has a flashback of her own and also disappears.


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