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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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Rainbow days vol 1 by Minomi Mizuno

12/24/2022

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Cover of Rainbow Days volume 1. Natsuki is holding a brown backpack strap over his shoulder. He's wearing a light blue blazer over a white button-up shirt and red tie, cinched loosely at his neck. His light brown hair is tousled and he's smiling open-mouthed.
Four high school friends navigate their first relationships and crushes, some with more success than others. One friend juggles five girlfriends at once; one is a dom who likes to make others feel pain; and one is a nerd who hopes to find another nerd girl to share his interests. Then, there's Natsuki, who is a hopeless romantic, and finally has his first girlfriend just in time for Christmas! His friends warn him that she might be a gold digger because he wears expensive hand-me-downs from his fashionista sisters, but Natsuki believes in the power of love. Later Natsuki tries to figure out a mysterious girl he met at an ice rink - is she aloof or just shy?


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The Hunters guild: Red Hood Vol 1 by Yuki Kawaguchi

11/17/2022

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Cover of The Hunters Guild: Red Hood volume 1. Grimm in her adult form is standing behind Velou in her red hood holding a shotgun. Her blonde hair is flowing out of the hood of her cape. Velou has red hair and it's braided to the right of his face. He's wearing a green jacket and is also holding a long-barreled gun.
Velou is a young boy whose entire family is killed by werewolves, and he’s taken in by the mayor of a small hamlet. When werewolves attack the hamlet, Velou vows to protect the villagers who have given him so much. The mayor hires a hunter from the Hunters Guild to come help protect the town, but the hunter who shows up is a tiny girl. When it’s go time, though, Grimm transforms in to a voluptuous woman with terrifying fighting skills. With her suitcase of never-ending guns, she works hard to save the village and convince Velou that his future outside the village as a hunter, protecting towns all across the land.


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Undead unluck vol 1 by Yoshifumi Tozuka

9/26/2022

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Cover of Undead unluck volume 1. In the foreground is Andy, shirtless with chiseled muscles, and torn black pants. He's carrying a sword over his shoulder. Behind him is Izumo with her red beanie over her short hair, white t-shirt, and blue jeans. She's running behind Andy. Both are smiling.
Izumo stands on the edge of a bridge over a high speed rail, ready to end it all, because merely touching another person brings about such unluckiness that the other person is either seriously maimed or outright killed. She thinks ending her life is the best option until she meets an undead man who constantly regenerates when he’s killed or seriously maimed. Izumo decides to call him Andy, as in Ahn-dead (undead), as she is more or less kidnapped and forced to give Andy all kinds of unluck through physical contact. At first, he’s obsessed with cracking the code about how her power works and to see if he can amass enough unluck to finally end his prolonged life. Izumo slowly starts trusting Andy a little more and opens up about how affection can also cause a lot more unluck to befall a person, so Andy’s new pursuit is to get Izumo to fall in love with him so they can have sex. He’s convinced that this final act will allow his to finally die.


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Eat the Rich by Sarah Gailey

8/23/2022

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Cover of Eat the Rich. There's a fork stacked with white pieces of food, topped with a human eyeball. The food has one word of the title in each piece. The background is a solid lime green.
Illustrated by Pius Bak and Roman Titov
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Warning, this review contains spoilers, but then again, so does the title.

Joey and her boyfriend, Astor, go to Astor’s family home for the summer - Crestfall Bluffs. Astor is worried about coming back home as a recovering alcoholic, so while Joey is apprehensive about meeting his family, she pulls it together to help him keep it together. She also wants to make a good impression as she may land an internship at a prestigious law firm owned by one of the many affluent families of Crestfall Bluffs. But, when she sees Astor’s father murder a man and the rest of the rich eat him, she has to come to terms with what is expected of people in this world. She decides to do the unthinkable in order to be accepted, and it comes with an even bigger price - those who start eating human flesh can no longer be satisfied with other foods. Joey befriends and later falls in love with the nanny of Astor’s much-younger brother. The two work together to turn Crestfall Bluff on its head and instead of eating the poor, they eat the rich.


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Ghost reaper girl vol 1 by Akissa Saike

6/20/2022

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Cover of Ghost Reaper Girl volume 1. Kai stands behind Chloe, who is in her Ghost Reaper outfit with her giant scythe. She has an orange cape on, and a black swim-suit type outfit that plunges deep at the neckline. There are chains encircling both of them
Chloe is a late-20-something actress who had one major role in her teens and can’t seem to find another gig. On the way home from an audition she bombed, she’s attacked by ghosts and demons who have escaped Hades and are drawn to her for her superb occult power. Luckily, the Ghost Reaper Kai comes along and saves her, and turns out to be her biggest fan! He convinces Chloe to combine forces with him - literally - where she absorbs him and is able to transform into a Ghost Reaper with a magical scythe that is the embodiment of Kai.


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Burn the witch vol 1 by tite kubo

10/10/2021

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Cover of Burn the witch volume 1
Noel and Ninny are witches and part of the Piper segment of the Wing Bind, a group of witches and wizards who are tasked with keeping dragons away from ordinary humans. Dragons are harmful to humans because humans have no magical abilities. Wing Bind, and most of the witches’ tasks, are in Reverse London, the opposite of Front London, where magic is much stronger and dragons more prevalent. One of the cases the witches get called for involves Noel’s admirer, Balgo. Balgo’s best friend turns into a dark dragon, which exist only to hurt people and destroy things. Being so close to a dragon for so long means Balgo has absorbed lots of dragon magic, and now he has to be watched by Noel and Ninny constantly. The three of them continue to take on cases involving dragons getting too close to humans, including one involving a girl Ninny knows, and an extremely powerful dragon that either influenced or was named from fairy tales.


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Orient vol 1 by Shinobu Ohtaka

7/7/2021

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Cover of Orient volume 1
Musashi ​and his childhood friend, Kojiro, learn the legend of the Bushi - demon fighting warriors who use their katanas to fight even in the name of humanity. The only problem is, the two of them seem to be the only ones who think the demons are bad. Musashi hides his dream to become a Bushi and instead goes to school to become a miner, but he fashions his pickaxe to be a katana and continues to hone his skills in sword-fighting. On the day Musashi goes out to the mines, he discovers that his sword practice was well worth it, and that his dream of becoming a Bushi is much more obtainable than others made him believe.


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The Quintessential Quintuplets vol 1 by Negi Haruba

5/16/2021

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Cover of The Quintessential Quintuplets volume 1
Futaru Uesugi is a bit of a loaner, but he's ok with it.  He gets high marks on all his test, but his family is struggling financially.  One day, his dad finds the perfect job for Futaru - tutoring for a rich family who just moved to town! Of course, it owuld end up being the girl that Futaru just insulted in the lunch room! It also turns out that it's not just a tutoring job for one classmate - it's for five... a set of quintuplets who are all failing at school and have grim hopes of graduating.  The girls also hate studying, and Futaru has to create a plan of attack to appeal to them individually, otherwise he has no hope of getting paid.


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The spy who raised me by Ted Anderson

4/3/2021

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Cover of The Spy who Raised Me
Illustrated by Gianna Meola 

Josephine, or J. B. to her friends, is your typical C-average student in high school who finishes in the middle of the pack in PE and gets Cs or high Ds on her French tests.  One day, when accosted by agents demanding to know about her actions in France on a recent "business trip" with her mom, J. B. finds out she’s actually an operative for The Company, and she’s been brainwashed into not remembering her skills, training, or missions. What’s worse, is that this was all done to her by her mother, who wants J. B. to have job security within The Company! J. B. has never been in control of her full self, so it’s time to change all that and fight back against The Company and other forces that are trying to control and use her.


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