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The fiancee chosen by the ring vol 1 by yue matSuyuki

1/31/2023

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Cover of The Fiancee Chosen by the Ring volume 1. Lady Aurora Porta is lying down with her embroidery supples around her - two spools of thread and a loom with embroidery cloth. She's in her signature pink dress with white lace down the middle on her front. At the top of her bodice is a pink bow. Her blonde hair frames her face. She's looking at us with two green eyes and smiling slightly.
Adapted and illustrated by Jyun Hayase
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Lady Aurora Porta is the daughter of a minor count and doesn’t get invited to high society functions all that much. But when she does, she takes the opportunity to indulge in one of her favorite pastimes - studying embroidery. At parties, she’s specifically looking at patterns on the ladies’ dresses and trying to learn more for her own embroidery patterns. At the latest affair, she is hit in the forehead with a ring, a ring that was chucked by Sir Felix, who is so tired of his constant barrage of suitors that he chucked his ring randomly and declared who it hit to be his bride-to-be. Between Sir Felix' duties as a guard for the Crowned Prince and Lady Aurora's special embroidering, the new couple has a lot on their plate in this slightly humorous romantic fantasy.


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Jujutsu kaisen vol 4 by gege Akutami

1/19/2023

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Cover of Jujutsu Kaisen volume 4. A sorcerer has his outstretched hand with palm facing us, and his fingertips are blood-stained.
Itadori and Nanami continue battling Mahito and Junpei. Itadori tries to convince Junpei to stop fighting for Mahito, and to come back and join him at Jujutsu High. He promises Junpei that he will grow as a Jujutsu sorcerer, but Mahito is more interested in trying to get Sukuna to come out of Itadori. Mahito tries to frustrate Itadori and put him in hopeless situations so that Itadori has no choice but to release the demon inside him. Back at Jujutsu High, the tournament is about to get underway, but the two teams of students have nothing but beef with each other. The visiting school of sorcerers don't believe Itadori should be left to live, much less train as a jujutsu sorcerer, and they take their frustrations out on Itadori's peers.


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public domain vol 1 by chip zdarsky

1/18/2023

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Cover of Public Domain volume 1. The Bottom half is red and comicbook pages can barely be made out behind it. The top half is black. In between the two halves is a superhero mas with what looks like a tear running down the middle.
Vol 1: Past Mistakes, written and illustrated by Zdarsky.

​Miles Dallas can't stand anything to do with The Domain and the whole superhero universe run by Singular, a mega corporation that screwed his dad, Syd, out of all rights to the character he created decades ago. Miles thinks Syd should fight for some more of the profits that are coming out of these mega-movies and all the merchandising. When an older copy of the rights paperwork is found by a Singular worker, they learn that Syd might actually have more of a stake in his creations than he originally thought! Meanwhile, Miles is trying to climb out from under loan sharks and find another writing job since he's been kicked to the curb. Getting what the family is owed is going to take all of them working together - something the Dallases haven't been great at!


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Your forma vol 1 by Marcho Kikuishi

1/10/2023

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Cover of Your Forma volume 1. Echika is standing in the foreground wearing a short black dress. Her arm is outstretched, and in between her torso and arm looks like another world. Behind her is Lucraft, who is looking at us over his shoulder, but facing away from us. He has a grey jacket on, and his scarf has a red and black plaid pattern to it.
Adapted and illustrated by Yoshinori Kisaragi
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Sometime in the near future, humans willingly submitted to the installation of “Your Forma” devices - thin, string-like machines implanted in the brain that record everything the user interacts with. This was initially used to combat an outbreak of encephaitis, but it became a normal part of everyday life very quickly. Inspector Echika is with the Electronic Crimes Division of Interpol, and she’s a diver - someone who connects to another human's "your forma" and dives through the Mnemosynes of their brain to look for clues in solving crimes. She’s so gifted at this that she often burns out her Belayers - the aides who help a diver from going too deep into another person’s memories. Echika has newly been paired with Harold Lucraft, who is actually an Amicus - an advanced android, whose particular processing speeds can match hers. The main problem now? Echika hates Amici. But the two have been forced together on one of the biggest cases of Echika’s career: they must find the source of a machine-viral outbreak that causes its victims to hallucinate and believe they are in a blizzard.


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Kamen rider kuugu vol 1 by Toshiki Inoue

1/9/2023

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Cover of Kamen Rider Kuugu volume 1. Pictured is a humanoid in a metallic suit from the shoulders up. It has large, red bug-like eyes with a gold set of horns on top. Most of the helmet is silver. The chest is also red, while the place that would be a clavicle is gold.
Illustrated by Hitotsu Yokoshima
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Ichijo is a disciplined detective working for the Metropolitan Police Department. He and his entire squad are stumped when a full train of 300+ passengers is killed by mysterious circumstances - all of their vital organs and bones have been taken from their bodies, and what’s left is a leaky shell of flesh. As he and his partners investigate, he comes face-to-face with a supernatural creature that is twice as tall as him and behaves like an insect. Ichijo is saved from being killed by a humanoid in a powerful suit. Away from all this fighting and murdering, a young man named Yusuke has returned home for a moment before it’s off to traveling again. He crosses paths with Detective Ichijo several times — the last being at the scene of yet another murder. Yusuke wants nothing more than to save his college friend from becoming the next victim of these powerful beings, but he’ll need more than his vagabond ways to best the super-human strength of the unidentified life form.


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Embrace your size by hara

1/8/2023

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Cover of Embrace Your Size. Hara is wearing a plaid skirt with a brown sweater vest and white long-sleeve shirt. She's holding flowers in one hand and her other arm is outstretched behind her in a celebratory way. She's sort of skipping - one leg is up in the air. In her bag to her side is more flowers. She's smiling widely with her mouth open, and her blue eyes are bright and happy.
This manga is a collection of graphic essays about Hara’s life, where she battled weight as a junior high student, developed an eating disorder, and found body positivity in her young adult years. Hara shares a lot about her struggles with trendy clothing, and how she came to terms with being plus sized and still able to wear clothing she considered to be fashionable and cute. Clothes were an initial trigger for Hara, so it is one of the main foci of her essays. She also shares her development of anorexia that turned into bulimia nervosa in college. She continues to struggle with eating enough food, but through therapy and hard work, she is able to keep her eating disorders in check.


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Love everlasting vol 1 by tom king

1/7/2023

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Love Everlasting volume 1. Joan is in a wedding dress, spotted with blood, and she's holding a shotgun.
Illustrated by Elsa Charretier
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Joan Peterson has been in love so many times, in so many lifetimes, and in so many different eras, but none of them work out the way they should. There’s always something slightly wrong about the man proposing marriage - he was her sister’s boyfriend, or she wants to travel the world, or he wants a life totally different than what she wants. She’s also being dogged by a cowboy who always shows up at the worst possible time, and then she’s thrown into a different time, different life, with a different beau. Just when she hoped to get answers as to why she's being put in this perpetual trauma, she's whisked away once more into another life.


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Prince freya vol 6 by keiko ishihara

1/6/2023

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Cover of Prince Freya volume 6. Freya is sandwiched between Alec and Julius.
Freya and Julius are flung into a dungeon cell, but a mysterious stranger outside their window professes to want to help them. It turns out to be the somewhat disgraced king of Nacht. He doesn’t want an alliance with Tyr because he’s afraid to cross Sigurd. His infant son has been kidnapped and is going to be given to the Sigurdian emperor as leverage. Freya vows to save the little prince, and she gets help from an unlikely source. As suspected, there’s more to the strange arrangement between the king and queen of Nacht, and certainly more to a madwoman, who, for years, has acted as the queen's executioner.


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The executioner and her way of life vol 1 by Mato Sato

1/5/2023

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Cover of The Executioner and her way of life volume 1. Menou is laying down looking at us with her golden eyes. Her pink hair falls around her. She's wearing her customary Executioner dress - royal blue with yellow scarf around her shoulders and a yellow bow at her hip.
Illustrated by Ryo Mitsuya
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In Menou’s world, people are often summoned from other worlds and bring great power with them. Somewhere in the distant past, this led to a cataclysmic event that wiped out and entire continent. Now, Menou and the Church she serves hunts these otherworlders down and disposes of them. When Menou meets an otherworlder she can’t kill, she is directed to bring her target back to the city-center of the Church. Nothing can be simple, however as they catch a train beset by bandits wielding guns from the Wilds. A warrior princess is also along for the ride and confronts Menou’s assistant, Momo.


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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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