An up-and-coming fighter follows his master, Doppo, to the Tokyo Dome where they are intercepted by a Noble Elder from the Tokugawa family who has a fondness for Doppo. They all proceed down a hidden elevator to a secret sixth floor basement where a prestigious and elicit fighting ring was built centuries ago, and over which Baki has been champion for many months. Baki is about to fight a fierce opponent, the notorious Cord-Cutter who has mastered a deadly karate style with sharp fingers perfect for targeting his opponent’s nerves and precise enough to cut them right out of their bodies.
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Booklist review Sara's Rating: 9/10 Suitability Level: Grades 9-12, Adult Publisher: Dark Horse Publication Date: Dec 23, 2025 ISBN: 9781506746340 (Paperback) Tags: Rating: 9/10, Suitability: High School, Suitability: Adult, Manga, Horror, Adaptations, Science Fiction, Dark Horse 
Illustrated by Goseki Kojima
Booklist starred review Sara's Rating: 9/10 Suitability Level: Adult Publisher: Dark Horse Manga Publication Date: Dec 9, 2025 ISBN: 9781506747613 (Hardcover) Tags: Rating: 9/10, Suitability: Adult, Manga, Action Adventure, Historical Fiction, Dark Horse 
Illustrated by Tetsuo Hara
Booklist review Sara's Rating: 8/10 Suitability Level: Adult Publisher: Kodansha Publication Date: Dec 9, 2025 ISBN: 9781647295004 (Paperback) Tags: Rating: 8/10, Suitability: Adult, Manga, Historical Fiction, Action Adventure, War, Kodansha 
Illustrated by Renaud Roche
After nearly dying from a car crash, high schooler George Lucas, who isn't the most studious, decides he’s going to turn his life around and attend college — but to study film. He turns some heads with a captivating science fiction short that earns awards, and he meets the acquaintance of Steven Spielberg and Francis Ford Coppola. Fresh out of college, George makes American Graffiti, which the studios don’t understand, but it lands with audiences and it provides him with enough seed money for another film project studios really can’t get behind: a larger-than-life, budget-busting science fiction epic with battle scenes, robots, tons of special effects, space magic, princesses, and laser swords. 
When she wasn't going to school and trying to pretend to be a normal teenager, young Yan Tieh Hua performed with her family in a classic Chinese theater or learning her family's signature fighting style. Little did she know that an all-out battle on stage with her mother during a performance, begging for the opportunity to be normal for a moment, would be the last before her entire world would turn upside down. Yan would be framed for murder, sent to a secret, high-security prison for 30 years, and presumed dead. Detective Lei, the lead investigator for Yan, gets dragged into the case once more as a viral video of Yan committing a new murder dredges everything up again and uncover new mysteries far beyond the local police.
After a car accident strands a father and his daughter, they find themselves on a farm with anthropomorphic animals who are very welcoming and accommodating. The niceties are dispensed fairly quickly, however, when they reveal that their farm is raising humans for their consumption. They set the father and daughter outside for a hunt as the animals chase them down with guns and hunting “humans” trained like traditional hunting dogs. The village surrounding this farm is full of further animals with jobs sustaining a small society all for the sake of raising quality humans, dedicated to preparing delicious dishes from much of the slaughtered person, and respecting the life that was given for the sustenance.
Newly departed souls must make a perilous journey through purgatory, but if they have sustenance for their long, forty day journey, they won’t fade along the way in the harshness of purgatory. One way loved ones can help is by purchasing purgatory cakes from a specialized bakery. These cakes take special ingredients and infuse memories from the living, and they are delicately baked with the utmost care by a skilled and kind baker with some otherworldly powers. Each chapter is a visit into these memories as the client purchases their specialized cake for their departed one.
Two dog owners meet while out on a walk, and they cannot be more polar opposites with their dogs and some of their approaches to life. Chiharu-san is the owner of Tsuba-chan, a Rottweiler who has a calm disposition. Chiharu is a smaller woman but has incredible strength and a commanding control over Tsuba's training. On the other hand, there's Kiyotaka-san, a strong but slightly timid owner of Monjuro, a hyper and tiny Pomeranian a fraction of the size of Tsuba. Chiharu and Kiyotaka continuously run into each other on walks and through their respective jobs. This volume finishes out with Chiharu reminiscing about how she adopted Tsuba.
Kaneki, Nishio, and Touka take on The Gourmet after Kaneki’s fearsome run in at The Restaurant. As Nishio has decided to align with them for this battle, we see how he became a ghoul and why his partner Kimi is important to him. As a reprieve after the intense fight, Ishida takes us down memory lane with the backstory for Rize, the ghoul from Kaneki's date back in volume 1, and we see what motivated her to come to the 20th Ward. Afterward, it’s back to business as Amon from the CCG continues the investigation by honing in on their unusual visitors who could be the clue to finding The Rabbit.
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