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firefly wedding vol 1 by Oreco Tachibana

5/11/2025

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Cover of Firefly Wedding volume 1. Sakoto and Shinpei are locked in an intense embrace and covered in blood.
Noblewoman Satoko wants to bring honor to her family, especially her father, before her fatal heart condition destroys her. The best way she can do that is to enter into a prosperous marriage. But, before her arrangements can be finalized, she is kidnapped and threatened most heinously by her captors. A crazed assassin threatens to kill any man who lays hand on her, so Satoko barters with the only valuable thing she has -- her family name. She promises to marry the assassin if he delivers her from the clutches of her captors and pretends to be madly in love with the deranged man. Both seem determined to call the other on the bluff -- one in order to kill, the other in order to survive.


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Tokyo ghoul vol 1 by sui ishida

5/10/2025

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Cover of Tokyo Ghoul volume 1. Ken Kaneki is sitting in a chair with his one ghoul eye exposed, shining red. He's smiling devilishly.
Ken Kaneki is a reserved, bookish college student with a sweet crush on a fellow customer in a coffee shop. When he finally gets up the courage to ask her out on a date, things go well until she reveals she’s a ghoul, hungry for Kaneki. But her attack goes awry, leaving both in critical condition. The doctors decide to use her organs to save Kaneki’s life, but in doing so, they damn him to a half human, half ghoul existence, constantly hungry for human flesh and unable to consume any of the foods that once brought him joy. Kaneki tries to slip back into his human life, but his unceasing hunger threatens to expose him.


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Viral hit vol 1 by By Taejun Pak

5/1/2025

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Cover of Viral Hit volume 1.
Illustrations by Kim Junghyun

Booklist review

Sara's Rating: 7/10
Suitability Level: Grades 11-12, Adult

Publisher: WEBTOON Unscrolled
Publication Date: April 1, 2025
ISBN: 9781998854721 (Paperback)​

Tags: Rating: 7/10, Suitability: High School, Suitability: Adult, Manhwa, School Life, Action Adventure, WEBTOON Unscrolled

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Alice in borderland vol 2 by haro aso

4/16/2025

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Cover of Alice in Borderland volume 2. The cover is styled like a playing card with the number 2 in opposite corners and two characters faces mirroring each other opposite the title across the center of the book.
Arisu and his team have survived several games, but there’s little time to rest. Chota and Shibuki only have one day left on their visas for Borderland, so they must play another game soon and extend their time. Shibuki reveals that the cards corresponding to the games not only reveal the difficulty level but also tell of the type of game they’ll be playing, and that hearts are the worst of all because they prey on people’s emotions. With little time to find another arena, the four enter the only game arena they found and are crushed to discover the game is a Seven of Hearts. Towards the end of the game, Harube tells Arisu to find “The Beach”, a clue he was given in the previous game. Arisu reunites with Usagi, also from the previous game, to figure out what kind of help may lie at The Beach.


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Golden Kamuy vol 2 by Satoru Noda

3/5/2025

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Cover of Golden Kamuy volume 2. Asirpa is leaning against the head of her white wolf protector, clutching her bow and arrow.
Sugimoto and Asirpa are ambushed by a bear cave, which works out to their advantage but leaves them with a motherless cub. Sugimoto wants to raise it, but Asirpa decides to take both of them back to her village. Sugimoto is welcomed, to his surprise given his knowledge of Ainu warring with the Japanese people. He meets Asirpa's grandmother, who conveys to him that she loves Asirpa very much and worries for her safety when she's out on the mountain. Sugimoto returns to the port city of Okaru alone, hoping to shield Asirpa from further danger on this quest for the hidden gold.


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Nana vol 1 by ai Yazawa

2/17/2025

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Cover of Nana volume 1. Nana is sitting at a table reading the newspaper.
Nana Komatsu is a hopeless romantic who has a bad habit of falling in love with unattainable older men, until one day when she falls for a seemingly nice but married man at her local movie theater. As she heads off to college, she decides to stop falling in love at first sight, and instead try to be just friends. That’s easier said than done when the first guy she lays eyes on is perfect but friends with her best friend, Jun.

Nana Osaki is the lead singer in a punk band on the cusp of making it big in a smaller market. She’s madly in love with the band’s bassist, Ren. When opportunity strikes and threatens to split the band, Nana must make some difficult choices that pit her dreams against her heart.


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Orb: on the movements of the Earth vol 1 by uoto

2/8/2025

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Cover of Orb: on the Movements of the Earth volume 1. A blonde man in a blue suit is looking at a dial. There's a rope noose around his neck.
In a fictitious European-inspired country during the fifteenth century, many budding astronomers are beginning to shake up the church’s geocentric theory by studying the movement of the stars and planets and piercing together a heliocentric theory. A young man named Rafal, who had a promising future as a young theology student with early entry into a local university, is snared by the theory and can’t deny the beauty of the planetary orbits. Ten years later, a pair of mercenaries are entangled in ferrying the secret research documents to a genius monk who has already been admonished and severely punished for pursuing the same theories.


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Emanon vol 1 by Shinji Kajio

2/7/2025

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Cover of Emanon volume 1. Emanon is standing sideways with her hands in her jeans pockets. She's wearing a tan sweater and her brown hair is flowing around her face. Behind her is a rocky ocean coastline. She has on a yellow backpack.
Illustrated by Kenji Tsuruta
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In 1967, a man gets on a ferry and meets a mysterious woman who gives her name as Emanon. At first, they pose as a couple to shield her from some lecherous older men, but the two strike up conversation and discover some similar interests, including a love of science fiction. As the night wears on, Emanon confides in him that she has the memory of ever iteration of her cells before her, that she can remember the entire history of the planet Earth, and that she has loved many times and lost that many over. At first, he's not sure whether to believe the wild story, but morning comes, and the potential loss of someone so perfect brings more of her story into perspective.


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Golden kamuy vol 1 by satoru Noda

1/24/2025

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Cover of Golden Kamuy volume 1
Sugimoto is a veteran of the Russo-Japanese war who earned the nickname “The Immortal Sugimoto” for having survived many near-fatal woundings on the battlefield. He heard there was gold left to pan in the Hokkaido region, so after the war, he set off to try to make a quick fortune in order to take care of the woman he loves. But, the rivers have already been picked clean. One day, he hears a tall tale of a group of prisoners with tattoos leading to Hokkaido’s hidden gold horde. What initially seemed to be the nonsense of a drunken man sets Sugimoto on an epic quest deep into the Hokkaido wilderness, teaming up with a capable Ainu huntress named Asirpa, and plenty more attempts on his life. 


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Under the oak tree vol 1 by Suji Kim

1/5/2025

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Cover of Under the Oak Tree volume 1. Maxi and Riftan are with their backs to each other, Riftan looking over his shoulder at her. Maxi's red hair is loose around her cream face downturned.
Adapted by namu, illustrated by P
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Maxi is the nervous, stuttering, abused daughter of a powerful Duke who married off to a lowly knight, Sir Riftan. The night after they are wed, her new husband goes off to fight a war that lasts for three years where his heroics elevate his standing. Upon his return, Maxi assumes her husband will want an annulment to take up the much more attractive offer from the kingdom's princess, but instead, her husband whisks her away without a goodbye to her father! The two "newlyweds" begin their life figuring out each other, refurbishing a neglected castle, and navigating kingdom politics.


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