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Senpai no kohai by hanakage alt

7/15/2025

Cover of Senpai no Kohai. A woman with long blonde hair leans down above a woman with short brown hair and glasses. The blonde woman holds up a hankerchief to the other woman as if to wipe away her tears. The woman with short brown hair is blushing slightly.

Sayuri can't believe her University kohai, Risa, has come to work at her company. Sayuri had a huge crush on Risa throughout her final year in college, but never managed to get the nerve to approach the gorgeous Risa. Now, years later, the two are reunited, and Risa seems to have feelings for her senpai, who she definitely remembers from college. But, can Sayuri trust that the gorgeous, tall, confident Risa would be interested in her?

issak vol 1 by shinji makari

7/1/2025

Cover of Issak volume 1. Issak is holding a long rifle and looking down the barrel. He is wearing a white kimono with silver armor and he has a katana hanging from his belt.

Illustrated by DOUBLE-S.

Booklist starred review

Sara's Rating: 10/10
Suitability Level: Grades 10-12

Publisher: Kodansha
Publication Date: June 10, 2025
ISBN: 9798888774953 (Paperback)

Tags: Rating: 10/10, Suitability: High School, Suitability: Adult, Manga, Historical Fiction, War, Kodansha

You can't live all on your own! vol 1 by Mizoko Tsuno

6/28/2025

Cover of You Can't Live All On Your Own volume 1. Four women all walking in different directions about to do different tasks -- bake, play guitar, go to work, go on a date perhaps -- and the background is solid pink.

Four women close to thirty live together, and they're all in very different places in their lives. Shuu works hard at her day job and is mostly waiting for love to find her spontaneously, but she’s feeling the pressure to marry as those around her are finding relationships. Mii is a guitarist and has been seeing the drummer in her band, but he drops a bombshell on her that makes her question where their relationship is and where it’s headed. Eika is solidly a career woman who continuously takes on big projects, and she doesn’t let anyone doubt her ability to handle the workload. Shio used to work at a large, successful corporation, but the long hours and stress were not what she was looking for in life.

Snegurochka of the Spring Breeze by Hiroaki Samura

6/23/2025

Cover of Snegurochka of the Spring Breeze. A woman is in a wheelchair and a man kneels in front of her and kisses her outstretched hand.

Two seemingly lost young Russians at the beginning of the Bolshevik era find themselves more or less indentured as servants at a large home, though one must utilize a wheelchair and the other has a serious medical condition. Both are each other’s lifeline, and they stay close to the home despite the hardships it brings them because they are looking for something very valuable from before the fall of Tsar Nicolas II. They endure terrible treatment, endentured servitude masquerading as work for The Party, and much more to achieve their goals.

fool night vols 2-3 by Kasumi yasuda

6/19/2025

Kamiya's transfloration into a plant begins sooner than he anticipated and grants him the unique, unsettling ability to "hear" the thoughts of other transformed individuals. This overwhelming influx of voices forces him to confront his own mortality and the limited time he has left with his humanity. A transformed individual, a spiriflor, begins moving and killing, which is a presumed impossibility. When a surviving victim, possibly the only witness to the killer's identity, is in danger of dying, authorities force the transfloration process. There is no discussion with the family. There is no consent. Kamiya may be the only one capable of finding and stopping this new serial killer.

Volume three delivers the twisted backstory to this world. People are being taxed to breathe, and the taxes are increasing. Many spend 1/3 of their income to breathe. Basic living is harder, and expenses are increasing. "Unwanted" children are paraded in front of the rich to be selected for transflorication to later be turned into furniture.

Cover of Fool night volume 2

Cover of Fool night volume 3

Alice in borderland vol 3 by haro aso

6/16/2025

Cover of Alice in Borderland volume 3.

Trapped in a game within The Beach, Usagi races to find Arisu who has been tied up and left in a room while his time winds down towards certain death in Borderland. Usagi is desperate to avoid the militant faction who are trying to root out the witch by pulling innocent people to the beach and threatening to throw them into the bonfire. Others are murdering any and all people they come across in case they are the Witch in order to end the Ten of Hearts game.

Platinum end vol 1 by Tsugumi Ohba

6/13/2025

Cover of Platinum End volume 1. Mirai has his hoodie up around his red hair. He has the red ring running around his neck indicating he has been blessed, and his wings extend behind his back. He's smirking at us from under his hoodie's hood.

Illustrated by Takeshi Obata

Mirai is unsatisfied with his life, as he is treated like a slave in his home and feels like he has no escape. He decides suicide is his only option. Upon leaping to his death, he is saved by an angel that gives him the choice to accept powers. In doing so, he is unwittingly thrust into a battle against 12 other humans who have also been chosen, and the prize at the end is ascension to become God of the world. For the most part, Mirai tries to keep out of the way of these other candidates, but trouble comes to find him sooner than he would like.

Tokyo ghoul vol 2 by sui ishida

6/9/2025

Cover of Tokyo Ghoul volume 2. Touka is standing and looking upwards at us through the part in her hair. She is holding a weapon.

Kaneki begins working at the coffee shop he once frequented and integrates into ghoul life while trying to hide his double life from his best friend, Hide. But, the feeding habits of ghouls in the neighborhood have attracted the attention of ghoul hunters who begin following and investigating customers of the coffee shop, many of whom are ghouls. Touka begins a brutal training regime with Kaneki to try and get him to use his ghoul powers he inherited from his donor.

firefly wedding vol 1 by Oreco Tachibana

5/11/2025

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.

Tokyo ghoul vol 1 by sui ishida

5/10/2025

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.