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The Faraway Paladin vol 2 by kanata Yanagino

11/28/2022

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The Faraway Paladin volume 2. Will is waiving as he leaves on his journey. He has his travel pack and his brown cloak over top. He's wearing a white shirt, gloves, brown pants, and has his trusty spear clutched in his other hand.
Adapted by Mutsumi Okubashi
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William is in the middle of the battle of his life, and he's pulled into a realm between worlds by his god, Gracefeel, the God of Flame. He asks for her blessing and help in defeating Stagnate, the God of Death. He's returned to his world just in time to save his family, but, in the end, he's not entirely successful. Now, he must travel the world and spread the light of Gracefeel and help people in need. Will meets Menel, a half-elf, who later leads a raiding party against a neighboring village. Gracefeel warns Will in time to stop all casualties. Will then sets out to help the village of the raiders, which has been overtaken by demons. After setting everything straight, Will and Menel travel to Whitesail, one of the largest cities in the Southern Continent. There's no rest for them, though, as the city is attacked by a wyvern.


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Frieren: Beyond Journey's End vol 5 by tsukasa abe

11/26/2022

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Frieren: Beyond Journey's End volume 5. Several of the candidates for the exam stand in a large stone hall. Frieren is in the foreground wearing her normal white tunic with black leggings. Behind her are her teammates and Fern, as well as a deadly team with a career mage. He has a long, red beard and is half as tall as the other candidates.
The hopeful candidates of the First-Class Mage's exam begin their first test: capture a Stelle bird without killing it. The Stelle is a tricky creature, though, as it can detect mana and flees from anyone with a lot of it. Frieren's two partners bicker constantly about the best way to capture a bird. Fern and her partners capture one quickly, but then have to ward off the other teams as they figure the easiest way to capture a bird is to take one that's already been caged. One of Frieren's companions has command of water, so they use their combined efforts to imbue most of the water sources in the area with mana. Then, Frieren sits by the only water source not imbued, and waits for a Stelle to come along. Other teams then try to attack Frieren and her teammates, without much success.


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Toilet-bound hanako-kun vol 7 by aidairo

11/25/2022

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Toilet-Bound Hanako-Kun volume 7. Mitsuba is being accosted by Tsubaka, who has an evil smirk on his face. Mitsuba looks like he's in tears.
Nene is once again kidnapped by a school mystery. This time, she's trapped inside the Hell of Mirrors, school mystery number three. Since the mirrors reflect the power of those inside, Hanako-kun might not be able to get inside and save Nene without having his power duplicated by the mystery. Inside the mirrors, Nene encounters a being calling himself Mitsuba, which was the ghost Minamoto was trying to help move on in volume four. Instead of fully moving on, it seems the Hell of Mirrors is taking advantage of Mitsuba's niceness and using it to attack students and weaken Hanako-kun. Mitsuba starts to fight back, but the consequences could be disastrous for our heroic trio.


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The beginning after the end vol 1 by turtleme

11/16/2022

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The Beginning After the End volume 1. Art sits on a throne holding a crown in his hand. On the other arm is a small cat with tiny bat wings. The chair is gold with red cushions.
Illustrated by Fuyuki23
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To begin, our narrator is a king on his deathbed, floating towards the light at the end of the tunnel, which happens to have him being reborn in another body at the end of it. Art is a beautiful baby boy born to two doting parents, in a world that is similar but not quite the one he left behind. As soon as he’s able to crawl, Art sneaks into the study to read books and learn more about his new world, which includes a form of magic similar to his former world. He spends several years of his baby existence honing his mana core in his body so that he can become a powerful magic user as an adult. By age four, Art is able to spar with wooden swords with his father. His parents decide to take him on a several week’s journey with some of his father’s adventurer friends to be tested and trained by more professional tutors. They road is not without its dangers, though, as there are dangerous animals and bandits galore!


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Season of the bruja vol 1 by aaron duran

11/15/2022

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Cover of Season of the Bruja volume 1. Althalia is staring straight ahead and she's opening a box that's leaking blue, swirly magic. She has orange poppies in her brown hair, which is flowing around her face. On top of the cover are more, larger orange poppies all pointing towards Lia.
Illustrated by Sara Soler
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Althalia and her grandmother, are both special witches - they are "bruja", tasked with keeping a natural order between the living and the spirit realm. But, their kind have been hunted for centuries by an order of catholic priests that can trace their lineage back to Cortez himself. Lia and her two best friends use their supernatural abilities to tackle all manner of evil spirits, including renegade demons who escape cursed dolls. One day, while in a museum full of Aztec treasures, tragedy strikes, leaving Lia to take on the world - both living and spiritual - in a grief-fueled rampage. While Lia’s training may not be complete, she is a strong witch, and she’ll suffer no fools, even demonic ones.


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SwEetness and lightning vol 1 by gido amagakure

11/4/2022

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Cover of Sweetness and Lightning volume 1. Tsugumi is wrapped around Inuzuke's neck as if she's jumped on his back. He's shocked and holding something that he's working on with his hands. Inuzuke has a blue apron on over his white button-up shirt. Tsugumi has a red dress with yellow shapes, and a yellow shirt underneath. Her fuzzy brown hair is flying everywhere.
Widower Inuzuka is very busy teaching and raising his young daughter, and he relies often on food from the Konbini (convenience store). While at a park celebrating the bloom of the Sakura trees, Inuzuka runs into a young woman who has a delicious picnic lunch from her professional chef mother. She invites the two of them to the restaurant to try the food for themselves. One night, Tsumugi, Inuzuka’s daughter, asks for something delicious, and he rushes to the restaurant only to find it closed. Kotori, the girl from the park, is there and laments that her mother is often too busy now to keep the restaurant open. The two come to find out that neither one knows how to cook very well, and after some goading from Inuzuka, they decide to get together once a week to practice cooking. Inuzuka is also embarrassed to find out Kotori is in his homeroom class, and he didn't recognize her!


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Toilet-bound hanako-kun vol 6 by aidairo

10/27/2022

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Cover of Toilet-Bound Hanako-Kun volume 6. Hanako-ku hangs from above while Kou's older brother stands before us in an elaborate suit with vest and tie.
Hanako, Nene, and Kou team up with Aoi to try to stop the school’s First Mystery from aging everyone. The mystery is a young girl who is exceedingly fast and loves candy, so Nene devises a clever way to trap her. But in the process, Kou learns a terrible thing about the future from Hanako and he’s determined to stop it from happening. While Kou's older brother and the mysteries support Kou’s resolve, some are not sure if he will be successful. Afterward, Nene gets her first love letter, but Hanako-kun shatters her dreams by pointing out the letter is really for her friend instead. Nene is then plagued by creepy hands that pop up from all sorts of surfaces and even start appearing in her photos. Hanako-kun discovers they disappear once they’re touched, but they don’t stay that innocent for long.


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Twig vol 1 by skottie young

10/26/2022

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Cover of Twig volume 1. Twig is a blue fuzzy creature, and he's standing in the middle of a path. Behind him is a mountain with a face, and a monster with goo dripping from his large fangs. Splat, a yellow creature with tentacle-type feet, is on a rock behind Twig.
Illustrated by Kyle Strahm

Twig is late for his very first day of his new job as a Placeling, and he just might destroy the planet because of his error! Twig is tasked with placing a jewel but nothing goes right, and the light in the jewel is gone. Now, he has to journey across the world to find the way to light it up again, and he has a very short amount of time to do it in. With his trusty friend, Splat, Twig gathers components and meets new creatures, some more helpful than others, in a journey that is part self-discovery and 


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Neverlanders by tom taylor

10/19/2022

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Cover of Neverlanders. The six kids stand in an array in their battle armor. Above them are the airships of the Pirates from Otherland. Behind them all is the mountain at the center of Neverland.
Illustrated by Jon Sommariva
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While panhandling in the subway one day, Luz is bumped onto the train tracks and saved in part by her friend Bee, but mostly a stranger named Paco. Paco turns out to be an orphan just like Bee and Luz, so Bee invites him back to their hideout: a trailer in a junkyard. There, he meets Felix, Gracie, and Justin. Paco asks them all if they wish for a better life, and when they say yes, he and a fairy whisk them away to Neverland! Paco has brought them into the middle of a war between the Neverlanders and the pirates from Otherland who want to harvest the magic from the island. 


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Penguin and house vol 1 by Akiho Ieda

10/18/2022

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Cover of Penguin and House volume 1. Hayakawa is sitting lazily with his hands behind his head. He's wearing a white sweatshirt and blue pants with white socks. All around him, and on his lap, are depictions of Pen-chan doing various chores. Pen-chan is a small, circular grey penguin with yellow feet.
Hayakawa and his pet Penguin, Pen-chan, live in a normal apartment while Hayakawa attends university classes. Pen is an amazing pet - he helps around the house, does the shopping, cooks delicious and elaborate meals, cleans the apartment and does Hayakawa's laundry, and tries to do everything he can to make Hayakawa happy. But, most days, Hayakawa doesn't notice what Pen-chan has done for him! Hayakawa's friends realize what a great penguin he has, but Pen's owner remains oblivious. 


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