Hina hardly goes outside or has any friends, but she is a huge fan of an anime called Vampire Cross. So much so that she decides to put aside some of her fears and move to Japan! But being an Otaku and going to cafes for meet ups to get exclusives is going to be especially hard for Hina because she's a vampire herself. She can't eat the foods that come with the exclusives! She sort of makes friends with her neighbor who looks exactly like the character she's obsessed with, but he definitely doesn't act like him. Hina convinces Kyuta to come with her to a couple of events, and they sort of become friends, especially when Hina has to step in to protect him.
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While on a field trip to a museum, Anya’s school bus is hijacked by a terrorist group known as the Red Circus. The group plans on ransoming the valuable Eden Academy students in exchange for release of their associates from prison, as well as a few other demands. Very quickly, Anya and Damian get slapped with a bomb collars, but Anya’s telepathy keeps her calm and collected known the gang's plans and true intentions with the children.
An overworked apothecary contemplates death one day and jumps into a well, but discovers one of her old nursery rhyme to be true - that wells are connected to other worlds. She finds herself in the underworld where Lord Hades is in need of medical attention. After being in the underworld for so long, he’s developed an allergy to the sun, which has caused a rash and fever. As any good healer would do, Colette takes Hades into her care and begins visiting the underworld often on house calls.
Frieren and Denken square off against their respective opponents: Frieren against Solitär and Denken against Macht, as Frieren finishes analyzing the diagoldze curse that Macht put on Weise. There is a fierce battle between the four opponents, but mostly Solitär annoys Frieren by talking too much and showing stalling as her main battle tactic. Denken uses Frieren's logic that Zoltraak is a fairly new spell in Macht's lifetime, and it seems to be working, to a degree. After the fights, it's back on the road to the North, and Frieren continues to pick up odd jobs for different small villages along the way in exchange for interesting grimoires.
Mio sets out to look for Yuri and finds out that July, the fox Elementsia, took him deep into the Forest of Rejection, where humans can’t enter but she seems to be able to go. July is waiting for her and tells her his tragic backstory. Millicuffs residents break through the forest in an attempt to rescue her but end up agrivating July, so Mio tries to appease everyone by offering to take July with her on her quest. Mio, Yuri, and July are smuggled out of the country into Totodoro, the next neighboring country, where Mio attracts the attention of another prince and is quickly captured.
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Sara's Rating: 10/10 Suitability Level: Grades 9-12 Publisher: VIZ Media Publication Date: November 5, 2024 ISBN: 9781974747245 (Paperback) Tags: Rating: 10/10, Suitability: High School, Manga, Action Adventure, Magic, Family, War, VIZ Media 
Illustrated by Takuma Yokota
Kano was the top of his class until transfer student Sawatari got there. Now, he’s bested by her on all tests no matter how much he studies. But he finds release from his frustrations in playing his favorite card game - Magic: The Gathering. He takes a trip to a new card shop an hour by bike and discovers a group of hardcore players, including a girl playing a killer mono White deck. He challenges her with his mono Black, White’s antithesis, and is dismayed when he not only loses, but finds out his opponent is Sawatari! 
Hiroto is a pretty carefree 29-year-old, except he finds it difficult to talk to attractive women around his own age. He has no problem befriending older ladies, including an 81-year-old former lunch lady he affectionately calls Granny. He has dinner at her house twice a week until she suddenly dies of a heart attack and leaves her two-bedroom house to him. When Hiroto’s cousin Nat comes to live with him as she attends art school, the two learn to live together and figure out what it means to be adults in their various stages of life - Nat as a struggling college student with social anxiety, and Hiroto trying to figure out his purpose in life.
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Sara's Rating: 8/10 Suitability Level: Grades 10-12 Publisher: VIZ Media Publication Date: September 10, 2024 ISBN: 9781974739080 (Paperback) Tags: Rating: 8/10, Suitability: High School, OEL Manga, Supernatural, Mystery, Horror, VIZ Media  Illustrated by Ryoichi Ikegami
Booklist review Sara's Rating: 8/10 Suitability Level: Adult Publisher: VIZ Media Publication Date: September 17, 2024 ISBN: 9781974749720 (Paperback) Tags: Rating: 8/10, Suitability: Adult, Manga, Humor, Friendship, Career, VIZ Media |
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