TOP MANGA OF THE WEEK

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According to AoiTsukiReviewer at www.mangaupdates.com, this is an enjoyable, intricate and beautifully crafted manga with nice ambience and enjoyable characters. The story revolves around a "older" (probably mid-20s but a mature type) woman named Alice who returns to live in the countryside after her grandma's death. She re-opens the traditional irori, a traditional Japanese open hearth. She reunites with her childhood friend and the manga follows the two (as well as people around them). The characters have a good dynamic and are well matched. They are also NOT dense when it comes to love, they do pick things up rather fast, and they don't sit on them which is refreshing. Art style is beautiful, soft and detailed. A lot of thought goes not only in drawing the characters but also in "background"; the room and items. This is a good example of a "classical", well drawn manga, not an epic manga like the more known ones, but rather that type of quiet, ambiental, beautifully drawn manga that's soothing but not boring, mature but not heavy, and light while not cheap.

300 years ago, a powerful warlord rebelled against the Heavenly Emperor. After killing the Emperor, the warlord crowned himself as the new Emperor, starting a cruel reign. But there is a prophecy: Six Stars will one day assemble and overthrow his tyrannic

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Set against the tumultuous political backdrop of late ’60s Chicago, My Favorite Thing Is Monsters is the fictional graphic diary of 10-year-old Karen Reyes, filled with B-movie horror and pulp monster magazines iconography. Karen Reyes tries to solve the murder of her enigmatic upstairs neighbor, Anka Silverberg, a holocaust survivor, while the interconnected stories of those around her unfold. When Karen’s investigation takes us back to Anka’s life in Nazi Germany, the reader discovers how the personal, the political, the past, and the present converge. Full-color illustrations throughout.Rendered in a kaleidoscopically and breathtakingly virtuosic visual style that combines panel sequences and montage, Emil Ferris’ draftsmanship echoes the drawing of Otto Dix, George Grosz, and Robert Crumb. My Favorite Thing Is Monsters is a revelatory work of striking originality and will undoubtedly be greeted as the debut graphic novel of the year.

Ragnarok...the Twilight of the Gods in Norse mythology...the destruction of the Nine Worlds. And now, three hundred years later, the birth of vengeance. Ragnarök, the doom of the gods, has finally occurred. But the long-held belief that evil would be destroyed along with the gods in that final conflagration proved false. Only the gods died. The Nine Worlds collapsed and became the Dusk Lands, a vast twilight realm inhabited by men, trolls, demons, and shattered kingdoms, under the tyranny of the Great Enemies. After hundreds of years, a single god emerged into the post-Ragnarök world, Thor, the God of Thunder. But Angantyr, the Lord of the Dead, has discovered his reappearance, and unleashes his draugar, the undead walkers, against the Thunder God, seeking to destroy the last vestige of the former worlds, and the only hope for the present one.

The hero who saved the world by defeating the demon king is summoned to a toilet bowl gang school?! A hero from another world summoned to the worst gang gathering place, "Suseong South High School." Although he is a hero who does not use his power on humans, he faces the reality of bullies like "demons" and starts true education...! Can the hero defeat the bullies and return to his own world?

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A doll becomes a super idol. Hijinks ensue. 

On the Jiuzhou continent, humans, demons, various races coexist. The human race is led by the Daqing Immortal Dynasty, where mortals and cultivators live together. However, cultivation requires a one-in-ten-thousand talent. When mortals cause trouble, there is the patrol camp to deal with them. When nobles cause trouble, there is the Jinyiwei. But when cultivators and demons cause trouble with their sorcery, only the Sword-Wielding Person can bring peace. The Sword-Wielding Person is no different from an ordinary person; with a single Sword, they can easily slay cultivators.

From GOoC:Data is a kind of Magical Boy series manga by Tachibana Kaimu. The two main characters, Sakura and Yuki, are on quests to gather stones with magical powers. In doing so they are also hoping to uncover the mystery as to why they both seem to have lost their memory. Although this is a shoujo series, I'm pretty positive theres also something shounen-ai going on between the two (subtle but there....). A lot of new characters who are also "hosts" for the stones join in the fun as the story progresses.

From Tokyopop:Mitsuo Shiozu is a lonely high school student who happens to be psychic. Spirits 'use' his body and mind to communicate with the dead and to help the living. These ghostly apparitions use Mitsuo in order to put right things that were left

From Shinmakoku Scanlations:Kei is popular but desperately seeking a girlfriend, while his bestfriend Kenji is secretly falling in love with him! What will Kenji do when suddenly Kei turns to him for comfort, after being abandoned by a series of girls?

Meet Florian, the only son of an impoverished noble family who ends up indebted to the stunning, mysterious Ray Balzac Courland. He may have been sold to repay a family debt, but you can count on the fact that Ray is going to get a whole lot more than he

Tsukishita is completely dependent on his little brother. It's the first day of school, and his little brother has already had to find Tsukishita with the things he's forgotten. When a group of girls try to help him find his older brother, they mistakenly

Plot: One day, university student Narumi Daisuke meets a pink kigurumi rabbit in the street. This kigurumi, named Arita, falls in love at first sight Daisuke! But, no matter where the two meet, it seems that Arita won't take off his bodysuit. To Daisuke, who finds this strange, Arita makes a shocking confession! If he takes off his costume, he will die... "The truth is, I'm an Undergrounder!" Is he for real?!

Type: Soft YaoiSummary: Ever since he was very young, Tomonari Yui has been able to see something no one else can see - the red thread of fate which connects the little fingers of people who are fated to be together. But he's never been able to see the

(From The Manga Obsession)There is a rumor around school about Houjyou Aika giving birth to a child at the age of fifteen, just now returning to school about a year later. Reality is far worse than the gossip. Aika was raped by the demon ruler (Suruga)

From Biblo Eros:A collection of oneshots featuring school boys in angsty love. The artwork is beautiful as always and the tales seem more serious than Clan of Nakagamis, more reminiscent of I want to become your bird.1)Lost Children- Koyo Tomohiko and

Based on the novel Mainichi Seiten!From Juné:A typical summer night turns hotter than usual at the Obinata household when a stranger named Shuu Asuou turns up and announces that he’ll be living with them from now on! Shuu explains that he has marri

Quick tempered, dirt poor brawler Kotarou Mikata can't hold down job because he always ends up beating the crap out of some errant customer. Just when he's at wit's end, "S" offers Mikata a job as a "hero". But what exactly does it mean to be a hero? Join Mikata on his WTF journey from brawler to hero in the action romantic comedy "Seigi no Mikata"!  

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