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A college graduate who couldn’t find a job was tricked by an alien black agency into fighting space monsters.

The #1 bestselling chapter book is now a graphic novel! Magic. Mystery. Time-travel. Get whisked back in time in the magic tree house with Jack and Annie! Where did the tree house come from? Before Jack and Annie can find out, the mysterious tree house whisks them to the prehistoric past. Now they have to figure out how to get home. Can they do it before dark...or will they become a dinosaur's dinner? For the first time in graphic novel--live the adventure again in the very first Magic Tree House book, with new art from comic artists Kelly and Nichole Matthews!

Who needs a Class when you're already the strongest anyways? Ten years ago, Amelia woke up in a broken world where she had to fight for her survival. Now, after defeating the Void itself and escaping the abyss, she's finally found her way back into the real world. But instead of returning to Earth, she arrives in Vacuos a fantasy world governed by a System as if it were a video game. And when rewarded with a Class befitting her accomplishments to become a powerful [Hero] that will forever dedicate her life to protecting this world that is not her own she only has one response. "Absolutely not. I'm going to live a normal life now, thank you very much."

Saintess Violet comes to the prison to save the Holy Knight 'Lahart' who has been eroded by demonic energy. Violet decides to save Lahart using the only healing method found in the old book. Lahart regains his senses with her help, but neither of them can easily extinguish their desire for each other...

Makoto Noda, a run-of-the-mill Japanese teacher, endures ridicule from his students while struggling to manage a classroom on the verge of collapse. On a fateful day, a misunderstanding leads to a slap from a PE teacher, causing him to hit his head on the corner of a desk and lose consciousness. When he awakens, he finds himself facing a mysterious window. As he completes them, his real-life stats improve and he also acquires special items...! With his newfound ability, can Noda save the failing school from ruin?

Pepelon was playing the well-known one-player VRRPG "Magic & Sword" with the restriction that only the seven weakest races were under his control. One day, he woke up and found that he had been transferred into the game. He had lost almost all of the countries that he had worked so hard to build when he was transferred. All that was left was his own body, which boasted a high status, and the six subordinates he had devoted so much effort to nurturing. In order to rebuild the nation he once built, "Gloria Septem," Peperon once again begins his conquest of another world!

At a certain prison under the surface, the "bottom of the bottom" that is the Teiai Underground Labor Facility, there is a man who uses his "one-day outing passes" to go above ground and enjoy all the luxuries of life while living in the poor conditions of the underground. His name is Ootsuki, and he is the leader of Squad E and a master of enjoying himself all day long with eating, drinking, and having a great time.

Chihiro, twenty-five-old, is madly in love with her colleague, Nakaba. He's cool, clever and handsome. They go for a drink almost every day, so she knows that he likes her too. However, she can't ask him to go out with her, since part of her thinks she's happy the way they are. One day, her good friend tells her that she should tell Nakaba right away that she loves him, or else he'll be some other girl's boyfriend. Chihiro decides to tell him, but she's got a big project to handle in front of her... Can they become lovers?

Ever since Sasami was a little girl, she's admired those who defend justice. She loved watching shows about Magical Girls and Sentai Rangers, but the shows she loved watching the most were police dramas. Years have passed and Sasami has become a police officer herself. Her first assignment is to go undercover and act as a student at Hanagaki All-Girls High School to make sure there are no corrupt teachers or students there. One night, while helping out the photgraphy club, they enter the supposedly empty library to find someone there. After trying to run away, one of the club members concludes that she's trying to steal expensive books that should be locked away but are missing. Sasami chases after and catches her, telling her she's with the police. The girl turns out to be her classmate, Sakuraba. After finding out it was a misunderstanding, she goes to apologize and ask that she keep it a secret that she's with the police. Sakuraba then reveals that she is the police officer in charge of Hanagaki All-Girls High School, and that Sasami must have been assigned there by mistake. Why was Sasami assigned there and what will happen between her and Sakuraba?

Gags of a Catholic Convent on a Fantasy World.

Good-Bye is the third in a series of collected short stories from Drawn & Quarterly by the legendary Japanese cartoonist Yoshihiro Tatsumi, whose previous work has been selected for several annual “top 10” lists, including those compiled by Amazon and Time.com. Drawn in 1971 and 1972, these stories expand the prolific artist’s vocabulary for characters contextualized by themes of depravity and disorientation in twentieth-century Japan. Some of the tales focus on the devastation the country felt directly as a result of World War II: a prostitute loses all hope when American GIs go home to their wives; a man devotes twenty years of his life to preserving the memory of those killed at Hiroshima, only to discover a horrible misconception at the heart of his tribute. Yet, while American influence does play a role in the disturbing and bizarre stories contained within this volume, it is hardly the overriding theme. A philanthropic foot fetishist, a rash-ridden retiree, and a lonely public onanist are but a few of the characters etching out darkly nuanced lives in the midst of isolated despair and fleeting pleasure.

In Fallen Words, Yoshihiro Tatsumi takes up the oral tradition of rakugo and breathes new life into it by shifting the format from spoken word to manga. Each of the eight stories in the collection is lifted from the Edo-era Japanese storytelling form. As Tatsumi notes in the afterword, the world of rakugo, filled with mystery, emotion, revenge, hope, and, of course, love, overlaps perfectly with the world of Gekiga that he has spent the better part of his life developing. These slice-of-life stories resonate with modern readers thanks to their comedic elements and familiarity with human idiosyncrasies. In one, a father finds his son too bookish and arranges for two workers to take the young man to a brothel on the pretext of visiting a new shrine. In another particularly beloved rakugo tale, a married man falls in love with a prostitute. When his wife finds out, she is enraged and sets a curse on the other woman. The prostitute responds by cursing the wife, and the two escalate in a spiral of voodoo doll cursing. Soon both are dead, but even death can’t extinguish their jealousy. Tatsumi’s love of wordplay shines through in the telling of these whimsical stories, and yet he still offers timeless insight into human nature.

From Drawn and Quarterly: Created in the late 1950s, BLACK BLIZZARD is Yoshihiro Tatsumi's remarkable first full-length graphic novel and one of the first published examples of Gekiga. With BLACK BLIZZARD, Tatsumi explores the dark underbelly of his working-class heroes that five decades later will make him one of the most well known Japanese cartoonists in North America. Susumu Yamaji, a 24-year-old pianist, is arrested for murder and ends up handcuffed to a career criminal on the train that will take them to prison. An avalanche derails the train and the criminal takes the opportunity to escape, dragging a reluctant Susumu with him into the blizzard raging outside. They flee into the mountains to an abandoned ranger station, where they take shelter from the storm. As they sit around the fire they built, Susumu relates how love drove him to become a murderer.

You can't get any further down than the bottom of the world - Antarctica. Cold, desolate, nothing but ice and snow for miles and miles. Carrie Stetko is a U.S. Marshal, and she's made The Ice her home. In its vastness, she has found a place where she can forget her troubled past and feel at peace... Until someone commits a murder in her jurisdiction and that peace is shattered. The murderer is one of five men scattered across the continent, and he has more reason to hide than just the slaying. Several ice samples were taken from the area around the body, and the depth of the drilling signifies something particular was removed. Enter Lily Sharpe, who wants to know what was so important another man's life had to be taken for it. But are either of the women prepared for the secrets and betrayals at the core of the situation?

[Translated by Lilith Scanlations] After her parents' divorce, Lu Yang moved in with her mother’s old friend and her daughter, Su Gui. Su Gui was brilliant and gentle, warm like the sun on a winter day—extravagant without being ostentatious. She effortlessly brightened Lu Yang’s world, her light reaching deep into Lu Yang’s heart. She was a friend, a sister, and a mentor... but Lu Yang’s feelings for her gradually changed. As her emotions deepened, she realized she wanted to be with Su Gui. Fearful of losing the bond and the "sisterly" roles she had come to rely on, she tried to distance herself. But when the two reunited at work, her long-suppressed feelings grew like the wild branches of a rose, tangling the two of them together. Was this a carefully laid plan, or simply fate?

A playboy goes after an innocent-seeming girl, having no idea what he's getting into.---

Here is Richard McGuire's unique graphic novel based on the legendary 1989 comic strip of the same name. Richard McGuire's groundbreaking comic strip Here was published under Art Spiegelman's editorship at RAW in 1989. Built in six pages of interlocking panels, dated by year, it collapsed time and space to tell the story of the corner of a room - and its inhabitants - between the years 500,957,406,073 BC and 2313 AD. The strip remains one of the most influential and widely discussed contributions to the medium, and it has now been developed, expanded and reimagined by the artist into this full-length, full-colour graphic novel - a must for any fan of the genre.

"If you want your body back won't you participate in the mannequin game?" A high school student who was on the brink of death from a traffic accident, woke up to see a completely different person. He was told his mission through a speaker, the curtain rises with a life-risking game...!! If you let down your guard you will instantly die, it's the ultimate survival suspense!!

The Kitauji high school wind instrument club had at one time participated in national tournaments and was a champion school, but after the club's adviser changed, they have not been able to even participate in the qualifying tournament. Under the strict leadership of Taki, a substitute for Ms. Rikako, they steadily build up their strength. As they fight over who plays solos, some students give priority to studying and quit club activities. Finally, the long wished-for day of the contest arrives.

“Hi! My name is Minji Kim. I used to be a teenage girl but after waking up from a nap one day, I turned into a fugly lizard! I want to go home! Somebody help! Wait… but, if I'm in this strange body, who’s in mine?!” Minji is a high school girl living a normal life in an ordinary world. After waking up from her usual nap in class one day, she discovers that she has transformed into a powerful dragon who lives in an out-of-the-ordinary land. Minji forms a group of eccentric friends by using her wits, and together they embark on a journey to help Minji find her way back to her own world. Will Minji ever be able to return home?

Princess Alice, who was turned back to her 10 year old self with the “witch’s power” before she died, meets Theodore, a heretic (Nox). He is the most hated and shunned member of the Knights’ Order, but for a girl who was killed because of her crimson hair, he is the only person who can share her loneliness! However, contrary to the rumors (of the past), she is intelligent and gets caught up in a battle over the right to inherit the throne…? ”Would you like to become a witch’s knight out of self-interest?” “That’s a ridiculous invitation, I don’t think you’re a princess, is it?” A relife story of a figurehead princess and a lonely knight who finally meet, both of whom have “crimson”!