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Author
Series
Publisher
Viz Media
Pub. Date
[2008]
Language
English
Description
Atom, a boy robot whose sophisticated AI programming seamlessly blurs the distinction between man and machine, starts his own investigation into the serial murders of the great robots of the world. When he discovers that the killer's motives may be connected with the geopolitical events of the recent past, he realizes that the case is far larger than anyone could have ever imagined.
Author
Publisher
VIZ Media, LLC
Pub. Date
2009.
Language
English
Description
A dream recaptured. A life on a new track. The absurdity of death. Laughter in the face of reality. With this series of intersecting vignettes, Inio Asano explores the ways in which modern life can be ridiculous and sublime, terrible and precious, wasted and celebrated. -- P. [4] of cover.
Author
Series
Akira series volume 5
Publisher
Kodansha Comics
Pub. Date
2011.
Language
English
Description
With Akira and his mad prime minister ruling the Great Tokyo Empire, the world at large is gathering its military strength to take on them on.
Author
Series
Akira series volume 3
Publisher
Kodansha Comics
Pub. Date
2010.
Language
English
Description
Tetsuo has released Akira, setting in motion events that treaten the existence of Neo-Tokyo and could bring on Armageddon.
Author
Series
Akira series volume 6
Publisher
Kodansha Comics
Pub. Date
2011.
Language
English
Description
As Tetsuo begins losing control of his abilities, the military forces converge on Neo-Tokyo for the final confrontation.
Author
Publisher
Drawn & Quarterly
Pub. Date
2022
Language
English
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Description
Now that we've woken from the dream, what are we going to do?" Chiharu thinks to herself, rubbing her husband's head affectionately. Set in an apartment complex on the outskirts of Tokyo, Murasaki Yamada's Talk to My Back (1981-84) explores the fraying of Japan's suburban middle-class dreams through a woman's relationship with her two daughters as they mature and assert their independence, and with her husband, who works late and sees his wife as...
Author
Series
Akira series volume 4
Publisher
Kodansha Comics
Pub. Date
2010.
Language
English
Description
Forces on the outside still search for a way to stop Akira, and the answer may lie in the hands of the mysterious Lady Miyako, a powerful member of Akira's paranormal brotherhood. But the solution to harnessing Akira may ultimately be more dangerous than Akira himself!
Author
Series
Barefoot Gen volume 3
Publisher
Last Gasp of San Francisco
Pub. Date
2005.
Language
English
Author
Series
New lone wolf and cub volume 2
Publisher
Dark Horse Books
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
English
Author
Series
Barefoot Gen volume 8
Publisher
Last Gasp of San Francisco
Pub. Date
[2008]
Language
English
Author
Series
Barefoot Gen volume 4
Publisher
Last Gasp of San Francisco
Pub. Date
2005.
Language
English
Description
Volume 4 resumes after the bomb, as Gen and his mother continue to struggle for food, shelter, and water amid chaos and vast human suffering.
Author
Series
New lone wolf and cub volume 5
Publisher
Dark Horse Comics
Pub. Date
©2015.
Language
English
Author
Series
New lone wolf and cub volume 6
Publisher
Dark Horse Comics
Pub. Date
2015.
Language
English
Author
Series
New lone wolf and cub volume 4
Publisher
Dark Horse Books
Pub. Date
2015.
Language
English
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
A pair of twisted siblings—Yuuma, a young man obsessed with the devil, and Chizumi, the worst little sister in recorded history—cause all sorts of tragic and terrifying things to happen wherever they go. These scary short stories will shock you with a literal interpretation of the ills that plague modern society.
Author
Publisher
Vertical, Inc
Pub. Date
[2012]
Language
English
Description
"A graveyard in contemporary Israel has an unlikely visitor. The elderly gentleman from Japan, a former news correspondent, lays a bouquet of flowers at the tomb of one Adolf Kamil. For he remembers the tale of three Adolfs: Kamil, a Jew who grew up in Kobe, Japan, the son of a baker; Kaufmann, only child of a German consul stationed at that port city and his Japanese wife; and the Führer with whom the Far Eastern nation made common cause. A briskly...
Author
Series
Barefoot Gen volume 7
Publisher
Last Gasp of San Francisco
Pub. Date
[2008]
Language
English
Description
Gen finds a printer willing to print the eyewitness account "Papa" has written. When it has been printed and distributed, the U.S. Army censors become angry and teach them a difficult lesson. When Koji, Gen's brother finally returns home, he finds their mother on her deathbed.
Author
Series
Tokyo Ghoul :re volume 6
Publisher
VIZ Media
Pub. Date
2018.
Language
English
Description
"The Commission of Counter Ghoul is the only organization in the world fighting the Ghoul menace, and it will use every tool at its disposal to protect humanity from the ultimate predator. Its newest weapon in this hidden war is an experimental procedure that implants human agents with a Kagune--the Ghoul organ of predation--giving them Ghoul powers and abilities. But both the procedure and the newly formed Qs Squad are untested. Will they become...
Author
Series
New lone wolf and cub volume 8
Publisher
Dark Horse Manga
Pub. Date
2016.
Language
English
Description
"The last of the Kurokuwa ninja--all but wiped out by Ōgami Ittō, the late Lone Wolf--has seen through Mamiya Rinzo's conspiracy to control the shogun with potent drugs. But when she tries to stop the plot, she finds herself being used as a pawn in Rinzo's final assault on rogue swordsman Togo Shigekata, Togo's young "cub" Daigoro--and on his own renegade daughter!" --
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