Adapted by: Kelly Sue DeConnick & Jake Forbes
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Can’t Miss Collector’s Item: It’s Furuba–The Ultimate Edition! Featuring a premium hardcover treatment with Fruits Basket Volumes 1 & 2, this beautiful hardcover includes interior color art and a new cover.
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The Sohma family has hidden a bizarre curse from the outside world: when members of the family are hugged by members of the opposite sex, they each turn into different members of the Chinese Zodiac. The practical implications of this curse have forced the family to live in compounds fairly detached from the outside world, only to have their privacy compromised when recently-orphaned high school girl Tohru Honda accidentally stumbles upon one of the Sohma houses. After hearing that the homeless Tohru has been camping out on their property while her grandfather’s house is being refurbished, the residents of the househol
Adapted by: Barbara Randall Kesel
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When friends and loved ones begin to disappear, his sense of reality begins to crumble–until the day he runs into a mysterious figure who can erase a person’s very existence…
Gorgeously illustrated and spectacularly twisted, Kazumi-sensei’s dramatic shojo is an unforgettable journey of discovery in a world filled with suspicion and awe.
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During a routine roll call before basketball practice, high school student Hiromu Nishizawa notices that fellow student Tetsuya is absent. When he points this out to the coach, Hiromu is puzzled by the response: no one on the team knows who Tetsuya is. Hiromu runs into a mysterious stranger on the way home from practice, whom he witnessed talking with Tetsuya the prior day. This stranger inexplicably refers to Hiromu as Glorious, and offers the cryptic claim that Tetsuya was delicious. Understandably d
Adapted by: Barbara Randall Kesel
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After 150 years of terraforming, Aqua, the planet formerly known as Mars, now has over 90% of its surface now covered by water. A young girl named Akari Mizunashi arrives at the city of Neo-Venezia, an exact replica of the old Italian city of Venice, hoping to become an Undine, the most coveted job on Aqua. Follow Akari’s adventures as she discovers the wonders of Aria in this prequel to the Aria anime and manga series.
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Considered to be the ultimate slice-of-life manga by many of its fans, Aqua gets off to a solid start within the first volume. Teenaged Akari Mizuhashi arrives on the terraformed planet of Aqua, formerly known as Mars, with a job as an apprentice undine already lined up. After a few mishaps involving a lost cat and a ride from a mailman who lets her practice rowing his “mail gondola,” she arrives at Aria Company and learns the cat’s true identity by the end of the first chapter. In essen