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Author
Publisher
Tuttle Publishing
Pub. Date
[2014]
Language
English
Description
"Travelling to Japan has never been so much fun-- visit the land of anime, manga, cosplay, hot springs and sushi! This full-color graphic novel guidebook explores Japanese culture from a cartoonist's perspective. Cool Japan Guide takes you on a fun tour from the high-energy urban streets of Tokyo to the peaceful Zen gardens and Shinto shrines of Kyoto and introduces you to-- the exciting worlds of Japanese food, the otaku (geek) culture of Japan,...
Author
Publisher
Go! Comi
Pub. Date
c2006
Language
English
Description
Hyoue Inugami, a demon dog and loyal guardian to the medium Amane, is consumed with jealousy when Zakuro, a demon child who once served the sorcerer Kaiso along with Hyoue, turns up after centuries of separation and offers to work with Hyoue on Amane's behalf.
Author
Series
Tokyo ghoul ; 3
Publisher
VIZ Media
Pub. Date
[2015]
Language
English
Description
"Ghouls live among us, the same as normal people in every way - except their craving for human flesh. Ken Kaneki is an ordinary college student until a violent encounter turns him into the first half-human half-ghoul hybrid. Trapped between two worlds, he must survive Ghoul turf wars, learn more about Ghoul society and master his new powers. Kaneki is still trying to get used to his new life when Commission of Counter Ghoul agents Mado and Amon start...
Author
Publisher
Go! Media Entertainment
Pub. Date
2005.
Language
English
Description
Amane has an ice queen demeanor that has set her apart on campus. So has her relationship with fellow transfer student Hyoue, but all is not what it seems. Amane is a powerful psychic and Hyoue is her powerful demon-dog who, his powers
Author
Series
Tokyo ghoul ; 2
Publisher
VIZ Media
Pub. Date
[2015]
Language
English
Description
"Ken Kenaeki is an ordinary college student until a violent encounter turns him into the first half-human half-ghoul hybrid. Trapped between two worlds, he must survive Ghoul turf wars, learn more about Ghoul society and amster his new powers. Unable to discard his humanity but equally unable to suppress his Ghoul hunger, Ken finds salvation in the kindness of friendly Ghouls who teach him how to pass as human and eat flesh humanely. But recent...
Author
Series
Tokyo ghoul ; 5
Publisher
VIZ Media
Pub. Date
[2016]
Language
English
Description
"Ghouls live among us, the same as normal people in every way - except their craving for human flesh. Ken Kaneki is an ordinary college student until a violent encounter turns him into the first half-human half-ghoul hybrid. Trapped between two worlds, he must survive Ghoul turf wars, learn more about Ghoul society and master his new powers. Kaneki meets Shu Tsukiyama, known as The Gourmet for his interesting and sadistic tastes. And Kaneki learns...
Author
Series
Tokyo ghoul ; 4
Publisher
VIZ Media
Pub. Date
[2015]
Language
English
Description
"Ghouls live among us, the same as normal people in every way - except their craving for human flesh. Ken Kaneki is an ordinary college student until a violent encounter turns him into the first half-human half-ghoul hybrid. Trapped between two worlds, he must survive Ghoul turf wars, learn more about Ghoul society and master his new powers. Kaneki meets Shu Tsukiyama, known as The Gourmet for his interesting and sadistic tastes. And Kaneki learns...
11) Solanin
Author
Publisher
Viz Media
Pub. Date
2008.
Language
English
Description
"Meiko Inoue is a recent college grad working as an office lady in a job she hates. Her boyfriend Shigeo is permanently crashing at her apartment because his job as a freelance illustrator doesn't pay enough for rent. And her parents in the country keep sending her boxes of veggies that just rot in her fridge. Straddling the line between her years as a student and the rest of her life, Meiko struggles with the feeling that she's just not cut out to...
Author
Publisher
Naruhodo Press
Pub. Date
[2014]
Language
English
Description
The summer before she turned sixteen, Christine Inzer traveled solo to Tokyo to get reacquainted with her birthplace. Through charming illustrations, photos, and musings, Christine takes us on a journey through modern Japan: she explores the fashion hub of Harajuku; she hunts down geisha in Kyoto; she eats the best sushi of her life in Tsukiji; and she meets many interesting characters along the way. Halfway home is an engaging, and often hilarious,...
Author
Publisher
Last Gasp of San Francisco
Pub. Date
[2008]
Language
English
Description
"By volume seven, Gen has grown old enough to think about the legacy of the victims of the atomic bombing. Picking up from volume six, the story opens with Gen searching for a printer willing to publish an eyewitness account of the bombing written by 'Papa,' the journalist who serves as a father figure to Gen's war orphan friends. By hook and crook Gen and Ryuta manage to get the book printed and distributed, only to arouse the wrath of U.S. Army...
Author
Publisher
Last Gasp of San Francisco
Pub. Date
[2009]
Language
English
Description
"Cartoonist Keiji Nakazawa was seven years old and living in Hiroshima in the early days of August 1945 when the city was destroyed by an atomic bomb dropped by the United States. Starting a few months before that event, his ten-volume saga Barefoot Gen shows life in Japan after years of war and privations, as seen through the eyes of seven-year-old Gen Nakaoka. In Volume Nine, Gen continues to confront one setback after another -- the loss of his...
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