The end of September brought with it a newly reorganized manga section, with 13 new titles!
This did mean the gentle withdrawal of a couple loved-to-pieces series or those that had, over many years, become as exciting as a bowl of plain spaghetti. But so it goes with maintaining a healthy, public library collection: removing the old, so you can have at the new!
♛ The Manga: New To Our Shelves! ♛
♛ Alice the 101st
Mondonville Music Academy attracts thousands of elite musicians' applicants from around the world, but only 100 students are accepted into the program every year. But this year, Alistair Lang - who doesn't know how to read a music score and has no formal music training - was, somehow, accepted into the program as the 101st student.
♛ Read if you're into: music, comedy, school drama.
♛ Attack on Titan (Not pictured because it's already checked out!)
What's left of humanity survives in fear for their lives in this exciting, terrifying new manga that's a number one bestseller in Japan. Humankind is down to just a few thousand people who live in a city surrounded by three concentric walls. The walls protect them from their enemies, the ravenous giants known as the Titans. The Titans appear to have only one purpose: to consume humanity.
For one hundred years, what's left of mankind has lived in the city on earth, protected by walls that tower over even the Titans. Untouched by the Titans for a century, humanity has become complacent. But Eren Jaeger has had enough. While his fellow citizens are content to hide, Jaeger has the passion to take action to not only protect the city, but to learn what the Titans actually are. But on his first mission he comes face to face with horrors beyond his imagination... and secrets from his own past that could shift the tides of war.
Jarger and his friends are determined to survive. But everything about their situation is a mystery that only becomes more complicated the more they learn. Attack on Titan is a breathtaking debut from a young talent, and a phenomenon that is sweeping Japan!
♛ Read if you're into: dystopia, horror, science fiction.
♛ Blue Exorcist
Raised by Father Fujimoto, a famous exorcist, Rin Okumura never knew his real father. One day a fateful argument with Father Fujimoto forces Rin to face a terrible truth – the blood of the demon lord Satan runs in Rin’s veins! Rin swears to defeat Satan, but doing that means entering the mysterious True Cross Academy and becoming an exorcist himself. Can Rin fight demons and keep his infernal bloodline a secret? It won't be easy, especially when drawing his father’s sword releases the demonic power within him!
♛ Read if you're into: supernatural fantasy, magic, action, demons.
♛ A Bride's Story
Amira is twenty years old when she marries her husband, a boy named Karluk from a neighbouring village. Adjusting to life in a new household can be trying for any young bride, and Amira's husband is eight years her junior. Amira was a strong, sophisticated hunter and horsewoman in her village, but though their villages were next to each other, their customs are very different. As Amira introduces Karluk to the foods and pastimes that were popular among her comrades back home, the warmth she feels for her young husband grows.
♛ Read if you're into: historical fiction, gorgeous & detailed artwork, world travel, romance.
♛ Crimson Hero
When fifteen-year-old Nobara Sumiyoshi transfers to Crimson Field High School, she hopes to play competitive volleyball, but her mother will do anything to keep her off the court and working at her family's Japanese restaurant.
♛ Read if you're into: sports, romance, school drama, contemporary.
♛ High School Debut
When Haruna Nagashima was in junior high her life consisted of playing softball and reading comics. But now that she's going to high school, Haruna decides to put all of her energy towards getting a boyfriend and having the high school romance of a lifetime. To help in her quest, she enlists cute upperclassman Yoh Komiyama to coach her as she eschews her jock tendencies and turns herself into the kind of girl who can catch a guy. Yoh agrees, with one catch: Haruna had better not fall for him!
♛ Read if you're into: humor, romance, school drama, sports, contemporary.
♛ Jiu Jiu
Werewolves at the door...and in the house
Born into a family of Hunters, Takamichi's destiny is to pursue and slay demons. When her twin brother is killed, she is saved from despair by a pair of Jiu Jiu--shape-shifting familiars in the form of two wolf pups named Snow and Night. Now Takamichi is in high school and an active Hunter. Snow and Night can't wait to attend school in their human form to "protect" her. But are they ready to go off leash...?
Takamichi's Jiu Jiu Obedience Training Goals
1. Stop them from following you to work.
2. Avoid exposing them to the full moon.
3. Save them from execution.
♛ Read if you're into: supernatural, action, angst, romance, school drama, werewolves.
♛ Ouran High School Host Club
One day, Haruhi, a scholarship student at exclusive Ouran High School, breaks an $80,000 vase that belongs to the 'Host Club', a mysterious campus group consisting of six super-rich (and gorgeous) guys. To pay back the damages, she is forced to work for the club, and it's there that she discovers just how wealthy the boys are and how different they are from everybody else.
♛ Read if you're into: humor, school drama, romance, contemporary.
♛ Pretty Guardian Sailor Moon
Usagi Tsukino is a normal girl until she meets up with Luna, a talking cat, who tells her that she is Sailor Moon. As Sailor Moon, Usagi must fight evils and enforce justice, in the name of the Moon and the mysterious Moon Princess. She meets other girls destined to be Sailor Senshi (Sailor Scouts), and together, they fight the forces of evil!
♛ Read if you're into: magic, fantasy, school drama, romance, humor.
Mei Tachibana has no friends—and she doesn’t need them! Ever since her
“friends” betrayed her in elementary school, she’s sworn off friendship
entirely. All it leads to is betrayal and heartbreak, and she’s well
enough on her own. But everything changes when she accidentally
roundhouse kicks the most popular boy in school! However, Yamato
Kurosawa isn’t angry in the slightest— in fact, he thinks his ordinary
life could use an unusual girl like Mei! He won’t take no for an answer,
and soon Mei and Yamato embark on an unwanted friendship that will
change both of them forever.
♛ Read if you're into: school drama, romance, angst, contemporary.
When Haruna Nagashima was in junior high her life consisted of playing softball and reading comics. But now that she's going to high school, Haruna decides to put all of her energy towards getting a boyfriend and having the high school romance of a lifetime. To help in her quest, she enlists cute upperclassman Yoh Komiyama to coach her as she eschews her jock tendencies and turns herself into the kind of girl who can catch a guy. Yoh agrees, with one catch: Haruna had better not fall for him!
♛ Read if you're into: humor, romance, school drama, sports, contemporary.
♛ Jiu Jiu
Werewolves at the door...and in the house
Born into a family of Hunters, Takamichi's destiny is to pursue and slay demons. When her twin brother is killed, she is saved from despair by a pair of Jiu Jiu--shape-shifting familiars in the form of two wolf pups named Snow and Night. Now Takamichi is in high school and an active Hunter. Snow and Night can't wait to attend school in their human form to "protect" her. But are they ready to go off leash...?
Takamichi's Jiu Jiu Obedience Training Goals
1. Stop them from following you to work.
2. Avoid exposing them to the full moon.
3. Save them from execution.
♛ Read if you're into: supernatural, action, angst, romance, school drama, werewolves.
♛ Ouran High School Host Club
One day, Haruhi, a scholarship student at exclusive Ouran High School, breaks an $80,000 vase that belongs to the 'Host Club', a mysterious campus group consisting of six super-rich (and gorgeous) guys. To pay back the damages, she is forced to work for the club, and it's there that she discovers just how wealthy the boys are and how different they are from everybody else.
♛ Read if you're into: humor, school drama, romance, contemporary.
♛ Pretty Guardian Sailor Moon
Usagi Tsukino is a normal girl until she meets up with Luna, a talking cat, who tells her that she is Sailor Moon. As Sailor Moon, Usagi must fight evils and enforce justice, in the name of the Moon and the mysterious Moon Princess. She meets other girls destined to be Sailor Senshi (Sailor Scouts), and together, they fight the forces of evil!
♛ Read if you're into: magic, fantasy, school drama, romance, humor.
♛ Say I Love You
♛ Read if you're into: school drama, romance, angst, contemporary.
♛ Soulless
The life of a spinster in Victorian London isn't an easy one on the best of days, but such a life becomes infinitely more complicated when said spinster is "soulless" - a preternatural bridging the gap between the natural and supernatural worlds. Miss Alexia Tarabotti has this unique distinction, and when she is assailed at a formal gathering by a rove vampire, an encounter that results in the death of the half-starved creature, her circumstances become exponentially more complicated indeed! Now caught up in an intrigue with life or death stakes, Alexia must rely on all her talents to outmatch the forces conspiring against her, but it may be the man who has caught her eye - Lord Conall Maccon - and their budding flirtation that truly drives her to her wit's end!
Based on the popular Parasol Protectorate series by Gail Carriger!
♛ Read if you're into: steampunk, supernatural, romance, humor, werewolves, vampires, ghosts.
♛ xxxHolic
Watanuki Kimihiro is haunted by visions of ghosts and spirits. Seemingly by chance, he encounters a mysterious witch named Yuuko, who claims she can help. In desperation, he accepts, but realizes that he's just been tricked into working for Yuuko in order to pay off the cost of her services. Soon he's employed in her little shop--a job which turns out to be nothing like his previous work experience
Most of Yuuko's customers live in Japan, but Yuko and Watanuki are about to have some unusual visitors named Sakura and Syaoran from a land called Clow. . . .
♛ Read if you're into: fantasy, supernatural, magic, ghosts.
♛ Return To Labyrinth (shelved in the Miscellaneous)
A spin-off from the Jim Henson's cult classic movie, Labyrinth!
Returning home after his initial visit to Labyrinth, Toby has grown up, noticing that many things come easily to him, even when he's under pressure. Little does he know that Jareth, the Goblin King, has been looking out for his best interests.
♛ Read if you're into: fantasy, magic, continuations.
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