Kana’s wins as a magical girl keep piling up! Not only is she impressing the heck out of her coworkers, but she even inspired a prodigy broom engineer to build her a custom rig specially modded to suit all her needs. But while everyone else is singing her praises, Kana is starting to feel a little overwhelmed. Especially when she gets her latest assignment—training the newest Magilumiere hire! -- VIZ Media
Bree, a nerdy and ambitious freshman, can't wait to start college. Shunned in high school for her single-minded devotion to her studies, she looks forward to a place where brains trump social status. In her first week, she adjusts to college life but finds it hard to get along with her peers. After a fight with her roommate, she moves into an old house, only to find that it is haunted by the ghosts of five cute guys -- cover.
Hatsune Miku is a worldwide sensation! This year Hatsune Miku embarks on her North American tour in over 10 major cities! To celebrate, join Hatsune Miku and her vocaloid friends in this brand new story from Dark Horse. Acute describes the tragic relationship between three Vocaloids: Miku, Kaito, and Luka! Once they were all friends making songs - but while Kaito might make a duet with Miku, or a duet with Luka, a love song all three of them sing together can only end in sorrow! Based on the song with over 4.4 million combined views on YouTube and NicoNico.
A collection of touching manga stories that follows the continuing adventure of our favorite vampire. In these sweet tales and scary legends, finally discover what happened to Karin and her friends all while getting a glimpse of some mysterious vampires from the Marker family that were never before seen in the main series. Also included are special bonus manga strips detailing creator Yuna Kagesaki's trip to Seattle's Sakura-con. -- VIZ Media
Sugar and spice--but not playing nice! The hit smartphone game Magical Girl Raising Project is not only free, but one in tens of thousands of players will win real-life powers. In N City, sixteen of these lucky girls help the city's citizens--until upper management announces that each week, the least productive magical girl will lose her gifts. But this is no ordinary contest, and as the rules become increasingly sadistic, the competition to keep their powers becomes a vicious battle for the girls' very lives...
HOSPITAL OF HORRORS The nightmare continues on for Kogami Kii and the other survivors as they find their world still under fire from the horrific magical girls and their devastating wan attacks. While Kii and Kaede flee the city in a helicopter, the pair detours the flight to the hospital to save their friends. Seemingly a safe place, many people have taken refuge at the hospital. But blood will flow when the magical girls arrive to offer some healing of their own!
This sweeping study of fantasy literature offers “new and often surprising readings of works both familiar and obscure. A fine critical work” (Journal of the Fantastic in the Arts). Transcending arguments over the definition of fantasy literature, Rhetorics of Fantasy introduces a provocative new system of classification for the genre. Drawing on nearly two hundred examples of modern fantasy, author Farah Mendlesohn identifies four categories—portal-quest, immersive, intrusion, and liminal—that arise out of the relationship of the protagonist to the fantasy world. Using these sets, Mendlesohn argues that the author's stylistic decisions are then shaped by the inescapably political demands of the category in which they choose to write. Each chapter covers at least twenty books in detail, ranging from nineteenth-century fantasy and horror to some of the best works in the contemporary field. Mendlesohn discusses works by more than one hundred authors, including Lloyd Alexander, Peter Beagle, Marion Zimmer Bradley, John Crowley, Stephen R. Donaldson, Stephen King, C. S. Lewis, Gregory Maguire, Robin McKinley, China Miéville, Suniti Namjoshi, Philip Pullman, J. K. Rowling, Sheri S. Tepper, J. R. R. Tolkien, Tad Williams, and many others.
A charming tale of friendship between a Japanese woman and her Muslim roommate! Satoko, a Japanese student studying in America, has a new roommate: a Saudi Arabian woman named Nada! They might have different customs, but through mutual respect—and the hilarious adventures of their daily life—Satoko and Nada prove that friendship knows no borders.
When giant monsters roam the earth, "wildlife care" takes on a whole new meaning. That's where the Tamers come in--girls trained to soothe the savage beasts. But while co-existence is a way of life, it's still a little overwhelming for meek Ion Hidaka. Can she handle being one of the newest members of the Tatara Girls' Academy Tamers Committee? The monsters seem to think so!
Civilization is dead, but not Chito and Yuuri. Time to hop aboard their beloved Kettenkrad motorbike and wander what's left of the world! Sharing a can of soup or scouting for spare parts might not be the experience they were hoping for, but all in all, life isn't too bad...
