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Pub. Date
2024.
Language
English
Formats
Description
"In 1903, a fifteen-year-old girl named Ichi Aoi is sold to the most exclusive brothel in Kumamoto, Japan. Despite her modest beginnings in a southern fishing village, she becomes the protégée of an oiran, the highest-ranking courtesan at the brothel. Through the teachings of her oiran, Shinonome, Ichi begins to understand the intertwined power of sex and money. And in her mandatory school lessons, her writing instructor, Tetsuko, encourages Ichi...
Author
Publisher
HarperCollins
Pub. Date
[2023]
Language
English
Description
"A riveting technological thriller following a woman whose life is upended when her husband and son disappear in a mysterious plane crash and she is left alone with an unnerving home robot, only to get caught up in an AI-related conspiracy. In near-future Japan, Susie Sakamoto is mourning the loss of her husband and son to a plane crash. Alone in her big modern house, which feels like more of a prison, Susie spends her days drinking heavily and taking...
Author
Series
Publisher
VIZ Media
Pub. Date
[2011]
Language
English
Description
En searches for a new partner while his crew takes on an underground distributor of "black powder," a drug that enhances magic that weaker Sorcerers use. Meanwhile, Caiman and Nikaido spend New Year's with a strange doctor who specializes in Sorcerers' anatomy and shows them the portal to the Sorcerers' dimension.
Author
Series
Publisher
VIZ Media
Pub. Date
[2010]
Language
English
Description
Caiman, cursed to have a lizard's head and a specter living inside him, and his best friend Nikaido have devoted their lives to ridding the world of every magic user they can. Once a year, however, they turn to hunting zombies when the dead rise and roam the streets of the Hole, but, this year, the head sorcerer En's cleaners finally catch up with them and it is Caiman and Nikaido who are in danger of losing their heads.
Author
Series
Publisher
Seven Seas Entertainment, Inc
Pub. Date
[2024]
Language
English
Description
"With half its leaders beaten and broken, and even more of them turned traitor, the Tokyo Manji Gang is left facing down Tenjiku's overwhelming gang of four hundred delinquents with only fifty people. Tenjiku calls itself a "criminal organization," and their leader Kurokawa Izana will stop at nothing to make Mikey share all the pain he's felt for so many years. The bad blood goes all the way back to their childhoods, and between the fists and the...
Author
Series
Publisher
Kodansha Comics
Pub. Date
[2012]
Language
English
Description
"Tokyo Mew Mew-- the crime-fighting collection of girls imbued withe the power of cat DNA-- face their greatest battle ever to save their beloved city of Tokyo. Arch-villain Deep Blue reveals a startling secret, and Ichigo and Masaya reveal their true feelings to each other. Will they survive long enough to celebrate their love? Find out in the thrilling conclusion to Tokyo Mew Mew"--Page 4 of cover.
Author
Series
Dorohedoro ; 1
Publisher
VIZ Media
Pub. Date
[2010]
Language
English
Description
In a dismal city called the Hole, a clan of Sorcerers is using people they grab off the street as the subjects of experiments in the black arts. Nikaido meets Caiman, a man with a reptile head and amnesia, and the pair begins killing every Sorcerer they find in the Hole, hoping to kill the right one and end the spell on Caiman, which brings a crew of "cleaners" who work for the Head Sorcerer, En, after them and ignites a war between two world.
Author
Publisher
Yen Press
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
Description
Summer's here, so get ready to cheer on this gang of dorks! They've got the 4-1-1 on how to beat the heat as they turn up the cool--and the goof--for some fun in the sun! From sleepovers to movie dates, they're doing it all, so sit back, relax, and enjoy the show!
12) Suzume
Language
English
Formats
Description
Suzume's journey begins when she meets a young man looking for a door. Following him, she finds one and reaches for the knob. Doors open across Japan, unleashing destruction. Now Suzume must close them to prevent further disaster. On the other side of the door⁵was time in its entirety. Includes second disc of bonus material.
Series
Criterion collection ; 394
Publisher
The Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
[2016]
Language
日本語
Description
An amateur entomologist is left in Tokyo to study an unclassified species of beetle found in sandy locations. When he misses his bus back to civilization, he is persuaded to spend the night with a young widow in her hut at the bottom of a sand dune. What results is one of cinema's most unnerving and palpably erotic battles of the sexes, as well as a nightmarish depiction of the Sisyphean struggle of everyday life.
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Language
English
Description
"In the spirit of Ben Macintyre's greatest spy nonfiction, the truly unbelievable and untold story of Frederick Rutland-a debonair British WWI hero, flying ace, fixture of Los Angeles society, and friend of Golden Age Hollywood stars-who flipped to become a spy for Japan in the lead-up to the attack on Pearl Harbor"--
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
Publisher
Viz
Pub. Date
2024
Language
English
Description
A down-and-out samurai named Ryudo Konosuke struggles through his hardscrabble life in early 19th-century Japan. It is said that a samurai's spirit rests in their sword -- and Konosuke can't even pick one up thanks to a cruel curse that repels anything made of metal that gets near him. Destitute and hopeless, he decides to end it all. But when a beautiful and mysterious woman saves his life and his soul, it is the beginning of Ryudo's journey into...
19) Blue Period: 14
Author
Series
Blue Period ; 14
Publisher
Kodansha Comics
Pub. Date
2024.
Language
English
Description
Yatora, a perfect high school student with good grades and lots of friends, wanders into the art room one day where a painting awakens him to a kind of beauty he never knew, soon consuming him and sending him deep into the savage world of art.
20) Hidden Japan
Author
Publisher
Smith Street Books
Pub. Date
2024.
Language
English
Description
"Hidden Japan is the ultimate guide to exploring the roads less travelled, in Tokyo and beyond. Chiara Terzuolo takes us on a journey through Tokyo and its surrounding cities, uncovering the hidden treasures that lie beneath the well-trodden hustle and bustle of one of the world's most-travelled destinations. From tucked-away bars to quirky vending machines, themed walks to secret tea houses, Hidden Japan is your guide to the art of wandering off...