With the world now safe and the ninja villages working together, Naruto's work as Hokage seems pretty mundane. Giving his son, Boruto, enough attention is the toughest task he has. But then Sasuke uncovers a conspiracy that may involve surviving members of the Uchiha clan. And at the same time, Sarada begins to have doubts about the truth of her origins.
(W) Takeshi Yano, Masashi Kishimoto
A rupture in the alliance at the Summit of the Five Kages triggers the Fifth Great Ninja War! Meanwhile, Shikamaru and his family grow further and further apart. But Shikamaru has a very powerful card up his sleeve to bring peace to both the world and his family!
(W) Jun Esaka
When Naruto is no longer able to use chakra, the shinobi of Konoha come together to help him. Even Orochimaru offers to assist with scientific ninja tools. While directing the people around him with all the dynamic ferocity of a mighty whirlpool, Naruto stands tall, facing this trial with an unbreakable spirit!
(W/A) Yuki Midorikawa
When Natsume and his friend Tanuma help a young woman find her way through the woods, they end up having to take cover from a storm in a mysterious mansion! The shelter comes at a cost though, and the boys are cajoled into joining a s?ance to summon a yokai. But when a sudden power outage disrupts the ritual, Natsume, Tanuma, and Nyanko Sensei are faced with something far more strange than the errant yokai they were expecting!
(W/A/CA) Hayao Miyazaki
Hayao Miyazaki's Nausicaä of the Valley of the Wind, based on his own manga, was released in 1984 and has been a cult classic ever since. In a long-ago war, humankind set off a devastating ecological disaster. The earth is slowly submerging beneath the expanding Sea of Decay, an enormous toxic forest that creates mutant insects and poisonous spores. Beyond the sea lies the Valley of the Wind, a kingdom of barely 500 citizens and home to Nausicaä, who risks everything to save her people and bring peace and health to the valley. An oversized picture book capturing the magic of Hayao Miyazaki's legendary animated film with easy-to-read text, full-color pictures direct from the film and a family-friendly oversized hardcover format.
In this sweeping magical-realist epic set in the fictional south sea island Republic of Navidad, Ikezawa gives his imagination free rein to reinvent the myths of the twentieth century Japan. The story takes off as a delegation of Japanese war veterans pays an official visit to the ex-World War II colony, only to see the Japanese flag burst into flames. The following day, the tour bus, and its passengers, simply vanish. The locals exchanges absurd rumors - the bus was last seen attending Catholic mass, the bus must have skipped across the lagoon - but the president suspects a covert guerrilla organization is trying to undermine his connections with Japan. Can the real answers to the mystery be found, or will the president have to be content with the surreal answers?
(W/A) Ai Yazawa
Peppy and creative teenager Mikako wants nothing more than to make it as a fashion designer. But when she enters art school alongside her lifelong friend Tsutomu, she finds herself distracted by his sudden popularity and subsequent love life. Despite her feelings, Mikako forms a club with Tsutomu and her friends to sell their creations at local flea markets. What begins as an exciting day quickly turns sour when discord arises between members in the group.
(W/A) Ai Yazawa
As Mikako and her friends work hard to get their club up and running, Mikako notices Tsutomu has gotten close to their new member, Ayumi, and begins to grow jealous. Still unsure of what to do about her feelings, Mikako decides to track down her estranged father. Will this long-overdue reunion lead to a breakthrough for Mikako, or is nothing she can do extreme enough to force her to unbottle her emotions?
(W/A) Ai Yazawa
After winning the Grand Prix award at the Yaza Arts Fashion Show, Mikako and Risa are offered the chance to study abroad in London for a year and a half with all expenses covered. As the initial thrill wanes, however, Mikako's apprehensions grow, especially with the potential strain that leaving might put on her relationship with Tsutomu. Meanwhile, Ruriko is feeling sick, and everyone fears a relapse in her condition. After Ruriko receives a shocking diagnosis, Mikako is forced to reexamine her decision. Will she stay behind and choose love, or follow her passion and make her dreams of being a famous fashion designer finally come true in London?
(W/A/CA) Hit-Point
Have you ever wondered what the Neko Atsume kitties get up to when they're not playing with the toys you set out for them or leaving you fish?? Turn the inventive pages of this haiku almanac and find out!
(W/A/CA) Hit-Point
An offi cial activity book with so many ways to enjoy the Neko Atsume kitties: seek-and-finds, stickers and the only place to find the official kitty bios! This book makes it easy for you to explore the wider world of Neko Atsume with exclusive kitty habitats that take you out of the yard and into your imagination. Come play with them!
The year is 2025 and Otaba General Construction has received its most daunting challenge yet-a contract to build a tourist center on the moon. Otaba engineer, Aomine, and teen genius, Tae, head to the moon where adventure, trouble, and perhaps romance await.
It's hate at first sight... rather a knee-to-the-head at first sight when Raku Ichijo meets Chitoge Kirisaki! Unfortunately, Raku's gangster father arranges a false love match with their rival's daughter, who just so happens to be Chitoge! However, Raku's searching for his childhood sweetheart from ten years ago, with a pendant around his neck as a memento, and he can't even remember her name or face!
(W/A) Taiyo Matsumoto
In a world where most of the earth has become a harsh desert, the Rainbow Council of the Peace Corps has a growing crisis on its hands. No. 5, one member of a team of superpowered global security guardians and a top marksman, has gone rogue. Now the other guardians have to hunt down No. 5 and his mysterious companion, Matryoshka. But why did No. 5 turn against the council, and what will it mean for the future of the world? For teen audiences.
(W/A/CA) Tasuku Karasuma
Keeping Tetsuro, the fugitive son of the Berühren Corporation, safe is going to take resources Juzo doesn't have. An old contact at the Extended Management Squad can help, but in exchange Juzo has to bring in the very first noncompliant Extended, Hayden Gondry, the suspect in a number of murders whose victims had their auxiliary brains forcibly removed. Juzo takes the case, but tracking down Gondry will entangle him in a larger conspiracy… For older teen audiences.
(W/A/CA) Tasuku Karasuma
As a Resolver, Juzo takes care of problems involving the Extended. Lately however, the source of most of Juzo's problems is?himself! His recent involvement with the Ber?hren megacorporation has put him on their hit list, and when a new Ber?hren agent shows up in his office with her own Gun Slave Unit partner in tow, Juzo must choose between his own survival and having to take on a fellow veteran. For older teen audiences.
(W/A/CA) Tasuku Karasuma
The war that changed Juzo's life still echoes in the present when the anti-Extended terrorist organization Spitzbergen abducts Juzo's friends. Juzo goes after them, but finds his path blocked by Victor Steinberg, a man with a reputation as a fierce enemy of the Extended. Victor also happens to be Mary's brother, and was once Juzo's personal engineer during the war? For older teen audiences.
(W/A/CA) Tasuku Karasuma
When you are a tool of a megacorporation, can you ever escape their grip? Juzo hasn't got an answer just yet, but he's determined to live his life for himself. Too bad for Juzo that the agents of Ber?hren have other ideas. A man claiming to be Tetsuro's brother wants to test a new version of Ber?hren's Harmony device, and Juzo and Tetsuro are the guinea pigs.
(W/A) Tasuku Karasuma
Juzo and Mary survived the Weapons Vault and their meeting with Number 12. Although the encounter left them with some troubling questions, the answers will have to wait-Juzo still has bills to pay! The daily work of an Extended private investigator is a far cry from digging into the conspiracies of a megacorporation, but no less dangerous. When a client comes to Juzo asking him to investigate insurance fraud, Juzo promises to discover the truth, even if his client doesn't want to hear it! For older teen audiences.
(W/A) Tasuku Karasuma
Wurzel, the Ber?hren board of directors, has decided to free Suiso Arahabaki at the urging of one of its members, Chief Operating Officer Honest. But this move may be part of a broader power play. The megacorporation's sinister influence reaches every level of the city, from the halls of justice to the back streets, where Juzo continues to search for a way to free himself from Ber?hren's grasp. Destroying Suiso might just be the way to do so, but Suiso himself is unlike any opponent Juzo has faced before? For older teen audiences.
(W/A) Tasuku Karasuma
Ex-soldier Juzo Inui has one question?who turned him into a cyborg and erased his memories?
After the war, cyborg soldiers known as the Extended were discharged. Juzo Inui is one of them, a man whose body was transformed, his head replaced with a giant gun. With no memory of his previous life?or who replaced his head and why?Inui now scratches out a living in the dark streets of the city as a Resolver, taking on cases involving the Extended.
Io, one of Tetsuro?s siblings, has risen in revolt against COO Honest, who has seized control of Ber?hren. Juzo, Mary, and Testuro have entered the corporate stronghold to stop Io and rescue Rinko, and now face an army of Extended security guards slaved to Io?s Harmony device. If the guards can be dealt with, Juzo will still have to take on Io, and the physical confrontation may not be as devastating as the real reason Ber?hren wants to get its hands on Juzo?s parallel sub-brain? (STL216036) (C: 0-1-2)
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(W/A) Tasuku Karasuma
With the activation of the Wide-Range Harmony device, the Extended throughout the city are under C.O.O. Honest's control. But thanks to Suiso's desperate sacrifice, Juzo managed to escape its effects. As Honest prepares to enact the final step in her plan, overwriting the minds of every Extended, Juzo desperately races to stop her. The confrontation will force him to take on the most powerful adversary he's yet faced-himself. For older teen audiences.
(W/A/CA) Aoi Makino
After that day, she stopped being a girl. In the wake of an assault, Nina Kamiyama, a former idol in the group Pure Club, shuns her femininity and starts dressing as a boy. At high school she keeps to herself, but fellow student Hikaru Horiuchi realizes who she is. What secrets is she keeping? The shocking drama starts. For older teen audiences.
(W/A/CA) Aoi Makino
'This is exactly why she got herself stabbed by a fan.' Heartbroken Nina Kamiyama is a former idol. She's decided to live her life by keeping her past identity a secret, but her situation intensifies when another discovers who she really is. Who can she trust?
Rikuo trains for a rematch against the yokai Tsuchigumo, who has his friend Yuki-Onna in his clutches. To get him up to par, Gyuki of the Nura clan has ordered Rikuo to attain a technique worthy of the Lord of a Hundred Demons in just three days. But time is running out and Rikuo hasn't gained anything but bumps and bruises. Will he be able to save Yuki-Onna?
Caught in The Ripper's scissors-hold, Rikuo faces off against this terrifying enemy whose Fear feeds on the pain of children. Speaking of eating, brother and sister team Ryuji and Yura travel to the worst tourist destination ever, the Village That Devours People!!
Harken back with us to the Golden Age of Edo, when Rikuo's father Rihan first takes control of the Nura clan. Gain new perspectives on Rikuo's family history, as well as the backstory on some of your favorite devilish yokai (including that pesky Demon Lord Gorozaemon Sanmoto). Follow Rihan's second-heir adventures as he learns the hard way that controlling, commanding and battling yokai is not to be taken lightly, lest you be the one who's taken.
A supernatural saga of a 13-year-old by day, and a leader of a demon clan by night- straight from the pages of Weekly Shonen Jump and the anime is airing on Neon Alley!
Thanks to rumors, all of Tokyo is terrified of Rikuo and wants him dead! But Rikuo's got other problems too. In Shibuya, a yokai is turning human girls into monsters, and he's got a special spell in store for Rikuo when he tries to stop him.
(W/A/CA) Hiroshi Shiibashi Yura and Tsuchigumo are under attack in Tsuchigumo's home territory of Kyushu! The Gokadoin clan's Hiruko, a descendant of the evil Seimei, is more powerful than they had expected. Meanwhile Rikuo seeks advice from his grandfather--how will he gather enough fear to defeat this fearsome enemy?!
A series of culinary battles between Yamaoka and Kaibara Yuzan features the ingredient of vegetables, specifically cabbages and turnips. Oishinbo assumes the role of guide, steering its readers through a dizzying array of culinary possibilities…' - Julie Brau, Gastronomica.
In this volume of Oishinbo, Yamaoka and company look into the single most essential food in Japanese cuisine: rice. Cultivated for millennia, a staple meal in itself and the basis of countless other dishes, rice is an important component not only of the Japanese kitchen but also of Japanese culture. When Yamaoka is asked by T zai's head chef for help in coming up with a new rice dish, what starts out as a simple culinary request rapidly grows into a disquisition into the past, present and future of Japan's food culture.
(W/A) Eiichiro Oda
A superstar battle royale begins as Luffy's crew once again goes up against Kaido and the power players allied with the Four Emperors of the Sea. Luffy's Akazaya samurai allies are playing offense, but when Big Mom's pirate progeny get in on the action and Kaido's daughter switches sides, the fight becomes a family affair!
(W) Sho Hinata, Tatsuya Hamazaki (A) Boichi
Experience the origin story of Fire Fist Ace, the legendary older brother of Straw Hat Luffy, in this exciting manga by renowned artist Boichi! Adventure along with Ace as he gathers a ragtag crew of like-minded buccaneers, including Masked Deuce, Mihal, Skull, and the wild Kotatsu, and forms the Spade Pirates. Witness the power of the Devil Fruit as it bestows Fire Fist's fearsome punching power! Piratical feats abound as Ace and his Spade Pirates head toward the New World and the dreaded Captain Whitebeard. Don't miss the bonus chapter featuring Straw Hat swordsman Zolo!
(W) Eiichiro Oda, Tatsuya Hamazaki (A/CA) Tatsuya Hamazaki
After an undersea tangl with mermaids and fish-men, Portgas D. Ace leads his Spade Pirates crew to the New World, a place where pirate masters and rookies battle for territory and treasure. As he flees memories of his secret past, Ace sets his sights on one of the strongest fleets in the ocean - the Whitebeard Pirates, ruled by dread pirate Whitebeard himself, the strongest man in the world!
(W/A/CA) Eiichiro Oda
The fourth One Piece Box Set contains volumes 71-90, which make up the Dressrosa, Zou, Whole Cake Island and Reverie arcs. Along with these thrilling, action-packed stories, the box set also includes an exclusive premium booklet and double-sided color poster. For teen audiences.
Arriving on a new island, Luffy and Zoro meet Nami, a girl thief with a special focus: robbing pirates! Specifically, she's out to steal a map of the 'Grand Line,' the equatorial belt where the mightiest (and richest) pirates in the world roam. It's just too bad the map belongs to the fiendish pirate Buggy the Clown!
Don Kreig's evil pirate armada goes up against the pirate-cooks of Baratie, the Oceangoing Restaurant, in an attempt to hijack their place of business. The pirate-cooks aren't going to stand for it - until Kreig releases one of the most dangerous secret weapons in his arsenal: Invincible Pearl! When Sanji steps in to the fray, it turns out that he and Chef-Zeff (better known as the 'Crap Geezer') have some unfinished business concerning the manner in which the Crap Geezer lost his leg! Will their differences come between them, or make the Baratie stronger? Luffy's moved by Sanji's motivation and steps into battle to protect the Baratie, but it turns out that Don Kreig has an even more deadly weapon - Gin, the very man whose life Sanji saved with a nice, rounded meal. T Rating
Luffy and crew must contend with 'Saw-Tooth' Arlong and his nasty Fish Man pirates. Arlong's pirates specialize in using mafia tactics to squeeze the lifeblood from innocent villagers. In the interim, however, Luffy's crew meets up with Nojiko, Nami's tangerine-growing sister, and the residents of Coco Village. They reveal Nami's tragic pact with Arlong and her dreams for the future. Will Luffy and crew step in to help out Coco Village and their resident pirate Nami? Rating: T