(W) JP (A) BG After thirteen years as a loyal employee of the Soonyang Group, South Korea's largest business empire, Hyeonwoo is rewarded with betrayal-and murdered-by his employers! Miraculously, he's given a second chance, reborn back in time as Dojun Jin, grandson of the founder of the corporate dynasty that betrayed him. In a daring quest to rewrite destiny, he will not only attempt to settle the score; he will aim for the ultimate hostile takeover.

(W) Rou Bao Bu Chi Rou Noble-born Mo Xi is the foremost general of Chonghua, known for his ruthless temper and ascetic air. Once he was one of two promising young commanders, twin stars of the empire. His comrade, the lowborn Gu Mang, was Mo Xi's brother-in-arms, best friend, and-secretly-his lover, until the day Gu Mang turned traitor and joined the ranks of their nation's greatest enemy. Now Gu Mang has been returned to the empire a ruined man, a shadow of the military genius he once was. The public clamors for his death, and no one yearns for vengeance more than Mo Xi. Or so he thought-for faced once more with his bitterest enemy, Mo Xi is left with more questions than answers. Why did the man he loved betray him? And what secrets hide behind Gu Mang's tortured eyes?

(W/A/CA) Reiji Miyajima In today's Japan, 'rental' services can deliver an afternoon with a 'friend,' a 'parent,' even a fake girlfriend! After a staggering betrayal by his girlfriend, hapless freshman Kazuya gets just desperate enough to give it a try. But he quickly discovers how complicated it can be to 'rent' an emotional connection, and his new 'girlfriend,' who's trying to keep her side hustle secret, will panic when she finds out her real life and Kazuya's are intertwined in surprising ways! Family, school, and life all start to go wrong, too!

(W/A) Shu Sakuratani While Elizabeth attempts to rescue their father, the two rooster brothers rejoin the battle with Hikari, the devil bent on destroying Keiji and Keisuke. Hikari has transformed into the ultimate expression of his evil power, and it appears nothing can stop him. Keiji's not giving up, but pushing himself past his limits is exactly what Hikari's sinister mother wants-to force Keiji into a corner and trigger his Righteous Egg. Keiji fights for justice, but is there a dark side to his new awakening?

(W/A) Shu Sakuratani While Elizabeth attempts to rescue their father, the two rooster brothers rejoin the battle with Hikari, the devil bent on destroying Keiji and Keisuke. Hikari has transformed into the ultimate expression of his evil power, and it appears nothing can stop him. Keiji's not giving up, but pushing himself past his limits is exactly what Hikari's sinister mother wants-to force Keiji into a corner and trigger his Righteous Egg. Keiji fights for justice, but is there a dark side to his new awakening?

(W/A/CA) Riyoko Ikeda Oscar Francois de Jarjeyes, female commander of the royal guard, is at the center of events at Marie Antoinette's involvement in the scandalous Affair of the Diamond Necklace and her passion for Count Fersen of Sweden causes chaos at the court of Versailles. This deluxe hardcover collects chapters 23-44 of Riyoko Ikeda's historical fiction masterwork.

(W) Peach-Pit The hit gothic fantasy about elegant dolls in a deadly game--which inspired the multimedia franchise--returns to print in brand-new Collector's Edition omnibuses! After enduring cruelty from his classmates, Sakurada Jun shuts himself away, preferring to live in solitude. Just when he thought he'd found peace in seclusion, a mysterious box disrupts his world, revealing the enigmatic Shinku-a living doll from the legendary Rozen Maiden collection. Shinku is beautiful yet demanding, and instantly declares that Jun shall be her new servant. Before he can wrap his head around the unusual events, they're attacked! With no other options for survival, Jun agrees to a contract with Shinku and witnesses the true nature of her power. Now sworn to Shinku, Jun is pulled into the dangerous world of "The Alice Game," a deadly battle where only one of the seven Rozen Maiden dolls can emerge as the perfect doll. With danger lurking at every turn and Shinku's high-maintenance personality to contend with, Jun is about to learn just how intense playing with dolls can be! The manga that ins

(W/A) Chomoran Makie's a boy in love with his tall, older classmate Sachi. As a sign of his affection, he makes Sachi a special lunch every day. Sachi loves Makie, too, but she has a secret: she's actually a shapeshifting monster called a watari, and she was drawn to Makie because he smells delicious! But it's not just Sachi who's drawn to Makie's scent, and soon, he realizes the entire monster world is after him. Fortunately, Sachi's a watari who eats watari, and she pledges to protect him. But how long can Makie survive, with Sachi's appetite the only thing between him and a monster's belly?

(W/A) Chomoran Makie's a boy in love with his tall, older classmate Sachi. As a sign of his affection, he makes Sachi a special lunch every day. Sachi loves Makie, too, but she has a secret - she's actually a shapeshifting monster called a watari, and she was drawn to Makie because he smells delicious! But it's not just Sachi who's drawn to Makie's scent, and soon, he realizes the entire monster world is after him. Fortunately, Sachi's a watari who eats watari, and she pledges to protect him. But how long can Makie survive, with Sachi's appetite the only thing between him and a monster's belly?

(W/A/CA) Naoko Takeuchi The guardians in sailor suits return in this definitive edition of the greatest magical girl manga of all time! Teenager Usagi is not the best athlete, she's never gotten good grades, and, well, she's a bit of a crybaby. But when she meets a talking cat, she begins a journey that will teach her she has a well of great strength just beneath the surface and the heart to inspire and stand up for her friends as Sailor Moon. Features all-new cover illustrations by creator Naoko Takeuchi, a glittering holographic coating, an extra-large size, premium paper, French flaps, and a newly-revised translation!

(W/A/CA) Naoko Takeuchi A new edition of the Sailor Moon manga, for a new generation of fans! Teenager Usagi is not the best athlete, she's never gotten good grades, and, well, she's a bit of a crybaby. But when she meets a talking cat, she begins a journey that will teach her she has a well of great strength just beneath the surface and the heart to inspire and stand up for her friends as Sailor Moon! The original Sailor Moon in a new, affordable edition.

(W/A/CA) Naoko Takeuchi A new edition of the Sailor Moon manga, for a new generation of fans, featuring an updated translation and high page count in a more affordable, portable edition! Teenager Usagi is not the best athlete, she's never gotten good grades, and, well, she's a bit of a crybaby. But when she meets a talking cat, she begins a journey that will teach her she has a well of great strength just beneath the surface and the heart to inspire and stand up for her friends as Sailor Moon! NOTE: Volume 4 will be offered in a future issue of PREVIEWS.

(W/A/CA) Naoko Takeuchi Teenager Usagi is not the best athlete, she's never gotten good grades, and, well, she's a bit of a crybaby. But when she meets a talking cat, she begins a journey that will teach her she has a well of great strength just beneath the surface and the heart to inspire and stand up for her friends as Sailor Moon! The original Sailor Moon in a new, affordable edition.

(W/A/CA) Naoko Takeuchi A new edition of the Sailor Moon manga, for a new generation of fans! Teenager Usagi is not the best athlete, she's never gotten good grades, and, well, she's a bit of a crybaby. But when she meets a talking cat, she begins a journey that will teach her she has a well of great strength just beneath the surface and the heart to inspire and stand up for her friends as Sailor Moon! Featuring an updated translation and high page count in a more affordable, portable edition, perfect to go wherever you or the magical guardian in your life want to take it.

(W/A/CA) Naoko Takeuchi A new edition of the Sailor Moon manga, for a new generation of fans! Teenager Usagi is not the best athlete, she's never gotten good grades, and, well, she's a bit of a crybaby. But when she meets a talking cat, she begins a journey that will teach her she has a well of great strength just beneath the surface and the heart to inspire and stand up for her friends as Sailor Moon! Featuring an updated translation and high page count in a more affordable, portable edition, perfect to go wherever you or the magical guardian in your life want to take it.

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 fi ght the forces of evil! This new edition of the classic manga that started it all reads from right-to-left and contains an amazing new translation! Fans will appreciate that all character names and Japanese honorifics are kept intact.

(W/A) Yuto Suzuki Sakamoto and friends are busy trying to get tickets to the Assassin Exhibition of the Century to stop Slur's terrorist plot of assassinating the JAA's chairman. To gain entry, Sakamoto puts his hopes in a black-market auction, but a ticket-buying battle breaks out with a mysterious person who's trying to obstruct him!

(W/A) Yuto Suzuki Sakamoto and friends are busy trying to get tickets to the Assassin Exhibition of the Century to stop Slur's terrorist plot of assassinating the JAA's chairman. To gain entry, Sakamoto puts his hopes in a black-market auction, but a ticket-buying battle breaks out with a mysterious person who's trying to obstruct him!

(W/A/CA) Mikokuno Homare Life with his new roommate is going swell for Ota Renta. She cooks, she cleans, and she's the cutest thing he's ever seen! Unfortunately, roommate Saki is a succubus who emits aphrodesiac pheromones that drive him crazy. Saki thinks she has a solution to the pheromone problem, but it's going to require hands-on help in the second volume of this sweet and sexy supernatural comedy!

(W/A/CA) Sora Akino Makoto is a laidback teen who just wants to keep his head down and get through high school. His busty best friend Sakurai, however, is constantly pulling him into one shenanigan after another! Not only that, but she's always teasing him in provocative ways. Sure, Makoto's noticed that his friend has gotten super flirty, but that doesn't mean she "likes" him, right? Right?

(W/A) Naoshi Arakawa Midori and Sumire are soccer stars at rival middle schools, destined to collide - one's a striker, the other a goalie. But the two girls end up in the same high school, with a lazy coach and a bizarre teammate, Nozomi, who brags that she's a genius but can't seem to stop kicking the ball into her own goal. To become champions, they'll have to get over their rivalry and work some magic on the field - not to mention the challenges of growing up.

(W) Naoshi Arakawa, Mizuki Tsujimura (A) Naoshi Arakawa On a snowy school day like any other, childhood friends Hiroshi and Mizuki arrive at school to find the campus eerily empty. Before long, they find themselves trapped inside with six other friends, and even stranger, all the clocks have stopped at a very specific moment - the exact time when a former classmate jumped off the school roof to their death three months earlier. It turns out that this departed friend is their way out of their current predicament and may even be among their group? but no one can remember who it was that took their life on that sad day. The students must face themselves and their past memories to piece together the identity of this suicide victim or risk a similar fate.

(W) Yo Asami (A) Takaya Kagami Prequel to the original hit manga series, Seraph of the End! Detailing the events before the apocalypse, 15-year-old Guren Ichinose enrolls at Daiichi Shibuya High, a magical training school. Witness his trials as he must hide his true strength even as he is trampled on at a school for the insufferably privileged.

(W) Katarina (A/CA) Ryosuke Fuji A fast-paced, irreverent adventure for fans of isekai and RPGs! High schooler Rakuro loves hunting down 'trash games,' but one day he decides to play a AAA VR game called Shangri-La Frontier instead. He creates a character with a bird head, skips the cutscenes and jumps right in--but what awaits him in this game is different from anything he's ever faced...

(W/A) Suu Morishita Yuki is a typical college student in all ways but one: She's hard of hearing. A chance encounter on a train leads to a serious crush?but will he give her a chance? A sweet and relatable manga romance from the creator of Shortcake Cake! Even with a hearing aid, the voices of others are an indistinct blur for Yuki. But she's never let that get in the way of a life arranged around her friends, social media, and cute fashion. She's browsing her phone on train when a tourist asks her for directions, and she's ready to panic?but the handsome Itsuomi steps in to help. It turns out her new crush is a friend of a friend, and Yuki's world starts to widen. But even though Itsuomi-kun can speak three languages, sign language isn't one of them. Can Yuki communicate her budding feelings? From the acclaimed author of Shortcake Cake, the hit shojo series with more than a million copies in print, this new work is sure to please fans of romantic stories like A Silent Voice, Kimi ni Todoke, and Love in Focus! Story Locale: A university in modern Japan

(W/A) MAKIHIROCHI As times continue to change and streaming services gain popularity, video rental stores like Ako's struggle to stay in business. The day of reckoning finally arrives when upper management decides to shut down Ako's location. Now, Ako is forced to face multiple aspects of her life as she figures out how to move forward... and what to do next.

(W) Shige (A) Nagayori Itsuki finally spent his first night with Wendy. But he's barely basked in afterglow when the feudal lord of the city, Origoll, shows up to berate him for all the trouble he's caused in town. When Origoll suddenly falls gravely ill, however, Itsuki is determined to help her and puts his alchemy skills to the test to prepare a remedy. Yet nothing seems to work! Finally, he recalls the elusive miracle drug he'd managed to concoct by accident. Will he be able to re-create this life-saving cure in time?

(W/A) Miyuki Unohara Sentenced to death for the crime of sadistically killing his entire village, Neneo is all but ready to accept his unfortunate fate when he is mysteriously bought and saved by the wealthy heiress Freya. Emotionless and numb to the world, Freya is also an outcast, hiding deep wounds of her own. Unfazed by the tales of Neneo's crimes, she enlists him to accompany her in her exile to the far north. As this unlikely pair, both shunned by a cold world, venture together into the deep snow, they begin to find warmth in each other. But the past won't let itself be so easily forgotten...

(W) Baba Okina (A/CA) Kiryu Tsukasa I used to be a normal high school girl but in the blink of an eye, I woke up in a place I've never seen before and-and I was reborn as a spider?! How could something that's nothing more than a tiny spider (that's me) possibly survive in literally the worst dungeon ever? Are there no rules? There should be some rules! Who the hell is responsible for this? SHOW YOUR FACE!

(W/A/CA) Tekka Yagruba When the demon girl Patty finds she's too weak to summon an animal familiar, she chooses an old man named Norman to be her companion instead. Norman has a quirky appreciation for life in all its many forms and is quite the unconventional familiar for a demon like Patty. Together, they embark on an adventure driven by their shared weirdness!

(W/A) Tatsuya Endo Twilight is on the ropes after his battle with an Ostanian spy! Can Nightfall save Twilight from disaster? Will WISE manage to recover their stolen secrets? And what will become of Loid and Yor's marital crisis? Meanwhile, Anya's friendship scheme gets thrown off by an unexpected gift from Damian!

(W/A) Daruma Matsuura A down-and-out samurai who can't even hold a sword enters a strange world of magic searching for honor and redemption. Down-and-out samurai Ryudo Konosuke has a supernatural gift, but it is a power that has ruined his life. Konosuke, Aki, and Bokutake find themselves trapped in a game of chance with a mysterious gambler, Rabbit-Eyed Tenroku, and the wager is nothing less than Tsuki's life! Tenroku's gift guarantees that he can't lose, but losing is exactly what he desires the most! Why does he seek death? The answer lies in his dark past and a famine that struck the land a few years earlier. For Konosuke, cutting through the curse will require him to manifest his own gift in a way he never thought possible. Konosuke cannot wield a metal blade, but he may have a weapon stronger than steel…

(W/A/CA) Kazuki Funatsu A sexy and out-of-this-world alien comedy from the creator of Yokai Girls! Sakura Yoshitake works hard at his corporate job and has very little time to himself. While driving home from his grandma's birthday party, he sees a UFO and crashes his car! A horrifying alien approaches the wreckage, and he promptly passes out. Yet when he awakens in his apartment, he finds a beautiful half-naked woman sleeping next to him. His mystery savior is none other than the alien who caused his accident. She's come to Earth to seduce a human man for the purpose of having a baby… only whenever he touches her, she gets so embarrassed that she transforms back into her terrifying alien form! What's Yoshitake to do about this sexy alien stuck in his apartment? And how is she ever supposed to have a baby if she can't even kiss someone without losing control?

(W/A/CA) Kazuki Funatsu Yoshitake, your average company drone, is out for a drive one night when he spots a UFO and crashes his car. When he next opens his eyes, he's in his apartment, and next to him is a stunningly beautiful alien girl named Lune! She has come to Earth to save her species from extinction by claiming human seed-and sex-crazed Yoshitake is the perfect mate. Unfortunately, Lune's alien physiology leads to an unexpected difficulty that even the world's horniest man may be unable to overcome.

(W) Ryuto (A/CA) Yappen As if annihilating the Holy Kingdom's massive army of 60,000 men weren't enough, the crafty Kousuke now has to work extra hard to restore law and order to the land. But between his loving harem and pampering harpies, both eager to use him like a studhorse, who has time for all that? And if his plate wasn't full enough, a fateful envoy arrives from the empire?

(W) Makoto Shinkai (A) Amashima Denki High school junior Suzume runs into a handsome stranger, Souta, who tells her he is looking for a door and asks where he can find ruins in her town. She points him toward a resort that has long fallen past all hope of repair, then thinks better of it and races after him to warn him of the danger of trespassing there. While fruitlessly searching for Souta, Suzume opens a door seemingly to nowhere and finds a starry landscape stretch out on the other side of the frame. Later, at school, she realizes she's the only one who can see an ominous, worm-like colossus emerge from the mountains and rushes back to the ruins where she finds Souta struggling to shut the monster back in the door. Suzume helps Souta close the door on the mythical worm, which is revealed to be the cause of massive earthquakes, never knowing that her involvement would soon leave Souta trapped in the three-legged wooden chair Suzume's late mother crafted for her and send them both on a cross-country race to seal all the worms away and save Japan from devastation.

(W) Motoo Nakanishi (A/CA) Yu Satomi Upon Miura Naotsugu's request to find his elder brother, Jinya visits the Miuras' family home to investigate his disappearance. But as soon as Jinya and Naotsugu step into the missing brother's room, they are pulled into a strange, other world. There, they discover a little girl playing with a ball and the elder brother by her side... Was the brother spirited away by a demon, after all? A surprising truth awaits them as they unravel the mystery of his departure...

(W) Motoo Nakanishi (A/CA) Yu Satomi Edo period, Japan. A young warrior, Jinta, has dedicated his life to the protection of a priestess in a remote mountain village. When demons appear and threaten the shrine, Jinta is tasked with entering the forest to hunt them down. But the mysteries he uncovers there change his fate forever, and send him on a journey traversing space and time. Jinta's dark destiny will carry him through hundreds of years of history, as he struggles to answer a single question: why does he wield the sword?