Laura Johnson

If you love pirates, and you know you do, you'll enjoy this series.  We follow the terminally optimistic Monkey D. Luffy, and his crew of the Going Merry on their quest to find and sail the Grand Line in search of the ultimate pirate treasure and Luffy's ultimate goal of becoming King of the Pirates.  This motley crew seems to be made up entirely of misfits, but they can be trusted upon to stand f...[Read More]

More magical fun and danger abound in this volume of Kyo Kara Maoh!  The fateful day approaches: when the ceremony to re-seal the Originators back into the four Forbidden Boxes to keep their evil powers from wreaking havoc on the newly peacful Demon Kingdom.  However, enemies of the Demon Kingdom with their own plans are creeping closer to strike during this time when King Yuri will undoubtedly be...[Read More]

  Remember Blood: The Last Vampire? Now take those dusty memories, and make all of the characters a.) more realistic, b.) more likable, and c.) more distinct. Hooray for alternat euniverses! In Blood+ Saya is living the life of a normal Japanese teenager, albeit one who suffers from amnesia. She has been adopted (along with two young boys) by a veteran who witnessed her, er, 'unique talents' in Vi...[Read More]

Long after humanity has migrated to colonies in distant systems, Thor and his twin brother Rai return home from school to discover that their parent have been brutally murdered. Without apparent reason, and with no explanation given, the boys are subdued by guards and exiled from their home planet of Juno to the harsh climate of Chimera, an undocumented penal planet. With no safe haven and no way ...[Read More]

Upon entering the prestigious Ouran Academy as an honor student, "commoner" Haruhi Fujioka stumbles upon the newest and most popular group of students in the entire school: The Host Club.Unfortunately, upon meeting the group, a stumble finds Haruhi in debt to the group for millions of yen, forcing an immediate recruitment of Haruhi as the host club's newest member. The only possible problem: despi...[Read More]

After telling ghost stories after school, an accident forces Mai Taniyama to worj as an assistant for a local paranormal investigation company, run by 19-year-old, self-confident, arrogant, ultra-reserved Kazuya Shibuya. Their very first case? Find out the reason behind all the weird occurrences at the very same abandoned school she just heard stories about!

Welcome to the Demon Kingdom, where Yuri Shibuya (formerly of Earth) reigns as king. An entire cast of pretty men, despite the apparent lack of yaoi content or intention, surrounds this optimistic and surprisingly down-to-earth kid as he attempts to lead his kingdom into a new age. Regrettably, trouble is brewing in both worlds as the mysterious ceremony set in motion by the Great One many years a...[Read More]

Once again, this series explores those circumstances that truly push people to seek revenge, and in this volume, we encounter some of the truly strange reasons to seek out the Hell Girl. Unfortunately, the visions sent to Tsugumi Shibata are becoming more vivid and we begin to wonder what, exactly, is driving Ai Enma to communicate with those who would stop her from delivering vengeance...

This fourth volume of the Hell Girl series follows journalist Shibata and his young daughter Tsugumi in their quest to locate those who are seeking vengeance though the Hell Correspondence website and before Hell Girl can seal the seekers in a contract to hell. But Tsugumi, whose troubling connection to the Hell Girl allows her father's interference, is beginning to question whether their involvem...[Read More]

Summary:The third, and ever more exciting, volume in the Hell Girl series; this is where the suspense really picks up. Each encounter by a human with a wish for vengeance treads further into the moral murk that is the human dilemma. Can you follow through with revenge if the price is the damnation of your own soul to hell? Is it right to seek vengeance if the outcome won't reverse the damage?