A girl and her baby monkey are seldom parted…When Haruna Aizawa came to her new school, she was reserved and cloistered herself from the rest of her new classmates. That is, she tried to. But Masaru (“Macharu”) and his classmates had their way of growing on her, in spite of herself. She even came to find that she liked Macharu very much. In this volume the two start off with a conspired date, than...[Read More]

School life is like being on a monkey mountain…At least, that’s how it seems to high school student Haruna Aizawa. Recently transferred from a prestigious academy, Haruna is jaded with school life after all those at her former school whom she thought were her friends decided to snub her. After that, she saw school life for what it was—a hierarchy of wild monkeys, each with their own cliques and in...[Read More]

Miyamoto Musashi, one of the best-known historical figures in Japan, and possibly the most celebrated samurai of all time grew up in an era fraught with war. In this manga, loosely based on the fictional novel Musashi by Eiji Yoshikawa, manga genius Takehiko Inoue explores a detailed and exciting story of how Musashi grew from boy to legend.

Heavy-duty fists, firearms, and Taoists to pick off at leisure and plenty of them!Black Cat, the nickname of Train Heartnet, is about Train and his ragtag band of bounty-hunting “Sweepers” as they work to undermine the plans of Creed and his Apostles of the Stars. Both Train and Creed have been at odds for years, since their leaving the Chronos Numbers (an organized group of assassins), and now Cr...[Read More]

There’s more than one way to beat a demon.Kekkaishi shows you one way of banishing demons and spirits by following the training of junior high student Yoshimori Sumimura. He is the middle son in a family of kekkaishi—barrier masters. His family, and his neighbors the Yukimuras, are charged with the task of protecting the Karasumori Forest site around their community. Sites are spiritually charged ...[Read More]

Vampires, swans, and politics, oh, my! The Record of A Fallen Vampire is the tale of Akabara “Red Rose” Strauss, stoic vampire king of the fallen Kingdom of Night, in his search for his beloved queen Adelheid to free her from the seals placed on her a thousand years ago. Some say he simply threw his kingdom away to find her, but his real reason for abandoning the vampire and dhampire (half-vampire...[Read More]

Action with a purpose, is there anything better?Claymore swipes its way on to the manga scene with action packed stories that make the adventure that much better.  Not familiar with the storyline? Let me catch you up.  Claymore is set in a time where monsters run rampant and, for a time, have overtaken the human population.  When the humans finally get fed up with getting eaten/killed (is there a ...[Read More]

Oh, wow.  Normally when I read manga, because I do it so often, I can get into characters pretty darn well.  With Skip Beat, it was like pulling teeth. In volume 13 of Skip Beat we are smack in the middle of an acting war between Itsumi and her testing partner Ren.  They're deadlocked in a struggle to get through a test scene.  Itsumi is mad at Ren for saying that he was going to make her act. Wit...[Read More]

A John Woo movie in comic form.That is the first thought that comes to mind when reading Black Lagoon. The book is cover-to-cover action as you’re introduced to the courier crew of the Black Lagoon. You’re instantly introduced to Dutch (the leader) and Revy (“Two-Hand”) as they are in the middle of a job of robbing poor salaryman Rokuro Okajima (“Rock”) of a disc he’s transporting for his company....[Read More]

Story:Love Com is the story of the oddball friendship between Risa Koizumi and Atsushi Ootani. Their class had automatically christened them to be close, because Risa is the tallest girl in class and poor Atsushi is the shortest boy. Basically, everyone has their sites set on getting the pair to hook up, whether they want to or not. However, the pair does end up becoming close friends and share th...[Read More]