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In 1755, in three European countries, three people are born who will eventually have a fateful meeting in Versailles, France. Hans Axel von Fersen, born the eldest son of a Swedish senator; Oscar François de Jarge, born the youngest daughter of a French general; and Marie Antoinette, born the princess of Austria and the Habsburgs! The great masterpiece that shines in the history of Shojo Manga is finally here!
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Haunted by a space flight accident that claimed the life of his beloved wife, Yuri finds himself six years later as part of a team of debris cleaners on a vessel called the Toy Box charged with clearing space junk from space flight paths. The team consists of Hachimaki, a hot shot debris-man with a sailor's affinity for the orbital ocean; Fee, a chain-smoking tomboy beauty with an abrasive edge; and Pops, a veteran orbital mechanic whose avuncular presence soothes the stress of the job. *Won the Seiun Award for Best Comic of the Year in 2002.*
Planetes
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The people and cyborgs of the Scrap Yard live beneath the flying city of Tiphares, whose inhabitants dump their junk in the Scrap Yard and rules above it's inhabitants. One day doc Ido, a former Tipharean citizen, finds the intact head of young cyborg-girl in a vast pile of scrap. He takes her in and gives her a body and the name Alita. Alita then discovers since long forgotten fighting techniques hidden in her body and decides to become a hunter-warrior like Ido.
Battle Angel Alita
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π is an innocently positive older sister who loves to hum rap tunes and Makki is an introverted and perpetually book-reading younger brother. They possess eternal life and spend their never-ending days on a planet where all mankind has been wiped out long ago. Using a simple yet impactful drawing style, the author portrays the everyday life of these immortal siblings and their impossible journey of exploration of what it means to live.
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A spaceship in the shape of a horse-drawn carriage travels across the galaxy. Riding in the carriage is Ridley, the scientist who built this eccentric spaceship, and her partner Watari, a shy girl. The two leave Earth, which has become uninhabitable due to environmental pollution, and set off in the carriage. Their goal is to find a safe planet to settle. However, all the planets they visit are very strange! A planet with a god who can bring all things back to life, another planet where the luckiest people are considered the greatest, and a planet with countless libraries... The two girls are sometimes thrown for a loop by these strange worlds...
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The story centers around Ange, an electric doll, and Erio, a human raised by her. In order for Erio to experience the outside world, the two set out on a journey.
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Coming from a single parent family, Wu Xiaorong is ridiculed by both her peers and teachers. She despises going to school yet when she enters her third year of primary school she meets the class celebrity, Tong Kewei. Although Wu Xiaorong feels like the two are from separate worlds, a moment of impulsivity leads to an intimate encounter... Won silver place at the 2022 Japan International Manga Award
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A guest from the planet of happiness, the alien Takopi, arrives on Earth to spread happiness throughout the Earth and meets Shizuka, a girl who never smiles. Looks like she has problems at school and with friends... What will the simple-minded Takopi face? An amazing story begins! ___ **Official English Volumes:** [VIZ](https://www.viz.com/takopi-s-original-sin)
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Ren Amamiya is about to enter his second year after transferring to Shujin Academy in Tokyo. Following a particular incident, his Persona awakens, and together with his friends they form the “Phantom Thieves of Hearts” to reform hearts of corrupt adults by stealing the source of their distorted desires. Meanwhile, bizarre and inexplicable crimes have been popping up one after another…
Persona 5: Mementos Mission
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Comedy is an art, and sometimes you have to suffer for your art. (translated with artist permission)
Dick Cloud
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Kurashita Tsukimi is an 18 year old 'kurage fujoshi'. She lives in Tokyo in an all-female apartment complex full of various types of fujoshi. They fear and despise beautiful, fashionable people while existing happily in their no-man, no make-up world. That all changes when a 'hipster' saves the life of a jellyfish and intrudes upon Tsukimi's isolated existence. Things are made even more complicated when it turns out that the beautiful woman is actually a man in drag. [Official English](https://kodansha.us/series/princess-jellyfish) --- - **Won the Kodansha Manga Award for Shojo in 2010**
Princess Jellyfish
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In the spring of her second year of high school, Sendawara Ichika was told by her doctor that she had two years left to live. Three years later, now in her second year of university, Ichika spends her days not knowing when the end will come. One day, by chance, she is reunited with Yurugi Akifumi -- her former philosophy professor, who quit the university. Once in love with Yurugi-sensei, Ichika has her feelings rekindled upon meeting him again, but... A story of the fleeting love between Ichika, whose life is growing shorter, and a man quietly trying to disappear.
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After adding Chang and Mario, whose lives he saved in the Salvation Game, to his team, Kaiji arrives at the Teiai warehouse to face off with Kazuya, the son of Teiai Group Chairman Hyoudou. Kazuya begins to explain "One Poker," a gambling game where players play a single card on a machine called "Mother Sophie." Kaiji is stunned by Kazuya's proposal of "one bet of 200 million = one life." The ultimate death match, a gambling game that goes beyond the norm, is about to begin!
Gambling Outcast Kaiji: The One Poker Arc - Kaiji Part 5
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Mika is so desperate to see her dead friend again that she tries to kill herself. Before anything can happen, she is saved by two mysterious travelers… Together with her two companions, she embarks on a journey into an illusory world where hope and despair are intertwined! **Note:** ['Hiraeth'](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hiraeth) is a Welsh word for homesickness or nostalgia, an earnest longing or desire, or a sense of regret.
Hiraeth wa Tabiji no Hate
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He seeks no ups and downs in life or in his emotions. He spends his days without any expectations, but then a beautiful girl, Saya, who is the complete opposite of him in every way, approaches him. She has it all: good looks, popularity, and happiness, but for some reason, she suddenly and unilaterally declares that she and Kento are dating. Moreover, she even kisses him. ...? The flat darkness is filled with swells and sparkles! For those of you who despair of the cramped world, Atsushi Uchiyama of "I Can't Choose Between the World or My Girlfriend" presents you a coming-of-age big bang read!
Kowareta Bokura no Senryaku Ren'ai
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Follow the fluffy travels of a female high schooler and a talking Shiba Inu across a post-apocalyptic world! ***(Series has been on Hiatus since October 2022)***
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Garen, who became stranded in a dungeon, met Nemu the Corpse Bearer. A corpse bearer was someone who went to retrieve the bodies of people who'd died in dangerous places like dungeon depths, beast lairs, or the ocean floor. Answering the pleas of the bereaved who said, "I want them back even if it's just their body". Nemu continued to travel to dangerous places, carrying corpses back home.
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They arrive in silence and darkness. They descend from the skies. They have a hunger for human flesh. They are everywhere. They are parasites, alien creatures who must invade - and take control of - a human host to survive. And once they have infected their victims, they can assume any deadly form they choose: monsters with giant teeth, winged demons, creatures with blades for hands. But most have chosen to conceal their lethal purpose behind ordinary human faces. So no one knows their secret - except an ordinary high school student. Shin is battling for control of his own body against an alien parasite, but can he find a way to warn humanity of the horrors to come? [Alternate Official English](https://kodansha.us/series/parasyte/) --- - **Won the Kodansha Manga Award for General Manga in 1993** - **Won the Seiun Award for Best Comic in 1996**
Parasyte