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I think our son is gay volume 1
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English
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"Despite belonging to a family of four, the Aoyama residence is typically home to three due to father Akiyoshi's job. While he's away at work, mom Tomoko and her two beloved sons Hiroki and Yuri go about their everyday lives--going to school, making dinner, doing homework, etc. But now that Hiroki's in his first year of high school, his thoughts are turning ever so slightly to sex and romance and his mom can't help but notice his slips of the tongue...
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A mysterious woman, with a turtle-like demon tattooed on her back and the ability to swim like a fish, is stealing weapons from men around Edo. It's scarring egos and causing lots of problems. Of course, our protagonist Asa has the answer to the mystery. And in a surprise turn, a samurai cop whom we've met before finally captures the woman, and does so in a rather erotic way.
Author
Pub. Date
2022.
Edition
English edition, First edition.
Language
English
Description
"Set in an apartment complex on the outskirts of Tokyo, Murasaki Yamada's Talk to My Back (1981-84) explores the fraying of Japan's suburban middle-class dreams through a woman's relationship with her two daughters as they mature and assert their independence, and with her husband, who works late and sees his wife as little more than a domestic servant"--
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Pub. Date
[2019]
Edition
Collector's edition; English edition; Kodansha Comics edition.
Language
English
Description
"Cardcaptor Sakura brought a generation of readers to manga, and now it's back in a definitive collector's edition! Cardcaptor Sakura is one of the all-time classics of the magical girl genre, and the Collector's Edition will be the definitive version of the story, for both long-time fans and readers new to the story. The adventures of the plucky Sakura Kinomoto are as adorably thrilling as ever, as she tracks down the magical Clow Cards and plunges...
Author
Pub. Date
[2015]
Edition
First Edition.
Language
English
Description
Everything you need to start drawing manga! ... popular YouTube artist Mina Mistiqarts Petrovic shares with you all the techniques you need to create not just manga figures and faces, but full characters and scenes. After learning the basics for drawing and coloring eyes, hands, feet and other body parts, you'll move on to facial expressions, hair and clothes - the things that will make your characters stand out from the rest. Then, you'll put what...
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English
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In "Grandmothers, our grandmothers" the "comfort women" of the Japanese Imperial Army share their personal stories with us and give us their testimony. Alongside passionate advocates from younger generations, they protest on a weekly basis-- speaking for all victims of war and violations of human rights. In this book, writer and artist Han Seong-won depicts the ongoing crusade of some of war's most courageous survivor women. These women were forced...
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English
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"Victor Santos (Polar, Violent Love) writes and illustrates a crime and mystery story inspired by Ryunosuke Akutagawa's tales featuring the heroic commissioner Heigo Kobayashi. When the body of a skilled samurai is found along the road to Yamashina in feudal Japan, the search begins for his killer. Detective Heigo Kobayashi takes the case but finds only dead-end clues and no firsthand witnesses"--
12) Just so happens
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"Yumiko was born in Japan but has made a life in London, losing herself in its cosmopolitan bustle. She has a gallery show of her art, a good job, and a good guy she plans to marry. The culture she grew up in seems very far away--until her brother phones with the news that their father has died. Yumiko returns to Tokyo and finds herself immersed in the rituals of death while also plunged into the rituals of life--fish bars, bullet trains, pagodas--as...
13) Tokyo Rose--zero hour: a Japanese woman's persecution and ultimate redemption after World War II
Author
Pub. Date
[2022]
Edition
First edition.
Language
English
Description
"Tells the true story of Iva Toguri, a Japanese American woman who was visiting relatives in Tokyo shortly before the attack on Pearl Harbor. Trapped in Japan, Iva was pressed to renounce her American citizenship, but refused. As war raged across the Pacific, she took a job with Radio Tokyo-where she was forced to host 'Zero Hour,' a propaganda show aimed at demoralizing American troops--in the role of Tokyo Rose, the 'Siren of the Pacific'"--
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English
Description
As contemporary as this graphic art form may appear to readers outside of Japan, manga has, in fact, deep roots in Japanese culture, drawing on centuries-old artistic traditions: traces can be found in seventh century temple paintings, folding screens decorated with comic characters, and painted medieval Emakimono scrolls. The more familiar manga comics of today echo similar themes, both light and serious, and draw on narrative forms present in the...
Author
Pub. Date
[2019]
Edition
Collector's edition; English edition; Kodansha Comics edition.
Language
English
Description
"Cardcaptor Sakura brought a generation of readers to manga, and now it's back in a definitive collector's edition! Cardcaptor Sakura is one of the all-time classics of the magical girl genre, and the Collector's Edition will be the definitive version of the story, for both long-time fans and readers new to the story. The adventures of the plucky Sakura Kinomoto are as adorably thrilling as ever, as she tracks down the magical Clow Cards and plunges...
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Pub. Date
2023
Language
English
Description
A tower looms above the ravaged city...left standing by its ravageres, the psychic terrorist organization Claw, bent on nothing less than world domination! Reigen, Mob, and their friends haven't lost their courage to resist, and fight their way through the rubble in a counterattack. They've battled Claw's elite "Scars" before...but behind them are an inner circle of five ultimate espers, the personal lieutenants of the man at the center of it all--Claw's...
18) Yotsuba&!: 6
Author
Pub. Date
2009.
Edition
First Yen Press edition.
Language
English
Description
"Yotsuba's getting a biiiiike, Yotsuba's getting a biiiiiike!! Didja know the wheels of a bike go round and round and round and round and round and round and round and round and round and round and round and round and roun-- oh, Yotsuba's getting dizzy--whoooooa" -- from publisher's web site.
19) Yotsuba&!: 8
Author
Series
Yotsuba&! volume 8
Pub. Date
2010.
Edition
First Yen Press edition.
Language
English
Description
"The ranch wasn't fun, huh? But maybe festivals will be less funner?! (Yotsuba's playing opposites, ha-ha!) Yotsuba got uninvited to Fuuka's school for a culr-- a clart-- a cultural festival! And she didn't promise Yotsuba there wouldn't be CAKE! Yotsuba doesn't want a cake as biiiiiig as Jumbo, nope!! You wouldn't either, now would you?! Ohhh! And then, and then! There ISN'T gonna be a great big festival for the whole town to go to! And Yotsuba isn't...
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