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THE MONKEY DANCE OF DEATH Tetsuo Hara’s masterful follow-up to the generation-defining Fist of the North Star—a rollicking samurai epic inspired by a real-life legend.Keiji’s luck has finally run out. Imperial Regent Hideyoshi has caught wind of his exploits in Kyoto and summons him to an audience with a not-so-veiled threat: fail to appear, and the House of Maeda pays the price. Having brought the nation to heel, the ruthless warlord now seeks to bend the famously freewheeling kabukimono to his will—something Keiji’s samurai pride will never allow. But faced with a foe he can’t simply fight, and with more than his own life at stake, Keiji may soon have no choice but to dance to the tyrant’s drum…or preserve his honor in death!

The shocking, gritty new seinen crime thriller from the team behind bestselling manga My Dearest Self With Malice Aforethought. A unique blend of cinematic art and realistic storytelling undergird the terrifying mysteries and wild reversals of this dark police procedural, which will appeal to older readers of crime novels and graphic fiction far beyond the usual manga audience.With Juzo Haikawa’s sudden arrest and confession, it seems the Mansion Murders have been solved just like that. But Kanon Hasumi, one of Haikawa’s surviving “children,” insists that someone else was actually behind the gruesome crime. Persuaded by her conviction, detective Jin Saeki continues the investigation, which stalls until suddenly Haikawa himself is murdered outside his prison cell…!

Enemies-turned-friends open Pandora’s Box together and search for a place where they can live their truth in this complete-in-one omnibus coming-of-age manga A must-read for older teens and adult fans of seinen and LGBTQ+ series like Welcome Back Alice, The Flowers of Evil, and Boys Run the RiotA single tube of stolen lipstick unlocks an unforgettable summerSuffocated by his rural hometown and the ruthless homophobic bullying he endures at school, Futoshi Mishima has only one escape: late at night, he swipes his mother’s lipstick and delights in quietly dolling himself up. So when that liberating lipstick slips out of his pocket one day, Mishima is at a total loss—until he finds his worst tormenter trying it on for himself. The two stumble into a summer of unprecedented freedom…but as they soon discover, freedom doesn’t come without a cost, and they may not be the only ones in town with something to hide.

WHAT''S THE OPPOSITE OF LOVE? INDIFFERENCE.Keios finally realizes that thanks to his neglect, he and Nicole have never truly connected. As the consequences begin to dawn on him, he launches a frantic campaign to win her back, only to find Nicole is thriving without him. Relishing life on her own terms, she’s seemingly lost all interest in love and proposes a marriage of convenience instead—the kind with no romantic strings attached.But is she truly as indifferent as she seems? Or is there still time for Keios to make things right?

Can true love break a curse that crosses lifetimes? Aito used to think he was an ordinary kid—until the day he fell in love at first sight with a boy at school. Suddenly, memories of his previous life as the tragic little mermaid came flooding back, leaving him unable to speak or stand without agonizing pain. The terrifying ordeal made him swear off love entirely, but a fateful encounter with his charming college classmate Toru now threatens to shake his resolve—and push him into dark waters that might drown him for good.

The classic Gundam series now in a premium Deluxe Edition hardcover!PRAISE FOR THE NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLING SERIES“It’s a good book. Very good, actually. Very good war comics, requiring no prior experience with anime or mecha or Gundam—just a well-made, old-fashioned war comic, full of thrills and spills and lucky breaks and narrow escapes and preening villains you’ll love to hate and pigheaded heroes you may hate to love, and expert drawings by a master craftsman, and hard, sturdy violence.” —Joe McCulloch, The Comics Journal “One of the best drawn and told manga works of recent memory… If you want to understand the fuss around the original Gundam, or even read one of the better manga works out there, then Gundam: The Origin is definitely worth checking out.” —Ollie Barder, Forbes “WINNER: BEST MANGA [2013] This manga was penned by Yoshikazu Yasuhiko—and who better to handle the transformation of the show from screen to page than the man who had key roles in the original series, from character design, to illustration, to layout?” —NEO Magazine (U.K.)“Yasuhiko’s work is just really strong throughout. Fights between mobile suits are exciting, and manage to stay clear despite an impressive amount of detail… These releases deserve as much love as was put into them.”—Joseph Luster, Otaku USA “While it goes without saying that Gundam fans should enjoy these books, they are also a good read for those who simply like a science fiction or a war story that is well-written, nicely illustrated, and full of interesting characters… [S]eriously good literary entertainment.” —Anime News Network “No real knowledge or understanding of the original MSG is needed… What follows are hundreds of pages of suspenseful war drama and sci-fi explosiveness, all of which is well and good (seriously good, actually; this is an intensely fun sci-fi epic), but it’s the visuals that you are truly getting this book for.” —Graphic Novel Reporter “A compelling coming-of-age story. It spins personal and political drama together in a way that is both engaging and satisfying… This is a series you will want to put into a teen’s hands, even if they don’t know it yet. Once they start reading, they won’t want to put it down.” —School Library Journal Blog Network The storied Gundam franchise’s “First Season” that set new standards of verisimilitude for televised sci-fi animation returns in comics form at the hand of one of the initial creators! The definitive account expands on the classic narrative with the same sense of purpose that lit up the screen more than four decades ago.This new edition collects the original bestselling twelve-installment English release into six oversized volumes. All of the many color pages—unusually numerous for Japanese comics—have been retained…only at a larger size. The master’s artwork has never looked so grand! (Does not include essays and illustrations from the original release that are not the author’s own)

The battle for the fate of the world begins with a single bite. All Seiji wants is to live like an ordinary high school kid. But for the past ten years, an unending stream of “accidents” have made it a daily battle to stay alive at all. So when a mysterious messenger hints that the answer to Seiji’s problems may lie in his past, he digs up a curious pomegranate he’d once found at the bottom of a well rumored to lead to the underworld and tries to get rid of it for good. Unfortunately, that unearthly piece of fruit wasn’t all Seiji brought back with him, and his split-second solution may have just opened an ungodly can of worms poised to rock this world—and the next—to its very core.

The award-winning comic about wine that has been a hit not just all over Asia but also in France! Apple TV live-action drama series was recent winner of International Emmy Award!Now an Apple Original series The first of the heaven-sent bottles is revealed in these pages. No less gripping: the dramas of memory that unfold as Shizuku helps out an amnesiac painter, Chosuke hears from the French lady of his unrequited longings, and Miyabi meets a former classmate turned newly-rich snob for whom wines are merely brands. “Absolute page-turner… It’s the sweeping two-page illustrations of taste-transporting moments (a shirt-tearing jam by rock band Queen, a maiden fleeing through strawberry fields) that better capture wine’s great allure than a thousand dry scribblings on history and weather conditions.” —Time Out New York“An almost psychedelically beautiful work…It’s like Speed Racer crossed with Wine Spectator.” —The Daily Dish (LA Times)

Teenage Sunny, a nonverbal shut-in (or hikikomori) dealing with the death of his older sister, leaves the house for the first time in years when his old friend Kel appears suddenly on his doorstep. At the same time, Sunny''s dream-world alter ego Omori embarks on a quest with Kel and their friends Aubrey and Hero to search for Basil, a missing member of their group. Together the party must navigate the perils of this strange world, as well as their complicated feelings and repressed memories, to move forward and find what they''ve lost...!

Combining futuristic science fiction with ancient religion and tradition, award-winning mangaka Oh!great presents this utterly unique battle for earth through gorgeous, electrifying art unlike anything we''ve seen before.Split-Plit, a monster of urban legend who pries apart every hole and crevice in sightJin, a young man living in a small Japanese town, finds himself united with Gao, a soldier of the British Empire who was driven from his home by Catherine, Night of Typhoons. One day, when the tiny Split-Plit grows to monstrous size and runs amok, Gao is forced to choose between his military''s policy of exterminating the Nights and the Japanese desire to coexist with them. How will he navigate this fundamental difference in values? And even if he and Jin dance the Kagura, can they really protect the town from this unthinkable threat...?!

Two high school girls begin a drama club as a way to share Sakura''s storeis and in the process create a platform for helping each other shine!ACT OUT YOUR YOUTH!When shy, self-conscious Sakura Akutsu and total opposite Tsubame Hiragi—the outgoing, super self-confident transfer student—meet, they put their creative forces together to start a school drama club and even manage to recruit an experienced actor to their growing troupe. But as soon as this fledgling playwright and thespian sit in on rehearsals for a professional production, they are forced to realize their talents might actually tear them apart. Will they both be able to keep up when one spreads her wings and flies? Or will their experiment in expression crash and burn?

The classic Gundam series now in a premium Deluxe Edition hardcover!PRAISE FOR THE NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLING SERIES“It’s a good book. Very good, actually. Very good war comics, requiring no prior experience with anime or mecha or Gundam—just a well-made, old-fashioned war comic, full of thrills and spills and lucky breaks and narrow escapes and preening villains you’ll love to hate and pigheaded heroes you may hate to love, and expert drawings by a master craftsman, and hard, sturdy violence.” —Joe McCulloch, The Comics Journal “One of the best drawn and told manga works of recent memory… If you want to understand the fuss around the original Gundam, or even read one of the better manga works out there, then Gundam: The Origin is definitely worth checking out.” —Ollie Barder, Forbes “WINNER: BEST MANGA [2013] This manga was penned by Yoshikazu Yasuhiko—and who better to handle the transformation of the show from screen to page than the man who had key roles in the original series, from character design, to illustration, to layout?” —NEO Magazine (U.K.)“Yasuhiko’s work is just really strong throughout. Fights between mobile suits are exciting, and manage to stay clear despite an impressive amount of detail… These releases deserve as much love as was put into them.”—Joseph Luster, Otaku USA “While it goes without saying that Gundam fans should enjoy these books, they are also a good read for those who simply like a science fiction or a war story that is well-written, nicely illustrated, and full of interesting characters… [S]eriously good literary entertainment.” —Anime News Network “No real knowledge or understanding of the original MSG is needed… What follows are hundreds of pages of suspenseful war drama and sci-fi explosiveness, all of which is well and good (seriously good, actually; this is an intensely fun sci-fi epic), but it’s the visuals that you are truly getting this book for.” —Graphic Novel Reporter “A compelling coming-of-age story. It spins personal and political drama together in a way that is both engaging and satisfying… This is a series you will want to put into a teen’s hands, even if they don’t know it yet. Once they start reading, they won’t want to put it down.” —School Library Journal Blog Network The storied Gundam franchise’s “First Season” that set new standards of verisimilitude for televised sci-fi animation returns in comics form at the hand of one of the initial creators! The definitive account expands on the classic narrative with the same sense of purpose that lit up the screen more than four decades ago.This new edition collects the original bestselling twelve-installment English release into six oversized volumes. All of the many color pages—unusually numerous for Japanese comics—have been retained…only at a larger size. The master’s artwork has never looked so grand! (Does not include essays and illustrations from the original release that are not the author’s own)

The shooting of Kaito has triggered a Flood in the normally emotionless Nagai, releasing a massive number of IBMs. Not wanting to miss out on the fun, Sato has matched his pace, and Iruma Base is overrun with countless black ghosts. Dr. Ogura, the world’s leading IBM researcher, makes his way toward the heart of the chaos, even as the story barrels toward a moment of truth regarding the origin and very nature of Demi-Humans.The breathless nightmare trip Ajin: Demi-Human, finally available in omnibus format. A thriller that just keeps on getting better and deeper.

Combining futuristic science fiction with ancient religion and tradition, award-winning mangaka Oh!great presents this utterly unique battle for earth through gorgeous, electrifying art unlike anything we''ve seen before.Once called natural disasters, now they are known as "Nights"In the face of the onslaught of incomprehensible calamity, all these young people can do is dance—to summon the power of the gods, to quell the wrath of the Nights, to save their very world. Jin, a boy living in the hinterlands of Japan, finds his fate entwined with that of Gao, a British soldier driven from his home by Catherine, Night of Typhoons. Together they must find a way to fight off despair as the dark of night falls across the world…!!

A massive cultural phenomenon, made even bigger by the hit anime based on it. To this day, ''Ashita no Joe'' remains one of the most important manga of all time, and now it will finally see the light of day in English for the first time! A young drifter named Joe Yabuki wanders through the slums of Tokyo, but when the local ruffians try to give him a hard time he teaches them a rough lesson with his fists. The spectacle sparks a gleam in the eye of an old drunk who happens to be watching - Danpei Tange, a failed boxer and former coach who sees something special in the boy. He pleads with Joe to train with him off, but the cocky young fighter brushes him. Later, though, when Joe is arrested and put in a juvenile detention facility, he realizes that he''s going to need to hone his raw fighting skills if he wants to survive. Thus is born a partnership that might just take Joe all the way to the top...

Two high school girls begin a drama club as a way to share Sakura''s storeis and in the process create a platform for helping each other shine! Shy, mousy Sakura Akutsu is content to keep her adventures confined to the pages of her notebook - until the brash, outgoing new transfer student Tsubame Hiiragi gets her hands on it, that is. The two secretly share the stories Sakura spins, but soon that secret proves too big to keep, and Tsubame whisks Sakura into a glittering world she could never have imagined! As Sakura learns to be confident in who she is and ignore what others think, Tsubame learns to go below the surface and dig deep for emotional truths that may have eluded her... Together they''ll learn about art, love, truth, and most of all, the theater...! This creative and emotionally rich series uses every visual tool available to express the confusion and elation of adolescence.