Summary: Pop singer Mima Kirigoe looks forward to a bright new career when she quits her chart-topping trio to become an actress. When she lands a role in a sexually charged murder mystery, Mima's life begins to fall apart. Reality and hallucinations merge into a terrifying netherworld where innocence is lost and dreams turn into nightmares. Quickly descending into a dangerous state of paranoid...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2000
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1 available in Anime, Call number: DVD ANIME PERSummary: Young widow Tanpopo attempts to start a small ramen noodle restaurant. She has little success until she meets Gorō, a cowboy-hat-wearing truck driver who decides to helps her to make the perfect bowl of top ramen. A story that features various subplots and an eclectic group of supporting characters, all of whom have expressively passionate relationships with food.
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2000
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2 available in Foreign DVDs, Call number: DVD FOREIGN TAMSummary: "After a yacht is damaged in a storm and stranded on a deserted island, the passengers ... take refuge in a fungus covered boat. While using ... mushrooms for sustenance, they find the ship's journal describing the mushrooms to be poisonous, however some members of the shipwrecked party continue to ingest the mysterious fungi transforming them into hideous fungal monsters."
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2005
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1 available in NEW Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD FOREIGN MATSummary: After more than a decade of sober political dramas and social-minded periodpieces, the great Japanese director Masaki Kobayashi shifted gears dramatically for this rapturously stylized quartet of ghost stories. Featuring colorfully surreal sets and luminous cinematography, these haunting tales of demonic comeuppance and spiritual trials, adapted from writer Lafcadio Hearn's collections of...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2015
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Place a hold to request this item.Summary: Plain, timid and obsessed with jellyfish, Tsukimi is a far cry from her idea of a princess. Her tepid life as a jobless illustrator comes complete with roommates who harbor diehard hobbies that solidify their status as hopeless social rejects. These wallflowers run a tight, nun-like ship, but their no-men-allowed-not-no-one-not-no-how bubble is unwittingly burst after Tsukimi brings home a...
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Publisher / Publication Date: FUNimation Productions 2012
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1 available in Young Adult Anime, Call number: DVD ANIME PRITakahiro
Summary: While on a mission to exterminate a new type of Danger Beast, Tatsumi is reunited with none other than General Esdeath! With one last chance to win Esdeath over to Night Raid's side, will Tatsumi prove fruitful in his efforts?
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Publisher / Publication Date: Yen Press 2016
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1 available in Adult Graphic Novels, Call number: 741.5 AKATakahiro
Summary: "Akame and her comrades enjoy a moment of calm before the impending assault against the Capital. Night Raid has lost many dear friends in their fight against the Empire and are resolved to do whatever must be done so that their comrades' sacrifices will not be in vain. But the Empire has brought more than resolve to the battlefield: Esdeath and the Minister have prepared a special 'welcoming...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Yen Press 2018
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Summary: "Deciding the best way to cripple the revolutionary army is to target its funding. Akame and her allies take to the trade routes to find out where the money is coming from. Identifying the enemy's backers is only half the mission though. Standing in their way is the leader of the Oarburghs, who has inspired a passionate entourage of equally deadly assassins! How will Akame overcome such a...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Yen Press 2017
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1 available in Adult Graphic Novels, Call number: 741.5 AKATakahiro
Summary: "Before becoming Night Raid's deadliest ally, Akame was a young girl bought by the Empire and raised as an assassin whose sole purpose was to slaughter everything in her path. Because that's what makes people happy--right? Discover Akame's shocking past in ... the prequel to the ... series Akame ga kill"--Page 4 of cover.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Yen Press 2016
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1 available in Adult Graphic Novels, Call number: 741.5 AKATakahiro
Summary: Akame and her teammates have finally arrived at the headquarters of the religious organization ... but awaiting them are both the Jaegers and the Four Rakshasa Demons from the Temple of the Imperial Fist! And in the midst of the most intense battle yet, Mine finally gets her chance to confront Seryu!!
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Publisher / Publication Date: Orbit 2016
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1 available in Adult Graphic Novels, Call number: 741.5 AKATakahiro
Summary: "Akame and her team are pursued through the mountains by notorious rebel assassins. Having eluded the first ambush, the girls relax and refresh at a local hot spring, where Cornelia makes a new friend. But with enemies so nearby, an assassin should be cautious in offering trust and friendship so lightly"--Page 4 of cover.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Yen Press 2016
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1 available in Adult Graphic Novels, Call number: 741.5 AKASugaya, Masahiro.
Contents: Horizon (Intro) -- Future green -- Afternoon of the appearing fish -- Grain of sand by the sea -- Straight line floating in the sky -- Wind conversation -- Until the end of the world -- Horizon (Outro).
Format: sound recording-musical
Publisher / Publication Date: 2019
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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD POP/ROCK SUGTakahiro
Summary: "Tatsumi's fantasy of leading a righteous assassin's life is brutally shattered when Sheele is lost in battle. But though Tatsumi resolves to stand tall against his sorrows, a new group of Teigu Wielders appears before him: the Three Beasts!! In the battle between Teigu, where there can be only one victor, who will fall prey to death?!" --
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Publisher / Publication Date: Yen Press, an imprint of Hachette Book Group 2015
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1 available in Adult Graphic Novels, Call number: 741.5 AKATakahiro
Summary: "Now a member of the assassination squad Night Raid, Tatsumi must soon face an enemy equipped with a Teigu. These ancient super-weapons are so mighty that when two opponents wielding Teigus battle, one is guaranteed to die..."--Publisher's website.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Yen Press, Hachette Book Group 2015
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1 available in Adult Graphic Novels, Call number: 741.5 AKATakahiro
Summary: "It's Night Raid versus the Jaegers in Volume 5 of the hit dark fantasy Akame ga KILL! When the Jaegers' Dr. Stylish attacks the Night Raid base, Tatsumi and the others are forced out of their hideout to escape the deadly assassin! Pursued by Dr. Stylish's army of experimental soldiers, Night Raid must defeat the mad scientist or risk being made his next test subjects!" --
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Publisher / Publication Date: Yen Press 2016
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1 available in Adult Graphic Novels, Call number: 741.5 AKATakahiro
Summary: "Syura's secret police capture Tatsumi and Lubbock during their reconnaissance mission! Tatsumi comes face-to-face with General Esdeath once more, but will they join forces? And what awaits Tatsumi should he refuse? Love and death intertwine!"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Yen Press 2017
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Summary: "The tombs are littered with the captives and corpses of friends and foes alike. The rescue mission has become a bloody massacre as wave after wave of unrelenting Gravekeepers strike at the elite team. Will the backup's backup succeed where two other teams have failed?!"--Page 4 of cover.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Yen Press 2016
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1 available in Adult Graphic Novels, Call number: 741.5 AKATakahiro
Summary: "General Esdeath assembles a special police squad called the Jaegers and sets her sights on the annihilation of Night Raid in the name of the emperor. Meanwhile, Tatsumi, desperate to overcome the loss of another ally, decides to participate in a grand fighting tournament engineered by Esdeath herself..."Back cover.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Yen Press, an imprint of Hachette Book Group 2015
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1 available in Adult Graphic Novels, Call number: 741.5 AKATakahiro
Summary: The teigu showdown between Night Raid and the Jaegers begins, with the battle between sisters Akame and Kurome taking the explosive center stage! But a clash of teigus never ends without casualties ...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2016
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1 available in Adult Graphic Novels, Call number: 741.5 AKATakahiro
Summary: In the final battle, imperial and rebel forces take steps to wipe out their deadliest enemies in hopes of minimizing losses on the battlefield. Among the rebels' targets is Kurome, whose allegiance has still not wavered. Akame is resolved to give her beloved sister one last chance to turn away from the Empire. But if Kurome refuses, she will rest in pieces!
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Publisher / Publication Date: Yen Press 2018
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1 available in Adult Graphic Novels, Call number: 741.5 AKATakahiro
Summary: "Mera's carefully guided tour of the Empire has opened Akame's eyes to the suffering of its people. However, the Darburghs' loose allegiance to whoever pays them is an even less-palatable philosophy than that of the Rebel Army. Up until now, Akame has resisted Mera's advances-- professional and intimate-- but with her captor's patience running thin and her sword out of reach, Akame will have...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Yen Press 2018
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Summary: "Discover a new world of quick and delicious noodle and pasta dishes: Simmer up some soba, Slurp a bowl of ramen. Or prepare a plate of pasta with a twist. Japanese Noodle King Masahiro Kasahara presents his personal favorites - a curated collection of recipes from the kitchens of his wildly popular Tokyo noodle shops. With stocks, sauces and appetizers as well as snacks and sides, 'The...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Tuttle Publishing 2022
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 641.822 KASTakahiro
Summary: Teenage country bumpkin Tatsumi dreams of earning enough money for his impoverished village by working in the Capital-- but his short-lived plans go awry when he's robbed by a buxom beauty upon arrival! Penniless, Tatsumi is taken in by the lovely Lady Aria, but just when his Capital dreams seem in reach yet again, Lady Aria's mansion is besieged by Night Raid--a team of ruthless assassins who...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Yen Press 2015
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Summary: The Night Raid faces a powerful enemy. The terrifying pair, Esdeath and Budo, block their path. Budo's lightning attacks keep the Night Raid a hair's breadth from danger... Will Tatsumi and the others survive the onslaught!?
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Publisher / Publication Date: Yen Press 2017