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Viz signatureHigashimura, Akiko
Summary: "Rinko has done everything right. She hustled her way through her 20s to make it as a screenwriter, renting her own office in a trendy Tokyo neighborhood. Everything should have gone according to plan. So at 33, she can't help but lament the fact that her career's plateaued, she's still painfully single, and she spends most of her nights drinking with her two best friends in their favorite pub....
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Publisher / Publication Date: Kodansha Comics, an imprint of Kodansha USA Publishing, LLC 2018
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1 available in Adult Graphic Novels, Call number: 741.5 TOKTakamatsu, Misaki
Summary: The critically acclaimed romantic comedy about a country girl chasing her dreams in Tokyo! Mitsumi is bound for high school in Tokyo! She's got book smarts, but this small-town girl is about to find out she's massively unprepared for the social norms of big city high schoolers.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Seven Seas Entertainment 2021
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1 available in Young Adult Graphic Novels, Call number: YA 741.5 SKIYoshinaga, Fumi
Summary: What Did You Eat Yesterday is best described as part comic, part cookbook - it depicts the romance between two 40-year-old men and the many meals they share together. In the narrative, a hard-working middle-aged gay couple in Tokyo come to enjoy the finer moments of life through food. After long days at work, either in the law firm or the hair salon, Shiro and Kenji will always have down time...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Vertical 2015
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1 available in Adult Graphic Novels, Call number: 741.5 WHAIshida, Sui
Summary: The Commission of Counter Ghoul is the only organization fighting the Ghoul menace, and they will use every tool at their disposal to protect humanity from its ultimate predator. Their newest weapon in this hidden war is an experimental procedure that implants human investigators with a Ghoul's Kagune, giving them Ghoul powers and abilities. But both the procedure and the newly formed Qs Squad...
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Publisher / Publication Date: VIZ Media, LLC 2018
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1 available in Adult Graphic Novels, Call number: 741.5 TOKIshida, Sui
Summary: ""The Commission of Counter Ghoul is the only organization fighting the Ghoul menace, and they will use every tool at their disposal to protect humanity from the ultimate predator. Its newest weapon in this hidden war is an experimental procedure that implants human agents with a Kagune--the Ghoul organ of predation--giving them Ghoul powers and abilities. But both the procedure and the newly...
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Publisher / Publication Date: VIZ Media, LLC 2017
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1 available in Adult Graphic Novels, Call number: 741.5 TOKShirakawa, Gin
Summary: "Nanao used to be a house cat, but after tragedy struck, he was abandoned on the rough streets of Tokyo. Now, alongside his best friend and fellow stray Machi, Nanao has to fight every day just to get by. Aside from foraging for food and finding somewhere to sleep, Nanao and Machi must remain vigilant about all sorts of dangers, including humans who want stray cats gone. When a woman named...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Seven Seas 2023
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Summary: "At last, Rinko's found it--the happy, comfortable relationship she's dreamt of. She and Hayasaka-san have moved into an apartment together, and her best friends have wished her well. Everything is going smoothly...until those same best friends show up breathless at her doorstep with the biggest four-alarmer yet: Key's gone missing, and Rinko may be the only one who can find him and bring him...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Kodansha Comics, an imprint of Kodansha USA Publishing, LLC 2019
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Summary: "After yet another devastating encounter with Key, Rinko constantly questions what it means to be a 'good woman'. The haunting thought drives her to consult a fortune teller, who seems to nail her problems right on the head. When Rinko brings Koyuki and Kaori along to experience the psychic for themselves, things devolve into an argument that drives the close friends to go their separate ways....
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Publisher / Publication Date: Kodansha Comics 2019
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1 available in Adult Graphic Novels, Call number: 741.5 TOKHigashimura, Akiko.
Summary: "Faced with the possibility that she might be pregnant, Kaori loses sight of what she wants from Ryo. With Koyuki sinking deeper into her affair and Rinko compromising on her dreams of a heart-pounding romance, it seems like the futures they envisioned in their twenties have never been more unattainable. Are they out of time after all?"--Provided by publisher.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Kodansha Comics 2019
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1 available in Adult Graphic Novels, Call number: 741.5 TOKUmino, Chica
Summary: Rei Kiriyama is a seventeen-year-old professional shogi player who lives alone in Tokyo's uptown. Unfortunately, the young man lost his family at a young age, sending his life into a deep world of solitude. This is a heartfelt tale of how he recovers his life upon coming into contact with the Kawamoto sisters--Akari, Hinata, and Momo.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Denpa, LLC 2023
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1 available in New YA Materials, Call number: YA 741.5 MARHigashimura, Akiko
Summary: "Sex in the city. When it finally seems like Rinko has caught a break, it disappears almost as quickly--thanks, once again, to Key. Meanwhile, Kaori finds out that she's not the only one her ex is cheating on his girlfriend with, and Koyuki learns her married boyfriend's wife may not be as estranged as she seemed. And yet, faced with the relentless void of loneliness, the three continue to make...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Kodansha Comics 2018
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1 available in Adult Graphic Novels, Call number: 741.5 TOKMatsumoto, Taiyō
Summary: After 30 years as a manga editor, Kazuo Shiozawa suddenly quits. Although he feels early retirement is the only way to atone for his failures as an editor, the manga world isn't done with him. On his final day as an editor, Shiozawa takes a train he's ridden hundreds of times to impart some last advice to a manga creator whose work he used to edit. Later, he is drawn to return to a bookshop at...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Viz Media 2024