Summary: In the wake of a brutal civil war, the legendary and feared killer Kenshin Himura throws down his sword and vows to turn his back on bloodshed. Choosing instead to live his life as a peaceful wanderer, Kenshin soon finds that the world around him is rapidly changing and not for the better. A sadistic drug lord, Kanryu, oppresses the people, poisoning them with opium and stealing what little...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2016
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1 available in Foreign DVDs, Call number: DVD + BLU-RAY FOREIGN RURHayashi, Kotomi
Summary: "Popular and prolific author and knitwear designer Kotomi Hayashi presents 55 innovative stitch designs--specifically for those who have never tried Japanese-style knitting before. These include re-imagined modern variations on traditional stitches as well as Hayashi's own innovative inventions, which incorporate influences from her travels all around the world."
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Publisher / Publication Date: Tuttle Publishing 2023
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Place a hold to request this item.Summary: The year is 1940 in Kobe, on the eve of the outbreak of World War II. Local merchant and amateur filmmaker Yusaku senses that things are headed in an unsettling direction. Following a trip to Manchuria, he becomes determined to bring to light the things he witnessed there, and secretly filmed. Meanwhile, his wife Satoko receives a visit from her childhood friend, now a military policeman. He...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2021
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1 available in Foreign DVDs, Call number: DVD FOREIGN WIFNonami, Asa
Summary: New bride Noriko is adjusting to her new life as a member of her husband Kazuhito Shito's large family, when she's accosted by a merchant who rents property from the Shitos. The merchant makes an oblique comment before fleeing. The brief, if unsettling, encounter achieves more prominence for Noriko after she learns that the man and his family died in a propane explosion, and she eavesdrops on a...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Vertical 2007
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC NONKonami, Kanata
Summary: "After six years in North America the Chi's Sweet Home saga has finally come to an end! Chi, Blackie, Cocchi and the rest will wrap up their adventures near Green Park in this final collection. But before Chi moves on to her new role as a 3DCG anime star, will she find her true home? Or will she decide to move away in search of new adventures?"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Vertical Comics, an imprint of Vertical Inc. 2016
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Place a hold to request this item.Contents: Disc 1, Films 1-3. Zatōichi monogatari = Tale of Zatoichi (1962 ; 96 min.) / a Daiei Co. Ltd. production ; produced by Ikuo Kubodera ; screenplay by Minoru Inuzuka ; directed by Kenji Misumi -- Zoku Zatōichi monogatari = Tale of Zatoichi continues (1962 ; 72 min.) / a Daiei Co. Ltd. production ; produced by Ikuo Kubodera ; screenplay by Minoru Inuzuka ; directed by Kazuo Mori -- Shin Zatōichi...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2016
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1 available in Sight & Sound Print Material, Call number: SSC BLU-RAY FOREIGN BLINKonami, Kanata
Summary: The apartment manager has seen a cat around the building and wants it found and removed. Is it Chi?
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Publisher / Publication Date: Vertical, Inc. 2010
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Place a hold to request this item.Motomi, Kyousuke
Summary: "Fumi Nishioka lives with Kyutaro Horikita and his family of 'Sweepers', people who specialize in cleaning the minds of those overcome by negative energy and harmful spirits. Fumi has always displayed mysterious abilities, but will those powers be used for evil when she begins to truly awaken as a Queen?... Even though Fumi has the ability to kill the snake that's sealed within Kyutaro, she...
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Publisher / Publication Date: VIZ Media 2021
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1 available in Young Adult Graphic Novels, Call number: YA 741.5 QUETakeuchi, Naoko
Summary: "Teenager Usagi is not the best athlete, she's never gotten good grades, and, well, she's a bit of a crybaby. But when she meets a talking cat, she begins a journey that will teach her she has a well of great strength just beneath the surface and the heart to inspire and stand up for her friends as Sailor Moon. Experience the Sailor Moon manga as never before in these extra-long...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Kodansha Comics 2020
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1 available in Young Adult Oversize, Call number: YA 741.5 SAIMotomi, Kyousuke.
Summary: Will this Queen with mind-control powers incite good or evil? Fumi Nishioka lives with Kyutaro Horikita and his family of "Sweepers," people who specialize in cleaning the minds of those overcome by negative energy and harmful spirits. Fumi has always displayed mysterious abilities, but will those powers be used for evil when she begins to truly awaken as a Queen? When Kyutaro faces off...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Viz 2021
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1 available in Young Adult Graphic Novels, Call number: YA 741.5 QUEMotomi, Kyousuke
Summary: "Fumi Nishioka lives with Kyutaro Horikita and his family of 'Sweepers', people who specialize in cleaning the minds of those overcome by negative energy and harmful spirits. Fumi has always displayed mysterious abilities, but will those powers be used for evil when she begins to truly awaken as a Queen?... Fumi and Kyutaro finally become sweethearts after they finish their training in Seichi!...
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Publisher / Publication Date: VIZ Media 2020
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1 available in Young Adult Graphic Novels, Call number: YA 741.5 QUEMotomi, Kyousuke.
Summary: "One day, Kyutaro Horikita, the tall, dark and handsome cleaning expert of Kurokado High, comes across a sleeping maiden named Fumi Nishioka at school ... unfortunately, their meeting is anything but a fairy-tale encounter! It turns out Kyutaro is a "Sweeper" who cleans away negative energy from people's hearts--and Fumi is about to become his apprentice! In the old building at their school, a...
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Publisher / Publication Date: VIZ Media 2015
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1 available in Young Adult Graphic Novels, Call number: YA 741.5 QQSummary: An aging warlord decides to split his kingdom between his three sons, who will live in three separate castles. The two eldest sons are quite happy, but the youngest thinks his father has gone mad, and predicts that it won't be long until the two older brothers are fighting with each other.
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2005
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1 available in Foreign DVDs, Call number: DVD FOREIGN RANTakei, Hiroyuki.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Viz 2009
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1 available in Young Adult Graphic Novels, Call number: YA 741.5 SHATakei, Hiroyuki.
Summary: Yoh reveals a secret from his and Hao's past as the X-Laws lure him to their camp.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Viz Media 2008
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1 available in Young Adult Graphic Novels, Call number: YA 741.5 SHATakei, Hiroyuki.
Summary: Yoh, a Shaman, meaning he has the ability to channel spirits, is training to complete in the Shaman fight in Tokyo, a tournament held every 500 years to see who will become the Shaman king and shape humanity's future.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Viz Media 2008
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1 available in Young Adult Graphic Novels, Call number: YA 741.5 SHASummary: When aliens invade Earth, people return to life as flesh eating zombies.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Synapse Films 2003
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Place a hold to request this item.Summary: The international breakthrough for one of Japan's most innovative filmmakers, who went on to make such other marvelous movies as Onibaba and Kuroneko. It follows a family whose home is on a tiny, remote island off the coast of Japan. They must row a great distance to another shore, collect water from a well in buckets, and row back to their island, a nearly backbreaking task essential for the...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2016
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1 available in Foreign DVDs, Call number: BLU-RAY FOREIGN NAKSummary: "Akira Inugami [is] the only survivor of a clan of ancient werewolves who relies on his supernatural powers to solve mysterious crimes. After a series of bloody killings perpetrated by an unseen force, Inugami uncovers a conspiracy involving a murdered cabaret singer, corrupt politicians, and a plot by the J-CIA to harvest his blood in order to steal his lycanthropic powers. At the same time,...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2017
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1 available in Foreign DVDs, Call number: DVD + BLU-RAY FOREIGN WOLSummary: Shinko is a third-grade elementary school student with a magically active imagination. She spends a lot of her time listening to her grandfather's history lessons, imagining what her town was like 1,000 years earlier. One day, a sad and somber girl called Kiiko transfers to Shinko's school from Tokyo. A strong friendship soon grows between the two girls as Shinko helps Kiiko come out of her...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2019
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1 available in Anime, Call number: BLU-RAY ANIME MAISummary: "Chi is a mischievous newborn kitten who, while on a leisurely stroll with her family, finds herself lost. Overcome with loneliness she breaks into tears in a large park meadow, where she is rescued by a young boy named Yohei and his mother. The little kitty is then quickly and quietly whisked away into the warm and inviting Yamada apartment...where pets are strictly not...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Vertical, Inc. 2010
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Place a hold to request this item.Summary: "In an empire ruled by fear, the people's only hope is the ulitmate weapon: Zatoichi--a blind, nomadic samurai whose sword has made him a hero and whose courage has made him a legend! Determined to help the desperate residents of a village, Zatoichi seeks justice through revenge"--Container.
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2014
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1 available in Foreign DVDs, Call number: DVD FOREIGN BLISummary: "One of the ineffably lovely domestic sagas made by Yasujiro Ozu at the height of his mastery, The Flavor of Green Tea over Rice is a sublimely piercing portrait of a marriage coming quietly undone. Secrets and deceptions strain the already tenuous relationship of a childless, middle-aged couple, as the wife's city-bred sophistication bumps up against the husband's small-town simplicity, and a...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2019
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1 available in Foreign DVDs, Call number: BLU-RAY FOREIGN FLAOhba, Tsugumi
Summary: "Is Kira's story truly over, or does his influence linger? In this complete collection of Death Note short stories penned by the series' creators, discover tales of lives irrevocably changed by the sinister influence of the Death Note, with surprising and thrilling answers to the question of what it truly takes to use the Death Note... or fight it." -- Back cover.
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Publisher / Publication Date: VIZ Media 2022