Arina Tanemura, Author . Viz $8.99 (200p) ISBN 978-1-4215-1797-1
Here's another early manga by the creator of Full Moon O Sagashite
and Gentlemen's Alliance Cross
. Fifteen-year-old Kyoko is the incognito princess of Earth, attending public school anonymously while her twin sister, Ui, has been asleep...
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Arina Tanemura. Viz, $9.99 paper (184p) ISBN 978-1-4215-3882-2
Any fan of Tanemura (Kamikaze Kaito Jeanne; The Gentleman's Alliance +) knows to expect hugely starry-eyed young heroines granted unexpected magical powers and told of their unusual and important secret fates while falling in love. Fourteen-year-old
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Arina Tanemura, Author, Arina Tanemura, Illustrator . Viz $8.99 (208p) ISBN 978-1-59116-928-4
Imagine a whimsical combination of American Idol
, Cinderella and Showtime's Dead Like Me
transposed to Japan and aimed at children, and you may have a sense of what this manga is like. It begins ominously: 12-year-old Mitsuki Koyama, an orphan
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Arina Tanemura, Author, Arina Tanemura, Illustrator . DC/CMX $9.99 (172p) ISBN 978-1-4012-0555-3
Kusajabe Maron, the heroine of this manga series, will remind Americans of television's "Buffy the Vampire Slayer": both are high school students who secretly combat supernatural evil by night. But the concept behind Tanemura's...
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Arina Tanemura, Author, Arina Tanemura, Illustrator . Viz $8.99 (160p) ISBN 978-1-4215-1183-2
As collateral for her family's business debt, Haine has been taken in by the Otomiyas and sent to a fancy rich kids' school where she's at the bottom of the ladder. Still, she's outrageously cheery and somewhat simpleminded. She's
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Arina Tanemura, Author, Arina Tanemura, Illustrator . Viz $8.99 (168p) ISBN 978-1-4215-1800-8
Ion Tsuburagi was born with the ability to influence events by chanting her first name as a spell. Ion discovers that her psychic abilities increase when she holds a piece of experimental metal developed by her classmate Mikado the “boy genius.
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Arina Tanemura, Author, Arina Tanemura, Illustrator . Viz $8.99 (0p) ISBN 978-1-4215-1801-5
According to this book, the four most romantic things a Japanese high school girl can hope for are walking home from school with her boyfriend, baking for said boyfriend, sharing an umbrella and going to the aquarium. All four are central to the...
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