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Author
Publisher
Ecco, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers
Pub. Date
[2024]
Edition
First U.S. edition.
Physical Desc
452 pages ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
"The cult Japanese bestseller about a female gourmet cook and serial killer and the journalist intent on cracking her case, inspired by a true story. There are two things that I can simply not tolerate: feminists and margarine. Gourmet cook Manako Kajii sits in Tokyo Detention Center convicted of the serial murders of lonely businessmen, who she is said to have seduced with her delicious home cooking. The case has captured the nation's imagination...
Author
Language
English
Description
"Human beings are full of contradictions." Twenty-five-year-old Takako takes up residence for a few months in her uncle Satoru's second-hand bookshop in Jimbicho, Tokyo in the wake of her breakup with her cad of a boyfriend/ coworker and her subsequent resignation. Depressed and unemployed, Takako is glad for the room above the Morisaki Bookshop to hide from the rest of the world even though she doesn't quite enjoy reading. Surrounded by towering...
Author
Publisher
Viz Media, LLC
Pub. Date
[2023]
Physical Desc
220 pages : chiefly illustrations (some color) ; 21 cm
Language
English
Description
"University student Mimi and her boyfriend Naoto encounter one chilling mystery after another. There's the enigmatic neighbor woman dressed in black from head to toe--but if she's so odd, why does it seems like there are many others like her? Then, whose eyes track Mimi's movements from the cemetery next door? And why does a bizarre red circle drawn on a basement wall change with each passing day? Nine scary stories that really happened, drawn from...
Publisher
Funimation
Pub. Date
[2019]
Physical Desc
3 videodiscs (600 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
日本語
Description
Sought by the greed of Men since the dawn of humankind, but only bestowed upon the woman whose fate it forever scars - The Witchblade. Is it the righteous sword of God, or the Hand of the Devil himself? Now a new bearer has been chosen and she must discover the answers for herself.
Author
Series
Akane-banashi volume 2
Publisher
VIZ Media, LLC
Pub. Date
2023
Edition
Shonen Jump edition.
Physical Desc
196 pages : chiefly illustrations (black& white) ; 20 cm
Language
English
Description
Akane takes on the world of rakugo to avenge her father! Shinta Arakawa wants nothing more than to pass his shin'uchi exam--the test that would make him a top-rank headliner and master storyteller in the traditional Japanese art of rakugo. Akane Osaki, his daughter and biggest fan, spies on him while he practices and learns his routines for herself. When rakugo master Issho Arakawa expels everyone after the exam with no explanation, a fire is lit...
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