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Manga Madness

Older Teens

Cover of Oh My Goddess! Wrong Number
Kosuke Fujishima
Keiichi is spending an evening alone when he misdials his take-out order and gets the goddess Belldandy instead. When she offers to grant him a wish, he asks her to stay with him forever, causing more trouble than he ever dreamed.
Cover of Nausicaa of the Valley of Wind
Hayao Miyazaki
As the Imperial family begins a campaign to extend its hold on the remnants of civilization, Princess Nausicaa and her people find themselves in the middle of a conflict that could lead to the destruction of the last humans on the earth.
Cover of Bleach
Tite Kubo
Ichigo Kurosaki doesn’t know it, but the world he lives in is one predicated on balance: between the living and the dead, between everyday life and the Soul Society. Soul Reapers equalize the balance between this life and the next.
Rumiko Takahashi
With a main character that turns into a girl every time he gets wet, this manga series has the action and adventure of a video game and the quirky humor that Japanese and American teens love.
Cover of Fruits Basket
Natsuki Takaya
After living in a tent, Tohru Honda is thrilled when the Sohma family asks her to move in with them. She’s happy to cook and clean, but soon she discovers the family has an very unusual secret: every time one of them is hugged by a member of the opposite sex, they turn into their Chinese zodiac animal.
Cover of Kare Kano: His and Her Circumstances
Masami Tsuda
Yukino lives for praise and popularity. So when a new boy comes to school and usurps her place, she’ll do anything to destroy him…until he tells her he loves her.
Cover of Peach Girl: Change of Heart
Miwa Ueda
It’s not easy being beautiful. The envy…the jealousy…the vicious rumors spread by your best friend…that’s life for young Momo. Thought to be a wild party-girl, in reality, she is shy and lonely. Can Momo confess her love to her classmate Toji-or will her best friend steal him away?
Cover of Marmalade Boy
Wataru Yoshizumi
Her parents getting a divorce is bad enough, but when they each find a new partner and decide everyone should live under the same roof, Miki thinks she will go crazy. Then she meets her new stepbrother—maybe things aren’t so bad after all.

Younger Teens

Cover of The All-New Tenchi Muyo!
Hitoshi Okuda
The space aliens from Tenchi Muyo are back in this sequel to the No Need for Tenchi series.
Stan Sakai
An adaptation of samurai legend and 16th century Japanese parable featuring rabbit ronin Usagi and his friends and enemies—all of them sword-wielding animals.
Rumiko Takahashi
When high school student Kagome is transported back in time to the feudal era, she accidentally releases the demon dog Inu-Yasha. Bound to each other by a powerful spell, they must work together or be destroyed.
Cover of Wedding Peach
Sukenhiro Tomita
Momoko Hanasaki and her friends Yuri and Hinagiku get super powers when they put on wedding dresses: they change into mighty morphin’ love warriors at the wedding chapel and fight demons.
Cover of Fushigi Yugi: The Mysterious Play
Yu Watase
Transported to the Universe of the Four Gods, Miaka is saved from the Imperial Guards when she is proclaimed to be the Priestess of Suzaku. But now she must deal with the love-stuck Emperor and the anger of his bride-to-be.
Cover of Gundam: The Origin
Yoshikazu Yasuhiko
Under attack from Zeon, the Federation strikes back using the mobile suit Gundam with devastating consequences. Young electronis whiz Amuro is determined not to let his family and friends die in the crossfire, but what can he do?

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