Download or read book Dark Edge written by Yu Aikawa and published by DrMaster Publications. This book was released on 2005-11-15 with total page 212 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: After his mother's death, Kuro Takagi transfers to Yotsuji Private high School where his father is the proprietor. But Yotsuji is no ordinary school: it holds a strange rule of 'No students on campus after dark!' On his first day of attendance, Kuro and his classmates inadvertently break the school's highest protocol and find themselves victims of a faculty zombie attack. Although they manage to narrowly escape, this is but a prelude to more encounters with the undead, especially after Kuro discovers his own blood-ties and latent zombie abilities.

Download or read book Tori Koro Vol 2 written by Hai-ran and published by DrMaster Publications. This book was released on 2006-01-10 with total page 132 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Teenage girl Yae and her mom are joined by two female lodgers for a hilarious journey of nothing in particular. This is a cute Seinfeld-esque comedy about the girls' everyday life. Stories are random, but Hai-Ran does a great job with building characters and relationships. The title Tori Koro comes from the tricolors of the national French banner (blue, white and red) that coincide with the character' mood.

Download or read book Stellvia written by Ryo Akizuki and published by DrMaster Publications. This book was released on 2006-01-10 with total page 244 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Stellvia is a space academy and one of the Space Foundations dedicated to saving Earth from a second wave of supernova explosions that is scheduled to hit the planet in 70 days. Shima Katose is a newly-enrolled student at Stellvia with exceptional skill as a programmer and lack luster talent as a pilot. Her dream is to be chosen as one the elite pilots needed to help save the earth. This is Shima's story of struggle and perseverance - a touching story of friendship amongst unbeatable odds

Download or read book Manga The Complete Guide written by Jason Thompson and published by Del Rey. This book was released on 2012-07-03 with total page 594 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: • Reviews of more than 900 manga series • Ratings from 0 to 4 stars • Guidelines for age-appropriateness • Number of series volumes • Background info on series and artists THE ONE-STOP RESOURCE FOR CHOOSING BETWEEN THE BEST AND THE REST! Whether you’re new to the world of manga-style graphic novels or a longtime reader on the lookout for the next hot series, here’s a comprehensive guide to the wide, wonderful world of Japanese comics! • Incisive, full-length reviews of stories and artwork • Titles rated from zero to four stars–skip the clunkers, but don’t miss the hidden gems • Guidelines for age-appropriateness–from strictly mature to kid-friendly • Profiles of the biggest names in manga, including CLAMP, Osamu Tezuka, Rumiko Takahashi, and many others • The facts on the many kinds of manga–know your shôjo from your shônen • An overview of the manga industry and its history • A detailed bibliography and a glossary of manga terms LOOK NO FURTHER, YOU’VE FOUND YOUR IDEAL MANGA COMPANION!

Download or read book Cosplay Koromo Chan written by Mook and published by . This book was released on 2005-06 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: At last a manga about cos-players, for cos-players! Ever since the school president established a casual dress code for the student body, Koromo has been wearing her cos-play outfits at her high school (although she claims they are her casual clothes). Follow the daily life of Koromo and her costume designing best friend. Watch as she graduates high school, attends college and ventures into the real world all in one fun filled volume!

Download or read book Di Gi Charat Theater Dejiko s Summer Vacation written by Koge Donbo and published by . This book was released on 2003 with total page 182 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Collects stories featuring the cat-eared, alien hybrid princess Dejiko, who despite having to work at the Gamers anime store, still finds time to go to the beach and switch bodies with Rabi-en-Rose.

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Download or read book Knights written by Minoru Murao and published by Knights. This book was released on 2010-11 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Don't pray... it won't save you!" This is a tale of long ago, when the world was obsessed with witches. In the kingdom of Ekskuld, the "witches" who worshiped and made offerings to devils were convicted by the clergy and burned at the stake in the name of God. One member of "The Hammer for the Holy," which hunts the clergy who carry out "witch hunts," is a lower knight called Mist, who challenges the "holy warrior" who carries a mysteriously huge sword to a duel.

Download or read book Dixie Lullaby written by Mark Kemp and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2007-11-01 with total page 336 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Rock & roll has transformed American culture more profoundly than any other art form. During the 1960s, it defined a generation of young people as political and social idealists, helped end the Vietnam War, and ushered in the sexual revolution. In Dixie Lullaby, veteran music journalist Mark Kemp shows that rock also renewed the identity of a generation of white southerners who came of age in the decade after segregation -- the heyday of disco, Jimmy Carter, and Saturday Night Live. Growing up in North Carolina in the 1970s, Kemp experienced pain, confusion, and shame as a result of the South's residual civil rights battles. His elementary school was integrated in 1968, the year Kemp reached third grade; his aunts, uncles, and grandparents held outdated racist views that were typical of the time; his parents, however, believed blacks should be extended the same treatment as whites, but also counseled their children to respect their elder relatives. "I loved the land that surrounded me but hated the history that haunted that land," Kemp writes. When rock music, specifically southern rock, entered his life, he began to see a new way to identify himself, beyond the legacy of racism and stereotypes of southern small-mindedness that had marked his early childhood. Well into adulthood Kemp struggled with the self-loathing familiar to many white southerners. But the seeds of forgiveness were planted in adolescence when he first heard Duane Allman and Ronnie Van Zant pour their feelings into their songs. In the tradition of music historians such as Nick Tosches and Peter Guralnick, Kemp masterfully blends into his narrative the stories of southern rock bands --from heavy hitters such as the Allman Brothers Band, Lynyrd Skynyrd, and R.E.M. to influential but less-known groups such as Drive-By Truckers -- as well as the personal experiences of their fans. In dozens of interviews, he charts the course of southern rock & roll. Before civil rights, the popular music of the South was a small, often racially integrated world, but after Martin Luther King Jr.'s assassination, black musicians struck out on their own. Their white counterparts were left to their own devices, and thus southern rock was born: a mix of popular southern styles that arose when predominantly white rockers combined rural folk, country, and rockabilly with the blues and jazz of African-American culture. This down-home, flannel-wearing, ass-kicking brand of rock took the nation by storm in the 1970s. The music gave southern kids who emulated these musicians a newfound voice. Kemp and his peers now had something they could be proud of: southern rock united them and gave them a new identity that went beyond outside perceptions of the South as one big racist backwater. Kemp offers a lyrical, thought-provoking, searingly intimate, and utterly original journey through the South of the 1960s, '70s, '80s, and '90s, viewed through the prism of rock & roll. With brilliant insight, he reveals the curative and unifying impact of rock on southerners who came of age under its influence in the chaotic years following desegregation. Dixie Lullaby fairly resonates with redemption.

Download or read book Portus written by Jun Abe and published by VIZ Media LLC. This book was released on 2007-10-09 with total page 236 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: When the game ends, the real horror begins!; Warning: studies show that playing “Portus may result in a sudden, premature, and particularly violent death.; Can Asami play “Portus or will “Portus play her?; When the game “Portus is over, you really are dead. Asami's best friend Chiharu has stopped coming to school and isn't answering her phone. It seems she's found something that's a little more addictive than the school art club. But when Chiharu mysteriously commits suicide, all Asami finds in her room is a strange video game called Portus. With the help of two of her teachers, Asami hopes to solve the mystery behind her friend's macabre death and the bizarre game itself. But is she prepared for the horrors of entering the twisted world of Portus, a game where, if you lose, there is no option to continue? A frightening vision of modern manga horror, Jun Abe's Portus might put you off video games for the rest of your life.

Download or read book Yoki Koto Kiku written by Koge Donbo and published by Broccoli Books Deluxe. This book was released on 2006 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the ancient House of Nekogami, sibling rivalry is a game of life and death. The family patriarch is dead, and his grandson Sukekiyo is the rightful heir. There’s just one problem — Sukekiyo is away at war, his fate unknown. Only one person can inherit the family fortune, and the triplets Yoki, Koto, and Kiku won’t let Sukekiyo’s fianc�e, Tamayo, walk away with everything. With a fortune at stake, it’s kill or be killed as the Nekogami clan goes up against demons, thieves, and each other to protect the family — and the cash! Koge-Donbo’s adorable, nuanced characters and sly wit have made her a favorite of manga fans worldwide. In this rambunctious, sharply written new title, her flair for black humor is on full display, broadening her appeal with graphic novel readers young and old alike.

Download or read book Endless Silver Ocean written by Morgan Straughan Comnick and published by . This book was released on 2021-05-21 with total page 478 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: After my dreams of becoming a teacher were finally a reality, life had thrown me into the powerful current of adulthood. Marriage was the norm Transferring jobs occurred. New adventures were thrown at me. Family and friends came and went from my life. All of it affected me, shaped me, tossed me around like a little boat in a raging storm. Then, I was diagnosed with lupus, changing how I lived in addition to what I lived. Life became more precious to me, but at the same time, I felt it pushed me under. Welcome to your late twenties and early thirties. Life doesn't go as planned, but you have to sail on toward the horizon. In this collection, I explore more mature themes, dealing with trying to hold on to your happy youth while wading through the darkness that is always there, such as confusion, loneliness, stress, violence, and even death. Still, despite these topics, I look for the lighthouse, the beacon of hope to continue on, all through poems, short stories, children stories (about my cat and grandma), and other literary works. With the power of writing and creativity fueling me, I was able to stay afloat in light. Exclusive to this collection also is my new adult novella, Dreaming For You, following the story of Frankie Ragner, a former teenage Hollywood heartthrob that wants to better himself by being a producer, despite his addictions that have been forced upon him since youth. His only salvation when he sinks into his transgressions is his dreams, a lovely maiden visiting him in different forms when he's at his worst. She gives him everything he desires, but she's only a dream too good to be real. Still, if someone gives you such a vision, shouldn't you chase it? Endless Silver Ocean has tales for the young and young at heart, mature and impactful reading, all through poems and stories that I wrote from personal struggles, this work the most revealing about who I am as a person. Even when waves are choppy and cruel, I look to my words, my stars, to conquer this endless silver ocean.

Download or read book Chobits Art Book Your Eyes Only written by Clamp and published by TokyoPop. This book was released on 2008-01-08 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Featuring work from the popular manga series, a highly-anticipated compilation showcases gorgeous art from CLAMP, the world's most popular manga studio.

Download or read book Ordinary Affects written by Kathleen Stewart and published by Duke University Press. This book was released on 2007-09-20 with total page 145 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Ordinary Affects is a singular argument for attention to the affective dimensions of everyday life and the potential that animates the ordinary. Known for her focus on the poetics and politics of language and landscape, the anthropologist Kathleen Stewart ponders how ordinary impacts create the subject as a capacity to affect and be affected. In a series of brief vignettes combining storytelling, close ethnographic detail, and critical analysis, Stewart relates the intensities and banalities of common experiences and strange encounters, half-spied scenes and the lingering resonance of passing events. While most of the instances rendered are from Stewart’s own life, she writes in the third person in order to reflect on how intimate experiences of emotion, the body, other people, and time inextricably link us to the outside world. Stewart refrains from positing an overarching system—whether it’s called globalization or neoliberalism or capitalism—to describe the ways that economic, political, and social forces shape individual lives. Instead, she begins with the disparate, fragmented, and seemingly inconsequential experiences of everyday life to bring attention to the ordinary as an integral site of cultural politics. Ordinary affect, she insists, is registered in its particularities, yet it connects people and creates common experiences that shape public feeling. Through this anecdotal history—one that poetically ponders the extremes of the ordinary and portrays the dense network of social and personal connections that constitute a life—Stewart asserts the necessity of attending to the fleeting and changeable aspects of existence in order to recognize the complex personal and social dynamics of the political world.

Download or read book Tengu written by Roald Knutsen and published by Global Oriental. This book was released on 2011-08-15 with total page 281 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This fully illustrated volume, including an eight-page colour-plate section, is the first in-depth study in English to examine the warrior and shamanic characteristics and significance of tengu in the martial art culture (bugei) of Muromachi Japan (1336-1573). According to Roald Knutsen, who is widely known for his writings on the samurai tradition, prompting his life-long study of tengu – the part-human, part-animal creatures – was the early discovery that the tengu of the Muromachi period were interacting with the deadly serious bugei masters teaching the arts of war. Here were beings who did not conform to the comic, goblin-like creatures of common folklore and were not the creations of the Buddhist priests intent on demonizing that which they did not understand and could not control. As this study shows, the part-hidden tengu under review passed on and taught the clearest theory of tactics and strategy to bushi of the highest calibre, the absorption and mastery of which often decided if the warrior and his clan lived or were annihilated on the all-too-frequent killing grounds of the Muromachi age. Tengu will be widely welcomed in many contexts including studies relating to martial arts, religion and folklore, shamanism and mythology, and the social and military history of Japan.

Download or read book The Demon s Sermon on the Martial Arts written by Sean Michael Wilson and published by Shambhala Publications. This book was released on 2013-03-12 with total page 161 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A visually thrilling graphic novel adaptation of classic martial arts parables on swordsmanship and strategy—written by a real-life samurai The Demon’s Sermon on the Martial Arts is a classic collection of martial arts tales, written by the eighteenth-century samurai Issai Chozanshi. Featuring demons, insects, birds, cats, and numerous other creatures, the stories here may seem whimsical, but they contain essential teachings that offer insight into the fundamental principles of the martial arts. This graphic novel version based on Chozanshi’s text brings these tales alive in a captivating and immediately accessible way. Infused with Chozanshi’s deep understanding of Taoism, Buddhism, Confucianism, and Shinto, the tales elucidate the nature of conflict, the importance of following one’s own nature, yin and yang, the cultivation and transformation of ch’i (life energy), and the attainment of mushin (no-mind). Ultimately, the reader learns in a visually exciting way that the path of the sword is a path of self-knowledge and leads to an understanding of life itself.

Download or read book Star Wars The Legends of Luke Skywalker The Manga written by Kisaki Takahashi and published by VIZ Media LLC. This book was released on 2020-01-14 with total page 214 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Luke Skywalker? I thought he was a myth. – Rey Who is Luke Skywalker? Across the galaxies many have heard his name, but few have met the legendary Jedi. There are those who call him a merciless war criminal—others say he’s not even a human, but a droid! Whether he is man or myth, all those who claim they’ve encountered the elusive Luke Skywalker have an unforgettable adventure to share. -- VIZ Media