O Maidens in Your Savage Season 1


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"Best Manga/Anime of 2019" — Thrillist, The Verge, Geek Girl Authority, Anime UK & more! From the writer of the hit Netflix film A Whisker Away, anohana, and Maquia As a teen, how do you start thinking about sex? This debut manga from anime legend Mari Okada follows five girls and their five moving, funny, and mortifying answers. Join their bittersweet (and a little spicy) journey from girlhood to... whatever comes next! 1 WORD. 3 LETTERS. RHYMES WITH "VEX." When Kazusa enters high school, she joins the Literature Club, where she leaps from reading innocent fiction to diving into the literary classics. But these novels are a bit more...adult than she was prepared for. Between euphemisms like fresh dewy grass and pork stew, crushing on the boy next door, and knowing you want to do that one thing before you die--discovering your budding sexuality is no easy feat! As if puberty wasn't awkward enough, the club consists of a brooding writer, the prettiest girl in school, an agreeable comrade, and an outspoken prude. Fumbling over their own discomforts, these five teens get thrown into chaos over three little letters: S...E...X...!




O Maidens in Your Savage Season 2


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Legendary anime creator Mari Okada (anohana, Maquia) makes her manga debut with a moving, funny, so-true-it's-sometimes-embarrassing story of high school girls coming of age together. Perfect for those looking for a manga reminiscent of Noelle Stevenson or Jillian Tamaki. IF I HAD TO PICK... After Nina mentions that she wants to have sex before she dies, the Literature Club starts getting overwhelmed by the complications, the doubts, the delights--just the idea of sex! But the girls must focus on keeping their club from getting shut down, and an unlikely candidate joins them as their faculty advisor. All the while, Kazusa wrestles with the confusing change in her relationship with Izumi, her childhood friend. As if walking in on him during a solo session wasn't shocking enough, Kazusa realizes she might like-like him.




O Maidens in Your Savage Season 7


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As a teen, how do you start thinking about sex? This debut manga from anime legend Mari Okada (Maquia) follows five girls and their five moving, funny, and mortifying answers. Join their bittersweet (and a little spicy) journey from girlhood to... whatever comes next! Anime coming soon! TO-DO LIST Though Nina's second confounding question was aimed at Izumi alone, she quickly learns other parties are more willing to respond to her invitation. Now Nina stands at a dangerous crossroad, not wholly prepared to interrogate what she really wants from being wanted... Before she can even catch her breath, Nina and her comrades learn of the school's updated policy: No dating under any circumstances. This news comes on the heels of a dear friend being expelled, and the girls know drastic times call for drastic measures--Literature Club, rise up!




From Truant to Anime Screenwriter: My Path to "Anohana" and "The Anthem of the Heart"


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Growing up in rural Chichibu, Mari Okada wanted nothing more than to leave her truant lifestyle behind to live in "the world outside." This screenwriter faces her own anxiety as she embraces her past through the words she screams on the page.




O Maidens In Your Savage Season 8


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Comrades, crushes, and former rivals take over the school as they protest the new no-dating policy that caused Sonezaki’s expulsion. Together, their demands are louder, but so many butting heads means there’s a whole lotta energy with no release. The night is long, but it’s nothing new for the girls who’ve already weathered storm after storm. After the yelling and the crying, one can only hope that laughter will follow… When Kazusa entered high school, she joined the Literature Club. How could she have known that the chaos that ensued with every table read, every text message, every hug, was just this little thing called life? FINAL VOLUME!




My Little Monster


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Haru confirms his love for Shizuku after a talk with the class rep, Chizuru Oshima (who also has feelings for Haru!). Meanwhile, confused and unsure, Shizuku decides to eliminate her feelings towards Haru in order to focus on her studies. Will Haru be able to change her mind? The school fesival brings chaos and rivalries as personalities clash! From the Trade Paperback edition.




The Gods Lie


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Shortcake Cake, Vol. 12


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Riku moves back into his childhood home, but he invites everyone from the boardinghouse to a hot springs resort. Is there a future together for Riku and Ten? -- VIZ Media




The Black Lizard Big Book of Black Mask Stories


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An unstoppable anthology of crime stories culled from Black Mask magazine the legendary publication that turned a pulp phenomenon into literary mainstream. Black Mask was the apotheosis of noir. It was the magazine where the first hardboiled detective story, which was written by Carroll John Daly appeared. It was the slum in which such American literary titans like Dashiell Hammett and Raymond Chandler got their start, and it was the home of stories with titles like “Murder Is Bad Luck,” “Ten Carets of Lead,” and “Drop Dead Twice.” Collected here is best of the best, the hardest of the hardboiled, and the darkest of the dark of America’s finest crime fiction. This masterpiece collection represents a high watermark of America’s underbelly. Crime writing gets no better than this. Featuring • Deadly Diamonds • Dancing Rats • A Prize Fighter Fighting for His Life • A Parrot that Wouldn’t Talk Including • Dashiell Hammett’s The Maltese Falcon as it was originally published • Lester Dent's Luck in print for the first time




O Maidens in Your Savage Season


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1 WORD. 3 LETTERS. RHYMES WITH “VEX.” When Kazusa enters high school, she joins the Literature Club, where she leaps from reading innocent fiction to diving into the literary classics. But these novels are a bit more…adult than she was prepared for. Between euphemisms like fresh dewy grass and pork stew, crushing on the boy next door, and knowing you want to do that one thing before you die–discovering your budding sexuality is no easy feat! As if puberty wasn’t awkward enough, the club consists of a brooding writer, the prettiest girl in school, an agreeable comrade, and an outspoken prude. Fumbling over their own discomforts, these five teens get thrown into chaos over three little letters: S…E…X…!