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Volume 1 - 1st printing. Written by Nagaru Tanigawa. Art by Puyo. The New York Times-bestselling series is back with all-new stories in the uber cute Haruhi-Chan! It's the SOS Brigade like you've never seen them before! Witness the untold adventures of Haruhi Suzumiya's quest to uncover aliens, time travelers, and espers in this cute, four-panel comedy. Softcover, 5-in. x 7-in., 164 pages, B&W. NOTE: These are Japanese manga-style GNs and are meant to be read right-to-left. Cover price $11.99.

Volume 1 - 2nd and later printings. Written by Nagaru Tanigawa. Art by Puyo. The New York Times-bestselling series is back with all-new stories in the uber cute Haruhi-Chan! It's the SOS Brigade like you've never seen them before! Witness the untold adventures of Haruhi Suzumiya's quest to uncover aliens, time travelers, and espers in this cute, four-panel comedy. Softcover, 5-in. x 7-in., 164 pages, B&W. NOTE: These are Japanese manga-style GNs and are meant to be read right-to-left. Cover price $11.99.

Volume 2 - 1st printing. Written by Nagaru Tanigawa. Art by Puyo. It's another crazy-exciting day for Haruhi-chan and the SOS Brigade! Haruhi-chan never runs out of ideas for fun new activities with the SOS Brigade (attendance mandatory). It's a busy time for everyone: going to the beach, taking scenic hikes, moongazing in sexy bunny-girl outfits?!? What will Haruhi think of next? You'll find plenty of gags and guffaws as Haruhi dives into the world of four-panel and short comics! Softcover, 5-in. x 7-in., 160 pages, B&W. NOTE: These are Japanese manga-style GNs and are meant to be read right-to-left. Cover price $11.99.

Volume 3 - 1st printing. Written by Nagaru Tanigawa. Art by Puyo. If you thought the SOS Brigade's adventures couldn't get any more outrageous, you've never met Haruhi-Chan! Nagato has gone otaku! Asakura is her pint-size prisoner/plaything! Mikuru's so cute she turns into a sheep! You'll find plenty of gags and guffaws as Haruhi dives into the world four panel and short comics! Softcover, 5-in. x 7-in., 160 pages, B&W. NOTE: These are Japanese manga-style GNs and are meant to be read right-to-left. Cover price $11.99.

Volume 4 - 1st printing. Written by Nagaru Tanigawa. Normally April Fool's Day is a time for good-natured pranks, but with Haruhi's power, any trick she pulls could threaten reality as we know it! While Koizumi struggles to organize the SOS Brigade to prepare for her antics, Haruhi is busy thinking up ways to recruit new members! Given the supernatural crowd already gathered in the clubroom, who knows what type of person Haruhi will summon to the SOS Brigade next? If anyone shows up at all! Softcover, 5-in. x 7-in., 160 pages, B&W. NOTE: These are Japanese manga-style GNs and are meant to be read right-to-left. Cover price $11.99.

Volume 4 - 2nd and later printings. Written by Nagaru Tanigawa. Normally April Fool's Day is a time for good-natured pranks, but with Haruhi's power, any trick she pulls could threaten reality as we know it! While Koizumi struggles to organize the SOS Brigade to prepare for her antics, Haruhi is busy thinking up ways to recruit new members! Given the supernatural crowd already gathered in the clubroom, who knows what type of person Haruhi will summon to the SOS Brigade next? If anyone shows up at all! Softcover, 5-in. x 7-in., 160 pages, B&W. NOTE: These are Japanese manga-style GNs and are meant to be read right-to-left. Cover price $11.99.

Volume 5 - 1st printing. Written by Nagaru Tanigawa. It's another new year, and we all know what that means - time for Kyon's first dream of the year! Once again, lucky(?) omens hawk, eggplant, and Mount Fuji (played respectively by Tsuruya, Nagato, and Koizumi) make an appearance, but their promise of fortune never seems to play out for Kyon. All he ever gets is fresh year of Haruhi-chan's antics! The SOS Brigade goes miniature, Koizumi's trying out a new look, and everyone seems intent on getting Kyon into a dress! Softcover, 5-in. x 7-in., 164 pages, B&W. NOTE: These are Japanese manga-style GNs and are meant to be read right-to-left. Cover price $11.99.

1st printing.

Story and art by Osamu Tezuka.

When Dan Takuya's sister marries into the mob, he is also automatically thrown into the dark underworld of organized crime. While unknowingly breaking the mob's code of silence, Dan is brutally tortured, arms severed and left for dead as punishment. He somehow manages to survive, and through rehab and with the help of an eccentric doctor, he is provided with new prosthetic metal arms. But there is a catch! He must tap into his psychic powers to move his new limbs.

Through the use of telekinesis, or KP, he trains to make use of his new arms through sheer will and vows revenge to those who did him wrong. But as soon as he's out for the hunt, there is a wake of death that's left behind which he has no knowledge of. Does Dan truly have full control of his new metal weapons?

Softcover, 216 pages, B&W.

Cover price $15.95.

Volume 1 - 1st printing.

Story and art by Yomi Sarachi.

The mermaid prince is super-popular with all the girls lining up to be his bride. But the one he falls in love with...has legs!

Softcover, 5-in.x 7-in., 192 pages, B&W.

Cover price $13.00.

Volume 2 - 1st printing.

Story and art by Yomi Sarachi.

Prince Naru is doing the 'mermaid in love' thing and has transformed into a human boy in order to be with Nami. But the devilishly handsome mermaid Roa appears! What could he want with Nami?

Softcover, 5-in.x 7-in., 192 pages, B&W.

Cover price $13.00.

Volume 3 - 1st printing.

Story and art by Yomi Sarachi.

Even without his tall muscular body and long beautiful hair, Prince Naru has managed to get close to the girl of his dreams, Nami. Sure, she might think he's a pervert (he does keep showing up naked, after all), and Arashi is constantly stealing his spotlight, but nevertheless, life as a human isn't all that bad...That is until Loa-who's just as hot as the merman version of Naru-makes his entrance at school! Everyone's swooning over the new boy, but it seems he has his sights set on Nami too?!

Softcover, 5-in.x 7-in., 192 pages, B&W.

Cover price $13.00.

1st printing. Story and art by Rumiko Takahashi. Softcover, 6-in.x 8-in., 256 pages, B&W.

2nd and later printings. Story and art by Rumiko Takahashi. Softcover, 6-in.x 8-in., 256 pages, B&W.

1st printing. Story and art by Ken Homerun. Translated by Emily Balistrieri. Mugi, a transfer student from Tokyo now living in a southern island of Japan, can stand the new sunburn and the bullying he receives at school. It's the ocean, the water that he doesn't know how to swim in, and the brother-in-law who's making his older sister so happy, that he can't handle. Ever since his parents passed and this stranger became "family," Mugi's felt like there's nowhere he belongs, like maybe he should just... drown. Feeling out of place in his own home, he turns for refuge to his one friend, local girl Matori, whose grandmother tells them about a mysterious legend surrounding mermaids in a secret cove who will grant one wish to whoever they meet. So when Mugi's brother-in-law gets swept off to sea trying to save a carless swimmer in rough waters, it's up to Mugi to try to make things right-sink or swim. Softcover, 5-in. x 7-in., 230 pages, B&W. Rated 16+ Cover price $13.95.

1st Printing. Story, art, and cover by Rumiko Takahashi. Partake of the Mermaid's Flesh, the Leends says, and you will be granted eternal life and youth! Immortal lovers Yuta and Mana travel through Japan and the centuries longing for a normal life. On their journey they meet others who have eaten of the flesh of the mermaid in hopes of becoming immortal....but the powerful substance affects each person differently. Yuta and Mana are some of the lucky ones - Others die in agony, or worse, turn into savage monsters known as lost souls! In a world of suffering and evil, Yuta and Mana must fight to retain their humanity!. Softcover, 5 1/2-in. x 8-in., 304 pages, B&W. MATURE READERS. Cover price $17.95.

2nd and later printings. Story, art, and cover by Rumiko Takahashi. Partake of the Mermaid's Flesh, the Leends says, and you will be granted eternal life and youth! Immortal lovers Yuta and Mana travel through Japan and the centuries longing for a normal life. On their journey they meet others who have eaten of the flesh of the mermaid in hopes of becoming immortal....but the powerful substance affects each person differently. Yuta and Mana are some of the lucky ones - Others die in agony, or worse, turn into savage monsters known as lost souls! In a world of suffering and evil, Yuta and Mana must fight to retain their humanity!. Softcover, 5 1/2-in. x 8-in., 304 pages, B&W. MATURE READERS. Cover price $17.95.

Story and Art by Tetsuro Ueyama. An all-new manga series! He's got a head of metal but a heart of gold -- The Terminator meets the Guyver in the all-new action series Metal Guardian Faust. When schoolgirl Rushiha is suddenly attacked by a humanoid robot, a guardian robot appears out of the blue to rescue her! Who sent him? And why does he insist on staying on as her permanent personal bodyguard? 40 pages, B&W. Cover price $2.95.

Clash of the Steel Warriors - Story, Art and Cover by Tetsuro Ueyama. The action-packed story of a girl and her robot continues! Metal Guardian Faust has defeated the evil robot Rudolph, but now he's assaulted by Dasher and Dancer. Notice a pattern here? Learn more about the mysterious sinister organization behind the attacks on innocent schoolgirl Rushiha! 32 pages, B&W. Cover price $2.95.

Highway Battleground - Story, Art and Cover by Tetsuro Ueyama. The classic superhero-style tale of a girl and her robot continues! When Rushiha is held hostage by Prancer, a crab-like robot on wheels, how can Faust defeat him without hurting his delicate human charge? 32 pages, B&W. Cover price $2.95.

Dream of an Angel - Story, Art and Cover by Tetsuro Ueyama. The classic superhero-style tale of a girl and her robot continues! While Rushiha and Faust lay low in a hideout that's not as secure as it seems, she learns that her father's captor, a robot named Angel, wants to use Rushiha to fulfill her wildest dream! 32 pages, B&W. Cover price $2.95.

Story, Art and Cover by Tetsuro Ueyama. Faust must fight not one, not two, but three of the fearsome robots at once: Cupid, Blitz and Donner! And this time, they're armed with a device that can scramble electrical fields! Guess what form of energy powers Faust's robot body! 32 pages, B&W. Cover price $2.95.

Revelations - Story, Art and Cover by Tetsuro Ueyama. The classic superhero-style tale of a girl and her robot continues! Rushiha is being used as bait to entrap Faust...but lucky for him there seems to be a traitor in the reindeer robot ranks! 32 pages, B&W. Cover price $2.95.

Story, Art and Cover by Tetsuro Ueyama. The tale of a girl and her robot continues! Faust meets a woman who triggers a strange memory deep inside his memory banks! Then Vixen attacks. She doesn't look like a reindeer, but she sure resembles her other namesake! 32 pages, B&W. Cover price $2.95.

Volume 1 - 1st printing. Story and art by Meca Tanaka. Strange accidents always seem to happen around Hako Natsuno - so much so that she's been dubbed "The Queen of Bad Luck." It's hardly surprising then that a naked alien prince falls from the sky to tell her that out of all the girls in the universe, he's come to Earth to mate with her. Does this mean Hako's luck has changed, or...? Softcover, 5-in. x 7-in., 200 pages, PC/PB&W. Cover price $9.99.

Volume 2 - 1st printing. Story and art by Meca Tanaka. Hako Natsuno's bad luck hasn't improved, but her alien boyfriend, Io, takes everything in stride, even when his feelings for her cause him to be repeatedly struck by lightning. The two have barely started dating when a naked alien girl arrives on Earth and says she is Io's true mate. Hako really does have the worst luck! Softcover, 5-in. x 7-in., 200 pages, PC/PB&W. Cover price $9.99.