Comic books in 'Manga'

Volume 1 - 2nd or later printing. Created by Masamune Shirow. Story and art by Iou Kuroda. A prequel to the cyberpunk franchise Appleseed by Shirow Masamune, creator of The Ghost in the Shell. In the 22nd century, New York City is a war-torn place ruled by warlords and a giant robot mayor with three eyes and a three-piece suit. While there, Deunan and her cyborg lover Briareos stumble across two citizens of a legendary utopia. It's up to them to guard what could be humanity's best chance to rebuild. Softcover, 446 pages, B&W. Cover price $24.99.

Story & art: Masamune Shirow. Beginning Eclipse's serialization of Japan's first mega-successful graphic novel! With new material still being done in Japan, Appleseed has earned Masamune Shirow the Japanese equivalent of our Hugo award, and Shirow's Appleseed artwork today hangs in a major display at the Osaka Art Gallery! Escaping nuclear destruction, Earth has nevertheless been laid waste by the conventional/biochemical conflagration that was World War Three. Two survivors, after years of seclusion, return to looking for the remnants of humanity. What they least expect to find is humanity looking for them! Deunan and her cyborg mentor, Briareos, must fight off a full-scale tank assault and learn the purpose of their assailants! 48 pg. B&W Classic Format. Cover price $2.50.

Story & art: Masamune Shirow. The English serialization of Shirow's award-winning graphic novel continues! Deunan and Briareos' arrival in Olympus City is quickly noted by those who sought their deaths last issue! The further they go into the city, the more Briareos notices the split political factions struggling to control the self-styled utopia on a war-wasted earth. But will his warnings of caution fall on deaf ears when he and Deunan are invited to join the Olympus police? The action all takes place on "Civvy Street"! 48 pg. B&W Classic Format. Cover price $2.50.

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Story & art: Masamune Shirow. Plots within plots take form as Athena tries to set herself up as the savior of Olympus City's central computer by capturing its combat-trained assailants before the Director's forces can! When the dust clears, the city's power structure looks very different! Will Deunan's new position lead her into even more trouble? Brought to you by Eclipse International and Studio Proteus. 48 pg. B&W Classic Format. Cover price $2.75.

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Story & art: Masamune Shirow. The guerrillas' assault on Olympus City's super computer is thrown into confusion when Deunan takes over for the Director's incompetent S.W.A.T. team, and steps into action with her deadly new Landmate. Soon she finds herself battling the guerrilla leader, Chiffon, who is also Deunan's newest friend! Can Deunan bring herself to fight Chiffon to defend the computer, and what will Athena's E.S.W.A.T. team bring to the fray--support or treachery? Translated by David Lewis and Toren Smith of Studio Proteus. 48 pg. B&W Classic Format. Cover price $2.75.

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Story & art: Masamune Shirow. Cover: Art Adams. A terrorist kidnapping leads off the second volume! Obviously, Hitomi did not bring Deunan and Briareos to Olympus by accident as revelations about Deunan's father indicate. But when Hitomi's chief rival, Athena, requisitions Deunan for her private, elite SWAT unit, Deunan is caught in a power struggle wherein the stakes keep getting higher! And what is the connection between Deunan's father and Olympus' origins? 48 pg. Classic B&W Format. Cover price $2.75.

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Story & art: Masamune Shirow. Cover: Art Adams. The human race is in danger of being subverted by the bioroid majority in Olympus. Loyalties are challenged when the Council orders Hitomi to "obtain" a special computer program which will help the Council control the human population, and she runs smack into Athena's ESWAT unit and her good friend Deunan! Can Deunan obey her orders to kill the burglars and her friend? 48 pg. Classic B&W Format. Cover price $2.75.

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Story & art: Masamune Shirow. Cover: Art Adams. Deunan has problems enough without having to deal with a rampaging computer. But Gaia gives her no choice when it brainwashes its keepers and orders the New Olympus police gun platforms to go on a shooting spree. The target: Tartarus, the computer center responsible for managing the city's bioroid population. Deunan and Briareos must spring Hitomi from jail in a desperate bid to stop Gaia from forcing its "final solution" on Olympus! 48 pg. Classic B&W Format. Cover price $2.75.

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Story & art: Masamune Shirow. Cover: Art Adams. Gaia, Olympus City's main computer, is on a killing spree, sending out the police gun platforms to obliterate Tartarus, the center in charge of creating the city's Bioroids! Hitomi's DNA is encoded with a STOP command, but can Deunan and Briareos find a way to get Hitomi past 50-meter-high robot spiders to Gaia's main terminal? It doesn't look good! 48 pg. Classic B&W Format. Cover price $2.75.

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Story & art: Masamune Shirow. Cover: Art Adams. This action-packed finale begins with a laser attack on the Olympus nuclear fusion plant by the city's central computer, Gaia! Deunan, Briareos and Hitomi strike into the heart of the computer, but before destroying it, they must decide whether the computer has actually gone berserk or if it is the only one who knows the real truth about this utopian society! 48 pg. Classic B&W Format. Cover price $2.75.

Mini comic originally came with the Appleseed Ex Machina DVD. Written & illustrated by Shirow Masamune. B&W, 48 pages, slick paper stock, 5.25-in. x 7.25-in.

By MASAMUNE SHIROW. Masamune Shirow's acclaimed cyberpunk epic is back! The APPLESEED DATABOOK contains technical data on all the major characters, machinery and locales of this fascinating future world. In a special flip feature, Deunan and Briareos make their return in an all-new short story as they track a saboteur in the troubled utopia of Olympus. Cover price $3.50.

By MASAMUNE SHIROW. Part 2 of Masamune Shirow's compendium on the fascinating future world of Appleseed. Included are technical descriptions of Shirow's detailed machinery, as well as the people, places and organizations in this acclaimed cyberpunk epic. Plus, in a special flip feature, Deunan and Briareos are back! It's up to the ESWAT operatives to track down a terrorist who's threatened the highest members of Olympus' cyborg council! Cover price $3.50.

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1st printing.

Based on the Manga by Masamune Shirow.

FROM THE CREATOR OF GHOST IN THE SHELL!

A high-quality digital film grab adaptation of the newly released feature film Appleseed.

At the end of the Third World War, a utopian city is founded from the ashes of conflict. A young female super soldier is recruited from the remains of the battered battlefield to serve as the city's guardian. What she discovers is not the promised land of peace, but rather a city on the brink of committing mass genocide upon its unsuspecting citizens!

Will she uncover the sinister truth and stop the terror before it's too late?

Softcover, 5-in.x 7-in., 160 pages, full color. Mature Readers

Cover price $12.99.

Volume 1 - 1st printing. Collect Aqua Knight Part 1 (2000) #1-6. From the creator of Battle Angel Alita comes a new science fiction cosmos of humor, wonder and adventure: the world of Marmundo, where kings rule islands scattered across the great ocean, and knights ride killer whales through the seas. Using an art style similar to Battle Angel Alita, but enhanced with computer generated screentone, Yukito Kishiro gives Aquaknight the same strong characters, original settings, and attention to detail as his earlier series. Softcover, 5 1/2-in. x 8-in., 232 pages, B&W. Cover price $16.95.

Volume 1 - 2nd and later printings. Collect Aqua Knight Part 1 (2000) #1-6. From the creator of Battle Angel Alita comes a new science fiction cosmos of humor, wonder and adventure: the world of Marmundo, where kings rule islands scattered across the great ocean, and knights ride killer whales through the seas. Using an art style similar to Battle Angel Alita, but enhanced with computer generated screentone, Yukito Kishiro gives Aquaknight the same strong characters, original settings, and attention to detail as his earlier series. Softcover, 5 1/2-in. x 8-in., 232 pages, B&W. Cover price $16.95.

Volume 2 - 1st printing. Collects Aqua Knight Part 2 (2000) #1-5. The high seas, chivalrous knights, and a mythical Age of Exploration are all parts of the new world from the creator of Battle Angel Alita! Ashika, the son of a lighthouse keeper, has become a slave to the richest and most pampered person in the world: the imperialist Alcontra, who destroyed the lighthouse of Faro. As Alcontra's seashell-shaped ship rolls across the ocean in fully automated comfort, aqua knight Ruliya is in pursuit ? but how will Ashika adjust to his new life in this mechanized and formalized vessel? And what priceless jewel is stashed in the ship's bowels? Softcover, 5 1/2-in. x 8-in., 216 pages, B&W. Cover price $16.95.

Volume 3 - 1st printing. Collects Aqua Knight Part 3 (2001) #1-5. In this concluding volume, Ashika makes an escape attempt; Ruliya has a final showdown with Alcantara; a mysterious stranger tries to steal the light sphere from its wrongful owner; we learn the bizarre story of Alcantara's life as a young genius in a society ruled by clockwork; and Alcantara finds--or is found by--love!? Softcover, 5 1/2-in. x 8-in., 232 pages, B&W. Cover price $16.95.

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From the creator of Battle Angel Alita comes a new science fiction cosmos of humor, wonder and adventure: the world of Marmundo, where kings rule islands scattered across the great ocean, and knights ride killer whales through the seas. Using an art style similar to Battle Angel Alita, but enhanced with computer generated screentone, Yukito Kishiro gives Aquaknight the same strong characters, original settings, and attention to detail as his earlier series. In this issue: On the remote Island of Faro, not far from the Edge of the World, a stormy night brings a visitor to the lighthouse keeper and his young assistant. When they find a suit of armor washed up near the shore, they open it to reveal a beautiful woman who tells them that she is a knight from a faraway land! After meeting her, the kid decides that he's going to be a knight, too... and travel out into the unknown with just his knife and fishing spear to protect him! Includes a free color poster map of Marmundo! Cover price $3.50.

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by Yukito Kishiro Determined to find a Dragon's Egg so that he can become a knight (a promise our heroine is already regretting), the lighthouse keeper's young assistant rides his Orca to the edge of the map: the Catarata Termino, where the oceans end in a tremendous waterfall which falls into the stars! b&w, 48pg (2 of 6) Cover price $3.50.

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by Yukito Kishiro Alcontra steals the magnetic stone that powers the lighthouse, destroying the structure and bringing about Arrabarus' downfall. Arriving at the battlefield too late to do anything, Ruliya can do nothing but attend to Arrabarus' dying words, and watch as he literally, physically begins his journey into the great beyond! b&w, 40pg (5 of 6) Cover price $3.50.

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by Yukito Kishiro Astride a skeletal seahorse, the Knight of Death, commander of drowned corpses, rises from the sea to take Arrabarus to his grave. Shivering with fear, Ruliya manages to make the only proper reaction... to challenge Death itself to a battle before it takes her friend's soul. b&w, 32pg (6 of 6) Cover price $2.95.

by Yukito Kishiro Color poster in this issue! The high seas, chivalrous knights, and a mythical Age of Exploration are all parts of the new world from the creator of Battle Angel Alita! Ashika, the son of a lighthouse keeper, has become a slave to the richest and most pampered person in the world: the imperialist Alcontra, who destroyed the lighthouse of Faro. As Alcontra's seashell-shaped ship rolls across the ocean in fully automated comfort, aqua knight Ruliya is in pursuit ? but how will Ashika adjust to his new life in this mechanized and formalized vessel? And what priceless jewel is stashed in the ship's bowels? b&w, 32pg (1 of 5) Cover price $3.50.

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by Yukito Kishiro The scrape of crab claws. The drip of water on ancient stone. As Ruliya pursues Ashika across the sea, a hooded boatsman invites her to stay the night in a giant castle rising from the ocean floor. But as she accepts the hospitality of the Akuma Knight, she finds herself growing drowsy, and forgetting her quest... Plus, in this issue, see Ruliya's childhood! b&w, 48pg (3 of 5) Cover price $3.50.

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by Yukito Kishiro Lord Basso and Zuma take a trip back in time to see Ruliya's training, and there they discover her one weakness. In the present day, an old friend tells Ruliya to get rid of the Sword of Parca, while Zuma tells her to keep it. What will Ruliya choose, and will it be the right choice? b&w, 48pg (4 of 5) Cover price $3.50.

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by Yukito Kishiro Ruliya awakens from the water castle's spell of illusion, but reality is no comfort ? she's surrounded by a horde of monstrous crustaceans, and her host, Basso, has transformed into a giant crab! In her last extremity, Ruliya remembers the magic Sword of Parca, which can summon Death Itself! b&w, 48pg (5 of 5) Cover price $3.50.

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Story and Art by Yukito Kishiro. Ashika returns to the crew of the Zyfort rather than escape without Zykey. Back under the subjugation of Alcantara, though, Ashika is forced to witness the secret truth of Zykey's humanity -- a secret that keeps her inexorably bound to the brilliant conqueror. Then, take a trip down memory lane and visit the off-kilter childhood of Alcantara to discover what makes his sick mind tick! 48 pages, B&W. Cover price $3.50.

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Story and Art by Yukito Kishiro. He's a genius, a conqueror...and a total nut to boot! Travel back in time to the youth of Alcantara for a romp down memory lane in the land of Ybur Knom. See the origin of his problems with authority, his spoiled home life, and the first time he met Zygote aboard a hot-air balloon! Plus: See the beginnings of Zykey's debilitating disease that left her at the mercy of Alcantara. 48 pages, B&W. Cover price $3.50.

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Story and Art by Yukito Kishiro. Ruliya and Alcantara face off against each other in the most awesome knockdown drag-out fight this side of the Antipodes! The match seems equal until Alcantara begins to pull off some crafty high-tech tricks that throw Ruliya for a loop...literally! Can her years of training and experience save her from the whims of this genius conqueror? Then, the mysterious ghost-sorcerer returns to hassle Alcantara's landing party. 48 pages, B&W. Cover price $3.50.

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Story and Art by Yukito Kishiro. The unexpected conclusion! The ultimate battle between this world and the underworld is on! With the living core of Alcantara's Zyfort out of control and on the warpath, Ruliya has no choice than to call upon the forces of Death Himself one more time. After the fight, Alcantara decides it might be time to call it quits...but is a mad scientist ever really reformed? 48 pages, B&W. Cover price $3.50.

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Regular Cover. Art and story byTomoko Tomoko Taniguchi. Tomoko Taniguchi, the popular artist of Call Me Princess, returns with her second series from CPM, continuing the Shojo (womens' and girls' comics) line begun last year. In Aquarium, a young girl named Naoka fails the competitive exam for the high school she wanted to attend. Her hobby has always been going to the aquarium to see the fish and dolphins, and she spends more time there to find solace after her disappointment. At the aquarium, she meets a boy, Haruki. At first he tries to befriend her, but she is not able to return his friendship because she is still saddened by her failure. If you have ever experienced disappointment and the fear of change that new love can bring, Aquarium will touch you like few other works. Tomoko Taniguchi's elegant style is at its most moving and expressive in this all-new series. Cover price $2.95.

Colleen Doran mermaid variant cover. Art and story byTomoko Taniguchi. Tomoko Taniguchi, the popular artist of Call Me Princess, returns with her second series from CPM, continuing the Shojo (womens' and girls' comics) line begun last year. In Aquarium, a young girl named Naoka fails the competitive exam for the high school she wanted to attend. Her hobby has always been going to the aquarium to see the fish and dolphins, and she spends more time there to find solace after her disappointment. At the aquarium, she meets a boy, Haruki. At first he tries to befriend her, but she is not able to return his friendship because she is still saddened by her failure. If you have ever experienced disappointment and the fear of change that new love can bring, Aquarium will touch you like few other works. Tomoko Taniguchi's elegant style is at its most moving and expressive in this all-new series. Cover price $2.95.

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AQUARIUM #2 by Tomoko Taniguchi Tomoko Taniguchi, the popular artist of Call Me Princess, returns with her second series from CPM, continuing the Shojo (women's and girls' comics) line begun last year. The Aquarium six-issue series includes three novelette Aquarium, as well as two short stories. In this issue, the second part of Aquarium, a young girl named Naoka, who loves going to the aquarium, spends more time there for solace after failing the exam for a prestigious high school. There, she meets a boy, Haruki, who tries to befriend her, but she is not able to return his friendship because she is still saddened by her failure. Tomoko Taniguchi's elegant style is at its most moving and expressive in this all-new series. Cover price $2.95.

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by Tomoko Taniguchi Tomoko Taniguchi, the popular artist of Call Me Princess, returns with her second series from CPM, continuing the Shojo (womens' and girls' comics) line begun last year. The Aquarium six-issue series includes the novelette Aquarium, as well as two short stories. In this, the third and final part of Aquarium, the young girl Naoka, finally makes a date with the boy, Haruki, who has been hoping to go out with her, and they go together to the Aquarium. Tomoko Taniguchi's elegant style is at its most moving and expressive in this all-new series. Story and art by Tomoko Taniguchi. b&w, 32pg Cover price $2.95.