Ōoku: The Inner Chambers, Volume 5
10 best books like Ōoku: The Inner Chambers, Volume 5 (Fumi Yoshinaga): Parasyte, Volume 1, しまなみ誰そ彼 1 [Shimanami Tasogare 1], How To: Absurd Scientific Advice for Common Real-World Problems, The Perfect Summer: England 1911, Just Before the Storm, Redlands, Vol. 1, Mothering Invention, とつくにの少女 4 [Totsukuni no shōjo 4], とつくにの少女 5 [Totsukuni no shōjo 5], Nausicaä of the Valley of the Wind, Vol. 2, とつくにの少女 6 [Totsukuni no shōjo 6]
| Author | Hitoshi Iwaaki |
| ISBN | 0345496248 |
SILENT INVASION
They arrive in silence and darkness. They descend from the skies. They have a hunger for human flesh. They are everywhere. They are parasites, alien creatures who must invade - and take control of - a human host to survive. And once they have infected their victims, they can assume...
しまなみ誰そ彼 1 [Shimanami Tasogare 1]
| Author | Yuhki Kamatani |
| ISBN | 4091874193 |
僕はゲイかもしれない。だから苦しいんだ。
クラスメイトに「ホモ動画」を観ていることを知られた、たすく。
自分の性指向…ゲイであると皆に知られたのではないかと怯え、
自殺を考えていた彼の前に、「誰かさん」と呼ばれる
謎めいた女性があらわれた。
彼女は、たすくを「談話室」へと誘う。
そこには、レズビアンである大地さんがいて…。
尾道を舞台に描かれる、性と生と青春の物語、第1集。...
How To: Absurd Scientific Advice for Common Real-World Problems
| Author | Randall Munroe |
| ISBN | 1473680336 |
How To is an instruction manual for taking everyday problems and using science and creative thinking to turn them into much bigger and more exciting problems. It teaches you how to cross a river by boiling it, outlines some of the many uses for lava around the home, and walks you through how to use experimental...
The Perfect Summer: England 1911, Just Before the Storm
| Author | Juliet Nicolson |
| ISBN | 0802118461 |
The Perfect Summer chronicles a glorious English summer a century ago when the world was on the cusp of irrevocable change. Through the tight lens of four months, Juliet Nicolson’s rich storytelling gifts rivet us with the sights, colors, and feelings of a bygone era. That summer of 1911 a new king...
| Author | Jordie Bellaire |
| ISBN | 1534305009 |
A mysterious and bloodthirsty matriarchal force runs the town of Redlands, Florida, and in order to stay on top sacrifices must be made. Someone is intent on removing these women from the top of the food chain, and he's ready to unleash their darkest secret but has seriously underestimated the lengths...
| Author | Kieron Gillen |
| ISBN | 1534308407 |
I don't know if the series is actually getting better again or if I'm just excited that WicDiv is ending in just one more volume, but I thought Mothering Invention was pretty good, in fact the best arc since volume 3 of the series. Gillen delves back into ancient history with his divine mythos, which leads...
とつくにの少女 4 [Totsukuni no shōjo 4]
| Author | Nagabe |
| ISBN | 4800007208 |
Volume 4 of this fantasy/horror series, A Fate Worse than Death, featuring Shiva, Teacher, and Auntie and more backstory about the world and its history are revealed even as we move forward with the story in the present. Back and forth, back and forth. It’s as much a story of gradual uncovering as it...
とつくにの少女 5 [Totsukuni no shōjo 5]
| Author | Nagabe |
| ISBN | 4800007577 |
Each volume opens us up to more information and emotions in this dark yet hopeful fantasy/horror? story of Shiva and Teacher. Shiva finds out about Auntie and confronts Teacher, whom she presumes knew about and could have protected her. Teacher returns to the cottage at one point and finds that Shiva...
Nausicaä of the Valley of the Wind, Vol. 2
| Author | Hayao Miyazaki |
| ISBN | 1591163501 |
It's almost impossible for a two part work to be so magnificent, and yet Nausicaa manages to be just that.
I usually just, to quote a friend, ingest graphic novels, and the reason I was able to finish my 2017 reading goal so quickly was largely because of them. Nausicaa has been a challenge because...
とつくにの少女 6 [Totsukuni no shōjo 6]
| Author | Nagabe |
| ISBN | 4800008018 |
The publisher introduces the series in this way: “In a land far away, there were two kingdoms: the Outside, where twisted beasts roamed that could curse with a touch, and the Inside, where humans lived in safety and peace. The girl and the beast should never have met, but when they do, a quiet fairytale...
The Girl from the Other Side: Siúil, A Rún, Volume 3
| Author | Nagabe |
| ISBN | 1626925585 |
The first two volumes were largely tone-building (as opposed to world-building), as we knew little of what was going on. Very atmospheric. But in this third volume there is suddenly a great deal happening. We don't know everything, but we know enough to know there is a struggle between the two worlds,...
The Girl from the Other Side: Siúil, A Rún, Volume 2
| Author | Nagabe |
| ISBN | 1626925232 |
Untouchable
To be touched by an Outsider is to become an Outsider. A clawed, black hand reaches out to touch Shiva's cheek in her sleep. The hand does not belong to Teacher. Who is this strange new Outsider, and what do its creepy murmurings about "mother" portend?
Enter a fantasy realm...
The Kurosagi Corpse Delivery Service Omnibus, Book 1
| Author | Eiji Otsuka |
| ISBN | 1616557540 |
Five spiritualist students at a Buddhist college in Japan realize the job market is tough these days . . . among the living, that is! But the dead need jobs done too, so the five form the Kurosagi Corpse Delivery Service, carrying out the last wishes of their cadaverous clients, so their souls can move on....
Princess Jellyfish, Tome 10
| Author | Akiko Higashimura |
| ISBN | 2756036447 |
Les Amars ont retrouvé leur motivation pour travailler sur la marque Jellyfish. Retour à la normale ? Rien n’est moins sûr ! Une lettre de demande en mariage destinée à Tsukimi est interceptée. Quant à celle-ci, elle éprouve des sentiments qu’elle ne connaissait pas auparavant. Les esprits...
Princess Jellyfish, tome 9
Deux rendez-vous amoureux ont lieu en même temps et dans le même restaurant ! Dun côté, Mr. Hanamori, le chauffeur, et Nisha, la belle Indienne ; de lautre Shû et Tsukimi. Cette dernière est particulièrement chamboulée quand Shû lui avoue ses sentiments Perturbée, elle nose croire à sa...
しまなみ誰そ彼 2 [Shimanami Tasogare 2]
| Author | Yuhki Kamatani |
| ISBN | 4091892760 |
僕が女装する理由なんて僕にもわからない。
自らがゲイであることを告白したたすくと、
彼の思いを受けとめた「談話室」に集う人々――
そのメンバーの一人の美空秋治は、「談話室」の
中でだけ女装をしている小学生男子。
自分はどうなりたいのか、なぜ女装をしたいのか
…何もわからないという美空を、
年上の友人として導こうと決意したたすくは、
尾道の花火大会へ女装した美空と一緒に行くことを
提案したが……?
尾道を舞台に鎌谷悠希が描く
性と生と青春の物語、第2集。...
| Author | Kieron Gillen |
| ISBN | 1534308806 |
Modernist poets trapped in an Agatha Christie Murder Mystery. The Romantics gathering in Lake Geneva to resurrect the dead. What really happened during the fall of Rome. The Lucifer who was a nun, hearing Ananke's Black Death confession. As we approach the end, we start to see the full picture. Also...
The Girl from the Other Side: Siúil, A Rún, Volume 1
| Author | Nagabe |
| ISBN | 1626924678 |
Once upon a time...
In a land far away, there were two kingdoms: the Outside, where twisted beasts roamed that could curse with a touch, and the Inside, where humans lived in safety and peace. The girl and the beast should never have met, but when they do, a quiet fairytale begins.
This...
