Children of the Sea, Volume 3
10 best books like Children of the Sea, Volume 3 (Daisuke Igarashi): Solanin, Mushishi, Vol. 1, PLUTO: Naoki Urasawa x Ozamu Tezuka, Band 001, Ōoku: The Inner Chambers, Volume 1, Nijigahara Holograph, Saturn Apartments, Vol. 1, Tegami Bachi, Vol. 3: Letter Bee, 極主夫道 1, とつくにの少女 6 [Totsukuni no shōjo 6], The Girl From the Other Side: Siúil, a Rún Vol. 7
| Author | Inio Asano |
| ISBN | 1421523213 |
Meiko Inoue is a recent college grad working as an office lady in a job she hates. Her boyfriend Naruo is permanently crashing at her apartment because his job as a freelance illustrator doesn't pay enough for rent. And her parents in the country keep sending her boxes of veggies that just rot in her fridge....
| Author | Yuki Urushibara |
| ISBN | 0345496213 |
THEY HAVE EXISTED SINCE THE DAWN OF TIME.
Some live in the deep darkness behind your eyelids. Some eat silence. Some thoughtlessly kill. Some simply drive men mad. Shortly after life emerged from the primordial ooze, these deadly creatures, mushi, came into terrifying being. And they still...
PLUTO: Naoki Urasawa x Ozamu Tezuka, Band 001
| Author | Naoki Urasawa |
| ISBN | 3770467574 |
I haven't actually been a huge booster of the works of Osamu Tezuka. Beyond a hard-won affection for his
Buddha
, I haven't come to take much enjoyment from the other books of his I've sampled. Phoenix, Adolf, Blackjack. They just haven't won me over. I think I may be too far divorced from the...
Ōoku: The Inner Chambers, Volume 1
| Author | Fumi Yoshinaga |
| ISBN | 1421527472 |
In Edo period Japan, a strange new disease called the Red Pox has begun to prey on the country's men. Within eighty years of the first outbreak, the male population has fallen by seventy-five percent. Women have taken on all the roles traditionally granted to men, even that of the Shogun. The men, precious...
| Author | Inio Asano |
| ISBN | 1606995839 |
Butterflies ominously proliferate as children whisper rumors of a mysterious creature lurking in the tunnel behind the school. To appease its wrath, they decide to offer it a sacrifice--a human one. But this is only the beginning of Nijigahara Holograph, which takes place in two separate timelines...
Saturn Apartments, Vol. 1
| Author | Hisae Iwaoka |
| ISBN | 1421533642 |
A touching, character-rich vision of an intriguing new world.
Far in the future, humankind has evacuated the earth in order to preserve it. Humans now reside in a gigantic structure that forms a ring around the earth, 35 kilometers up in the sky. The society of the ring is highly stratified:...
Tegami Bachi, Vol. 3: Letter Bee
| Author | Hiroyuki Asada |
| ISBN | 1421529513 |
In a land of perpetual night, your heart is your light.
Reads R to L (Japanese Style). In a land of perpetual night, your heart is your light.
Meeting Sylvette SuedeLag almost breaks the record time on his Letter Bee test, securing a job as a Letter Bee! But his celebration ends with unwelcome...
| Author | Kousuke Oono |
| ISBN | 4107721043 |
A gag manga is only as good as the main gag. The entire point of a good gag manga is that it can take that one joke, use it in various situation while keeping it fresh, and most importantly funny. It has to be repetitive, without feeling repetitive. Fortunately in the case of this series, the joke is exceptionally...
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 Vol. 7
| Author | Nagabe |
| ISBN | 1642751162 |
This is the seventh volume in the Girl from the Other Side manga series. This is a manga series that is great for all ages. This volume was more violent and had more fighting than any other volume, but I really enjoyed how the story is finally coming to a climax.
The two transformed soldiers have...
PLUTO: Urasawa x Tezuka, Volume 002
| Author | Naoki Urasawa |
| ISBN | 1421519194 |
In a distant future where sentient humanoid robots pass for human, someone or some thing is out to destroy the seven great robots of the world. Europol’s top detective Gesicht is assigned to investigate these mysterious robot serial murders—the only catch is that he himself is one of the seven targets....
| Author | Kentaro Miura |
| ISBN | 4592144406 |
I don't recall reading another fictional series that has changed so much like "Berserk". It started in the eighties as a savage, brooding, dark as hell (quite literally) story that for many defined how gruesome this genre could be. These days the series deals with most of the characters we are familiar...
かぐや様は告らせたい ～天才たちの恋愛頭脳戦～ 1
Two really smart teens are in love, but both want the other to reveal their feelings first.
That premise sounds fun, sorta, but then you think about at and wonder, if the focus is so heavily on "winning" over the other person, can they really be in love? Maybe, possibly, but I didn't really see any...
