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• Bakuman. 1, Dreams and Reality

  Ōba, Tsugumi

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  Bakuman is by the same creative team that created the hit Death Note, writer Tsugumi Ohba and illustrator Takeshi Obata. The story is about following two ninth grade boys as they attempt to make their own manga.

• Codename: Sailor V

  Eternal Edition 1

  Takeuchi, Naoko,

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  Before there was Sailor Moon, there was Sailor V by Naoko Takeuchi. While Sailor Venus makes an appearance in Sailor Moon, she stars in her own manga in this two-volume series that began before Sailor Moon and ended after it finished serialization.

• Dr. Slump. Vol. 1

  Toriyama, Akira, 1955-2024

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  Akira Toriyama is most well-known for his Dragon Ball series. But before Dragon Ball he wrote Dr. Slump, a humorous story about a little girl robot named Arale and her creator Senbei Norimaki and their adventures in the bizarre Penguin Village.

• Hunter X Hunter. Volume 1

  Togashi, Yoshihiro,

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  Yu Yu Hakusho was Yoshihiro Togashi's first manga hit to run in Shonen Jump. He would later return to the magazine to publish his second hit Hunter x Hunter, a story about a boy named Gon looking to become a Hunter (just like his father before him),…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Junji Ito's Cat Diary

  Yon & Mu

  Itō, Junji, 1963-

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  Junji Ito is most famous for his horror manga like Uzumaki and horror manga short stories The Enigma of Amigara Fault. In Junji Ito's Cat Diary, he takes a break from horror to provide a humorous autobiographical story about his and his fiancee's…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Princess Knight

  Tezuka, Osamu, 1928-1989,

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  Osamu Tezuka is often regarded as the godfather of manga. He's most well-known for Astro Boy, Black Jack, Kimba the White Lion, and Dororo. He also wrote the shojo classic Princess Knight, a story about a princess born with two hearts - one a boy's…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Real. Vol. 1

  Inoue, Takehiko

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  Takehiko Inoue is known for his series Slam Dunk, one of the best-selling manga series with over 121 million copies sold in Japan alone. His follow up title is Real. Once again it involves basketball, but this time wheelchair basketball. The series…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• RG Veda Omnibus. Book 1

  CLAMP (Mangaka group),

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  CLAMP is a four-women manga group that have been creating manga since 1989. Their best known works include Cardcaptor Sakura, xxxHolic, and Tsubasa Reservoir Chronicles. The very first original manga they ever published, however, was RG Veda, a…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Silver Spoon. 1

  Arakawa, Hiromu, 1973-

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  Fullmetal Alchemist was Hiromu Arakawa's big hit, spanning not only two anime adaptations, but also video games, action figures, and movies. After Fullmetal Alchemist, Arakawa wanted to write a story completely different from her first and decided…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Urusei Yatsura. 1

  Takahashi, Rumiko, 1957-

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  Ranma 1/2 and InuYasha are some of Rumiko Takahashi's best known titles. But before she would write either one, she wrote Urusei Yatsura. This manga is about a young man named Ataru Moroboshi and the strange alien Lum, who believes she is Ataru's…Read moreRead more of this annotation