Category
Manga and Other East Asian Style / Tradition Comic Books (Manhwa, Manhua, International Manga, Etc)
Princess Jellyfish 2016
Princess Jellyfish, Book 1
Tsukimi Kurashita has a strange fascination with jellyfish. She’s loved them from a young age and has carried that love with her to her new life in the big city of Tokyo. There, she resides in Amamizukan, a safe-haven for girl geeks who regularly gush over a range of things from trains to Japanese...
Princess Jellyfish 2016
Princess Jellyfish, Book 2
With the geeky paradise of Amamizu-kan threatened by redevelopment plans, Tsukimi and the Amars must spring into action. Buy the wily Inari and her hold on Shu forces Kuranosuke to pull out all the stops: money, blackmail, and...fashion?! Though Amamizu-kan still struggles with Kuranosuke's stylish...
Princess Jellyfish 2016
Princess Jellyfish, Book 3
Inari, the aggressive vixen of redevelopment, ramps up her efforts to buy out Amamizu-kan, where Tsukimi and her friends live. But Kuranosuke has a fabulous plan of attack—turn Tsukimi’s jellyfish designs into a reality! Will becoming real fashion designers be more than Amars can handle? Meanwhile,...
Princess Jellyfish 2017
Princess Jellyfish, Book 4
The night of the fashion show for Tsukimi and Kuranosuke’s Jelly Fish brand has finally arrived. They pulled out all the stops to make Amamizu-kan into an enchanting wonderland–even Mayaya has transformed into a chic model! The show brings some much-needed attention to the retro building, but will...
Princess Jellyfish 2017
Princess Jellyfish, Book 5
With the help of Amars and their savvy new ally Nisha, Tsukimi’s jellyfish designs are slowly taking shape as a real clothing line. There’s no time to waste if the group wants to save Amamizukan and make a splash in the fashion world, and that means churning out new dresses—and fast! As if Tsukimi...
Princess Jellyfish 2017
Princess Jellyfish, Book 6
In order to save Amamizukan, the girls decide to put up an exhibition of their work. When the Jelly Fish dresses catch the eye of Asia’s greatest fashion influencer, Kai, it’s not only the dresses that the mogul wants—it’s the designer herself. Tsukimi and the gang are about to get the massive break...
Princess Jellyfish 2017
Princess Jellyfish, Book 7
In order to save Amamizukan, Tsukimi makes the ultimate sacrifice: She goes to Singapore to work as a designer for Kai’s fashion company. While Amars seems to accept Tsukimi’s departure and the end of Jelly Fish, Kuranosuke refuses to give her up without a fight! As she floats further and further...
Princess Jellyfish 2018
Princess Jellyfish, Book 8
As this modern fairy tale of otaku girls bum-rushing the fashion industry hits its penultimate volume, Kuranosuke charges onwards for Tsukimi's retrieval mission! Hanamori-san also makes his way to Singapore, for less noble reasons, but the biggest showstopper is Shu, who decides to propose...for...
Princess Jellyfish 2018
Princess Jellyfish, Book 9
As a brand, Jelly Fish comes to the conclusion that their dresses are for Amars, by Amars. After embracing the fact that they make clothes for weirdos, Tsukimi and the crew must figure out how to sell their styles! In true Amars fashion, these beloved otaku girls and eccentric boys struggle and...
Ascendance of a Bookworm (Manga), Book 1 - Part 1
A certain college girl who's loved books ever since she was a little girl dies in an accident and is reborn in another world she knows nothing about. She is now Myne, the sickly five-year-old daughter of a poor soldier. To make things worse, the world she's been reborn in has a very low literacy...
Ascendance of a Bookworm (Manga), Book 1 - Part 2
Myne has finally started to adjust to her new life... but once a bookworm, always a bookworm. As winter sets in, there are historical methodologies to try: papyrus, clay tablets... anything that can hold letters and words. Even if it means getting well enough to visit the forest!
But first there...
Ascendance of a Bookworm (Manga), Book 1 - Part 3
Myne throws everything she has at paper-making while helping at the gate and preparing for Tuuli's baptism. She tries weaving faux-papyrus from fibers during winter and forming clay tablets during the spring, but both fail. Still, her love for books isn't so weak that she'd give up that easily. It's...
Ascendance of a Bookworm (Manga), Book 1 - Part 4
Aspiring apprentice merchants Myne and Lutz have signed a contract with Benno, who has promised to sell their plant-based prototype. With his assistance, they finally have the materials and tools to start making their first batch of washi paper! And Benno wants to sell not only paper, but Myne's...
Ascendance of a Bookworm (Manga), Book 1 - Part 5
Myne tells Lutz the truth about herself. He gets mad and confused, but in the end accepts Myne, with whom he has spent the past year making paper and such with. They successfully complete the paper and get accepted by Benno.
They go to the Merchant's Guild to register so they can sell paper, where...
Ascendance of a Bookworm (Manga), Book 1 - Part 6
Myne advances further into book-making so that she can have books to read. Her disease is known as “the Devouring,” and upon learning that it requires an exorbitant amount of money to cure, she resolves to stay alive by selling her knowledge from her past life.
But despite her best efforts, the...
Ascendance of a Bookworm (Manga), Book 1 - Part 7
Myne narrowly escapes death thanks to a magic tool, but is told that she only has one year left to live at most. She decides to spend her remaining time with her family, concluding that she would rather die with them than sign her life away to a noble.
Meanwhile, Lutz fights back against his...
Ascendance of a Bookworm (Manga), Book 2 - Part 1
Myne successfully negotiates with the temple and starts working as an apprentice blue shrine maiden. This new job also ensures she will receive the same treatment as a noble. The wait is over—she can finally read in the book room!
Unfortunately, she still won’t have it easy thanks to the temple’s...
Ascendance of a Bookworm (Manga), Book 2 - Part 2
As time goes on, Myne slowly gets more and more used to life in the temple. She learns to speak like a noble and is allowed to live in the orphanage director’s chambers. She even successfully breaks the ice with Fran!
Gil, her once troublesome attendant, cleans her new chambers as ordered and...
Ascendance of a Bookworm (Manga), Book 2 - Part 3
Myne is starting to grow more comfortable with temple life. Things are finally going well—that is, until she learns the truth about the orphanage. The children there are starving and emaciated, living in conditions that shake the apprentice blue shrine maiden to her core.
After agonizing over this...
Ascendance of a Bookworm (Manga), Book 2 - Part 4
Now acting as the orphanage director, Myne starts on her mission to save the temple's orphans—an endeavor that earns her a great deal of respect from the children whose lives she works to improve. She cleans up the orphanage, teaches the orphans to provide for themselves, and even gives them an...
Ascendance of a Bookworm (Manga), Book 2 - Part 5
Lutz's parents refuse to accept him becoming a merchant and he runs away from home after they argue. News of the dispute quickly reaches the Gilberta Company, and only when Myne and the High Priest arrange a mediation between the involved parties do they reach a resolution.
With peace finally...
Ascendance of a Bookworm (Manga), Book 2 - Part 6
Myne shows the High Priest her rewritten bible to secure his approval. Unfortunately, it only casts doubt on who she claims to be. The High Priest demands answers: how can a girl who struggles to author a simple letter produce something so well-written? Myne struggles with how to respond. Will the...
Ascendance of a Bookworm (Manga), Book 2 - Part 7
Myne resolved to make her own books two years ago, and now she's finally finished her first one! Lutz and Tuuli join the ecstatic bookworm's celebrations, but their time together is cut short by winter's arrival. Myne needs to endure the bitter season in the temple, away from her family—and her...
Ascendance of a Bookworm (Manga), Book 3 - Part 1
Myne is determined to protect those she cares about most, so she abandons the life she knows to become Rozemyne, the archduke's mana-rich adopted daughter. She charges forward into this strange new world, not letting her new persona change her passion for books!
Watch as the setting of this...
Ascendance of a Bookworm (Manga), Book 3 - Part 2
Rozemyne’s reunion with her family is only too brief—no sooner has she completed the lower city’s Starbind Ceremony than she is whisked away to the archduke’s castle to perform another.
Next, she must attend a meeting at the Italian restaurant, gather funds for the printing industry, and even study...
Ascendance of a Bookworm (Manga), Book 2 - Part 8
As the High Priest battles a trombe alongside the Knight’s Order, Myne glimpses the terrors of noble society. She completes the Healing Ritual and demonstrates her worth as an apprentice blue shrine maiden, but even then, there are those who remain doubtful...
Is she a grave threat to Ehrenfest or...
Ascendance of a Bookworm (Manga), Book 2 - Part 9
Myne reunites with her mother in the world of dreams, bringing a tear to the eye of even the High Priest. He deems Myne free of any malice, but other threats lurk in the shadows.
The head of the Ink Guild expresses a sudden, concerning interest in the lower city’s resident bookworm, and an...
Ascendance of a Bookworm (Manga), Book 3 - Part 3
Ferdinand’s harspiel concert is just around the corner! Rozemyne can barely keep track of everything she needs to get done before then, like readying programs and songs and working on a last-minute expansion...
Meanwhile, a slight misunderstanding between two smiths leads to a competition—who can...
Ascendance of a Bookworm (Manga), Book 3 - Part 4
Excitement fills the Noble’s Quarter as a long-awaited concert finally begins. Eager customers await Rozemyne’s printed products, but with Sylvester snooping around, something is bound to go wrong. Rozemyne has a plan, but it seems it may not be as airtight as she imagined.
The Saint of Ehrenfest...
Ascendance of a Bookworm (Manga), Book 4 - Part 1
Rozemyne awakens from her two-year slumber to find that everything and everyone has changed, which is just as terrifying as it sounds. She’s immediately thrust toward the Royal Academy—a requirement for becoming a noble. There, she’ll meet so many teachers and students from other duchies... but will...
Ascendance of a Bookworm (Manga), Book 4 - Part 2
Even though she’s a student now, there are still more obstacles standing between Rozemyne and the library she can’t wait to visit. To gain access to its treasure trove of tomes, she must not only finish her own classes but also ensure that all the other first-years pass!
Considering regressive...
Ascendance of a Bookworm (Manga), Book 4 - Part 3
Ehrenfest’s new students begin their harsh endeavor to pass each of their written lessons on the very first day. Rozemyne oversees their feverish efforts to achieve the improbable, but keeping morale high is the least of her concerns. She now has more mana than before her two-year slumber, making...
Ascendance of a Bookworm (Manga), Book 4 - Part 4
Her registration complete and two large shumils now under her command, Rozemyne finally gets a taste of the library of her dreams. But before she can lose herself in its countless books, she must first pass the rest of her practical classes. Chief among them is the acquisition of her schtappe—a...
Search and Destroy 2025
Search and Destroy, Book 3
The broken and discarded creatures of the city have had enough of the caste system that keeps them servile, and they rise up to strike… Doro the little thief must confront their past and make impossible decisions about their future...
And Hyaku? Hyaku’s quest to retrieve the stolen pieces of her...
Tokyo Tarareba Girls 2018
Tokyo Tarareba Girls, Book 1
Rinko has done everything right. She hustled her way through her 20s to make it as a screenwriter, renting her own office in a trendy Tokyo neighborhood. Everything should have gone according to plan... So at 33, she can't help but lament the fact that her career's plateaued, she's still painfully...
Tokyo Tarareba Girls 2018
Tokyo Tarareba Girls, Book 2
Turns out, sex isn't everything. After a misspent night with a hot model (and a little too much booze), Rinko wakes up feeling more depressed than ever, unable to shake her growing suspicion that, at 33, she's doomed to be forever alone. Her friends Kaori and Koyuki think they have found...
Tokyo Tarareba Girls 2018
Tokyo Tarareba Girls, Book 3
When it finally seems like Rinko has caught a break, it disappears almost as quickly--thanks, once again, to Key. Meanwhile, Kaori finds out that she's not the only one her ex is cheating on his girlfriend with, and Koyuki learns her married boyfriend's wife may not be as estranged as she seemed....
Tokyo Tarareba Girls 2018
Tokyo Tarareba Girls, Book 4
A meet-cute in a movie rental store has led Rinko into a relationship with the perfect man: He's tall, he cooks, and he owns a movie-themed café/bar. There's just one little thing between her and wedded bliss: He wants her to perm her hair. And he won't let her talk during movies. And he won't shut...
Tokyo Tarareba Girls 2019
Tokyo Tarareba Girls, Book 5
After yet another devastating encounter with Key, Rinko constantly questions what it means to be a "good woman." The haunting thought drives her to consult a fortune teller, who seems to nail her problems right on the head. When Rinko brings Koyuki and Kaori along to experience the psychic for...
Tokyo Tarareba Girls 2019
Tokyo Tarareba Girls, Book 6
Faced with the possibility that she might be pregnant, Kaori loses sight of what she wants from Ryo. With Koyuki sinking deeper into her affair and Rinko compromising on her dreams of a heart-pounding romance, it seems like the futures they envisioned in their twenties have never been more...
Tokyo Tarareba Girls 2019
Tokyo Tarareba Girls, Book 7
While just starting to rekindle an old flame with Hayasaka-san, Rinko is mortified to have their first date crashed by Key. Will what he has to say condemn Rinko to another angry, drunken night with her friends...or will it strengthen her resolve to make this new relationship work? There's only one...
Tokyo Tarareba Girls 2019
Tokyo Tarareba Girls, Book 8
At last, Rinko's found it--the happy, comfortable relationship she's dreamt of. She and Hayasaka-san have moved into an apartment together, and her best friends have wished her well. Everything is going smoothly...until those same best friends show up breathless at her doorstep with the biggest...
Tokyo Tarareba Girls 2019
Tokyo Tarareba Girls, Book 9
During her four-alarm search for Key, Rinko makes a decision she can't take back, and is forced to finally reckon with the question she's been pursuing all along: Can a tarareba girl ever truly find happiness? What even is "happiness," anyway? In this final volume of Tokyo Tarareba Girls, the answer...
Warriors 2024
When kittypet Tiny crosses paths with some wild forest cats defending their territory, they leave him with scars—and a bitter, deep-seated grudge.
As his reputation grows among the strays and loners that live in the dirty brick alleyways of Twolegplace, he changes his name to Scourge and puts...
Tokyo Tarareba Girls 2018
Tokyo Tarareba Girls, Book 1
Rinko has done everything right. She hustled her way through her 20s to make it as a screenwriter, renting her own office in a trendy Tokyo neighborhood. Everything should have gone according to plan... So at 33, she can't help but lament the fact that her career's plateaued, she's still painfully...
Tokyo Tarareba Girls 2018
Tokyo Tarareba Girls, Book 2
Turns out, sex isn't everything. After a misspent night with a hot model (and a little too much booze), Rinko wakes up feeling more depressed than ever, unable to shake her growing suspicion that, at 33, she's doomed to be forever alone. Her friends Kaori and Koyuki think they have found...
Tokyo Tarareba Girls 2018
Tokyo Tarareba Girls, Book 3
When it finally seems like Rinko has caught a break, it disappears almost as quickly--thanks, once again, to Key. Meanwhile, Kaori finds out that she's not the only one her ex is cheating on his girlfriend with, and Koyuki learns her married boyfriend's wife may not be as estranged as she seemed....
Tokyo Tarareba Girls 2018
Tokyo Tarareba Girls, Book 4
A meet-cute in a movie rental store has led Rinko into a relationship with the perfect man: He's tall, he cooks, and he owns a movie-themed café/bar. There's just one little thing between her and wedded bliss: He wants her to perm her hair. And he won't let her talk during movies. And he won't shut...
Tokyo Tarareba Girls 2019
Tokyo Tarareba Girls, Book 5
After yet another devastating encounter with Key, Rinko constantly questions what it means to be a "good woman." The haunting thought drives her to consult a fortune teller, who seems to nail her problems right on the head. When Rinko brings Koyuki and Kaori along to experience the psychic for...
Tokyo Tarareba Girls 2019
Tokyo Tarareba Girls, Book 6
Faced with the possibility that she might be pregnant, Kaori loses sight of what she wants from Ryo. With Koyuki sinking deeper into her affair and Rinko compromising on her dreams of a heart-pounding romance, it seems like the futures they envisioned in their twenties have never been more...
Tokyo Tarareba Girls 2019
Tokyo Tarareba Girls, Book 7
While just starting to rekindle an old flame with Hayasaka-san, Rinko is mortified to have their first date crashed by Key. Will what he has to say condemn Rinko to another angry, drunken night with her friends...or will it strengthen her resolve to make this new relationship work? There's only one...
Tokyo Tarareba Girls 2019
Tokyo Tarareba Girls, Book 8
At last, Rinko's found it--the happy, comfortable relationship she's dreamt of. She and Hayasaka-san have moved into an apartment together, and her best friends have wished her well. Everything is going smoothly...until those same best friends show up breathless at her doorstep with the biggest...
Tokyo Tarareba Girls 2019
Tokyo Tarareba Girls, Book 9
During her four-alarm search for Key, Rinko makes a decision she can't take back, and is forced to finally reckon with the question she's been pursuing all along: Can a tarareba girl ever truly find happiness? What even is "happiness," anyway? In this final volume of Tokyo Tarareba Girls, the answer...
Ascendance of a Bookworm June 9, 2026
Ascendance of a Bookworm (Manga), Book 4 - Part 4
Her registration complete and two large shumils now under her command, Rozemyne finally gets a taste of the library of her dreams. But before she can lose herself in its countless books, she must first pass the rest of her practical classes. Chief among them is the acquisition of her schtappe—a...
Ascendance of a Bookworm April 14, 2026
Ascendance of a Bookworm (Manga), Book 4 - Part 3
Ehrenfest’s new students begin their harsh endeavor to pass each of their written lessons on the very first day. Rozemyne oversees their feverish efforts to achieve the improbable, but keeping morale high is the least of her concerns. She now has more mana than before her two-year slumber, making...
Ascendance of a Bookworm February 10, 2026
Ascendance of a Bookworm (Manga), Book 4 - Part 2
Even though she’s a student now, there are still more obstacles standing between Rozemyne and the library she can’t wait to visit. To gain access to its treasure trove of tomes, she must not only finish her own classes but also ensure that all the other first-years pass!
Considering regressive...
Ascendance of a Bookworm December 9, 2025
Ascendance of a Bookworm (Manga), Book 4 - Part 1
Rozemyne awakens from her two-year slumber to find that everything and everyone has changed, which is just as terrifying as it sounds. She’s immediately thrust toward the Royal Academy—a requirement for becoming a noble. There, she’ll meet so many teachers and students from other duchies... but will...
Search and Destroy November 25, 2025
Search and Destroy, Book 3
The broken and discarded creatures of the city have had enough of the caste system that keeps them servile, and they rise up to strike… Doro the little thief must confront their past and make impossible decisions about their future...
And Hyaku? Hyaku’s quest to retrieve the stolen pieces of her...
Ascendance of a Bookworm October 14, 2025
Ascendance of a Bookworm (Manga), Book 3 - Part 4
Excitement fills the Noble’s Quarter as a long-awaited concert finally begins. Eager customers await Rozemyne’s printed products, but with Sylvester snooping around, something is bound to go wrong. Rozemyne has a plan, but it seems it may not be as airtight as she imagined.
The Saint of Ehrenfest...
Ascendance of a Bookworm June 10, 2025
Ascendance of a Bookworm (Manga), Book 3 - Part 3
Ferdinand’s harspiel concert is just around the corner! Rozemyne can barely keep track of everything she needs to get done before then, like readying programs and songs and working on a last-minute expansion...
Meanwhile, a slight misunderstanding between two smiths leads to a competition—who can...
Ascendance of a Bookworm February 11, 2025
Ascendance of a Bookworm (Manga), Book 2 - Part 9
Myne reunites with her mother in the world of dreams, bringing a tear to the eye of even the High Priest. He deems Myne free of any malice, but other threats lurk in the shadows.
The head of the Ink Guild expresses a sudden, concerning interest in the lower city’s resident bookworm, and an...
Ascendance of a Bookworm December 10, 2024
Ascendance of a Bookworm (Manga), Book 2 - Part 8
As the High Priest battles a trombe alongside the Knight’s Order, Myne glimpses the terrors of noble society. She completes the Healing Ritual and demonstrates her worth as an apprentice blue shrine maiden, but even then, there are those who remain doubtful...
Is she a grave threat to Ehrenfest or...
Ascendance of a Bookworm August 13, 2024
Ascendance of a Bookworm (Manga), Book 3 - Part 2
Rozemyne’s reunion with her family is only too brief—no sooner has she completed the lower city’s Starbind Ceremony than she is whisked away to the archduke’s castle to perform another.
Next, she must attend a meeting at the Italian restaurant, gather funds for the printing industry, and even study...
Ascendance of a Bookworm April 9, 2024
Ascendance of a Bookworm (Manga), Book 3 - Part 1
Myne is determined to protect those she cares about most, so she abandons the life she knows to become Rozemyne, the archduke's mana-rich adopted daughter. She charges forward into this strange new world, not letting her new persona change her passion for books!
Watch as the setting of this...
Warriors March 12, 2024
When kittypet Tiny crosses paths with some wild forest cats defending their territory, they leave him with scars—and a bitter, deep-seated grudge.
As his reputation grows among the strays and loners that live in the dirty brick alleyways of Twolegplace, he changes his name to Scourge and puts...
Ascendance of a Bookworm August 8, 2023
Ascendance of a Bookworm (Manga), Book 2 - Part 7
Myne resolved to make her own books two years ago, and now she's finally finished her first one! Lutz and Tuuli join the ecstatic bookworm's celebrations, but their time together is cut short by winter's arrival. Myne needs to endure the bitter season in the temple, away from her family—and her...
Ascendance of a Bookworm April 18, 2023
Ascendance of a Bookworm (Manga), Book 2 - Part 6
Myne shows the High Priest her rewritten bible to secure his approval. Unfortunately, it only casts doubt on who she claims to be. The High Priest demands answers: how can a girl who struggles to author a simple letter produce something so well-written? Myne struggles with how to respond. Will the...
Ascendance of a Bookworm December 13, 2022
Ascendance of a Bookworm (Manga), Book 2 - Part 5
Lutz's parents refuse to accept him becoming a merchant and he runs away from home after they argue. News of the dispute quickly reaches the Gilberta Company, and only when Myne and the High Priest arrange a mediation between the involved parties do they reach a resolution.
With peace finally...
Ascendance of a Bookworm October 4, 2022
Ascendance of a Bookworm (Manga), Book 2 - Part 4
Now acting as the orphanage director, Myne starts on her mission to save the temple's orphans—an endeavor that earns her a great deal of respect from the children whose lives she works to improve. She cleans up the orphanage, teaches the orphans to provide for themselves, and even gives them an...
Ascendance of a Bookworm June 7, 2022
Ascendance of a Bookworm (Manga), Book 2 - Part 3
Myne is starting to grow more comfortable with temple life. Things are finally going well—that is, until she learns the truth about the orphanage. The children there are starving and emaciated, living in conditions that shake the apprentice blue shrine maiden to her core.
After agonizing over this...
Ascendance of a Bookworm March 29, 2022
Ascendance of a Bookworm (Manga), Book 2 - Part 2
As time goes on, Myne slowly gets more and more used to life in the temple. She learns to speak like a noble and is allowed to live in the orphanage director’s chambers. She even successfully breaks the ice with Fran!
Gil, her once troublesome attendant, cleans her new chambers as ordered and...
Ascendance of a Bookworm January 11, 2022
Ascendance of a Bookworm (Manga), Book 2 - Part 1
Myne successfully negotiates with the temple and starts working as an apprentice blue shrine maiden. This new job also ensures she will receive the same treatment as a noble. The wait is over—she can finally read in the book room!
Unfortunately, she still won’t have it easy thanks to the temple’s...
Ascendance of a Bookworm September 21, 2021
Ascendance of a Bookworm (Manga), Book 1 - Part 7
Myne narrowly escapes death thanks to a magic tool, but is told that she only has one year left to live at most. She decides to spend her remaining time with her family, concluding that she would rather die with them than sign her life away to a noble.
Meanwhile, Lutz fights back against his...
Ascendance of a Bookworm July 6, 2021
Ascendance of a Bookworm (Manga), Book 1 - Part 6
Myne advances further into book-making so that she can have books to read. Her disease is known as “the Devouring,” and upon learning that it requires an exorbitant amount of money to cure, she resolves to stay alive by selling her knowledge from her past life.
But despite her best efforts, the...
Ascendance of a Bookworm May 4, 2021
Ascendance of a Bookworm (Manga), Book 1 - Part 5
Myne tells Lutz the truth about herself. He gets mad and confused, but in the end accepts Myne, with whom he has spent the past year making paper and such with. They successfully complete the paper and get accepted by Benno.
They go to the Merchant's Guild to register so they can sell paper, where...
Ascendance of a Bookworm April 6, 2021
Ascendance of a Bookworm (Manga), Book 1 - Part 4
Aspiring apprentice merchants Myne and Lutz have signed a contract with Benno, who has promised to sell their plant-based prototype. With his assistance, they finally have the materials and tools to start making their first batch of washi paper! And Benno wants to sell not only paper, but Myne's...
Ascendance of a Bookworm January 5, 2021
Ascendance of a Bookworm (Manga), Book 1 - Part 3
Myne throws everything she has at paper-making while helping at the gate and preparing for Tuuli's baptism. She tries weaving faux-papyrus from fibers during winter and forming clay tablets during the spring, but both fail. Still, her love for books isn't so weak that she'd give up that easily. It's...
Ascendance of a Bookworm November 3, 2020
Ascendance of a Bookworm (Manga), Book 1 - Part 2
Myne has finally started to adjust to her new life... but once a bookworm, always a bookworm. As winter sets in, there are historical methodologies to try: papyrus, clay tablets... anything that can hold letters and words. Even if it means getting well enough to visit the forest!
But first there...
Ascendance of a Bookworm September 1, 2020
Ascendance of a Bookworm (Manga), Book 1 - Part 1
A certain college girl who's loved books ever since she was a little girl dies in an accident and is reborn in another world she knows nothing about. She is now Myne, the sickly five-year-old daughter of a poor soldier. To make things worse, the world she's been reborn in has a very low literacy...
Tokyo Tarareba Girls October 15, 2019
Tokyo Tarareba Girls, Book 9
During her four-alarm search for Key, Rinko makes a decision she can't take back, and is forced to finally reckon with the question she's been pursuing all along: Can a tarareba girl ever truly find happiness? What even is "happiness," anyway? In this final volume of Tokyo Tarareba Girls, the answer...
Tokyo Tarareba Girls August 6, 2019
Tokyo Tarareba Girls, Book 8
At last, Rinko's found it--the happy, comfortable relationship she's dreamt of. She and Hayasaka-san have moved into an apartment together, and her best friends have wished her well. Everything is going smoothly...until those same best friends show up breathless at her doorstep with the biggest...
Tokyo Tarareba Girls June 25, 2019
Tokyo Tarareba Girls, Book 7
While just starting to rekindle an old flame with Hayasaka-san, Rinko is mortified to have their first date crashed by Key. Will what he has to say condemn Rinko to another angry, drunken night with her friends...or will it strengthen her resolve to make this new relationship work? There's only one...
Tokyo Tarareba Girls April 9, 2019
Tokyo Tarareba Girls, Book 6
Faced with the possibility that she might be pregnant, Kaori loses sight of what she wants from Ryo. With Koyuki sinking deeper into her affair and Rinko compromising on her dreams of a heart-pounding romance, it seems like the futures they envisioned in their twenties have never been more...
Tokyo Tarareba Girls February 12, 2019
Tokyo Tarareba Girls, Book 5
After yet another devastating encounter with Key, Rinko constantly questions what it means to be a "good woman." The haunting thought drives her to consult a fortune teller, who seems to nail her problems right on the head. When Rinko brings Koyuki and Kaori along to experience the psychic for...
Tokyo Tarareba Girls December 31, 2018
Tokyo Tarareba Girls, Book 4
A meet-cute in a movie rental store has led Rinko into a relationship with the perfect man: He's tall, he cooks, and he owns a movie-themed café/bar. There's just one little thing between her and wedded bliss: He wants her to perm her hair. And he won't let her talk during movies. And he won't shut...
Tokyo Tarareba Girls October 16, 2018
Tokyo Tarareba Girls, Book 3
When it finally seems like Rinko has caught a break, it disappears almost as quickly--thanks, once again, to Key. Meanwhile, Kaori finds out that she's not the only one her ex is cheating on his girlfriend with, and Koyuki learns her married boyfriend's wife may not be as estranged as she seemed....
Tokyo Tarareba Girls August 7, 2018
Tokyo Tarareba Girls, Book 2
Turns out, sex isn't everything. After a misspent night with a hot model (and a little too much booze), Rinko wakes up feeling more depressed than ever, unable to shake her growing suspicion that, at 33, she's doomed to be forever alone. Her friends Kaori and Koyuki think they have found...
Tokyo Tarareba Girls June 26, 2018
Tokyo Tarareba Girls, Book 1
Rinko has done everything right. She hustled her way through her 20s to make it as a screenwriter, renting her own office in a trendy Tokyo neighborhood. Everything should have gone according to plan... So at 33, she can't help but lament the fact that her career's plateaued, she's still painfully...
Princess Jellyfish June 5, 2018
Princess Jellyfish, Book 9
As a brand, Jelly Fish comes to the conclusion that their dresses are for Amars, by Amars. After embracing the fact that they make clothes for weirdos, Tsukimi and the crew must figure out how to sell their styles! In true Amars fashion, these beloved otaku girls and eccentric boys struggle and...
Princess Jellyfish April 3, 2018
Princess Jellyfish, Book 8
As this modern fairy tale of otaku girls bum-rushing the fashion industry hits its penultimate volume, Kuranosuke charges onwards for Tsukimi's retrieval mission! Hanamori-san also makes his way to Singapore, for less noble reasons, but the biggest showstopper is Shu, who decides to propose...for...
Princess Jellyfish December 12, 2017
Princess Jellyfish, Book 7
In order to save Amamizukan, Tsukimi makes the ultimate sacrifice: She goes to Singapore to work as a designer for Kai’s fashion company. While Amars seems to accept Tsukimi’s departure and the end of Jelly Fish, Kuranosuke refuses to give her up without a fight! As she floats further and further...
Princess Jellyfish September 26, 2017
Princess Jellyfish, Book 6
In order to save Amamizukan, the girls decide to put up an exhibition of their work. When the Jelly Fish dresses catch the eye of Asia’s greatest fashion influencer, Kai, it’s not only the dresses that the mogul wants—it’s the designer herself. Tsukimi and the gang are about to get the massive break...
Princess Jellyfish July 18, 2017
Princess Jellyfish, Book 5
With the help of Amars and their savvy new ally Nisha, Tsukimi’s jellyfish designs are slowly taking shape as a real clothing line. There’s no time to waste if the group wants to save Amamizukan and make a splash in the fashion world, and that means churning out new dresses—and fast! As if Tsukimi...
Princess Jellyfish April 11, 2017
Princess Jellyfish, Book 4
The night of the fashion show for Tsukimi and Kuranosuke’s Jelly Fish brand has finally arrived. They pulled out all the stops to make Amamizu-kan into an enchanting wonderland–even Mayaya has transformed into a chic model! The show brings some much-needed attention to the retro building, but will...
Princess Jellyfish November 8, 2016
Princess Jellyfish, Book 3
Inari, the aggressive vixen of redevelopment, ramps up her efforts to buy out Amamizu-kan, where Tsukimi and her friends live. But Kuranosuke has a fabulous plan of attack—turn Tsukimi’s jellyfish designs into a reality! Will becoming real fashion designers be more than Amars can handle? Meanwhile,...
Princess Jellyfish June 28, 2016
Princess Jellyfish, Book 2
With the geeky paradise of Amamizu-kan threatened by redevelopment plans, Tsukimi and the Amars must spring into action. Buy the wily Inari and her hold on Shu forces Kuranosuke to pull out all the stops: money, blackmail, and...fashion?! Though Amamizu-kan still struggles with Kuranosuke's stylish...
Princess Jellyfish March 22, 2016
Princess Jellyfish, Book 1
Tsukimi Kurashita has a strange fascination with jellyfish. She’s loved them from a young age and has carried that love with her to her new life in the big city of Tokyo. There, she resides in Amamizukan, a safe-haven for girl geeks who regularly gush over a range of things from trains to Japanese...