Brute(ally) Addictive

2 things that seem to be universally popular with teens today are manga and videogames,  these 2 elements are combined to make 1 incredibly addicting game.  At  
http://mybrute.com/
, you create a “brute” (basically a little exaggerated  manga representation of yourself).  Once you have the “brute” that you like, you then assign points to basic characteristc traits (speed, strength, agility)….your “brute is now ready for action.

Your “brute”, now fully stylized to your liking, enters the battle arena where he/she dukes it out with other people’s creations.  After every battle, your character gets more experience and gets to level up and get stronger…imagine  ”Street Fighter” combined with an RPG game. I invite everybody to try our this game and I dare you to meet me in the arena

New Graphic Novel Series

Check out these new graphic novel series we just received.  They’re hot items so you may need to place a hold.                  

 Absolute Boyfriend                                           

 Shy high school student Riko Izawa aches for a boyfriend but guys just won’t look her way. Then one day she signs up for a three-day trial of a mysterious “lover figurine,” and the next thing she knows, a cute guy is delivered to her doorstep–and he wants to be her boyfriend!

Has Riko died and gone to heaven? The cute guy turns out to be smart, super nice, stylish and a gourmet chef. Plus, he looks like a million bucks…. Trouble is, that’s about what he’s going to cost Riko because she didn’t return him in time.  

  Death Note

 Light Yagami is an ace student with great prospects – and he’s bored out of his mind. But all that changes when he finds the Death Note, a notebook dropped by a rogue Shinigami death god. Any human whose name is written in the notebook dies, and now Light has vowed to use the power of the Death Note to rid the world of evil. But when criminals begin dropping dead, the authorities send the legendary detective L to track down the killer. With L hot on his heels, will Light lose sight of his noble goal…or his life?  

 

 Kekkaishi

 By day, 14-year-old Yoshimori Sumimura is just a regular kid going to junior high school, but by night he is a “kekkaishi,” or demon-fighter who specializes in generating magical barriers around his prey before making them disappear. His neighbor is 16-year-old Tokine Yukimura, who is also a kekkaishi! Together they share the knowledge of their ancient art and their nights battling beings from the netherworld. Sounds fun, but their families don’t get along, because each believes themselves to be the “true practitioners” of the art of the kekkaishi.

Will Yoshimori and Tokine friendship overcome their families’ ancient rivalry? And will they be able to stop the frog-demon that’s threatening their school?! Their exciting adventures and magical battles begin.

 

 Ouran High School Host Club

 In this screwball romantic comedy, a poor girl at a rich kids’ school ends up working for the school’s swankiest club– and gets mistaken for a boy! 

Hunny’s little brother, Chika, pays a visit to the Host Club–and immediately starts attacking Hunny, using all his martial-arts prowess against his older brother! Chika seems to be the absolute opposite of his sweets-loving, Bun-Bun-toting sibling, but why is he so angry with Hunny? The Host Club is determined to find out the cause. 

  Girl Got Game

  Kyo Aizawa is a teenage girl who just wants to live a normal teenage life, but her father,  who used to be a basketball player and wanted to make it to the NBA, is now determined to live his dreams through his daughter. She finds out that her father registered her as a boy and cooked up a scheme so that she would play on the boys basketball team and become the basketball player he always wanted to be.

 

Loveless

 

The mystery behind the death of his older brother was just the beginning…When 12-year-old Ritsuka discovers a posthumous message from his brother indicating he was murdered, he becomes involved in a shadowy world of spell battles and secret names. Together with the mysterious Soubi, the search to find Seimei’s killer and uncover the truth begins! But in a world where mere words have unbelievable power, how can you find true friendship and happiness when your very name is Loveless?

 

 

Horror + Manga

For those of you who read Horror and Manga, listen up!

Del Rey Manga, an imprint of Ballantine Books at the Random House Publishing Group, announced today recently that it has acquired an original graphic novel starring Odd Thomas, perhaps the most memorable and beloved character Dean Koontz has ever created. The charismatic young fry cook from Pico Mundo, California, has appeared in three New York Times bestselling novels: Odd Thomas, Forever Odd, and Brother Odd, which was one of Koontz’s fastest-selling hardcovers.  Keep Reading…