When famous wildlife photographer Narumi comes to Hokkaido to take photos of the elusive "snow fairies," he ends up stranded in a snow storm. After being rescued, he takes up residence in local farmer Haruki's house for the winter. As polar opposites, sophisticated and outgoing city slicker Narumi and country boy Haruki have a lot to learn from one another. After Haruki shows an interest, Narumi teaches him about photography... and before he realizes it, he finds himself the sole subject of Haruki's new hobby. After a winter spent so close together, what will the spring thaw bring? (Source: TOKYOPOP) *Note: Includes one extra chapter.*
Socially anxious high school student Shoko Komi’s greatest dream is to make some friends, but everyone at school mistakes her crippling social anxiety for cool reserve. With the whole student body keeping its distance and Komi unable to utter a single word, friendship might be forever beyond her reach. *Source: VIZ Media*
One day, she could see…everything. What’s a girl to do when hideous monsters appear no matter which way she turns? And on top of that, nobody else can see them! Obviously, there’s only one thing that makes sense—ignore them. Kinda hard to put theory into practice, though, when the ghosts know she’s watching… (Source: Yen Press)
Kazama Kenji thinks he’s a delinquent. He’s got the look, the style and the attitude to match-he even has a second-rate entourage of sorts. Deep down, however, Kazama is a good-hearted kid who finds himself and his loyal gang in over their heads when they stumble upon the Game Creation Club. The club’s formidable members, Chitose, Sakura, Minami and Roka, are four girls who he might actually be attracted to if they weren’t so freaking weird. The girls claim to have otherworldly powers which they use to defeat Kazama’s gang and force him to join their offbeat club. Can Kazama resist the girls’ bizarre charms and return to some semblance of a normal, everyday life…or is it “game over” for our hapless hero? (Source: Seven Seas Entertainment)
It's a gorgeous, spacious mansion, and four handsome, fifteen-year-old friends are allowed to live in it for free! There's only one condition—that within three years the guys must transform the owner's wallflower niece into a lady befitting the palace in which they all live! How hard can it be? Enter Sunako Nakahara, the agoraphobic, horror-movie-loving, pockmark-faced, frizzy-haired, fashion-illiterate recluse who tends to break into explosive nosebleeds whenever she sees anyone attractive. This project is going to take more than our four heroes ever expected: it needs a miracle! (Source: Del Rey) *Note: Includes the special chapter "Sunako no Otsukai" (スナコのお使い) contained within Volume 5 of the manga.*
Shy bookstore clerk Kosuke Mikado has the ability to see ghosts and spirits, an ability he wishes he didn't have, since what he sees usually terrifies him. Rihito Hiyakawa, an exorcist whose supernatural powers are as strong as his social graces are weak, doesn't seem to fear anything, mortal or otherwise. When this odd couple gets together to solve the bizarre cases that come their way, their work methods may not be entirely safe for work! (Source: Sublime Manga) *Note: Includes 10 extra chapters.*
Yuri Shibuya just can't catch a break. First, he had his head dunked in a toilet. Then he was transported to another world - where he finds himself king of the Mazoku's, a new race that expects him to lead them to war against all of humanity. And to top it all off, he's engaged - to a man! (Source: VIZ Media)
This novelization of the Inuyasha series contains new illustrations by Rumiko Takahashi and was written by Tomoko Konparu, who has also written novelizations of Takahashi's Urusei Yatsura and Mermaid Saga.
A series of Naruto novels. Naruto's allies and enemies take center stage in these fast-paced adventures, which each volume focusing on a particular clanmate, ally, team...or villain. 1. Kakashi Hiden: Hyouten no Ikazuchi \[Higashiyama Akira\] The story revolves around Kakashi Hatake, who is melancholy despite his new position as the Sixth Hogake. 2. Shikamaru Hiden: Yami no Shijima ni Ukabu Kumo \[Yano Takashi\] A battle between Shikamaru and the "strongest genjutsu-user." 3. Sakura Hiden: Shiren, Harukaze ni Nosete \[Oosaki Tomohito\] The result of Sakura's feelings will be revealed. 4. Konohagakure Hiden: Shuugen Biyori \[Hinata Shou\] The other ninja in Konoha and what happened to them "after the original manga." 5. Gaara Hiden: Sajin Gensou \[Ukyou Kodachi\] A story of love—something the Kazekage does not know very well. 6. Akatsuki Hiden: Sakimidareru Aku no Hana \[Shin Towada\] A story revealing the "truth of the Akatsuki."
Kokoro is a junior high school student—but after years of bullying, she’s become so anxious that she no longer goes to school. One day, she’s pulled through her full-length mirror into a castle in another dimension by a girl in a wolf mask. The mysterious girl tells Kokoro and six other kids that they are all competing in a scavenger hunt. If one of them finds a key that unlocks a secret room, that person will get one wish granted. As long as they observe the rules of the world, they can come and go as they please. The seven kids gradually grow closer as they explore the castle, but the scavenger hunt is never far from anyone’s mind. After all, only one of them can win and receive their heart’s desire. (Source: Seven Seas Entertainment)
In a world of swords and magic, where the Goddess is revered, Lyell Walt was fortunate enough to be born the first son and heir to an earldom. That is, until his parents disown him for losing pitifully in a fight with his younger sister, Ceres. Lyell had once been hailed as a prodigy—a wonder child—but the birth of his sister changed everything. After Ceres wounds him in their duel, an enigmatic old man swoops in to rescue Lyell and bestows upon him a necklace containing a jewel that has been blessed by the goddesses and passed down through the last seven generations of Walt leaders. As Lyell sets out, necklace in hand, will he be able to prove himself despite his humiliating loss to his sister? And moreover, will he be able to solve the mystery behind Ceres’s monstrous strength and the strange sway she seems to hold over his entire family? (Source: J-Novel Club)
2036. Tokyo, ravished by radioactive contamination caused by a nuclear power-plant accident, is now in lockdown. COPPELION—a special unit of Japan's Ground Self-Defense Forces' 3rd Division made up of three high school girls genetically engineered to be impervious to radioactivity—is sent in to search for survivors in Tokyo, a.k.a. "The City of Death." (Source: Kodansha USA)

