Want to learn about databases without the tedium? With its unique combination of Japanese-style comics and serious educational content, The Manga Guide to Databases is just the book for you. Princess Ruruna is stressed out. With the king and queen away, she has to manage the Kingdom of Kod's humongous fruit-selling empire. Overseas departments, scads of inventory, conflicting prices, and so many customers! It's all such a confusing mess. But a mysterious book and a helpful fairy promise to solve her organizational problems—with the practical magic of databases. In The Manga Guide to Databases, Tico the fairy teaches the Princess how to simplify her data management. We follow along as they design a relational database, understand the entity-relationship model, perform basic database operations, and delve into more advanced topics. Once the Princess is familiar with transactions and basic SQL statements, she can keep her data timely and accurate for the entire kingdom. Finally, Tico explains ways to make the database more efficient and secure, and they discuss methods for concurrency and replication. Examples and exercises (with answer keys) help you learn, and an appendix of frequently used SQL statements gives the tools you need to create and maintain full-featured databases. (Of course, it wouldn't be a royal kingdom without some drama, so read on to find out who gets the girl—the arrogant prince or the humble servant.) (Source: No Starch Press)

The story of a young karate practitioner. Source: My Anime List

The Manga Guide to Electronic Circuits teaches electronics in a refreshingly simple way using authentic Japanese comics. As readers follow along with the story, they learn electrical fundamentals like Kirchoff's laws, voltage and current amplification, impedance matching, and how to analyze the most complex circuit and signal diagrams. Along the way, they're immersed in the components that make up complex electronic circuits, like amplifiers, oscillators, and modulators, as well as how these circuits use semiconductor devices like diodes and transistors. Ultimately, readers discover how electronic circuits are used to create integrated circuits and computers. (Source: Amazon.com)

Mysterious, handsome young men working as spy-pairs for a secret agency, the Church, are forbidden to love anyone but their partners. If they’re to survive-not only war, but the ghosts of their tragic pasts-they must rely on one another to be there…because each other is all they have. Follow Eiri, Haku, Soma, and Shusuke as they battle their inner demons with the help of their partners in this peek into the Messiah Project universe. (Source: Kodansha USA)

"Don't you think it's time we get divorced?" Liliange was married to the eldest son of a duke, Alekseid, at the tender age of eight for the good of her country. Even though she was only young, she fell hard for her much older husband anyway. However, on her 16th birthday, she overhears him telling a friend, "I bet that even when she's of age, I won't be able to see her as a member of the opposite sex at all." Now, with her love for Alekseid still in her heart, Liliange decides to bring the whole marriage to an end by asking him to divorce her...! A story of how earnest feelings can sometimes be overlooked. Liliange and Alekseid's love-filled marriage story begins now! (Source: MangaPlaza)

Traveling to another world, either by accident, magic summoning, death, cruel twist of fate, on a research assignment, or just on vacation, means dealing with a whole lot of change all at once. In this compilation, the authors of the SAKKA KEIHAN writing circle explore the ins and outs of what to expect when you’ve been transported to another plane of existence. Six different short stories cover the authors’ ruminations on how to get by in these other worlds, whether you’re headed over voluntarily or finding yourself just trying to survive. You’ll probably want to bring a towel; things are going to get slimy. Don’t think it’ll save you from a fireball, however.

One of the mushrooms from the shiitake log the Takeda family purchased grows into an active, chatty little member of the family. This story is a heartwarming family comedy about the Takedas and the shiitake that lives in their garden. *Note: this entry includes 3 bonus chapters from the Comico original release.*

Raiki is a high school student who transforms into a dragon because he was born with the ‘Beast Code DNA’ that laid dormant within him and generations of other people for centuries. Raiki now struggles with his new abilities and clashes with others who also possess the Beast Code DNA but plan to use their powers for wrongdoing. Conversely, Raiki’s girlfriend Tomoko possesses DNA that instinctively compels her to battle against anyone who has the Beast Code DNA. What is the fate of this couple who are now forced to fight to the death because of their genetic code? Beast Code is an ambitious sci-fi fantasy that asks what dictates the destiny of people: love or biogenetics?

Lisette marries Leonard, the head of the prestigious Salvert Marquis family. Though it is a political marriage, she resolves, “If I’m going to do this, I’ll win my husband’s heart.” What awaits her, however, is the unthinkable - a wedding with the groom absent!? Even after the marriage, Lisette never once meets Leonard. She spends her lonely days shut away in the mansion, devoted solely to her needlework. “So… a wife of convenience isn’t even worth meeting in person. That’s what you believe, isn’t it?” At last, her patience snaps. Lisette sets a certain trap in Leonard’s room and boldly declares war! Thus begins a fierce battle of pride and stubborn wills between husband and wife, set within a noble marquis household - a dramatic marital showdown now unfolds!! https://www.cmoa.jp/title/349194/

Selma is a saint without holy powers. She keeps it a secret, but a man who suspects her - Theophilus, the royal prince's highness, has entered the Order as a believer. On top of that, he finds out that she is not a real saint. ......!