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| 12 Beast (manga) |
Very good |
(OKAYADO 2013 - ) Seven seas. Nice, same author as the similar Monster Musume good but not quite as good a story or as funny. Certainly has its moments though still recommended. 7 volumes. 1 5/8/2015; 2 6/25/2016 4 11/2016; 6 10/28/2018; 7 9/3/2020. |
| Ayako (manga) |
Good |
(Osamu TEZUKA 1972-1973) Vertical collection, 2013, English. Grim post-WWII (1949) Japan. Evil and cruel landowner and American occupant officers. A POW returns home as a secret agent to a degenerate family of incest and murder. 704 pages, 11/28/2020. |
| Beauty and the Beast Girl (manga) |
Very good |
(Neji 2017) Seven Seas 2019 publication, oversized. Charming fantasy yuri tale but too short. 163 pages. 2/26/2019. |
| Dance in the Vampire Bund (manga) |
Very good |
(Nozomu Tamaki 2006 - 2012) Seven Seas. Good characters and stories with clear, easy-to-follow, graphics. Tween vampire queen Mina's colony in Japan and her world war with the other vampire clans, and her faithful servants. 14 volumes. 7/14/2015. |
| Dance in the Vampire Bund II: Scarlet Order (manga) |
Good |
(Nozomu Tamaki 2013 - 2015) Seven Seas. Continuation from the first series with references to the side stories.The first few pages are color plates. Straight-forward and easy to follow artwork and narrative. Very good but never quite rises to the excellence drama or mystery of the original series. Features the final showdown and is said to be the last of the Vampire Bund series. 4 volumes. 5/18/2016. |
| Devilman (manga) |
Excellent |
(Go Nagai 1972) 2018 Seven Seas hardbound collection. Excellent, even now... 2 collected volumes. 6/1/2019. |
| Dive in the Vampire Bund (manga) |
Good |
(Nozomu TAMAKI 2010-2013) Seven Seas. Okay side story. 2 Volumes. 11/6/2018. |
| Dragon Half (manga) |
Masterpiece |
(Ryuusuke MITA 1988-1994) Seven Seas 2018, 3 omnibus volumes. Art style is definitely 1980's but to me it looks great!; Very funny and quick. I love the characters. Mink is so cute. Masterpiece. 11/7/2018; 4/30/2019. |
| Dragonar Academy (manga) |
Very good |
(RAN 2011 - 2017) Seven Seas. Nice color covers and color plates for the first few pages, the rest is good B&W art. The arc stories become better as it goes; the premise and character art carry the day, ending a bit rushed and somewhat disappointing, ~190 pages. 13 volumes. 8/25/2017; x2 3/7/2018. |
| Dream Fossil: The Complete Stories of Satoshi Kon (manga) |
Good |
(Satoshi Kon 2011) Vertical. Compilation of 1980 era manga works. Mostly slice of life with a few interesting visions he used more fully later on in his anime. 1/16/2016. |
| Frau Faust (manga) |
Good |
(Kore YAMAZAKI 2015-2017) Kodansha Comics 2017. Interesting twist on the Faust fable. Interesting main character and associates. Good, but the art style is not as opulent as AMB and fairly short at 5 volumes. Extra star for the larger page size. 1-3 volumes 5/5/2018; 1-5 12/2/2018. |
| Ichi-F: A Worker's Graphic Memoir of the Fukushima Nuclear Power Plant (manga) |
Excellent |
(Kazuto TATSUTA 2013-2015) Kodansha Comics 2017. Days working cleaning up after the tsunami and nuclear disaster in Fukushima. Excellent graphical representation of the actual daily life and the actual work cleaning up the sites. 1-3 volumes combined in Western reading direction English publication, 576 pages. 11/10/2018. |
| Kill la Kill (manga) |
Good |
(Kazuki NAKASHIMA 2013) Udon Entertainment 2015 NA publication. Adapted from the anime (through episode 17). 3 volumes, 5/24/2019. |
| Land of the Lustrous (manga) |
Very good |
(Haruko ICHIKAWA 2012) Kodansha Comics. Excellent story and characters, true to the Anime and continues with more stories. Nice larger format. 1-7 volumes. 4/26/2019; 8-10 8/27/2020; 11 9/25/2022. |
| Love in Hell (manga) |
Very good |
(Reiji Suzumaru 2012 - 2013) Seven Seas. Color covers, BW interior. Excellent fanservice cover art. Nice character designs. I enjoyed this series, short though. 3 volumes. 12/20/2014. |
| Love in Hell: Death Life (manga) |
Good |
(Reiji SUZUMARU 2015) Seven Seas 2016. More Hell. Nice art,cute girls and generally pretty good story with a light philosophy. 2 volumes. 11/12/2017. |
| Mononoke Sharing (manga) |
Good |
(Coolkyoushinja 2015-2017) Seven Seas, larger format. A normal but introverted high-school girl joins a house with five monster girls. A very funny and thoughtful SOL. Drawing is a bit rough but funny. 4 volumes. 1-2 4/16/2018; 1-3 11/6/2018; 3-4 11/26/2019. |
| Monster Collection (manga) |
Excellent |
(Sei Itoh 1998 - 2001) CMX Manga (defunct OOP). Excellent series published in English in the US between 2005 - 2006. Nice art, characters and an engaging story. I wish the books were in a larger format and had a better binding though (these shortcomings prevent this series from being a masterpiece). 6 volumes. 5/3/2015; 2X 10/9/2015. |
| Monster Girl Encyclopedia (resource book) |
Excellent |
(Kenkou Cross 2015) Seven Seas, V1 2016, v2 2017, Western reading direction hardbound English translation on high quality paper. Excellent monster-girl art of each species, with a narrative on the personalities, activities and environments of each of these beautiful fantasy creatures. No stories, just descriptions of their environments and behavior. These narratives improve greatly in the second volume. 2 volumes. 1 2/11/2017; 2 1/6/20208. |
| Monster Musume – Monster Girls on the Job! (light novel) |
Very good |
(Yoshino ORIGUCHI 2020) 7 Seas. Monster Girl Doctor author, good, but not quite up to those. A kind of I Love Monster Girls Novel. 195 pages, 7/21/2022; 9/29/2023. |
| Monster Musume: I ♥ Monster Girls (manga) |
Very good |
(OKAYADO (supervision) 2016) Seven Seas. Characters with stories and art from other fan-artists. Very funny. 4 volumes. 4/18/2017. |
| Mushroom Girls in Love (manga) |
Very good |
(Kei MURAYAMA 2013-2014) Seven Seas English 2018, large format. Another interesting world with very nice soft artwork. Sadly only 1 Volume. 3/6/2019. |
| My Girlfriend is a T-Rex (manga) |
Good |
(Sanzo 2016) (U.S. publisher, Seven Seas) A good story, magic with a slice-of life. Relatively simple artwork that conveys the humor and overall good feeling. 2 volumes. 3/21/2017. |
| My Monster Secret (manga) |
Good |
(Eiji Masuda 2013 - 2017) Seven Seas. Interesting premise and art style. Tends to be a bit repetitive in the later volumes, 22 volumes. 1-12, 7/19/2018; 16, 6/13/2019; 17-20, 9/11/2020; 21, 1/24/2021; 22, 7/24/2021. |
| OPUS (manga) |
Very good |
(Satoshi KON 1996) English, Dark Horse Comics 2014. 1 volume. Striking, unfinished manga from the Great, right before going off to direct Perfect Blue. 8/27/2018. |
| Sexiled (light novel) |
Good |
(Ameko KAERUDA, 2018) J-Novel Club, English. Light fun with female adventurers. I like the floating Laplace demon character, much like the floating Sora in Oh! Edo Rocket. Volume 1, 7/21/2023; volume 2, 4/23/2024. |
| Soul Liquid Chambers (manga) |
Very good |
(Nozomu TAMAKI 2018-) Seven Seas. Lurid apocalyptic zombie tale with a young girl protagonist. 4/15/2018; 2:3 11/3/2018; 1-3 5/5/2019. |
| Tamamo-chan's a Fox! (manga) |
Excellent |
(Ray YŪKI 2016-) Shrine fox-girl goes to high school. 4-panel comic. Fluffy, cute and funny. Recommended! 6 Volumes. 1, 8/22/2021; 1-3, 11/27/2021; 1-2, 10/13/2022; 3-5, 1/2/2023; 1-6, 9/3/2023. |
| Tropic of the Sea (manga) |
Very good |
(Satoshi KON 1990) English, Vertical 2013. One volume blast from the past of Kon's striking graphic style. Looks like Perfect Blue. 8/15/2018. |
| xxxHOLiC (manga) |
Very good |
(CLAMP 2003) Kodansha Comics 2014. Very nice art and stories. 19 volumes in 7 Omnibus books. 1/2/2018. |
| xxxHOLiC: Rei (manga) |
Good |
(CLAMP 2013) Kodansha Comics 2014. More adventures featuring nice artwork and slower pacing. Yuko breaths fire in V1. 8 volumes in four books. 1/12/2018. |
| Zaregoto (light novel) |
So-so |
(NISIOISIN 2002) Novel from the 9 2002 tankoubon, 2008 DelRay2008/2016 Vertical, 326 pages. An isolated island of unpleasant "genus" guests creates a difficult murder mystery with an implausible verbal expose at the end.11/15/2020. |
