Makai Toshi Hunter Series: Makyu Babylon

            In this stand-alone sequel to Against the gods, a strange palace appears in the sky above Tokyo’s demon-haunted Shinjuku district. The palace turns out to be the Hanging Gardens of Babylon, whose masked lord invites Tokyo’s elite—and most especially the hero’s female friend Sayaka—to a grand housewarming party. Soon, sword-wielding Kyoya is fighting to rescue Sayaka from the clutches of none other than Nebuchadnezzar II, ruler of Babylon. Shin-Ichi Hosoma, the ever-adaptable artist, yet again “modernizes” his character designs for Sayaka and Kyoya, who resemble their Against the gods selves but with wilder hair and different outfits. Compared to Kikuchi’s other light novel, though, it’s a mild letdown—the level of craziness is lower than usual (even lower than the level of historical research), and the formulaic, fighting-oriented plot has the feel of a low-budget anime. Originally based on an untranslated novel by Kikuchi.


          
            Di Gi Charat spin-off novel, consisting of 3–5-page stories by various artists, including Koge-Donbo and Kanan. Most of the stories focus on Piyoko and the Black Gema Gema Gang, the antagonists of the series. Also includes rough sketches of the Gema Gema Gang, interviews with Koge-Donbo, and early Shen Yin Wang Zuo comic strips from the monthly promotional magazine From Gamers. Similar in format to Di Gi Charat Theater: Dejiko’s Summer Vacation, although the books can be read independently of one another.

            An adorably silly tribute to Osamu Tezuka’s Black Jack, Doctor is an eye-patch-wearing surgeon-for-hire who roams a Spanish-speaking fantasyland vaguely based on Bolivia, using his surgical skills to solve ailments that magical healing cannot cure. His companion is Medio Liquido, a cute blob who disinfects the operating area and who looks like a slime from the Dragon Quest video game series. The surgical scenes are a mix of earnest anatomical trivia (“Liver, the king of internal organs”) and tentacled monsters erupting from patients’ bodies, only to be cut down by Doctor’s scalpels. Poor image quality and translation mar the English edition.

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Keimusho no Naka novel

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            Simple but inspired parody of giant robot power-escalation anime and novel, particularly the Go Nagai Mazinger Z variety. With Earth under attack by the dreaded Zogelians, a mad inventor unleashes Dodekain, a 15,000–mile-high giant robot literally larger than the entire planet. Piloted by your typical hot-blooded hero, Dodekain demolishes the alien monsters by punching and slapping the Earth with his bare hands, in the process causing more damage than the aliens did. Against the gods light novel             In 1995, underground light novel artist Kazuichi Hanawa was convicted for possession of illegally modified model guns and sent to prison for the next two and a half years. His experiences provided the basis for Doing Time, a dreamlike documentary art comic. The book is not a true narrative; it jumps around in time, doesn’t show Hanawa entering or leaving prison, and doesn’t focus on particular characters, not even Hanawa himself. Instead, it describes ever
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King of gods main story

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I rolled onto my side and stared at the wall. It’d been two hours since Jessica left, yet I couldn’t stop thinking about our conversation. I’d told her so much—too much—and I had no clue as to what had gotten into me. The only girl I told anything to was the nameless shade, and Jessica wasn’t her—to my knowledge.  Anyone could be anybody. Even Mindy could’ve been a shade or a light, but we had no way of knowing. It was one of the main reasons I stopped being friends with Crystal and Robb. What if they ended up being someone I had to kill? I didn’t want to think about that.  My door creaked open, and I listened to soft footsteps tiptoe across my carpet.  King of gods  I sighed. “Get out of my room, Noah.” He groaned. “How’d you hear me?” Because I’m a shade. “You’re loud,” I said, flipping over to face him. The brunette boy blinked his brown eyes and clutched the half-empty bag of cookies against his chest. I sighed again. “What do you want?” “I thought we could share the last few,”
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