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Manga: Josei and Shoujo
In Japanese, these terms mean manga created for adult and late teenage female audiences (although everyone reads them). Stories often focus on human and romantic relationships and emotions, and can be anything from historical dramas to science fiction.
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  Cover Art: Absolute Boyfriend Watase, Yuu
Absolute Boyfriend
Shy Riiko has been rejected too many times by cute guys, so when she's offered a free trial of a mysterious Nightly Lover, she takes it. A package appears at her door with a naked guy who wants to be her boyfriend.
190 p. 2006
Adult Graphic Novel
  Cover Art: Ai Ore!: Love Me Shinjo, Mayu
Ai Ore!: Love Me
Akira, a boy who looks like a girl, wants to be in the all-girl band in which Mizuki, who looks like a boy, is the lead guitarist, but Mizuki is reluctant to let him join the band or to give in to the attraction between them.
283 p. 2011
Adult Graphic Novel
  Cover Art: Alice 19th Watase, Yuu
Alice 19th
After rescuing a rabbit from being hit by a car, high school student Alice realizes that the rabbit has magical powers.
180 p. 2003
Adult Graphic Novel
  Cover Art: Alice in the Country of Hearts Hoshino, Soumei
Alice in the Country of Hearts
Alice is having a nap in her garden when suddenly before her there appears a young man with rabbit ears! He whisks her away to a fantastic (but dangerous) world that seems straight out of a fairy tale, but one where every resident brandishes a weapon...Will Alice ever find her way back home?
364 p. 2012
Adult Graphic Novel
  Cover Art: AX: Alternative Manga AX: Alternative Manga
Features from the pages of Japan's AX magazine--dedicated to introducing the most cutting edge works of Japanese independent comics--are presented in English for the first time, and include visionaries such as Akino Kondoh and Yoshihiro Tatsumi.
399 p. 2010
Adult Graphic Novel
  Cover Art: Beauty is the Beast Matsumoto, Tomo
Beauty is the Beast
When bubbly eleventh-grader Eimi Yamashita finds out that her parents are relocating for work, she decided to strike out on her own and move into a dormitory for girls. Little does Eimi suspect the exciting romantic adventures that await her there!
1 v. 2005
Teen Graphic Novel
  Cover Art: Beauty Pop Arai, Kiyoko
Beauty Pop
Unlike the three popular boys in the "Scissors Project" at school, Kiri Koshiba, a truly gifted hairstylist, has no interest in using her talent to pursue fame and fortune, but as much as she tries to shy away from the Scissors Project spotlight, Kiri finds herself responding to beauty's call.
185 p. 2006
Teen Graphic Novel
  Cover Art: Black Bird Sakurakoji, Kanoko
Black Bird
Misao Harada wants to live the life of a normal high school student, but when she is attacked by a demon and a childhood friend rescues her, she discovers that her blood is sought by a clan of demons who want to use it to increase their power.
190 p. 2009
Adult Graphic Novel
  Cover Art: Bride of the Water God Yun, Mi-Kyung
Bride of the Water God
When Soah's impoverished, desperate village decides to sacrifice her to the water god Habaek to end a long drought, they believe that drowning one beautiful girl will save their entire community and bring much-needed rain. Not only is Soah surprised to be rescued by the water god -- instead of killed -- she never imagined she'd be a welcomed guest in Habaek's magical kingdom, where an exciting new life awaits her!
184 p. 2007
Teen Graphic Novel
  Cover Art: Butterflies, Flowers Yoshihara, Yuki
Butterflies, Flowers
Choko Kuze joins a real estate company as an entry-level office worker, but her eccentric boss is harder on her than anyone else in the company! After hearing him inadvertently call her milady, she realizes he was the young servant boy she knew as a child. At work he's a tyrant, but after hours he insists on treating like a lady of the nobility. Is romance even possible?
182 p. 2009
Adult Graphic Novel
  Cover Art: The Color of Earth Kim, Tong-hwa
The Color of Earth
Ehwa grows up helping her widowed mother run the local tavern, watching as their customers--both neighbors and strangers--look down on her mother for her single lifestyle. Their social status isolates Ehwa and her mother from the rest of the people in their quiet country village. But as she grows older and sees her mother fall in love again, Ehwa slowly begins to open up to the possibility of love in her life.
319 p. 2009
Teen Graphic Novel
  Cover Art: Dawn of the Arcana Toma, Rei
Dawn of the Arcana
When Princess Nakaba is forced to marry Prince Caesar in order to promote peace between their two warring kingdoms, she struggles to adjust to her hostile surroundings with the help of her dog-like Ajin companion, Loki.
1 v. 2011
Teen Graphic Novel
  Cover Art: A Devil and her Love Song Tomori, Miyoshi
A Devil and her Love Song
Maria Kawai is a smart, lovely girl with a great singing voice who would have it all if it weren't for her sharp tongue that tends to get her in trouble, but with a new start at a new school she may be able to turn things around.
1 v. 2012
Teen Graphic Novel
  Cover Art: Faeries' Landing Yu, Hyon
Faeries' Landing
Ryang stumbles into Faerie's Landing -- where mortal and faerie realms come into contact -- and is given the task of guarding a grounded faerie named Fanta.
171 p. 2004
Teen Graphic Novel
  Cover Art: From Eroica with Love Aoike, Yasuko
From Eroica with Love
Flamboyant British aristocrat by day--mysterious international art thief by night. Nothing can stop Eroica from getting that which his heart desires! Earl Dorian Red Gloria is a great lover of art and all things beautiful. By night, he is the mysterious art thief who leaves notes signed "From Eroica with Love" at the scene of his crimes.
1 v. 2004
Adult Graphic Novel
  Cover Art: Fruits Basket Takaya, Natsuki
Fruits Basket
Tohru Honda was an orphan when one day fate kicked her out of the house and on to land belonging to the mysterious Sohma family. Everything goes well until she discovers the Sohma family's secret, when hugged by members of the opposite sex, they turn into their Chinese Zodiac animal!
196 p. 2004
Teen Graphic Novel
  Cover Art: Genshiken Kio, Shimoku
Genshiken
When Kanji Sasahara and Saki Kasukabe join an otaku club called Genshiken, they experience quarreling club members, crazy activities, and a vice president determined to break them up.
181 p. 2005
Adult Graphic Novel
  Cover Art: The Gentlemen's Alliance Cross Tanemura, Arina
The Gentlemen's Alliance Cross
Haine is sold by her family to the wealthy Otomiya family who treat her as their daughter and send her to the exclusive Imperial Academy. She's in love with a fellow member of the student council, Shizumasa Togu, aka 'the Emperor' but has no idea how to reach him. Will love find a way?
1 v. 2007
Adult Graphic Novel
  Cover Art: Godchild Yuki, Kaori
Godchild
Deep in the heart of nineteenth century London, a young nobleman named Cain is forced to become head of the Hargreaves, a noble family with a dark past; and, along with his servant and half-sister, he investigates the mysterious crimes that follow him.
166 p. 2006
Adult Graphic Novel
  Cover Art: Goong: The Royal Palace Pak, So-hui
Goong: The Royal Palace
Set in an alternate 21st-century reality where Korea possesses a royal family, it follows the lives of the Crown Prince Lee Shin, and his new bride, Chae-kyeong.
1 v. 2006
Teen Graphic Novel
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