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| Magic Knight Rayearth. Volume 1 / |
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| 3 Volumes with Follow-Up series w/ 3 more volumes; by the CLAMP quartet, a really talented group of mangaka. A classic magical girl story with a mascot that's the greatest ever. (Though you'll have to read through the second series to find out why.) I read the first of the first series and all of the second series. |
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| Wish. 1 / |
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| 4 Volumes; another by the CLAMP quartet, this time with angels and devils flying around on earth. Truly elegant artwork and cool bad boys. |
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| Negima! 1 / |
| Akamatsu, Ken. |
| 36 Volumes and counting with spin-off series of 7 volumes; this series can be read by, say, older elementary-school kids. Not that it's that bad, but the first few books are a little PG. |
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| Sugar sugar rune. 1 / |
| Anno, Moyoko |
| 8 Volumes; Two budding witches (also best friends) go to Earth to compete for the title of Queen of the Magical World by capturing boys' hearts. |
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| Beauty pop. 1 / |
| Arai, Kiyoko. |
| 10 Volumes; Such a cool story!! Sweet and funny and interesting...I love this. |
| Teen Fiction ARAI |
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| Fullmetal alchemist. 1 / |
| Arakawa, Hiromu, 1973- |
| 27 Volumes; I just finished it recently. It's got a bit of a violent ending, but also sweet and funny. Take the time to read this if you can. |
| Teen Fiction ARAKAWA |
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| Yotsuba&!. 1 / |
| Azuma, Kiyohiko. |
| 11 Volumes and counting; the adventures of the wackiest little kid you can imagine. Though the story doesn't go anywhere, this is one of my favorite manga series. |
| Teen Fiction AZUMA |
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| Animal academy. Volume 1 = Hakobune hakusho / |
| Fujino, Moyamu, 1982- |
| 7 Volumes; A bit of an odd ending, but the story really touches your heart. Scenario: a group of animals takes on human form and goes to a special school to learn to be human. |
| Teen Fiction FUJINO |
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| Guru Guru Pon-Chan. 1 / |
| Ikezawa, Satomi. |
| 8 volumes...? I'm not sure. This one's about a dog that turns into a human so she can talk to the boy she loves...also a little PG, but fun in a goofy way. |
| Teen Fiction IKEZAWA |
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| Tokyo mew mew / |
| Ikumi, Mia. |
| 8 Volumes with Follow-Up Series of 2 Volumes; An amazing magical girl series with a ton of short stories at the back of the volumes. With a great upbeat tone. (I find it funny that the main character(female) shares a name with the main character of Bleach (Ichigo).) |
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| Naruto. Vol. 1, The tests of the ninja / |
| Kishimoto, Masashi, 1974- |
| 60 Volumes and counting; It's starting to get kind of weird, because the artist is dragging every volume out of us. But by the time you get started reading this, I'm sure he'll have gotten better. Right? 3 months later: Oh, yeah. It got better. |
| Teen Fiction KISHIMO |
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| The prince of tennis. Vol. 1 / |
| Konomi, Takeshi, 1970- |
| 42 Volumes; If you can stand watching long tennis matches, this is a great series. The end is especially touching, and it makes you love tennis. |
| Teen Fiction KONOMI |
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| Pokemon adventures. 1 / |
| Kusaka, Hidenori |
| 14 Volumes; I don't care that it's Pokemon, it's cool and sweet and you should read it. Don't worry about not knowing anything about pokemon - it's all described in the manga. I loved the final book so much I just had to go and buy it. |
| Children's Fiction PN6790.J34 P64781 2009 |
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| Rave master. Volume 1 / |
| Mashima, Hiro, 1977- |
| 35 Volumes; A wackjobby manga but also kind of awesumm. The premise is amazing. If anyone's read Fairy Tail, this is by the same author. Speaking of which, if anyone's read it, tell me if it's good or not. |
| Teen Fiction MASHIMA |
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| One Piece. Vol. 1, Romance dawn / |
| Oda, Eiichiro, 1975- |
| 64 Volumes and counting; Some manga get worse as they start to reach this level. One Piece has never declined. And it currently holds the record for best-selling manga ever. |
| Teen Fiction ODA |
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| Animal Land. 1 / |
| Raiku, Makoto |
| 6 volumes and counting...um...you won't really get what the story is about until the sixth volume, but what the heck, that's normal right? |
| Teen Fiction RAIKU |
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| Dragon drive. Vol. 1, D-break!! / |
| Sakura, Ken-ichi. |
| 14 Volumes; There's a virtual reality game and - wait for it - it's actually real! But funny characters and a twist help freshen up this incredibly old premise. |
| Teen Fiction SAKURA |
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| Cirque du Freak. Volume 1 / |
| Shan, Darren. |
| 12 Volumes; Based on the popular horror novels by the same name. This is a hardcore horror manga. Read it if you're into that sort of thing, but be warned that the ending kind of stinks. |
| Teen Fiction SHAN |
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| D. N. angel. Volume 5 / |
| Sugisaki, Yukiru. |
| 13 volumes and supposedly continuing but no sign of a new volume for a while; Curse you library catalog! The library has all the volumes of this, but it would only show me volume 5 when I searched for it here. This is really a fun series, a bit like a magical girl series, but with guys. |
| Teen Fiction SUGISAK |
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| InuYasha. 1 / |
| Takahashi, Rumiko, 1957- |
| 56 Volumes. Most of the action takes place in feudal Japan, which is awesumm. I'm so glad I read this. |
| Adult Fiction TAKAHAS |
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| Shaman king. Vol. 1, A shaman in Tokyo / |
| Takei, Hiroyuki |
| 32 Volumes; this series would compete for my favorite if not for the ending. I would advise reading up to the second-to-last book and stopping there. |
| Teen Fiction TAKEI |
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| Pretty guardian Sailor Moon. 1 / |
| Takeuchi, Naoko |
| 12 Volumes, but with countless spin off series (Sailor Moon StarS, Supers, ect. (not that the library has them...))
Possibly the most popular shoujo manga ever (though not the best, in my opinion). |
| Teen Fiction TAKEUCH |
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| Gon. Volume 1 / |
| Tanaka, Masashi, 1962- |
| 7 Volumes
Totally without words or sound effects. pretty cool. I don't have anything else to say about this, so if you're wondering, I do know how to spell awesome. But I think my spelling is much more awesumm. |
| Teen Fiction TANAKA |
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| Astro boy. 1 / |
| Tezuka, Osamu, 1928-1989 |
| I dunno how many volumes there are, but I've decided to read it. (I read assorted volumes out of order first.) This was, by the way, basically the first manga that ever was. |
| Teen Fiction TEZUKA |
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| YuYu Hakusho. Vol. 1, Goodbye, material world! / |
| Togashi, Yoshihiro |
| 19 Volumes; I consider this the greatest manga of all time. If you read the whole series, I declare you a manga champion. It is my mission to spread Yuyu Hakusho to the world. (By the way, my ID picture for these lists is a character from Yuyu Hakusho.) |
| Teen Fiction TOGASHI |
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| Dragon Ball Z. Vol. 1 / |
| Toriyama, Akira, 1955- |
| 26 Volumes
The sequel series to the legendary Dragon Ball, which I'm recording as separate because they're both so amazing. |
| Teen Fiction TORIYAM |
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| Ceres, celestial legend. Vol. 1, Aya / |
| Watase, Yuu, 1970- |
| 14 volumes; This one should really only be read by mature readers... it has, um, PG13 themes. Not to say the story isn't interesting. |
| Adult Fiction WATASE |
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