Japanese Manga!

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Onizuka enters his first class as a trainee teacher and finds himself faced with more than he had bargained for...!!

Toru Fujisawa's GTO is one of the most popular manga in Japan.

The volumes offered here are the first three of the Hakusensha re-release series that ran to 10 volumes.

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One reader's review.
Ki to Kaze no Uta.

After failing his exams he moves into his grandmother's hotel... But she has recently converted it into a girls' dormitory. Keitarou only finds this out after being taken for a pervert while relaxing in the hotel's spa bath...

Narusegawa Naru, one of the dorm girls, is also trying to get into Tokyo Uni, so she and Keitarou begin to study together and develop an affinity... Could Naru be Keitarou's childhood love?

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Love Hina
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Read about Kodansha's Bilingual Love Hina series on translator Giles Murray's website: www.speaking-japanese.com

Take a Closer Look at Oh My Goddess, here.

This is a bilingual edition so it is great for students of Japanese who are looking for some reading practice that is authentic yet comes in bite-sized chunks.

The manga was turned into a television anime in 1983.

An excellent account of this series can be browsed over at Aestheticism.com.

This is a lovely comic book and a GREAT way to study both written and spoken Japanese. The story is about a young princess in a fairy tale kingdom who must pretend to be a male for political reasons.

The captions are in English and the Japanese translations are written in the margins.

The creator of this manga, Osamu Tezuka, writes in the afterword:

"I grew up in Takarazuka, home of Japan's all-female musical theater troupe, so naturally in my youth I imbibed the romantic and flamboyant atmosphere of this world. My characters' costumes as well as the scenery that surrounds them owe much to the theatre..."

The Princess Knight series began in the teen magazine Shojo Club in 1953 and ran in four different versions over a period of fourteen years.

First published in 1997, each volume is in excellent condition, crisp and clean, and printed on good quality paper. I have ensured that the covers of each volume available here are also in good condition.

The dialogue is easy to follow and all the Kanji have furigana to make for ease of reading - ideal for Japanese students and Miyazaki fans alike.

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Here is a link to an excellent Miyazaki site that has English translations of the Princess Mononoke animation dialogue. www.nausicaa.net/miyazaki/mh/

Genma's friend Tendo has some daughters and the two fathers have made a deal whereby Ranma will marry Akane, the youngest of Tendo's daughters, and take over the family dojo... But Akane is not too keen on the idea. Both she and Ranma are martial artists and Ranma spends much of his time trying to defeat and date Akane.

Ranma tries to keep his tendency to turn into a girl secret by inventing a sister (Ranma-chan). Akane regards Ranma-chan as one of her rivals and the boys take a fancy to her while Ranma himself becomes a "babe magnet"... (source: The Anime Encyclopedia.)

Ranma 1/2 was first serialized by Shonen Sunday magazine (see below).

Here's a link that will get you more info about this cartoon series.

This comic book is beautifully produced in high colour on heavy duty paper and is in excellent condition.

An excellent study tool for students of Japanese. The dialogue is easy to follow and all the Kanji have furigana to make for ease of reading.

This new two-volume edition of the original four-volume series was published in July 2006.

Japanese and English texts are laid out on the page in such a way as to preserve the aesthetic experience of the manga, while allowing readers to switch from language to language with ease.

The manga on offer here are purchased NEW for the customer each time an order is received.