Manga/Graphic Novels Starting With 'A'

Five Letters... Five Chances for Love. George Asakura's five stories of humor, wit, and enough mystery to keep us guessing with each new delivery. You've got mail!

When Araki finds an old fax machine, he starts corresponding with the only girl who can receive his letters. But there's a twist! Also, a brother's dying request: deliver a videotape to his girlfriend... someone his sibling didn't even know existed. And there will be other secrets.

More supernatural crime-solving puts Miharu to the test as she goes up against evil spirits, vengeful wives and modern art mysteries! And as if that wasn't enough, there's another criminal-catching duo on the scene...

Another birthday comes and goes for Hitoshi, and Thirty learns how to cook. She also finds a mysterious floppy disc labeled 'dangerous.' When Hitoshi attempts to delete the information on the disc so it can't possibly bring back the pain and humiliation it once brought him, a broken power line zaps his computer and program No. 20, better known as Twenty, comes to life, literally.

Like everyone else in the future, Sui's used to having useful robots around... until her father brings one home that looks like a hot guy! Sui names him Vermillion and sets about teaching him all she knows about humans and their lives. Robot-hating girls, jealous guys, amnesia, lost jewels, a fire and a fall from a cliff are just the beginning!

Explosions, rescues, time machines, mistaken identities and former loves all come together to complicate Sui's efforts to teach Vermillion - and now Kira - about being human. Not that Sui has much time for the two hot robots, what with her bad-tempered friend Aoi wreaking havoc on the city...

A trip to America turns dangerous when the plane is hijacked! Luckily everyone's favorite robots are on board to help out, and they make it to their destination unhindered. All is well until Sui decides to vacation in Hawaii... leaving her robot friends behind!

Another robot has been created, but this one is designed to kill! That's not the only complication - can Vermillion and his friends stop a programmed assassin, restore a widow's memory and mend a broken family?

Despite Vermillion and Kira's attempts to erase his negative programming, the assassin AT-6 is killing again. Determined to put an end to the bloodshed once and for all, Kira sets out to kill their creator... but they say love is blind, and loyalty is a powerful thing. Can Kira really kill the man who made him?

Ax is the premier Japanese magazine for alternative comics. Published bi-monthly for over ten years now, Ax contains some of the most creative and cutting-edge works of independent comics. Now comes this 400-page collection of stories from ten years of Ax history, translated into English for the first time! This groundbreaking book includes work by 33 artists, including Yoshihiro Tatsumi (A Drifting Life), Imiri Sakabashira (The Box Man), Kazuichi Hanawa (Doing Time), Akino Kondoh, Shin'ichi Abe, and many many more!

Abandon the Old in Tokyo delves into the urban underbelly of 1960s Tokyo, exposing not only the seedy dealings of the Japanese everyman but Yoshihiro Tatsumi's maturation as a storywriter. Many of the stories deal with the economic hardships of the time and the strained relationships between men and women, but do so by means of dark allegorical twists and turns.

Asaka is a dedicated wedding planner who'll do anything to guarantee his clients' happiness. Sadly, his own love life has all but vanished thanks to his ridiculous work schedule! But when Asaka's first patron resurfaces, the precious spark of true love may finally fly for him. Can he plan the perfect affair... or will it just have to happen by chance?