Ameri-Manga (American Manga) Starting With 'O'

It's Halloween in Pico Mundo, California, and there's a whiff of something wicked in the autumn air. While the town prepares for its annual festivities, young fry cook Odd Thomas can't shake the feeling that make-believe goblins and ghouls aren't the only things on the prowl. He should know, since he can see what others cannot: the spirits of the restless dead. But even his frequent visitor, the specter of Elvis Presley, can't seem to point Odd in the right direction.

Tory Blake is an average-looking 15-year-old boy, who possesses an uncanny sense of time and photographic memory. A self-proclaimed genius, he is spoiled, anti-social and cynical. His boredom is cured when a beautiful but secretive boy his own age moves across the street from his apartment.

Five years ago, a young witch named Cierra broke the one unforgivable law of the witch society: attempting to create her own magic. As punishment, she was exiled to the Wilderness, a barren wasteland. After surviving for five ruthless years, her exile has now ended, and she has been ushered back to civilization only to discover that the world around her has changed greatly. Will Cierra be able to adjust back to a society that abandoned her?

Her name is Orange. She's a young girl in high school, coming of age in the heart of the city. And she has decided she has nothing to live for. Not her shallow friends. Not her parents. Not school. Not even the empty promise of love. Her head filled with morbid fantasies of suicide, Orange finds herself standing at the edge of her rooftop when a drunken, enigmatic young man named Dashu enters her world... changing it forever.