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FRIEND OR FOE?The Fighting Festival between The Seven Deadly Sins and The Ten Commandments has finally begun! With The Sins and company divided into groups of two, they have no choice but to work separately as pairs in order to prove victorious in their duels against the other contestants. But when Gowther and Escanor are pit against each other, will they fall into The Ten Commandments’s trap and fight, or will their friendship be strong enough to get them through unscathed? The epic journey of sorcery and swordplay that inspired the hit Netflix anime continues!Praise for the Netflix anime"Pure 30-minute doses of good ol'' shonen fun... a joy to watch!" -IGN"A great new action series... truly amazing." -Geek-E

Regularly the most-requested series of the last few years, Princess Jellyfish finally receives a UK release, charting the progress of two very different girls.

The epic journey of sorcery and swordplay that inspired the hit Netflix anime continues!Praise for the Netflix anime"Pure 30-minute doses of good ol' shonen fun... a joy to watch!" -IGN"A great new action series... truly amazing."-Geek-E

The magical adventures of the Fairy Tail guild continue!“[With] crisp, clean, fast-moving art… Fairy Tail is easily one of my favorite new series of the year.” -Comic Book Resources“With dazzling visuals and perfectly timed fights of ever greater intensity, this is as good as action-adventure gets.” -Anime News Network

Attack on Titan: Colossal Edition 4, weighing in at a massive 944 pages, is an oversized collection of Vols. 16-20 of the Attack on Titan manga series.

Regularly the most-requested series of the last few years, Princess Jellyfish finally receives a UK release, charting the progress of two very different girls.

THE MEANING OF FAMILYAs the most powerful wizards of Fairy Tail face off against the remaining members of The Twelve, their hearts, relationships, and skills will be put to the test. The battle between Erza and Irene reaches an emotional conclusion, Gray shows how far he’s willing to go to save his dearest friends, and the love of a father sparks a shocking revelation from August. As Natsu and Zeref’s showdown approaches, both enemies and friends must ask themselves who their true family is!

With the manga and anime Akira, Katsuhiro Otomo changed art and pop culture worldwide. Now some of the most admired illustrators and comics artists in the world have come together to pay tribute to this master, in a beautiful tribute art book.New, original cover by Katsuhiro Otomo!This 168-page collection began life as a limited-edition tribute to Otomo given only to attendees of the prestigious Angoulême International Comics Festival, where Otomo was recipient of the Grand Prize in 2015. Now it's available to readers and collectors around the world, with additional content from a list of more than 80 fine artists, illustrators, and comics legends, including: • Masashi Kishimoto (Naruto) • Shirow Masamune (The Ghost in the Shell) • Stan Sakai (Usagi Yojimbo) • Taiyo Matsumoto (Sunny, Tekkon Kinkreet) • Tomer and Asaf Hanuka (The Realist, The Divine) • Aleksi Briclot (Spawn) • Olivier Coipel (Legion of Super-Heroes) • Naoki Urasawa (Monster, Pluto) • Sara Pichelli (Runaways) • Yoshiyuki Sadamoto (Diebuster, Neon Genesis Evangelion, FLCL) • Akihiko Yoshida (Final Fantasy) • And many others. In full color at a large size.

NEW HARDCOVER DELUXE EDITION! Now a major motion picture! • Definitive new edition supervised by creator Shirow Masamune • In the original, right-to-left format with Japanese sound effects for the first time! • Released simultaneously with deluxe editions of The Ghost in the Shell 1.5 and 2 Deep into the twenty-first century, the line between man and machine has been blurred as humans rely on the enhancement of mechanical implants and robots are upgraded with human tissue. In this rapidly converging landscape, cyborg superagent Major Motoko Kusanagi is charged to track down the craftiest and most dangerous terrorists and cybercriminals, including "ghost hackers" who are capable of exploiting the human/machine interface and reprogramming humans to become puppets to carry out the hackers' criminal ends.

MAN OF STEEL The iron dragonslayer, Gajeel Redfox, has lived his life in the shadows. Even in the motley crew of Fairy Tail, he didn''t always fit in. When Gajeel gets news of an escaped prisoner he may be connected to, he must leave on a journey to confront his past. Will he stand strong with his new family in Fairy Tail, or will old forces pull him back into the darkness? Discover Gajeel''s story in this official Fairy Tail spinoff!

It''s an inexplicable hit! The Aho-Girl anime is one of the top streaming anime now on Crunchyroll! See the original manga that people can''t stop themselves from talking about!Equal parts cute, silly, and subversive, the four-panel comedy manga Ahogaru was a surprise hit in Japan. Fans of anarchic slice-of-life gag manga like Azumanga Daioh – these are the new laughs you''ve been waiting for!Yoshiko is a hopefully clueless high school girl. Her rock-paper-scissors strategy is "rock." She somehow gets zeroes on multiple-choice tests. And she has an often-nearly-fatal weakness for bananas. Her devoted friends have no choice but to hang around and make sure nobody takes advantage of her. (Of course, the entertainment value might have something to do with it, too.) Cute characters, weird gags, and lots and lots of bananas!

A new adventure manga series set inside the human body

See the acclaimed hit anime from Production I.G and the makers of Haikyu!! and Miss Hokusai, now streaming on Anime Strike!Fujita has drifted through middle school aimlessly, unable to find friends or anything that can hold his attention. Then, one day, he's attacked by a gang and saved by a mysterious man. But this isn't a karate master. Fujita's Mr. Miyagi is a ballroom dance instructor! Reluctantly, Fujita takes a few beginner's classes, only to find his inspiration... an entrancing, teenage dance prodigy named Shizuku. It's Fujita's first step into the high-octane world of competitive dance!

New high-school adventures from the creator of Oh My Goddess!

A homeless god looks to build followers by doing small deeds in this supernatural manga series.

One of the few Japanese manga series to be told from the point of view of a female otaku.

Two worlds collide in this hugely popular series, regularly the most requested on social media.

The long-anticipated teen romance comic on which the popular Japanese film was based