Saving the world is hard. Saving yourself is even harder. Reads R to L (Japanese Style), for audiences rated teen plus. One summer, fifteen kids innocently wander into a nearby seaside cave. There they meet a strange man who invites them to play an exciting new video game. This game, he explains, pits one lone giant robot against a horde of alien invaders. To play the game, all they have to do is sign a simple contract. The game stops being fun when the kids find out the true purpose of their pact. Now the children know the truth: their opponents are human beings, just like them. Despite going into his battle with mixed feelings, Kirie finds one more chance to surprise his fellow pilots. Komo follows after him to what seems like an easy victory...until the enemy’s tentacles threaten to overwhelm her.

Bokurano: Ours, Vol. 6

Comics & Graphic Novels

KITOH, MOHIRO

Manga

VIZ Media, LLC

Saving the world is hard. Saving yourself is even Reads R to L (Japanese Style). One summer, fifteen kids innocently wander into a nearby seaside cave. There they meet a strange man who invites them to play an exciting new video game. This game, he explains, pits one lone giant robot against a horde of alien invaders. To play the game, all they have to do is sign a simple contract. The game stops being fun when the kids find out the true purpose of their pact. Komo’s battle takes a shocking turn when the enemy pilot flees for his life...and then comes out of hiding where nobody would have expected. Anko’s battle begins not long after, but this time, the entire world is watching. A broadcast crew from her father’s TV news show comes along for the ride, letting the secret of Zearth out for good.

Bokurano: Ours, Vol. 7

Saving the world is hard. Saving yourself is even harder. One summer, fifteen kids innocently wander into a nearby seaside cave. There they meet a strange man who invites them to play an exciting new video game. This game, he explains, pits one lone giant robot against a horde of alien invaders. To play the game, all they have to do is sign a simple contract. The game stops being fun when the kids find out the true purpose of their pact. Through battle after battle, the world has known Zearth as an implacable force of destruction. Now, the monster has a human face, as Anko uses her father's broadcast to deliver a message to the world. An outpouring of support carries the children into Kanji's battle, a test of endurance that may only be won by a drastic, irreversible decision. Reads R to L (Japanese Style) for teen plus audiences.

Bokurano: Ours, Vol. 8

Saving the world is hard. Saving yourself is even harder.One summer, fifteen kids innocently wander into a nearby seaside cave. There they meet a strange man who invites them to play an exciting new video game. This game, he explains, pits one lone giant robot against a horde of alien invaders. To play the game, all they have to do is sign a simple contract. The game stops being fun when the kids find out the true purpose of their pact. Zearth’s next pilot is Kana Ushiro, the one child supposedly spared from the contract that has driven her friends to fight for the survival of their universe. Fearing for her youngest pilot’s chances, Lieutenant Tanaka plans a shocking operation to keep Zearth in the game. Reads R to L (Japanese Style) for teen plus audiences.

Bokurano: Ours, Vol. 9

One summer, fifteen kids innocently wander into a nearby seaside cave. There they meet a strange man who invites them to play an exciting new video game. This game, he explains, pits one lone giant robot against a horde of alien invaders. To play the game, all they have to do is sign a simple contract. The game stops being fun when the kids find out the true purpose of their pact. Two children remain to fight for Earth’s survival, and one of them isn’t from this Earth at all. Zearth’s next pilot, Yoko Machi, has been possessed by the mind of a refugee from a parallel world. Before she goes into battle, she and her fellow pilot Jun Ushiro face a struggle of a different kind, as they confront the many victims left behind in Zearth’s wake.

Bokurano: Ours, Vol. 10

One summer, fifteen kids innocently wander into a nearby seaside cave. There they meet a strange man who invites them to play an exciting new video game. This game, he explains, pits one lone giant robot against a horde of alien invaders. To play the game, all they have to do is sign a simple contract. The game stops being fun when the kids find out the true purpose of their pact. Final Volume! Rule 1 Zearth’s battles follow an ironclad rule. If Zearth loses the battle, or if 48 hours pass without victory, Earth will be destroyed, along with humankind and every other living thing on the planet. Rule 2 Zearth’s opponents are Earthlings of a parallel world. Victory is achieved by killing the enemy pilot. If Zearth’s pilot is killed, Zearth loses the battle. Rule 3 Pilots are contracted in advance. One pilot is selected for each battle. Only the selected pilot commands Zearth. The pilot cannot transfer control. Rule 4 If the pilot dies of natural causes or is killed by a fellow Earthling, another contracted pilot will be chosen to assume command. Rule 5 After the battle’s end, the deceased pilot’s body is sent home. However, at the pilot’s request, the body may be stored within Zearth, or made to simply vanish.

Bokurano: Ours, Vol. 11

Young Shiina Tamai becomes involved in a struggle between rival extraterrestrial factions vying for control of Earth after she discovers a starfish-like creature that she names Hoshimaru.

Shadow Star Vol. 1: Starflight

Dark Horse

Teenagers Shiina and Akira have become fast friends, due in no small part to their bonds with two shape-shifting alien star-creatures. But their small friends are not the only visitors from beyond, nor are Shiina and Akira the only kids connected to them. Roaming the skies are powerful and dangerous Shadow Dragons, and one is linked with a schoolmate of the girls, a malevolent boy with murder in his heart — and a deadly, flying dragon at his command to make it happen!

Shadow Star Vol. 2: Darkness Visible (Shadow Star)

Science Fiction & Fantasy

Shiina and Akira are awkward, self-conscious teenagers, struggling with school and self-esteem whose lives change forever when they encounter and bond with small, cuddly extraterrestrial creatures, two of a menagerie of spaceborn entities now on Earth, including terrifying Shadow Dragons, flying beasts of vast and lethal powers. But Shiina and Akira are not the only ones with such unearthly familiars, and an underground network exists of such Earthling/alien mates - but is their aim to protect the planet or destroy it? And will a trigger-happy Earth military care one way or the other?

Shadow Star Volume 4: Nothing but the Truth

Shiina and Akira are typical introverted teenagers in every way, save one - their bonding with cute extraterrestrial creatures, part of a growing number of alien entitiy emigres, known as the fearsome Shadow Dragons, all of whom have linked with Earthling youths. Some have bonded with not-so-typical - and not so nice - kids. The appearance of the terrible Dragons in the skies over Japan has brought the Japan Self-Defense Force into conflict with the beasts, and a group of Dragon-controlling hard cases has decided to take the fight to the JSDF and teach them - and anyone else who gets in the way - a lethal lesson in the consequences of crossing swords with the Shadow Dragons!

Shadow Star Volume 5: A Flower's Fragrance

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