tokyo (japan)

"Whem Waka's mother suspects her twelve-year-old daughter can't understand basic Japanese, she makes a drastic decision to ship Waka to Tokyo to live with her strict grandmother and reconnect with the culture and master the language. Goodbye friends, end-of-sixth-grade parties, and fun, and goodbye summer vacation. Plucked from her straight-A-student life in rural Kansas and sent halfway across the globe, where her reading levels are embarrassingly low, Waka embarks on what feels like the hardest five months of her life: learning an incredibly complicated writing system called kanji, dealing with the social politics of classmates who think she's illiterate, and attempting to understand her complicated Obaasama. Even though this is the country her parents came from Waka has never felt more like an outsider"--Jacket flap.

"Takigi Oze, detective in the army's Criminal Investigation Division and brother to Company 8's own Maki, investigates a case that takes him into the Nether. When he almost doesn't make it out alive, his father--the general--decides it's time for the army to do something about the Evangelist. The general enlists the help of the Special Fire Force, but adds one more demand: Maki must return to the military"--Back cover.

High school student Ichigo is accidentally injected with the DNA of a Iriomote wildcat, transforming her into Mew Mew, a super-powered catgirl with enhanced agility. She must lead four other girls, who have each been fused with a different endangered animal, to protect Earth from an alien biological threat called Deep Blue.

Tetsuo takes pills in an attempt to control his inner self, while Kei and Kaneda prepare for their final showdown with him.

Akira, a boy with godlike powers who destroyed Tokyo with a telekinetic blast years earlier and has been imprisoned in a frozen state, is released by Tetsuo, a youth with immense paranormal abilities, and a group of resistance agents and government forces races to find Akira before he causes any destruction.

Christina and Grant encounter mysteries while visiting Japan which take them from Tokyo to Mount Fuji.

Shinji Ikari, a student at First Municipal Junior High in New Yokyo-3, finds himself having unusual feelings for transfer student Rei Ayanami, much to the dismay of his childhood friend and self-appointed protector Asuka, and it is difficult to put personal feelings aside when they learn they are destined to be pilots of enormous artificial beings called Evangelion.

Troubled middle school student Gendo Rokubungi's life changes forever when he is befriended by Yui Ikari, the student council president, and meets mysterious new student Kaworu Nagisa.

The war with the Angels has finished, and the former students of Class 2-A once again find themselves in New-Tokyo 3, and with their military usefulness at an end, the former pilots of the Evangelion must face a new set of challenges as they leave their childhoods behind to discover the adults they were meant to be.

"Now that the Evangelist's goons have joined the battle, Company 8 and Haijima must join forces to keep the Sixth Pillar from falling into worse hands. But Haumea is up to her usual tricks, and unless Arthur can intervene, her mind control may lead to a nuclear meltdown..."--Back cover.