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Contains over five hundred color reproductions of woodblock prints by various Japanese artists and publishers covering the history of this art form from its beginnings in the 1680s until 1900.

Presents a guide to drawing Chibi characters in graphic novels.

"Featuring interactive exercises, creative prompts, and step-by-step projects, shows [the reader] how to create and illustrate [one's] own manga characters and stories in just a few ... steps"--Back cover.

Provides step-by-step instructions for creating manga characters, including constructing accurate manga figures, rendering facial features and expressions, creating unique characters, and designing color action scenes.

"Love and friendship have become quite complicated for these four friends. Akari and Rio's father is being transferred overseas. Rio wants to stay in Japan to be with Yuna, but Kazuomi thinks Akari should go live abroad even though they'll be apart. What will Akari ultimately decide?"--Back cover.

"A rupture in the alliance at the Summit of the Five Kages could be the trigger for the Fifth Great Ninja War! Meanwhile, something is causing Shikamaru and his family to drift further and further apart. But Shikamaru has a very powerful card up his sleeve to bring peace to both the world and his family!"--.

From loved to loathed. As the crown prince's favored maiden at court, Kou Reirin's future as the next empress is all but assured. That is, until her rival Shu Keigetsu, the court's "sewer rat," pushes her over a balcony! Reirin survives, but wakes up in Keigetsu's body! Turns out Keigetsu has used magic to swap bodies with Reirin in order to steal her position at court. After being sickly her whole life, Reirin is determined to use this new body to turn things around. She won't let anything stop her, not even her impending execution!.

"What happens when the living risk their lives to save the souls of the dead? Every summer, in an isolated Japanese village, a celebration known as the Festival of Shadows takes place. The villagers are entrusted to assist the troubled souls or 'shadows' of those who died tragically, and to help them come to terms with their deaths and find eternal peace. Naoko, a young girl born in the village, is given a year to save the soul of a mysterious young man. She develops strong feelings for her shadow--a handsome young man, an artist--but he seems haunted by a terrible secret. She has a year to find out what happened to him, to help him come to terms with his past, and if she fails, his soul will be lost forever. As the year goes by, Naoko finds herself teetering between the worlds of the living and the dead. What is the terrible secret that seems to be haunting her shadow? And could she be risking her own life to help someone who has already lost his? Naoko puts her own life on the line to save the soul of this man she loves, in a . . . drawn story that takes the reader on a journey from the . . . Japanese countryside to . . . Tokyo art world"--OCLC.

"A Japanese family mourns the loss of a wife and mother by making origami cranes and using the Wind Telephone to communicate their feelings of loss and yearning"--From the publisher.