During a planetary exploration, trainee scientist Lu crosses paths with Fassen who is the lone survivor of a Fireback citizen convoy struck down by a Blossom civilization brigade. Before going their separate ways, the two figure out a way to craft…
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Best Teen Graphic Novels and Manga of 2022
Chicago Public Library recommends these titles as the very best graphic novels and manga published in 2022 for teens.
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- If you need more adorable cats in your life, you must read this manga. Riko is a 29-year-old office worker who prefers gaming over socializing with her coworkers. Then she adopts a super cute tuxedo cat that she has no idea how to take care of and…
- After a cosmic disaster has erased all colors from Earth and turned all humans turned into mutants, a cult called the Iodopsy Order attempt to restore the colors and the old ways of life in Rikudoh, a metropolis once known as the Far East.…
- What is it like growing into yourself? In The Greatest Thing, Author and Illustrator Sarah Winifred Searle uses her own high school experiences to weave together different character stories of self-discovery. Getting comfortable and knowing yourself…
- Shy, awkward Asano Minato is such a great trombone player that her outgoing classmate Sugawa Hibiki begs her to join a band she’s forming at school. Once they sign up to play at a local festival, they bond with their bandmates and flirt with each…
- Newlyweds Yuriko and Gakurouta don’t live like a “normal” married couple. Yuriko is asexual and aromantic and spends most of her time obsessively reading boys’ love manga. Gaku mostly hangs out with his childhood best friend, Sousuke, who he’s…
- When Fujino and Kyomoto meet in middle school, they bond over their love of drawing manga. They win a manga contest together and Shark Kick, their story, gets serialized, but Kyo decides to stop helping with the manga to go to art school. Can Fujino…
- After rumors about supernatural occurrences around the town of Yoinosaka spread among her fellow students, Ninamori Akane starts writing a column for the school newspaper called the Neighborhood Haunts Report. Cool and calm transfer student Amemura…
- Shouta Kikuzato’s dreams of playing soccer professionally are dashed when an accident causes him to lose a leg. When Chidori offers Kikuzato a prosthesis made for running in exchange for promoting his product, Kikuzato decides to try it out. Soon…
- When Aiza leaves her home in Bayt-Sajji to join the military, she enters a brutal training program where she tries to hide her ethnicity, since Ornu people are looked down upon. She’s determined to become a Squire along with her new friends, but…
- Five years after his little sister Karen died, Kaoru still blames himself for her passing. When he hears about the Urashima Tunnel, which supposedly gives those who enter whatever they wish for the most, he decides to go in to find Karen. A…
- Kaboku Kotani, who struggles with stuttering, decides to join the dance team at Ichirin High after he sees his classmate Hikari Wanda dancing like she feels totally free. Despite being one of the only guys in the dance club, Koboku gains confidence…
- Lizzy, the daughter of a witch who battled a leviathan, lives with her grandfather, tends to their goats, and sells cheese at the town market. After she steals coins from a well to get home from the market on the ferry one day, an old woman tells…
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