Miku's mother died after being married to Jinpei for a little over a year, when Miku was 13 years old, and Jinpei has been raising Miku alone since then. The series has a very delicate touch with the romantic issues. Adachi dealt with a similar situation, a brother and sister who are not related by blood, in his earlier series Miyuki.

    It's belly-laughing funny but it's also a hymn to the grand and complex game delivered with a narrative pace and ability I'm afraid most Test players don't have. For anyone who ever dreamed of excelling at a sport but never quite made it but still gave it your life, this is the story. A great read!' Tom Keneally'The Grade Cricketer has taken us so far inside a district club dressing room that you feel like a locker. Ligaments could not be closer to the bone than some of his observations.' Kerry O'Keeffe 'The Grade Cricketer is strange and, I suspect, brilliant'. Wisden

    Akira Toriyama's great quest stories, Dragon Ball and Dragon BallZ, star the monkey-tailed boy Goku, whose quiet life is interrupted when he's enlisted to save the world. Masashi Kishimoto's award-winning Naruto takes readers into the whirlwind of the Ninja Academy with its brutal tests and challenging competitions. Then Eichiro Oda's shonen sensation One Piece features a treasure hunt like no other, triggered by some very strange gum-gum fruit. Hiroyuki Takei's teenage shaman battles ghosts and monsters in Shaman King, while Kazuki Takahashi's mega-hit Yu-Gi-Oh finds a lonely tenth grader solving a three thousand year puzzle, hurling him into one bizarre game after another. Finally, there's Yoshihiro Togashi's thriller YuYu Hakusho, about a teenage boy whose good deed turns him into Tokyo's toughest ghost.

    He would have a fist of iron, legs of stone, and thought and vision of crystal clarity. With his natural intelligence and extraordinary skills in the ancient Chinese art of unarmed combat, could the fearless Chinmi be the long-awaited Magic Fist?Dell's "Ironfist" books are authentic Japanese Manga (comics), printed to read back-to-front, with English replacing the original Japanese text for American Manga fans. Already a hit in the U.K., "Ironfist" promises to introduce the exciting world of Manga to young people across the country.Click here for more information about the Japanese Manga.

    

    Yet Zheng is unaware that Snow and her newfound friend, Bison, have already made their escape from Lor's Forbidden and the evil clutches of the maniacal Earth Lord. And Earth Lord himself finds it difficult to handle and angered Tian. Earth Lord releases his Demon Army on the Bei convoy resulting is much bloodshed and destruction. Also Bison and Snow run into even more trouble with their escape.

    At school, she was humiliated by the guy she likes and his beautiful girlfriend. While at home, she feels worse than her sister who had been miss Korea. Mi Jin could not take it anymore and decided to commit suicide by publicly jumping into the river.But Mi Jin was not dead. She was, in fact, saved by a young doctor who offered her a new life with plastic surgery. And so, Mi Jin born again with a very pretty face and a new name, Asa. With her second chance in life, she intent on revenge to the people who have hurt her.

    Imagine a world with civilizations built amongst the clouds, with cities in floating-gigantic steel structures, and people riding flying bikes; where the boundless sky is an ocean of stormy and hazardous acid-clouds; where the solid surface of the earth is full of mystery, of many unexplored possibilities and threats… That’s where we’ll be taking you to!You are invited to join a “fateful-accidental adventure” of an average working-class skybike rider, a young big-mouthed dreamer, basically a nobody named Rou, along with a nervy and bold female reporter named Mel, in their journey trailing a quest of a famous Skybike Rider named Griffen, who set out for a dangerous rescue mission.Find out all about it in this adventure story, in a fantasy tale that will take you from across the span of the sky of a world in the age of the skyfaring, toward the mysterious valleys of the land unknown, hidden beneath the acid clouds…

    its not just a book..its not just a biographie book..its a true story about a basketball player with passion,emotions, and full of dramatics...to get what he want to be...

    Then, a confused girl named Miu arrives through a wormhole from Earth. Ruu joins up with her and promises to take her home. Unknown to Ruu, Miu is the daughter of the same people who took good care of him in his stay on Earth.

    Kenji (拳児) is a manga about a Japanese teenager named Kenji who practices the martial art Bājíquán (Japanese: Hakkyoku-ken) and his encounters with other martial artists, including some from real life, such as Adam Hsu and Liu Chia-Liang.The series is based on the life of Song Tien Long Dz and has had histories of Hakkyoku-ken, Li Shu-Wen, and Liu Yun-Chiao.Kenji's archnemesis is a gangster named Tony Tan who practiced Hung Gar and later Xinyiliuhequan.This series primarily features Bājíquán, but also gets into Praying Mantis Kung Fu, Baguazhang, Chen T'ai Chi Ch'üan, Pi Quan, Xingyiquan, Xin Yi Liu He, Shaolin, Hung Gar, Daito Ryu, Shotokan and numerous other styles.

    

    But real hoop dreams include the desire to be the best--to take the rock, drive up the lane, and take it to the hole. Nate Torres, perpetual wannabe, just wants his shot at high school fame and glory. But when he misses the cut for the high school team, he takes his dream to the only place he has left... the streets.

    Kurosagi (The Black Swindler) follows Kurosaki a famed swindler who only targets other swindlers out of revenge due to fact that his father was a victim of a swindler which caused his father kill his entire family and himself leaving just Kurosaki on his own.