Learn how to draw robots, an essential part in manga and anime! This book teaches you the basics, followed by part-by-part instructions to give your mecha and robots that authentic look! Japanese text.

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Pride in being an Evangelion pilot-that is the essence of the Second Child, Soryu Asuka Langley. But the day she was chosen to be so was the most horrible of her life - and as that truth rises to consume her, Shinji finds a new comrade in the stra...

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When the goddesses Belldandy, Skuld, and Urd win a free trip to a hot springs resort, it turns out they're not the only deities off on vacation. Demon First Class Mara is checked into the same rustic retreat! The old enemies call a truce, but the ...

TAGS: miss urd, kosuke fujishima, toren smith, dana lewis, old enemies, oh my goddess

It's the latest volume of one of America's most popular Japanese comics! Several favorite characters face new challenges in this brand-new collection. Skuld, the youngest of the three goddesses living with college student Keiichi, may be a whiz at...

TAGS: queen sayoko, campus queen, toren smith, dana lewis, oh my goddess, chris warner

This one has it all. The sequel to the best-selling 1-555-GODDESS, this amazing collection will have you bouncing off walls. Wizard calls it "a charmer," but we call it required reading!

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Life with a gorgeous, live-in goddess sounds perfect, but for Keiichi Morisato, it means a never-ending column of mischievous deities, frightful demons, and mystical bugs in the system marching through his house! As strange as this seems, his huma...

TAGS: toren smith, dana lewis, bugs in the system, oh my goddess, suzanne taylor, kosuke fujishima

Outlanders was Johji Manabe's first full-length story to be serialized in Japan -- a full-speed-ahead space opera filled with biomech warships and interstellar (and interpersonal) mayhem. Ordinary earthly photographer Tetsuya finds himself caught ...

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This final "remastered" volume restores the "lost" Oh My Goddess! stories, presenting the full early storylines of student Keiichi Morisato's life with Belldandy, an honest-to-goodness, full-on goddess. That wish-come-true was ...

TAGS: kosuke fujishima, toren smith, dana lewis, oh my goddess, honest to goodness, chris warner

Taro, the new head of the Hanaukyo family, is served by an army of beautiful maids. As Christmas and Valentine's Day come, he grows anxious about his feelings for the head maid, Mariel. But Mariel has a mysterious past, and when she suddenly disco...

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The hottest manga on the market enters brand new storytelling territory! As an anime series, Trigun gained a multitude of fans across the otaku landscape, before gaining a burgeoning mainstream manga audience. Now, Trigun Maximum goes beyond the s...

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Yoshitaka Amano has been praised around the world for his lush watercolors and evocative work dealing with myth and legend. In The Tale of Genji Mr. Amano brings his considerable talent to retelling one of the most famous of Japanese myths: writte...

TAGS: author neil gaiman, greg rucka, japanese myths, york times bestselling author, stunning paintings, myth and legend

The evil Count uses his dark powers to transform a defeated guard captain into an inhuman horror to combat Guts, the Black Swordsman. Puck, Guts' pint-sized fairy sidekick, is captured when he attempts to stop an old doctor's execution, and he is ...

TAGS: evil count, guard captain, gilded cage, graphic novels, mincemeat, mature readers

The next volume in Masamune Shirow's best-selling art book series is orbiting cyberspace and preparing to touch down onto bookstore shelves in late summer. This volume concentrates primarily on Shirow's character, robot, and vehicle designs for in...

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Hailed as a cultural icon in Hong Kong and Japan, on par with our own Superman or Batman, Ultraman has punched, kicked, and karate-chopped his way into the hearts of fans internationally for nearly four decades. Known and loved the world over, the...

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Life can be hard under the same roof with the love of your life - especially when she's a literal goddess! Such is the fate of Earthling mortal Keiichi Morisato, a situation made more difficult by the the constant presence of his goddess love Bell...

TAGS: keiichi morisato, goddess central, toren smith, dana lewis, chris warner, kosuke fujishima

They're cute, they're small, they're... Oh My Goddess! Dark Horse collects for the first time the screwball mini-goddess cartoons by award-winning manga creator Kosuke Fujishima. A pint-sized offering of charming four-panel cartoons of your favori...

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Dark Horse's second volume of Japan's leading manga and anime instructional magazine is on the way! Learn the techniques of Japan's top manga and anime artists in Style School , showing step-by-step methods to help today's up-and-coming illustrato...

TAGS: paint marker, watercolor brush, watercolor pen, visual imagination, trade gain, screen tones

A renegade, flesh-eating bioroid (enhanced artificial human) is stalking the ruins of Manhattan, and Olympus' elite ESWAT is sent in to take her down! Will Deunan and Bri emerge as heroes, or as lunch meat? It's a dangerous world outside Olympus, ...

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You waited in line for months to see the movie. . . You read the comics. . . You ate the fruit snacks and played with the action figures! Now make sure you don't miss the most exciting retelling of the movie of the century as Dark Horse presents S...

TAGS: star wars episode i the phantom menace, steam detectives, silent mobius, kia asamiya, fruit snacks, jeremy perkins

With so many intense scenes and watershed moments taking place in volume eleven of Trigun Maximum , it's next to impossible to write descriptive solicitation text. But readers have come to expect excellent action coupled with dramatic tension and ...

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What happens when a Goddess First Class gets a little tipsy when partying with pals? Well, lacking a mean bone in her body, the pickled Belldandy uses her powers to give everyone what they want -- and every time she gives happiness to someone, the...

TAGS: kosuke fujishima, toren smith, dana lewis, sister goddesses, oh my goddess, chris warner

Koike and Kojima's story of the famed ninja, Hanzo Hattori and his trials and tribulations protecting the shogun-to-be, Tokugawa Ieyasu. Each page builds upon the relationship between the two warrirors and the women they love. Path of the Assassin...

TAGS: hanzo hattori, kazuo koike, samurai executioner, path of the assassin, lone wolf and cub, volume story

As Rin frets over her bodyguard Manji's disappearance, she is surprised by the arrival of two traveling warriors, the feisty, headstrong Döa Yoshino and her huge, brutish companion, Isaku Yasono-ökami. Rin quickly regrets her decision to...

TAGS: hiroaki samura, immortal manji, blade of the immortal, detective work, graphic fiction, eisner award

A failed assassination attempt brings into Freeman's possession Muramasa, the Devil's Sword, an ancient samurai blade that brings misfortune and death to any who possess it. Wishing to spare Freeman and tame the sword's malevolent spirit, Tiger Or...

TAGS: kazuo koike, lone wolf and cub, crying freeman, malevolent spirit, ryoichi ikegami, wolf and cub