Yuji Oniki
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Spirited away volume 1
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When a young girl gets trapped in a strange new world of spirits, she must call upon the courage she never knew she had to free herself and rescue her parents.
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"This striking collection presents the most remarkable short works of Junji Ito's career, featuring an adaptation of Rampo Edogawa's classic horror story 'Human Chair' and fan favorite 'The Enigma of Amigara Fault'. With a deluxe presentation--including special color pages, and showcasing illustrations from his acclaimed long-form manga No Longer Human--each chilling tale invites readers to revel in a world of terror."--Provided by publisher.
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A savage storm shipwrecks Miaka and her Celestial Warriors on a creepy island inhabited by a ruthless matriarchal society that enslaves men! Meanwhile, her former friend Yui and the Seiryu Warriors are within arm's reach of the sacred treasures that Miaka so desperately seeks. Will she arrive too late to summon the god Suzaku and save the nation of Hong-Nan?
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Yuhi's rescue of Aya Mikage from her own family goes well, but he soon discovers there are two personalities dwelling inside Aya - herself and the legendary celestial maiden, Ceres. If he can't stand her, why is he so jealous when the handsome mystery man Toya appears?
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Kurôzu-cho, a small fogbound town on the coast of Japan, is cursed. According to Shuichi Saito, the withdrawn boyfriend of teenager Kirie Goshima, their town is haunted not by a person or being but by a pattern: uzumaki, the spiral, the hypnotic secret shape of the world. It manifests itself in everything from seashells and whirlpools in water to the spiral marks on people's bodies, the insane obsessions of Shuichi's father and the voice from the...
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Spirited away volume 4
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This graphic novel is based on the highest-grossing animated movie in Japanese film history and features the artwork by famous anime author Miyazaki. Illustrations.
The mysterious masked spirit called No Face wreaks havoc in the bath house after being let in by Chihiro, while Chihiro searches for a gravely injured Haku and meets Yubaba's very large son along the way.
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"The floating smell of death hangs over the island. What is it? A strange, legged fish appears on the scene ... So begins Tadashi and Kaori's spiral into the horror and stench of the sea. Here is the creepiest masterpiece of horror manga ever from the creator of Uzumaki, Junji Ito. Hold your breath until all is revealed. Something's rotten in Okinawa"--
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Kurôzu-cho, a small fogbound town on the coast of Japan, is cursed. According to Shuichi Saito, the withdrawn boyfriend of teenager Kirie Goshima, their town is haunted not by a person or being but by a pattern: "uzumaki, " the spiral, the hypnotic secret shape of the world which causes the inhabitants to go mad.
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Spirited away volume 2
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After meeting the arachnoid Kamaji and the slug girl Lin, Chihiro encounters the giant, all-powerful sorceress Yu-baaba, who renames Chihiro "Sen."
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Uzumaki volume 3
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With their town devastated by titanic hurricanes, the citizens of the spiral-haunted town of Kurozu-cho find themselves cut off from the outside world. Reporters and rescue teams who come into the town, find themselves unable to leave.
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Spirited away volume 1
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Before Sen can journey to Zeniba's house to find out if Haku's illness is from a curse, she must confront No Face.
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With unemployment at an all-time high and violence amongst school children almost out of control, the Japanese government introduces the "Battle Royale Act." A randomly chosen school class is taken to a deserted island and forced to fight each other to the death. One pupil only is allowed to survive as proof of the lengths to which the government is prepared to go to end the violence.