From Two-Bit Baddie to Total Heartthrob: This Villainess Will Cross-Dress to Impress! Volume 2

From Two-Bit Baddie to Total Heartthrob: This Villainess Will Cross-Dress to Impress! Volume 2
Author: Masamune Okazaki
Publisher: J-Novel Club
Total Pages: 312
Release: 2024-11-18
Genre: Young Adult Fiction
ISBN: 1718314825

Elizabeth begins her second year at the academy. She’s in peak form, ready to sweep the newly transferred main character, Lilia, off her feet. As soon as Lilia opens her mouth, though, Elizabeth realizes that all is not as it seems. Now the cross-dressing villainess needs to win Lilia over and convince the other girl to lock onto her route so that Elizabeth can obtain her happy ending. Unfortunately, it’s going to be a long and bumpy ride—especially since the other love interests keep butting in to steal Elizabeth away from Lilia at any given chance! What’s a girl to do when the boys keep crashing her dates?!

From Two-Bit Baddie to Total Heartthrob: This Villainess Will Cross-Dress to Impress! Volume 1

From Two-Bit Baddie to Total Heartthrob: This Villainess Will Cross-Dress to Impress! Volume 1
Author: Masamune Okazaki
Publisher: J-Novel Club
Total Pages: 352
Release: 2024-07-26
Genre: Young Adult Fiction
ISBN: 1718314809

The world just isn’t fair and Elizabeth Burton knows that better than anyone. Reincarnated into an otome game as a two-bit villainess, she’s been doomed by the genre’s tropes to a life of misery. What’s a girl to do… but cross-dress her way into the main character’s heart and a guaranteed happy ending of course! After years of blood, sweat, and tears fashioning herself into the perfect heartthrob, all she has to do is wait for the fated first meeting with the main character… or so she thought! As it turns out, her manly charms have come back to bite her in the butt. The other love interests have started cross-dressing too, and they don’t want the main character’s heart—they want Elizabeth’s!

As The Villainess, I Reject These Happy-Bad Endings!

As The Villainess, I Reject These Happy-Bad Endings!
Author: Iota AIUE
Publisher: Cross Infinite World
Total Pages: 338
Release: 2021-02-12
Genre: Young Adult Fiction
ISBN: 1945341505

Iris has awoken as the villainess in the world of her favorite otome game. But not just ANY otome game—one with nothing but bittersweet "Happy-Bad" Endings! If the heroine hooks up with one of her problematic love interests, the rest of the world is doomed... but if she fails, it's the villainess who will pay with her life! Fortunately, Iris has time on her side. All she has to do is set things up so that the heroine won't go down those routes! Be it curing a fatal disease or re-parenting her possessive twin brother, she'll do whatever it takes to reject these Happy-Bad Endings!

Boy Meets Maria

Boy Meets Maria
Author: Peyo
Publisher: National Geographic Books
Total Pages: 0
Release: 2021-10-26
Genre: Comics & Graphic Novels
ISBN: 1648276458

An LGBT+ manga exploring love and gender at a high school drama club. Taiga dreams of becoming an actor, so the first thing he does upon entering high school is join the drama club. There, he meets the beautiful, enigmatic Maria and immediately falls in love with her. Not long after, Taiga is told that she is actually a boy--but is that all there is to Maria’s story? The late PEYO debuted with this beautifully illustrated, single-volume tale exploring the nature of personal expression and the fluidity of the power of love.

Forget Being the Villainess, I Want to Be an Adventurer! Volume 1

Forget Being the Villainess, I Want to Be an Adventurer! Volume 1
Author: Hiro Oda
Publisher: J-Novel Club
Total Pages: 198
Release: 2022-01-27
Genre: Young Adult Fiction
ISBN: 1718388470

Serephione Granzeus is your average three-year-old girl...or so she thinks, until she meets Lou, the super-fluffy Holy Guardian White Tiger. Memories of her past life as a Japanese businesswoman come flooding back to her, and she realizes she’s part of a fantasy book she read before, but as the villainess. Yet her past life isn’t all that she remembers; she can recall her life as the original Serephione, and her sadness, and her pain... After making a contract with Lou, she comes up with a plan to change the plot and avoid the villainess’s dark fate: become an adventurer and avoid everyone from the book! But the more she diverges from the plot, the more unpredictable the other characters become. How will she keep everyone from learning her secrets and spoiling her plans?

Villainess: Reloaded! Blowing Away Bad Ends with Modern Weapons (Manga) Volume 2

Villainess: Reloaded! Blowing Away Bad Ends with Modern Weapons (Manga) Volume 2
Author: 616th Special Information Battalion
Publisher: J-Novel Club
Total Pages: 162
Release: 2021-11-17
Genre: Comics & Graphic Novels
ISBN: 1718327463

Shotgun-wielding otome game villainess Astrid Sophie von Oldenburg is now in possession of a small arsenal of modern weapons powered by fantasy-world magic. But it’s still not enough to strike back against fate! Driven by her love for all things military related, she’s not about to stop recreating or firing her favorite guns anytime soon. However, her parents are less enthusiastic about their daughter’s newfound obsession with magic; can Astrid rise to the challenge of keeping them happy? And how will she fare when she comes face to beak with a griffin and the tiny fairy in its talons? Many trials await her, but she swears that through the power of bigger and better weapons, she’ll tear fate apart!

Housekeeping Mage from Another World: Making Your Adventures Feel Like Home! Volume 1

Housekeeping Mage from Another World: Making Your Adventures Feel Like Home! Volume 1
Author: You Fuguruma
Publisher: J-Novel Club
Total Pages: 315
Release: 2022-03-07
Genre: Young Adult Fiction
ISBN: 1718386486

Shiori is an average Japanese office worker who was suddenly teleported to another world. Four years later, she’s managed to carve out a niche for herself—as a housekeeping mage. Alec is an A-class adventurer, just returned from a long-term assignment. When his friend Zack, the local Guild Master, tempts him into going on a manticore hunt by promising to bring in a mage with special skills, what Alec finds is the last thing he could have expected. On the outside, the two couldn’t be more different. Yet deep in their hearts, they each yearn for the same thing: a place to belong. In the face of old wounds, their dark pasts, and the everyday challenges any adventurer must overcome, will they find the courage to risk being hurt again?

Magic Knight of the Old Ways: Volume 1

Magic Knight of the Old Ways: Volume 1
Author: Taro Hitsuji
Publisher: J-Novel Club
Total Pages: 185
Release: 2022-03-01
Genre: Young Adult Fiction
ISBN: 1718389477

A long, long time ago, in the era of legends, there was a knight known as Sir Sid the Barbarian who pledged his sword to the Holy King Arthur. Unparalleled in strength, he was the greatest magical knight of his time, but also a disgrace to the name of chivalry. His evil deeds were countless, and eventually he met his end at the hands of his own king...or so the story goes. Now a thousand years have passed, and Sid is summoned from his eternal slumber by Alvin, a descendant of Arthur and a prince who knows the truth about Sir Sid the Lightning Knight. Honoring his ancient pact, Sid rises from the grave to help Alvin save the kingdom from impending peril and become the new instructor to Alvin’s class of fellow aspiring knights. As danger lurks in the shadows, Sid must train this class of underdogs to rely on more than just their magical fairy swords and teach them the old ways of the magic knights.

The Midnight Eye Guide to New Japanese Film

The Midnight Eye Guide to New Japanese Film
Author: Tom Mes
Publisher:
Total Pages: 365
Release: 2005
Genre: History
ISBN: 9781880656891

Thanks to directors such as Kitano, Miike and Miyazaki, Japanese cinema has recently undergone something of a resurgence. This title profiles the work of these established film-makers, as well as looking at the creations of new, up-and-coming directors.

Woof Woof Story: I Told You to Turn Me Into a Pampered Pooch, Not Fenrir!, Vol. 3 (manga)

Woof Woof Story: I Told You to Turn Me Into a Pampered Pooch, Not Fenrir!, Vol. 3 (manga)
Author: Inumajin
Publisher: Yen Press LLC
Total Pages: 150
Release: 2022-03-22
Genre: Comics & Graphic Novels
ISBN: 1975325257

“It’s like I I’ve come to an alternate fantasy world...!!” Now that Mary’s feeling better, the family sets off on a business trip to the Royal Capital! After they arrive, Mary and Routa head out to explore the city when they run into a young girl known as the “Monster Maiden,” and she wants to add Routa to her collection! She invites the two to her house, where they find an assortment of ferocious beasts who don’t seem too keen on obeying their master...