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• Wild Adapter Volume Four

Wild Adapter, volume 4, has an overall theme surrounding the concept of kotodama, the idea that words have spirit and can have real impact on someone’s life. The bad guy this time feels defined by the harsh words of a teacher who called him ‘small’ way back when. Kubota has the misfortune of being on a drug run from Kou to the prostitute this guy is with, just after she calls the man ‘small.’ Kubota gets there just in time to see him running out after killing her.

• Camera Camera Camera Volumes One and Two

Akira loves his stepbrother, Satoru, really loves him, but he’s managed to keep that fact a secret from everyone. That is until he meets a goofy photographer named Kaoru who seems to know everything about Akira. Now Akira can’t get away from Kaoru and his proclamations of love and, to make everything worse, a devious girl is blatantly trying to steal away his darling Satoru. Toss in a teenage model who looks like he’s ten, but has more experience than virginal Akira, and a mysterious woman from Kaoru’s past and Akira might just decide that becoming an adult is more trouble than it’s worth!

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Mikan’s best friend Hotaru’s cold attitude makes her seem like a bad choice for a best friend, but Mikan loves her anyway. When Hotaru leaves unexpectedly for the prestigious and mysterious Alice Academy, Mikan is devastated. Then she learns that students who go to the Alice Academy are rarely heard from again and she decides to enroll in Alice Academy so that she can be with Hotaru. However enrolling might be easier said than done and will take all of Mikan’s courage and tenacity just to pull it off.

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Azuma has a fetish for people wearing glasses; it’s considered common knowledge in his class how his loves and lays with all with cute girls wearing spectacles. However, Azuma suddenly finds himself attracted to his fellow male classmate, Sorachi, causing him to wonder if questioning his sexuality is worth his fetish (especially when the object of his attraction seems to hate him). It doesn’t take much imagination to realize where things are going and soon the two are hopelessly in love with each other, cuing all the usual dramatics. This is the title story of the small collection and takes up just over half of the book.

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While at a work site, a poorly educated construction worker, Kazuya, meets and falls for the girl of his dreams. The biggest problem? The girl’s younger brother, Masahi, a star student with an arrogant streak, has his sights set on Kazuya for himself. When Kazuya makes a vow to earn his high school diploma, and asks Masahi for help, the sex-starved teen only wants one thing as payment for tutoring: Kazuya’s body. This premise, coupled with Shiuko Kanno’s kinetic, attractive artwork, makes I’m Not Your Stepping Stone a must-own for yaoi fans who like their stories both sexually charged and romantic at the same time...

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Wild Adapter, volume three, is probably the most cohesive volume of the series so far. Kubota and Tokito are coming into their own. To recap: Kubota is the rather emotionally dead, sociopathic, illegitimate son of The Shadow and worked for Senada, head of a Yakuza branch (and rival to Seikya) for a while. He quit the Yakuza about the same time he finds his ‘cat,’ a young man, Tokito who has an animal-like hand and no memory. Kubota has finally found someone to care for in Tokito and together, with occasional help from Kou, an unlicensed physician, and Kansai, Kubota’s detective uncle, they’re trying to find a drug called ‘Wild Adapter’ that turns humans into animal-like creatures before they die...

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Sunflower follows a somewhat typical formula for schoolboy yaoi: mix a bunch of cute boys (with a dash of unrequited feelings) and stir in a healthy measure of misunderstandings to make the road to finding 'true love' extra bumpy. The resulting manga isn’t anything that will change your life, but Hyouta Fujiyama does manage to entertain you with a cast of adorable characters and her charming artwork. While this is a sequel of sorts to one of the manga-ka’s other DMP releases, Ordinary Crush, Sunflower stands alone well and readers don’t have to be familiar with the earlier story...

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When Yuuto comes to in the hospital after being struck by a bolt of lightning, he’s confused to see a young man in his room. His parents tell him that the boy is his cousin, but when the mysterious visitor later attacks him and turns into a two-tailed cat, Yuuto begins to think something’s up. The world turns out to have more mysteries in it than a modern high school boy ever thought possible in this tale of folklore, reincarnation, and pretty boy gods...

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