The second episode of Library War features bear punching, book shelving, and a fateful encounter with a book truck:
Our heroine Iku gets assigned to a special library task force, which means more training:

Teru Teru X Shonen: Volume 1 by Shigeru Takao (amazon)
Sometimes when I do my monthly DCBS manga order, I’ll throw in a first volume of a series randomly just to try out something new. Sometimes I luck out and find series that I really enjoy, and other times I end up with a dud. [...]

Your and My Secret Volume 1 by Ai Morinaga (amazon)
Your & My Secret is the craziest gender-bending manga I have ever read. Granted, I have not investigated the genre throughly, but it seems like it would be very hard to top this book. I can see now why people were so excited when Tokyopop [...]

Check out Word Balloons, a new blog devoted to comic books for kids. It should be excellent, Mangablog’s Brigid Alverson has put together a great group of contributors. I think this blog will really come in handy for librarians who work with children.

Yet another young adult novel is going to be turned into manga, as seen in this cover image:

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http://feeds.feedburner.com/tangognat

Sweet, Sweet Card catalogs:

I thought I’d post a few pictures from the first episode of Library War. My Japanese sucks, so I’m waiting for a fan sub. But the show looked very entertaining to me.

Our heroine encounters the evil thought police:

Yumekui Kenbun Nightmare Inspector Volume 1 by Shin Mashiba (amazon)
There are plenty of manga that fit into the “spooky magical shop” genre like Time Guardian, Petshop of Horrors, and xxxHOLiC. Yumekui Kenbun Nightmare Inspector joins this group, as Hiruko is the proprietor of the Silver Star Tea House, a baku who eats dreams. His [...]

Pearl Pink by by Tanaka Meca (amazon)
Kanji’s father runs a successful talent agency called Dog Run. Their cash cow is the actress Shinju Momono who stars in the TV show Idol P.I. Momoko. Shinju has a daughter named Tamako. 10 years ago, Kanji promised Tamako that he’d marry her if she stopped being a [...]