Fushigi Yuugi Genbu Kaiden Characters and Story Plot
Fushigi Yugi Genbu Kaiden by Yuu Watase
Fushigi Yuugi Genbu Kaiden is the prequel to the popular manga series Fushigi Yuugi, the Mysterious Play. The story begins in the northern part of Japan in a small village called Morioka. The year is 1923. Genbu Kaiden revolves around a young girl named Takiko Okuda. Takiko lives with her mother, her grandmother and her father, who is rarely at home. Takiko cares for her ill mother who is dying from Tuberculosis. She is not very well liked at school and in fact, has very few friends at all....

HunterXHunter Manga
About the HunterxHunter Manga
Following the success of Yu Yu Hakusho, its creator decided to bring us another masterpiece:the HunterxHunter manga (pronounced Hunter Hunter). This older children's manga, ideal for kids 10-12 years old as well as older fans who are young at heart. In this webpage you'll find: ~ Overview of the HunterxHunter manga series ~ Links to various fanpages, scanlations, and other related websites ~ Goodies for fans such as keychains and posters

Blackbird Manga
About Black Bird by Kanoko Sakurakoji
The Blackbird manga is fictional graphic novel of the shoujo genre, a graphic novel aimed for a female market. Male readers will be happy to know that, although it is shoujo, it is not overly "girly". There's romance, yes, but there's also action. Black Bird is about a girl Misao who is constantly nagged by these spirit monsters. They push her, hold on to her, and just surround her, and no one else can see them them! However, Misao remembered that when she was a child, she used to play with a...

Manga Shakespeare - Reinterpreting the Bard for Today's Teens
Wherefore art thou? Toyko these days
Reinterpreting Shakespeare is nothing new. There have been all kinds of modernizations on stage, film and in books. His plot lines have influenced countless other stories and are a staple of any English lit class. But, while they've stood the test of time, they still aren't always that easy to understand. Manga Shakespeare takes the classic plays and transforms them into graphic novels, including new settings and abridging the story. The idea is to make the themes and characters comprehensib...