Manga-ka: Chigusa Kawai
Publisher: DMP/June
Rating: Teens (13+)
Released: June 2007

Synopsis: “Georges takes off on a manic qyest to find the only person who can fill the painful gaps in his memory, but he’s adandoned a group of his dearest friends… and left them full of unanswered questions. While Georges struggles to make sense of his family’s heartbreaking history, Robert reaches out to the one he cares for more than any other. It’s a race against time for both boys.”

La Esperanca, volume seven, is the final book in this long running series by Chigusa Kawai. It’s the thicket book thus far, needing every page to bring to a close this dramatic tale of two strangers and they’re intertwined pasts.

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Manga-ka: Keiko Kinoshita
Publisher: DMP/June
Rating: Young Adults (16+)
Released: July 2007

Synopsis: “A shy and clumsy university student; a salary man trapped in an arranged marriage; a not-so-skilled novice magician; two high school boys who have been fighting it out since they were kids; and a humanoid dog… what could they possibly have in common? Well, they’re about to find love in the most unexpected of places. Oh, and there’s another thing about them as well – they all seem to cry over the simplest of things.”

Little Crybaby is the second Keiko Kinoshita release by DMP. It’s a collection of short stories all brought together under a simple similarity, someone always cries. Though the description on the back of the book, “…they all seem to cry over the simplest of things”, does prove to be a bit of an exaggeration, it acts alongside the title to make the act of crying in these stories stand out to the reader, bringing the book together as a notably theme-oriented collection. The book contains six chapters, two of which are connected as one story. In total there are five different stories.

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