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Volume 11 of the classic manga series 20th Century Boysfrom award-winning author Naoki Urasawa.

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A curated manga collection of eight short stories and essays by famed manga author Naoki Urasawa, creator of the acclaimed series Monster and 20th Century Boys!Urasawa’s characters confront fantastical elements ranging from psychic powers to attacks by giant monsters. On the flip side, the author philosophizes about his real-world experiences with the wild and wacky international music scene. Plus, a classic, funny animal tale, in Urasawa’s inimitable style!

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From award-winning author Naoki Urasawa comes a tale of crushing debt, a broken marriage, and the painting that can fix it all—if Kasumi and her dad can manage to steal it.Kamoda will do anything to earn a quick buck, even if it means skipping out on his taxes to take his wife on a luxury cruise. But when a random tax audit bankrupts his family, Kamoda soon discovers his wife has taken that cruise after all—only without Kamoda or their daughter Kasumi. Desperate to provide, Kamoda invests in a scheme to mass-produce masks of controversial American presidential candidate Beverly Duncan. But a lackluster election kills their sales potential, burying Kamoda under a mountain of masks and debt. On the verge of despair, Kamoda discovers a sign that leads him to the Director, an art fanatic who vows he can make all of Kamoda and Kasumi’s dreams come true.

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Mientras Kenji, considerado un delincuente, se esconde en las alcantarillas y continúa investigando un plan de dominación mundial basado en sus fantasías infantiles, uno de sus antiguos compañeros de juegos que vive en Tailandia se ve implicado en la trama. . . Continúa el nuevo thriller de Naoki Urusawa, el creador de Monster, en Biblioteca Pachinco.

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Encuadernación: RústicaColección. Shonen MangaBilly Bat nos cuenta la historia de Kevin Yamagata, un nipoamericano de segunda generación que, en el año 1949, vive en Los Ángeles y trabaja como autor de cómics para la Marble Comics. Concretamente, su obra se llama Billy Bat y va de un murciélago investigador privado a lo Philip Marlowe que tiende a meterse en toda clase de líos. Vamos, la clásica historia del detective privado de la novela negra y el cine de los años 40 y 50. Un buen día, llegan a casa de Kevin unos policías que están investigando a un posible espía soviético y, al ver uno de ellos las páginas de Billy Bat en las que está trabajando, le comenta que ese personaje del murciélago él ya lo había visto antes, en Japón, cuando se encontraba estacionado allí como miembro del ejército de ocupación americano. Kevin, alucinado, concluye que es posible que haya %13tomado prestado%13 sin querer el personaje, que tal vez habría visto durante su estancia en Japón hace unos poc

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Encuadernación: RústicaHabía una vez un monstruo sin nombre, que se moría por conseguir uno. Así que decidió salir de viaje a ver si encontraba un nombre."Por qué esta extreña historia checa para niños ha descentrado tanto a Johan?Es posible que encontremos en ese libro alguna pista sobre el misterio de su nacimiento?Un misterio oculta otro misterio.Tenma intenta colarse en Chequia para buscar a la madre de Johan. Un policía fronterizo le descubre, pero logra escapar con la ayuda de Grimmer, un periodista autónomo. Los dos hombres parten sin preguntarse uno a otro qué les ha llevado hasta Chequia. De hecho, Grimmer también está muy interesado en el kinderheim 511 de la Alemania del Este. Ahora la historia pasa a tener lugar en Praga.

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Johan se ha ganado la confianza de Schuwald, la persona más infl uyente la región de Baviera. Ahora es su mano derecha. Pretende aparecer en el mundo económico germano como una joven promesa?Mientras, Richard, un detective privado, recibe un encargo de Schuwald, y mientras investiga los extraños acontecimientos alrededor del mismo, percibe algo enorme y malvado tras ellos. Entonces, empieza a luchar contra alguien tan espantoso como un monstruo, pero.Alguna vez saldrán a la luz las maquinaciones de Johan?Al saber que Tenma quiere quitarle la vida, Johan se dedica a llevar una vida tranquila. Sin embargo, de pronto estalla a llorar y pierde el sentido. Qué diablos es ese libro escrito en checo?

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Si tienes voluntad de aprender, puedes hacerlo en cualquier parte. Con este mensaje de su antiguo profesor en el corazón, Keaton llega finalmente a Rumanía, donde yacen las ruinas de la civilización del Danubio. Sin embargo, lo que aguarda a Keaton no es otra cosa que el suceso más horroroso que ha sacudido jamás a la nación entera...!Título original: Master Keaton Kanzenban 12

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A deadly typhoon, a mysterious creature and a girl who won’t quit.In 2020, a large creature rampages through Tokyo, destroying everything in its path. In 1959, Asa Asada, a spunky young girl from a huge family in Nagoya, is kidnapped for ransom—and not a soul notices. When a typhoon hits Nagoya, Asa and her kidnapper must work together to survive. But there’s more to her kidnapper and this storm than meets the eye.Asa and Kasuga see the tail of a giant creature rise from the water. In a jungle, explorers discover massive claw marks in a tree trunk. And years later in 1964, a mysterious military man appears asking all the wrong questions.

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A deadly typhoon, a mysterious creature and a girl who won’t quit.In 2020, a large creature rampages through Tokyo, destroying everything in its path.In 1959, Asa Asada, a spunky young girl from a huge family in Nagoya, is kidnapped for ransom—and not a soul notices. When a typhoon hits Nagoya, Asa and her kidnapper must work together to survive. But there’s more to her kidnapper and this storm than meet the eye.When Asa’s mother goes into labor yet again, Asa runs off to find a doctor. But no one bats an eye when she doesn’t return—not even as a storm approaches Nagoya. Forgotten yet again, Asa runs into a burglar and tries to stop him on her own, a decision that leads to an unlikely alliance.

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Johan is a cold and calculating killer with a mysterious past, and brilliant Dr. Kenzo Tenma is the only one who can stop him! Conspiracy and serial murder open the door to a compelling, intricately woven plot in this masterwork of suspense. Tenma learns that ten years ago, a woman lived in an old apartment house in downtown Prague with twin children, above a sign with three frogs. The neighbours also tell him about the Czech secret police and a questionable fire. Could the twins have been Johan and Anna? Meanwhile, Suk, a young detective in the Prague Police Department, meets a beautiful young woman named Anna in a bar. Suk also crosses paths with Tenma as a new terror looms over them. BKA chief inspector Lunge, now convinced of Johan's involvement in the serial murders, comes to Prague to find out what Johan really is. He learns that an agent of the Czech secret police created the strange picture book The Nameless Monster, which seems to have deeply affected Johan in his childhood. Lunge manages to locate the Red Rose Mansion that inspired the author of the book. There, behind a thickly plastered wall, he discovers an old door and the true horrors that lay behind it!

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A deluxe bind-up edition of Naoki Urasawa’s award-winning epic of doomsday cults, giant robots and a group of friends trying to save the world from destruction! Humanity, having faced extinction at the end of the 20th century, would not have entered the new millennium if it weren’t for them. In 1969, during their youth, they created a symbol. In 1997, as the coming disaster slowly starts to unfold, that symbol returns. This is the story of a group of boys who try to save the world. The giant robot has been built, awaiting its great awakening, but the Friend’s identity has yet to be revealed. Time passes day by day, counting down to December 31, 2000…the day that Earth is destined to see its end. The only ones who can save the world are the nine friends who wrote The Book of Prophecy in their childhood days. Will humanity enter the new world, the new century, safe and sound?

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La antología del creador de Monster.

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Encuadernación: RústicaTenma, que cayó en la trampa preparada por Johan, es ahora un supuesto asesino en serie buscado por la policía. Tras eludir por los pelos el cerco policial, persigue a Johan para evitar otro asesinato y demostrar su inocencia.Cavando en su pasado, se acerca cada vez más al monstruo. Nina ha sido capturada por un grupo neonazi. Mientras, Tenma la busca, pues es la única persona que puede decirle quién es Johan, y al hacerlo descubre un dato terrorífico. Los ultraderechistas conspiran para convertir a Johan en el nuevo Hitler.

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The Friend is dead. As the news spreads around the world, the members of the Friends' executive committee are faced with a dilemma: Is it all over, or will the events predicted in the New Book of Prophecy still be carried out? Otcho insists that things are not over at all, and that is exactly what his old nemesis-Number 13-tells the fractious Friends' committee, where quite a few members are prepared to call it quits. Soon thereafter, certain members begin disappearing, one after another. Also, Otcho relays to Kanna what he learned about her mother, Kiriko. In 2003, Kiriko appeared at Dr. Yamane's laboratory just as he was developing his deadliest virus yet. The two lab partners would work in tandem, with Yamane developing a new virus and Kiriko contributing a vaccine. But was Dr. Yamane simply being naïve, or did he realize that he was helping to create the means for the Friends to annihilate 99 percent of the world's population in the year 2015?!

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It appears that Kanna's ambitious gamble has paid off as the leaders of the local Thai and Chinese mafias agree to both call a truce and offer to back her up. This doesn't sit too well with Yukiji, though, who is furious that Kanna would risk her life in such a brazen way. But one thing seems certain: when it comes to fighting the Friends, there's no limit to how far Kanna will go. Meanwhile, Koizumi Kyoko begins following Kanna in an attempt to tell her about everything she learned while at Friend Land. Her behavior, however, does not go unnoticed by the Friends, and a menacing dream navigator suddenly appears to inform Kyoko that she will need to go to Friend World for further reeducation. Luckily for Kyoko, there are no immediate spaces available, but will she have enough time to get help from Kanna and Yoshitsune before her number is called?

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This is the story of a gang of boys who try to save the world! The year is 2014, and Neo Tokyo is completely under the control of the Friend. Kanna has decided to stand up and avenge Kenji--will she be able to muster up enough support for her cause? Kanna makes her way to a mafia-operated casino and quickly finds herself at a high stakes table. Is she lucky (and smart) enough to turn the odds in her favor at the bizarre and fast-paced game of Rabbit Nabokov? While Kanna marshals her forces, Koizumi Kyoko experiences true horror at the reeducation camp known as Friend Land. Going back in time in their "Virtual World," she meets Kenji and his pals as boys in 1971 and sees something that is strictly taboo: the Friend's childhood face! Will she live to report back on the Friend's identity?

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This is the story of a group of boys who try to save the world! As boys, Kenji and his friends came up with a bunch of stories about an evil organization bent on world destruction. As adults, someone is now turning their fantasies into reality! Out in the middle of Tokyo Bay, a man called Shogun is trying to break out of Umihotaru Prison, a maximum-security island fortress, so he can save the world. Accompanied by a frightened young manga artist, these two men are prepared to risk everything as their daring escape plan grows deadlier by the minute. However, the prison authorities will do whatever it takes to return Shogun and his reluctant companion to custody. Shogun's ultimate goal: Tokyo, where a girl he calls the "final hope" lives, but a murder in Kabuki-cho has triggered a chain reaction of terror. Can Shogun reveal the truth about the false peace created by the Friends? And what are the facts behind the disaster that took place in the final moments of the 20th century?!

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A deluxe bind-up edition of Naoki Urasawa’s award-winning epic of doomsday cults, giant robots and a group of friends trying to save the world from destruction!Humanity, having faced extinction at the end of the 20th century, would not have entered the new millennium if it weren’t for them. In 1969, during their youth, they created a symbol. In 1997, as the coming disaster slowly starts to unfold, that symbol returns. This is the story of a group of boys who try to save the world.There once was a kid who imagined the end of the world. It was all a child’s game—until it became terribly real! The Friend is carrying out his plan to exterminate humanity—just as predicted. And the man who survived Bloody New Year’s Eve is on his way back to Tokyo. The boys are coming back together one by one as they race toward the final battle.

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A deluxe bind-up edition of Naoki Urasawa’s award-winning epic of doomsday cults, giant robots and a group of friends trying to save the world from destruction!Humanity, having faced extinction at the end of the 20th century, would not have entered the new millennium if it weren’t for them. In 1969, during their youth, they created a symbol. In 1997, as the coming disaster slowly starts to unfold, that symbol returns. This is the story of a group of boys who try to save the world.A man with a guitar arrives at a barrier town outside of Tokyo. Anyone who attempts to travel through the town without a pass is arrested and murdered. As the days go by, the body count grows and grows... Who can change this horrible situation and break through the barrier town? And who awaits at their final destination?

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Johan is a cold and calculating killer with a mysterious past, and brilliant Dr. Kenzo Tenma is the only one who can stop him! Conspiracy and serial murder open the door to a compelling, intricately woven plot in this masterwork of suspense.

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Could Johan have a dual personality, like Jekyll and Hyde? Tenma calls on Dr. Gillen, an authority on criminal psychology, to psychoanalyze Johan. But Dr. Gillen secretly concludes that is not Johan but Tenma who has committed all the serial murders. Dr. Gillen then tries to lure Tenma into various traps, intending to use him in his own experiments. Karl, a student at Munich University, visits a blind billionaire every week to read books to him as a way to pay for school. One day he encounters another young man named Johan who had once done the same job for the billionaire. From that point on, strange events continue to befall Karl. Who is this young man named Johan? Is he the Johan that we know?

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Johan is a cold and calculating killer with a mysterious past, and brilliant Dr. Kenzo Tenma is the only one who can stop him! Conspiracy and serial murder open the door to a compelling, intricately woven plot in this masterwork of suspense. Everyone faces uncertainty at some point in their lives. Even a brilliant surgeon like Kenzo Tenma is no exception. But there's no way he could have known that his decision to stop chasing professional success and instead concentrate on his oath to save peoples' lives would result in the birth of an abomination. The questions of good and evil now take on a terrifyingly real dimension. Years later, in Germany during the tumultuous post-reunification period, middle-aged childless couples are being killed one after another. The serial killer's identity is known. The reasons why he kills are not. Dr. Tenma sets out on a journey to find the killer's twin sister, who may hold some clues to solving the enigma of the Monster.

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Encuadernación: RústicaColección: Shonen MangaBilly Bat cuenta la historia de Kevin Yamagata, un autor de origen japonés nacido en Estados Unidos que se dedica a ilustrar historietas para la editorial Marble [clara alusión a Marvel Comics], donde crea a un detective caricaturesco que resuelve crímenes, en un mundo habitado sólo por animales. Su nombre: Billy Bat, un murciélago de carácter frío, que siempre llega a la verdad en los asuntos donde mete el hocico. Pero, al parecer la idea del dibujo no es del todo suya. Viajando por Japón, Kevin descubre que el murciélago que gestó no fue diseñado originalmente ni por él ni por el otro autor contemporáneo, sino que su creación se remonta a los orígenes del arte rupestre. Aquí no se acaban las sorpresas, detrás habrá misterios que incluso implican al mismo destino de la humanidad...Título original: Billy Bat 5

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Encuadernación: RústicaEn un viejo apartamento en el centro de Praga, que tiene un cartel con tres ranas. Una mujer vivió ahí con dos niños 10 años atrás, tal y como le cuentan los vecinos a Tenma. También le hablan de la policía secreta checoslovaca y de un extraño incendio.Podrían esos niños haber sido Johan y Anna?Mientras, Suk, un joven detective de la policía de Praga, se enamora de una chica guapa que conoció en un bar y cuyo nombre es Anna.Cuando Tenma y Suk se encuentran, les espera un nuevo terror.Ahora, el inspector Lunge está convencido de la participación de Johan en esos asesinatos en serie, y acude a Praga para descubrir quién es Johan en realidad. Ahí, se entera de que El monstruo sin nombre, el extraño cuento que tanto afectó a Johan durante su niñez, fue escrito por un agente de la policía secreta checoslovaca.Lunge consigue localizar la mansión de la rosas rojas, donde se escribió dicho libro. Ahí, en una pared enyesada, encuentra una antigua puert

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Johan tiene doble personalidad? Es una especie de Jekyll y Hyde? Tenma recurre al Dr. Gillen, toda una autoridad en psicología criminal, para que psicoanalice a Johan.Sin embargo, el Dr. Gillen concluye en secreto que es Tenma y no Johan quien ha cometido los crímenes, e intenta tenderle una trampa para realizar unos experimentos con él.Ahora Tenma está verdaderamente acorralado! Karl, un estudiante de la Universidad de Múnich, visita cada semana a un multimillonario ciego para leerle libros y así poder pagarse sus estudios. Un día, conoce a un joven que hacía su mismo trabajo en casa del multimillonario. Su nombre. Johan! Desde ese momento, a Karl le empiezan a suceder cosas extrañas y. Quién es ese joven llamado Johan? Es el Johan que conocemos?

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