YALSA, part of the American Library Association, voted I Hear the Sunspot: Theory of Happiness onto their 2019 Great Graphic Novels for Teens list! Last year I Hear the Sunspot was on the list as well. This makes two years running for the series!
YALSA mission is to support library staff in alleviating the challenges teens face, and in putting all teens ‒ especially those with the greatest needs ‒ on the path to successful and fulfilling lives.
View the list here: http://www.ala.org/yalsa/2019-great-graphic-novels-teens
YALSA website here: http://www.ala.org/yalsa/
The gulf between manga and Western comics seems to shrink in fits and starts as some genres and titles become popular with American readers.
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https://www.avclub.com/i-hear-the-sunspot-is-an-ideal-introduction-to-manga-1831558465
Stop me if you've heard this story before: What if a yakuza had to raise a superpowered kid from the future?
If you have heard of it, it's probably because you've watched Hinmatsuri, the darling of the spring anime season. Now the original manga is being released by One Peace, and it's great for both anime watchers and newcomers (like me).
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https://www.rightstufanime.com/post/Hinamatsuri-Manga-Volume-1-Review
To be fair, Hina isn't just any little girl. She falls out of the sky in a giant, oval, egg-shaped object, landing squarely on Nitta's head. At first just her face is visible through the object and Nitta chalks up the strangeness to having had too much alcohol. But then the face talks, asking for help getting out. And then out steps a middle-schooled age girl: Hina.
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http://www.otakuusamagazine.com/hinamatsuri-vol-1-review/
On the heels of the series premiering as an acclaimed anime television series in April 2018, One Peace Books has brought the original Japanese distinctly odd couple style manga to English speaking readers.
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https://www.animenation.net/blog/hooray-for-hinamatsuri/
inamatsuri is a story from Masao Ohtake involving a girl named Hina who came to Earth in an egg-like cocoon, crashing into the home of Yoshifumi Nitta, a member of the Yakuza. To make matters worse, Hina has telekinetic powers that she has to use in order to keep them under control. Life for Nitta just got turned upside down when he takes her into his home but a bond between the two of them begins to form!
Read more at The Outerhaven: Hinamatsuri Vol. 1 Review https://www.theouterhaven.net/?p=137487
Head over to Rightstuf (link below) and check out all the stuff they have on sale! You can pick up Shield Hero bundles for great prices! If you haven't purchased your copies of this amazing series yet, now is the time to do it!
https://www.rightstufanime.com/The-Rising-of-the-Shield-Hero-Novel-1-3-Bundle
“One Peace Books confirmed with ANN that it plans to release Masao Ohtake's Hinamatsuri and Yuki Fumino's I Hear the Sunspot: Limit manga, as well as Aneko Yusagi's The Reprise of the Spear Hero novels in North America.”
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https://www.animenewsnetwork.com/news/2018-04-10/one-peace-books-licenses-hinamatsuri-i-hear-the-sunspot-limit-manga-reprise-of-the-spear-hero-novels/.130167
Craft Breweries Dominate The Top 50, But Guess Which Giants Rule The Beer Market
Em Sauter, a certified beer judge and the author of Beer is for Everyone! (of Drinking Age), uses the term macro brewery — often defined as a brewery annually producing more than 6 million barrels of beer — for the beer giants.
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https://www.forbes.com/sites/garystoller/2018/03/20/craft-breweries-dominate-the-top-50-but-guess-which-giants-rule-the-beer-market/#cc291ccdcad3
