Welcome to your manga blind date! 

This listing contains multiple starter volumes of similarly-themed series that I have collected and enjoyed throughout the years to get your interest piqued and offer you a chance encounter with a potential new favorite character, story, author, etc. 

Volume one of each series is always included, so you don’t miss out on anything, with the possibility of a second volume, omnibus, light novel, or more --you’ll just have to “swipe right” to see for yourself!

Each package comes with a typical “handsome face” character to greet you when he first arrives (he looks just like his profile picture). Unwrap each carefully selected book and choose how to start your pre-planned book date experience. Your handsome man comes with his own bookmark persona to guide you through your reading journey. When the night is done, feel free to turn him into a standee to await the next manga date night you have in store.

Date Night Theme: Romantic Comedy
Volumes Included: 5
Rated: E for Everyone 
MB135ROMCOM

Heavy Paperback (2 to 4 lbs)

Connecticut

Blind Date with a Manga

Welcome to your manga blind date! 

This listing contains multiple starter volumes of similarly-themed series that I have collected and enjoyed throughout the years to get your interest piqued and offer you a chance encounter with a potential new favorite character, story, author, etc. 

Volume one of each series is always included, so you don’t miss out on anything, with the possibility of a second volume, omnibus, light novel, or more --you’ll just have to “swipe right” to see for yourself!

Each package comes with a typical “handsome face” character to greet you when he first arrives (he looks just like his profile picture). Unwrap each carefully selected book and choose how to start your pre-planned book date experience. Your handsome man comes with his own bookmark persona to guide you through your reading journey. When the night is done, feel free to turn him into a standee to await the next manga date night you have in store.

Date Night Theme: Romance
Volumes Included: 4
Rated: E for Everyone
MB424ROM

Paperback (1 to 2 lbs)

Ryo Saenagi

An old-school, fun, seinen mystery series — I like the artist and enjoy the “smart, jack-of-all-trades” character team-up with the “charismatic, popular” character duo. I am including vol. 1 of the artists other series, Sequence, which has similar story themes, just throw in some vampire vibes ;) 

Shima and Kaori are teenage detectives with their own odd-jobs agency, Anything Inc.

Satisfaction Guaranteed Vol.’s 1-5 + Sequence Vol. 1

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Welcome to your manga blind date! 

This listing contains multiple starter volumes of similarly-themed series that I have collected and enjoyed throughout the years to get your interest piqued and offer you a chance encounter with a potential new favorite character, story, author, etc. 

Volume one of each series is always included, so you don’t miss out on anything, with the possibility of a second volume, omnibus, light novel, or more --you’ll just have to “swipe right” to see for yourself!

Each package comes with a typical “handsome face” character to greet you when he first arrives (he looks just like his profile picture). Unwrap each carefully selected book and choose how to start your pre-planned book date experience. Your handsome man comes with his own bookmark persona to guide you through your reading journey. When the night is done, feel free to turn him into a standee to await the next manga date night you have in store.

Date Night Theme: Romantic Comedy (Mature)
Volumes Included: 4
Rated: M for Mature, 18+
MB224M18+

Yukiya Sakuragi

Very informative series! The art is amazing and I loved seeing all the different types of dogs the MC came into contact with, but the added mystery element that’s introduced in the beginning, the love interest, and the people behind the dogs are what really make this series stand out. Get for a dog lover!!

Oversized Paperback (4 to 6 lbs)

All alone except for her loyal mutt Lupan, 18-year-old Suguri moves from the countryside to the big city to find a job and a new life!
When she accepts a job at a pet store, she meets a variety of dogs and owners, each with own quirky personality. What she lacks in
experience, she makes up for with her natural rapport with all things wagging and fluffy!

Inubaka - Crazy for Dogs Vol.’s 1-7, 10-14

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Ken Akamatsu

Omg classic series! Like Harry Potter BEFORE Harry Potter. I got pretty far and loved watching Negi grow up, but it’s time to share his long, magical journey with someone else!

Mammoth Paperback (8 to 10 lbs)

Magister Negi Magi

THE WORST KEPT SECRET IN THE WORLDTen-year-old magical prodigy and girls' school instructor Negi Springfield has a new secret . . . and some of his more stubborn students are determined to uncover it. Few know that Negi has magical powers. (In fact, he'll be turned into a weasel if he is officially found out). No wonder Negi is so cautious while taking magic lessons from the so-good-at-being-bad Evangeline. As one of the few students who actually knows about his special abilities, Asuna is the one girl to whom Negi decides to tell yet another secret-one involving Negi's long-lost father who disappeared years ago. But what connection can there possibly be between the Thousand Master and Asuna?

Negima Vol.’s 1-20

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Bob Odenkirk

Hardcover (1 to 2 lbs)

Washington

A Memoir

NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • In this “essential” (Entertainment Weekly), “hilarious” (AV Club) memoir, the star of Mr. Show, Breaking Bad, and Better Call Saul opens up about the highs and lows of showbiz, his cult status as a comedy writer, and what it’s like to reinvent himself as an action film ass-kicker at fifty. “I’ve known Bob Odenkirk for more than thirty years, and yet I had to read this book to believe his stunning career arc.”—Conan O’Brien ONE OF THE MOST ANTICIPATED BOOKS OF 2022—Entertainment Weekly, USA Today, Parade, The AV Club Bob Odenkirk’s career is inexplicable. And yet he will try like hell to explicate it for you. Charting a “Homeric” decades-long “odyssey” from his origins in the seedy comedy clubs of Chicago to a dramatic career full of award nominations—with a side-trip into the action-man world that is baffling to all who know him—it’s almost like there are many Bob Odenkirks! But there is just one and one is plenty. Bob embraced a life in comedy after a chance meeting with Second City’s legendary Del Close. He somehow made his way to a job as a writer at Saturday Night Live. While surviving that legendary gauntlet by the skin of his gnashing teeth, he stashed away the secrets of comedy writing—eventually employing them in the immortal “Motivational Speaker” sketch for Chris Farley, honing them on The Ben Stiller Show, and perfecting them on Mr. Show with Bob and David. In Hollywood, Bob demonstrated a bullheadedness that would shame Sisyphus himself, and when all hope was lost for the umpteenth time, the phone rang with an offer to appear on Breaking Bad—a show about how boring it is to be a high school chemistry teacher. His embrace of this strange new world of dramatic acting led him to working with Steven Spielberg, Alexander Payne, and Greta Gerwig, and then, in a twist that will confound you, he re-re-invented himself as a bona fide action star. Why? Read this and do your own psychoanalysis—it’s fun! Featuring humorous tangents, never-before-seen photos, wild characters, and Bob’s trademark unflinching drive, Comedy Comedy Comedy Drama is a classic showbiz tale told by a determined idiot.

Comedy Comedy Comedy Drama

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#mst3000 #riffing #comedy #cultclassic This is the very hard to find and very sought after Mystery Science Theater 3000 Amazing Colossal Episode Guide from 1996. Lists the episodes with plenty of information for fans and newcomers.  The book is in like new condition and needs a real super new home filled with love and appreciation for MST3000.

Michigan

Describes the plots of more than one hundred bad science fiction movies, and shares some of the comments used on the "Mystery Science Theater 3000" television show in an attempt to make the movies funny

The Mystery Science Theater 3000 Amazing Colossal Episode Guide

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#drinking #alcoholism #partying #darkhumor #comedy #satire #addiction #recovery #mentalhealth #depression #BPD #funny #asylum #merch #bookmarks #stickers



Georgia

Henry Gallagher is going to die. His liver is failing, and with each drink his chances of living past age thirty crumble around him. Over a chaotic two-year blur, he stumbles through inebriated nihilism strengthened with each self-destructive act, reveling in an unending parade of violence, blackouts, half-hearted AA meetings, psych ward stints, dangerous sexual encounters, suicidal behavior, and shattered relationships. Two events force Henry to look inward and face the disturbing truths left to fester for so many years, drenched in booze, but always staring up at him from the bottom of a whiskey bottle: during his darkest hour he receives an offer that threatens to change the trajectory of his life forever-and a mental diagnosis that, in Henry's mind, makes him more monster than man.In his highly personal and confessional style, Jack Moody's brutally honest and scathingly witty autobiographical debut novel follows the hero's journey of a man hurtling into the depths of addiction, mental illness, and self-destruction, while wrestling with his survival instinct and self-awareness that his journey will-inevitably soon, with his shield or on it-come to an end.

Crooked Smile

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ADDED A 3rd BY SAME ARTIST.  
Unrelated stories by the same artist. Cute, sexy, sometimes goofy. Always pretty. #manga #graphicnovel #yaoi #mature #dmp #bishonen #drama #romance #comedy *Message me if you want only 1*

Light Paperback (1 lb or less)

Florida

Dear Myself, World's End, Art of Loving

Hirofumi awakens to discover that he has no memory of the last two years, and he is shocked to learn that he has been romantically involved with Daigo when he finds a letter he's written to himself explaining their relationship.

Eiki Eiki Trio Set

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Ananth Hirsh

Condition is Like New. There is a minor scuff on the front cover and a dent on the top of the spine. The art style reminds me of Scott Pilgrim. The pages have different colored ink for each chapter. Book is 416 pages. 

Texas

A Johnny Wander Collection

In 2008, Ananth Hirsh and Yuko Ota launched the auto-bio webcomic Johnny Wander. Eight years, four cats, and three moves are chronicled in this gorgeous hardcover omnibus, which includes a foreword by Raina Telgemeier (SMILE, GHOSTS). Hirsh and Ota's charming reverie about new adulthood will appeal to fans of Kate Beaton, Bryan Lee O'Malley, and Jeffrey Brown--along with anyone who's just winging it.

Our Cats Are More Famous Than Us (1st Print Edition)

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Oklahoma

A Novel

When two former teen stars reconnect at the reunion for their hit TV show, they discover their feelings for one another were not merely scripted in this charming and heartwarming novel perfect for fans of Christina Lauren and Sally Thorne.

Liv Latimer grew up on TV.

As the star of the popular teen drama Girl on the Verge, Liv spent her adolescence on the screen trying to be as picture perfect as her character in real life. But after the death of her father and the betrayal of her on-screen love interest and off-screen best friend Ransom Joel, Liv wanted nothing more than to retreat, living a mostly normal life aside from a few indie film roles. But now, twenty years after the show's premiere, the cast is invited back for a reunion special, financed by a major streaming service.

Liv is happy to be back on set, especially once she discovers Ransom has only improved with age. And their chemistry is certainly still intact. They quickly fall into their old rhythms, rediscovering what had drawn them together decades before. But with new rivalries among the cast emerging and the specter of a reboot shadowing their shoot, Liv questions whether returning to the past is what she needs to finally get her own happy ending.

The Reunion

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Natsuki Takaya

Ex-library. Tape on spine and front/back covers. Envelope on inside front cover and stamp on first page. Pages are in excellent condition. 

The time for Yuki's parent-teacher conference has finally arrived, and Yuki must learn how to make his own decisions. Also, Tohru sets off on a quest to find out if Kureno Sohma is the same person Arisa has been in love with all this time. Along the way, she will discover the tragic relation of Momo and Momiji.

Fruits Basket vol 13

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Ex-library book. Inside front cover has envelope.  Tape on spine and front/back covers. Pages are in excellent condition. 

Tohru and the Sohma members are at the family's summerhouse. Alas, it's not all fun in the sun on this little trip. Akito pays a surprise visit, causing a commotion for the rest of the family.

Fruits Basket vol 10

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#Archie #vintage #comics #comedy #fiction


Lot of 2 Archie Comics June & July 1996 Riverdale Vtg  

Collection of art and memorabilia from Mad magazine. 2 very thick volumes in a cardboard display box. Very colorful. 

Mammoth Hardcover (8 to 10 lbs)

Kentucky

Mad’s Greatest Artists

The Completely Mad

Grace Helbig

The Art of Pretending to Be a Grown-Up

A comedian who has gained popularity on YouTube offers her irreverent take on life, in an illustrated book geared toward anyone faced with the daunting challenge of growing up. Original.

Grace's Guide

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Fredrik Backman

Carmen Montes Cano

This book is so funny and I enjoyed too much

"Visitar un apartamento en venta no es una situación de vida o muerte. A menos que sea la víspera de Nochevieja, vivas en una pequeña ciudad en Suecia y alguien haya tenido la peor idea de su vida y decidido atracar un banco que no maneja efectivo. Entonces, sí lo es. Porque, cuando alguien es así de idiota, es inevitable que no sepa cómo huir y termine en un apartamento en venta tomando rehenes sin querer. Pero puedes confiar en la policía. A menos que los dos agentes encargados del caso no se entiendan entre ellos y tengan cero experiencia con tomas de rehenes. Entonces, no. Aunque todo irá bien si los rehenes mantienen la calma. A menos que sean los peores rehenes de la historia: una millonaria suicida, una anciana encantadora, un matrimonio de jubilados amantes de IKEA, dos recién casadas que nunca se ponen de acuerdo, una agente inmobiliaria excesivamente entusiasta y un hombre disfrazado de conejo. Entonces, no, porque, cuando todos son idiotas, es imposible mantener la calma. Sin embargo, policías y rehenes están a punto de descubrir que quizá ser idiota no está tan mal y que, a veces, la ansiedad puede ser la solución. "--

Anxious People Gente Ansiosa (Spanish Edition)

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Sankakuhead

Read it once and now I am giving it away 

Behind closed doors, she's a completely different girl! Taihei's little sister Umaru is the picture of perfection- elegant, poised, and polite-not to mention drop-dead gorgeous, brilliant, and multitalented. She's the perfect high school girl who everybody envies and adores. What nobody knows is that this perfect little sister has a big secret!!

Himouto! Umaru-Chan Vol. 1

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#paperback #nonfiction #autobiography #adult #shanedawson #comedy 

A Collection of Essays by Shane Dawson

A collection of 20 original, unstinting essays by the young YouTube vlogger and creator of Not Cool shares intimate insights into his personal life, highlighting moments from his childhood, his rise on YouTube and his experiences as a filmmaker. Original.

I Hate Myselfie

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Rie Takada

See photos for details. Missing volume 9.

Yuniko is the ultimate groupie. She worships celebrities, and it's her goal in life to snag at least one piece of memorabilia from each of her favorite stars. Sure, some would say she's a thief or a stalker, but she simply considers hereself a dedicated fan. In her quest for these tabloid treasures, she meets many non-celebs who try to steal her heart.

Wild Act 1-8, 10

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Meghan Quinn

Colorado

Rosie's two best friends encourage her to gain some real life experience through online dating sites and blind dates before she writes her romance novel.

The Virgin Romance Novelist SIGNED

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Seiyo Kott

Fumi Yoshinaga

Follows the misadventures of the unique staff at the Antique Bakery as owner Tachibana and his former classmate from high school and now genius pastry chef Ono meet interesting customers and dashing lovers.

Antique Bakery vol 1

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Graeme Simsion

The Rosie Project, The Rosie Effect, The Rosie  Result

The final installment of the Australian series beloved around the world, with almost 5 million books sold in more than 40 countries.

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