New Manga for tweens and teens!

Want to start a new series? Here's a list of the new manga that has arrived so far in 2023 @ Happy Valley Library.

Updated July 27, 2023
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Clock striker, vol. 1
Galadima, Issaka.
Paper Book
Clock Striker, now in graphic novel format, follows Shonen manga's first Black female lead hero, Cast, in her quest to become a member of the SMITHS, the legendary warrior engineers. *2024 YALSA Great Graphic Novel for Teens**2023 Texas Library...

An action-packed manga style graphic novel adventure featuring powerful girls. For shonen manga fans. find it in our young teen section.

The girl that can't get a girlfriend
Hiranishi, Mieri
Paper Book
From first crush to first crushed! The autobiographical manga about one woman's quest for the hot short-haired girlfriend of her dreams! The autobiographical manga about one woman's quest for the hot, short-haired girlfriend of her dreams! Mieri is an awkward,...
Insomniacs after school. 1
Ojiro, Makoto
Paper Book
Two sleepless teenagers find kinship as they escape to their school's astronomy observatory. Unable to sleep at night, Ganta Nakami is cranky in class and unpopular with his classmates. He discovers that the school observatory, once used by the now-defunct astronomy...

Insomnia, who can relate? A sweet comforting read with a dash of romance.

Mermaid scales and the town of sand
Komori, Yoko
Paper Book
Everyone besides Tokiko denies the existence of merpeople, and yet the town holds a secret annual festival to honor them. Can she solve the mystery of what is real and what is fantasy...? Everyone besides Tokiko denies the existence of merpeople, and yet the town holds...

Get out your hankies for this lovely melancholy and atmospheric mermaid tale. The story is conveyed with spare artwork and text.

Show-ha shoten!, vol. 1
Asakura, Akinari.
Paper Book
A pair of dreamers strive to rise to the top of the comedy world in this story by Akinari Asakura with art by Takeshi Obata (Death Note)! Shy Azemichi Shijima has secretly been studying the art of comedy. His outgoing classmate Taiyo Higashikata has big dreams of...

" One of the best manga series debuts of 2023 so far" - School Library Journal


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