www.86thfloor.com     PREVIEWS VOL. XVIX #3 March 2009  

Independent Comic Publishers
(Companies beginning with Y)

YAOI GENERATION

BREATH VOLUME 2 GN
SEE PREVIEWS ADULT FOR MORE INFORMATION (C: 1-0-2) NOTE: Not available in Canada, Hong Kong, Malaysia, Indonesia, & the U.K.
ADULT MATERIAL
SC, 5x7, 186pgs, B&W (2 of 5) SRP: $12.99

YEN PRESS

YEN PLUS MAGAZINE VOLUME 2 #7 JULY 2009
(W/A) Various
Yen Plus is a monthly anthology magazine that brings readers the best in manga! Yen Plus is unique in that you can read it by opening it from the front or the back — open it from the front and you will get great manhwa from Korea and original American manga. Open it from the back and you will get the absolute best manga from Japan! Yen Plus is a great way to give the very eager fans of manga a look at the best titles coming from Japan, Korea, and the Western world! (C: 0-1-2)
448pgs, B&W SRP: $8.99

B.ICHI VOLUME 3 GN
(W/A) Atsushi Ohkubo
From the creator of Soul Eater, a new series that appears every month in Yen Plus! The Fear Factory's Fear Robot is wreaking havoc in IC prefecture. Tool and Shotaro are badly beaten and about to get killed when who showed up but Justice Charisma! Meanwhile, Zuno and Asshi find Mana who is injured and unconscious. Their boss Rodigy orders them to finish her off, but they don't have the heart to do it. (C: 0-1-2)
SC, 5x7, 192pgs, B&W SRP: $10.99

BAMBOO BLADE VOLUME 1 GN
(W) Masahiro Totsuka (A) Aguri Igarashi
A wager between rivals pushes the high school kendo (fencing) club to new heights in this new martial arts series. Kojiro is an impoverished young teacher and the supervisor of his high school's kendo club. He doesn't have the leeway to spend time on his students; he can barely feed himself as it is. So when an old friend makes him a bet with an entire year's worth of deluxe sushi on the line, Kojiro finds a new purpose in life: beat his friend's kendo team! But before he can arrange a kendo meet for both schools' woman's kendo teams, he needs to actually put a team together. The problem is his top choice Tamaki Kawazoe is not interested in doing kendo for fun. What can Kojiro do to convince her to join the team? (C: 0-1-2)
SC, 5x7, 224pgs, B&W SRP: $10.99

COMIC VOLUME 5 GN
(W/A) SiHyun Ha
Now that the Sangmoon Girl's High School has merged with Seomoon, the boy's high school, Patrick and Alice have found themselves in the same class, and with new romantic interests. Plus, Alice's prize teacher has transferred to Taiwan, leaving her inconsolable. With all these complications, will Alice be able to continue to work as Patrick's assistant, or will her rewards and good fortune end there? (C: 0-1-2) NOTE: This item may be available through other retail outlets before shipping to comic book specialty shops.
SC, 5x7, 208pgs, B&W SRP: $10.99

COMIC VOLUME 6 GN
(W/A) SiHyun Ha
After winning an art competition, Alice struggles to learn the skills she needs to become a successful manhwa artist. One of the four flower boys, Neil moon is back at school. and has already found the girl of his dreams! While Patrick is happy to have his best friend back at school, he can't help but wonder who this dream-girl is. It can't be Alice, can it? (C: 0-1-2)
SC, 5x7, 192pgs, B&W SRP: $10.99

THE HISTORY OF WEST WING GN
(W) Jiayu Sun (A) Guo Guo
A full-color historical romance based on a classic Chinese romance saga. Lavishly illustrated in
full color and based on the classic Chinese romance saga Xi Xang ji, The History of the West Wing tells of the forbidden romance between the daughter of a Chinese court official and the roaming scholar who seeks to win her hand. But before he can turn his attentions to his lady love, the young man must win the heart of her mother! When it seems even heroic deeds in the face of murderous bandits will not please the strict matriarch, the young man goes off to become a civil servant. Will he returns in time to marry his true love? (C: 0-1-2)
SC, 6x9, 112pgs, FC SRP: $12.99

ICHIROH! VOLUME 1 GN
(W/A) Mikage
Excited for the bright futures ahead of them, soon-t-be-high school grads Nanako Konishi and her friends Akane and Shino take a college entrance exam. However, only one of them manages to pass! With their failing grades, Nanako and Akane are forced to enroll in prep school. The two friends begin a new life in a dorm near the prep school, but they find the road to success to be rather bumpy! (C: 0-1-2)
SC, 6x8, 192pgs, B&W SRP: $10.99

JACK FROST VOLUME 1 GN
(W/A) Ko Jin Ho
Caught between worlds as a young high school student finds herself decapitated — or is she? — when she arrives at Amityville High School in this tale of horror. It's No-A's first day at Amityville High School, and her reception is chilly to say the least. Brutal might be a better description! Decapitated but not dead, No-A quickly realizes that nothing is as it appears at Amityville High where paranormal creature's battle for supremacy. Caught in the crossfire, Noh-A may have to rely on the unlikely aid of the most sinister student at Amityville: the deadly Jack Frost! (C: 0-1-2)
SC, 5x7, 192pgs, B&W SRP: $10.99

NABARI NO OU VOLUME 1 GN
(W/A) Yuhki Kamatani
A coming-of-age ninja action/adventure set in the present day! Miharu Rokujo was content to live without caring about anything, but unfortunately his destiny has other plans. The secret art known as Shinra Banshou with the power to control the entire world is hidden inside him and every ninja is involved in the fight over it. (C: 0-1-2)
SC, 6x9, 192pgs, B&W SRP: $10.99

SUMOMOMO MOMOMO VOLUME 1 GN
(W/A) Shinobu Ohtaka
An heir to a martial arts dynasty tries to stop an impending civil war in Japan. Koushi Inuzuka is an intelligent high schooler with a normal aspiration: to be an attorney and prosecute the biggest criminals in the nation. Unfortunately, for him, he also happens to be the heir to an ancient family of martial artists, one of twelve powerful clans based on the animals of the Chinese zodiac. These clans, split into two diametrically opposed factions, are about to plunge the nation of Japan into civil war! Enter Momoko Kuzuryuu, the pint-sized but powerful heiress to the family, at the head of the opposing faction. By wedding their children and producing an heir, which Momoko is only too enthusiastic to fulfill, but all Koushi wants a normal life. (C: 0-1-2)
SC, 5x7, 192pgs, B&W SRP: $10.99

WILD ANIMALS VOLUME 2 GN
(W/A) Song Yang
The whole world will be watching China for this summer's Olympic Games, and the controversy has already begun. Wild Animals explores another period of conflict in China's recent history: the life of China's youth during the Cultural Revolution. It wasn't exactly fun and games. Still, that's no excuse for the detached behavior of Xiao Jun. Violent, insulting, a fighter he really doesn't know how to behave, either with his pals or around women. Make them suffer? Love them? Or just pretend like they don't exist. Who is Xiao Jun really? Will he find salvation in the answer or follow the path to self destruction? (C: 0-1-2)
SC, 6x8, 240pgs, B&W (2 of 2) SRP: $10.99