Shima Shinya

*reviewed from uncorrected eARC via netgalley*

fiction/manga (read from right to left - translated into English from Japanese), first book in series
Minato and their little sister Akira move to a new town and new schools, but right away Minato starts seeing glitchy-looking apparitions, and there are an awful lot of missing cats posted to the local bulletin board...

spooky/quirky, gorgeously illustrated graphic novel about two kids arriving in a town where everyone sees mysterious/odd things, but no one really talks about them, so it starts out with a sort of mysterious yokai feel -- Akira's classmates shrug everything off, since they'd assumed that's just how things are ("Was your old town... not like here?") But the sightings seem to be getting larger, and more frequent, and things just keep getting weirder. To be continued in Volume 2, and I cannot wait !… (més)

STAR WARS: THE HIGH REPUBLIC: THE EDGE OF BALANCE, VOL 2 by Shima Shinya and Daniel José Older and illustrated by Mizuki Sakakibara, is, I believe, the last official release in the first phase of High Republic books. Picking up shortly after the events of volume 1, Jedi Knight Lily and her Padawan, Keerin, are doing their best to fortify the farms and temple on Banchii following the Dengir and Nihil attacks. When it becomes clear the Nihil still have a presence on Banchii and have disabled communication there, Lily travels to Starlight to inform the Jedi there of what is happening on Banchii, and to seek the council of her former master, Arkoff. As the events of FALLEN STAR are taking place in the background of this story, Lily finds herself forging a new path to protect the people of Banchii.

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