Author: Taiyo Matsumoto
Publisher: VIZ Media LLC
ISBN: 1974722643
Category : Comics & Graphic Novels
Languages : en
Pages : 529
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Things have changed since the last inter-high tournament. Peco has quit the game, and “Smile” Tsukimoto's desire to play is gone. Even “Demon” Sakuma has been kicked off the Kaio team. But Coach Koizumi isn’t going to let all that talent go to waste and launches a plan to get Tsukimoto back on the team and into top condition. Every great athlete needs a great rival to push them past their limits, and Peco and Smile—friends since they were children—must now challenge each other to become the heroes they always dreamed they could be. -- VIZ Media
Author: Taiyo Matsumoto
Publisher: VIZ Media LLC
ISBN: 1974722635
Category : Comics & Graphic Novels
Languages : en
Pages : 529
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Makoto “Smile” Tsukimoto and his friend Yutaka “Peco” Hoshino have been playing table tennis since they were kids, but as they enter high school, they find that the game has changed. Seeing potential in them that they themselves don’t fully realize, the coach recruits them for the school team. Bringing out their best will mean challenging the top players from rival schools in the summer tournament, including an ace Chinese exchange student who almost made the Olympic team. With the pressure on, can Smile and Peco take the heat and make it into the finals? -- VIZ Media
Author: Fred Danner
Publisher: Xlibris Corporation
ISBN: 1465392300
Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 238
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This story reads like an adventure novel. The only difference is that the events in a novel are made up; these adventures really happened; the people are real; and the political effects of their actions have produced 40 years of peaceful coexistence between the Peoples Republic of China and the United States. This is the only historically complete narrative which covers the actual ping-pong diplomacy events, provides the background foreign policy information to explain why these events happened, & shows what could have happened if there were no ping-pong diplomats. The world news media was prevented from general coverage of the U.S. World Table Tennis Team to China, while U.S. publicity about the return visit of the Chinese World Team to the U.S. on the Grand Tour was largely controlled to serve the political aims and objectives of the Nixon administration. For those average Americans who became our Cold-War Warriors willingly taking the risks involved, and those who worked behind the scenes to make their risks worthwhile; such experiences occur only once in a lifetime. America and the world are a lot better off because of their efforts. Its time to read the real story of ping-pong diplomacy!
Author: Taiyo Matsumoto
Publisher: VIZ Media LLC
ISBN: 1974730506
Category : Comics & Graphic Novels
Languages : en
Pages : 258
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The members of the Rainbow Council were created to be superior to normal human beings and to keep the peace. But with no wars to fight, what purpose do they serve other than public relations? The strange psychic twins called No. 4 use their power to try to convince No. 5 to reverse his course as he tries to stay one step ahead of his pursuers. Meanwhile, No. 1, the leader of the Council, thinks back to a bloody incident 15 years ago that bears on the present day... -- VIZ Media
Author: Taiyo Matsumoto
Publisher: VIZ Media LLC
ISBN: 1974728889
Category : Comics & Graphic Novels
Languages : en
Pages : 317
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In a world where most of the earth has become a harsh desert, the Rainbow Council of the Peace Corps has a growing crisis on its hands. No. 5, one member of a team of superpowered global security guardians and a top marksman, has gone rogue. Now the other guardians have to hunt down No. 5 and his mysterious companion, Matryoshka. But why did No. 5 turn against the council, and what will it mean for the future of the world? -- VIZ Media
Author: Taiyo Matsumoto
Publisher: VIZ Media LLC
ISBN: 9781591166450
Category : Comics & Graphic Novels
Languages : en
Pages : 0
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From the author of the masterful TekkonKinkreet, Taiyo Matsumoto's Blue Spring is a short story collection focusing on the lives of a small group of disenchanted high school students. Although spring usually connotes the blossoming of new life and a time of nurturing and anticipation, the spring for these characters is "blue." They can't wait for school to end and the summer to come. Their lives are balanced on the edge of a knife as they flirt with crime and their own deaths in the form of a deadly rooftop game. Each character has a different story to tell and the rebellion, questioning and frustration of these youths are palpable.
Author: Taiyo Matsumoto
Publisher: VIZ Media LLC
ISBN: 1974747972
Category : Comics & Graphic Novels
Languages : en
Pages : 473
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Third grader Yuki Tachibana lives in two worlds. In one, he is a loner ridiculed by his classmates and reprimanded by his teachers for telling stories of supernatural beings that only he can see. In the other, those supernatural beings vie for power with malevolent spirits who bring chaos into the school, the students’ lives, and nature itself. -- VIZ Media
Author: Taiyō Matsumoto
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : COMICS & GRAPHIC NOVELS
Languages : en
Pages :
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"The story of an orphanage, the children who live in it, and the beat-up old Nissan Sunny 1200 which provides a trio of boys with a means of escape from their bleak everyday lives"--MangaHere.com review.
Author: Taiyo Matsumoto
Publisher: VIZ Media LLC
ISBN: 1974713857
Category : Comics & Graphic Novels
Languages : en
Pages : 434
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The world-renowned Louvre museum in Paris contains more than just the most famous works of art in history. At night, within its darkened galleries, an unseen and surreal world comes alive—a world witnessed only by the small family of cats that lives in the attic. Until now... Translated by Tekkonkinkreet film director Michael Arias. -- VIZ Media
Author: Taiyo Matsumoto
Publisher: VIZ Media LLC
ISBN: 1421576236
Category : Comics & Graphic Novels
Languages : en
Pages : 218
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The third installment of this poignant series focused on the young lives of a group of foster children explores the tenacity of the their hopes and persistence of their insecurities. -- VIZ Media
