Manga Book Club
For ages 12-18
We meet every 3rd Tuesday of the month in the main floor meeting room from 4 -5 pm.
Do you want to read and talk about manga and anime with friends and fellow manga lovers? Join our manga book club where we will read a few volumes of manga a month.
Click here for all dates and to sign up for event reminders.
Tuesday November 19, 2024- Disney Twisted Wonderland: Book of Heartslabyul, Vols. 1-4 by Yana Toboso
Stranded in the world of Twisted Wonderland, Yu must brave a magical school filled with ghosts, monsters, and uncooperative students!
Yu is whisked away to Night Raven College, an arcane academy in the world of Twisted Wonderland. Stranded until he can find a way home, Yu is allowed to stay on campus despite having no magic of his own. But when his new friends land him in trouble with the headmage, his future at the school looks bleak. Now Yu’s fate hinges on bringing together a pair of argumentative first-years and a fire-breathing monster cat…
Tuesday December 17, 2024- Moriarty the Patriot, Vols. 1-2 by Ryosuke Takeuchi
Before he was Sherlock’s rival, Moriarty fought against the unfair class caste system in London by making sure corrupt nobility got their comeuppance. But even the most well-intentioned plans can spin out of control—will Moriarty’s dream of a more just and equal world turn him into a hero…or a monster?
In the late 19th century, Great Britain rules over a quarter of the world. Nobles sit in their fancy homes in comfort and luxury, while the working class slaves away at their jobs. When young Albert James Moriarty’s upper-class family adopts two lower-class orphans, the cruelty the boys experience at his family’s hands cements Albert’s hatred of the nobility he was born into. He asks the older of the two boys—who has a genius mind and a killer instinct—to help him rid the world of evil, starting with Albert’s own family!
Tuesday January 21, 2025- Moriarty the Patriot, Vols. 3-4 by Ryosuke Takeuchi
Just as everything appears to be going his way, Sherlock finds himself arrested for a murder he didn’t commit in a plot orchestrated by none other than Moriarty! He soon escapes police custody and sets out to clear his name. The victim, Count Drebber, wrote Sherlock’s name in blood before he died, but why? Will Sherlock be able to solve this puzzle and save himself?
Tuesday February 18, 2025- Moriarty the Patriot, Vols. 5-6 by Ryosuke Takeuchi
William James Moriarty and Sherlock Holmes meet again on a train back to London, and a dead body is discovered in a locked passenger cabin. With John Watson named as the prime suspect, Sherlock challenges Moriarty to a contest of who can solve the murder first. Will Sherlock be able to clear Watson’s name? Back in London, a state secret that only the royal family is privy to has been stolen and MI6 is tasked with retrieving it, lest the whole empire fall into ruin! Meanwhile, Sherlock is visited by the king of Bohemia, who asks him to cover up a recent scandal…
Tuesday March 18, 2025- Moriarty the Patriot, Vols. 7-8 by Ryosuke Takeuchi
There’s a serial killer on the loose in the poverty-stricken East End of London that the citizens are calling Jack the Ripper. An old friend of William Moriarty asks him to get to the bottom of the situation, but time is running out. Terrified of Jack the Ripper, the people of the East End try to take matters into their own hands, and their civil unrest threatens to break into a riot when Scotland Yard tries to stop them! Will William be able to bring peace and order back to the people and capture the criminal? Or could there be more than one Jack the Ripper?
Tuesday April 22, 2025- Moriarty the Patriot, Vols. 9-10 by Ryosuke Takeuchi
The true mastermind behind the Jack the Ripper murders is none other than Britain’s media king, Charles Augustus Milverton. After that case comes to a close, Milverton digs into William Moriarty’s past. And it doesn’t take long for him to discover a certain court case where a boy from the slums sued a nobleman…
Tuesday May 20, 2025- Moriarty the Patriot, Vols. 11-12 by Ryosuke Takeuchi
While there’s never a dull moment at 221B Baker Street, things are about to get a whole lot more lively. Or rather…lovey? And that’s because John has just announced to everyone that he is happily engaged to the lovely Mary Morstan. She has a very odd request for Sherlock, however—one that makes him question her true intentions. Or perhaps he’s just jealous that Watson is being taken from him!
Tuesday June 17, 2025- Moriarty the Patriot, Vols. 13-14 by Ryosuke Takeuchi
Sherlock’s murder of Milverton reveals to the entire British Empire the shocking truth that William James Moriarty is the Lord of Crime! With both nobles and commoners cursing his name, William sets his ultimate plan in motion and starts purging influential figures. Realizing that William means to shoulder all the blame himself, William’s allies have an important decision to make when they discover that Fred is taking matters into his own hands…by contacting Sherlock Holmes to help save William.
Tuesday July 15, 2025- Moriarty the Patriot, Vols. 15-16 by Ryosuke Takeuchi
Three years after the fateful night when William and Sherlock disappeared under the waves of the Thames, MI6 takes on a covert mission to stop a leak of sensitive information that could disrupt the balance of power between Great Britain and Russia. One stray bullet winds up revealing the existence of someone unexpected hiding behind the scenes, however. While the future holds the rumblings of a great world war, the time may have finally come to repent for the crimes of the past…
Tuesday August 19, 2025- Moriarty the Patriot, Vols. 17-18 by Ryosuke Takeuchi
After three years apart, Louis, Albert, and the rest of the MI6 team are overjoyed to welcome William back into their lives. To celebrate both the return of their long-lost friends and the start of their new lives, they invite Sherlock and the rest of 221B to a dinner party. There, Sherlock and William finally reveal the story of the three “missing” years they spent in America.
Tuesday September 16, 2025- Moriarty the Patriot, Vols. 19-20 by Ryosuke Takeuchi
McGinty and his vicious band of outlaws, the Scowrers, have launched an attack on the peaceful town of Vermissa. Sherlock, Billy, and the villagers set traps as part of a clever plan to defend themselves, but when the enemy arrives in far greater numbers than expected, they find themselves helplessly backed into a corner. Meanwhile, William has learned of the threat Sherlock faces and races to his rescue. Together, the two men make a solemn vow on their ongoing search for redemption
Tuesday October 21, 2025- Beyond the Clouds, Vols. 1-5 by Nicke
A dreamlike odyssey that's part Studio Ghibli, part Final Fantasy!
Living beneath the haze of Yellow Town, young Theo has never seen the stars. He works as a mechanic and spends his off hours digging through the town's trash heap for abandoned treasures. He's always had the soul of a dreamer, but he's given up on living the kind of fantastical life he's read about in books. Then, one day, he finds an amnesiac, injured girl with wings, and everything changes. Theo's talents help fix her wing, and their quest will take them beyond the clouds, farther than either could have imagined.
