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Well then, now that the initial flood weeks have gone by we are left with a much shorter release list, but we will not let you down! First off, Viz is releasing a couple new Japanese novels, those special kind with the anime flavor without actually being related to any one series. Slum Online by Hiroshi Sakurazaka (the writer of All You Need Is Kill) is about about boy named Etsuro who is a college freshman whose life sucks. So of course he gets drawn into the alluring world of MMORPGs where he can be an awesome karate master who can handle anything. In his digital fantasy, who will be his greatest opponent: the seemingly invisible Slasher Jack, or Etsuro’s would-be girlsfriend Fumiko?

The other novel coming out this week is The Stories Of Ibis by Hiroshi Yamamoto. In a world where humans are the minority and androids have created their own civilization, a wandering storyteller meets a beautigul android named Ibis. Ibis tells him seven stories of human/android interaction in order to reveal the secret behind humanity’s fall. I know a lot of manga fans aren’t keen on reading ...
... things without pictures (not everyone, but a lot of us), but both of these stories are pretty awesome and are just the kind of sci-fi we love so much.

Speaking of novels and manga, a little while ago the Spice