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Shoma and Kanba seek out a girl named Oginome Ringo, who owns a strange diary that might be able to predict the future. Ringo is willing to trade them the diary--but only if they help her pull off an elaborate scheme of her own. Can the brothers assist Ringo with her quest in time to complete their own--or is the clock doomed to run out on Himari's second chance at life?!
Brothers Kanba and Shoma adore their terminally ill little sister, Himari, and aren’t prepared to lose her. They’re definitely not prepared for a family trip to the aquarium, source of many of Himari’s fondest memories, to suddenly turn tragic when Himari collapses and dies. What happens next, however, is beyond the siblings’ wildest imaginations--as Himari miraculously returns from the dead, sporting a penguin-shaped hat, and accompanied by some magical new friends!
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Himari's out of the hospital again, and things are finally getting back to normal--except Kanba's been sneaking out at night to meet up with a mysterious person. When tension between the siblings erupts into an argument that drives Kanba away for good, it's up to Shoma to fix what has been broken. What is the Penguindrum, really? What does it mean to be family? The answers lie in Himari's past...
Captures the magic and beauty of the Olympic Games.
A cream-of-the-crop selection of Murakami's brilliance and piercing wit. This collection shows sides of Ryu Murakami that even avid fans may not be expecting. The intriguing, somewhat disturbing stories that Topaz was based on are included here, as are three entertaining and revealing portraits of the artist as a young man back in the Transparent Blue period of the late sixties and early seventies. We hear tales told by four very different individuals living in eighties Tokyo, each with his or her own problems but all with a thing about a certain pro baseball player, and we meet a brokenhearted young woman who finds an unexpected moment of love in the nineties and a single mother who stumble...