Having a great time at Nekocon in Hampton, VA! What are YOU reading today?

Your donations at work! These new books will be added to our shelves by the end of the year! What are YOU looking forward to reading?

12 years ago today we appeared at our very first event. Since then we have welcomed 170,000 people into our Library in 20 states. We adore bringing the love of graphic novels into your lives and we cannot wait to meet even more of you in 2026! Happy anniversary, Carolina Manga Library!

We are having a great time at our beloved @tsubasacon.bsky.social ! 10 years, baby!

Labeling and stickering new books for debut at Tsubasacon and what shows up but our Kickstarter Nothing Special Artbook from the amazing Katie Cook! To the shelves you go! ...except the stickers. And the Radish. Those belong to the Head Librarian. Fight her, it'll be funny.

We are trying out a new kind of event at cons, starting at @tsubasacon! Introducing: THE GREAT MANGA SWAP! Bring your unwanted manga and trade with other collectors! No sales, just trades! The Manga Library will also have a table full of books to swap, no questions asked!

Ok, so our Head Librarian MIGHT be a hoarder...

$500 raised in one day! Thank you all so much for your support! We have done some price updating on specific items, so if you were on the fence about something, take a look again! go.rallyup.com/mangalibrary...

We have just launched our newest fundraiser: The Great DVD Sale! These are all DVD and Blu-ray donations we've received over the last year. Feel free to grab something and help us buy new books! Live from now until Aug 31! go.rallyup.com/mangalibrary...

Happy #NationalReadersDay everyone! What are YOU reading?

One of the best ongoing webcomics is raising money for a new story to be released IN PRINT! We got our copies, how about you? www.indiegogo.com/projects/the...

We love you #metrocon!!

Next weekend we will be at @Metrocon in Tampa, FL! These are all the new books we will be adding! What would you read first?

Dude is a secret bodyguard for the secret daughter of a yakuza boss. She has no idea, having been sent to adoption as an infant. But now the boss is retiring and his heir wants the potential (clueless) rival dead.

Oh, you are FASCINATING. A hybrid chimp human is raised in a world where the newest terrorist group are hyper-military vegans who want to protect all animals from being killed. And they want Charlie the Humanzee on their side as a mascot.

Episode 22 of our Shelf Check podcast is now live! This month we go through recommendations from patrons and volunteers. Are they good? Bad? Find out! Youtube and all podcasting platforms!

A girl who destroyed her family's fortune and loses it to an adopted sister buys a man who is said to have murdered an entire village to be her bodyguard on her self-imposed exile. Both broken, but possibly just broken enough to heal each other. I really liked this one.

A woman who always focuses on other people's feelings and a man who can only feel his own bond over good food and fun movies. A wonderful adult romance between two people dealing with life and other people find solace together. Completely adorable, believable, and interesting adult romance.

Over the course of ten years, several people discover & further research about heliocentric motion, which is forbidden by the Church. People die for this idea in an effort to not only understand the universe but to understand their lives outside the rigid teachings of the theology that controls all.

An isekai story where those who are isekaied form contracts with monsters and perform magical feats as songbearers in exchange for life force. Our main character summons a super powerful monster who doesn't want her lifeforce but just her. 1/

This was cute. A girl is engaged to the prince but is THRILLED when he appears to break off the engagement. All she wants is to be free again because she's endured 10 years of personality-stifling princess lessons. /1

A detective who can feel how mechanical things think drives around Iceland looking for his supposedly innocent and lost brother, not realizing that he is no longer either of those things.

A prince was about to be killed after being abandoned in the woods but he was saved by a froggy like lady. The knights came and killed the froggy lady and the prince grew up to be a tough emperor while the froggy lady gets reincarnated as the eldest daughter of a Duke.

An assassin gets shot in the head and is left in a vegetative state. Until someone tries to hurt/kill him. Then he temporarily wakes up from the coma, temporarily awake but still paralyzed, and goes out on assassin jobs (helped by his sister) in an attempt to make his brain heal itself completely.

Episode 21 of Shelf Check is now live! We recorded our Wreck YourShelf panel from Anime Central this year! Listen now on all podcast sources and YouTube! carolinamangalibrary.com/about/shelf-...

We had a great time at MomoCon this last weekend! We welcomed over 3700 in the Library over 4 days! Did you see us there? Drop a comment and tell us the best thing you read!

Set up for @themangalibrary.bsky.social #animecentral #acen2025

And the sales table @themangalibrary.bsky.social #animecentral #acen2025

Martial arts figure skating with gay, furry, vampires. WHAT'S NOT TO LOVE? @deyathemuniz.bsky.social

A pampered daughter dying of heart failure gets kidnapped by thugs and offers herself in marriage to a CLEARLY unstable assassin guy who takes her out into the world because she obviously can't go home.

Here's all the new books being added to our shelves this month! 100% goes to our supporters over on Patreon!

A huge war ended with all the elves of a kingdom being killed because they could control great spirits of nature. The world moved on after the war and created technology to take the place of spirit power. One elf escaped and now lives her life setting all the remaining spirits free.

Two friends from a bar end up in bed together. The girl regrets it and is mad at the guy because she thought they were just friends. Dude is a fairly prolific playboy who constantly tries to get her to talk and hang out with him again, but doesn't try to force her into sex.

A webcomic about two people married for political reasons who are cautiously falling in love with each other despite one being cripplingly shy and one being a super fearsome knight.

A huge dungeon appeared and adventurers go in seeking treasure. If you die your teammates can pay the church to resurrect you. Main character gets resurrected but has no idea how long he was dead or who his companions were.

Happy April! Episode 20 of our Shelf Check podcast is now live on all podcasting platforms and YouTube! Enjoy!

We've had one, yes, but what about 13 ISEKAI?! 13 worlds all reach out for help against great enemies at the same time and all 13 worlds merge into one. So now each society wants to put their enemies against each other to see if they will kill each other and save 13 humanities.

Are you guys enjoying the manga reviews? Should we continue? Drop a comment!

A trendy, slightly otaku girl decides that she's going to live with a co-worker because she has a crush on him. And when I say "decides", i mean literally invades his apartment and says she's living there now. I can't decide if I liked this. /1

Isekai meets zombies meets ninjas and government conspiracies! A young man meets his bodyguard (who is a secret zombie hunting ninja with powers) and together they kill zombies and traverse different versions of their world while they hunt for his twin sister. I would absolutely watch this anime.

100% bought it for the title. Two boys join the Spellbook Library, where monsters are sealed away in books. Definitely for fans of Magus in the Library. Slow burn fantasy. But the best part is that one of the boys is just a brawler idiot and he's adorable and I want to adopt him.

Two boys grow up together but fall in love with the same woman. One friend eventually leaves without warning. The other two get married and each thinks they drove the friend off because they fell in love. They process their loss and trauma after the friend's death by making friends with his son.

Young women who run a coffee house are secretly assassin agents of the government who kick ass and take names. It's so good. Just go read it. Great action, interesting world, likable characters, fantastic plot.

An energetic (100% Shonen protagonist) manga artist on top of his game gets body swapped with a jackass rookie artist with a terrible attitude. Now our plucky pro has to work his way back up to the top of the manga world.

A cute 4-koma slice of life comedy manga about five girls in a photography club. Each member joined for the wrong reason, but their dynamic is cute. Its fluffy. And sometimes that's all you want.

Innnnnteresting. A young boy and a surly, sleepy magician are wandering a previously flooded wasteland looking for surviving humans. The world ended after a big technology boom, because there are cryogenic pods that may or may not have people in them.

OMG you're so cute. Dude moves into an apartment with no heat and is rescued by his neighbor. Neighbor dresses in all black and listens to metal music but is cripplingly shy and can't speak well without stuttering.

Well, that was pointless. 32 women from history die and come together to literally gladiator fight to the death in order to grant a wish. Then it's just skin tight outfits and bloody combat fights. It's amazing how many fights scenes can be so boring.

I'm charmed. This story is about a girl who lives in (apparently) a video game and she finds the literal strategy guide for the game (she calls it the Forbidden Book). But instead of using the book to get powers or riches she just uses it to do little nice things.

Another cozy read with great world building. A golem/robot forest guardian finds a human girl and wants to find her parents before it shuts down in a year. But humans have been hunted to near extinction after a war with animals so finding parents is hard.