Teaches how to read and write Japanese so the Japanese comic books and cartoons can be enjoyed.

Presents an introduction to eighty of the most commonly used Japanese kanji characters, with English translation and a pronunciation guide, in a text with a comic book format.

Now available, the exciting third volume in Manga University's award-winning Kanji de Manga series! These books use original comic artwork to teach readers how to identify and write the most common Japanese kanji ideographs. Volume 3 introduces 80 more kanji that Japanese students are required to learn by the time they graduate from sixth grade. Each page features its own comic strip, kanji pronunciation guide, stroke order, and English explanations.

Presents an introduction to eighty of the most commonly used Japanese kanji characters, with English translation and a pronunciation guide, in a text with a comic book format.

Uses modern manga images to help people of all ages learn how to read and write Japanese kanji--the written characters that have been adapted from traditional Chinese writing.

Manga University's award-winning Kanji de Manga series continues with this fourth volume of original comic artwork designed to teach readers how to identify and write the most common Japanese kanji ideographs. Like the previous volumes, this one is packed with 80 essential kanji that Japanese students are required to learn by the time they enter middle school. Each page features its own comic strip, kanji pronunciation guide, stroke order, and English explanations.

Manga University's award-winning Kanji de Manga series continues with this fifth volume of original comic artwork designed to teach readers how to identify and write the most common Japanese kanji ideographs. Like the previous volumes, this one is packed with 80 essential kanji that Japanese students are required to learn by the time they graduate from sixth grade. Each page features its own comic strip, kanji pronunciation guide, stroke order, and English explanations.

Presents an introduction to eighty of the most commonly used Japanese kanji characters, with English translations and a pronunciation guide, in a text with manga-style illustrations.

Karate just got real! Sonny Leads is a black belt with something to prove to himself, and to the world. He's oozing with talent, but he can't seem to put it together when it matters most. So he takes the advice of a coach and follows his dream to train with the best in Japan. Before anything can go right, though, everything goes wrong. In the dojo. At his new Japanese home. Even in front of a cute university student named Haruka. Does Sonny have the fighting spirit needed to survive Japan? He'd better. Because real karate isn't for pretenders.

Manga Moods, Too is the long-awaited sequel to Saori Takarai's best-selling Manga Moods: 40 Faces + 80 Phrases, which features kawaii female characters putting on their funniest faces while teaching clever Japanese expressions. The bishoujo are back, and this time they're joined by an equal number of good-looking guys. Not only that ... they're actually talking to one another! Each of the facial expressions is labeled with the English and Japanese words for the mood being, along with Japanese conversational phrases and their translations. The phrases are romanized for easy learning, and at the back of the book you’ll find handy charts of the hiragana phonetic alphabet that you can use to transcribe the romanized words into authentic Japanese writing.