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Love Me, Love Me Not, Vol. 1 by Io Sakisaka is a manga comic book, in black and white.  It’s a romance story, with 2 friends, Yuna and Akari, who are complete opposites.  This is a story aimed at teenage girls, so YA.

As it is YA in genre, this means there’s lots of strong emotions and is sweet.

Love Me, Love Me Not, Vol. 1 was published on 10th April 2020 and is available from Amazon, Waterstones and Bookshop.org.

I’m afraid I couldn’t find where you could follow Io Sakisaka.

I was given access to this book in exchange for an unbiased review, so my thanks to NetGalley and to Viz.

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My Hero Academia, Vol. 1 Izuku Midoriya: Origin by Kohei Horikoshi is the first volume in the manga series My Hero Academia which has also been made into an anime series, season 1 of which is on Netflix!

This is a black and white comic book, with a story that moves along at a good pace and the anime is very similar.   

My Hero Academia Vol 1 Izuku Midoriya was published on 4th August 2015 and is available from Amazon, Waterstones and Bookshop.org.

You can follow Kohei Horikoshi on Twitter.

I was given access to this book in exchange for an unbiased review, so my thanks to NetGalley and to Viz Media.

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Not Your Idol by Aoi Makino is a Japanese Manga (like a graphic novel), about a teenage girl who has been part of a girl pop group in Japan (so an idol), who was attacked by a fan.

If you’ve not encountered Japanese or Korean pop music, go ahead and have a look at a group like AKB48. In the west, we’re used to groups having 5-7 members, with 7 feels like a lot.  AKB48 has 22 members in 1 team, and the teams rotate.  

There are various rules that a member of groups have to obey, such as no dating, no bad behaviour.  They are expected to perform and to carry out ‘handshake events’ where they meet their fans.

Nina was one of the lead singers of her group, and was attacked at one of these handshake events.  She drops out of the group to recover, and to be normal.  She cuts off her hair, and starts dressing like a boy (yes, that’s her on the cover of the book), and we see the trauma that this event caused her mentally, as she has the scar to show what it caused her physically.

Not Your Idol will be published on 11th June 2020, and is available on Amazon and Waterstones.   I’ve found a link to where you can search for local bookshops, including independent!

I was given this book for free in return for an unbiased review, and so my thanks to NetGalley and to Viz Media (the publishers) for this book.