Most Popular Books by Mamoru Hosoda

From the director Mamoru Hosoda comes the story of an ordinary family going to extraordinary lengths to avert the impending cyber apocalypse! Kenji is your typical teenage misfit. He’s good at math, bad with girls, and spends most of his time hanging out in the all-powerful, online community known as OZ. His second life is the only life he has – until the girl of his dreams, Natsuki, hijacks him for a starring role as a fake fiancée at her family reunion. Things only get stranger from there.

Suzu, a seventeen-year-old high school student living in rural Kochi Prefecture, has kept the world at arm’s length ever since her mother’s death years ago. But at a friend’s urging, she decides to dip her toes into another world: U, the largest online community in history. As her avatar, Belle, Suzu reveals her hidden singing talent and instantly becomes a global internet sensation, leading her to cross paths with a mysterious beast known as the Dragon. Who is this ferocious yet lonely stranger, and what will come of their fateful encounter...?

Noted anime director Mamoru Hosoda takes the kinetic energy from the screen and captures it on the page with this second installment of his science fiction epic Summer Wars. Adapted for print by Iqura Sugimoto, it tells of an ordinary family going to extraordinary lengths to avert an impending cyber apocalypse. Kenji Koiso is a teenage misfit--he''s good at math, bad with girls, and spends most of his time hanging out in the all-powerful social network known only as OZ. His online life is the only life he has—even though it may open a pathway to destruction in the real world. When the girl of his dreams, Natsuki, hijacks him for a starring role as a fake fiancé at her family reunion, things only get stranger from there.

Little Kun isn''t too happy about the latest addition to his family. With the arrival of a new baby sister in the house, he worries his parents may not love him as much as they used to...But when a teenage girl shows up and tells Kun that she is his sister from the future, it may be that there''s more to this new relationship than Kun ever could''ve dreamed!

When Hana falls in love with a young interloper she encounters in her college class, the last thing she expects to learn is that he is part wolf. Instead of rejecting her lover upon learning his secret, she accepts him with open arms. Soon, the couple is expecting their first child, and a cozy picture of family life unfolds. But after what seems like a mere moment of bliss to Hana, the father of her children is tragically taken from her. Life as a single mother is hard in any situation, but when your children walk a fine line between man and beast, the rules of parenting all but go out the window. With no one to turn to, how will Hana survive?

Fleeing tragedy and mistreatment, a young boy named Ren hides among the crowds in Tokyo''s busy Shibuya ward. His efforts to run away are more successful than he realizes when he ends up in the world of the beasts! A rough-living bear named Kumatetsu gives Ren a new life and a new name--Kyuta--but is Kumatetsu really up to the job of being a mentor?

Ichirohiko has suffered, caught in the space between human and beast, and has succumbed to the darkness. Kyuta leaves Kumatetsu, on the brink of death, in the care of the others and heads to the human world in pursuit of Ichirohiko. It''s the start of a life and death battle in the streets of Shibuya to settle things not only with Ichirohiko, but with the darkness in his own heart...!! What can he do to save everyone? The times has come for Kumatetsu, Kyuta, and Kaede to each make their own decisions...

Kyuta has been spending more and more time back in the human world. He''s about to take an exam that will let him go to college! But does this mean saying goodbye to his master and his life in Jutengai forever? Can he be a part of both worlds, or will he have to choose...?

Having accidentally wandered into the beast world of Jutengai, Kyuta has gotten himself a master--Kumatetsu. But it turns out Kumatetsu''s not quite as good at teaching as he is at brawling. The Grandmaster sends teacher and student alike on a pilgrimage, asking all the wisest beasts in the world a simple question: What is true strength? But are the boy and the beast ready for the answer?

Kun est un petit garçon à l’enfance heureuse jusqu’à l’arrivée de Miraï, sa petite soeur. Jaloux de ce bébé qui monopolise l’attention de ses parents, il se replie peu à peu sur lui-même. Au fond de son jardin, où il se réfugie souvent, se trouve un arbre généalo-magique. Soudain, Kun est propulsé dans un monde fantastique où vont se mêler passé et futur. Il rencontrera tour à tour ses proches à divers âges de leur vie : sa mère petite fille, son arrière grand-père dans sa trépidante jeunesse et sa petite soeur adolescente ! À travers ces aventures, Kun va découvrir sa propre histoire. Véritable ode à l’imagination la plus débordante, ce roman écrit par Mamoru Hosoda, réalisateur du film d’animation éponyme, illustre avec brio la puissance des liens familiaux qui transcendent le temps et l’espace.

Kenji, un lycéen timide et surdoué en mathématiques, effectue un job d''été au service de la maintenance d''OZ, la plateforme communautaire d''Internet qui regroupe des millions de personnes à traver le monde. À sa grande surprise, la jolie Natsuki, la fille de ses rêves, lui propose de l''accompagner à Nagano, dans sa maison familiale, pour l''anniversaire de la matriarche du clan Jinnouchi. Mais ce qui promettait d''être une simple fête de famille va rapidement prendre une tournure bien plus belliqueuse...

L’ANIME BOOK TUTTO A COLORI DELL’ULTIMO CAPOLAVORO DI MAMORU HOSODA! Un volume tutto a colori dal fantastico anime di Mamoru Hosoda. La storia di Suzu come non l’avete mai vista. Un’avventura da non perdere per assaporare al meglio un capolavoro dell’animazione che vedremo anche in Italia.

Makoto est une jeune lycéenne comme les autres, un peu garçon manqué, pas trop intéressée par l''école et absolument pas concernée par le temps qui passe ! Jusqu''au jour où elle reçoit un don particulier : celui de pouvoir traverser le temps. Améliorer ses notes, aider des idylles naissantes, manger à répétition ses plats préférés, tout devient alors possible pour Makoto. Mais influer sur le cours des choses est un don parfois bien dangereux, surtout lorsqu''il faut apprendre à vivre sans !

Dal genio di Mamoru Hosoda (Wolf Children, Mirai e The Boy and the Beast) nasce Belle, un racconto poetico e delicato sull’amore e la solitudine, sulla scoperta di sé e dell’altro. Suzu è una ragazza schiva, chiusa nel suo mondo e nel suo dolore. Nessuno riuscirebbe a immaginare che in verità lei è Belle, la cantante più famosa del metaverso social di U. Lungo il filo tra reale e virtuale, la sua storia si intreccia con quella di un misterioso drago che imperversa all’interno di U. Chi sarà mai questa strana bestia odiata da tutti? Una fiaba moderna narrata con maestria da uno dei maestri dell’animazione giapponese, in grado di accendere di una calda luce i nostri cuori.

Kenji Koiso is a high school student with a crush on a kendo club beauty, Natsuki Shinohara, and a knack for mathematics. His aptitude with numbers earns him a part-time working maintenance on the global virtual reality world, OZ. One day, right before summer vacation, Natsuki asks Kenji to do her a favor -accompany her to her great-grandmother''s 90th birthday celebration deep in the Japanese countryside. As Kenji tries to find his footing amongst the boisterous and tightly-knit Jinnouchi clan, receives a mysterious email with a long code and the message: "Solve me." Little does Kenji know what solving that code could lead to... Based on the award-winning and top-selling animated film by Mamoru Hosoda!

Tokyo''s a big city-big enough that it''s easy for a grieving boy like Ren to slip through the cracks. But Ren slips a little farther than he meant to, tumbling into the beast world of Jutengai! He ends up with a new name--Kyuta--and a new life learning the way of the sword as the apprentice of the bear Kumatetsu. Kumatetsu''s got problems of his own, though, and the boy and the beast may have more to learn from each other than they realize. But the boy''s arrival in the realm of the beasts has put both their worlds in danger, and they''re going to need more than life lessons to face it!

L''installation à la campagne s''accompagne pour Hana, Ame et Yuki, de la découverte de nouveaux horizons. Si le premier contact avec la nature se révèle rude pour Hana, qui tente de nourrir sa petite famille en faisant pousser ses propres cultures, sa persévérance et la main chaleureuse tendue par les habitants de la région vont rapidement porter leurs fruits. De leur côté, Ame et Yuki grandissent jour après jour et font l''apprentissage de la vie. Par-delà les défis quotidiens, ils sont peu à peu amenés à faire un choix : se fondre dans la société des hommes ou répondre à l''appel de la nature sauvage.

Retrouvez 24 nouvelles et illustrations inspirées du film, signé de la nouvelle vague des mangakas japonais avec à la tête du projet le célébre Studio Clamp ! Attention, édition limitée au premier tirage, réservé donc aux fans du film culte !