New Release Books by Shirow Miwa

Ruby, Weiss, Blake and Yang are students at Beacon Academy, learning to protect the world of Remnant from the fearsome Grimm! -- VIZ Media

Heine and Badou make their way into the innermost depths of Prof. Angelika Einstürzen’s underground sanctum. There, in the labs where Heine was born and then violently separated from his siblings, they learn more not only about Heine’s past but also about Badou’s connection to the professor. Meanwhile, Naoto is confronted by an Einstürzen clone and Frühling, and in the ensuing fight the truth about her origins is revealed. -- VIZ Media

In order to fulfill his vow to kill Prof. Einstürzen, Heine resumes his search for the entrance to the Below and the experimental facility where he was born. As he and Badou move further into the depths of the Underground, they’re tracked down by Giovanni, who offers to help—but what are his real intentions? Meanwhile, Naoto confronts Magato, seeking the key to her past, and Director Neubauten sends the Special Defense Force to attack Einstürzen’s fiercest troops. -- VIZ Media

With the city still reeling in the aftermath of the cataclysm, Giovanni makes his move and goes after the director. But the outcome of the confrontation is not at all what he expected. The director himself has deep ties to the underground research facility that Giovanni and Heine were raised in, where they were forced to fight over and over again in Einstürzen’s hellish experiments. Finally the full story emerges of what happened in that killing field so many years ago. -- VIZ Media

Mihai enters the stage just in time to save Badou from starring in his own death scene, but now the two of them are a captive audience to Beltheim’s display of his lethal skills. As bad as things are in the Above though, they’re even worse in the Below: under Giovanni’s command, the dog soldiers have started their final assault against the underground city. As the streets around them burn, Heine and Giovanni become locked in a savage fight to settle their rivalry once and for all. -- VIZ Media

After Luki and Noki confirm the existence of another person who carries the same blade as Naoto, the train that Mihai’s on is attacked by a group of inhuman shock troops. As he fights against them, their leader is confronted by none other than Bishop. Meanwhile, back at the church, Heine begins to reveal to Badou and Naoto the terrible history of his “collar” and his childhood Below. -- VIZ Media

Badou''s in trouble again. He''s found some of the "Lost Children," rare genetic experiments left from the past--but so has the mafia. It''s up to Heine to bail him out, but the Stray Dog has his own problems now that the enigmatic Giovanni is back on the scene. Meanwhile, Naoto comes to the Underground searching for the killer who wields the same strange black sword as hers. And so their paths begin to converge in the dark and dangerous heart of the city... -- VIZ Media

R to L (Japanese Style) Boasting furious action, switchback plotting, magnetic characters and dazzling art, Dogs tells the story of four individuals struggling to survive a dystopian urban future by gun and sword and courage and luck. Haine, the “Stray Dog”: a cipher of a young man with a mysterious metal collar bolted to his neck and a disturbing talent for mayhem. Badou: a hired gun for petty jobs legal and non, whose reckless façade hides a serious intent. Naoto: a preternaturally skilled swordswoman searching for the assassin who cut down her family and mentor. Mihai: a middle-aged former hitman, trying live a quiet life but haunted by the deaths of his lover and protégé. Driven by their ghosts—both dead and alive—and a desire for truth, all are inexorably drawn to the “Underground,” the dark and dangerous sector below the city that holds all the secrets—but secrets that can only be had for a price.

In her search for the assassin who “stole her past,” Naoto follows Heine and Badou to go see the head of one of the Underground’s gangs. But what starts out as a simple quest for information ends up as a rampageous firefight. And just when it seems things couldn’t get worse, the Hardcore Twins, Luki and Noki, show up to “play.” Which is when things really get interesting... -- VIZ Media

YA. GRAPHIC NOVELS. As Campanella Fruhling''s train speeds on, bearing disaster to the Underground and its denizens, Bishop gives Heine more clues to his past. But the aims of Bishop, who wears his own collar, are unclear: why is he revealing these things now, and why did he save Heine in the first place? Meanwhile, Badou takes on another freelance job from Granny Liza to gather information - and soon discovers it was the information that his brother died pursuing. Ages 15+.