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Upcoming Releases: Winter 2021 Upcoming Releases: Winter 2021 Persona 5 Volume 5 by Hisato Murasaki After being arrested and having to transfer to a new high school in Tokyo, Akira Kurusu is given the goal of rehabilitation and awakened to a new power—the power of one’s true self, a Persona. Using his Persona and the mysterious navigation app Mementos, Akira and his friends take on the role of Phantom Thieves, saving people from the twisted desires of others. Publication Date: January 12, 2021 Afterlift by Chip Zdarsky Ride-share driver Janice Chen has enough to deal with, from annoying passengers to overbearing parents. But when she picks up a pair of mysterious passengers who are pursued by otherworldly forces, Janice realizes that her already-terrible day might be headed straight to hell. Publication Date: February 2, 2021 Monsters by Barry Windsor-Smith Bobby Bailey doesn’t realize he is about to fulfill his tragic destiny when he walks into a US Army recruitment office to join up. It turns out that Bailey is the perfect candidate for a secret U.S. government experimental program, an unholy continuation of a genetics program that was discovered in Nazi Germany nearly 20 years earlier in the waning days of World War II. Bailey’s only ally and protector, Sergeant McFarland, intervenes, which sets off a chain of cascading events that spin out of everyone’s control. Publication Date: January 19, 2021 Try These Authors: Manga Yoshinobu Akita - Orphen Kazune Kawahara - My Love Story! 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