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Manga for Success / October 2025
Manga are a popular genre of Japanese comic books or cartoon, and interest in them has increased thanks to successful anime projects on Netflix like Demon Slayer (Keohane, Dempsey & Lewis, 2025). Manga also are being used to help students learn topics like statistics or marketing.
For October 2025, here are 12 books from JMU’s print and electronic collections that feature these distinctive Japanese cartoons.
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Manga: A critical guide
A wide-ranging introductory guide for readers making their first steps into the world of manga, this book helps readers explore the full range of Japanese comic styles, forms and traditions from its earliest texts to the internationally popular comics of the 21st century.
Business Problem-Solving and Strategy
The story follows Kazumi who takes over operations at her father's confectionery company. With the help of her mentor, Business Planning Manager Takeda, she formulates a viable plan for turning the business around, building trust among key stakeholders, and successfully convincing the CEO to implement the plan companywide.
The Manga Guide to Statistics
Our heroine Rui is determined to learn about statistics to impress the dreamy Mr. Igarashi and begs her father for a tutor. Soon she's spending her Saturdays with geeky, bespectacled Mr. Yamamoto, who patiently teaches her all about the fundamentals of statistics: topics like data categorization, averages, graphing, and standard deviation.
Leading Meetings and Teams
Shigeo, an employee of a building material manufacturing company, is sent to a regional office to improve sales. Along the way, he encounters challenges engaging with the local team but, with advice from a helpful facilitation specialist, Mayumi, he eventually learns to build the skills of his colleagues and cobble together a high-performing team.
Draw Like a Mangaka
The creative force behind the wildly popular Draw like a Sir YouTube channel, Marcel Kühn, compiles the secrets he has honed over a decade of manga drawing, demystifying manga illustration for artists of all skill levels. Learn about the essential tools and materials, foundational drawing techniques, and the secrets of crafting expressive faces, well-proportioned bodies, and intricate hairstyles.
The Psychology of Personal Growth and Better Relationships
The story follows Yukari, a 28-year-old area manager of a bakery chain who finds her career gridlocked by frustration and adversarial relationships. Luckily for her, Adler's Ghost appears to teach her how to turn the situation around. As her communication improves, she builds relationships of trust, and her career begins to move forward smoothly.
The Manga Guide to Databases
Princess Ruruna is stressed out. With the king and queen away, she has to manage the Kingdom of Kod's humongous fruit-selling empire. Overseas departments, scads of inventory, conflicting prices, and so many customers! It's all such a confusing mess. But a mysterious book and a helpful fairy promise to solve her organizational problems--with the practical magic of databases.
Marketing
Marimo, a young woman who wants to help her aging parents save their specialty pastry business, meets two mysterious characters who teach her how to rebuild the family business through marketing, step-by-step.
The Five Dysfunctions of a Team
Kathryn Petersen, Decision Tech's CEO, faces the ultimate leadership crisis: Uniting a team in such disarray that it threatens to bring down the entire company. Will she succeed? Will she be fired? Will the company fail? Lencioni's gripping tale serves as a timeless reminder that leadership requires as much courage as it does insight.
Managing Change
Chuji is a store manager at an automobile company who's been sent to a troubled dealership branch. You'll learn from the challenges he faces as he implements a series of managerial changes only to meet resistance and hostility from employees and leaders.
The Manga Guide to Calculus
Noriko is just getting started as a junior reporter for the Asagake Times. She wants to cover the hard-hitting issues, like world affairs and politics, but does she have the smarts for it? Thankfully, her overbearing and math-minded boss, Mr. Seki, is here to teach her how to analyze her stories with a mathematical eye.
Resilience, Confidence, and Positive Thinking
Reisa, who recently started a new job at an advertising agency, is overwhelmed and stressed by the new workload and criticism from her boss. Her old college friend Tsuyoshi suggests resilience tips he adopted abroad. His advice helps Reina address the roots of her habitual negativity, begin to positively control her emotions, and starts to turn around her relationships with her peers.