Brave Story Volume 1
Ten-year-old Wataru thinks he can beat anyone at video games. Then he meets Mitsuru, a mysterious transfer student who beats him soundly. Of course, there's more to Mitsuru than meets the eye, and as Wataru investigates, he's ripped into an alternate world where he contends with monsters and magic and must put his legendary gaming skills to the test. Based on an epic sequence of novels, this book doesn't break new ground; but the art is crisp, energetic, and dramatic enough to involve as readers await future volumes that, perhaps, will offer more complex story lines. Brenner, Robin