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  • Bibliography:
    15 Books
  • First Book:
    October 2013
  • Latest Book:
    September 2023
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Books in Order: 15 titles

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  • 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 larges...



  • 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 ...



  • 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 pilgrim...



  • 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...



  • 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...



  • 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...



  • 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 hangin...



  • 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 ...



  • 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...






  • 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 pilgrim...



  • 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 learnin...



  • 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 ...



  • 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 coupl...



  • 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...



  • 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 befo...


Frequently Asked Questions (FAQ)

Mamoru Hosoda has published 15 books.

Mamoru Hosoda does not have a new book coming out soon. The latest book, Studio Chizu's BELLE, was published in September 2023.

The first book by Mamoru Hosoda, Summer Wars, Part 1, was published in October 2013.

No. Mamoru Hosoda does not write books in series.