If you live in the Greater Boston area, Comicopia should be on your radar. This small shop is packed to the gills with manga, from best-selling shonen titles—Chainsaw Man, Demon Slayer, Jujutsu Kaisen—to kid-friendly series, yaoi and yuri, horror, manly-man manga, and a few OOP treasures, as well as a modest selection of books in
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