Baby and Me GN (2006-2010 Viz) comic books 2009

Volume 12 - 1st printing. Story and art by Marimo Ragaw. Translated by JN Productions. Adapted by Lance Caselman. There's only one thing Ichika wants for her birthday (besides Minoru's undying love), and that's the royal treatment! At her birthday party, family and friends are forced to bow to the precocious toddler's whims...until Ichika goes a little too far. Softcover, 5-in. x 7-in., 208 pages, B&W. Teen Cover price $8.99.

Volume 13 - 1st printing. Story and art by Marimo Ragaw. Translated by JN Productions. Adapted by Lance Caselman. How did Takuya's family get started? In this special flashback volume, meet Takuya's father, Harumi, in his days as a hardworking college student and womanizing bachelor. Struggling to make it in Tokyo without his parents' help, Harumi doesn't plan to settle down anytime soon...until a troubled girl named Yukako drifts into his life... Softcover, 5-in. x 7-in., 208 pages, B&W. Teen Cover price $8.99.

Volume 14 - 1st printing. Story and art by Marimo Ragaw. Translated by JN Productions. Adapted by Lance Caselman. Even the most precocious kids are still kids, and even Ichika has 'accidents'. With an ingenious cover-up and her little brother as an accomplice, maybe she won't have to admit it! Softcover, 5-in. x 7-in., 192 pages, B&W. Teen Cover price $8.99.

Volume 15 - 1st printing. Story and art by Marimo Ragaw. Translated by JN Productions. Adapted by Lance Caselman. Takuya's brainy friend Hitoshi reveals his secret passion for drawing stories about space heroes, only to get into a feud with Fujii over the project's artistic direction. Softcover, 5-in. x 7-in., 200 pages, B&W. Teen Cover price $8.99.

Volume 16 - 1st printing. Story and art by Marimo Ragaw. Translated by JN Productions. Adapted by Lance Caselman. Takuya and his friends share a beach house over summer vacation and run afoul of Moriguchi's foxy grandma, who loves checking out the hot young studs at the beach...and hates looking after kids. But when Minoru and his fellow toddlers get lost in the woods, it's grandma to the rescue! Then Takuya looks after a neighbor's talking parakeet, much to the delight of Minoru. What happens when Minoru gives into the temptation to let their guest out of his cage just once? Softcover, 5-in. x 7-in., 192 pages, B&W. Teen Cover price $9.99.

Volume 17 - 1st printing. Story and art by Marimo Ragaw. Translated by JN Productions. Adapted by Lance Caselman. Ten-year-old Takuya has a new job: to look after his baby brother Minoru…looks like it's time to put on the kid gloves! Young Takuya has it tough. Since his mother passed away, he's had to take care of his baby brother Minoru while their father works the long hours of a Japanese "salaryman." At the annual school festival Takuya and his friends deal with girls, bullies, the geeks from the Audio-Visual Club...and a whole passel of lost toddlers. Then Takuya's dad, sleeping off a few too many after-work drinks, has a very strange dream. And an overprotective parent threatens to destroy the Sunflower Nursery School with her demands for absolute safety! Softcover, 5-in. x 7-in., 192 pages, B&W. Teen Cover price $9.99.