Bento Books, Inc.

05/02/2020

Friends of Bento Books might be interested in this this virtual launch for author and Bento Books' collaborator Michael Larson's new account of the 3/11 earthquake and tsunami in Japan: “When the Waves Came”. It’s hard not being able to do book tours right now, so I’m grateful there’s a way we can still connect with authors and support independent booksellers like Third Place Books.

Join Third Place Books and Chin Music Press for a conversation with Michael Larson, author of WHEN THE WAVES CAME, and Marie Mutsuki Mocket, author of AMERICAN HARVEST and WHERE THE DEAD PAUSE, AND THE JAPANESE SAY GOODBYE.

04/05/2019

Our latest book is now available on Amazon! Hiroko Minagawa's "The Resurrection Fireplace" is a medical mystery set in 1770 London. Brilliant physician Daniel Barton and his students are pioneering the modern science of anatomy with cadavers supplied by the “resurrection men” who prowl cemeteries for fresh graves. But their position becomes precarious with the appearance of two unexpected corpses: a boy with amputated limbs and a man without a face...
Hardcover available here: https://www.amazon.com/Resurrection-Fireplace-Hiroko-Minagawa/dp/1939326206/
Paperback/Kindle available here: https://www.amazon.com/Resurrection-Fireplace-Hiroko-Minagawa/dp/1939326427/
Enjoy!

London, 1770. Brilliant physician Daniel Barton and his students are pioneering the modern science of anatomy with cadavers supplied by the “resurrection men” who prowl cemeteries for fresh graves. But their position becomes precarious with the appearance of two unexpected corpses: a boy with am...

10/02/2017

Avatar Tuner Vol. 2, the second book in the Quantum Devil Saga, is now available in hardcover and paperback!

In the post-apocalyptic Junkyard, a mysterious religious order known only as the Church watches over the brutal competition between warring tribes as they vie to unify six territories and thereby gain access to Nirvana, the promised land. But the rules of the competition have changed, and the Jun...

09/28/2017

06/07/2017

Heads up: Avatar Tuner 2 now in final proofing. Should be on sale this summer!

01/04/2017

Tony and Joe are at the Joint Mathematics Meetings in Atlanta! Stop by booth 220 and say hi if you're attending!

11/24/2016

Coming hot on the heels of Math Girls Manga vol 2, we've also released the first two volumes in a new math-related manga, Female Math Major.
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Masae Yasuda's Female Math Major is a comic adaptation of the author's experience studying mathematics at a Japanese university. Praised by algebraic geometrist Shigeru Iitaka as "a must-read for all mathematicians," this humorous depiction of the trials and tribulations of young women in STEM fi...

11/23/2016

Our translation of Math Girls Manga volume 2 is now available!

The Math Girls Manga is the comic adaptation of Hiroshi Yuki's bestselling novel of mathematical romance, available in English at last! Combining mathematical rigor with light romance, Math Girls is a unique introduction to advanced mathematics, delivered through the eyes of three students as the...

08/15/2016

Our latest title, "The Black Cat Takes a Stroll" by Akimaro Mori is now on sale! Hardcover edition coming soon!

In this smart and funny homage to Edgar Allan Poe set in modern-day Tokyo, a brilliant young professor known as “The Black Cat” and his female sidekick-slash-amanuensis, a Poe-obsessed graduate student, collaborate to solve a series of armchair mysteries, drawing clues from fields a...

05/27/2016

We have published our first children's book! This was a fun project for us, and we look forward to doing more!

Lunch is transformed into a trip to the circus through the power of a child's imagination! Clowns juggle pickles, lions leap through onions, and bears turn tomato slices into unicycle wheels as they combine the ingredients for a delicious hamburger. This is the first children's book translated to...

04/25/2016

We're happy to announce that Math Girls 3 is now available on Amazon! Only the paperback edition is available now, but hardcover and case laminate editions will be coming soon.

In the early twentieth century, a massive undertaking to rid mathematics of all paradoxes and inconsistencies was underway. Known as Hilbert's program, it sought to provide an unshakable foundation for all of mathematics. Things seemed to be proceeding well until young Kurt Gödel stunned the...

04/19/2016

Math GIrls 3: Gödel’s Incompleteness Theorems is coming soon! In the meantime, please enjoy this sample chapter:http://bentobooks.com/resources/MG3-Sample.pdf

07/21/2015

Alex, Joe, and Tony were interviewed by the Society of Writers, Editors, and Translators about founding Bento Books!

Writing, editing and translation in Japan

12/19/2014

"Math Girls Talk About Trigonometry", book 3 in the "Math Girls Talk About..." series, is now available directly from our printers! Coming to Amazon etc. soon!

Math Girls Talk About Trigonometry explores a variety of fun and informative topics in trigonometry, from basics like defining the sine and cosine functions, to less frequently seen topics like Lissajous curves and different ways of deriving the value of pi. These topics are introduced through conve…

11/26/2014

We found some photos of Math Girls-themed itasha (Otaku culture cars decorated with popular manga characters). The illustrations show Miruka, Tetra, and Yuri giving the Fibonacci Sign.

11/14/2014

We found some wonderful Quantum Devil Saga: Avatar Tuner fan art!

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10/27/2014

Matt Alt, a friend of Bento Books, has a piece in the New Yorker about Pharrell's use of Japanese otaku culture in one of his recent videos.

http://www.newyorker.com/contributors/matt-alt/all

2 weeks agoCulture Desk Pharrell Williams’s Lolicon Video The video for Pharrell Williams’s “It Girl” comes from a subculture of Japanese animation that is almost never discussed in polite society.

09/19/2014

We've release a free sample chapter from Math Girls Talk About Integers! Please take a look and let us know what you think!
http://bentobooks.com/resources/MGTA-Integers-sample.pdf