Plum, as her family calls her, is a tiger-striped cat that lives with Miss Nakari, a single mother to her teenaged son, Taku. Plum can understand what people say to her, and she can even tell what’s in their minds. She also has many friends among the neighborhood cats. All is well in her everyday life, until the day a mischievous kitten named Snowball joins Plum’s happy household. Will the naughty little newcomer turn Plum’s world completely topsy turvy? Or will Snowball make her life even sweeter? (Source: Seven Seas Entertainment)
Ben, a biology professor, hears about a mysterious and supposedly six-legged deer residing in the remote mountains of Sweden from an acquaintance. Setting out on a journey to parse fact from fiction, Ben soon meets a boy who says he is collecting the stars... *Note: Award-winning entry in the Afternoon Magazine Shiki-sho contest in Summer 2022. Published in good! Afternoon magazine 2022 no. 9.*
An apartment in Italy. In four of the rooms live four single men with singular personalities. Into this peculiar ménage steps an exchange student, the new tenant of the fifth room. Brought together by chance, friends by choice, they pursue their dreams together as the days drift gently by. (Source: VIZ Media)
Soon after entering junior high school, Hinata Abe is hit by a truck, but survives with only minor scratches. This earns her the nickname of "the Miracle Girl" at school. Hinata has a creepy dream the night after she leaves the hospital. She awakes to find her room filled with flames and smoke. When she cries for help, the Virgin Mary appears before her! Mary explains to Hinata what really happened to her: Hinata actually died in the accident 3 weeks ago! A series of mistakes stopped her soul from going to heaven. Mary tells Hinata that she is dead and it cannot be changed. But Hinata pleads for her life back. Mary agrees to offer her a chance on one condition: Hinata must save 12 lost sheep within 100 days. She starts her mission to regain her life, wearing a pendant given to her by Mary. A miraculous fantasy love story begins.
Dave, a struggling artist, gets his hands on the severed arm of his best friend Lewis, known as an artistic prodigy. When Dave recalls a rumor that eating parts of an artist's body transfers their talent... The story of friendship and jealousy leads to an unexpected conclusion! (Source: MANGA Plus)
The chief officers. ACCA's elite. Five of the most powerful men in the nation...Although their story has ended, the question remains-how did it begin? Take the chance to peek behind the veil of secrecy and intrigue to find out the origins and relationships of the final five chief officers. (Source: Yen Press)
(1)-(4) Stop Bullying Me! Cute, simple-minded Tomo Masaki has a brother complex. Tomo so adores his older brother Ei that he studied hard to get into Kouryou Academy, where Ei is a popular senior and Student Council President. Now the bane of Tomo's existence is Ei's best friend and Student Council Vice-president, Motoki Izumi. For some reason, Izumi always bullies and teases Tomo whenever he comes to the student council room to pay his brother a visit. Why can't Izumi just stop it and leave him alone? More importantly, why does Tomo's heart pound whenever Izumi does bully him?! Sometimes, Izumi's even nice to Tomo--which only makes his heart beat faster! (Source: June edition back cover) (5) Please Keep It a Secret--oneshot (6) Toma and Tsubasa Chan's Cooking Banzai!! bonus to Stop Bullying Me!
*Danza* is a collection of stories about being a foreigner, sometimes even in your own home. Quiet, comtemplative, and subtle, *Danza* collects some of Natsume Ono's best short work. (Source: Kodansha USA)
The love story between a yakuza and a detective who both can't be honest with their feelings.
“Being banished doesn't seem that bad if I'm with you.” Eufran D'italelle Bailey's fate was sealed the moment he extended a hand to Elana Ruthfett Forsythe after her engagement to Crown Prince Alphaldo was annulled. The very next day, the two got married without ever having spent a single date together and were banished from the kingdom. Well, what's done is done, and they decided to spend the rest of their lives relaxing at a ranch they set up in the neighboring country. That was until Elana remembered... This is the story of how one man became the banished villainess' husband and tells of his happiness mixed with some mild misfortune. (Source: Comikey Media)
**A comedic story in the set in the universe of Naruto that features Kakashi, Guy, and Mirai Sarutobi, along with the rest of the new generation!** Mirai Sarutobi has a lot to live up to as the granddaughter of Konoha’s third Hokage and the daughter of Asuma Sarutobi, the hero who gave up his life during the Great Shinobi War. But as everyone continues to expect great things from her, she struggles to separate herself from her family’s legacy and find her own way. When Mirai is assigned a super-secret mission to protect Kakashi and Guy on their journey to the Land of Steam, she expects to fend off assassins around every corner. Instead, she finds herself babysitting two grown shinobi who are acting like an old married couple on a hot springs vacation! What is a girl trying to prove herself to do? (Source: VIZ Media)
It’s brains over brawn in this new isekai adventure! One day when leaving work, a salaryman dies and is reborn in another world as the weak child of the noble Louvent family. Using his “appraisal” skill, which lets him see the stats of others, young Ars Louvent recruits the best people to his side in order to turn his country around. *Source: Kodansha USA*

