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Shinka and Sagiri fight youkai to protect people. In daily life, they attend school, and work as voice actresses. The story includes characters and elements loosely based on Japanese folklore, Shintoism and Buddhism. *Note: Includes two extras.*
Is this "shepherd" out of the ordinary?! Alto, the third son of a noble family whose territory is the ruins of the Demon King's castle, got the job of "shepherd" when he turned 10 years old. "Shepherd" is said to be a weak job that is difficult to level up. One day, Alto picked up and saved a small dog in the Demon King's castle that he was cultivating. From the day he saved it without realizing that it was a legendary monster, Alto's level as a "shepherd" rose at an explosive rate! A "frontier gourmet fantasy" brought to you by the hidden strongest "shepherd" and the legendary sheep-herding monster. (Source: Kodansha, translated)
"If I put my life in a notebook, it would end in one page." Seal, a young man in prison, had so much spare time. Closed space, unchanging scenery. Every day he read books inside the prison cell. A boring life that made him feel like he was going insane. Then, a newcomer came to his prison cell. His name was Barha Zetta. 79 years old, male. Occupation―sealer. Seal was interested in the job of Barha-Zetta and became his disciple to kill time...without knowing that it would bear the fate of the world. (Source: Shousetsuka ni Narou, translated)
From [MangaHelpers](https://www.mangaupdates.com/groups.html?id=1011): A mysterious event causes a number of people in Ikebukuro to collapse, but after they gain consciousness they explode and die! Ryuji and his friend Taizou Miyauchi are determined to find the cause after their friend meets their explosive end in front of them. But instead of finding answers, they are given a death sentence and transported to a strange world by a mysterious child. To return home they must compete in, and survive, the Purgatory Games! [Niffer]
*"There's no way to beat this game. The only difference is when and where you die..."* One month has passed since Akihiko Kayaba's deadly game began, and the body count continues to rise. Two thousand players are already dead. Kirito and Asuna are two very different people, but they both desire to fight alone. Nonetheless, they find themselves drawn together to face challenges from both within and without. Given that the entire virtual world they now live in has been created as a deathtrap, the surviving players of Sword Art Online are starting to get desperate, and desperation makes them dangerous to loners like Kirito and Asuna. As it becomes clear that solitude equals suicide, will the two be able to overcome their differences to find the strength to believe in each other, and in doing so, survive? *Sword Art Online: Progressive* is a new version of the Sword Art Online tale that starts at the beginning of Kirito and Asuna's epic adventure—on the very first level of the deadly world of Aincrad! (Source: Yen Press)
Rock (Okajima Rokuro) was just a normal Japanese businessman, but through a series of unlikely events, he found himself part of the "Lagoon Company," a group of transporters who do a little pirating on the side. Together with Dutch, Revy, and Benny, he sails the seas of Asia aboard the modified torpedo boat "Black Lagoon." Their base, the lawless city of Roanapur, is just barely balanced on the brink of outright war, controlled and occupied by criminal organizations from across the globe. Standing above the rest are Balalaika of Russia and Chang of Hong Kong. Our story finds Roanapur just a little while before Rock, with Revy in tow, is due to head back to his old home of Japan. It is a tale about soldiers who once fought united under a cause in a land of sandy winds, the strictly personal reunion of a captain and her one-time subordinate...