A special collaboration between Satosumi Takaguchi, Miwa Sakai, and Emiko Yachi! (And special guests) The year is 1962, world famous Hollywood actress M.M. has passed away, and its rumoured that her diary contained dirty secrets about very important politicians.... This special collaboration was planned and organized by Satosumi Takaguchi to commemorate Miwa Sakai going freelance, with all contributors drawing one "cast member" each

Shinano Kabashima was on the run. From whom? From a woman with a knife. Why? Because she found out that she was his mistress. He ran away, and ran away, and ran away. Now he works part-time at a gym. But his salary doesn't even cover his living expenses, so he sells the brand-name goods he's been paid for, and somehow manages to get by. This is not good enough. I know that. But... Then one day, his younger brother comes to visit him with his ex-girlfriend. ...... What is love? What is family? This is a long novel with extreme sadness.

The story follows the adventures of Filena, the only survivor of the royal family in the ocean kingdom of Filosena which is destroyed by the ruling empire. She is brought up as a boy slave and gladiator, and enters the gladiatorial games designed by the Empire to keep the masses happy. Young slave boys are trained as gladiators and girls are forced into prostitution. Filena befriends Lila, a slave assigned to be Filena's bed-mate before her first gladiatorial bout, and sets off on a journey with Lila to free her homeland from tyranny and discover her true past. Source: Wikipedia *Note: Chapter count includes 12 prologue and epilogue chapters*