Amamiya Shin is a high school girl with no friends, and too shy to make any. One day during lunch, she finds a boy lying in the hallway. When he wakes up, he asks her for her name. His name is Haruki, a third year, and obviously a playboy. His first approach wasn't so chaste either. Even after Shin rejects him, he continues to show up every day. He nicknames Shin "Kami-chan" because she seems to have come straight from God. Shin falls quickly for him, and one day after class they make out.
Akane Kuritani, a young live-in caregiver, arrives at a secluded mansion deep in the mountains hoping for a fresh start. Her patient, the bedridden Kiwako Miyazono, appears more like a corpse than a living person. As Akane begins her duties, she discovers that the care required is as unnatural and dangerous as it is disturbing. What starts as an ordinary job quickly spirals into a chilling psychological horror where the lines between life and death blur in an oppressively intimate and grotesque way.
In the Taisho Era, the common connection between Japanese and Western cultures is their mutual hatred of witches. (Source: Comic Cune, translated)
Shinnosuke Ichijo, a high school student who likes to draw, has transferred from Tokyo to a high school in the countryside, and is asked by his classmate Sakurada, the daughter of a butcher in the shopping district, to draw a "nobori" for the store. However, Shinnosuke was bullied for drawing at the previous school.
To find her missing father, Tachibana Izumi goes to search for him at the Mankai Company Theatre he once worked at as the director. What she finds there, however, is the theatre group burdened with a huge sum of debt, just one young actor, and no success worthy of mention. To save the theatre group her father had loved so dearly, Izumi has to become the new director and re-establish the four troupes: Spring, Summer, Autumn, and Winter; and lead the theatre group to success. This manga follows the story of the second troupe, the Summer Troupe (Natsu-gumi).
Hundreds of years ago, 48 sexual positions were created and named, it is the equivalent to the Japanese kamasutra. It is likely that these moves were devised during the Edo period (1603-1868), reflecting the 48 set of moves that Sumo wrestling recognizes. 48 different manga artists came together and created one shots for each different position. In this first volume, 24 of those positions are featured.
