The dentist Miura always seems detached and sovereign, though he's a nervous wreck after every treatment! But when he visits a bar with his colleagues, the barkeeper notices that Miura is barely having fun - so he decides to cheer Miura up...

Nadeko Sengoku is just an ordinary middle school girl. But what happens when she has an unexpected encounter with a handsome transfer student!? A thrilling, heartwarming romantic comedy is about to start... *Written and drawn by Sengoku Nadeko in-universe, as made famous in Hitagi End/Koimonogatari.*

The time is 1939, year 14 of the Showa period. Single-handedly raised by a former geisha in the Yanagibashi district of Tokyo, Takechiyo Morimasa is an energetic, straight shooting 4th year intermediate school student who loves the big city life and his beautiful mother. However, due to a family death, he is suddenly forced to move to a very rural, backwards region of Japan in order to take over the Aoba family line. What awaits him there is a school full of extremely eccentric characters who operate as if they were still in the Edo period. It seems the only way he can save himself is to create a successful baseball team...??

Mari, a young Spanish flamenco dancer who lost her mother at a young age, meets aspiring Japanese photographer Ikushima Reki. They are strongly drawn to each other, but their meeting is fleeting since Reki must return home at the end of the week. On the day they say good-bye, a tragic accident occurs and Mari must make a difficult decision that may change everything about her life...

During the Edo period, not all samurai were considered wealthy, high class war heroes who answered directly to the shogun. In fact, many of them were of low rank and remained nameless throughout their careers while living economically with their small families just to make ends meet. Nakamura Hanshirou and Yukie with their baby son Tarou is one such family, and through their lives, Yamato Waki offers eye-opening glimpses of the less talked about aspects of living in Japan's capital during this famous era. Note: Vol. 2 contains a 3-chapter long side story titled "Aoba Shigereru" that involve the same set of main characters.

Yoshida Tamako was the youngest of 11 children. When she turned 3, she was taken to the Gion district of Kyoto by the Okami of a traditional Maiko/Geiko house. It is there that Tamako changes her name to Sakiko and begins her long journey to become one of the top maiko in Gion history, "Sakuya". Another wonderful work by Yamato Waki-sensei that details the beauty of Kyoto and traditional Japan and let's us also see into the often secret world of Kyoto's maikos and geikos.

Like, Like, Love is an extra one-off FAKE act that Sanami Matoh included in her analogy, Monotone. It takes place a few years after the conclusion of FAKE, Act 20 and, essentially, shows who ends up with whom. Some of the pairings may surprise you. Some may be ridiculously obvious!

A compilation artbook/manga anthology, by Range Murata, with contributions by various artists. The title aims to harness talents from global creative hotbeds like London, Paris and New York and create something more than the average manga artbook through collaborations with American and European creatives. Every issue will reveal the huge variety of talent the Japanese illustration and manga worlds have to offer, giving insight into their work and thought processes through various features.

After graduating from a university in Tokyo, Chiharu returns to his family home, a hot spring inn. As the only son, it is his destiny to become the heir of the inn, but being bad at communication makes it difficult for him to fulfil the responsibility. One day, he encounters a famous college judo player named Sonoda, who comes to stay at the inn for rehabilitation. Sonoda is a polite man, and he doesn't look down on Chiharu for being bad at communication. Chiharu feels at ease around Sonoda, until one day Sonoda asks him, "Do you like men?" What should Chiharu answer to that?!

Every shopping district used to have them, the gods of commercial blessings called Blessed Ones. Now, one is coming to my local shopping district. Most are supposed to be old ladies but this one is…a third year middle schooler. Not only that, she’s got a “butler” accompanying her and they transferred together into my class! It’s custom for Blessed Ones to never touch money so apparently the “butler” is supporting her in her daily life. But still, never touching money? That’s crazy! What’s the truth behind it all? And why, why does she smile so wildly? I can’t stop thinking about her… Is this love? Source: NU