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Little episodes of everyday life, told with the usual intimate style of Ooshima, evocated with minimal graphics. 1. **Tsurubara Tsurubara** (つるばらつるばら, Vine Rose Vine Rose) 2. **Natsu no yo no Baku** (夏の夜の獏) 3. **Diet** (ダイエット) 4. **Mainichi ga Natsuyasumi** (毎日が夏休み) 5. **Koi wa Newton no Ringo** (恋はニュートンのリンゴ)
-Loved by men and despised by women, University student Otonashi Karen is a major "burikko" (two-faced, usually nicer to boys) whose love for Takeda Gunji can't be denied. This two-book series shows how far Karen is willing to go, to get Gunji to fall in love with her.
Welcome to Bistro Pas Mal, a French bistro where both meetings and partings happen.
Ann is a little girl living between her two separated parents. She acts differently in front of each of them: In Texas, she behaves as her father's ideal daughter, and in New York, she becomes her mother's beloved daughter. Thus she lives two different lifes in order to reconciliate her parents and return to their old life together. With the help of her teacher Miss Merry, she will try to realise her dream..
A noble knight who roams the battlefield, ‘Altear Chernobog’. Under the emperor's orders, she went to war to kill her companion and beloved Ain Estarot, the 'Son of the Demon', and in the end she was killed by him. “Ah, I’m sorry. I wanted to protect you as far as my hand could reach.” Just as she was about to break through the memory fragments and go to the underworld, she opened her eyes and saw her father, who had died years ago, standing before her?! Altear, who returned to her childhood as if it were a lie, and thinks. 'The only chance to save Ain, who has been oppressed by humans all his life.' (Source: KakaoPage, translated)
There are as many inheritances as there are people, and as many disputes as there are inheritances. Today, another fierce "family quarrel" over an inheritance began at the funeral of a well-known author. One man, Nanao Haie, arrived at the funeral, attracted by the smell of such a "family quarrel." Haie, who claimed to be a detective specializing in inheritance disputes, uses his hyena-like senses to sniff out the truth behind a "video will" left by the deceased writer...! This is an ambitious work that weaves various types of inheritance battles into an exquisite mystery! (Source: Comic Days, translated) *Note: Includes 1 extra chapter.*
It’s been hundreds of years since mankind immigrated to the planet Rafnas. The planet is abundant in the natural anti-gravity substance called “Rafna”, and the humans there unknowingly took it up inside their bodies and gained the ability to fly at will. Our story starts one day as the woman Lima, who has strong abilities and came to the village to investigate the river, meets Ragi, a man who has no Rafna inside him and can’t fly.
Meet Nipori Ayumu, an 80 year-old man, who, due to a serious heart condition, has spent sixty years of his life confined to his house. One morning, he wakes up believing himself to be twenty again. In his mind, he has become the youthful young man that he once was. However, reality fails to keep up with his illusion, and everything around him seems to be quite different from what he is used to. So, he decides that he is simply dreaming. As his reality becomes his dream, his unhappy world turns into a life enriched with happiness and expectations for the future. Ayumu is now enjoying his life to the full again. Meet Kodai Narisu, an 18 year-old home-care worker who is newly assigned to look after Ayumu. To his great surprise, Narisu looks exactly like the girl he had fallen for when he was twenty and he immediately mistakes Narisu for her. Narisu, on the other hand, is trying to deal with her own secret love. She is living amidst the uncertainties of youth, struggling to find her way. Ayumu's happy dream. Narisu's fragile and sometimes painful reality. The story takes place in an old house, where these two contradicting worlds intertwine with each other through their words and exchanges. Ayumu gradually begins to realize what is real, until one day, he decides to find out whether what he believes to be his life is in fact a dream.
Hokkaido in the 80's: Life is not easy for Onko and her two sisters Suguri and Gumi. While Suguri, the oldest, tries to earn a living as a self-help columnist for a newspaper, Onko dreams of having her own little art shop.
Guided by the mysterious words "diagonal music," this manga depicts the growth of young girls who participate in aircraft races, with precise lines and spatial representation, an enchanting dialog, and a novel screen structure. While dealing with the sport of aircraft racing, which is comparatively little-known in Japan, this manga meticulously depicts the situations relating to this sport and the in mixture of thoughts between the characters. It is a novel work in which a cinematic style of manga expression shines through, with the story unfolding in only four frames per page and the outer frames painted out in black. (Source: Japan Media Arts Festival)
Kanna was ugly and she had been treated badly from everyone aside from a man called Kousuke. Therefore, she decided to had plastic surgery on her whole body to win his heart and the rest of the world. Will Kanna overcome her insecurity and lack of confident after this?