Pieta leads an uneventful life in a world of black rain. As the rain pours down, as always, she takes her usual route to school, but the typical conversation with her friend Danae doesn’t happen. *“Why can I remember...yesterday’s today?”* (Source: Yen Press)

Kinemia Lyon's got two rules for surviving a novel: recruit talented geniuses to save her territory and don't get involved with Ayan Krotz, a dangerous mage. But when Ayan gets captured for trespassing on her land over and over again, she decides to hire him as her bodyguard instead. Unfortunately, letting Ayan into her life means dealing with his erratic magic and even more concerning personality! Can Kinemia come to tame this master mage? Or will she regret not kicking him out for good? (Source: Tapas)

From Ponent Mon: Seventeen authors (nine from France or French-speaking countries, eight from Japan) brought together in the same book, a succession of freely created short stories about the same universe: Japan. The French, of course, journeyed to Japan for the occasion. Each cartoonist was sent for two weeks to a different city in the archipelago (Joann Sfar in Tôkyô, Emmanuel Guibert in Kyôto, Nicolas de Crécy in Nagoya, etc.) to bring back an original creation. The Japanese tell us about their district, the city where they live or where they originally come from (Kazuichi Hanawa's story being about the northern island of Hokkaido, Jiro Taniguchi's about the town of Tottori, etc.) The result is often inspired, always surprising: Japan through new eyes. "Japan" will appear simultaneously in French, Japanese, Spanish, Italian and English. Along with "A Patch Of Dreams" by Hideji Oda, it is the first step in a series of international creations with left-to-right reading direction, created for us by some of the best European and Japanese comic book artists. List of included short stories: At the Seaside - [TAKAHAMA Kan](https://www.mangaupdates.com/authors.html?id=4331) The Gateway - David Prudhomme Summer Sky - [TANIGUCHI Jiro](https://www.mangaupdates.com/authors.html?id=714) Now I Can Die! - Aurélia Aurita Osaka 2034 - François Schuiten & Benoît Peeters Shin.Ichi. - Emmanual Guibert The New Gods - Nicolas de Crécy *Kankichi* - [MATSUMOTO Taiyou](https://www.mangaupdates.com/authors.html?id=361) The Tokyo of Qualtérou - Joann Sfar The Sunflower - [Little Fish](https://www.mangaupdates.com/authors.html?id=19995) The Song of the Crickets - [ANNO Moyoco](https://www.mangaupdates.com/authors.html?id=152) In Love Alley - [Frédéric Boilet](https://www.mangaupdates.com/authors.html?id=6069) The City of Trees - Fabrice Neaud The Festival of the Bell-Horses - [IGARASHI Daisuke](https://www.mangaupdates.com/authors.html?id=2216) In the Deep Forest - [HANAWA Kazuichi](https://www.mangaupdates.com/authors.html?id=2080) Sapporo Fiction - Étienne Davodeau

Albert de Morcerf crosses paths with the mysterious Count of Monte Cristo and is awed by his sheer aura, but too ingrained within his innocent nature to realize that the Count has other plans. Why does the Count know the secrets of the rich, as if he wishes to disclose them for the world to see?

Lassie, born in a petstore and sold to countless owners, has yet to find her true master. Lassie encounters a girl named Asuki one day and develops an unbreakable bond. However, she is sold again before Asuki can take her home. Subsequently, Lassie has many adventures in an attempt to be reunited.

When acerbic loner Haruka gets transported to another world with his class, he’s not big on adventuring, but he wouldn’t mind some cool magic of his own. Unfortunately, the magic powers are first-come-first-served, and by Haruka’s turn, there’s nothing good left to choose from. Now he’ll have to take on this fantasy world the hard way, with a hodgepodge selection of bizarre skills…and with all the girls in class tagging along! (Source: Seven Seas Entertainment)

Yoshimatsu Hotaka is the president of the manga club and is always diligent with his school life and club activities, but even though he looks like a regular honor student in reality we have that there is something really odd with him; he has this bitter ~ heavy ~ melancholic look and is almost always looking at Awaya Nika, the beautiful, bright, radiant, super cheerful swimming club's female ace. Why does Hotaka acts all bitter like that? And what will become of him as the sports teacher orders him to have at least "one secret swimming class lesson" where no one is supposed to be looking, whereas he normally skips class activities due to personal matters?

Marko is a young Russian university student who is looking forward to finishing school so he can spend more time with his fiancée. However, those plans go out the window when he’s abducted by aliens! These extraterrestrials have a mission for Marko, one that will take ten years. All Marko can do is make the most of it and get to know the strange creatures who are now his co-workers in this offbeat tale of a life far from Earth. (Source: Seven Seas Entertainment) *Notes: Nominated for the Tsugimanga 2020 Award in the Web Manga Category.*

“Is this how I’m gonna die?” At the height of battle, a space sergeant meets her unfortunate end and enters the body of the cursed Miola de Langtree! Now this soldier-turned-princess’s only mission is to locate her spaceship and escape this fantasy world of frilly dresses and haughty manners. But the shuttle is nowhere to be found, a suspicious masked man is hounding her, and her own sister wants her dead?! Time for this sergeant to fight for survival the only way she knows how… by joining the prestigious Knights Order! Will she make it back to the stars she came from? Based on the hit novel. (Source: Tappytoon)

The truth behind those dreamy Magical Girls and Pretty Guardians who inspire children's dreams...?! A new tale of a Pretty Guardian that's both realistic AND totally awesome! (Source: MANGA Plus)

Our protagonist, Inoue Konoha is still being led around by his senpai, the Literature Club's President, self-acclaimed "Literature Girl" who loves stories so much that she can eat them, Amano Touko. One day, someone put in the Literature Club's "Love Consultation Post Box" a bunch of paper scraps that have the words like "Hate", "Ghost is" and a bunch of puzzling numbers on them. Calling the act as "picking a fight with the Literature Club", Touko once again got Konoha involved in her investigation; but when they found the culprit, this girl turned toward them, smile, then said "I'm already dead."

Kunimi and Hideaki are childhood friends. But lately, Hideaki is behaving coldly towards Kunimi. Why?