Collecting six years' worth of the column he has run in the pages of serial novel and culture critique magazine Da Vinci since 1997, Donki Korin employs a unique structural format. On the right page of every spread is a short essay sent in by a reader and chosen by Furuya, and on the left page is a four-panel comic drawn by Furuya relating to the essay. (Source: robots never sleep)
Yuki Yasaka, 14 years old. She is a girl at Hamanasu Junior High, an all-boys boarding school. Her life at the boys' school, filled with men who move with their instincts, is far more crazy than Yasaka ever imagined! The only person who knows Yasaka's secret that she is a woman is her classmate Shiraishi, and their confused days continue. A new kind of coming-of-age gag! (Source: Kadokawa, translated)
A collection of the latest unpublished short stories from 2015-2021 The book contains the autobiographical story "Sodom 1985 (Parts 1 and 2, 2020-2021), which depicts the author's encounter with "Lychee Light Club" Grand Guignol Theatre play, plus other works filled with the struggles and growth of impressionable boys and girls. The other chapters are homages to great works of literature and cinema: "Youth" (2015), originally by Tanizaki, "Death in Azabu-juban" (2018), in reference to "Death in Venice", "Female Student" (2018), originally by Osamu Dazai, & "Soma Kill Trailer" (2020)
Million Joe is the best manga of all time. A long running shounen action adventure series centering on a boy named Nyack and his quest to uncover the secret of Million Joe, known for its heavy use of foreshadowing and resolving old plot threads in a way that you can tell the author planned it out years in advance. Not only has this made it one of the best selling and most loved manga in Japan, if you include the anime and merch, it supports a trillion yen industry annually. This is not that manga. This is the story of the manga’s editor, Kurei Soichi. Once an aspiring manga artist himself, he now has one of the easiest jobs in the world… until he finds himself involved in one of the biggest cover-ups in all of manga history.
Anthology by various mangaka.
45 works from 43 Fellows! manga magazine contributors on the theme of swimsuits. (Source: Natalie, translated)
Dame Oyaji is the story of Damesuke Amano, a hapless office worker who faces a tremendous amount of bullying on the job and especially at home, where he has (contrary to traditional Japanese notions of family) absolutely no power or say in the runnings of the household whatsoever. Amano lives with his wife, Onibaba, his beautiful teenaged daughter Yukiko, and his grade-schooler son Takobo. Onibaba is an imposing, violent heifer of a woman who regularly berates and even physically assaults her husband and who enjoys nothing more than making his life miserable; Yukiko and Takobo frequently join in physically and psychologically abusing their father. The original manga is said to have been quite shocking to early 1970s Japan, in which the father was often still traditionally regarded as the head of the household. (Source: Wikipedia)
Ranka Kasabe is tired of being treated like a cute, innocent loli by her classmates. She is determined to make those damn boys treat her with respect! She is going to become a strong, independent woman! Make all the boys kneel before her! Under the guidance of the student council president, the natural-born bitch Erika Hanazono (Eri-chan!), Ranka aims to become a supreme bitch! A pure-hearted JK's bitch-transition comedy! (Source: Sunday Webry, translated)
For twelve years, the virtual world of Yggdrasil has served as the playground and battlefield for the skeletal lord Momonga and his guild of fellow monsters, Ainz Ooal Gown. But the guild's glory days are over, and the game is shutting down permanently. When Momonga logs in one last time just to be there when the servers go dark, something happens--and suddenly, fantasy is reality. A rogues' gallery of fanatically devoted NPCs is ready to obey his every order, but the world Momonga now inhabits is not the one he remembers. The game may be over, but the epic tale of Ainz Ooal Gown is only beginning... (Source: Yen Press)
Pirito is a utopia protected by the mechanical goddess Marie, who looms large as she orbits the skies above. Down in the factory town of Gil, Pipi’s heart yearns for Kai, but as the only one who can hear Marie’s ever-present music, will he be able to accept Pipi’s affection? (Source: One Peace Books) *Note: Includes a prologue and epilogue.*
After graduating from high school, Chiharu returns to Tokyo to start university, and spend another summer with his now-boyfriend Wataru. The two boys might be busy with their part-time jobs and schoolwork, but they're living in the same city again at last, which sets off new sparks and adventures. In addition to their usual weekend movie plans, they shake things up with a night out at a fireworks festival before continuing their summer pilgrimage to a deserted island. And then, when Wataru misses the last train home, he spends the night at Chiharu's. In return, Chiharu asks for just one thing... (Source: Kodansha USA)
Chiharu Saeki and Wataru Toda are two high school students who share a common hobby: They love to watch movies. After they meet, they become fast friends, until one day, when Chiharu confesses his love for Wataru. Wataru says that Chiharu’s confession doesn’t bother him, and the boys continue throughout their summer, going to pilgrimages to see film spots from their favorite movies. But the more time he spends with Chiharu, Wataru realizes that he may not only be as unaffected by Chiharu’s confession as he claimed to be, but those feelings may also be mutual… (Source: Kodansha USA)

