To commemorate the upcoming release of Bokujou Monogatari: Kimi to Sodatsu Shima (Island of Happiness), the Japanese children's magazine Shogaku San-Nen-Sei has published a 16-page manga story, drawn by the official Harvest Moon character illustrator, Igusa Matsuyama. The first chapter appears in the magazine's January 2007 edition, with a follow up chapter in their February edition. » Mark's Story Mark has crash landed on an island, and helps out the local family that took him in to start their first year of growing crops. » Chelsea's Story Chelsea accidentally hires two robbers, but they do a really good job of helping her out around the farm, and leave to become better people.
Gotou-san is a gal who lives a slow life at her own pace. One day, she meets a lady knight who was transported here from another world. The knight is bewildered by modern life, which is full of strange and unfamiliar things, but she gradually gets to know Gotou and begins to challenge herself in various ways. They go shopping in Shibuya, work at a part-time job, and so on....... They're living the Reiwa life to the max! This is a slapstick comedy between two very different but perfectly matched people! (Source: Kadokawa, translated)
An extremely abbreviated adaptation of the film starring Smash Mouth's unofficial mascot!
A confession, a childhood friend, and letters of love. Starting the year with something short and sweet I offer you a story about love between childhood friends. One yearning, and one feeling undeserving. Nothing overly special about the story but I felt it had a nice development to it and a lovely artstyle. Not too elaborate but with a warm charm. A quick 22 pages of osananajimi romance to warm you up on this cold winter day.
"Nagamori Tomoka, you have been chosen as Choco's 'friend'. Nice to meet you, okay?" As a human weapon, she protects the Earth from giant life forms. On one of those days, Nagamori Tomoka met a single 'girl'. Robot. The girl personally introduced herself as such. According to the shady, doctor looking man beside her, her name seems to be 'Choco'. Choco seems to have chosen me as her 'friend'. "Tomoka, I have a question. What is a friend?" Don't you know. ...No, wait. Do I know the meaning of that? In a way, she was an existence that was more unrealistic that a giant robot. A machine with eyes prettier than any human. This is the meeting between Choco and I. (Source: Translated from official description)
One day, Kai, a normal high school student, receives an email inviting him to try a mysterious new cellphone game. But the people whose picture he takes with the application, "SLAVE GO," go missing one after another... A vicious and cruel game begins...!
1. **Docchi ga Akuma YO?** (Docchi ga Akuma YO?) Liz, a devil apprentice, comes to the human world where his final examination to become a full-fledged devil takes place. The content of the examination is to make Kanato, a boy, unhappy within seven days. Being affectionate by nature, Liz fails no matter what she tries. 2. **Strange x Strap** (ストレンジ×ストラップ) 3. **Love Delivery** (ラブデリバリー) 4. **Lazy Crazy Cupid** (レイジー・クレイジー・キューピッド) 5. **Skajan☆Junkie** (スカジャン☆ジャンキー) 6. **Chinpira Chost** (チンピラゴースト)
Ten, a postdoctoral researcher, and Tomoharu, a fourth-year university student and a team member of the same lab, clash so much to the point that it puts the people around them on edge… It’s just a pretense, though. In reality, despite their age difference, they were childhood friends. Tomohau has loved Ten since childhood and calls him “Ten-kun” and even goes as far as to follow him to the same university. Because of Ten’s love for his research, he has no time to respond to Tomoharu’s approach. But, Tomoharu himself is not expecting Ten to say, "I don't think he'll turn his back on me..."? (Source: Kadokawa, translated)
We came from the far future, where most of the adults have disappeared as if they vanished into thin air and all of the children are managed by a few adults. To discover the cause behind human extinction and to evade it from that root cause... That's what we had jumped to the past for, supposedly. A boy sitting in the seats of a movie theater fidgets with his cellphone. "Before aptitude or anything, trying to change the future with just five kids? You would think there's a limit to lack of planning," he typed on his cellphone. The boys wonder if they had really come to the past. Why? Because, ever since they arrived, they haven't stepped one foot outside this theater.
The series follows genius surgeon Akira Kirihara, who is suddenly reborn as Chiara Bellworth, the protagonist of "Cinderella's Engagement." In this world, all wounds are healed by magic, and those whose injuries cannot be healed are abandoned. Kiara comes to the medical aid of Prince Cecil's follower. Impressed with her power, he proposes to her in hopes of reforming the country's medical system. (Source: Anime News Network)
Itsuki Ichigohara is a married high-school teacher in her late 20's, who finds herself involved with a high school girl, her student, who is 10 years younger. The student's name is Rin Togawa. She is taller than Itsuki, with a beautiful face, mild-mannered but a little childish sometimes. Rin is a good girl, but she has problems in her family life, and as Itsuki tries to counsel her, they somehow end up kissing in bed together. This is an adulterous betrayal, not to mention a crime. How could she have got herself into such trouble that could only lead to her own destruction? — How could I have let this happen? It is a lewd and immoral, but somehow heartwarming relationship. A love story between a female teacher and her female student. (Source: Kadokawa, translated)

