https://mechacomic.jp/books/230219 "I'll become your boyfriend, Minami." High schooler Minami Kayano is deeply in love with her childhood friend, Kei Ichigaya. However, fearing it might ruin their relationship, she keeps her feelings to herself. One day, a senior at school named Ide confesses his feelings to her. Although she politely declines, she unfortunately begins to experience stalker-like behavior from him. While in a deserted area, the senior grabs her arm, putting her in a difficult situation. Suddenly, Kei arrives to help, saying, "What are you doing to my girlfriend?" To protect her, Kei begins acting as her boyfriend. Even though it is supposed to be a fake relationship, he starts acting more boldly, telling her, "You should be more aware that you're my girlfriend." Will their relationship as childhood friends undergo a major change? A heart-pounding secret relationship with her childhood friend begins!

Includes the following oneshots and illustrations: Two Warriors (by Hirata Hiroshi) Down Time (Tamori Yousuke) The Mask of the Red Dwarf Star (Hoshino Yukinobu) Olai Portfolio - a few pages of Olai's illustrations The Watermelon Messiah (Otomo Katsuhiro) Midsummer Night's Dream (Lee Marrs & Miyanishi Keizo) The Great Ten (Miyama Noboru) Schizophrenia (Fukuyama Youji) - also included in [B♭ no Sonata](https://www.mangaupdates.com/series.html?id=9859) The Promise (Mukaide Masaichi) Cat In Animation (Wako Masayuki)

"The head of Isami Endo... Do you know about it?" Kai, which are weapons in the form of reanimated corpses, haunt the world... What will these men accomplish by manipulating the life and death of people...?

Exceptionally talented with makeup, a young and beautiful beauty merchant, Sohwa, plays a decisive role with a courtesan who wants to be married by an influential politician. Love, intrigues, power games and seduction in Korea of the late seventeenth century.

Second part of the Hidan no Aria manga adaptation, adapting volumes 7 through 9.

Become a traitor. Kijima Heihachiro is a masked second-hand bookshop owner who sorts out things that "should not exist" in the official history. (Source: Kodansha, translated)

Following a long war, the Inorganics got hold of space as a whole. Even the great warriors of Zax from the Aqualoid planet couldn't defeat them. Rasa and Nam are the last generation of its dying people. In order to bring back freedom and its past glory, they go on a quest to find the sacred sword Shed. But in order to reach it, one must infiltrate the forbidden area : the Inorganics' temple. (Source: Black Box, translated)

Before Glenn Litbeit opened his own clinic, he was just a med student—in an academy full of monsters! Take a trip back through time in this prequel volume about young Glenn’s trainee days at the lab run by his upperclassmen Sapphee and Lime. Dog-headed girls, hypersensitive marionettes, amorous silkworm-ladies and more—with such tantalizing adventures in consultation under his belt, it’s no wonder Glenn became the doctoral sensation he did! (Source: Seven Seas Entertainment)

The study of folklore as an academic discipline was founded by Yanagida Kunio, a university scholar of the Showa period. However, there was another scholar, Hyodo Kitakami, who dared to investigate the heretical stories that had to be discarded in the process of making folklore into science! (Source: Kodansha, translated)

Second and last part of the short stories collection that expand the world and characters from *The Ancient Magus’ Bride* manga. The world of The Ancient Magus’ Bride is bigger than Elias and Chise, and many are the folk and spirits who cross their lives’ path. Their tales are woven into a tapestry, words like silver yarn, twining together emotions and warmth. Held within these pages are new stories of Kore Yamazaki’s fantastic Britain, penned by the author herself and a star-studded lineup of Japanese authors. From the story of a very strange brownie to gangsters and dragon eggs, and a mage who finds a clutch of magical silkworms, let this spell-binding collection return you to the hidden corners of a beloved fantasy world.

Liz, the daughter of a margrave, is told that she could never be loved, and has her engagement called off by her former fiancé, a baron by the name of Physalis. After years of facing ab\*se from her family and mysterious pains, Liz is finally forced her out of the estate with her family set on offering her up to as a bride to the "cursed duke"... formerly a hero of the kingdom, Lord Rishin. Rumor has it that he himself had an engagement called off due to his apparent violent nature, but things turn out to be quite the opposite...! After years of never finding someone to understand the pain they've carried, the two set out to find true happiness! (Source: MangaPlaza)