*Note: Includes the one-shot Mama ni Blue Rose wo (ママに青い花を).*

A collection of one-shots from Harta contributors on the theme of women with "slender" bodies.

Sword god Song Tianfan, betrayed by his disciples, obtains the Soul of the Reincarnation Dragon and returns to the past to rewrite the future. This time, he doesn’t seek to be invincible – only to never lose. When his sword sings, armies fall. **Original Novel:** Qimao, Shiqi, Zongheng, IQIYI **Official Translations:** English

Sequel to *Koukou Debut*, this one-shot takes place 11 months after the end of *Koukou Debut* and tells what happens during the Golden Week after Yoh left for college in Tokyo. It's been some time since Yoh left and Haruna has started another part-time job to pay for all those phone calls and plane tickets. In addition, her new manager is a total jerk who keeps her reminding that her long-distance relationship won't last long. What will happen to Haruna's insecurities in her Long-Distance Love Debut?

Nazuna Saito began making comics late. She was in her forties when she submitted a story to a major Japanese publishing house and won an award for newcomers. She continued to work through the 1990s until she stopped drawing to take care of her ailing parents. In her sixties, she took a job teaching drawing at Kyoto Seika University and became inspired by her talented students. When she returned to teaching, her storytelling interests had shifted. Before suffering a stroke she drew “In Captivity” (2012) and “Solitary Death Building” (2015)—both focused on aging and death. Offshore Lightning collects Saito’s early work as well as these two recent graphic novellas. Stories like “Buy Dog Food and Go Home” and “Offshore Lightning” focus on middle-aged men caught in a cycle of self pity and self reflection. Saito gently pokes fun at their anguish and self-involvement while capturing the pathos of these men as they revisit childhood friendships and lost loves. By contrast, “In Captivity” follows three siblings visiting their ailing mother who is succumbing to dementia and resentful at her loss of agency. The siblings take a drive as they reckon with balancing the painful legacy of her caustic personality with attempting to honor this woman at the end of her life. “Solitary Death Building” documents an eccentric cast of elderly gossips as death descends upon the housing complex where they all live.. 1. **Toward The Sunset** (夕暮れへ) 2. **Offshore Lighting** (沖の稲妻) 3. **Parakeet God** (インコの神) 4. **Buy Dog Food, Then Go Home** (ドッグフードを買ってお家に帰ろう) 5. **Countdown** (カウントダウン) 6. **A Mother of Pearl Ship** (螺鈿の舟) 7. **Gingko** (銀杏) 8. **Upskirt** (スカートの中) 9. **In Captivity** (トラワレノヒト) 10. **House of Solitary Death** (ぼっち死の館) (Source: Drawn & Quarterly)

Today, I'm up to no good again! It was all part of my grand scheme to retire from the Heroine gig. So, why is the king still infatuated with me?! **Official Translations:** English: [Coolmic](https://coolmic.me/titles/3067), [Renta](https://www.ebookrenta.com/renta/sc/frm/item/147321/), [MangaPlaza](https://mangaplaza.com/title/0303008803/) Others: [Korean](https://page.kakao.com/content/65025066), [S.Chinese](https://www.kuaikanmanhua.com/web/topic/27283)

An everyday tale of drugs, cross-species sex, murder and cannibalism in an over-populated and famine-ridden future. (Source: AnimeNewsNetwork) *Note: This work was published in English as part of the anthology "Secret Comics Japan: Underground Comics Now".*

Upcoming starlet Missy Klein is getting married to Ian Lawson, founder of the SpinTrax recording label, and From This Moment, Nashville's hottest wedding planners, have gotten the contract to arrange the wedding. There's only one problem — cofounder and photographer Briana Harper had a college romance with Ian, and they're now stuck in a snowed-in cabin! With the relationship warming up faster than the weather outside, Briana and Ian start to reconnect… but Ian's abandonment of his own music career to pursue the business side of things has always irked Briana. She begins to ask herself if she could get together with Ian again, but how is that possible when he's getting married to the mother of his unborn child? (Source: Renta!)

Prior to her impending arranged marriage to a grand duke, Allegra goes to a masquerade ball. She figures it'll be the last party she attends as an unmarried woman and is eager to let herself go. Then a man dressed up as the God of Death appears before her. The attraction between them is undeniable, and before Allegra can stop to think through the consequences, she loses her virginity to the masked stranger. A few weeks later, she discovers that she's pregnant and is shocked to find out the identity of the mysterious man. It was Cristian Acosta, her brother's best friend...and the man who caused her to have an inferiority complex. She can't believe that the arrogant Spanish duke is the father of her child... (Source: Renta!)