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This original manga comic vividly describes how Tokyo would be like just before and immediately after a major earthquake. Imagine yourself in these situations and take actions to be prepared. **Note:** *This one-shot was published by the Tokyo Metropolitan Government.*
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Date Bashira is a series of stories about the Sengoku era in Japan. However, unlike most textbooks and historical mangas, Date Bashira does not focus on the Shogun or famous figures in history. Instead, it brings to light the untold stories of the things surrounding these famous figures. For example, one story tells about the role of how beautiful young men were always accompanying the shoguns into battle. As women were not allowed into a battle zone, the warlords would use these teenage boys to satisfy their sexual urges. A different chapter tells the history of the wives of the Shoguns and focuses on the female role in the Sengoku era. As young women were forced into arranged marriages, usually as peace offerings or spies, their husbands usually die in battle at a very early age, as it was the era of war. Date Bashira discusses the idea of remarriage for these women and if they were really in love or were playing the role of a wife. Date Bashira takes a different perspective at one of Japan’s most talked about era and even though it is informative, you never get the feeling of a lecture. The beautiful artwork, splash of comedy and the untold, yet interesting historical information really keeps the reader glued onto the pages.
Jin Mita, a farmer in the countryside, discovers a female knight lying in the rice paddy. When he asks the knight, who calls herself "Seraphim," about her story, it seems that she came from another world. The female knight, suddenly thrown into modern Japan, naturally has nowhere else to go, so Jin takes her in, and in exchange she'll help with his farm. Jin teaches Seraphim, who has no understanding of this world, about agriculture, modern society, and life in the countryside. However, they look just like an ordinary couple to everyone around them....... Before long, people all treated Seraphim like she's Jin's wife...! (Source: Dengeki Bunko, translated)
Raze was a prodigious priest who supported the legendary Hero. However, he was betrayed by the Hero with his party and sister being killed. He later absorbed the power of the Demon King and now seeks revenge on the Hero and the others that wronged him. (Source: KADOKAWA, translated)
Flush is the youngest son of the Garness family. His dad owns a Garness Foundation and now he is assigned by his dad to operate a Resort hotel away from home. Flush is only 16 years old and he doesn't want to operate the hotel at first but is tricked by his family to do that. Things are not that easy for him to manage the hotel though, when he meets Juno, whose her family runs the hotel business in the island where Flush is suppose to work there, not to mention unusual rivalry from another family whose want to compete his business with him.
The borderline between life and death that we are usually unaware of. When a person who is supposed to be living an ordinary life is drawn into malice and hatred by a single trigger, they quickly cross the boundary between life and death... Omnibus psycho-suspense horror drawn by the beautiful artist Kairi Shimotsuki!
A slapstick comedy, which re-imagines Michelle and Komachi as a police officers. br> (Source: MAL)
Cover illustration: Koi Inside cover comic: Meguro Sankichi Color illustrations: Hattori Mitsuru, Giuniu 1. **Hi no Ataru Basho e** (日の当たる場所へ) by Koyuki 2. **Sweets Attack!** (スイーツアタック！) by Shiba Yuusuke 3. **Yamato no Susume** (ヤマトノススメ) by Imigi Muru 4. **Futari no Shikenmae.** (二人の試験前。) by Mutou Tamura 5. **BBQ no Susume** (BBQのススメ) by Kaisanbutsu 6. **Kinchakuda no Susume** (巾着田のススメ) by RIO (RIO) 7. **Kouen no Susume** (公園のススメ) by Hayashi Yuuichi 8. **Eyes on Me** by 888 9. **Doyoubi Gogo no Tsudoi** (土曜日午後の集い) by Arai Harumaki 10. **Moru Girl** (漏るガール) by Nakajima Chizuna 11. **Tenpouzan no Susume** (天保山のススメ) by Oomiya 12. **Test no Tama no Susume** (テストのヤマノススメ) by Abe Kanari 13. **Fight Ippatsu.** (ファイトいっぱつ。) by Horiizumi Inko 14. **Futari no Okaimono** (ふたりのおかいもの) by Shouji Ayumu
About to start a new chapter in his life as a college freshman in Tokyo and trying to find an apartment to stay in, Mijou Kanata comes across real estate broker Nekome Jirou, who informs him of a special property in the Yuurakuchou district: a room with its own kitchen and toilet, and a monthly rent of 40,000 yen. Surprised by the relatively cheap rent (by Tokyo standards), Kanata signs on the rental agreement and is ushered to the property by Jirou. However, instead of the lively yet congenial district in Tokyo that he was expecting, Kanata is taken to a different Yuurakuchou: a town where ayakashi walk the streets, a place that sits between this world and the next.