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Sunday Battle 8, Round 56 Theme: Maids (Source: Sunday Webry, translated)
-The thirty-ish OL Mai was given tickets to a college soccer game and went to let out her stress from work. After the game, she ran into the star of the team Iwai at an izakaya, and he asked her out to go see a soccer game with him! Despite their age gap, she couldn't help falling for his intense and earnest love that goes straight to her heart! (Source: Kodansha, translated)
The February issue of Tokuma Shoten's Animage magazine will start a novel adaptation for the series. The novel will serve as both a prequel and a spinoff to the upcoming anime Kochoki: Wakaki Nobunaga.
300 years after the Death of Star Face, marionettes were created with maiden circuits based on the six originals, however, the maiden circuits have degenerated in each generation of marionettes, and marionettes with defective maiden circuits become rogue marionettes that go berserk and destroy anything in their path. Kitajima, the daughter of the late professor Kitajima who was researching the cure for maiden circuits going out of control, wishes to finish her late father’s work and is looking for the “Inheritance of Face”. It is said to contain the answers as to why later maiden circuits are going haywire. But as they went to investigate the tomb of Face, they were attacked by a group of rogue marionettes and they were rescued by a strange marionette who calls herself, Zero. *Note: This series was originally written as an OVA sequel for Saber Marionette R, but it was later abandoned. Instead, an 8 chapter serial was released. The first 7 chapters are manga, while the last chapter was released in novel format. This chapter is not included in this entry.*
The fully automated theme park, 'Toy Paradise'!! It's supposed to be a fun place, but has it changed!? A disaster, horror story about a robot world that has turned frightful!!
A bittersweet love story with a smoking salaryman who is a regular customer at her part-time job. (Source: Comic Days, translated) *Note: Originally published in Dessert Pink 2022 June issue.*
A collection of fantasy one-shots published with edition 10/2019 of Flowers. Contains an extra chapter for Yuki Kodama's *Chiisako no Niwa*.
