Meet Rio: a callous orphaned boy living in the slums. At only 7-years-old, he realizes he’s actually the reincarnation of Haruto Amakawa, a Japanese university student with a tragic past. While still reeling from this shocking epiphany, Rio also comes to learn that he possesses extremely potent magical abilities and uses his new powers to solve the kidnapping case of a little girl. His good deed is acknowledged, and he’s rewarded by being enrolled into… a prestigious academy for noble children...? (Source: J-Novel Club)

No one loves Dueling more than Yuma Tsukumo, but unfortunately for him, no one is worse at it! This isn’t going to stop Yuma from trying though. When Yuma calls on the memory of his parents during the Duel, a strange being called Astral appears, and the encounter is the start of Yuma’s amazing Duel journey! (Source: VIZ Media)

An anthology comic of K-On! by various mangaka.

Rio is everything that Haruto wants in a girl: gentle, nurturing, and ladylike. The only problem is that she's the older sister of his best buddy Nao, and he fears that the difference in age means he's barely on her radar. If Haruto wants Rio to see him as more than her little brother's playmate, then he has to prove himself as a man in her eyes, no matter what it takes. Meanwhile, Nao grows frustrated with Sena, a loudmouthed friend of Rio's who's too nosy for her own good. But what irritates him more than the constant pestering is how she just can't see him as more than a little kid. Can he help her get a clue? Source: Bookwalker

This is a semi-autobiographical story of manga author Kazuichi Hanawa's time when he was taken in for a violation of bearing of arms. The main character really loves to collect guns, what can he to do about this? Nothing, really. He cant help it even if he is living in a country where its illegal to own any. All he can do is to continue his hobby and hope that nothing goes wrong. Well, it did go wrong and we follow his experience in prison. (Source: koufukuron.com)

Summoning ceremonies can freely call forth even "those which lurk in the depths beyond the gods". One boy has top-level abilities even among the cutting-edge summoners who can use those ceremonies. He is Alice (with) Rabbit aka Shiroyama Kyousuke. But this strongest boy summoner has a single fatal weakness. Certain "cursed words" spoken by girls: "Help me." When Kyousuke hears those words from Meinokawa Higan, a girl brought to the verge of death, he throws himself into a city where three great summoner forces clash! (Source: Baka-Tsuki)

Stepping into the world of your favorite book might sound like a dream come true, but for Maki Tazawa, this very opportunity presents a unique challenge. A passionate lover of BL novels in her previous life, Maki now gets to spend her days as princess Octavia, and enjoy the company of her favorite fictional couple—her brother, the crown prince Sirius, and his lover Lord Sil. But two men can’t produce an heir! As the story goes, in order to solve the problem of succession, princess Octavia agrees to a political marriage and offers up her own child to the throne. But this Octavia can’t accept such an unfair fate! So what if she lives in a BL novel? Her OTP achieved true love and she’s determined to do the same! (Source: Yen Press)

Kurai Karen is a rich ojou-sama with many suitors. She's in love with her butler, Ishibashi Megumi. Long ago, the two of them made a promise to be together forever. Now that they've grown up, Megumi seems to have forgotten, but Karen hasn't. A forbidden love between master and servant, what will happen to them?! (from BU)

From Ponent Mon: Seventeen authors (nine from France or French-speaking countries, eight from Japan) brought together in the same book, a succession of freely created short stories about the same universe: Japan. The French, of course, journeyed to Japan for the occasion. Each cartoonist was sent for two weeks to a different city in the archipelago (Joann Sfar in Tôkyô, Emmanuel Guibert in Kyôto, Nicolas de Crécy in Nagoya, etc.) to bring back an original creation. The Japanese tell us about their district, the city where they live or where they originally come from (Kazuichi Hanawa's story being about the northern island of Hokkaido, Jiro Taniguchi's about the town of Tottori, etc.) The result is often inspired, always surprising: Japan through new eyes. "Japan" will appear simultaneously in French, Japanese, Spanish, Italian and English. Along with "A Patch Of Dreams" by Hideji Oda, it is the first step in a series of international creations with left-to-right reading direction, created for us by some of the best European and Japanese comic book artists. List of included short stories: At the Seaside - [TAKAHAMA Kan](https://www.mangaupdates.com/authors.html?id=4331) The Gateway - David Prudhomme Summer Sky - [TANIGUCHI Jiro](https://www.mangaupdates.com/authors.html?id=714) Now I Can Die! - Aurélia Aurita Osaka 2034 - François Schuiten & Benoît Peeters Shin.Ichi. - Emmanual Guibert The New Gods - Nicolas de Crécy *Kankichi* - [MATSUMOTO Taiyou](https://www.mangaupdates.com/authors.html?id=361) The Tokyo of Qualtérou - Joann Sfar The Sunflower - [Little Fish](https://www.mangaupdates.com/authors.html?id=19995) The Song of the Crickets - [ANNO Moyoco](https://www.mangaupdates.com/authors.html?id=152) In Love Alley - [Frédéric Boilet](https://www.mangaupdates.com/authors.html?id=6069) The City of Trees - Fabrice Neaud The Festival of the Bell-Horses - [IGARASHI Daisuke](https://www.mangaupdates.com/authors.html?id=2216) In the Deep Forest - [HANAWA Kazuichi](https://www.mangaupdates.com/authors.html?id=2080) Sapporo Fiction - Étienne Davodeau

This story, also called *Hebi Onna*, is about the legend of the Snake-Woman. It is divided into 3 parts. 1-5. **Mama ga Kowai** (ママがこわい) Yumiko's mother is hospitalized. But after being discharged, the mother is acting strange, she quickly reveals to be the Snake-Woman, and she wants to devor the poor Yumiko! 6-14. **Madara no Shoujo** (まだらの少女) To recover from the events with the Snake-Woman, Yumiko is sent into the mountains to visit her cousin Kyouko. But at her arrival at the village, the people are afraid of Yumiko, saying that she is the Snake-Woman! 15-29. **Hebi Shoujo** (へび少女) (This is the origin story of the Snake-Woman, and also the fourth installment of the *Yamabiko Shimai* series.) Youko is a friend of Satsuki and Kanna. Her family is cursed since the time her grand-father injured a snake guardian spirit. After Youko's last relative is killed by a giant snake, a strange woman from a neighbor village adopts her, but somehow, Satsuki is worried about her friend.

"You’re great just the way you are." Even though Miku is 25 years old, she hasn’t learned a thing about how to do her own makeup -- but her boyfriend, Haru, tells her that he prefers her that way. Miku and Haru live together, after all, and they might get married, in which case she’ll just quit her job anyway, so it’s probably fine never to learn... At least, that’s what she tells herself. One day, a boy with a special love for makeup suddenly appears in her life. The beautiful stranger does Miku up gorgeously and Haru’s reaction to her new look is almost unbelievable--? A story of starting anew and taking one’s life back through makeup! (Source: MangaPlaza)

Considering herself to be a badass villain, Xiao Yixin doesn’t have the slightest interest in seeking redemption—not even when she’s in hell being sentenced. *“You are sentenced to be a good person in your next life. Now go and serve your term.”* This is how she ends up on the good men’s side and get her “good man”. *“Please don’t be mistaken! I…I…quenched the fire in your body just to complete my mission! There’s nothing unprofessional between us!”* (Source: MangaToon)