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Sakuma is a designer for a clothing company whose clothes don't sell well. To help improve her abilities, her boss Mizuno told her to participate in an external design competition. Her partner in this venture is Keito Tada, a top sales representative. Tada is a standout at work, who's direct with his opinions, just the type of person that Sakuma is not good at dealing with... What's more, from the first day of their meeting, Tada's brilliance forces Sakuma to become aware of her own weaknesses.
A crime is done repeatedly every year according to the rule... Horokusa, a detective residing in the Akogi apartments, receives an enigmatic request that is related to the series of murders occurring in the city of Nagono...
Mizutani Minato, a high school girl, has not fit in at her new school ever since she started attending a different school from her middle school friends. Her shy personality has kept her from making friends and engaging with her classmates. Through an unexpected turn of events, she joins the astronomy club in school, consisting of three students considered to be the weirdest and seen as outcasts in the entire campus. The club consists of Aida Souji, the smartest student in the entire freshman class, Kousaka Ranko, the second most brilliant and ridiculously strong, and Yakigawa Yoichi. They all have dreams of becoming members of NASA and studying the fascinating universe. The four kids of the astronomy club rename themselves “Soramiyo” a name made by taking the first letter from each of the members' name. Minato slowly learns through the Soramiyo club how to become confident in who she really is and the importance of having great friends.
At the end of the age of shogunates, a great man is given a second chance to restore a crumbling, feudal Japan. Toward the end of the Edo Period, samurai and visionary Sakamoto Ryouma led a revolutionary movement to overthrow the Takagawa Shogunate. Inspired by the Western principle of "all men created equal", he envisioned a modern Japanese government, free of oppressive feudalism. In 1867, he and his close friend Nakaoka Shintaro were assasinated before his dreams could be realized. Tenshou no Ryouma explores the historical alternative-universe where Ryouma is saved through Shintaro's sacrifice. Given this second chance, will Ryouma finally be able to establish a new, modern Japan?
For another chance, to stay with her this time. *Note: Originally published in Comic Yuri-Hime 2021 May issue.*
One day, the Literature Club lends out its chairs to other clubs, leaving only a single chair behind. Shou and Yuzu are the only two left in the clubroom, and they end up in a lighthearted argument over who should sit in the remaining chair. Each wants the other to take the seat, and neither is willing to back down out of kindness. In the end, Yuzu gets her way, and Shou is forced to sit in the chair alone. Shou feels bad about being the only one sitting... until a sudden idea strikes him. “If I’m sitting in the chair, then I can become the chair and let Senpai Yuzu sit on my lap, right?” Or so he thinks.
When Kate unexpectedly ends up in another world, the one who rescues her is the supreme commander Arios, a man as overprotective as he is handsome. Everyday, he follows her no matter what... she can’t stand it anymore! In order to escape this new lifestyle, Kate ends up getting a job but...? The long-awaited slapstick romcom fantasy manga adaptation! (Source: Alphapolis, translated) *Note: Includes one extra chapter.*
The student Honami leaves her worshipers in turn flash off, because it is clear to her that her boyfriend must wear glasses. When her childhood friend Kazuma moves to her school, she realizes to her surprise that he has become a cool wearer of glasses. But on a date he reveals to her that he is emigrating to America soon and his glasses are just fake... In addition, two short stories are included. One is about Miho, who is unfortunately too attached and therefore constantly abandoned. Maybe she finally finds happiness now? In the other story, Hiro and Mimi have a long-distance relationship. Suddenly Hiro distances himself. Does that mean something bad?
In an elf girl's hands is a book: "A Man with No Hands and a Girl with No Feet." Together, they travel the world... to the unknown reaches of the earth. What does the elf girl gain and what does she lose as she reads this story... (Source: Shueisha, translated)
A compilation artbook/manga anthology, by Range Murata, with contributions by various artists. The title aims to harness talents from global creative hotbeds like London, Paris and New York and create something more than the average manga artbook through collaborations with American and European creatives. Every issue will reveal the huge variety of talent the Japanese illustration and manga worlds have to offer, giving insight into their work and thought processes through various features.