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-A collection of episodic stories with recurring characters, each volume focusing on different story, including: Volume 1: 水蜻蛉の庭 - Mizutonbo garden Volume 2: 金魚草の池 - Snapdragon pond Volume 3: 地図苔の森 - Map lichen forest Volume 4: 火輪花の丘 - Hiwahana hill Volume 5: 木珊瑚の島 - Tree coral island Volume 6: 土筆柑の空
Manga artist Masumi Sudou had a cat. His name was Yuzu. She would chronicle her life with him over the course of multiple essay manga series, such as *Donguri-kun* and the concisely titled *Yuzu*. *Nagai Nagai Sanpo* (lit. *A Long, Long Walk*) is the last of those chapters, and tells the story of a woman, her beloved cat, and the last of their time together on this Earth.
In the spring of her senior year of high school, Ryukka Borg, the world's first AI cartoonist, transfers to Yuka Amaryu's class. Ryukka was created based on Yuka's personality when she was an eighth grader who participated in an AI development experiment. Yuka, who once aspired to be a manga artist herself but gave up on that dream, distances herself from the successful Ryukka. When she is asked to run for the student council, Ryuukka asks Yuka for a condition in return. Why did Ryukka transfer to this school? And what does she want from Yuka? (Source: Ichijinsha, translated)
The story follows the adventures of Filena, the only survivor of the royal family in the ocean kingdom of Filosena which is destroyed by the ruling empire. She is brought up as a boy slave and gladiator, and enters the gladiatorial games designed by the Empire to keep the masses happy. Young slave boys are trained as gladiators and girls are forced into prostitution. Filena befriends Lila, a slave assigned to be Filena's bed-mate before her first gladiatorial bout, and sets off on a journey with Lila to free her homeland from tyranny and discover her true past. Source: Wikipedia *Note: Chapter count includes 12 prologue and epilogue chapters*
