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From Crossed Hearts: Su Yao is 175cm tall and painfully aware of it. Liu Xi is 160cm, close enough that Su Yao never knows where to place her hands, her gaze, or her heart. It begins with an excuse to meet so small no one questions it. “Can I borrow your textbook?” One excuse turns into another. A shared desk. A sleeve tugged. A warm smile. Su Yao insists she’s only being thoughtful, only being kind, but every time Liu Xi tilts her head and looks up, something inside Su Yao falters. Between after-school corridors and stolen glances, the distance between them tightens until breathing feels dangerous and standing still feels worse. What if she reaches out? What if she doesn’t? A high-school yuri romance about first love, unspoken longing, and the aching sweetness of wanting someone who is already within arm's reach, and wishing, desperately, to be closer still.
Collects the author's various one-shots published from 2014-2019 in manga magazine Suika Toko no Tane. Introducing seven works with a unique, dreamy style: 1. The Karman Line 2. Yoru to Koe (Night and Voice) 3. Blue Moment 4. Suna no Yume (Dream of Sand) 5. Hanten no Hoshizora (Half Star Sky) 6. Intermodulation 7. Ari-kan no Hyouhon-shitsu (Specimen Room of Existence) Kotaro’s works pulse with a vibrant curiosity and subtle beauty. The figures in these stories exist in a place that is simultaneously unearthly and deeply known. Toeing up to, circumscribing, and traversing the wavering boundaries at the edge of imagination, these comics are both a visual revelry and a respectful, even somber, introspection into what it means to be human.
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As a result of a strange encounter with a mysterious carcinogenic fetus he found inside a patient’s skull, brain surgeon Minakata Jin has slipped back through time. Equipped with modern medical knowledge, he faces various fatal diseases and injuries. Then, he meets the ordinary people of Edo as well as illustrious figures, and his surgical knife carves out a new history and story of life. **Note:** Won the Grand Prize at Tezuka Osamu Cultural Prize in 2011.
One day, Harusho Arisawa, a second-year junior-high boy, went over to the house of his best friend, Hisashi Misumi. That was when he meets and falls in love at first sight with Rio, Hisashi's beautiful college freshman sister. Is it just an innocent boyhood crush or...? (Source: Comic POOL, translated)
Our hopeless MC confesses to the toughest girl at school and gets shot down immediately. But she says she'll give him a chance... if he passes her crash-course on treating her like a human being! (Source: Irodori Comics) *Note: The manga got licensed by Kadokawa on 2022 and got its first official volume published on January 27, 2022.*
A fluffy story about a coworker who can't express her love for her subordinate. Fomerly published by the author on his twitter. Ended after a serialized version was greenlit **Note:** includes Chapter 19.5 (Tanabata Special)
An office lady is confessed to by a much-younger man but is insecure about entering a relationship with him.
The story of a shy girl, her curse, and her boyfriend who loves and accepts her in spite of it.
Original Webcomic: [Pixiv](https://www.pixiv.net/en/artworks/94000776), Twitter
