Eiji Mizuno, a high school student, receives the worst possible news from his sister: she has a boyfriend. In order to identify the man who took his sister away from him, he follows her on a date, but a suspicious shadow is watching both of them in the same way. It is Aoi Hasegawa, a classmate known to hate men despite her beauty. And her brother is the boyfriend in question! So they enter into a joint relationship in order to separate their brother and sister, and end up dating as fake lovers.
Suzune gives up her goal of becoming a prima ballerina. When her father is injured, she takes his place as a teacher of a ballet class. But all of her students are handsome young men...!
Tsuruko, the eldest sister of the once-wealthy Makioka family, clings obstinately to the prestige of her family name even as her husband prepares to move their household to Tokyo, where that name means nothing. Sachiko compromises valiantly to secure the future of her younger sisters. The shy, unmarried Yukiko is a hostage to her family's exacting standards, while the spirited Taeko rebels by flinging herself into scandalous romantic alliances and dreaming of studying fashion design in France. Filled with vignettes of a vanishing way of life, Sasameyuki is a poignant yet unsparing portrait of a family—and an entire society—sliding into the abyss of modernity. (Source: Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group, edited)
Hey, what will you dye today? My cat has become a Nekomata. This is the story of a dyeing shop run by a non-human spirit called Nekomata in a house on the outskirts of town! (Source: Takeshobo, translated)
Maison Puana is a shared house in Osaka where seven women who range from their 20's to 60's live. There is a rule that every Friday night, all seven of them gather at the table for dinner. They share their problems and worries over seasonal cuisine and live vigorous lives. (Source: Akita Shoten, translated)
A Chinese fantasy in which a girl with an extraordinary talent for perfumery and a prince with no sense of smell gather together the "Hundred Fragrances," scents that have the power to change the laws of the world, and challenge a royal palace where tyranny is rampant! (Source: BE LOVE, translated)
“I’m good at support roles, can I join your party?" Ragdishart, a young explorer, has the ability "Enhancer": an ability only chosen by 1 in 100, and is infamously considered the weakest ability ever. No-one would let him in their party, but little do they know, he holds a second, more powerful ability. "Multitasking", which means he can simultaneously control 10 or more arts. Requring superhuman concentration ability, it take him only 3 minutes to be able to strengthen his physical ability 1024-fold. Hence, Ragdishart is both the “weakest” and “strongest”. In his adventures, he travels to a ruined tower that extends to the moon, called “Lunatic Babel”. When boy meets deity, the story begins. Source: NU
