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An applicant-only bonus booklet featuring a parallel setting, with newly drawn manga by Shungiku Nakamura and a newly written story by Miyako Fujisaki.
63Rainbow Prelude is a manga by Osamu Tezuka, and also the name of one of his books in Kodansha's line of "Osamu Tezuka Manga Complete Works" books containing a collection of Tezuka's short stories. The stories included in the book are "Rainbow Prelude", "The Curtain is Still Blue Tonight", a manga version of Shakespeare's "The Merchant of Venice", "Peacock Shell", and "Song of the White Peacock". (Source: Wikipedia) Chapters: 1) **Niji no Prelude** (虹のプレリュード); Shuukan Shoujo Comic 1975/10/05-10/26 2) **Curtain wa Konya mo Aoi** (カーテンは今夜も青い); Shoujo Shinnen Zoukangou 1958/01 3) **Venice no Shounin** (ベニスの商人); Chuugaku 1-Nen Course Furoku 1959/04 4) **Kujakugai** (孔雀貝); Shoujo Club Furoku 1958/06 5) **Shiro Kujaku no Uta** (白くじゃくの歌); Nakayoshi Natsuyasumi Zoukangou 1959/09/15
In his third year of playing pro, the 20-year-old goalkeeper, Ao Kamiya, was selected for the Japan national team for the first time since he carried his club from the lower ranks to the third place. On the day of the match, Kamiya, who started in the latter half of the game, defended the goal from the national team, despite the heavy pressure. Meanwhile, Kamiya's "one-play" became a mess throughout the venue. This is another soccer drama presented by Takatoshi Nakamura, the author who wrote the award-winning 1/11. (Source: Kodansha, translated) **Included one-shot:** Volume 1: Hiraku
He never performed well in either middle nor high school, and even after becoming an adult, he never worked. Be it morning, noon or night, he only played an online game. For him, being the world’s number one rank, playing that online game, was his very reason for living. One day, his account was hacked and his character deleted. Restoration was impossible. Nothing that could be done. The number 1 rank that he literally spent his life to attain and to defend was now lost. Filled with despair, he turned to suicide. When he opened his eyes again, there was the online game. No, the world itself looked similar to the game. He had been reborn as the extra character of the premium avatar he created in the past, but left untouched. The former world’s top, was reborn in a world that looked like that online game. That was the beginning of his extraordinary legend. A knight, a cat, a dark elf, and so on. Together with several unique companions, his training to regain his “world’s first rank” now begins
"Grandoll" is a science fiction story whose theme is the invasion of Earth, featuring a boy's fight against aliens from outer space. As part of their plot to invade the Earth, the aliens send a doll that transforms itself into a human to the Earth. A junior high school student Utsuki Tetsuo, commonly known as Tecchin, is an ordinary boy without much willpower or ability to asset himself. One day on his way home from school he finds a girl's dead body on the street. While he goes to the police to report it, the girl's body disappears. Instead, he finds a strange doll there. Tetsuo brings the doll home and repairs the broken part. Then the doll instantly turns itself into the girl who appeared to be dead. It tells him that it is a "Grand doll," and that so is Tetsuo. A Grand doll looks just like an ordinary doll at first glance, but when rubbed on the neck, it turns into a human or a horse. When scratched on the neck, it becomes a doll again. It is the aliens from outer space who are scattering Grand dolls around the Earth. Actually, it is part of their plot to invade the Earth. When Tetsuo learns about this, he becomes determined to fight against the invaders with the help of his father, a newspaper reporter, and Yoko, his friend, despite the fear that he may be a Grand doll as well. (Source: tezukaosamu.net)
Even as a working adult, Sarasa Ichinokura suffers from an unshakable fatigue that’s plagued her since childhood. She goes to bed one night, exhausted from her office job, and encounters a goddess(?) who informs her that her perpetual lack of energy is actually due to a deficit of “mana.” Then, without any further explanation or time to process what’s happening to her, Sarasa is thrust into a fantasy world! She awakens in the body of a ten-year-old girl in a strange land filled with flying beasts and oversized wolves. She accordingly prepares for the worst, but a monster hunter named Nelly takes her in. The hitch is...now that Sarasa finally has the energy to do everything she wants to, being cooped up in a cabin is just no fun! She seeks to stand on her own in this scary new world—and that’s going to mean learning magic. It may be slow going, but Sarasa knows what to do—the best way to take her reincarnation is one step at a time! (Source: J-Novel Club)
A series of episodic chapters published in magazine Rakuen Le Paradis about its mascot character, Rakuen-kun.
Imagine a world where the insects of the Earth have decided to revolt and enslave humanity, and shrink them down to a size that would make them seem to be insects to the new Insect overlords. This new race of humanity is called Michroids, and they are trying to find their new role in the world…
The head of Thrill Hospital, Shunsaku Ban (better known by his nickname, “Dr. Thrill”), his eldest son Kenta, and even his dog, Jip are all addicts to the thriller storytelling genre – something that sometimes gets them in hot water as they attempt to solve all sorts of mysterious detective cases involving the hospital and its staff. (Source: Tezuka in English)
Based on the hit PS2 game of the same name. In ancient times, the Elemental world and our world were joined. No one knows why or when, but at some point in the past, they split. Now we live in our world, and the Arcana live in theirs. Behind the scenes, the Ministry of Elemental Affairs (MEA) has been working to protect the boundary between the worlds, for they know if the worlds ever merged into one again, the results would be disastrous for humanity. Now, in the skies over Tokyo, a dimensional rift is beginning to form, and the boundary between the worlds is in danger. Humanity's only hope rests with the Maidens, young girls who can communicate with the Arcana. What awaits these Maidens in the skies above...?
A collection of short stories by Hiroaki Samura. Volume 1 1. **Feng Li Nyan** (鳳梨娘); Vol.13 (2013/10) 2. **Kamakurian** (かまくりあん); Vol.2 (2010/2) 3. **Rakuen kara no Happy Birthday** (楽園からのハッピー・バースデー, A 4. Happy Birthday from Paradise); Vol.3 (2010/6) 4. **Tsutsu-izutsu** (筒井筒); Vol.4 (2010/10) 5. **Cop to Dorobou, Sono Tsuma to Aijin** (コップと泥棒、その妻と愛人, Cops and Robbers); Vol.5 (2011/2) 6. **Shinseiki God Slayer** (新世紀ゴッドスレイヤー, New Century Godslayer); Vol.6 (2011/6) 7. **Aoi Sangoshou** (青い珊瑚礁2011); Vol.7 (2011/10) 8. **Omlette no Omoide** (オムレツの想い出); Vol.8 (2012/2) 9. **Wakusei Solarisa** (惑星ソラリッサ); Vol.9 (2012/6) 10. **Kentanka Saigo no Bansan** (健啖家・最後の晩餐); Vol.10 (2012/10) 11. **Hitman Lizzy no Tsuioku** (殺し屋〈ヒットマン〉リジィの追憶); Vol.11 (2013/2) 12. **Ivan Gaulier** (イヴァン・ゴーリエ); Vol.12 (2013/6) Volume 2 1. **Ikusa Tsutae** (軍傳); Weekly Young Magazine 2016 #10 2. **Michizure Michi** (道連道); Vol.15 (2014/6) 3. **Epsilon no Shisha** (イプシロンの使者); Vol.16 (2014/10) 4. **Homo lophius** (ホモ・ロフィエス); Vol.17~19 (2015/2~10) 1 5. **Homo lophius** (ホモ・ロフィエス); Vol.17~19 (2015/2~10) 2 6. **Homo lophius** (ホモ・ロフィエス); Vol.17~19 (2015/2~10) 3 7. **Saikou! Grandma** (最高！グランマ); Vol.20 (2016/2) 8. **Jack no Kawasareshi Mono** (ジャックの買わされしもの); Vol.21 (2016/6) 9. **Denen Pyrexia** (田園パイレクシア); Vol.22 (2016/10) 10. **Karera no Sorekara** (彼らのそれから); Vol.23 (2017/2) 11. **Pregna Pregna** (ぷれぐなぷれぐな); Vol.14 (2014/2)