In 1989, in the midst of the bubble economy, a series was published in the magazine "Big Comic Spirits", titled "Even a Monkey Can Draw Manga" (nicknamed "Saruman&quot😉, becoming a huge topic all over Japan as an introductory manga that broke through all the taboos in the manga world. It was cancelled. Eighteen years later, in 2007, the sequel "Saruman 2.0" began to be serialized in the magazine "IKKI". However, soon after, Aihara and Takekuma violently confronted each other due to differences in production policies, and the two declared that the serialization would be cancelled after only eight chapters. After this historic "Tragedy of Saruman 2.0", the name "Saruman 2.0" became taboo, even in the industry. Ten years later, in 2017, the series was collected into a book by underhanded negotiations and tenacious efforts to the relevant parties. What was the real reason why the serialization was interrupted at that time? And what happened to the relationship between the two? At the roundtable discussion recorded in this book, the people concerned gathered together for the first time in 10 years to confess the truth of what happened. Included at the end of the book: Aihara and Takekuma's gravure article "I want to take off far away" (first recorded in a book, 10 pages, full color) as well as the short story "Saruman 21" (reproducing the color pages from the magazine serialization for the first time). [Source: Translated synopsis from ebookjapan]

"All I wanted was simply for it to be just the two of us, yet..." Senri is young man who can hear the voices of plants, an envoy of the gods. As a watchman for the gods of heaven and earth, his role is to cut down the gods that have been made impure, returning them to heaven where they will be reincarnated. He travels with a kitsune named Shino all for the sake of undoing the curse of the one he loves.

**Lovely Sorcerer**, a high-difficulty romance action RPG where mastering heroine conquest is a challenge, follows a man who loved this game so much that he ran a strategy guide website in real life. He’s reincarnated into the world of the game as an obscure mob noble whose name wasn’t even mentioned in the main story... “Hermes? I don’t remember this character... but wait, this guy has *All-Attribute Proficiency*!” He gains the dream ability (stats) to become the strongest! Fueled by his gamer blood, he thinks: “Since I’m a mob character, going all out to reach ultimate strength will definitely be fun!!” But instead of building the strongest character freely, he unexpectedly becomes the center of attention at the academy! Even the heroines who were supposed to end up with the main protagonist start flocking to him?! Thus begins the journey to create the ultimate gamer-crafted overpowered character! (Source: Kadokawa, translated)

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The famous painters of Edo Period Japan like Toriyama Sekien battle against fierce yokai with the help of their traditional art.