Who said the inferior job? Who cursed me as the weakest! [Village] is the strongest occupation !! The aim is-just “the strongest” !! Six major occupations Magic [Warrior] [Cleric] [Mage] [Blacksmith] [Explorer] [Scholar]. By repeating reincarnation, there was a great sage who became the strongest in the world in any occupational magic. However, he realizes that there is a limit to the strength of one occupational magic per life, and despairs. He was a wise man who was about to give up, but he was the only one who thought he couldn’t use magic. Discovering that the inferior job [villager] is actually a versatile job, he reincarnates. In this way, the great sage who was reborn as a [villager] silences the inferior jobs and the people who make a fool of him, and becomes the strongest in the world. A different world battle fantasy of a man who pursues insatiable strength!  Source: MU

his installment of Chikuma Bunko's "contemporary manga" series is curated by Riku Onda and looks at manga artists and works from the 1970's to today that has continued to innovate and develop the rich genre that is shoujo manga. 1. **Door no Naka no Watashi no Musuko** (ドアの中のわたしの息子) \[Moto Hagio\] 2. **Love❤Game** (ラブ❤ゲーム) \[Yukari Ichijou\] 3. **Sarmyu no Ie** (サーミュの家) \[Yasuko Sakata\] 4. **Tsuruhime Ja! (Excerpt)** (つる姫じゃ～っ！) \[Yoshiko Tsuchida\] 5. **Erika Akai Tsumijikaze** (エリカ赤いつむじ風) \[Suzue Miuchi\] 6. **Hanaoka-chan no Natsuyasumi** (花岡ちゃんの夏休み) \[Natsuno Kiyohara\] 7. **Saint Rosalind (Excerpt)** (聖ロザリンド) \[Masako Watanabe\] 8. **Gishiki from Ichimanjuu Byou Monogatari** (『一万十秒物語』より「儀式」) \[Emi Kurata\] 9. **Fresh Green no Kisetsu** (フレッシュグリーンの季節) \[Yukiko Shino\] 10. **Semishigure no Yamu Koro from Umimachi Dairy** (『海街ｄｉａｒｙ』より「蟬時雨のやむ頃」) \[Akimi Yoshida\]

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