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Psyche tells the story of a high school boy named Naoyuki Sagata whose life completely changes after an airline accident his family was caught in. He is an extremely messed up person. He is also an artist, a socially awkward boy and a lost child. (Source: translation-blog.tumblr.com, edited)
Sengoku was a period when Japan was in war, a period when humans were still able to communicate with Gods. Young Sarutahiko has died because of the struggle, but he will be resurrected and turn into an immortal thanks to a God's power in exchange of consuming his sister's life day by day. To save her, Sarutahiko will ask for help to the God of the Mountain, but instead, he meets a beautiful young girl... What is the true identity of this girl?! What kind of God is capable of granting wishes in exchange of souls, blood and death...?!
Former around-forty corporate slave salaryman Okuno Soushi is reincarnated into a somewhat game-like different world. At the same time, he seems to have “awakened,” gaining the ability to use powerful “skills” that normal humans cannot. His chronic shoulder stiffness built up over years of overwork vanishes, and riding the wave of that emotion, he just keeps swinging weapons, training like crazy, piling up skills, and heading into dungeons… Life in another world quickly feels natural to him. His growth curve, however, has one particular trait: all of his skills are heavily specialized in physical power—!?
MAGiMAGi is a story about a girl named Akira. Ever since she was little she's loved mythical fantasy books about magicians and can't wait to grow up to be an author so she can write about magic. She has always believed in magicians and she believes that one day a magician will appear and whisk her off to magical land so she can escape the world she lives in, where nobody is interested in magic or her dreams of magical worlds. And then, after another humdrum day in the real world, she falls through a manhole, and finds herself in what might just be the world she's been looking for... (Source: Wikipedia)
A short encounter guided by fate during the Coronavirus pandemic.
Enemies outside, and enemies within — a realistic portrayal of the Battle of Okinawa and its aftermath is depicted in this profound human drama, which won the Grand Prize in the Manga Division at the 7th Japan Media Arts Festival. In the title story "Kajimunugatai," the people of a village unite to fight against three rapacious American soldiers. (Source: Kodansha, translated)
The main character Luke has been an adventurer for fifteen years, but he could only use the skill Repair. Because of that he was known as the eternal E-Rank, third-rate adventurer. One day Luke was hired for cheap by a hero’s party to do odd jobs when he was forced to bear the consequences, caused by the hero's mistake and was left behind in the labyrinth of a difficult-to-clear dungeon. Luke was prepared for death, but his Repair skill evolved during his survival from the brink of death and Luke managed to escape. Now that Luke had returned alive, he decided to stop doing dangerous jobs and turned over a new leaf. Using his evolved Repair skill, Luke opened up a weapon shop for adventurers in a village with a small dungeon. He aimed for a slow life with his second life. His second life, where he lived quietly and comfortably at least, that’s what he thought, when a major incident shaking the entire country appeared before Luke’s eyes?
