*Note: Winner of the Short Work Prize category of the 25th Annual Tezuka Osamu Cultural Prize (2021).*

After school, in an old high school gymnasium, a boy from the broadcasting club was found stabbed to death. The police immediately suspect the only person present in the locked gymnasium—the captain of the girls' table tennis club. Refusing to believe that their captain could be the culprit, a fellow club member seeks help from the school's top genius to uncover the truth. However, the genius turns out to be highly eccentric… (Source: Natalie, translated) Note: Manga adaptation of the first entry in Aosaki Yuugo's *Urazome Tenma* series.

Nobody even tries to understand me... I, Toui Kiminami, known as the school's number one problem child, have a dream for the future. For that dream, I couldn't care less about anything else. But one day, everything changes when I'm forced into an arranged marriage meeting by my father. Her name is Rira Shirahime—the school's most beautiful girl and top student, plus the daughter of a company president and an active model known as "S-Hime." Everything about her is the exact opposite of me. With a true nature vastly different from her outward appearance, she stands in the way of my dreams and even threatens to kiss me every day, taking it upon herself to reform me. This is bad. I have to do something about her quickly for the sake of my future... But it seems that even the seemingly invincible Shirahime has circumstances that require her to be perfect? (Source: Kadokawa, translated)

Apparel designer Himari enjoys working from home more and more, because she can order all sorts of delicious food delivered to her home! (Source: ComicWalker, translated)

*The countryside is jam-packed with mysteries!* — Nordic girl Åsa once again goes out into Japan in search of mysterious things – this time, it's Okinawa, Kyoto, southern Tohoku, Hiroshima, and Fukuoka. In Kyoto she's a geisha for a day, in Okinawa she's surprised when the convenience store clerk asks her if she wants her rice ball heated up, and in Tohoku she's moved by how vegetables are sold in unmanned stalls on the side of the road. (Soure: Kadokawa, translated) *Note: The chapter count includes one epilogue chapter.*

Rikuto Kaminuma is a high school nerd who loves building plastic models. He has been estranged from his childhood friend, Amagase Misora, for the past few years, but an unexpected cause brings them together again. The reason... nail polish! Rikuto's skill at painting plastic models comes in handy when he tries his hand at "nail painting"! Their relationship, so awkward at first, gradually becomes closer and closer... A love comedy where their feelings are communicated through their "fingertips"! (Source: Comic Alive, translated)

Shouta, a college student who suffers from hearing loss, and Ryu, a hairdresser, are best friends. As roommates, up till now their lives have been really good. But one day, Shouta gets confessed to by a girl! Although Shouta is pleased, Ryu becomes desperate to suppress his growing feelings.

On Japan's most western outlying island—— On the island's only middle school, the entire student population consisted of merely four people. And they're all guys. To make it worse, having a bunch of guys on this weak spirited southern country, there's nothing to do but play, skip school and waste away! In a way this is the ideal hometown....? How can that be true!! This is the unreasonable daily life of the people of the southern country, and Miyako who had finally come from the city and lives by his own unique set of rules.

Contains the main story from Izumi's point of view. Also contains the "Rescue EX" sidestory originally serialised online, telling the same story from Kazuhiro's point of view.

Let us begin... Fight for life and regain our joy! This is the prequel story to the game *takt op. Symphony*, featuring the musicart "Joy"! The musicart Joy, who has the power of music in her body, and Franz, an ordinary human soldier, did not get along at first. But they must work together to fight "D2," the entity that brings about disaster... (Source: ComicWalker, translated)