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Hard-working female office worker, Warriors in the Chinese world. As a reincarnated courtesan, she unravels the mysteries of the Imperial Palace! But Nagamine, 28 years old, is a hardworking and poor female office worker whose creed is "If you don't work, you don't eat. Both work and love have been a bit stagnant lately. One day, she comes across her boyfriend cheating on her with her best friend. When she tries to chase after him, she gets hit by a car, and when she wakes up, she finds herself reincarnated in a past world that looks like China! Right next to her is a bloodied corpse. Unable to comprehend the situation at all, he is mistaken for the murderer and imprisoned. However, he is rescued by Zhao Zijin, a nephew of the emperor and a military officer. From the stories of those around her, it seems that Butei has been reincarnated in the body of Nanrin, a courtesan with the same name as herself. Butei, who has taken up residence in Zijin's mansion, uses her many skills, which were completely useless in her current life, to help Zijin and others around her. Butei's activities caught the emperor's ear, and she was ordered by him to work as a courtesan at the Xianghua Palace! As a backdoor mission, Rin was ordered to spy on the emperor and encountered many strange incidents in the palace. ......?
Brainwashing. What began as a simple way to influence employees to work their hardest was developed by corporations into a true discipline. Professional "washers" were employed by companies in their struggle to obtain the best and brightest employees, but it got to the point where several companies would send different washers after the same person, each washer overwriting the program from the previous one. At this point a fraction of elite washers broke away and became deprogrammers, people capable of breaking down programs and deconstructing the human mind. However, the very nature of deprogrammers posed a threat to the washers, and the deprogrammers themselves were hardly invincible...
Won the 9th Kodansha Manga Award for general manga in 1985.
During the day, she is the "goddess of beauty," a personal trainer inspiring others to get better. But at night, after work, she gets hungry and down on herself. That's when the handsome but mysterious young man Tsukiyomi-kun appears to cook her a meal that fills her up and heals her soul, even though they've signed a contract that banned any romantic feelings between them. It's a sweet forbidden gourmet love-comedy between two people! (Source: BeLove, translated)
Two elderly women ponder the future at the funeral of a friend... (Source: Square Enix, translated) *Note: Published in Monthly Big Gangan July 2014 issue.*
A manga with a new story based off of the Yakuza PSP game.
Yohei’s father has been training him to become a ninja since he was a young boy. One day, Yohei is given his final test – to defeat his father.
Yoi, a girl who has nowhere to go because she looks different from the people around her. Who will reach out to her...? (Source: Ura Sunday, translated)
Adapted from the Jiro Asada historical novel of the same name and based loosely on true events, the story follows two Shinsengumi during the fall of the Tokugawa Shogunate.
On a colleague, Professor Kita's, suggestion, Associate Professor Saikawa Souhei and his student Nishinosono Moe head to Kita's research institute, where various experiments are being conducted in a low-temperature research lab. During the night a murder takes place: two graduate students are found dead in the lab. How did the killer enter the locked room? How did they leave?
