Mio, daughter of the nearly bankrupt Ogasawara Trading Company president, works tirelessly to save her father’s failing business. One day, when a shady man tries to swindle her, she’s rescued by Kaisei Saionji, the heir to the mighty Saionji Zaibatsu. Learning of her plight, he offers a deal: 'You have three options.' Among his proposals, Mio chooses... a contractual marriage into the Saionji family. Determined to save her family, she resigns herself to a loveless union, only to find herself increasingly flustered by her unexpectedly sweet husband…!

A warm and fluffy slice-of-life comedy depicting Yamada and his beloved pet cat Shima’s preciously ordinary daily lives. (Source: Manga Planet)

The second and last part of the manga anthology created as part of a charity with royalties donated for the reconstruction of areas affected by the Great Eastern Japan Earthquake (Higashi Nihon Daishinsai) disaster that struck Japan on March 11, 2011. *Note: The chapter count includes a prologue.*

Extra chapter from I Married My Best Friend to Shut My Parents Up.

The second story in this collection is about a journalist. As a child he met a fortune teller who predicted that he would win the famous Pulitzer Prize. The prophecy is very specific, he must have an apple in his pocket, go twice to the right instead of left and aim for the moon. A phrase that makes little sense to the young boy. It is only decades later, when he has become a poor journalist in charge of obituaries, that he sees that the medium of his childhood has announced his death in a few days. Curious, he goes to investigate and finds himself embroiled in a dark money deal. The strange indications of the psychic could well make sense...

In a world where kaiju actually exist, French kaiju otaku Pierre travels to Tokyo hoping to see one in person. There he meets beautiful government scientist Misaki and together they learn why kaiju travel to and attack Tokyo every year since 1954, despite first appearing down in the southern islands.

The mouse Henry tries to stop his dimwitted lackey Charles from traveling all the way around the countertop to acquire cake, worried he will accidentally wake up the sleeping cat on the floor.

Toraji takes in a scrappy little part-dragon boy who's down on his luck, and he soon grows into a massive beast who makes him look pitifully small in comparison. But Ryusuke hasn't outgrown his puppy dog-like obsession with Toraji--much to the other's chagrin. **Official English:** [Irodori Sakura](https://sakura-r18.irodoricomics.com/Kiss-It-Better), [FAKKU](https://www.fakku.net/hentai/kiss-it-better-english), [Renta](https://www.ebookrenta.com/renta/sc/frm/item/148448), [Coolmic](https://coolmic.me/titles/6088)

Musica Nostra is a collaborative work where various mangaka draw and/ or write about music and bands that inspire them, published in the Grand Jump. It includes Urasawa's musings about guitarists and playing guitar; his traveling to Sunset Sound in Los Angeles to record a song with Mike Viola and Jim Keltner, the latter of which sends a picture of Urasawa's The Beatles manga to Ringo Starr, and why their performance is credited to "Monaka"; Urasawa seeing Neil Young and Paul McCartney perform at Desert Trip; his meeting with Jack Oliver and depicting how the English record executive started working at Apple Records. *Note: this manga includes written chapters and drawn chapters, and never got a total volume release. This entry includes only the manga chapters.*

Naoki Urasawa's Solo Mission follows an intimate conversation between a tokusatsu hero & his wife before a deadly intergalactic mission.

*Note: Published in Monthly Manga Garo No. 340 (June 1993).*

Three two-page music-related stories. Urasawa muses about visiting a bar and trying to keep up playing guitar with an old guy who can play any folk song from the Shōwa era; attending a Paul McCartney concert alongside old guys who were singing along and crying tears of joy; and technical difficulties Bob Dylan faced during a concert that Urasawa attended.