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Kiriya Nao, a company employee, has sworn off younger men as potential partners due to past romantic trauma. One day, he arranges to meet an older man he connected with on a matching app. However, through a mix-up, he ends up at a café with Yoshino Ryouta, a 20-year-old college student. Yoshino, who followed along simply because he thought it’d be interesting, casually tells a flustered Kiriya, “Who knows, something might spark between us.” Though Kiriya firmly replies, “You’re too young for me, it’s impossible,” he finds himself increasingly thrown off by Yoshino’s affectionate persistence. (Source: Leed Publishing, translated) Note: Includes an extra.
Phil is a young man who is in training to run a bookshop. He loves books, and his mentor sends him to a nearby monastery that is said to be in trouble with money, to offer to buy books out of their library. Phil has heard rumors of their library, and is eager to see it for himself in any case. The kid who answers the door, however, refuses to let him enter. After he finally makes it inside the monastery, he finds that tragedy seems to have struck the fellowship and that "kid" is actually a beautiful girl who seems to be a noble. Things are more complicated than they seem, and it looks like Phil is going to be in over his head!
Snow Country (Yukiguni) is a stark tale of a love affair between a Tokyo dilettante and a provincial geisha that takes place in the remote hot spring (onsen) town of Yuzawa. (Source: Amazon, translated)
The manga follows Atsuhiko Kouno, a soccer player who represented Japan in the 1996 Atlanta Olympics and had high expectations to become a star player. Now in 2002, he is 31 and has somehow slipped into obscurity. One day, he receives a notice from his champion team that they are canceling his contract. Atsuhiko is offered a new contract for his former team JEM Chiba, and it is there that he wagers his comeback. However, he's known on his new team as the "former Japan representative," and his young teammates make fun of him and treat him coldly because he's still wearing the #10 jersey even though they think he's past his prime. Through all this, Atsuhiko silently continues to practice in hopes of making a comeback. (Source: ANN)
Semimaru, an office worker who awoke one morning only to find that he had tragically become a cicada. A classic example of the short-lived, a cicada... After seeing that he did not have long to live, Semimaru decided to meet his end in a cool way. See his thrilling new daily life and his coworkers, who have to watch themselves around him! The curtain on the industry's first gag cartoon of a cicada at its time of death has finally opened! (Source: Kodansha, translated)
Mysterious dungeons called "Star-Eating Towers" have sprung up all over the world, driving humanity to the brink of decline. To fight against the towers, people organize a special group of warriors called "Tower Killers," and engage in a back-and-forth battle to destroy them! An otherworldly dungeon-conquering fantasy. *There is a [side story released in 2022](https://www.alphapolis.co.jp/manga/41273796/168592493).* [Raw](https://www.alphapolis.co.jp/manga/official/869000173)
Mirai Saito, 15 years old, mostly known as Mira. Her dream is to become a magical girl and change the world... but how can such a thing be real? Then, neither a magic fairy nor a magic book appears in front of her... but a notebook that hints at suicides! Mira's challenge to "transform" the reality around her now begins!
