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"I'm going to prove myself on this stage!" Rookie stage actor Mitsuya Makoto has spent the beginnings of his career trying to escape the shadow of his deceased older brother Miyuki, who was himself a famous actor, but who died tragically five years ago. When he lands a role that was supposedly made for his brother, he feels that his efforts have finally been rewarded. But an unexpected phenomenon occurs and upends his life, starting with the reappearance of his brother.
"When you have your long hair tied as a ponytail, the happiness with come to you..." That is a secret between Yui and her mother from long ago, a secret that she only told to a mystery boy. Many years after that, she's still never met him, until when she is in grade 8. Her encounter with two strange boys, Fredy and Gunji, has revealed, not only the identity of that mystery boy, but also the truth about her family.
Hinako is a 36-year-old single grandmother, but she doesn't look like it, and certainly doesn't act like it. She still yearns for the love and marriage that she never had, and hopes to turn over a new leaf with her new job, but she ends up getting a lot more than she bargained for after a young model confesses to her. (Source: Shogakukan, translated)
“As if I’d marry an ugly woman like you!” Monette, a noble daughter of the House of Idira, was hurt deeply by what her fiancé, Prince Alexis, had said. To rub salt on the wound, her younger sister was then made Alexis’ fiancée instead of her. Unsure just what part of her was ugly, Monette develops a complex… and begins to cover her whole body with iron armour. And so, Monette researches magic alone in the old castle… until one day, two men come to visit her… “Monette, break my curse!” This is a story of Monette, who wears armour from the top of her head to the tip of her toes, Prince Alexis, who suffers under a curse of bad luck that forces him to stick his foot in a bottomless swamp at least once a week, and Percival, a worrywart knight who spoils people when he’s tired. It is a story of their journey as all three of them think respectively: I’ve got the most common sense here.
Futaba is someone who easily attracts spirits. Her school counselors Akutsu and Chinen, who have set a goal to exterminate 100 ghosts, ask her to "let them exorcise those spirits by letting them possess her"! (Source: Tosuisha, translated)
A vivid manga portrait of Anne's short life, as she continued to write about her hope for life in the midst of war. In hiding, Anne kept a diary in the form of letters to an imaginary daughter, Kitty. The diary recounts the protests against racism, the great sadness and destruction that war brings to people, and the suffering and abnormal mental state of the people in the hideout, just as they were. The great hope, courage, dreams for the future and love that Anne had in the refuge still inspire young people around the world 50 years after her death. (Source: Shogakukan, translated)
Wakana is in love with a boy one year younger, who she's never confessed to....and she'll be graduating soon. Will she be able to see him again?
A collection of extra chapters from creators in Shueisha's Margaret and Ribon shōjo manga magazines to raise funds for the victims of the Great Eastern Japan Earthquake disaster.
A girl receives a telegramme—"Your grandfather is gravely ill"; hops on the train and rushes to his home, opens the door and — the story begins. Ari and her ghost grandpa's home welcomes anyone, young and not-so-young, human and aliens alike. *Note: Won the 21st Seiun Award for Best Comic (1990).*
An anthology of Sword Art Online "what if" short stories by various authors and illustrators.