These stories are told with the same bold, kinetic art style and brilliantly paced storytelling that Samura's Blade of the Immortal epic is famous for. The main offering, "Ohikkoshi," follows the turbulent paths of several twenty-something art students as they fall in love, fall in lust, play in rock bands, ride motorbikes, eat, sleep (together), and try to avoid making life decisions while drunk. This romantic comedy is a "Japanese art school confidential" packed with absurd humor, obscure death metal references, and some expertly placed, dramatic revelations. "Luncheon of Tears Diary" is a vibrant, genre-busting tale that also peppers its humor with sharp, dramatic moments. Natsumi Funabashi, a virgin, is an aspiring manga creator on a quest for love and a fulfilling career. Along the way, she has to cope with overzealous men, gang warfare, a mahjong addiction, and a lascivious manga editor. This collection is rounded off by Samura's hilarious "Kyoto Super Barhopping Journal: Bloodbath at Midorogaike," a rare, autobiographical travel piece. (Source: Dark Horse) **Included one-shots:** Shoujo Mangaka Mushuku: Namida no Luncheon Nikki, Midorogaike ni Shura wo Mita

Ookido Yuu is an extremely tall girl who just entered middle school. Because of her height everyone is trying to recruit her into their sports club, even though she is terrible at them. Her childhood friend, Ken-chan, who is still in Elementary school, keeps on telling her to join the Kendo club. But she hates Kendo, because she never had a single victory against him.

The lovers’ refuge, Café Gem. There, the college student Kouta fell in love at first sight with the regular customer, Nanjyou. Due to unexpected events, he becomes a freeloader in Nanjyou’s house, and the daily heartthrob begins, but…!?

Her favorite novel was set in the imperial harem. Now she gets to solve its mysteries! When Xiao Ling took a job at a bookstore, she had no idea she’d be working with her favorite author. Arriving at the palace she’d only read about in stories, Xiao Ling finds not the seasoned authoress she expected, but…the Crown Prince, Ryuhou?! *Source: Manga UP! Global*

A mysterious request leads Wendy Marvell and her feline companion Charlés to Nanalu Village, only to find that the job requester doesn't actually exist. Instead, Wendy becomes friends with Yoshino: a girl her age and the only mage in the village. Wendy soon learns that the villagers have slowly been disappearing, supposedly because of a dead dragon's curse. With only herself and Charles to take on the task, Wendy is determined to help Yoshino save the village. *Fairy Tail: Blue Mistral* depicts Wendy and Charles' adventures soon after joining Fairy Tail. Wendy faces the ghost of a dragon, a cursed mansion, and other tough challenges, desperate to prove herself as a Fairy Tail member.

Sora's journey in Kingdom Hearts II has drawn to a close, and now a new tale is set to begin. Jiminy Cricket is looking over the journal he used to document his first adventure with Sora when he discovers a mysterious message. He didn't write it - so how on earth did it get there? King Mickey is determined to find out, so he and his friends decide to digitize the journal and delve into its deepest secrets. Inside this “datascape” dwells a second Sora who is about to embark on a grand adventure of his very own. (Source: Amazon)

On the 4th floor of the school building, there's an art storage room. They say it's haunted by the ghost of a female student with endlessly flowing golden hair.The truth behind the students' whispered rumors is Amane, Shusuke's childhood friend. Ever since losing her father, she lost her voice and has been supporting herself by continuously painting. (Source: MANGA Plus)

When demon princess Raffy married Roren, an immortal knight, as part of a peace treaty, she hadn’t expected that he’d fall for her?! He keeps trying to get closer to her, despite repeatedly dying from the poison she emits! (Source: Yen Press)

The manga will focus on Sawyer, a freelance cleaner in Roanapur's underworld who disposes of bodies using her chainsaw. (Source: Anime News Network)

A collection of one-shots by Mashima Hiro **Volume 1:** 1. **Magician** (マジシャン) 2. **Fairy Tale** (フェアリー・テール) 3. **Cocona** (ココナ) 4. **Plue no Bouken Nikki II** (プルーの冒険日記II) **Volume 2:** 5. **Bad Boys Song** (バット ボーイズ ソング) 6. **Magic Party** (マジックパーティー) 7. **Christmas Hearts** (クリスマス ハーツ) 8. **Kongou Sentai Mixture** (混合戦隊ミクスチャー)

Yuzu Hieda and her priestesses at the local shrine, but when Yuzu's childhood friend returns to live with them, she must recruit friends from school to help the family fight off the evil spirits who have taken an interest in him. (Source: TOKYOPOP)

The Japanese government passes the Media Improvement Act as law in the year 1989 which allows the censorship of any media deemed to be potentially harmful to Japanese society by deploying MIA agents with the mandate to go after individuals and organizations that are trying to exercise the act of conducting freedom of expression activities in the media. However, local governments opposed to the Media Improvement Act establishes armed anti-MIA defense force units to protect libraries from being raided by MIA agents under the Library Freedom Act. The conflict between MIA agents and library soldiers have went on to the year 2019.