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October 15, 2002. Toru Hasuike waited anxiously and nervously at the airport for his younger brother Kaoru, who was abducted by North Korean agents on July 31, 1978. However, being imprisoned and under strict monitoring in North Korea for 24 years, Kaoru is no longer the same person and has become a liaison for North Korean government. Toru then determined to use every manner he could think of to persuade Kaoru to stay in Japan.
Ever since getting rejected in junior high for her looks, Inukai-san has struggled to remake her appearance to become prettier. On the first day of high school, she was surprised when Amamiya, a popular boy photographer, took a snapshot of her when they met on their way to school. When Inukai-san saw the photo... she found the candid picture of herself to be surprisingly wonderful! And then Amamiya-kun told her, "Inukai-san looks very cute when she's trying so hard," and suddenly kissed her out of the blue—!? (Source: Kodansha, translated)
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Adapted version of Japan's historical event during the Bakufu Era, Princess Kasu no Miya had to marriage Shogun Iemochi for political reason. Before the marriage ceremony, she wants to meet a boy she met when she was little once for one more time. Princess Kasu no Miya runs away from her guards and meets Ishinosuke and Sakon who opens their detective business on the street. Without telling them who she is at first, she hires the two to fend off her guards and later after her truth identity revealed, she continues asking them to help her find her first love. With time running out, will Sakon and Ishinosuke be able to find that man? Who is that boy Miya fell in love with back there?
A compilation of short stories used as a frame story to develop a sequel to Heian Zankoku Monogatari.
Michelangelo, brilliant artist nicknamed "like God". In reality, his true identity was totally different: backward, dirty, misogynist. Despite his great self-confidence, he was incapable on the communicative side, a real stranger to society. Genius and inept at the same time, this turbulent young man is the protagonist of the work that follows the main events of his life in a comic key. (Source: AnimeClick)
Mariko Tokujo is the 19-year-old daughter of the owner of a large conglomerate of enterprises who has always lived a sheltered and luxurious life. After her mother remarries again, she decides to run away from home searching for freedom, but finds herself lost in the turmoil of the city. A photographer named Nitta offers her a place to stay, but what will happen to her after she is caught up in the papparazzi scandal Nitta is inmersed in...? (Source: Amazon) **Included one-shot:** Volume 2: Tiffany de Dancin'