High school student Kaneto reunites with his childhood friend Kosuke, who he cut ties with, for the first time in a long time. While trying to save a cat that was about to fall into the river, he ends up falling into the river with Kosuke. When he wakes up, he finds himself in an unfamiliar place. He tries to find his way home, but Kosuke seems to be acting strangely... Furthermore, they are attacked by a group dressed in unfamiliar clothing and Kosuke is taken away, and the two are separated... A Chinese fantasy where you search for your childhood friend and uncover secrets from the past in a mysterious place that somehow feels nostalgic, despite being another world! (Source: Ichijinsha, translated)
Yasuji Inoue, a landscape painter, born in Asakusa in the first year of the Genji era. He was introduced to Kiyochika Kobayashi at the age of fourteen. He died in the 22nd year of the Meiji era at the age of twenty five. What did Yasuji see in Tokyo? A quiet world that draws a mysterious master-student relationship, following the scenery seen by Yasuji Inoue, a painter of the perinatal era, while freely going back and forth between Tokyo in the Meiji era and Tokyo in the Showa era. (Source: Chikuma Shobo, edited)
*Note: This is the debut work of the mangaka, which was published in the November issue of Garo in 1980.*
Hikojirou Touen, the dojo owner of Edo Konjac Island, does this every day. Debt defeat, dine and dash, going home in the morning... (Source: Chikuma Shobo, Translated)
This is a heroic fantasy story of a great military strategist who has been branded incompetent. In a time period where humans fight with guns and modern weapons, the fantasy tribes have been destroyed by their overwhelming power-- A human boy raised in a elven village - Gardy - broke the village's law and has been exiled. Thus he went to the Intrasia territory which is governed by the gold princess Florin. (Source: MF Bunko J)
**"Please Let me be your editor, Hiiragi-senpai"** One day, a high school girl, Natsume Kotoha, a self-proclaimed editor, appears before Hiiragi Yuuto, a lethargic high school boy. She follows Yuuto around asking him to write novels. No matter how many times he refuses, she never gives up. ...Don't tell me she know? That I was once a professional novelist who was hailed by the world as a genius. To escape that past, I had come to a rural high school where no one know. A former genius novelist who broke his brush and a high school girl who is an editor with a "Big Secret" weave a moving and inevitable coming-of-age story. (Source: Kodansha Ranobe Bunko, translated)
Even if this body perishes, I will only think of you. Love torn apart by fate turns people into demons. These are five heartbreaking love stories woven by beings who are not of this world. Included works: [Tenchi Shinnari!] HINACHI Nao / AMENO Hirume (original author), [Moonlight Butterfly] Jin, [Shika - White Rose -] Kidachi, [Kimi na boku wa] Ishiko, [Ringo no Uta] B-Gata
We'll teach you how to conquer guys who don't have a punch line! Gentle, fashionable, and sweet-loving "herbivorous guys." Guys who are passive when it comes to romance, but are somehow popular. Get up close and personal with the impregnable fortress of LOVE★ [Included works] "Fantastic Contact" by HINACHI Nao / "Koi no Jikan" by HARUKI Saki / "Glasses and You" by B-Gata / "Town with a Ferris Wheel" by ANRI Yuka / "Chocolate Prince" by KATSUMA Ayahito / "Runaway Girl" by TORIKAI Akane.
We have carefully selected only the sweetest and most endearing stories that will make you blush!! Included works: HINACHI Nao's "Hanabatake no Iberico", MATSU Kana's "Sparkling in the Evening", KOMORI Ringo's "Devil's Trap", HARADA Saa's "Himegoto", SATORI Tae's "Six-Month Girlfriend"