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-Cynthia, the daughter of a margrave, grew up carefree in the vast countryside home to the kingdom's best army. One day, while enjoying her usual romantic novels, she attends her first evening party in the royal capital. There, she witnesses the story of a duke's son being condemned by a selfish princess and having his engagement broken off! Seeing a scene straight out of a novel, Cynthia bursts out and blurts out, "Then marry me!" (Source: Kadokawa, translated)
[Original Manga](https://jp.piccoma.com/web/product/194657) One day, 28-year-old overworked OL Kanzaki Kotono suddenly finds herself transported to another world. Summoned as a saint, she’s deemed too old for marriage by this world’s standards and is about to be cast out for being “unfit” for the role. Desperate to survive in a world with different views, Kotono blurts out a wild idea, “Then let me work in the royal capital!” But when she starts her new life there, she somehow ends up being proposed to by a young duke…?! May happiness be upon this overworked OL! A new otherworldly office rom-com begins! https://www.cmoa.jp/title/346952/
1. マダム・ハルコ (1) 悪徳の不幸 (Madame Haruko 1: Akutoku no Fukou) 2. マダム・ハルコ (2) 美徳の栄え (Madame Haruko 2: Bitoku no hae) 3. マダム・ハルコ (3) 宇宙人国旅行記 (Madame Haruko 3: Uchuubito-koku Ryokou-ki) ***Note:** originally published in 1968. A revised version was published in 1970.*
Some beatniks, a prophet, some music lovers, and a fat rich kid who is tended by two starving minions, all converge on a street corner. Here the prophet urges them to follow him to a deserted island. A great and unknown adventure awaits them on the island.
A would-be comic artist and his friend are in their apartment when they discover that the story artist submitted into the newest issue of an SF magazine didn't make it in. The landlady comes to warn him to pay his rent, or he would be evicted the next day. Both the artist and his friend gather up their belongings and skip out of the apartment. They roam around on streets and start speculating that they are in an SF story. ***Note:** This one shot was published in the May 1966 edition of Garo then republished in the Tsurita Kuniko special issue of Garo in December 1970.*
