The hero is a high school student with the very odd name of Yubi Chizuo ('Finger Mapguy'). He lives in a cheap boarding house with a scummy river oozing by in front of it. The locals use the river as a handy place to get rid of their trash. Flies result. In abundance. The infestation gives Yubi Chizuo no end of trouble. One evening, a particularly large specimen buzzes up in front of Chizuo, and addresses him in fluent Japanese. Understandably shocked, our hero swats the six-legged prodigy flat on the spot. Chizuo finds himself haunted by the Ghost of the Talking Fly. And then he realizes that a mysterious black cat has started tailing him everywhere he goes... (Source: Comipress)

A special chapter for the 1300th anniversary of "Harima no Kuni Fudoki", an eighth century gazetteer.

In a London cloaked in darkness, the Shadow Masters and their nightmarish crimes run rampant. Up against them, as they use the shadows to commit impossible crimes, is none other than the handsome young detective Sherlock Holmes and his partner Watson. In a city controlled by evil, an overwhelming battle of logic unfolds as Holmes takes on the ethereal-like shadow creatures one by one!! Is Holmes’ shadow really his own!? (Source: Jmanga)

In the dark corners of a 1920s city where wealth and poverty, dreams and despair all coalesce, a boy named Sangha lives humbly with his beloved little sister. Their fragile happiness is soon shattered by the iron fist of the mafia that rules over the city. Sangha is left broken, sinking into the depths of despair, until someone reaches out to him—a man with a carefree, frivolous smile. What awaits Sangha next, salvation or damnation?! (Source: Yen Press)

An old couple is about to celebrate their 50th anniversary, to surprise his wife, the husband makes a wish to be rejuvenated for a day to recreate shoujo situations with her. (Source: Shoujo Crave)

Hiro just wants to live a quiet, peaceful life, but she is curious about an orange-haired boy who passes by her on a pedestrian bridge? A story of pure first love. (Source: Rimacomi Plus, translated) *Note: Originally published in Margaret 2024 No. 18.*

Collection of Oneshots 1. **Zannen Nagara Chigaimasu** (残念ながら違います) \[Kotomi Aoki\] He wasn't even that handsome, but when I saw him, I was captivated. He said "meet me upstairs". it seems he also feels the same because we're now signing a marriage registration form?! 2. **10-ka Kan** (10日間) \[Miki Aihara\] 3. **Oide, Boku no Kotori** (おいで、僕のことり) \[Mio Nanao\] 4. **Mou Sukoshi de, Itsuka Eien** (もうすこしで、いつか永遠) \[Ai Fujio\] 5. **Suki na Hito wa Dare yori Atashi wo Kizutsukeru** (好きなひとは誰よりあたしを傷付ける) \[Tomo Asada\]

Mashio is a handsome young man, rich and ambitious. He aspires to follow the path of his father, the current and youngest prime minister to date. But what no one knows is that throughout his childhood and adolescence, Mashio was just a thug spreading terror in his small country town. And that, Ban, his great rival of always, is motivated to remind him his origins, faith of redneck!

Every day I go to work without conviction, without having fun and I get caught up in an uninteresting routine. Moreover, I'm single and have no hobby, so my life is not very bright. But then I meet the handsome boss Kurose, and everything changes. He begins to lighten up my life.

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Aiden is a man who works as a soldier in a certain kingdom. He has memories of being an office worker in another world, and in his previous life, he enjoyed visiting hot springs to relieve the fatigue of daily work. He wants to visit the hot springs in this world, but his job as a soldier doesn't allow him to take consecutive days off, so he can only go to nearby hot springs. The story begins when he finds out that Milka, the princess of the country, also likes hot springs. (Source: Natalie, translated)