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A class is chosen to participate in a special government project, designed to reverse the trend of declining academic ability in the younger generation. They head out together to an unusual school camp. The students know nothing about what the program will entail, and are surprised to find that it involves playing a class-wide game of a modified version of "Old Maid," with the joker as the losing card. There are incredible incentives toward winning the game, but the penalties for losing, or for not playing at all, are correspondingly severe! (Source: MangaHelpers)
Atsushi, a fourth-grade elementary school student, is a daydreaming and absent-minded boy who often dozes off. One day, during a math class while searching for a ruler, he is astonished to find that his hand has transformed into a ruler. From that moment on, he realizes that he can transform into anything he envisions in his mind. Together with his friend Yoshi,, whom he confides in, they discover a strange beetle and a family tree hidden in Atsushi's house, leading Atsushi to learn that he is a descendant of aliens.
One day, Tezuka's drawing ability and the fun of his cartoons were recognized, and he unexpectedly became a close friend of the school's number one gang leader. However, when he was invited to Akashi's house, he found out that his family was a famous local gangster family. As the sound of war looms, they develop friendship through "manga"...
An alternate history in which the JSDF fights the Soviet Army in the sky over Hokkaido.
Salisha was adopted by a count because of her beauty, and raised as a potential marriage candidate for the crown prince. But the Philippe the crown prince chooses Elena, Salisha's friend, to be his bride. On the day of the announcement of their engagement, she couldn't help but watch the two with a faint feeling of loneliness. When they were attacked, Salisha tried to protect Philip and Elena, only to be injured in the back, and she is left with an indelible scar and a broken heart. Suddenly, Cecilio Ahamas, a frontier count 10 years her senior, asks her to marry him. "Why would a man I've never met ask me to marry him?" She was puzzled, but she could not help but notice the clumsy kindness and the boyish expressions of the taciturn man, and Salisha gradually becomes attracted to the idea of marriage. She wants to stay by his side forever, but if he sees her hideous scar, he will surely dislike her, as the day of the wedding gets closer and closer... (Source: Pash Up!, translated)
It was a spring day when the cherry blossoms were beginning to fall a little that the robot came to a young person living in a port town. Osamu Hanami is a 25-year-old who lives and works as a painter. An AI humanoid robot named Hal came to their house. They have just met and know nothing about each other yet, but their common language is "painting". Their life of drawing pictures begins.
The manga centers on a small land that possesses strange mechanical puppet technology, and uses it to construct puppet soldiers that patrol the perimeter of the castle. When the soldiers begin attacking people, a mysterious armored warrior appears. [ANN]
A collection of stories: 1. **Kinezukan** (きねづかん); Deluxe Bessatsu Shoujo Comic 1995-07-30 When one becomes old, one feels no longer useful, as people keep telling you that you’re a nuisance. But also Taki, Ryo and their friends where once young… 2. **X-DAY**; Bessatsu Shoujo Comic Tokubetsu Zoukan: Karin 1990-09 A giant zelkova tree stands watch over the misbegotten lives of the humans around it. 3. **4-nin no Onna** (4人の女); Bessatsu Shoujo Comic Tokubetsu Zoukan: Karin 1992-01 An elderly servant describes the circumstances of her master's death. 4. **Kanojo wa Dare wo Koroshita ka** (彼女は誰を殺したか); Bessatsu Shoujo Comic Tokubetsu Zoukan: Karin 1992-09 A detective seeks to determine the circumstances around a woman found covered in blood. 5. **Hirotta otoko** (拾った男); Bessatsu Shoujo Comic Tokubetsu Zoukan: Karin 1993-01 A family is thrown into chaos by the arrival of a mysterious young man. 6. **Kowai Mono** (こわいもの); Bessatsu Shoujo Comic Tokubetsu Zoukan: Karin 1994-02 4 friends enter an amusement park and are ushered into a special attraction, where a mysterious man asks each of them to share their biggest fear. In return, he tells them the disturbing truths about their fears... 7. **Naze ka: Galapagos!** (なぜか ガラパゴス!)
This is the 6th volume of Tamura Yumi's "Tamu no Nandemo Capsule Series", a collection of short stories. 1. **MADONNA ni Tsugu** (MADONNAに告ぐ); Shuukan Shoujo Comic 1990 #12 Mizusawa Karen, a very skilled archer, was taken in 5 years ago by her father's good friend, the head surgeon of the Tokyo police department medical hospital. On her 16th birthday, however, her adoptive father tells her that she has a bomb implanted in her heart that is set to go off in a week. Now she and two friends must find her real father to have any hopes of surviving... 2. **Umi wa Shizuka na Aki no Meikyuu** (海は静かな秋の迷宮); Bessatsu Shoujo Comic 1990 #20 Mio's boyfriend Shou has been missing at sea for several days. Everyone including even Shou's grandparents have given up hope of finding him alive, but Mio is determined to continue searching. One day, she meets a curious guy named Ai, who helps her search and together, they find out that things may not be as they seem... 3. **Toorima 1991** (通り魔1991); Petit Comic 1991-04 Kiryuu Naoya becomes the private tutor of his friend Ohtakemaru's younger sister, who can't leave the house b/c of her fragile health. Strange occurrences keep happening around the Ohtakemaru siblings, however, and a rumor of a killer on the loose around the premises of their house have begun to circulate. Naoya also seems to have a secret that he doesn't want the siblings to know about, but all of this comes to light one night when...??