A Togainu no Chi anthology focusing on Shiki.
A shojo one-shot compilation that chiefly features one-shots from the 1960's and ones published in Kodansha shojo magazines, with a theme of celebrating girlhood and girls from all walks of life. 1. **Otenba Banzai/Tomboy Banzai** (おてんばバンザイ): A gag one-shot in three parts about a thrill-seeking tomboy and her encounters with a group of petty yakuza. 2. **Gatakon Kyoushitsu** (ガタコン教室) 3. **Giniro no Me/The Silver Eyes** (銀色の目) Horror manga is all the rage at Sumi's school. One day, her teacher asks her to check up on her friend, who has been absent from school for some time. Before she knows it, Sumi ends up in a horror manga of her own! 4. **Go-issho ni Hakuchou no Mizuumi wo Kikimasen?/Will You Listen to Swan Lake With Me?** (ごいっしょに白鳥のみずうみをききません?) Ishinomori's whimsical take on Swan Lake. 5. **Manga School** (まんがスクール) 6. **Akazukin-chan** (赤ずきんちゃん) 7. **Shin Meisaku Douwa Akazukin-chan** (新メイ作童話 赤ずきんちゃん) 8. **Gendai Musume Kishitsu/The Modern Girl's Mentality** (現代むすめ気質) A whimsical commentary on all the hottest trends and pastimes of modern girls. 9. **Natsuyasumi! Cupid Sakusen/Summer Break! Operation Cupid** (夏休み! キューピッド作戦) A boy gets asked by his friend to set him up with a girl, whose friend asks her to set her up with the boy. What does Cupid have in store for these youth? 10. **MY Friend** (MYフレンド) 11. **Hatsukoi ya Aa Hatsukoi ya Hatsukoi ya/First Love, Ah, First Love, First Love!** (初恋や アア初恋や 初恋や) The woes of a girl experiencing her first love. 12.**Migimuke Hidari-chan/Miss Resist** (右むけ左ちゃん) The story of a girl in a literal rebellious phase, acting contrary to what's said to her. 13-15.**Lala-chan/Lala-chan** (ララちゃん) A three-chapter gag manga about a girl and her trials and tribulations in love.
On the day Sari transfers to her new school, she confesses her love for her cousin Kazuomi. After being subtly rejected, she find out that Kazuomi's best friend Mizuki is also interested in him. Because those two are like the sun and the moon, Sari's determination to be Kazuomi's girlfriend begins to waver. How will this interesting love triangle develop?
The story begins with Ato Haruki, an investigator at the Otowa Detective Agency, waking up in his office. His colleague Shinano seems to have gone to the convenience store. While waiting for him to return, Ato tries to get some work done. It seems that his next assignment is a disappearance case involving a new religious group called the "Shikoten Research Institute." As Ato worries about Shinano's late return, strange things start happening in the office... This is a "biosuppression x action story that culminates in uncovering the truth." (Source: Natalie, translated)
Princess Sistina is demoted to a barren frontier territory due to a certain conspiracy… However, for the ever-curious and studious Sistina, it’s the perfect chance to put her knowledge into practice…!? Thus begins the “Frontier Reform” led by a curious and ambitious princess! (Source: Tonari no Young Jump, translated)
Shotaro Ishinomori's manga adaptation of George Orwell's *Animal Farm*, an allegorical tale about the horrors of dictatorship and totalitarianism.
Since youth, Shin had a special ability to foresee dangerous situations. When his sister, Nao, was kidnapped by the people from a research center, Shin finally realized that he was not actually human, but a ‘virtual beast’ created in a genetic experiment. To solve the complicated mysteries revolving about himself and save his sister, Shin and his good friend, Tatsuki, embark on a perilous journey.
*“Azuma-kun, will you do my nails for me⁉”* A coming-of-age romantic comedy featuring a dragon-blooded high school girl and a model-building high school boy! Hajime Azuma, a high school student skilled at building plastic models, is summoned to the rooftop one day by his classmate Sayori Goto, a half-dragon gal. Though Sayori seems like the life of the party, she actually has a problem that’s a matter of life and death for a gal: “My nails are too hard to get a manicure.” Having heard that manicures and plastic models are similar, Sayori asks Hajime to be her manicurist, but… Haoju, who has absolutely no experience with nails, struggles but eventually meets Sayori’s expectations through trial and error. Before long, he finds himself doing nails not just on her hands but on her feet too, and even creating designs for swimsuit photo shoots with other half-dragon gals—and so begins a hectic daily life!? (Source: Shueisha, translated)
In the 1980s two great players anchored the Yomiuri Giants: "Monster" Suguru Egawa and "Weed" Takashi Nishimoto. As pitching aces for the same team, the two had a legendary rivalry unparalleled in Japanese baseball history. With two real personages as his protagonists, the author based his bold interweaving of fact and conjecture on exhaustive interviews with Nishimoto and other featured individuals. (Source: Japan Media Arts Festival)
