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Tsugumi Rinko can’t wait to escape the tedium of high school for the challenges and rewards that accompany life at a fine arts college. She only has two problems: 1) She has few social skills and fewer friends. 2) With less than nine months remaining before her crucial admissions test, she has no practical art experience. Note: Won the New Face Award at the 2011 Japan Media Arts Festival Awards.
Nostradamus prophesied that the world would end in the seventh month of 1999. Today is July 21st, 1999. Ever since she was little, Maruyama Sakura has put her faith in this prophecy, has believed she will die at age 19. Consequently, nothing has seemed all that important to her. As the final days of her final month tick down, Sakura is whiling away the last of her time. Then Sakura meets Mori. Sakura has ten days until the end of the world.
42 mangaka write short stories about the food they eat.
109 different mangaka depict their daily lives since COVID-19 started.
Ichinose Hanako is 45, a full-time housewife living in a rural town. Despite daily frustrations, she lives a fairly happy life. One day, she sees her vocational school classmate, Mizuki Urara, appearing on television as a novelist. 27 years ago, the three of them, including another classmate, Hiraizumi Kanon, were hanging out together; she vaguely dreamed of becoming something, but Urara rejected her hopes and they had a falling out... What action did Hanako take, overcome by jealousy as she compared the past and present? A friendship that broke when they were 18 troubles the hearts of three people now 45 years old. (Source: Biccomi, translated)
Izumi, the live-in poster girl of Marukin Onsen, a slightly outdated public bathhouse in a certain town that exists thanks to its regular customers, is busy preparing for the opening of the bathhouse today as usual. There is a postman nearing retirement who dreams of using his retirement money to build a cypress bath at home, a woman whose sole purpose in life is to sing at the bathhouse, and a married couple who run a bar who are always fighting. As Izumi watches the bustling scene of such regular customers from the reception desk, Izumi suddenly recalls my former self... About a year ago, when I was working at a clothing manufacturer, I had to go to a nearby public bathhouse for some reason. At first, I thought it would be a one-off visit, but after encountering the healing space with the large murals, the smell of steam, and the lively people, Izumi gradually became drawn to the charm of the public bathhouse...
