What do we know about Ame...? That he suddenly moved to a small, old, one-story house in the suburbs. That he keeps cooking the same dishes when he starts to get picky. And that Ame never falls in love. He's a little different from everyone else, but they are just strange as him.

Publisher Hayakawa is celebrating its 70th anniversary with two manga anthology reprints. One collection is dedicated to mystery works while the other compiles sci-fi stories printed over the publisher's long career.

Three classmates, including Mari, a full-time housewife, Sayo, who is in divorce mediation with her husband, and Satoe, a career woman, gather when their high school classmate Hiromi die lonely in an apartment owned her. The will left by Hiromi was accompanied by the names of three people who were not so close to each other for some reason, and included a request for the remaining apartment, Hakurensou, and the mysterious inhabitants afterwards. It is a story about three women born in 1963 who live in a "difficult reality" in an unchanging relationship and changing circumstances. **Note:** The series was serialized in a josei manga magazine, *Josei Seven*, and was made into a book with *major additions and corrections*. The compiled volume is released under adult male (seinen) audience imprint *Big Comics Special*. You can see the series as seinen or josei on various sources. Won Short Story Award at the 26th Tezuka Osamu Cultural Prize awards in 2022, along with [Ii Toshi o](https://www.mangaupdates.com/series.html?id=33104068496).

42-year-old once divorced, Haida Toshio, who enjoyed living alone, will live together with his 72-year-old reticent father who lives in Tokyo after Toshio's mother's death. Toshio finds the 5 million yen left by his mother at his parents' house after a long absence, and wonders what to use it for... The second Tokyo Olympics, the corona wreck. The life of a father and a child that continues in a swaying world is depicted. **Note:** Won Short Story Award at the 26th Tezuka Osamu Cultural Prize awards in 2022, along with [Hakumokuren wa Kirei ni Chiranai](https://www.mangaupdates.com/series.html?id=22620037454). [Original Web Manga](https://kadobun.jp/serialstory/iitoshiwo/) (Chapters expired)

Containing two stories from Okaya Izumi, “Drunks” offers up a pair of romantic short stories. Opening up the collection, the titular “Drunks” follows a man who falls in love with a vampire who first leaves him with the impression of being an alcoholic. “Tick Tock”, about a romance decades in the making, matches up a woman frozen for years with the caretaker of her cryogenic chamber.

A story about the daily life of a vampiric college school girl. Instead of having her period, grows fangs and has to drink men's blood. However, despite not being able to live without men, her attitude to them is nevertheless problematic. The prologue can be read at http://arc.akitashoten.co.jp/comics/motto_0/5

The happenings in the day-to-day life of a my-pace OL are woven together with cynical humour in another of Okaya Izumi's offerings.

Food to nibble on while sipping alcohol, victuals in between meals, snacks... The variety of food made and eaten during the gaps in time is infinite. A food essay following the my-pace lifestyle of a woman and her snacks.