A collection of stories about finding meaning in life and your place in this world.
Story 1: “The Shaft of Light in the Blue”: A teacher indifferent to his job finds a baby swallow and raises it with one of his students.
Story 2: “If the Rain Should Stop”: She only sees him in the rain when he goes to meet with his girlfriend.
Story 3: “Specimens of 17-Year-Olds”: Confused by social mores, she fakes her way through life. So how does he read her so well?
Story 4: “Blooming Marble”: A carefree girl helps a younger boy get through a rough patch. All in good fun, right?
Tokyo, 2049... Thanks to the Galapagos Reform enacted by the government, Russia, China, America and Japan are now connected by a Hyper Loop system. This globalization has turned Tokyo into the most crime-ridden city in the world. To fight the rising crime, those who have been working in the shadows since the Sengoku period are needed... They are...the Shinobi!
Shousetsu touko saito o riyou shite itara, kurasu no bishoujo ga dokushadatta
小説投稿サイトを利用していたら、クラスの美少女が読者だった ; Shousetsu Toukou Saito o Riyou Shite Itara, Kurasu no Bishoujo ga Dokushadatta ; If You Use a Novel Posting Site, The Beautiful Girl In Your Class Might Be a Reader
Comedy, Drama, Harem, Romance, Slice of Life
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June 17, 2024
Rindou Routa, 16 years old, writes novels secretly for a posting site called ''Narima'', but gets found out by the most beautiful girl in class!! Now what kind of interactions and events await them once their identities have been revealed!?
''That’s perfect then, can you solve my problem?''. ''Let's become a novelist''.
A popular work! A harem story involving mystery and romance while creating a sensation among ''submitter'' and ''readers''!
The time is the Sengoku era, the place is the country of Kyushu, Hyuga. Kagashi is asked to exterminate a fox youkai, enters the mountains, and encounters a strange woman.
Adaptation, Drama, Horror, Mature, Mystery, School Life, Seinen
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June 17, 2024
Yashima Kashiwagi is a freshman who has transferred to the elite Kusushu Gakuen High School. He quickly became friends with Hasebe Yuki living next door and Kimi Miyazaki. He tries to adapt to his new environment and being friendly with everyone but apparently the class has some “rules” that everyone must obey otherwise there will be consequences! What does this mean though? A reason for bullying or something more sinister is happening?
Jinha and Seol Li love each other, but Seol Li’s father forcefully separated them. How will Jinha find Seol Li again? And what will happen to their love?
Yamima no Mamiya; Yami-Mahjong Fighter Mamiya ; 闇麻のマミヤ
Drama, Seinen, Sports
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October 14, 2024
Japan has entered a new era called “Reiwa”, after moving past the Hesei Era on April 30th 2019. It is in this era, past the time of people like the legendary Akagi Shigeru and others like him who gambled on mahjong for a living, that a new gambler has arisen known only as “Yami-ma no Mamiya”, which in English might translate to “Mamiya of Mahjong's Darkness”.
Believing in his fantastic acting skills, Moon Jian stuck with Yoon Kangjae as his manager through thick and thin. But after eight years of constantly cleaning up after the mess Kangjae's picky personality made, Jian thinks it's time to focus on herself and quit her job. As soon as Kangjae hears, he cleans up his act, sticks to her like glue, and ponders how to make her stay. He's determined to keep Jian by his side, but can he come up with a proposal good enough for her before it's too late?
100年生きた猫のはなし; BOX！吉良いと短編集; BOX!吉良いと短編集; ようこそ亡霊葬儀屋さん (読切版); 一描き下ろし後日話; 俺の幼馴染みは泣き虫だ; 泣き虫な幼馴染の話; 4つの恋模様; 人間に拾われた疫病神; 17歳のキミへ。; 17歳の君へ。; 少女が少年に手紙を届ける理由; OLさんがラーメンを食べるだけ; 佐藤さんと鬼上司天野さん; 疲れたOLの癒しの話; 100年生きた猫の話; 無口な下野くんの彼女; 天使と一緒に海を見る; 勇者に敗れた元魔王と奴隷少女; 勇者に敗れた魔王と奴隷少女; 漫画が嫌いになった少年; BOX! Kichiyoi to Tanpenshuu; 17-sai no Kimi e; 17 Sai no Kimi e; BOX! Kira Ito's Short Stories Collection; My Childhood Friend Is a Crybaby; Four Patterns of Love; The God of Pestilence Picked up by Humans; To You at 17; Happy 17th; To You at 17th; Just an Office Lady Eating Ramen; Seeing the Sea With an Angel; Seeing the Ocean With an Angel; WORLD END WANKO; The Tired Office Lady's One Comfort in Life; The Story of a Cat That Has Lived for 100 Years; Taciturn Shimono and His Girlfriend; Shimono-kun's Quiet Girlfriend; The Demon Lord Defeated by the Hero and the Slave Girl; The Defeated Dark Lord and the Slave Girl; The Boy Who Had Grown to Hate Manga; El señor oscuro que fue derrotado y la esclava; Lá thư gửi tới chàng trai 17 tuổi
Demons, Drama, Romance, School Life, Tragedy
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June 16, 2024
A work packed with stories that make you cry, smile, and heal. A compilation of original short stories, including commercial oneshots and manga previously published on Twitter or Pixiv.
Follows the story of “Edo’s Sanni-en (Sajin no)“ Takasaka Jinouchi, Jozawa Junai, Shoji Jinouchi. Three years after the battle of Sekigahara (1603 AD), Okubo Changan invited Takasaka Junouchi, who is known as a former thief, to participate in the battle, but what will he get in return?
The Earl's Daughter was Suddenly Employed as the Crown Prince's Fiancée
The Earl’s Daughter Was Suddenly Employed As The Crown Prince’s Fiancée ; The Earl's Daughter Was Suddenly Employed as the Crown Prince's Fiancée; にわか令嬢は王太子殿下の雇われ婚約者; Niwaka Reijou wa Outaishi Denka no Yatoware Konyakusha; Niwaka Reijou wa Outaishi Denka no Yatoware Kon'yakusha; وظيفة إبنة الإيرل المفاجأة كخطيبة للبرنس
Although she had traveled to the Royal Capital to train as a lady of the court, before she realized it, the daughter of an impoverished Earl was seen as nothing more than another of the servants. It was during one of her usual morning cleaning rounds when by chance the Crown Prince Isaac, who was rumored for one reason or another to keep all women at arm's length, passed by, but...
When she tried to return the document he dropped, she got caught up in a maelstrom of trouble!?
And for that matter, what do you mean that happens to all the women who approach the Crown Prince...!?
With her flowing black dress, roaring chainsaw, and android, werewolf, vampire, and blood warrior at her service … the Princess of Monsters is back! Yasunori Mitsunaga’s masterpiece, Princess Resurrection, is hereby resurrected for a new series!
The drifter gambling chef Hanjiro Daicho!! His cooking is unbelievably delicious!! He'll change this world's B class gourmet into first class!! The giant of the world of gourmet manga Shigeru Tsuchiyama brings a new delicious work to Japan's recession. Your life will take a turn! Eat it, the shockingly delicious Food Explosion!!
Chichi to Musuko to Buridaikon; Genshoku Megane Danshi Hyouhon; Katakoi no Nikki Shoujo ; Machibito Kitari; Machiboto Kitari; Megane Danshi Tokushuu; Musume no Toshigoro no Musume; 单恋日记中的少女; 片恋の日記少女
Comedy, Drama, One shot, Romance, School Life, Shoujo, Slice of Life
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June 16, 2024
A collection of six short stories centering around romance and family:
1- Musume no Toshigoro no Musume
2- Torikahebaya de Aimashou
3- Genshoku Megane Danshi Hyouhon
4- Machibito Kitari (New Year's Fortune: Waiting for the One)
A chance meeting of two strangers at a train station on New Year’s Eve...
5- Chichi to Musuko to Buridaikon (The Father, the Son and the Yellowtail Radish)
Micha, formerly Hamada Mitsuru, is gay, in a loving relationship and living as a transvestite in Tokyo. Having kept this a secret from family what high jinx will follow when Micha's father turns up unannounced?
6- Katakoi no Nikki Shoujo (The Girl in the Diary of Unrequited Love)
Takashi accidentally found his father's diary and in it, it tells a story of his father's love for a girl with green flower hair pin. So who is this girl? What's Takashi going to do about it? Read it to find out the bittersweet story of an unrequited love.
Two nameless siblings: a sister with a heart condition which prohibits her from having sex, and a brother who only has sex with sleeping women. The brother has a new girlfriend, and the sister dreams of dying. What once was will determine what must be.
When Jeongha, the temperamental young son of a wealthy businessman was suddenly stricken down with a mysterious illness, his father scrambled to look for a cure. But the debilitating affliction persisted. Desperate and out of option, the father sought out help from a temple up on a misty mountain to save the life of his only son. As he stood waiting at the foot of the mountain for the temple people, he was approached by a village elderly man. The man told him that if the problem was small, he would be met by young temple people. If the problem was average, he would be met by middle aged people. And if the problem was grave, he would be met by elderly people, in which case he would need to prepare his heart for the worst. But on the rare occasion where a child came down to meet him, he would have to beg for his child’s life as if his own life depended on it. As the elderly man was leaving, the temple people arrived. Who came down from the temple to find the father?
Drama, Romance, School Life, Shoujo, Slice of Life
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June 16, 2024
Sara is a student in a women-only school and has been raised protected and covered from everything. Until one day she crossed paths with a boy as beautiful as he is dangerous
Pt/Br:
||Sara uma estudante de um colgio feminino e tem sido criada por uma me super protetora. At que um dia, ela cruzou o caminho de um garoto que to perigoso quanto lindo||
Up and coming mixed raced glamour model Alice accepts the job of a lifetime for a fashion shoot on an Island unlike any other. Along with her cohorts she must survive the freaks that terrorize them!
Genius shogi player Taisei Amado has a secret...Kentaro Fukuda, the creator of Devilyman and Shinigiwa, brings his beautiful art to a shogi story that you won't be able to put down!
To fulfill the dream her father could not of winning the FUTURE WORLD FES, the lone songstress Minato Yukina sought to assemble a band.
From the rhythm game BanG Dream! Girls Band Party!, the story of the goth J-rock band, Roselia, is rendered in comic form by Dokuta Pepperco!
Sota’s Knife ; Souta no Houchou,Souta no Houchou - Ginza Itamae Shuugyou Nikki,蒼太の包丁,蒼太の包丁 -銀座・板前修業日記-
Drama, Seinen, Slice of Life
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June 16, 2024
The eponymous Sota is a kitchen hand at a high-class traditional Japanese restaurant, learning the basics of cooking washoku. Through Sota's training, readers will come to understand the care and forethought that goes into creating Japanese cuisine and which has led to its wide-spread popularity across the world, from ramen to sushi to izakaya fare. Pure-hearted, hard-working, and in love with food, Sota will have readers rooting for him to become the best washoku chef ever.
Juuna's uncle gets her to enroll in the school where he's principal. The only problem is that it's an all boys school! With all those rabid guys around, Juuna needs someone to protect her. In comes Shibuki to be her bodyguard...but Juuna wants him to do more to her body than just guard it!
The side story of volume 2 is called 'Sexy Guardian Returns'.
Airando; Apple; God of Love; Koi no Kamisama; Personant; Williams; Остров; アイランド; アップル; ウィリアムス; ペルソナント; 恋の神様; 苹果; Island
Comedy, Drama, Romance, School Life, Shounen, Slice of Life, Supernatural, Tragedy
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June 16, 2024
A collection of one-shots publlished between 2007-2008 published on various magazines and the Nisekoi pilot chapter:
1. Island (2007, Akamaru Jump)
For the last 400 years, an island has been completely surrounded by walls, isolated from the rest of the world. Aira and Marue have always dreamed of voyaging outside the walls, where lies a devastating truth unbeknownst to them.
2. Koi no Kami-sama (2007, Weekly Shonen Jump)
Tsuchibe Taichi, a boy who loves shoujo manga and believes in love above all else, ironically has the worst luck in love. His latest attempt in love is at the new transfer student, but a strange otherworldly force seems to be repelling him from her.
3. Williams (2007, Weekly Shonen Jump)
William is a young boy who idolizes Aradoff, a character from a popular novel which told Aradoff's adventures, and always dreams of having a grand adventure on his own. William's meeting with the novel author finally puts him on an adventure to prove that the novel is not merely a fiction.
4. Personant (2008, Jump SQ)
In the year 3333, everyone wears personants, technologically advanced masks, to maintain equality and peace, because they eliminate the "differences" in people that lead to discrimination and conflict. It has been 100 years since the government implemented this "personant system," so society has adapted. Yet one man exists as the only one in the world without a personant: the wanted criminal Damore!
5. Apple (2008, Young Magazine)
The main character (the blond ponytailed guy - yeah, guy) is Aramiya Satoshi, whose main ability is shape-shifting into any animal... though at some point he has plants growing out of him, so he is able shape-shift into any living thing. I'm not sure if he was naturally born that way or if he was a biological experiment. Anyway, he's a pretty easy-going guy who just wants to be left alone to enjoy his solitary life in the middle of a junkyard, but apparently some army or another is always after him because of his ability. Luckily, he is able to fight off entire tank battalions before breakfast.
Samurai 8 Hachimaruden ; Samurai 8: The Tale of Hachimaru; Samurai 8 - La Légende de Hachimaru; Samurai 8: Hachimaruden; Самурай 8: Хроники Хачимару; サムライ8 八丸伝
Action, Adventure, Drama, Sci-fi, Shounen
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June 16, 2024
He can’t run! He can’t eat hard food. You can’t get any weaker than the boy named Hachimaru. But his dream is to become a samurai. For a boy who can’t even survive without the help of his father, that dream seemed impossible. But when a samurai cat appears before him, his whole life will change! A legendary manga creator and a rising star come together to bring you this science fiction samurai epic!
Haru to Midori; Haru and Midori; Haru dan Midori; Хару и Мидори; 春とみどり
Drama, Shoujo Ai, Slice of Life, Yuri
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June 16, 2024
Midori isn't good with people, and at 31 years old, she feels like she has no place in life.
One day, she is attending the funeral of a close friend of hers from junior high school, Tsugumi. Unable to forget about her, she has a vision of the young friend she knew standing above her - only it isn't the girl she once knew, but her daughter, Haruko.
This is the story of the relationship between a woman without a place and a child without a mother.
Izumi Maya, a 33-year-old professional pastry chef, who went out to buy some mustard, gets caught in an accident. When she regains consciousness, she has been reincarnated as a 12-year-old princess! On top of that, she also has a husband who is older than her! And a king, no less!
Maya realizes that she's in a position where her life might be targeted, thus, decides to try to get along with her husband to protect herself!
In the name of a pastry chef, I’ll defeat the criminal and my husband’s stomach at the same time!!
Higurashi Tsugumi lost his parents and maid in a fire when he was still young. He's now 15 and a promising new writer, however, he's been stuck in a slump for the past year. He decides to go back to his old family home in order to gain inspiration by reminiscing on his happy past. Unbeknownst to him, he would be greeted with an unexpected surprise from his childhood...
War’s Unwomanly Face ; У войны не женское лицо; ليس لِلحرب وجهٌ أنثوي; 戦争は女の顔をしていない; La guerra no tiene rostro de mujer; The Unwomanly Face of War; La guerra no té rostre de dona
Adaptation, Drama, Historical, Military, Slice of Life, Survival, Tragedy
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June 3, 2026
In The Unwomanly Face of War, Alexievich chronicles the experiences of the Soviet women who fought on the front lines, on the home front, and in the occupied territories. These women—more than a million in total—were nurses and doctors, pilots, tank drivers, machine-gunners, and snipers. They battled alongside men, and yet, after the victory, their efforts and sacrifices were forgotten.
50 senchi no Isshou; 50cm no Isshou; Gojussenchi no Isshou; Story of 50 centimetres.; Five Centimetres Lifetime; Story of fifty centimeters; 50cm Lifetime
Drama, Josei, Slice of Life, Tragedy
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June 16, 2024
This is a tale about the interaction between humans and cats. Nanao and Machi are two stray cats living a quiet life in an obscure corner of town. However, when the stray cats in this town feel a decrease in food provided by the humans, a quarrel among the felines occur. In this trying time, Nanao and Machi encounters a woman named Yoshino...
The previous lords have committed as many atrocities as possible to fill their bellies. I, the only daughter of that house, had discovered that my servant and lover was a spy. And as the people wanted, my life ended with my execution.
However, with the memory of getting beheaded intact, I began a new life. I was planning to shoulder the sins of my past life and become a nun, but by some trick of fate, I came to work as a maid for the current lord. Under my former lover, whose name, age and even hair colour were all lies.
Kanmuri Ayako owns a watch workshop where many different people visit her — each with their own unique past, anecdotes and thoughts. A heartwarming, gentle story.
Tsukumogami Karuta is a Karuta card that was attached with the divine spirits of Tsukumogami. It has been passed down in the Kawazuya, a spirit medium family, for generations. However, by the Meiji period, the family had lost 41 of 49 cards. That is until they were found in the Kawazuya vault 100 years later by the 6th generation, Shiro Kawazuya! To collect the scattered 99 gods of Karuta, Shiro is wandering around Nara city together with Miyabi, the rich girl whose sixth sense just got awaken!
Slime Tensei. Daikenja ga Youjo Elf ni Dakishimeraretemasu
Slime Tensei. Daikenja Ga Youjo Elf Ni Dakishimeraretemasu ; Slime Reincarnation. The Great Sage is Hugged by His Adopted Elf Daughter; スライム転生。大賢者が養女エルフに抱きしめられてます ; Slime Reincarnation. The Great Elf is Hugged by His Adopted Elf Daughter
Adaptation, Adventure, Comedy, Drama, Fantasy, Monsters, Reincarnation, Shounen, Slice of Life
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May 7, 2025
The Great Sage becomes his daughter's pet!?
The Great Sage Marlin Endlight on the moment of his death, reincarnated into a [Slime that can evolve endlessly] and became his daughter's familiar. And then, he left on a journey with his daughters to take back his mansion. The everyday story of Slime unfolds!
Magic Artisan Dahliya Won't Hang Her Head ~A Free Craftsman Life From Now On~
Madougushi Dahlia wa Utsumukanai - Dahliya Wilts No More ; Magic Artisan Dahliya Won't Hang Her Head ~Dahliya Wilts No More~ ; Magic Artisan Dahliya Won’t Hang Her Head ~A Free Craftsman Life From Now On~ ; Madougushi Dahliya wa Utsumukanai: Kyou Kara Jiyuu na Shokunin Life; Magic Artisan Dahliya Won't Hang Her Head: A Free Craftsman Life From Now On; 魔導具師ダリヤはうつむかない ～今日から自由な職人ライフ～; Магическая ремесленница Далия не унывает! Отныне вольная жизнь ремесленницы; 魔導具師妲莉亞永不妥協～從今天開始的自由職人生活～; 魔导具师达利亚永不低头～今天开始是自由职业生活～
A reincarnator, Dahliya, taking advantage of her broken engagement, “I won't hang my head any longer” made firm her resolve.
Now using her beloved magic devices any way she wishes, the fun times keep rolling in ―?!
