Isabel stumbles upon an abandoned baby on the beach at dawn. She picks up the baby without any hesitation and flags a car on the road. She asks the driver to take her and the baby to the hospital. After putting the baby in the care of the hospital, she’s surprised to know who was driving the car. He’s a famous architect, Craig Jaeger! What she knows about him is that he’s a stubborn man. She gets agitated after knowing that she forced a man like him to be the driver. Despite her concern, he treats the baby with care. His kindness impacts her heart in a whole different way.
Although Alex welcomes the temp who’s covering for his secretary while she’s on vacation, he feels uneasy about her. This new one has freckles all over her makeup-free face with her hair pulled into a simple and tidy ponytail. He just fired a temp who was obsessed by her appearance and paid no attention to her work. Still, something is troubling him about this plain-looking woman. Meanwhile, Julia, the temp, is having a hard time hiding her fluttering heart, and she worries that he might discover her true identity despite her perfect disguise!
The year is 1830 and Caroline, the daughter of a British aristocrat, can no longer bear the violence of the man her father decided she would marry. She impulsively gets her hands on a powerful drug, and as her consciousness fades away, she realizes she is being held by gentle arms. Could it be her secret love, Sebastian Conway? She and the aloof Sebastian keep meeting and parting... It’s a love that makes Caroline want to cry. Must they be forever kept apart by circumstance?
The foolish living things, the humans, who carry darkness in their hearts lost the light from their eyes.
Deep inside the darkness, they lose sight of the way. Crushed in their despair the humans, one day, meet the 'hotaru' which carries a faint, warm light. The hotaru provided the humans with the light, and started to live alongside them. But in this ugly and blood-stained world, the hotaru's number started to decrease day by day. Yet, the humans wanted the light and started to hunt the hotaru. For money they would throw away the life of the hotaru.
A convenient groom found by Amelia, who is in a hurry to get married, is the Earl Rockwall, an infamous debauchee. This is a period piece filled with exciting games of love!
Felicia is a servant's daughter who harbors a yearning for the eldest son of the Marquis's family. But they are torn apart by a sudden separation. When they are coincidentally reunited ten years later, there's a huge gap has opened between them...!
"After the war, I shall return. Let's get married then." Collin, a member of an aristocratic family, and Rose, an innkeeper's daughter, promise to marry each other despite the differences in their social status. However, in the midst of the Napoleonic Wars in a combat zone, Collin receives a letter from Rose one-sidedly breaking off the engagement. Collin returns home unconvinced, but when he goes searching for Rose, he hears that she has gone missing. When he finally locates Rose, he finds her working as a housekeeper for an elderly noblewoman at her manor. But Rose acts as if Collin is a total stranger when he expresses his unwavering love toward her.
Her father loses their fortune and estate gambling and disappears. The last opponent he lost big to was a nobleman named Develin, and Thea’s father even gambled away her dowry. Thea shows up at Develin’s home and resolutely offers him a deal. “Please marry me.” Can he turn down this sudden proposal? Thea is fraught with unease, but Develin unexpectedly embraces her and steals a kiss. Could they really be together as man and wife, or does a miserable marriage await her?
Sylvia is being run ragged doing things at a resort for her stepmother who is trying to find a new husband. It is there that she meets Marquis Anglesey. He's arrogant, but also the focus of everyone's attention. Sylvia's thought he was only interested in her stepmother, but the one he proposes to is Sylvia! The curtain is raised on this Cinderella story with a twist!
Nineteenth-century London—Verity’s father has passed away, so in order to pay for the surgery her sister needs, she becomes a theater dancer under a false name. Dancers are considered no better than harlots in the eyes of gentlemen, so Viscount Fillion Guzby decides he can buy some time with her—in fact, he asks her to spend Christmas with him in exchange for five hundred pounds!
Rose is involved in a terrible scandal and is the center of 19th-century London’s rumor mill. She hopes to escape from prying eyes by accepting her cousin’s invitation to spend Christmas at Morton Castle in Yorkshire, but her plans are dashed when she finds out that one of the guests is none other than Sir Miles, a Londoner who’s not only heard the stories about Rose but believes them, too. He says he’d rather spar with her in a battle of wits than insult her, but what are his intentions really?
Rowan, a noble lady, felt uneasy. Her friend Penelope, who was so shy it hurt, was worried about being forced to marry an earl who had been accused of killing his wife. If Rowan posed as her servant and could prove that the earl was an inappropriate man for Penelope, then her father would give up on the match. Rowan immediately put her plan into action, but just as quickly she ran into a snag?Lucas, a playboy and the earl’s servant. He had only just met Rowan and had already tried to kiss her!
雪の峠・剣の舞 ; 雪之崖.剑之舞 ; Snow Ridge, Sword Dance ; Yuki no Touge Ken no Mai
Action, Drama, Historical, Seinen, Tragedy
17
1
2
May 9, 2024
The closing stages of Sengoku (Warring States) Japan. A setting commonly explored in Japanese manga through vivid scenes of gory battles, samurai, and feats of bravery, honour, and loyalty. Iwaaki Hitoshi dares to go against the popular grain by not focusing on the 3 famous unifiers, but by depicting stories of a society in transition. Rapidly changing cultural norms and class expectations pit the old versus the young, the war-weary versus the war-mongers, and the parochial versus the foward-thinking. The first story, "Snow Ridge," explores the changing role of samurai and provinces while the second story, "Sword Dance," deals with kendo's evolution from warfare to art.
From Forte Atrox:
Lee Woo-hee was kidnapped and found under a plum tree with a faint memory of a man telling her, "I promise you that until the day we meet again, you will be reborn." After that incident, her father became protective and would only allow her to go from the house to the plum tree she loved. However, she would be allowed to venture into the village on the day of the new moon. One such day she meets a exorcist that warns her of a man dressed in black. Will she take this warning to heart? Or is it already too late...?
エイラと外つ国の王; Eila to Totsu Kuni no Ou; Eira to Totsukuni no Ou; 에이라와 이국의 왕; 艾拉和外国的王
Drama, Historical, Mystery, Romance, Supernatural
24
1
56
June 26, 2024
After her father expected to stop the war with his neighbors and accepted the marriage application of the neighboring country, Princess Ella went to the neighboring country to become the wife of the first prince. However, there is a terrible rumor in neighboring countries. No one who has married into the royal family will come out again after entering the city. With uneasiness and curiosity about the first prince, Ella went to a neighboring country...
Kenkouki - Hi no Kuni Daiteikokugun Kurenai Ikki Tousentai
Kenkouki – Hi No Kuni Daiteikokugun Kurenai Ikki Tousentai ; Принцесса Сверкающего Меча ; 剣光妃 -日ノ国大帝國軍くれない一騎当千隊- ; Kenkouki - Hinokuni Dai Teikoku-gun Kurenai Ikki Tousen-tai ; Kenkouki - Hinokuni Daiteikokugun Kurenai Ikkitousentai ; Shimmering Sword Princess - Sun Country Great Imperial Army Crimson Great Warrior Squad
Action, Historical, Seinen
20
1
11
May 8, 2024
Atrable Federation is a military superpower that started the Endless War. After conquering many neighboring countries the Federation turns its attention to a small island country that is big only in name, the Great Empire of Sun.
Akiyama Maika is a girl seeking her father who went to war when she was little. Seeing the chance in the arrival of the legendary squad of mighty soldiers, Ikkitousentai, to a nearby city, she questions the military about her father's whereabouts. However, much to the girl's surprise her father appears not to be enlisted in the army. Maika, dejected by this news as well as savage city life, suddenly encounters a burly man falling from the sky. The bystanders name him the Invincible Wolf, one of the Ikkitousentai, and it seems like he knows something about Maika's father! Unfortunately, he isn't willing to tell anything to a civilian.
Maika decides to enlist in the Ikkitousentai in order to find her father. Even though the army doesn't accept women, such a thing won't stop Maika! [momimomi]
From Boku-Tachi:
For the past 500 years, a certain country has spent day and night fighting countless wars. However, the appearance of General Kyoutaka Kuroda seemed to foretell the end of this war-torn world with eighty percent of the country already under his rule. His followers are the People Hunters, indiscriminate murderers who suddenly started killing under Kuroda's orders 15 years earlier. In foreign countries, in their own villages, men, women, children and the old...there were no distinctions made. Kuroda's followers simply murdered...and enjoyed it. Happening upon a lone priest with the eyes of his dead sister, a displaced you man named Kazuma struggles against the demons of his past and present. In this strife ridden land how will he fare?
La Leyenda de la Princesa Sakura; Princesse Sakura; Prinzessin Sakura; Sakura Hime: The Legend of Princess Sakura; Sakura Princess Legend; Sakura-hime Kaden; The Legend of the Cherry Blossom Princess; Sakura Hime Kaden
Drama, Fantasy, Historical, School Life, Shoujo, Supernatural
83
1
7
May 8, 2024
Sakura is a princess who lives alone with a few maids in a mansion deep in the mountains. She's been engaged to the prince of the country since she was born. She doesn't like that fact, as she wants to decide her fate on her own. However, one day, a messenger from the prince suddenly came to take her to the capital...
It's the 18th century in Naples, Italy. There is a girl named Maria living peacefully in the city, but she is more than she appears. She is like a goddess of death, with a sword that cuts through everything. But what exactly is she? Where has she come from and what cruel destiny awaits her?
From Chibi Manga:
I was drifting about deep in the darkness but where am I exactly? In another world, another me found love...
A fantastic love story across space-time.
Many years ago, an ancient civilization once ruled Earth. They were known for advanced artifacts and machines, but were destroyed in the end due to the misuse of their creations. Creating indestructible message plates written in Hebrew, these people left messages for later generations, informing them that if they could not find a good use for their creations, they should be destroyed.
Various entities such as paramilitaries, national armies and armed private forces began to secretly search for these "mysterious" artifacts in order to be used for their own good and against their enemies after the end of the Cold War. Only the ARCAM Corporation can stop these forces from destroying themselves with these "advanced" machines. With the help of its military arm, the ARCAM Private Army and their elite secret agents known as Spriggans (or Strikers), ARCAM plans to turn the tides of battle against those who would threaten the safety of humanity by using the dangerous artifacts.
Spriggan, known for a short time as Striker in Canada, France, the Netherlands and the US, was censored in the North American market for excessive violence, blood and quesitonable content (The prominent example: The use of a black ops unit in the US Army with the majority of its soldiers revealed to be brainwashed children and teenagers under the age of 18).
In Northern France there lives a boy by the name of Nicholas. He dreams of becoming a knight like his father was, but people doubt his abilities, as his father is dead, and now he lives with his uncle, a Pig Farmer. Basically the story tells of his adventures as he strives to become a Knight Templar.
Based in year 1212.
Cantarella – Poison Of Blue ; カンタレラ~碧の毒薬~ ; Cantarella (Ichika) ; Cantarella - Ao no Dokuyaku
Historical, Romance, Shounen
21
1
25
May 7, 2024
Based on Kurousa-P's popular Vocaloid song "Cantarella":
Cesare (KAITO) is the first born son of the House of Borgia, while Lucrezia (Hatsune Miku) is his younger sister. One day, Cesare receives a poison from his father that has been handed down in the family called, "Cantarella".
The House of Borgia gained prosperity in the 15th century Rome. Cesare, who is in line as the next head of the family, has a sister who he has never met. Her name is Lucrezia. The story unfolds after the moment the two first meet...
The guest of a foreign prince, Robert St. Claire is given a beautiful slave for his pleasure. Unusual customs aside, he finds himself in a terrible dilemma. Not only is she English, but the daughter of a friend. In order to rescue her from captivity, he must use her like a harem girl in every way possible...
Lady Celia Davenport has been abducted, sold into slavery, and now finds herself in the bed of an Infidel lord. If she gives him erotic pleasure with subservient eagerness, there is a glimmer of hope in her future. Anxious to escape, she finds that perhaps sexual servitude isn't the prison she once imagined. Besides, every time she gives her lover satisfaction, she receives a rare and valuable pearl as a reward.
An English lord and a lovely slave find that circumstance and fate have a hand in granting those rare Arabian Pearls...
From Girls' Generation Scanlations:
The male-only theatre company, 012 Flower Troupe, splits its actors into two groups: the elite "New Moon", and the mediocre "Zodiac Group". Although Hinataze Nozomu is a member of the Zodiac Group, he has the ability to compete against others to be the best. One day, he is selected to play the new Princess role alongside Ootori Kazatora, his greatest rival from the other division. During their lessons, this man told him, “Not just in the script, fall for the real me.†What will Nozomu do...?
“I’ll return you to your world if you marry the prince.” That was the shocking proposal of the self-proclaimed god! I won’t really get a bad ending if I refuse, will I!? Office worker Sara was involved in a traffic accident, or so she thought. One moment, she was about to be hit by a truck, but that next… she found herself transported to an unfamiliar, grand castle, falling right on top of Prince Ars! When a soldier recognized her as “Sara,” the saint who saved the kingdom five years earlier, everyone suddenly started treating her as some divine being!! After questioning her reality, a voice came to her and said, "Capture the heart of the prince, who longs for the saint, and marry him!" The voice then threatened her denying her return to her own world should she fail…her only weapon in this challenge is her face that apparently looks just like that of the saint’s! And so began her zealous attempt to steal the prince’s heart!
Dororo is a thriller manga, which revolves around a ronin during the Sengoku period. He was born malformed, limbless and without facial features or internal organs. This was the result of his birth father daimyo Daigo Kagemitsu forging a pact with 48 sealed demons so that he might rule the world. In return, he promised the demons could each obtain a piece of his unborn child's body. This enabled them to roam free and commit atrocities along the countryside.
After his mother was forced to set him adrift on the river, lest he be killed by his father, the infant was subsequently found and raised by Dr. Honma, a medicine man who used healing magic and alchemical methods to give the child prostheses crafted from the remains of children who had died in the war. The boy became nearly invincible against any mortal blow as a result of the prostheses and healing magic. Grafted into his left arm was a very special blade that a travelling storyteller presented to Dr. Honma, believing it was fated to be within his possession given that ever since the boy had been discovered, the doctor had been visited by goblins. As revealed in a short tale about the blade's origin, the blade had been forged out of vengeance to kill goblins as well as other supernatural entities.
After the doctor was forced to send him on his way because he was attracting demons, the young man learned from a ghostly voice of the curse that had be set upon him at birth and that by killing the demons responsible he could reclaim the stolen pieces of his body and thus regain his humanity. Across his travels, he earned the name "Hyakkimaru" (????) among other names for his inhuman nature. On one such hunt of a demon, Hyakkimaru came across a young orphan thief named Dororo who thereafter travels by his side through the war-torn countryside.
Genghis Khan was the greatest hero in human history.
This story illustrates the miraculous events in the breathtakingly vibrant life of this man who tore across the steppes, awash in turmoil and war, as the ruler of his people!
This is an authentic historical novel depicting Genghis Khan's sweeping military rule from his childhood onward!
From Viz:
Delve into the tortured past of Earl Cain C. Hargreaves, charismatic heir to a wealthy family full of secrets, lies and unthinkable crimes. Follow the young Cain as he attempts to unravel the secrets of his birth, all the while solving each new mystery that comes his way.
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In the Hakushaku Cain Series:
1) Wasurerareta Juliet
Includes 2 oneshots
* The Boys Who Stopped Time -
England, year 1918. Rupert enrolls to his new school just a few days after the murder of a maid called Noelle. He's the type that just can't sit still, so when he meets Noelle's sister, he's determined to help her find out who murdered her sister...
* Double -
When they were children, Ren helped his friend Emilio start his career as an actor. But when Ren didn't have any news from Emilio for two years, he decided to go to New York to look for his friend...
2) Shounen no Fukasuru Oto
3) Kafka
Includes 1 oneshot
* Ellie in Summer Clothes
4) Akai Hitsuji no Kokuin
5) God Child
With Japan in the midst of a bloody revolution, an elite cadre of samurai swordsmen known as the Shinsengumi must protect the embattled city of Kyoto. Tetsunosuke Ichimura has spent his life dreaming of working at the Shinsengumi, and his wish has recently been fulfilled. As a page for Vice-Commander Hijikata Toshizo, he is privy to a wealth of secrets and is among Japan's highest ranking officials, some of whom are actual historical figures. When a strange gun-toting swordsman, Ryoma Sakamoto, recognizes Tetsunosuke and his brother as the sons of someone he calls the "Peacemaker," trouble brews and the other Shinsengumi run the outsider out of town. Full of action, this sword-fighting and gun-toting story is centered on the bakumatsu, a chaotic and bloody time of revolution that would ultimately result in the disbanding of the samurai and the opening up and Westernization of Japan. Fifteen-year-old Tetsu must witness the war around him, and perhaps gain some amount of wisdom about the samurai.
In the year 1863, a time fraught with violent social upheaval, samurai of all walks of life flock to Kyoto in the hope of joining the Mibu-Roshi--a band of warriors united around their undying loyalty to the Shogunate system. In time, this group would become one of the greatest (and most famous) movements in Japanese history... the Shinsengumi! In 2003 Kaze Hikaru won the Shogakukan Manga Award for shoujo.
