Nogawa is called over to a meetup with her group of high school friends for the first time in years. However, one face among them brings about great ire within Nogawa - a certain Sawamoto, the first of their friend group to get married. During the course of their meetup, Nogawa reflects on what about Sawamoto sets her off... A collection of one-shots chiefly for josei magazines by Minori Kimura. Frequent themes and elements include office workers, one's prospects for love and marriage, psychology over time, and interpersonal relationships. In addition to the title story, also includes: - **Miss Ruiko's Glasses** (ルイ子さんのメガネ, Ruiko-san no Megane) - Ruiko is a young office lady who has been having some problems with her vision as of late. When she goes to get some glasses for herself, however, she stumbles upon a very peculiar glasses shop - and the glasses she gets there will give her a new perspective on things... - **The Fig Tree** (無花果の木, Ichijiku no Ki) - A story reflecting upon mother-daughter relationships intertwined with the Second World War, focusing on the women in the Takahashi family - a grandmother, her daughter, and her daughter's daughter. - **Winter Journey** (冬の旅, Fuyu no Tabi) - Nakahara has set out to settle things with Kondo, a cameraman at her workplace, once and for all. Kondo and Nakahara were part of the same friend circle back in college, but since they were a few years apart, they had not met in some time after Nakahara graduated. They got along well once Kondo started working for the same publication she did, but... - **My Private Dream, The Night I Met Joni Mitchell** (ジョニ・ミッチェルに会った夜の私的な夢, Joni Mitchell ni Atta Yoru no Shiteki na Yume) - Minori Kimura (as *Uneri* Kimura) stars in this one-shot about her sheer admiration for the Canadian singer-songwriter. Kimura has been a long time fan of hers, but as time had gone on, Kimura was set on moving on from being such an obsessive fan. Mitchell's appearance in Japan puts that to the test, however.
Asuka Mori is infatuated with a certain someone. Trouble is that certain someone actually being the person who makes up half of her DNA: her mother Ayako.
A comedy manga about Haman Karn as a modern corporate section chief at an apparel company named Neo Zeon dealing with her insecurities being a 30 year old office lady.
Three years ago, a gateway between Earth and the "Beyond" opened over the city of New York. In one terrible night, New York was destroyed and rebuilt, trapping New Yorkers and extra-dimensional creatures alike in an unassailable island, a world all its own hidden in the mist of its physics-defying waterfalls. New York has been rechristened Hellsalem's Lot, a paranormal melting pot where magic and madness dwell alongside the mundane, where every form of human vermin gathers to exploit otherworldly assets for earthly profit. Now someone is threatening to breach the controlled flow of harmless, average humans and items in and (much more rarely) out of the city and thereby release Hellsalem's Lot's deluge of horrors on the outside world. The mysterious super-agents of "Libra" fight the impossible to prevent the unthinkable.
In a world where beastmen stand on top of humans, OL Saki continues to struggle to lose. Saki endured the days of power harassment from her boss, but one day she was suddenly called by the company president, Atlas. I'll do my best!
Meet Natsumi Harukawa, a young office lady. During work, she is asocial and constantly looks cranky. However, the truth is that Harukawa-san is simply very hungry, and spends her time after work eating delicious foods.
Amidst the chaos of World War II, two Japanese soldiers hear of Zephyrus, an utterly captivating woman rumored to exist on an island in the South Pacific. The tales of this bold enchantress seducing men to their dooms are both chilling and fascinating. Over twenty years pass, and Zephyrus resurfaces in Japan, seemingly unchanged, to wield her mysterious power over men once more. The one man immune to Zephyrus' charms is simple drunkard, Gohonmatsu Seki, son of one of the wartime soldiers. Employed to spy on Zephyrus, what will Gohonmatsu uncover about her ultimate plot to create international discord and consume the world of men? What brought this woman to conspire for decades against patriarchal society -against an entire gender- and can anything be done to stop her plans? [Official English](https://emanga.com/collections/osamu-tezuka/products/swallowing-the-earth) --- **Volumes 259 and 260 of the Osamu Tezuka Complete Works**
"The Moon" is a giant robot created by the millionaire Baron, spending 2.5 trillion yen (at that time). Baron proclaimed that **"God is Dead"** and created The Moon as a replacement, to serve as a new power to bring justice in a world of wickedness. He entrusts the operation to kids with a pure heart, as he believes only children are the ones able to enact true justice. Note: Volume count based on the bunkoban.
Kenichi is the chief detective of a boy's detective organization. With his assistant Donguri, a mynabird, Kenichi will face all sorts of cases all around the globe. --- **Volumes 134 and 135 of the Osamu Tezuka Complete Works**
Having been inspired by the character designs of a particular video game when she was younger, Suzukaze Aoba, a high school graduate, begins working as a character designer for the game's developer, Eagle Jump. As she works on modelling and designing characters for games in development, she becomes acquainted with her fellow co-workers in the character design department, as well as those from across the company.
Kakei Shirou, lawyer by day and gourmand by night, lives with his boyfriend, Yabuki Kenji, an out-going salon stylist. While the pair navigate the personal and professional minefields of modern gay life, Kenji serves as enthusiastic taste-tester for Shirou's wide and varied made-from-scratch meals. --- - **Won 43rd Kodansha Award for General Manga in 2019**
Having become an item, Takase and Komai explore the intricacies of a loving relationship, and how they build themselves into stronger people with each other's support.
One day, a young clerk named Haruhiko was suddenly asked by his boss to do one thing: get her pregnant. "We won't have any deeper relationship... We just have to do it, that is, you have to get me pregnant, and I have your baby." ___ **Character Designer:** [Sino](https://mangadex.org/author/20d3f3a3-88a7-48b1-a5b4-cb0410a0d770)
In love and romance, it's all about TECHNOLOGY, and TECHNOLOGY always wins. Watanabe is a young 26-year-old lawyer who fervently believes in pure love and would give everything for his beloved girlfriend. However, reality makes him realize that love isn't the fantasy he's always dreamed of, but rather a game of probabilities and intelligence. Together with Watanabe, you'll learn the latest technology that will make you irresistible to any woman: “Love Engineering”.
A protector, with an arm of steel, able to deflect bullets, swearing never to take a life. That is Tate Karito, the Shield in the Dark.
"Hello fellow citizens. I am Yoshida the half-elf, working for the post office of the Imperial City of Idazig. My job is to deliver letters and documents to wherever you need them to be, whether it be a castle in the sky or the bottom of an abyss." This is a comedy written by the biggest Middle-Ages geek, hitting the fantasy genre from an entirely new angle!
_"Why don't the two of us date? …In secret"_ Tateishi, who works in accounting at a snack-making company, has a secret. That secret is the existence of his cute lover that he's had since yesterday. Why keep it a secret, you ask? Because his lover is his unyielding colleague from the planning department of the same company— Mitsuya! A pure office romance story about a couple who started their relationship in secret, and want to keep it that way!
When corporate slave Fushihara-san works late into the night, a worried ghost named Yurei-chan tries to send her home. She helps with her work and brings her snacks, all the while pleading "Begone now!"—Fushihara's heart just can't get enough of her cuteness! Be healed by the heartwarming daily lives of Fushihara-san, who can see ghosts, and the caring Yurei-chan. ___ - [Alternative Raw](https://twitter.com/imari_imari/status/1091576456914788353)
An advertising company's newcomer, Adashino Ayano, is a zombie girl. A little strange girl who often trips, loses hands, feet and eyeballs, and loves zombie jokes. Dullahan salesman, vampire chairman, clerk with zombie mania; surrounded by distinctive members, Adashino will work hard today!
Michio Yuki has it all: looks, intelligence, a pedigree as the scion of a famous Kabuki family, a promising career at a major bank, legions of female admirers. But underneath the sheen of perfection lurks a secret with the power to shake the world to its foundations. During a boyhood excursion to one of the southern archipelagos near Okinawa, Yuki barely survived exposure to a poison gas stored at a foreign military facility. The leakage annihilated all of the island’s inhabitants but was promptly covered up by the authorities, leaving Yuki as an unacknowledged witness—one whose sense of right and wrong, however, the potent nerve agent managed to obliterate. Now, fifteen years later, Yuki is a social climber of Balzacian proportions, infiltrating the worlds of finance and politics by day while brutally murdering children and women by night—perversely using his Kabuki-honed skills as a female impersonator to pass himself off as the women he’s killed. His drive, however, will not be satiated with a promotion here and a rape there. Michio Yuki has a far more ominous objective: obtaining MW, the ultimate weapon that spared his life but robbed him of all conscience. There are only two men with any hope of stopping him: one, a brilliant public prosecutor who struggles to build a case against the psychopath; the other, a tormented Catholic priest, Iwao Garai, who shares Yuki’s past—and frequently his bed. [Official English](https://kodansha.us/series/mw/) --- **Volumes 301-303 of the Osamu Tezuka Complete Works**
Roppu was a toy abandoned by the child of aliens. He was rediscovered by Roppei, the son of a fisherman. Roppu can fly when the button on his chest on is pressed. Roppu can also create anything, even things thought to be impossible. When the star on his head is pressed, Roppu falls still. Roppu and Roppei have all sorts of adventures, with questionable figures often trying to get their hands on Roppu for their own desires. Volume 2 includes "Bongo" (First Grader version): Bongo is a boy who lives in the jungle and is a master archer entrusted with maintaining peace in the jungle. Bongo learns of a treasure called the Golden Bow, and goes in search of it along with his ally Chap the Squirrel. The two must overcome seven perils to reach it at the Mountain of the Sinking Moon. --- **Volumes 119 and 120 of the Osamu Tezuka Complete Works**
Kine Machiko is a thirty-something office worker, who loves nothing more than watching movies and writing her review blog. She hides her passion for movies from her co-workers due to unpleasant past experiences, but she still wants friends with whom she can share her love of movies. What will be the next movie she watches? What dark, geeky secret will haunt her next? Will she ever make any movie friends?
Genius bartender Ryu Sasakura makes the most incredible cocktails anyone has ever tasted. Seeking his "Glass of God", individuals from all different walks of life visit his bar. With both a compassionate ear and a godly drink, Ryu helps people with their problems. Volume Subtitles: 1: **Gentle Perch** (優しい止まり木, Yasashī Tomariki) 2: **Perfect Taste** (完璧な味, Kanpekina Aji) 3: **Bar Face** (バーの顔, Bā no Kao) 4: **A Cup for the Traveler** (旅人のための一杯, Tabibito no Tame no Ippai) 5: **One for the Road** 6: **Cigar Smoke** (葉巻の煙, Hamaki no Kemuri) 7: **Martini's Face** (マティーニの顔, Matīni no Kao) 8: **Eden Hall Good Luck** (イーデンホールの幸運, Īdenhōru no Kōun) 9: **First "Customer"** (最初の『客』, Saisho no “Kyaku”) 10: **It Won't Sink** (たゆたえども沈まず, Tayutaedomo Shizumazu) 11: **Each Turning Point** (それぞれの転機, Sorezore no Tenki) 12: **Cross Road** (クロス・ロード, Kurosu Rōdo) 13: **The Kindness of Failure** (失敗の優しさ, Shippai no Yasashi-sa) 14: **Serving Cup** (献杯, Kenpai) 15: **Past** (過去, Kako) 16: **Rita Takazuru's Story** (竹鶴・リタの物語, Takedzuru Rita no Monogatari) 17: **Door to Tomorrow** (明日への扉, Asuhenotobira) 18: **Bar Treasures** (バーの宝物, Bā no Takaramono) 19: **Departure** (旅立ち, Tabidachi) 20: **Good Man** (善い人, Yoi Hito, ALT. ENG. - Good Person) 21: **The Teachings of Goodbye** (サヨナラの教え, Sayonara no Oshie)