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.
Nakayama Haruto is a game commentator who streams provocative content under the name "Oni-chan." He attracts attention for his radical streams , but his true identity is that of a good older brother who streams to raise money for his younger sister's tuition and living expenses. However, he accidentally forgets to turn off the streams, and his true personality is revealed to the public. Just when it seems like he's going to cause a major uproar, the contrast with his usual self turns out to be a big hit with viewers...!?
The near future in a quiet seaside town. Yoshioka, who has recently lost his wife, just wants to spend the rest of his days in peace. However, Yoshioka's children, worried about their father's health, send an off-model housekeeping robot called Ponko to help him. Unusual for the age, as human-like robots are then considered obsolete, Ponko does her best to serve Yoshioka, but her "best" is not that good. Yoshioka's quiet life is now changing, as this eager but ditzy robot girl manages to keep his hands full…
One night, senior high school second-year Nishina Airi is abducted. When she wakes, she is trapped in an uncanny, isolated space with other students from her high school and forced to take part in the “Werewolf Game”. Thus, a death game filled with fear and terror that would pit “Werewolves” and “Villagers” against each other, force them to murder – a game with rules so absolute, defiance is punished by gruesome death – begins.
As a child Wataru and his grandmother used to pay visits to a shrine in their neighbourhood. While they prayed for each other's happiness, he encountered a snow-white fox named Yuki. Many years later, a sad occasion leads Wataru to pay another visit to the same shrine, but the Yuki who greets him there isn't quite the same one he remembers…
Souta, who's attending a confectionary school, is in a relationship with Saeko, a girl one year older than him. He fell in love at first sight with her four years ago, and right before Christmas last year, they finally had their first kiss. Because his girlfriend really loves chocolate, every day, Souta tries to polish his chocolate-making skills. Even when his girlfriend smells like cigarettes although she doesn't smoke, even when she turns down his invitation to a date on Valentine's day, he's still not broken-hearted at all, and he still continues to love her… Note: Won the 2012 Kodansha Manga Awards in the Shoujo category and was nominated for the 4th Manga Taisho Awards in 2011.
The year is 1787, Tenmei Era, a time of plague and famine in Japan, When ordinary swordsman only add to the piles of corpses on the street. But Nakoruru, a nature-worshipping Ainu priestess; Haohmaru, a bold samurai with a death wish; Hanzo, a ninja loyal to the Shogun, are samurai spirits with a common destiny. With Nakoruru's guidance, the trio battle the supernatural forces of the Dark Kingdom, led by the half-human wizard Madou Shiranui. If Shiranui's troops succeed in fomenting a war between Japan's warlords, the resulting devastation will clear the way for Dark Kingdom invasion of earth. Can the the brave samurai stave off an all-out attack by an entire legion of demons?
At a Hygiene Exhibition, a mysterious friendship blooms between Akihiko, a boy who dreams of becoming a military doctor, and Hisao, who has an iron prosthetic arm. But each time Akihiko meets with him, Hisao's body deteriorates, and the number of prosthetic limbs increases… A retro scifi drama overflowing with darkness and beauty that questions humanity and its agency! **Award:** Won the Four Seasons Prize in the Spring 2024 Afternoon Four Seasons Awards. Originally published in the good! Afternoon June 2024 Issue.
In Fortelnia, a world where strength and destiny are all determined by the rank of “existence power” a power that people born with. Aruto, who has only the lowest rank of existence [☆1], is so powerless that his girlfriend Hanna is killed by Gamizin, the world’s most powerful mage. However, Aruto, who has lived with regret in his heart, gets a chance to start his life over after death–? Making full use of his “crafting skills,” a special power given to him by God, he sets out on his second life to save Hannah’s life!
Nana was raised by robots, and is now a research student living with Hachitsu, a gifted scientist also raised by robots. One day, Hachitsu collapses from a disease. In order to gain the time to develop a cure to save him, Nana proposes they place him in cold sleep. Hachitsu goes to sleep, leaving behind the clones that he created to help Nana. When he wakes up decades later, Hachitsu finds Nana grown into an old lady and yet more clones. Hachitsu is saved by a surgery, but the elderly Nana seems to be nearing the end of her days. While Hachitsu slept, a war had broken out and devastated the world, and robots and AI who had been turned into weapons had started hating humanity. Nana devoted the rest of her life to creating robots to clean up the earth. She had a dream that humans and AI would be able to reconcile. As she lay on her sickbed, Hachitsu and the clones vowed to carry on her dying wish...
Yoshie, who lost her daughter in an unexpected accident, encounters a certain doll at an antique market. She dotes on the doll as if it were her real daughter, and her emotional wounds gradually begin to heal. However, when the couple has a new daughter, the doll starts to unravel their family’s happiness.
Ikuo Ryuuzaki and Danno Tatsuya are two orphaned boys who were looked after by a woman they called 'sensei'. Following their sensei's brutal murder, the two vow to hunt down her killers and the police officers who neglected to properly investigate the case. 15 years later, Ryuuzaki is a police detective and Tatsuya has become the leader of a group of mobsters. Helping each other out behind the scenes, they strive to rise to the tops of their respective fields so that they may exact their vengeance.
Kazunari Usa's dream to live away from his parents is fulfilled when they allow him to move into an old boarding house called Kawai Complex. With his landlady providing him meals and his parents covering his rent, Kazunari finally achieves the peaceful life he longs for, as he is ready to enter his first year at high school. Or so it seems… Upon moving into the boarding house, Kazunari finds out that he has to share a room with resident masochist Shirosaki. He must also live under the same roof as Mayumi Nishikino, a drunkard with a hopeless love life, and Sayaka Watanabe, a seemingly innocent college student. Although he is surrounded by these unique characters, Kazunari still counts himself lucky to be living in the same building as Ritsu Kawai, a second-year student he has a crush on. As Kazunari settles into the boarding house, he soon realizes that the inhabitants of Kawai Complex are bound to add a twist to the life he has been hoping to live. ___ **Alt Official English:** [emaqi - United States & Canada only!](https://emaqi.com/manga/the-kawai-complex-guide-to-manors-and-hostel-behavior)
Kenichi, a single man in his 40s, is transported into another world for no apparent reason. As he tries to escape a dangerous forest teaming with monsters, he realizes he has the power to access to a huge online store. By using this power to exchange goods he found in this new world for cash, and then buying modern ones off the internet, he was able to quickly create a very popular business. However, his goal is to have a slow and leisurely life.
The World Rift. A giant line of water jets that divides the world in two. Eight years ago, an epic battle punctured a hole through the rift and strange creatures began to leak into the known world, making it so that the only ones who venture out to sea are fools and pirates. Cherry Blossom is one of these aspiring pirates, setting out to sea in order to find something important to him. Along the way, he crosses paths with Sun, a mysterious boy who holds the World Rift Tear, an amulet said to be the key to traversing the World Rift and discovering what lies beyond. Together, they set out into uncharted seas, inviting any grand adventures that awaits them!
Scene: The School Rooftop The hero (me, Junpei Manaka!) sneaks up to the roof to see the sunset. When he opens the door, he startles a mysterious beauty. She panics and runs away, but not before Junpei has caught sight of her adorable strawberry print panties... in EXTREME close-up. With that vision forever burned into his memory, Junpei embarks on a quest to find the girl, and the panties, of his dreams!
New game, new players, same rule, and an additional mysterious role, The Crazy Fox.
Kuromi Girls' Academy is a refined, elegant school that expects the very best in deportment from its young ladies. Aya got into this peerless rich-girls' institution on a scholarship, and hopes to grow as lovely as her fellow student and idol Shirayui. But Shirayui hides a terrible secret: she's a trash-talking, combo-chaining, newbie-stomping, ruthless hardcore gamer! Could a mutual indulgence in no-holds-barred video game combat grow into a deeper rapport between these two girls? (Source: Seven Seas Entertainment, Vol. 1)
High school student Shuto is looking forward to being free and at ease while his parents are working overseas. Only problem is, things don't exactly go as planned when he finds a 5 year old girl in his house. As it turns out, the girl's mother is a colleague of his parents and is traveling overseas with them and has left her daughter in his care for the next 3 months!!
In the late 19th century in Paris, Theodorus van Gogh, famous art dealer in Paris and the branch manager of the prestigious Goupil & Cie patroned exclusively by Bourgeoisie clients, seeks to embrace new art talents and techniques. However, the period is full of the prestigious and conservative who think that art belongs solely to the upper echelon of the society whereas commoners are considered as unable to appreciate art. Stating that "Destroying the system from within is more interesting", Thedorus struggles to overcome the obstacle by bring forth works which depict the truth and daily lives of people which are not acknowledged by the academy. Rank #1 in Kono Manga ga Sugoi 2014 for Female Voters.
Suzuho, tormented by relentless bullying, crosses paths with Raiko—a girl whose personality is a stark contrast to her own—following an unexpected motorcycle accident. Inspired by Raiko's vibrant spirit, Suzuho begins to embrace a more positive outlook on life, until she is confronted once again by her tormentors.
A soccer loving boy Takasugi Kazuya dreams of playing soccer with his Japan League star father at the National Yoyogi Stadium. The story follows Kazuya's life as he travels to Argentina, plays for Yamaki, and goes to the 1998 World Cup in France.
Contains several short stories from a certain kingdom.
It was the Sengoku Era, a time when warring daimyous usurped each other constantly. There was a man whose soul was overtaken by the ways of tea and material greed as he strenuously worked his way up towards greater power and status. His name was Furuta Sasuke, a vassal of Oda Nobunaga in the Yamashiro province. With his world broadened by Oda's genius and Tea Master Sen no Soueki's spiritual insight, Sasuke travelled the road of the jocular fellow. To live or not to live. For power or the arts. That is the question! **Awards:** - 2009 Japan Media Arts Festival Excellence Prize - 14th Osamu Tezuka Cultural Grand Prize (2010)