The two Nakamuras are teased as "the dull one and the cool one": the gay virgin Kazunari and the cheerful, much-experienced Hayato. These two-of-a-kind – with the same surname and sexual orientation – become close friends. But Kazunari, who is anxious about his orientation, gets an unexpected offer from Hayato: to comfort Kazunari with his body. Kazunari, who wants to treasure friendship above sexual desire, and Hayato, who in reality tries his best to hide his love for Kazunari. What will happen to these feelings that don't intersect?

Senya is just an ordinary boy, who wanted to become an astronaut as a kid. One day and suddenly, he's transported into another world after seeing on the rooftop of his school something like a “tower” going across the sky. There, he witnesses a ruined world, where skyscrapers are connected by suspension bridges. Senya, perplexed, manages to see a girl standing on the roof of another building, as well as a masked man holding a bloody weapon in his hands… ___ **Alt Official Raw:** [COMIC DAYS](https://comic-days.com/episode/14079602755566957499)

Suddenly stricken with lupus, a photographer loses sight in one eye. Faced with an uncertain prognosis, he feels an urgent need to revisit the South Pacific island that inspired his career. Can he convince the man he encountered there years ago, now a medical researcher in Southern California, to accompany him on his journey?

High school student Boji Nichiro is isolated from the rest of the world due to fierce bullying. One day, however, the world is transformed by the "dungeonisation" phenomenon! In the midst of the chaos, Nichiro awakens the unique skill "Shop". It was an out-of-the-box skill that allowed him to buy everything from food and daily necessities to unrealistic items!

**“Understand for yourself that you are worthless. You are already obsolete.”** Dion, the recovery wizard who was told so, was seriously injured by the hands of party members and left behind in the interior of the highest difficulty dungeon. On the verge of running out of his life, he happens to encounter a dying dragon. Dion realized that he couldn't help him anymore, and he treated the dragon to live as a recovery wizard until the end. Then the dragon thanked him and even shared the power of the dragon. In addition, this dragon seems to have been a legendary god dragon-class. Dion escapes from the dungeon with his new companion, the dragon, and restarts as an adventurer. He captures the difficult dungeons that stand in his way, and his abilities are recognized and he has all the strong men on his side. ___ **Character Designer:** [Sisoe](https://mangadex.org/author/9a1a04cb-1d27-4601-809d-665b4f4918c4) **Additional Links:** - Alt Official Raw: [niconico Manga](https://manga.nicovideo.jp/comic/55539) - [Official Raw Web Novel](https://ncode.syosetu.com/n6844gh) - [Official Raw Light Novel](https://www.bunkasha.co.jp/author/a236341.html)

Set 10 years prior to the original series, the story centers around Sword Maiden's party of six adventurers on their journey to the Dungeon of the Dead to kill the Demon Lord. ___ **Character Designer:** [lack](https://mangadex.org/author/b68dc199-aaab-4deb-825a-5f3df6482b28) **Alt Official Raw:** [Gangan ONLINE](https://www.ganganonline.com/title/49) **Official English Volumes:** [Yen Press](https://yenpress.com/series/goblin-slayer-side-story-ii-dai-katana-manga)

What if you could enslave anyone you ever wanted? Well, this comes close. The SCM lets you enslave anyone who is also wearing an SCM, at a price. One must win over the other, at anything, in order for the other to become their slave.

One day, school teachers come as freeloaders to the inn run by his parents!? Kazami Hiro, a high school boy, decides to take care of the inn and his future!?

Oomugi Wakaba inherits a mansion from her late great-grandmother, an expert pen artist. Within a hidden room, she meets the mysterious blue-eyed girl wrapped in crimson chains, Red Riding Hood. Together with the strongest beast, she comes to learn about the world of magic, witches and grimoires.

The mom characters who appear in the game *MamaFan* are all unfortunate sub-heroines who always get bad ending routes. “Why… Why do such cute moms have to die!?” Even though the protagonist tried very hard to request a route where they get saved, all of his efforts were in vain, making him spend his days in frustration. Then on a certain day, he suddenly gets reincarnated into the world of *MamaFan*… However, he gets reincarnated as a villainous aristocrat who's got nothing but the worst routes. ___ **Additional Links:** - Alt Official Raw: [niconico Manga](https://manga.nicovideo.jp/comic/71300) - [Official X](https://x.com/oominemanga)

A hikikomori boy who was supposed to die on a traffic accident suddenly turned into a really beautiful high school girl, her grades are top position and she's also good at sports. Although his life has changed completely before her/him a man who has a deep connection with him appeared.

Teenager Kurikura Kansuke lives in a small village with his family but tragedy strikes one day when his younger sister, Ayame, is brutally murdered. Six years later, Kansuke, in his search for his missing older brother, finds multiple women who all call themselves Kurikura Ayame. Kansuke learns that out of grief for Ayame, his brother created dolls, each with a part of her corpse and enhanced for combat. Kansuke vows to find his brother and stop the mindless violence.

In an RPG-like fantasy world consumed by warring nations and racial discrimination, the human kingdom summons five high school students from 21st-century Japan for assistance in their conflict with the demonkin. Now those students, with their experience of MMORPGs at their disposal, will hone their skills to protect the human kingdom of Edea. However, this isn't their story. Out of the five students, four of them were given the title of Hero and the fifth one the title of Innocent Bystander. He had been summoned by accident since he sat near the other four students. His name is Hiiro Okamura, an aloof bookworm with traveling and reading as his raison d'etre. Hiiro sees no reason to help the human kingdom in their offensive war with the demonkin, seeing that he isn't a Hero and that he has no real obligation to help them, and decides to leave the kingdom to go on his own adventure. Soon, Hiiro finds out that he has the very unique skill of Word Magic: magic that can materialize the definition of a word. As he travels more and more, he finds many uses for his Word Magic and many opportunities to find books, level up, and gain some of his own companions. Even with the outbreak of war on the horizon, Hiiro stays true to his desire to travel the new world he's in.

A mere villager, Cross Vish, somehow ended up joining the hero's party by some strange twist of fate. Cross, an ordinary man with no special powers whatsoever. Yet, for some reason, the heroes genuinely considered Cross a true comrade. There was no way he would ever be banished from the party. And that was precisely why Cross kept agonizing. What could a useless person like him possibly contribute to the hero's party? And then... Cross came to understand his role. At the very moment when the Demon King, on the verge of death, unleashed magic toward the hero—.

About an ex-gangster who enters the world of hosts and the story depicts his journey to be number one in the club.

Katagiri Yuichi believes that friends are more important than money, but he also knows the hardships of not having enough funds. He works hard to save up in order to go on the high school trip, because he has promised his four best friends that they will all go together. However, after the class's money is all collected, it is stolen! Suspicion falls on two of Yuichi's friends, Sawaragi Shiho and Shibe Makoto. Soon afterward, the five of them are kidnapped, and wake up in a strange room with a character from a short-lived anime. Apparently, one of them has entered them into a "friendship game" in order to take care of their massive debt. But who was it, and why did they have such a debt? Could they have stolen the money from class to pay for entry into the game? Katagiri and his best friends will have to succeed in psychological games that will test or destroy their faith in one another.

High-school girl Yuri suddenly finds herself on the rooftop of a high-rise building. She's trapped in a bizarre world surrounded by skyscrapers, where a masked man cracked open a man's head with an axe before her eyes. ___ **Alt Official Raw:** [COMIC DAYS](https://comic-days.com/episode/14079602755544877519)

Maruo failed in his debut in high school and has become a bit of an outcast. He earns some extra money by taking spy photos of girls at school and selling them to boys. Recently, Maruo is concerned about Tabe, a girl who is always covered in scars and being bullied. He wants to help her, but he is afraid of being bullied. In addition, Tabe is also a target of his voyeurism, and Maruo feels self-loathing. Maruo's days are filled with worries, but a fact comes to light that brings him to the brink of despair.

In ancient times, a wondrous child was born of the gods. Neither human nor god, neither male nor female, Usumgal has an inventive mind that can create solutions where they are needed most. Descending from the holy mountain, Usumgal finds friends among humans, and with each fateful encounter comes adventure and, perhaps, their destiny! *Source: Dark Horse Comics*

This volume presents the most essential short stories, personally selected by the author from the vast body of work he has created over more than a decade. Newly written commentary reveals in detail the background of the creations and the author's own roots. This is a self-selected anthology, following 'I'll Call You Again Tomorrow.' Includes a 12,000-character interview with Yamamoto Naoki, titled "Water, Dreams, and Family."

One day, Manabu simply disappears from the life of his younger lover Hanji. He has always been like this - the one who ends things before they come to an end, the one who runs away before he's abandoned. And he knows, that he will be forgotten. He didn't really believe Hanji when he once said that "If the person I love disappeared, I would chase them. I would find them." But it's only been a month, and Hanji is at the doorstep of Manabu's new place, somehow, impossibly, and what is Manabu to do then? Here's the story of the man who runs and the man who gives chase.

Shunichi Ikeya gets a confession from his childhood friend, Yuka Yashiro, and he comes out as gay. The outcome of that isn't what changes their lives together but rather, a change in sex is what turns their lives around…

Kidnapped by a handsome man with rabbit ears, Alice Liddell finds herself suddenly abandoned in an odd place called Wonderland. Ever a plucky tomboy, she sets off to explore this strange land, intent on finding her rude kidnapper and giving him a piece of her mind (and her fist). Little does she know that she’s wandered right into the middle of a dangerous power struggle involving just about all of Wonderland’s attractive, weapon-happy denizens. And the only way for Alice to return home is to get acquainted with the lot of them?! How in the world will she manage that and still manage to stay alive?!

Nakatani Yuto, a high school student, and his classmates are suddenly summoned to another world as "heroes". While his classmates are given powerful skills, Yuto is given the unfortunate skill of "Absorb". Yuto, who has no use for it, is mortally wounded in a battle with a demon, but his classmates leave him to die. But at that moment, Yuto hears a voice out of nowhere...?