A vida nos reserva grandes surpresas. Tudo ia bem na vida de Ann Uekusa até receber uma bela notícia: seus pais iam se divorciar. Ela e sua mãe se mudam para o interior do Japão para refrescar um poucos dos ares da cidade grande e planejar uma nova vida. Ela, que está acostumada a não ser notada por ninguém, quando está na cidade natal de sua mãe, acaba vendo que cidade pequena todo mundo se conhece e se ajuda mutuamente, logo vai perceber que a bondade é algo que não se pode desprezar quando mais se precisa nas horas mais difíceis.
The manga centers on veteran novelist Mariko Kōda, who lives with the families of both her son and her grandson in one house. Feeling like she no longer has any place in her home, she decides to leave the house and strike out on her own, beginning with living in a manga cafe in the city. Won 42nd Annual Kodansha Manga Award for "Best General Manga" (2018)
Alice Fujii still isn't having much fun. She survived an assault of psychotic bug-themed assassins at her school, but all the battles, the truth behind her family, the two betrayals from false friends who ended up dead and the loss of her Kumoito knife-gun took a toll on her mental state. As such, she spends her days alone splitting open the heads of the rapist zombies who overran Japan since the aforementioned incident. The Organization wants to hire her as their new Boss, and elsewhere her allies Gokiburi and Kabutomushi are looking for her. What will become of all this?
IS (Pronounced Aiesu in Japanese) is not your everyday manga. This manga strictly deals with cases of intersexuality. IS stands for Inter Sexuality. This manga deals with very serious issues concerning intersexual people. The pain they go through, the troubles they confront, and ultimately their inability to reproduce and even find a partner who will accept them as they are - It's all there in a form of manga. First volume has different cases but from volume two onwards manga becomes a longer tale of Hoshino Haru, IS and their life, trials and tribulations towards the adulthood. IS won the 2007 Kodansha Manga Award for shōjo manga.
"If you read a message to the east aloud while you pour hot chocolate into a cup, a fairy of love will appear to fulfill all your desires!" It says so on the heart on a cup that Kaede has just bought. Said and done! Mirumo has arrived to change her life! This manga series was awarded the 2003 Kodansha Manga Award and the 2004 Shogakukan Manga Award for children's manga.
Legend has it that if you take your guitar and stand at a crossroads at the witching hour, the devil will appear. He'll grab your instrument, play a song, and hand it back to you. You'll walk away an expert bluesman, but you'll have to pay the price: your immortal soul.
This manga features Hohoko, a high school student who lives with her musician father. Yahiro, another student who helps in the school library along with Hohoko, is a fan of her father’s group, Hana to Hoho, and realizes who her father is. Hohoko, a book lover, and Yahiro, a music fanatic, write messages to each other in the school library, where private conversation is forbidden, and thereby gradually get to know each other. Hohoko is decidedly drawn to Yahiro, but what he really likes is her father’s music. The fact that he became friends with her because of her father weighs down on her heavily. Gradually, a secret about Hohoko’s mother that her father has kept from her, along with Yahiro’s views on love that result from past trauma, become clear. The two characters’ chance encounter constitutes the story of one summer in their lives, drawn with a touch of tranquility. Won a New Face Award from the 23rd Japan Media Arts Festival in 2020.
Collection of 19 short stories published in Ghostly Magazine Yoo over the years.
Suzuhara Kokoro and his blind little sister Yume find that all is not as it seems as they learn more from the other kids and see the actions of their teachers after being sent to live on a near-deserted island.
Arthur, who'd become the champion of the most popular gladiatorial tournament in the universe, had abandoned his hope of freeing himself from his slave status, but one day, he meets a new gladiator named Sam…
Mei has been living alone since her beloved older brother, Saeki, died. Suddenly, a guy named Reon came and abducted her. Why do they have to live together? No matter how Mei hates malicious Reon, another feeling starts to appear. Then, Saeki, who was thought to be dead, returned!
A university student befriends a young boy who is her distant relative. She's initially taken in by his beautiful appearance, but slowly starts to realize that strange things are happening around her…
Money Is Buried in the Ground! Natsunosuke Bonda is a relief pitcher in Tokyo Spiders. In his eighth pro season, he makes 18 million yen at age 26. But he is always troubled by how little he makes, given that he is surrounded by high income earning baseball players. This is a relief pitcher's story in Nippon Pro Baseball, his envies, worries, sweat and tears. Gura Zeni! --- - **Won the 37th Kodansha Manga Award for General Manga in 2013, which it shared with Akira Hiramoto's Prison School**
Naotatsu is set to stay with his uncle as he enters a new high school. However, a woman he has never met, Sakaki-san, picks him up at the station. He now shares a house with a salaryman who quit to become a mangaka unbeknownst his parents (the uncle), a cross-dressing fortune teller, a college professor, and a 25 year old office lady all quirky in their own ways. Naotatsu, a high school freshman, begins the strange days of living under the same roof with them. Ranked #2 in 2020 by Freestyle Magazine Ranked #5 in the 2020 Manga Taisho Awards Ranked #5 in the 2020 Kono Manga ga Sugoi! Awards for male readers Won "New Creator Prize" in the 2020 Tezuka Osamu Cultural Award
Humanity's dream… Crystal humanoid technology. They have 'illnesses' just like humans but the treatment options are quite different. The troubled AI's band together, and the new doctor at the facility, Sudou, bears witness.
Oneshot manga with six short tales of fantasy and friendship by Shimizu Aki. **Content:** - The NEET Woman and the Second Grader A 19-year-old NEET and near-hikikomori named Tsuda Yasue encounters a crying second grade girl outside her apartment and tries to figure out how to handle her. - Flow My Tears, the Onion Said A girl suddenly is spoken to by an onion she is preparing to cook. - The Young Lady and the Gardener A young, wealthy lady who lost her sight after her father died sits at her window and makes grandiose requests while a gardener that works outside her window tries to fulfill them. - The Ouroboros-drome An Alice-in-Wonderland like tale. - The Secret of the Pair Two history fangirls meet, and one of them reveals a secret that leads to the other playing out a very familiar situation. - Advice on Love A five-years-later continuation of the NEET Woman and the Second Grader.
By all the usual measures, he could be considered a pretty useless guy: a scholastic failure, an athletic disaster, and a chronic loser… But Fukuda Shinichi has one passion: cheering for others! The 18-year-old captain of North Kanto Southern High's Cheerleading squad decides to make the most of his summer by attending cram school in Tokyo, only to find out that the whole trip was a sham! Things are looking up when he and his friend meet up with two cute Tokyo girls; too bad the girls brought them to a rip-off bar and took off! Ditched by his one remaining friend and stuck with an impossibly high bar bill, Fuku-kun's life couldn't get any worse! But just then he gets saved by Ume, his role model and former cheerleading squad captain! What is he doing in Tokyo… and why does everyone around seem to know and respect him? Without anywhere else to go, Fuku-kun decides follow Ume to his job, only to discover that… he's a host?!? Fukuda's summer of cheering others on has begun… and the streets of Tokyo's red-light district will never be the same!
Collection of works from author Suzuki Suzuhiro. - Chapter 1. Kimura-sensei - Chapter 2. Juusei o Kezuri Dasu - Chapter 3. Trainspotting - Chapter 4. Taxi Driver - Chapter 5. Kids Return - Chapter 6. Soratobu Kujira Won the 24th Japan Media Arts Festival Awards an New Face Award in 2021.
Lonely second grader Rie is comforted by her ghost-mom.
Promotional oneshot for the novel. --- In the fairy tale, the lady and the prince greet the ending that lives happily ever after. The life of the extra Linet is not over yet, at the end of the fairy tale, she is left alone to make a pledge.
(from ebookjapan): Babel II is back! Koichi Yamano, a 16-year-old ESPer boy, is now called 101 at a research institute, where he donates his special blood to give vitality to the sick. However, he escapes when he finds out that ESPers are actually being created and misused by a huge organization. The battle between 101 and the organization has begun as 101 tries to dispose of his ESP abilites in order to keep the peace!
This was actually created as a promo for a movie by the same name ([Heaven's Bookstore](https://web.archive.org/web/20070302122437/http://movie.www.infoseek.co.jp:80/feature/tengokunohonya/)). Satoshi-kun, a drifter, arrives in heaven to work at a bookstore as a substitute manager. There he meets Rui, a girl who also temporarily works there. Follow the daily events of these two people as the place they are in (Heaven's Bookstore) help those regain what they lost.
A brilliant hitman buys his freedom with the money he earned at work. Sakaki got a new name, as suggested by his former boss. He adopted a child to form a family, but ——…!?
Collected short stories from Takahashi Shin. The first story is a side story of She, the ultimate weapon. The rest are separated short stories, plus extra artworks of She, The Ultimate Weapon at the end of the volume.