Kyatoru's parents are murdered by someone who is after the mysterious Book of Ega, and she leaves on a journey to escape. During her rough journey, the ones who save her from exhaustion are people of the Arch family, who make a living as a Chinese Circus.
Hagiwara Mio is a 14-year-old teen actor. She's currently in love with her neighbor, teen actor Morimoto Teruomi. She is given a role in a short drama, but is dissatisfied that her roles always involve being the bossy antagonist. She was cast as the rival of her friend, Sawagi Aya, in the drama. Excited at the fact that Teru is also in the drama, Mio accepts the job. On the first day of the shoot, Mio meets Kumagai Ichiya who calls Mio a bad actress. With their first meeting getting off to such a bad start, a chain of problems for Mio began to pile up. Volume 8 includes 2 Omakes (oneshots) entitled: Angel & Adventure Radical Romance
All Miki Koishikawa wanted was an ordinary family and that's exactly what she had until her parents decided to move in with another couple (as in switching spouses!) and turned Miki's world upside down. Now she lives in a house with four parents and her totally cute stepbrother, Yuu. It's bad enough being brought into her parents' strange soap opera, but Miki will star in a soap of her own as she deals with friends having affairs, trying to survive in school and ending up torn between her long-time crush, Ginta, and her new stepbrother!
"My classmate Yura-kun is always languid. He might be a vampire…" Kyouko's wild notions actually turn out to be true!! Once Yura-kun finds out that she has a "rare blood type", he begins to approach her. Are his actions out of love? Or is he just out for her blood, following his instincts? She's being pushed around by Yura-kun, who does everything at his own pace!!
A Yuri anthology of working adults. Volume 1: Ano Musume to Me ga Au Tabi Watashi wa Shakaijin Yuri Anthology || **Cover Illustration**: Harukawa Haru. **Subsequent stand-alone illustrations**: Yukiko, Saki Hajime Story 1 Masking Lady (Harukawa Haru) Story 2 About the women in the company (Mikanuji) Story 3 Everyone's Missing Out (Irua) Story 4 Fish and Water (Kanarashi) Story 5 Meter Stop (Seta Seta) Story 6 Waiting at the Blue Bells (Kuwabara Tamotsu) Story 7 Good job (Fuyume Saya) Story 8 Gachinko Alumni Association (Esu Esu) Story 9 Rainy day-dream (Oku Tamamushi) Story 10 Oblivious you (Mizuasou) Story 11 In my studio apartment palace (Satsumaage) Story 12 Saccharine Beauty (Suzuki Senpai) Story 13 I want to make my work senpai moan!(Kurukuruhime) Story 14 Hand-Delivered Love Letter (Yuki Yukiko) || Volume 2: Anata no Soba ni Iru to Watashi wa Shakaijin Yuri Anthology || **Cover Illustration**: Saki Hajime **Subsequent stand-alone illustrations**: Kiriyama Haruka, Koruse Story 1 Someday you too (Seo Minosuke) Story 2 Best Dishes (irua) Story 3 Of the same Love (Kuwabara Tamotsu) Story 4 Kira Kira Trap (Pyaa) Story 5 When Your Night Ends (Harukawa Haru) Story 6 Cabaret Girl and Corporate Slave (Hisakawa Haru) Story 7 Love at first voice + Renko (Mizuasou) Story 8 The day you left the company (Mikanuji) Story 9 Bye Bye, Shithead + With you, after then (Mimidori) Story 10 Human Dog&Cat (Seta Seta) Story 11 Store manager I quit my Job! + The day Tanaka-san quit (Suzuki Senpai) Story 12 Uneven wedding rings (Kurukuruhime) Story 13 Someday to you (Yuki Yukiko) || Volume 3: White Lilies in Love Hana kaoru toki, Anata wa Shakaijin Yuri Anthology Volume 4: White Lilies in Love Watashi ga Yoishireru no wa, Natsu no Hizashi to Anata dake Shakaijin Yuri Anthology Volume 5: White Lilies in Love Akane Sasu Koishin wo, Akaku Somete Hoshii no Anata ni Shakaijin Yuri Anthology
Kyoko Suomi is the princess of Earth in the 30th century. Kyoko goes to school among the commoners, unwilling to reveal her true identity and ascend the throne. The king will allow Kyoko to live as she pleases if she can revive her twin sister Ui, who has been trapped in time since birth.
Anjuu Sendou is a nice girl who just started her first year in the Seiryuu Academy Middle School. She is currently living away from home as a boarding student with her pet named Lime. Her father is a sorcerer and her mother is an expert in chinese kenpo. They are both famous, especially her mother who is called Dragon Momoka. Because of her mother’s fame the executive committee wants Anjuu to join the student council. But the council’s president thinks that she is a weak girl, so to prove him wrong she decides to catch the school thief. But when things get harder, she wishes to become stronger. So her pet suddenly transforms into a small child with wings (it can’t transform into a dragon yet, because it’s only a child) and tells her about her power. During a second assault from the thief, Anjuu, with the help of Lime, transforms into a new Saint Dragon Girl, defeating the enemies and becoming the school’s protector. Will the student council’s members find out the true identity of the “warrior” girl? Will Anjuu be able to keep her secret?
Ichigo is out on a date with her crush when suddenly she's involved in an odd incident in which her DNA is merged with the DNA of an almost extinct wildcat. When four other girls' DNA is merged with the DNA of four other almost extinct animals, it's apparent that they're part of a much bigger plan. Ichigo and her friends have been chosen to become a part of a secret project called the "Mew Project." Their mission: To protect the planet from aliens who are using the planet's animals to attack humans.
1199 - 10 years after the death of Minamoto no Yoshitsune at Hiraizumi. Japan is now under the shogun Minamoto no Yoriie, son of Yoritomo, who had schemed against Yoshitsune. Yoriie hears of followers of Yoshitsune still lurk about, and is more than willing to get rid of those thorns in his side. However, they are more pertinent than he could imagine...for Yoshitsune's orphaned son, Hoshiwakamaru, has survived, and is planning to avenge his father with fellow pirates and conspiring officials! A tale of alternate history set at the dawn of the Kamakura period, with some fantastical elements mixed in.
A girl who calls herself the Demon Lord falls upon the main character, an elementary school teacher living in the countryside, and they decide to get married?!
Noboru Takizawa is an ordinary high school student who has transferred into a new school. His chaotic transfer student life begins the moment he steps on a landmine in the schoolyard. From there, Takizawa often finds himself transferring into other schools, moving others with his hot-blooded passion, and fighting against injustice within the school's structure. This is the tale of a high school legend! --- **Links:** - [Shimamoto's Twitter](https://twitter.com/simakazu) - [OVA on ANN](https://www.animenewsnetwork.com/encyclopedia/anime.php?id=1148)
Tachikawa Kisaki is a 14-year-old girl who's a drop-out ESPer. Her object of adoration is Hashiba Giniro, a superb ESPer who could use ESP at the age of five. Watch them as they become the team of "Fortune Tiara" and "Fortune Quartz", while carry out their duties as a combination!
Tachibana works in a beachside cafe and roams the beach sands with her dog, Dolphin. Then her cousin Ippei loses a surfing challenge to a newcomer. With a shock Tachibana recognizes Arikawa, her first love–her first heartbreak. After four years he's back from the U.S. and he thinks Tachibana doesn't like him. But before they get a chance to talk Ippei challenges Arikawa to another surfing match–in the face of an on-coming hurricane!
Mei Sengoku is an independent girl and captain of her high school kendo club who enjoys helping others in need. This has earned her a lot of admirers among the girls at her school, as well as a guy named Shirou Fuji well-known at school for his girly way of speaking and gestures. When Shirou asks Mei to go out with him, she simply rejects him, but he comes back the next day and tells her he's not going to give up on her so easily. --- Includes oneshots: Yoroshiku Brother? (Volume 2) Fuyuzora ni Hibiku (Volume 2) Android Box (Volume 5) Youko Kaiki's Odd Brothers (Volume 9)
There are some humans capable of using magical power to manifest their souls as weapons and control forces beyond normal comprehension. These people are known as Blazers, and those who are recognized as such can undergo training at academies to become Mage-Knights. Ikki Kurogane is an aspiring Mage-Knight, despite being considered the worst student at Hagun Academy as an F-ranked Blazer—the lowest rank possible. One morning, he accidentally stumbles upon Stella Vermillion, a visiting princess and A-ranked Blazer who has just enrolled at Hagun, in a state of undress. As a result, she challenges him to a duel where the loser will be the winner’s slave. It seems like a surefire win for Stella, but could there be more to Ikki than meets the eye?
"This is your punishment, my lady." One night, the protagonist finds herself embraced by a mysterious man in her dreams. She finds herself in an unfamiliar room, her "other self" asleep on her bed. No matter how vivid the image, she thinks it's just a dream. However, from that night onwards, every time she falls asleep, he appears, reaching out to her as she sleeps. The pleasure bestowed upon her in her dreams is imprinted on reality, slowly encroaching on her everyday life. Even as she trembles with fear and immorality, she can't get the man's dark eyes and whispers out of her head. Eventually, her body finds itself irresistibly craving this encounter.
*Reads from Left-to-Right* (from ebookjapan): Unicorns are legendary animals that bring happiness to those who have an honest heart. The unicorn child Unico, who lives with a young girl Psyche, is driven out of the mythical land by the trickery of Venus, the goddess of beauty. Wandering through time and space, Unico repeatedly encounters and parts with various people... A fancy fairy tale that will light a warm fire in your heart! --- **Volumes 285 and 286 of the Osamu Tezuka Complete Works**
Miyamoto Musashi is a boy who has come all the way to the city to check out the studio of Matsuma Dan, a longtime director of manga movies (anime films). After having his work evaluated by him, Dan tells Musashi that his work is dead and lifeless: films live on and about. Not long after, Musashi comes across Sasaki Kojiro, a boy from a wealthy family who also aims to do manga movies. No matter how many times the two team up and split off, and no matter how many times they drift off their paths and return to them, their future lies with manga movies. A retelling of the rivalry between Miyamoto Musashi and Sasaki Kojiro, but in 1950's Japan, as they venture into the worlds of anime production and manga magazines. --- **Volume 55 of the Osamu Tezuka Complete Works**
Kirari Tsukishima is a beautiful young 14 year old. One day, she encounters a turtle stuck in a tree. She saves the turtle, but then falls after saving it. An idol from a famous group called SHIPS saves Kirari. Kirari falls in love with him at first sight. Kirari now wants to become an idol like him. She discovers that being an idol is not all fun and games, and that in order to persevere in both her love and career, she must overcome any challenges that fortune has in store
Sakura is a princess who lives alone with a few maids in a mansion deep in the mountains. She’s been betrothed 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, on the night of their marriage, Sakura finds out that she is the granddaughter of the legendary Princess Kaguya, and that her lifelong task is to exterminate youkos, man-eating mononoke. In doing so, she creates allies and enemies who both want her on their side.
Nao Yoshikawa stays behind to live by herself when her parents leave to inherit her grandpa's farm in the country. On the day she moves into her new apartment, she discovers that it was rented also to Hisashi Uehara–a cute, super-cool, popular guy from her school. Not only did their housing agency unexpectedly close down, the landlord of the apartment tells them that they had to pay more for their aparment then they had expected. With no money and no home to return to, Nao and Hisashi decide to live together as flatmates.
To break the curse placed on his beloved, he resolves to slay fallen gods. Senri, who can hear the voices of the flora, travels together with Shino, a fox, and serves as a divine messenger whose role is to purify kami that have succumbed to miasma. What tales of tragic love are to be found at the hand of one such Guardian of the Gods?
(from ebookjapan) Late 19th century London: a 10-year-old girl, Crystal "Christie" Margaret Hope, happens to be the famous detective Sherlock Holmes's niece. Armed with the deductive powers inherited from Holmes and a voracious curiosity, Christie takes on a variety of difficult cases. One day, someone sneaks into Whitehall and steals expensive jewelry. After overhearing an outline of the case by chance, she deduces in just three minutes what Holmes' partner Watson took three hours to find out and then confronts the culprit directly...! **Curator Note** While first volumes arcs and chapters are direct adaptations from Conan Doyle's novels and short stories last two volumes are original Shintani scripts taking some inspiration from titles or Watson/Doyle's hints to unpublished tales, The Giant Rat of Sumatra being the most well-known example
Himeko is an energetic, cheerful tomboy who has a catch-phrase to cheer herself up ("Ike, Ike, go, go, JUMP!"). Yet she somehow lacks the courage to tell the older boy at school that she has a crush on him. Perhaps she's just not feminine enough? Magically and mysteriously, Hime-chan meets someone who is the mirror image of herself, but she's a princess! Erika, from the Magic World, has come to give Hime-chan a present that she's invented, a magical ribbon, that will allow her to turn into the image of anyone else for one hour. This ought to help solve Hime-chan's problem, shouldn't it?