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Included Stories: The Great Hell Castle (Chapters 1-5) The Legend of the Great Sumo Soul: Bloody Daruma Warrior The Legend of the Great Sumo Soul: The World's Greatest Headbutt
Nakajima Mamoru, by coincidence, reunited with Mikuriya Jin, his senpai from his University days. He was invited by Mikuriya to work for his established shop “Nandemo Ya”. Nakajima, feeling as if he was on cloud nine, didn‘t know that Mikuriya was hiding an unbelievable secret!! Taking hold of this opportunity, Nakajima found himself involved in a rather complicated situation!! A work of Takemaru Abiko, one of Japan's leading mystery writers. A thrilling, dramatic mystery!!
From MangaHelpers: After her grandfather's death, Mikura chose to continue their island express courier service. With her seaplane and her adventurous cat, Endeavor, she lives life as she chooses. Soon, Mikura becomes very interested in a mysterious island that seems to move around, according to local legend. After some extensive effort to determine the island's whereabouts, she manages to get a brief glimpse of it from the sky. Now that she knows it's real, she's determined to find the island again, no matter what it takes! [tethysdust]
The meetings and conversations of yankee girls at a family restaurant. Sometimes observed by an unknown salaryman who overhears their conversations.
Celestin, a young man abandoned as a baby and found wrapped in a fine cloth, tries to marry his way into the aristocratic lifestyle he considers his birthright while popular revolution is beginning to stir in the streets...
Kudou Yuusuke has to deal with the most annoying childhood friend in the world. She's Miyauchi Misao, and she wakes him up every morning, hangs all over him all the time, and generally follows him around like a loyal puppy. It's started to get a bit awkward now that they're in high school, and she's a bit more... womanly... than she was when they were children. Everyone at school just assumes they're dating, so it's killing Yuusuke's chances with the ladies.One day Yuusuke has a shock waiting for him; Misao has gotten engaged! She says that she's set to be married in spring, but she seems comfortable hanging all over Yuusuke in the meantime. The unfamiliar jealousy that the news has awoken in Yuusuke has spurred him on to making his own plans. He's going to try to become popular, and get a girlfriend, before Misao gets married in the spring!
Seven college students are coming back from their graduations. During the travel they are shocked to see a strange, cow-like creature with a human face. This accident means they only have seven days left to live. What will they do to stay alive until the fated day? [MAL]
The future, romance, everything is "undecided", yet the remaining days of high school seem as if they'll be over in the blink of an eye. Ichimura Mikako, 17 years old. Midorikawa, the strange guy who now sits next to her after a seating change and oddly prefers red pencils. At first, Mikako didn't think much of it, but after learning that they both love the same band, their relationship begins to change bit by bit... The day-to-day life of a 17 year girl woven together in a soft literary style.
The kingdom of Douwa, which is subdivided into 13 states, is a peaceful nation that's currently making arrangements to celebrate its monarch's 99th birthday. Each of these states is independently governed by an agency that's answerable only to an organization known as ACCA. Jean Otus is second-in-command of ACCA's infamous "inspection agency," which is in charge of monitoring all the other offices. The agency keeps track of ACCA activities across the kingdom and handles the long-term storage of data from each office. Jean often has to make inspection trips to various districts and monitor their situation and personnel... Which is why he's among the first to notice that some form of unrest may have begun to broil within the as-of-yet perfect system of governance.
From Tokyopop: In the year 2068, the Brain Computer, created by humans to be the core of a machine-driven Earth, itself creates Leave, an android that far surpasses the abilities of humans. With mankind now an unnecessary aspect of the Earth ecosystem, Leave, along with her 'father' Fenrir (the human scientist who raised her), destroys humanity and in its stead creates the four 'Mothers' who in turn create an android race modeled on Leave known as the Selenoid. They divide the world into four parts, each ruled by a Mother, and then further sub-divide the android population into hierarchical levels with the strong at the top and the weak at the bottom. A virtually perfect society ... And it would have remained perfect if some of the surviving humans hadn't formed a revolutionary group together with some of the lower caste Selenoid with the explicit purpose of overthrowing Leave and delivering the Earth back into the hands of the humans.
Two high school girls discover a shabby machine in the back of a shed and it leads them to a strange world.
Master magical realist mangaka Asano Inio takes the readers through the daily lives of several characters. We see the darkness that plagues them and their struggle to overcome it. What everyone really wants is for this to be a wonderful world.
