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Drama > Josei (P.5)
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Koyomi Inagawa, wedding planner. Despite working freelance, she is highly sought-after and admired for her skill even among her peers in the wedding industry. She tends to embrace every whim of the bride and groom with a sunny warmth, and it is in her nature to be fired up by an impossible challenge. While continuing to build a delicate rapport with Shinoyama - an old colleague and rival from her time working at a big-name hotel back in the day - as she goes, Koyomi spends her time rushing to and fro to make each new day "the best day of your life" for someone out there!! -
One year ago, high schooler Hana Odamaki (age 17) and auto factory worker Shogo Kine (age 38) suddenly switched places in body and mind. Now, after a year in each other's shoes, the two run into each other again. The man who found himself as a young maiden has brushed up his vessel's femininity and become an amateur model, while the girl in the body of a middle-aged man was treated as an amnesia case and lost any steady employment. They may have been reunited with "themselves", but what should they do when they can scarcely recognize the person they once were...? -
USD 0.69 / 69pt"I'll lose both my husband and son... to my own mother!" The family I've finally built... is being invaded by... my estranged mother. -
To all the yokai, I am here to make sure you live peacefully together with the humans.Our world and the yokai world is connected by the Flower Demon Door. We of the Sakaimeya profession are summoned to teach those yokai that want to live in the human world how to, even though things don't always go according to plan. Teaching Yokai how to feel humanity leads to a heart-warming story.
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USD 1.99 / 199ptThis town is unsettling, and yet somehow comforting.... When "Cee" awoke, humans had vanished from the world, leaving only the remains of their civilization behind. Desperate to evade the mysterious "Cone Heads," Cee encounters a one-eyed Golem, "Bulb." Golems are humanoid automatons, made to serve their human masters, but what befell their erstwhile creators? This is the story of a bond between girl and golem that could change the world! -
In your daily life, there are many kinds of "neighbors." - A stubborn, unyielding young man who sits in the neighboring desk at work. A happy-go-lucky older guy always telling dirty jokes from the neighboring hospital bed. A tiny car with a terrible driver who parks way over to one side, just inside the line of the neighboring parking spot. It's not only the people living next door. In your daily life, there are many kinds of "neighbors." Falling in love, making memories, finding peace of mind... Five tales of the vibrant moments born when two people happen to become neighbors.
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At the age of 19, Ayano makes the fateful decision to set foot into the adult film industry. Alienated from her family and feeling she lacks a place in the world, she wields what "assets" she has -- her body -- and finds success in her newfound calling. This is the story, at turns delicately nuanced and starkly graphic, of a "porn star's" journey: everyday struggles, what happens when family finds out, and even love. The novel by a real-life adult-film actress is brought to life in manga form!
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Ruriko Aoyama, a second-year in high school, was born with a large, blue birthmark on her face. She has lived her life trying not to make a big deal of it, trying to avoid overly conscientious treatment by those around her. One day, Ruriko gets her hands on a notebook belonging to her new homeroom teacher, Kanda. He had written all of her classmates' names in the book, and next to their names: distinguishing physical features. However, Ruriko notices that the space next to her own name is inexplicably blank. When she confronts her homeroom teacher, Ruriko finds that Kanda lives with prosopagnosia -- a disorder which prevents him from being able to make sense of and distinguish the human face... -
I have to stop this. I can't let my friend be killed...! - Meiko Yashiro is in her second year of junior high. She's barely spoken to her childhood friend Hozumi Togawa ever since a certain incident drove them apart. However, one day Meiko has a supernatural encounter that could change everything... "I can't let his life end at 14 years." - One girl will spring into action to change her childhood friend's future in this time-paradox coming-of-age story that will pull at your heart strings and leave you blinking the stars out of your eyes!
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"I never really wanted good friends. I always thought I'd rather have things I'd be okay with leaving behind." Tsukiko is the new girl in school. One day, she catches a glimpse of her classmate, Utsumi, swimming in the school's pool. She becomes fixated. Tsukiko knew they were classmates, but beyond that, the two girls had no reason to cross paths. However, one rainy day turns all of that around. An emotional story about the everyday lives of the enigmatic new girl and the girl with no filter who happens to love swimming! -
"If one of you were to get ahead, she would be seen as a traitor" ... That person was right all along!? Can love and friendship never coexist...? -
USD 0.99 / 99pt ~ USD 2.99 / 299ptA hapless young man is released from prison with nothing to his name, but he knows exactly what he wants: to train in the art of rakugo comedic storytelling. After seeing an unforgettable performance from one of Japan's greatest masters, Yakumo Yurakutei VIII, during his time in jail, he will settle for nothing less than to become apprentice to the best. Yakumo, notorious for taking no students, is persuaded to take him on, and nicknames him Yotaro-the fool. Yotaro has no formal training or elegance, but something about his charisma reminds Yakumo of someone from his past. -
USD 0.99 / 99ptHow reliable would you say your memory is? As humans, our minds can omit memories. Memories can become idealized. Sometimes, they can even be entirely fabricated. There are various ways by which one's recollection of past events can become distorted. One could even say that it is a type of mental defense mechanism meant to protect us. But what if you had the chance to see your memories in their original state, unblemished and untouched...? Would you take it?
Meet Hakucho, the hippocampus and their assistant, Rohen, two mysterious individuals that live and work at an old-fashioned cafe that's more than meets the eye. Their shop comes to those plagued by their past, offering a chance to see the truth behind their memories. When restoring a client's memories, Hakucho summons a mystical creature from their ancient pipe. The creature enters the client's mind, scouring its depths to reveal that which has become obscured. However... sometimes, the truth is perhaps best left forgotten. -
USD 1.49 / 149ptMami has tried marriage once and failed, so now she's looking for something else. Even if her peers won't get it, she wants what she wants: not marriage, not romance, just a man to spend time with when she needs some company!
Sure enough, when she brings this up at her junior high class reunion, her friends all gang up against her. However, a handsome former classmate she'd almost never spoken to before--Nakamura--does empathize with her! When Mami learns that Nakamura is also once-divorced and, just like her, is looking not for a wife or a girlfriend but just a woman to spend time with, she makes a life-changing decision.
She's given up on living her life according to what's "normal." After spending thirty-some years toiling under the crushing weight of societal expectations, one woman finds herself a partner in crime and a new lease on life in this modern-day survival story. -
USD 0.49 / 49ptBecause you're a bad child, it's come to this." My mom didn't think of me as her daughter... It's the terror of a toxic parent that could happen to anyone...!
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USD 1.99 / 199pt ~ USD 3.99 / 399ptFirst published in the 1980s and 90s, Waki Yamato's renowned adaptation of Murasaki Shikibu's 11th-century literary masterpiece is still gorgeous to behold and is considered one of the greatest novel-to-manga adaptations of all time. Prince Genji falls in love with his stepmother, and so begins a forbidden love that will make him suffer his whole life. Genji's love story involves him falling for many women and begins with his love for Princess Fujitsubo-his father's wife, and his stepmother. And Genji will cross that line which he should never cross. -
Sayaka Shimada, 36 and single, loves three things: her job, her favorite singer, and her mother, who lives with her. Even with her junior coworker Sugaya tossing thoughtless comments her way, she'd poured herself into her work, and when she paused to look up she found herself on the cusp of her late 30s. Partly at her mother's suggestion, Sayaka visits a matchmaking service. The man she's introduced to is sweet and earnest, and things start moving smoothly toward marriage. Though it hasn't all sunk in yet, she is well on her way to a happy future--and that's when a sudden injury leaves her mother hospitalized. The injury is nothing too serious and Sayaka is settling her nerves, until she notices something off about her mother... A poignant and much-acclaimed depiction of the struggles of caretaking and building a future, issues faced by countless people every day! -
France, Paris - Beginning of the 20th century.Colette works in a brothel and entertains clients with "p*rverted" desires. She is leading a life without prospects.Her only happiness consists of the secret meetings with gigolo Leon, whom she feels helplessly attracted to. Even though he is visiting other women ..."p*rverts are people who have explored and put a shape to their desires. Just like a blind man using both hands to carefully trace the contours of a vase of flowers ..."Who are these p*rverts Moyoco Anno brings to life in Paris, the city of flowers?This is the first new series by Moyoco Anno in eight years! After "Sakuran" and "Buffalo 5 Girls" comes another story about the strong lives of prostitutes.The e-book contains all color pages published inside the magazine.This series has been published in Japan since 2013 which Japanese title name is "Bikachou Shinshi Kaikoroku"
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USD 0.69 / 69ptHe had the home of his dreams, with a darling daughter and perfect wife... But is his "Ultimate family" the ultimate illusion...?
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"Humans in this country don't take sleep seriously enough." This is a story about work -- that is, an office worker in her late twenties and her sleep demon, whose job it is to get her to sleep! Yoko is a hard worker, that's for sure. She's missed her last train home yet again and feels herself losing the battle to sleep in the bathroom. That's when she senses a shadow over her shoulder. She turns around only to find -- a sleep demon?! "Oh. You can see me." says Nero, a regular old office worker at Sleep Demons Incorporated in the Underworld. His monthly salary comes from getting humans go to sleep, and from today, he's in charge of Yoko. Thus begins Yoko and Nero's daily quest to improve her quality of sleep -- for both of their sakes!
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