I ran into Natsume again at our junior high class reunion and, long story short, a group of us have been going out for drinks together lately. My friend claims Natsume is into me (Wow!), but if that's true then he doesn't show it. If anything, he's always giving me attitude...! (Grr...) How does he really feel about me? I need to know, so I can decide on my next move...! In this romantic comedy of self-sabotage, will Hanako keep digging herself into a deeper hole, or will she finally be upfront about her own feelings?
From high school to college, from college into the working world - although my life had never been spectacular, the journey had always been smooth sailing... Except when it came to men. So when I found myself an engaged woman at age 29, I felt a huge weight lifted off my shoulders. My dream of getting married before turning 30 was going to be realized! And that's when... I met him.
What do you do when nothing's going right in your life?
Minori (29), who has been struggling from day to day, has become pessimistic about life as a whole. This year has been especially dreadful. Work has become a hellish experience because of her new boss. Her childhood friend and longtime crush, Asai, just told her he only sees her as a friend. When all seems hopeless, Minori is suddenly visited by a "Toshiotoko", a fairy whose job is to bring luck and happiness to their charge. With his gentle and encouraging support, she slowly learns to take control of her life by the reins. What will Minori discover as she continues her search for what happiness really means to her?
Nanami dreams of falling in love with a prince... And she's 29. She finds fulfillment in love through fantasizing about Yuhi, her favorite character from a love simulation game. One day, while out at a pub with her friends from work, she meets Minato -- a college student who is the spitting image of Yuhi... but then Minato calls Nanami a middle-aged hag. "What a shame, with that personality your stunning visuals amount to nothing. I know -- I'll fix that worthless personality of his and get him to cosplay as Yuhi!"Thus begins Nanami's plan to turn Minato into a prince! A romantic comedy featuring a pair mismatched in both age and personality. Your heart is sure to pound out of your chest!
The son of a famous pianist, music student Shinichi Chiaki dreams of studying abroad and becoming a conductor like his mentor. Unfortunately, his fear of flying grounds his lofty plans! As he watches other classmates achieve what he has always wanted, Shinichi wonders if he should quit music altogether. Then one day he meets fellow student Megumi Noda, also known as Nodame. This oddball girl cannot cook, clean, or even read a music score, but she can play the piano in incomparable Cantabile style. And she teaches Chiaki something that he has forgotten: to enjoy his music, no matter where he is.
This manga has been made into a movie and a TV drama in japan."I wish we could just spend all our high school days sittin' and chattin' by this river." This seven chapter volume is a collection of the funky, off-the-wall, and sometimes cynical after-school conversations between Seto and Utsumi, two high-schoolers from the Kansai region of Japan.
Saku Tsukimiya is a high school boy who much to his dismay looks like a girl. On the night of his seventeenth birthday, he hears a mysterious voice in his dreams calling him a princess. When he wakes up, his body has undergone an unbelievable transformation... Saku, a man is the reincarnation of the legendary princess Kaguya?! Join us for this gender-switch love comedy!
Akari Shimotsuki is a normal high school girl. One day, At the moment she was about to confess her feelings to her long time love Mamiya, she loses consciousness and finds herself in an entirely unfamiliar world. Additionally, for some reason she is now in someone else's body and people are addressing her as "my lady"... Mysteria Romantica is a love fantasy that crosses time and space!
Wakako Murasaki, 26, lives to eat. She was born with a taste for alcohol and good food, so every night she searches for a good place to enjoy her meals alone. Perhaps she will sit next to you tonight?These popular shorts featuring the solo heavy drinker have been successfully turned into an anime and a drama!This series has been published in Japan since 2015 which Japanese title name is "Wakako-zake"
This is a tale of my heart warming and strange calamity... At a certain rural junior high school... Itsuya Tsuruta, who came as a substitute art teacher has a secret mysterious power. The junior high school student, Toki, triggered by experiencing her power, becomes obsessed with Ms. Itsuya day by day...
The major feudal lords have gotten together, but they are all dogs! In the year 1582, Oda Nobunaga perished in the Honoji Temple incident...but for some reason he has been reincarnated as a dog in the modern world!Is not only him. Other popular generals such as Takeda Shingen, Date Masamune, and Uesugi Kenshin have also been reincarnated as dogs for some reason!! You can enjoy history tidbits along with famous generals in this doggy comedy.
Hisui, who works as a drag-king artiste in the Kinkei travelling Troupe, is very popular with women. She catches the eye of the Emperor, and gets invited to the Harem. She joins the Harem because the Emperor reminds her of her missing older brother, but the jobs she is given are...? Popular since it was published in "Monthly Princess", Volume 1 of a Chinese fantasy!
Toru, who just became a high school student, ends up going to school and living with Sugako, who is his aunt and is also same age as him. The super-beauty Sugako stirs up all kinds of trouble. What will Toru do...?!
In a tale as epic as Noragami, sometimes details get overlooked, like how do shinki normally find employment? Is Yato ever useful? What happens when a god is targeted by a serial killer? Find the answers to these questions and more in this collection of short stories from Noragami creator Adachitoka!
Having lost his wife, math teacher Kouhei Inuzuka is doing his best to raise his young daughter Tsumugi as a single father. He's pretty bad at cooking and doesn't have a huge appetite to begin with, but chance brings his little family and one of his students, Kotori Iida, together for homemade adventures. With those three cooks in the kitchen, it's no wonder this dinner table drama is so delicious.
Being reincarnated as a slime into a fantasy world is one thing...but being reincarnated as a slime back into corporate life?? What could be more hellish? Not to mention the rest of the Slime fantasy crew are working at the company...for better or worse, Rimuru is back in business!
Deep in the forest, in a tower shrouded in mist, there lives a reclusive wizard by the name of Nebelhaut. When he happens across a beautiful fairy who's being held captive and made a public spectacle, he knows he has to take her with him. He names the creature Sti and orders her to call him his master, but her heart remains closed to him. But as time goes on, she sees a different side of him-a side that's both caring and awkward. The distance between the eccentric wizard and strong-willed fairy grows shorter day by day!
Morgan Bastille is a mortician. Not an ordinary mortician though, a mortician gifted by death. Morgan is looking for a missing person; in order to find that person, he goes to the Detroit Police Station to get help from the captain of the Detroit Exorcism Division, Millenia Browning. Within minutes of his arrival, however, Morgan is taken hostage by a couple of demons! Who exactly is Morgan looking for and will he escape the clutches of the demons?
Once in the age of the knights, Kato decided to take his first steps towards knighthood t with the goal of having his own army. A long and neverending journey awaits the little boy, yet with such a strong will Kato's got, he turns every trouble into a milestone, every enemy into an encounter unforgettable.
A human can't choose their ideal body. A memory that had been carved in the flesh would not vanish no matter how much we tried to alter it. A newcomer thus arrived in the town, bringing a gun that could swap people's bodies. The fierce but full of smile adventurer walk with a secret quest-to find the MANGA.CLUB Original body that was taken by his wife.
The Thief and the Saint -- Ban is a young, opportunistic thief, drawn to the Fairy King's Forest by the rumor that it holds the most splendid, invaluable treasure of all: the Fountain of Life. But when he meets the Saint of the Fountain, a young Fairy named Elaine, he finds the treasure he most desires may not be the one he originally came to seek. Thus begins the tale of the fated romance between Ban of The Seven Deadly Sins and Elaine, the Fairy King's sister!Official prequel manga to The Seven Deadly Sins !
Rio was looking forward to spending her summer vacation in Tokyo, meeting boys and going out with friends. But after a change of plans forces her to stay the (whole!!) summer with her grandmother in the countryside, she's devastated...until she meets Ginzo, a handsome, mysterious guy with incredible talent and a hidden past...
"Diary of My Daily Failures" is a bold comic essay of a depression survivor looking back to her past blunder. In the bleak of despair, Eriko struggled as she tried adapting to mental health institution environment. Eriko Kobayashi's superb ability to deliver dark but comedic self-narrative would not only let readers ponder about the importance of mental health but might also reveal the hidden anxiety inside our mind we never know we had...
In this universe, witch power exists as an invisible but invincible power. "Witch Sister" is a tale of two siblings who inherited witches' blood-the older brother Kyoma, a rookie inspector who could not use any magic and Mikuni, the shut-in little sister who once had gone to witchcraft school. Together they solve grotesque and eerie cases caused by the witches' magic...
The discovery of SA cells triggered a dramatic advance and collapse in human civilization. The new sentient, Adams build and control the new society, pushing the rebelling Anti-netters's appearance. Young Eda and his father has been living in secret for years, although he never sure if he was an Anti-netter. When he finally kept in the prison of Anti-netter, Eda finally comes closer to the truth of the new society.
After a massive earthquake, five ancient ruins containing minerals "Arkdite" that has enormous energy, appeared on the earth. The world are having heated debated on what exactly these ruins about. Is this another blessing of civilization or a sleeping apocalypse... "ARK" is a full-colored comic that would please not only your eyes but also your thirst for thrills...
Hinatsu Hoshikawa has a reputation at work as a "capable boss," "talented designer," "cool beauty" and "mature woman." This perfect-seeming office worker has two secrets: at home, she's a lazy goof, the complete opposite of her work persona... And she lives alone with a high school student, Touya Isshiki! Though they're not related by blood, Hinatsu sees Touya as an irreplaceable part of her family. One night, however, this young man pours his heart out and reveals his deep, mature love for the older woman... "I've waited so long for this day... When I become an adult."
Some live in the deep darkness behind your eyelids. Some eat silence. Some thoughtlessly kill. Some simply drive men mad. They are known as mushicreatures that came into being shortly after life emerged from the primordial ooze. They still exist parallel to our own lives and can only be seen by a select few. As a mushishi, Ginko is one of the few who are aware of their existense, and this young man with a sardonic smile roams from place to place with the knowledge and skill to aid those unwittingly affected by mushi.
Sting Eucliffe, the White Dragon, and Rogue Cheney, the Shadow Dragon. These two powerful Dragon Slayer wizards are the faces of the Sabertooth guild, but they didn't start out that way - both wizards have been down a road of fantastical adventures and hard-won battles to forge their own way as heroes. Learn how two of the most powerful wizards in Fiore got their start!
It's spring of freshman year, and Kanji Sasahara has a difficult dilemma. Should he declare his love for manga and anime fandom by joining an otaku club, like he has always wanted to? Is he prepared to deal with the social stigma attached to being an otaku? Meanwhile, Saki Kasakabe has her own otaku conundrum. How can she turn her boyfriend, anime fanboy Makoto, into a normal guy? Kanji follow his heart as does Saki. When both Kanji and Makoto join Genshiken: The Society for the Study of Modern Visual Culture, Saki chases Makoto through the various activities of the club from costumeplaying and comic conventions, to video gaming and anime model figures. Saki finds otaku to be more than she imagined, but not necessarily in a good way. Includes special extras after the story!
new academic year means new members for the lovably misfit Genshiken: The Society for the Study of Modern Visual Culture! Club president Chika Ogiue now has to manage a freshfaced trio of yaoi fans (one of whom dabbles in crossdressing), a surly American transfer student with a penchant for obscure anime quotes, and her own rising career as a professional manga artist. Can she actually find time to draw her own vanity project for ComicFest? This volume of Genshiken: Second Season includes special extras after the story!
A covert mission in Shanghai reunites Kusanagi with a wartime rival amid shifting loyalties. The infiltration of an anti-cyberization cult calls for Section 9's most "human" members to do things the old-fashioned way. A deep dive into the mind of a criminal forces Kusanagi to question the nature of imagination - and her own identity. The stories in Global Neural Network bring a 21st-century perspective to its questions of human identity and the border between mind and machine that made The Ghost in the Shell one of the most revered manga of all time, and unleash top Western comics artists on eye-popping action scenes starring Kusanagi, Batou, Togusa, Aramaki, and all the members of Section 9!
Original stories by: * Alex de Campi (Twisted Romance) & Giannis Milonogiannis (Prophet) * Brenden Fletcher (Gotham Academy, Motor Crush) & LRNZ (Golem) * Genevieve Valentine (Mechanique, Icon), & Brent Schoonover (The Astonishing Ant-Man) * Max Gladstone (the Craft Sequence) & David Lopez (All-New Wolverine)
Legendary novelist NISIOISIN partners up with Mitsuru Hattori in this three volume graphic novel adaptation of one of his mystery novels... "Looking back on it now, I realize that incident is what turned me into the novelist I am today." An author is someone who creates tales, but an aspiring author is someone who lies, and nothing more. This incident happened 10 years ago, when I was in college, and merely an aspiring author. If those events never took place I wouldn't have become much of anything at all, which is why I think I need to thank her, thank that girl...
Mani is a beastkin. Wul is a hunter. It was unheard of for their kinds to cohabitate...until now! Even without being able to understand her, Wul the Red Hood takes Mani in after he finds her on a hunt. Risking his life and his reputation, he decides to raise Mani as his apprentice! For what purpose? And what worlds await them on their journey? Mani and Wul team up to defy all odds in this drama-packed fantasy!
Can a poem save your life? Words are powerful. Insults and rumors can derail a career; a bit of encouragement can give someone the strength to pursue their dreams. When a high school boy skipping class to sketch shoe designs and a taciturn woman drinking a morning beer meet in a Tokyo park, they say little but the woman bids farewell with an ancient tanka poem. Will the boy figure out the poem's meaning before it's too late?
Outer space, the far future. A lone seed ship, the Sidonia, plies the void, ten centuries since the obliteration of the solar system. The massive, nearly indestructible, yet barely sentient alien life forms that destroyed humanity's home world continue to pose an existential threat. Nagate Tanikaze has only known life in the vessel's bowels deep below the sparkling strata where humans have achieved photosynthesis and new genders. Not long after he emerges from the Underground, however, the youth is bequeathed a treasured legacy by the spaceship's coolheaded female captain.
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!
High school senior Ao Kuroda is a completely normal girl, neither glitzy nor plain. Nothing beats peace and quiet, that's her motto. In spite of looking forward to a no-nonsense and calm final year of high school, Ao bumps shoulders with Sakuya Ozaki -- a freshman infamous for getting into a fight soon after the first day of high school and sending the other student to the hospital!! Ozaki tells her off -- "That freakin' hurt, watch where you're going, why don't you?!"-- and Ao is so terrified that she cries. She wants nothing to do with Ozaki! So why the heck did he have to get into a fight with someone right outside of her favorite record store?!
Mikako Nagamine is recruited as a pilot to fight in the interstellar war against a force of alien invaders, leaving behind her one true love. Mikako's only connection to Noboru Terao, who continues living the life of an ordinary student, is through cell phone text messages. As Mikako travels light years away, it takes longer and longer for Noboru to receive her messages, until finally one arrives eight years and seven months after she sent it...