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It was in the spring of the third year of junior high when Shizuka Morimoto and Tou Oowada first met again. They met again with bitter memories of their middle school days.The two were separated again after graduating from junior high without mending their relationship. But they met again for the second time in the summer of their second year of high school. Even if it was awkward this time, the distance between the two gradually became closer. But what came at the end of their closeness was their third separation...
Former theater actress Asumi gets married to Ryouhei, and she does everything to support him on his way up to becoming a popular screenwriter. But a rift forms between them as she toils away at housework and child-rearing, and he gets busier with work. Asumi believes Ryouhei's successes are thanks to her support, but one incident leads to her finding out that he's been cheating on her. Crushed by her husband and his mistress's tricks, Asumi prepares for a revenge plot that involves the whole drama industry...!
35 years before the story begins, a new continent appeared in the Pacific Ocean: the Holy Continent. There are countless new species and mineral resources beyond the common sense of mankind, and humans want to conquer this place, but the special magnetic field of Saint Lucia repels the involvement of high-tech products, so the world has once again entered the era of great adventure with bare-feet explored. Countless explorers continue to enter the holy continent in pursuit of wealth and many of them are trapped into crisis. And the protagonist of our story, is doing the work of rescuing explorers in the holy continent, thus, being known as the "collectors."
"Kii-kun will never learn!!" The childhood friend Tsubaki has a little secret she's been keeping. But stray too close and she'll say back, "it's fine, it's fine... I'll be fine..." A story of pure, disgusting love mixed with psycho-horror romance!
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.
The eve of the French revolution, 1772: The eldest brother of the Sanson family, Charles-Henri, has grown as an executioner, while his sister Marie-Joseph has been living freely in the Versailles. But then Marie-Joseph's first love, a man named Alain, is killed by aristocrats... The histories of innocents plunges into the arc of the crimson revolution, Rouge! Note: This is a direct continuation of the storyline of Innocent, focusing more on Marie. The change in titles is due to a change in the magazine.
Two short stories by Shimamizu Eke Reverie in a deserted bus: Yoshiharu lost her only skill, the ability to play the piano, because of stress caused from the immense pressure her parents put on her. In her despair, she tries to jump off a rooftop. Suddenly, a ghostly girl appears and introduces herself as Yume. Yume invites Yoshiharu to her "secret base", an abandoned bus. Yoshiharu decides to throw away the piano, her parents, everything, and follows Yume to her secret base. There, she comes to face Yume's past. "The two of us should just stay children forever" -- before the girls can finally get their runaway lifestyle... Kimi no itami wo kizamu basho: The smiling face of her childhood friend. The emotionless girl wishes for her to keep smiling in their normal everyday together.
Through the looking glass into Camelot Garden, falls a boy named Ryu, whose purpose is to crush this weird, semi-malignant fantasy world. Oh yeah, and the below is a direct quote from the beginning of the story. The Lady of Shallot by Alfred Lord Tennyson There she weaves by night and day A magic web with colours gay. She has heard a whisper say, A curse is on her if she stay To look down to Camelot. But in her web she still delights To weave the mirror’s magic sights: A funeral, with plumes and lights And music, came from Camelot. “I am half-sick of shadows,” said The Lady of Shalott. “Tirra lirra, tirra lirra,” Sang Sir Lancelot. She left the web: she left the loom: She looked down to Camelot.
Taro Kajiura and his friends from the same folkloristic research group at Tonan University went on a trip to Ikishima island in order to pursue the origins of the myth about princess Kwannon. At the same time the villagers of Ikishima were holding the annual festival in which outsiders were forbidden to participate in since 400 years. The consequences for breaking that rule were more severe that anyone had imagined...
From Storm in Heaven: Azuma and Takayama used to be really close friends as children, until one day Takayama disappears to the USA without telling Azuma. Unable to forget about Azuma, Takayama returns years later and enrolls in Azuma's school. He finds his old friend cold and unwilling to restart any kind of relationship... but why? Takayama is a light hearted, happy guy who gets along with everyone around, even though Azuma's odd behavior hurts him. Azuma is cool and distant, and seems not to care about anything around him...
The girly but bloody otome game re-imagining of Lewis Carroll's classic fantasy novel Alice's Adventures in Wonderland with bishounen characters and added romance. A parody of Alice's Adventures in Wonderland where Alice is smart and non-doormatlike. In this story, Alice is not all what she seems. She is practical, strong, yet darkly cynical. Instead of the traditional story, Alice is kidnapped unwillingly by a mysterious (yet somewhat bishie-looking) man with bunny ears into a place called Heartland. Stuck in Heartland due to a trick by the mysterious bunny eared man, she meets the residents of this world. Along the way, Alice meets Blood, handsome mafia leader; Ace, the psycho yet charming knight and more…What should Alice do in such a world!?
From MangaHelpers: As Japan's population grows older and smaller, and murder rates sky rocket, the Japanese government began to implement stricter laws against the worst criminals. With even the death penalty lacking the deterring force to stop the most violent criminals, Japan brought back to life a law from the 19th century: the "Revenge" law. This law will now allow victims and their related parties to employ a government special forces agency to capture the murderer and reenact the exact same methods with which the victim died onto the murderer. Yamagishi Yuji is the 7th member of the Special Forces "Sukedachi-nin." Each of the members of this special forces have been chosen to enforce the Revenge law because they too have been a victim of past crimes. [DrCoke]
