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From Boku-Tachi: For the past 500 years, a certain country has spent day and night fighting countless wars. However, the appearance of General Kyoutaka Kuroda seemed to foretell the end of this war-torn world with eighty percent of the country already under his rule. His followers are the People Hunters, indiscriminate murderers who suddenly started killing under Kuroda's orders 15 years earlier. In foreign countries, in their own villages, men, women, children and the old...there were no distinctions made. Kuroda's followers simply murdered...and enjoyed it. Happening upon a lone priest with the eyes of his dead sister, a displaced you man named Kazuma struggles against the demons of his past and present. In this strife ridden land how will he fare?
This is one of the best-known titles by Yamagishi Ryouko. It shocked the public immensely when first published, because the story depicted how the legendary regent of Japan, Prince Shoutoku - who supported the spread of Buddhism - fell in love with a man, suffering because of it, and acting on his unrequited love. This is no ordinary BL manga, as its homoerotic theme is the driving force behind a convoluted plot centred on complex characters and depicted in complicated Japanese as representative of the setting. Hi Izuru Tokoro no Tenshi is regarded as a masterpiece in the manga world. Won the 1983 Kodansha Manga Award for shoujo.
Barefoot Gen recounts the bombing of Hiroshima from the perspective of a young boy, Gen, and his family. But the book's themes (the physical and psychological damage ordinary people suffer from war's realities) ring chillingly true today. Gen and his family have long been struggling without much food, money or medicine, but despite hardships, they try to maintain a semblance of normal life. The adults are exhausted and near despair; the children take air raids and starvation more or less in stride. Nakazawa, a Hiroshima survivor, effectively portrays the strain of living in this environment and shows how efforts to stay upbeat in dire circumstances sometimes manifest as manic, irrational humor. The story offers some optimism: characters perform acts of self-sacrifice for the sake of neighbors and loved ones (e.g., when Gen's pregnant mother becomes ill from malnutrition, he and his brother pose as orphans and perform in the streets, throwing the money over the walls of their home so they won't get caught). Underneath this can-do attitude are the parents' deep guilt and sense of helplessness. When the children clamor ecstatically over a scrap of food, the parents dissolve in shame and grief. The art is sharply drawn and expressive, and the narrative has such a natural rhythm, it's easy to get pulled into the family's life, making the cataclysm readers know awaits them all the more real, intimate and difficult to take. Despite its harrowing nature, this work is invaluable for the lessons it offers in history, humanity and compassion.
From ShoujoMagic: High school freshmen and twins, Nae and Moe, and Ken and Takeshi, enjoy their lives as students and close friends. Until Moe suddenly dies in a traffic accident...and her corpse disappears? Between the vanishing corpse and a pharmaceutical corporation, her three remaining friends are struck with the reality that something is amiss in their world...
From Chibi Manga: Meeting again your first love who moved school without a word…?
A manga adaption of Devilman partly based on the 70's anime.
From A Willful Muse & Alice Dreams “Wanna book a room with me?” It was only meant to be some harmless teasing! Aoi’s never even had a first love but now a mysterious boy has accepted her joking offer seriously. From a misunderstanding, Aoi and the boy start a passionate relationship. It’s only physical, right? Or has Aoi unconsciously started to fall in love with him? Tengoku No Tsuki - At an all girls school, Yuuri is the idolized, boyish and tall, upperclassman. With rumors of the "Perverted Hand" flying about the school, what will Yuuri do when her best friend is the next victim? (Chapter 3 continues Tengoku No Tsuki) Protecting Eien's secret and granting his happiness is Yuuri's main focus of her beloved. But how will Eien react to the Priest getting too close to Yuuri during the school play Vampire Lover - Saku Mikuriya's parents divorced and she was left to live with her headmistress grandmother. As she cried of how she was unwanted, a man with golden hair and golden eyes appeared before her. "Then do you want to leave with me?" he offered, they made a promise when the flower blooms, he would come and take her away. 10 years have passed and the flower only buds, but what happens when a mysterious transfer student arrives and he looks exactly like the man she met 10 years ago? Nana is ordinary, plain, doesn't stand out, and totally in love with Shu Aiba, a model and her classmate. What happens when Shu picks her to be his "girlfriend" for his "Tropical Island Vacation with My Girlfriend" shoot?
Anthology of shorts based on Shin Megami Tensei IV.
A noble family lives in an isolated island. They have an abnormal behavior toward their own twins members. They do rituals, tortures and scientific experiments on them in order to obtain a mysterious knowledge and power.
Mystic dreams of a previous life in the moon lead to the bonding of seven students in an attempt to uncover the secrets behind what they have forgotten. As various truths are sought and avoided, Alice must hurry remembering if she is to save the fragile Rin from self-destruction. For only after facing the grave errors of the past, can they all move forward and live fully in the present. (Source: MangaTraders)
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.
