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"Spirit Contract" is the ability to make a contract with a powerful spirit and receive its divine protection. However, Kyle, who possesses a strange and "mysterious flame," accidentally burns a spirit to death and is banished from his party. Filled with despair, Kyle begins the journey back to his hometown. Along the way, he comes across a girl being attacked by a monster. He tries to help, but without a "Spirit Contract," he is too powerless... Just when things seem hopeless, the girl suddenly reveals her true identity. She is a legendary "Dragon Spirit"?! When the feared "Spirit Killer" meets the "Dragon Spirit," a battle for the fate of the world begins--!
A dramatic story set in the past of Gensokyo, before the creation of the spell card rules, following around a young Reimu. Unofficial and non-canon. Published in the web edition of Strange Creators of Outer World.
While in the hospital as a high schooler, I discovered a paperback titled "Disease Coexistence Journal." Its content was a confidential diary belonging to my classmate, Sakura Yamauchi, chronicling the harsh truth of her pancreatic illness and its limited timeframe. Suddenly, I transformed from a mere acquaintance to a trusted insider. Despite our contrasting backgrounds, I found myself being pulled toward her. Tragically, fate had other plans for this already-burdened girl and dealt her yet another heart-wrenching blow.
Ines, betrayed and killed by her husband Joseph, Found herself back in the peaceful time of twelve years ago when she opened her eyes. Fueled by a relentless thirst for revenge against her husband, Ines meets Carson, the man who saved her life before the regression. “Young lady, have we perhaps met somewhere before?”
Read The Guild’s Strongest Receptionist In the modern age where dungeons have appeared… In a world where everything is decided by a player’s blessing, Iijima Joji surprisingly gets the lowest aptitude of a G-rank Blessing. He had a terrible start as a player, being forced into debt by his friends and ridiculed for his incompetence. However, by chance, he was forced to participate in an unending tutorial… XX years have passed. He reached level 9999, but the endlessly repeating tutorial was about to break him. — and then his level increased. When he reached the other side of the countdown, the world was bugged, and he went back in time to the moment he woke up as a player, and he had to start his life over again at an extraordinary level. “Who is he? Why is such a monster working as a guild receptionist?” When he swings his arm, buildings disappear. When he casts magic, disasters occur.
After retiring as a vigilante so he can live a peaceful life, Yagura gets trapped in a survival game that is far more than what it seems. Now he must come out of retirement and train a new group of heroes to protect his city — but will it really pay to be a hero?
Hisa impresses everyone with her exceptional skills demonstrated during the inter-school competition at the training camp.
A peaceful, independent kingdom until its annexation by the Japanese Empire in the 19th century, Okinawa was the site of the most destructive land battle of the Pacific War. Today, the archipelago is Japan's poorest prefecture and unwilling host to 75% of all US military bases in Japan. Okinawa brings together two collections of intertwined stories by the island's pre-eminent mangaka, Susumu Higa, which reflect on this difficult history and pull together traditional Okinawan spirituality, the modern-day realities of the continuing US military occupation, and the senselessness of the War. The first collection, Sword of Sand, is a ground level, unflinching look at the horrors of the Battle of Okinawa. Higa then turns an observant eye to the present-day in Mabui (Okinawan for "spirit"), where he explores how the American occupation has irreversibly changed the island prefecture, through the lens of the archipelago's indigenous spirituality and the central character of the yuta priestess. Okinawa is a harrowing document of war, but it is also a work which addresses the dreams and the needs of a people as they go forward into an uncertain future, making it essential reading for anyone interested in World War II and its effects on our lives today, as well as anyone with an interest in the people and culture of this fascinating, complicated place. Though the work is thoroughly about one specific locale, the complex relations between Okinawan and Japanese identities and loyalties, between place and history, and between humanity and violence speak beyond borders and across shores. Please note: This book is a traditional work of manga and reads back to front and right to left.
