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New meetings always come suddenly! The protagonist, Yuu Haruna, moves into a new town where he meets a somewhat strange girl who doesn't have a cell phone. The girl, Fuuka, seems to have a strange allure that draws people to her, very much like a summer breeze. Looks like Yuu has been caught up in one wild love story!

English translation of the Japanese manga Kasane (累).
Kasane's face is so hideous, you couldn't bear to look twice at her - and her ugliness has forced her to walk a harsh path in life. But her mother left her something: a tube of lipstick. The power of this lipstick will change everything about her downtrodden life.

English translation of the Japanese manga Arata Kangatari.
In a world where humans and gods coexist, Arata is the unfortunate successor to the matriarchal Hime Clan--unfortunate because if he's not cross-dressing to hide his gender one minute, he's fleeing for his life the next! When Arata winds up in the modern world and switches places with a boy named Arata Hinohara, it's a wonder which Arata's actually better off...
Hinohara is the spitting image of Arata, so he suddenly finds himself fighting people after his life! As he navigates through this foreign world filled with power-hungry warriors, who will come to his aid? One thing's for sure--it's not easy being Arata!

Average student Moritaka Mashiro enjoys drawing for fun. When his classmate and aspiring writer Akito Takagi discovers his talent, he begs Moritaka to team up with him as a manga-creating duo. But what exactly does it take to make it in the manga-publishing world? Moritaka is hesitant to seriously consider Akito's proposal because he knows how difficult reaching the professional level can be. Still, encouragement from persistent Akito and motivation from his crush push Moritaka to test his limits!

College graduates struggle to cope with the real world. Music offers refuge in this modern manga with an American attitude.
Meiko Inoue is a recent college grad working as an office lady in a job she hates. Her boyfriend Shigeo is permanently crashing at her apartment because his job as a freelance illustrator doesn't pay enough for rent. And her parents in the country keep sending her boxes of veggies that just rot in her fridge. Straddling the line between her years as a student and the rest of her life, Meiko struggles with the feeling that she's just not cut out to be a part of the real world.

Ryouta Natsukawa, a boy with a domestic disposition, is striving to make his college debut. At last, his dream of living alone has come true...!!
...Or so he'd thought, until it turns out he has to room with his childhood friend, Kazuhito Tanaka, a guy with a sparkling aura?! Their mutually self-conscious, mutual pining love between roommates begins!

The first story in the collection, Futaribocchi no Ever After, has been omitted from the English version. This collection of short stories contains the following: The Frog Prince features a young man named Yui Nishino who has remarkable features. However, he feels that his good looks are more of a curse rather than a blessing because everyone close to him is jealous of his beauty. While working as a museum mascot, he spots one of his classmates, who is into prehistoric animals. Will he be the one to discover Yui's inner beauty? In The World's End, Shin is on a terraforming mission and keeps in contact with Rukiya, an engineer who is on Earth. Shin feels quite lonesome in outer space, but luckily for him, he has a highly developed A.I. to keep him company. Shin's mission is just about over and when he's scheduled to return to Earth, Rukiya has some terrible news for him.

English translation of the Japanese manga MASTERキートン (Masutā Kīton).
Taichi Hiraga-Keaton, the son of a Japanese zoologist and an English noblewoman, is an insurance investigator known for his successful and unorthodox methods of investigation. Educated in archaeology and a former member of the SAS, Master Keaton uses his knowledge and combat training to uncover buried secrets, thwart would-be villains, and pursue the truth...

English translation of the Japanese manga Arslan Senki (アルスラーン戦記).
ECBATANA IS BURNING
In the prosperous kingdom of Pars lies the Royal Capital of Ecbatana, a city of splendor and wonder, ruled by the undefeated and fearsome King Andragoras. Arslan is the young and curious prince of Pars who, despite his best efforts doesn't seem to have what it takes to be a proper king like his father. At the age of 14, Arslan goes to his first battle and loses everything as the blood-soaked mist of war gives way to scorching flames, bringing him to face the demise of his once glorious kingdom. However, it is Arslan's destiny to be a ruler, and despite the trials that face him, he must now embark on a journey to reclaim his fallen kingdom.

English translation of the Japanese manga Living no Matsunaga-san (リビングの松永さん).
Forget the familiar: circumstances wrest high schooler Meeko from an ordinary family life to her uncle's boarding house, where she must learn to live with housework and ... rather unusual adult housemates. What's more, the oldest of the bunch, Matsunaga-san, is a little scary ... but also always looks out for her! Presenting the first volume of Keiko Iwashita's boarding-house love story!

Middle schoolers Kanata Tanaka and Kazuki Yoshikawa are mature beyond their years, perfect model students admired from afar by classmates and teachers alike. But when school's out, these two childhood friends can let loose as average fourteen-year-olds, fresh in the throes of puberty, adolescence...and the persistent, bittersweet pangs of first love.

"I demand absolute obedience from you." Yu Akabane has worked hard to reinvent herself for high school, and there's only one step left in her plan to leave her plain Jane days behind: asking out her idol, the "White Prince" Shirakawa-kun. When circumstances lead to Yu moving into the school dorm where Shirakawa-kun boards, she thinks she's found her lucky break. But unluckily for Yu, "Black Devil" Kurosaki-kun, the boy everyone at school (including the teachers!) is afraid of, lives there too - and when Yu defies him, he's all too eager to punish her...

The story of Ciguatera follows Ogino, who is bullied in high school along with his friend Takai. The two rely on their passion towards motorcycles and desire to get one to add some hope and vigor to their otherwise bleak lives. The two are learning to drive in secret at a driving school, and it is there that Ogino's life begins to change forever. The manga follows a variety of characters through their high school and working lives, through their struggles, their triumphs, their dreams, their futures, their love, life and loss.
This coming-of-age tale from contemporary master Minoru Furuya centers on seventeen-year-old Yusuke Ogino, a self-described loser whose only refuge from the bullying hell he experiences at school is his dream of freedom on a motorcycle. But the unexpected entrance of a beautiful young woman into his life threatens to upend his whole world, forcing him to re-evaluate his relationships and even his sense of self.
Instantly relatable and painfully honest, Furuya's manga blends pitch-black humor with pathos and the awkward realities of everyday life to produce a quintessential tale of youth. The meticulous yet uninhibited art swings from stark realism to laugh-out-loud caricature, while nuanced characters and complex emotions help Ciguatera transcend the bounds of genre to take its rightful place as one of the great masterpieces of graphic storytelling.

Sakura Yoshitake is a 25-year-old salaryman working for a food production firm. One day he takes the day off to go to his grandma's 88th birthday. While driving home after the party he sees a UFO and crashes. He survives the wreck and finds a terrifying alien standing over him. He passes out and when he comes to, he is in his own bed in his own apartment, covered in bandages. Even more, he finds a beautiful blonde half naked sleeping next to him. When she awakes she tells him she has come to earth to be impregnated by him. However when he touches her, her embarrassment causes her to lose control and she turns back into the terrifying alien he saw before. How will he ever impregnate her if she can't control her embarrassment enough to ever let him touch her?

"ELDEN RING" special mook to give to fading people who leave for "land in the gap"
A special pre-launch mook that invites you to the world of From Software's latest work "ELDEN RING", which is drawing attention from around the world! Explains the charm of the game and the game system that has been elaborated with beautiful visuals. In addition, a large-volume special project that unravels the charm of From Software works such as "DARK SOULS" and "Bloodborne" from a new perspective is also posted. This is a must-have fan book for all players who are looking forward to "ELDEN RING", including the three major appendices and a special interview with director Hidetaka Miyazaki!

Titled That Miyoko Asagaya Feeling, this is an important collection of stories about the artist's own struggles with romance, art, alcohol, and mental illness, originally published in Garo and other venues in the early and mid 70s. Tsuge Yoshiharu is usually credited for pioneering quasi-autobiographical shishosetsu-style manga in the mid-late 60s, but these Abe stories are really the first case of a Japanese cartoonist writing regularly and in a brutally frank way about his personal life. They are more or less contemporaneous with Justin Green's Binky Brown (1972), but without all the cartoony absurdities and neurotic self-flagellation. Abe's freeform drawing, sometimes scratchy sometimes fluid, is also really amazing. Interestingly, a couple of the stories are told from his partner Miyoko's point of view. Rounding out the volume is an essay by Asakawa Mitsuhiro, who also selected the works. Pictured here is the cover of the February 1973 issue of Garo, featuring an image from Abe's story "Love" (which will appear in the Black Hook edition), with colors by Hayashi Seiichi. This will be a must-have book for both alt-manga fans and people interested in the history of comics as literature.

English translation of the Japanese manga Please Don't Bully Me, Nagatoro (イジらないで、長瀞さん).
Nagatoro is a freshman in high school who loves teasing and torturing her older male classmate. What is her motivation and why does Senpai put up with her? Does Nagatoro just want to create misery for Senpai? Or maybe she secretly likes him?

English translation of the Japanese manga Skip to Loafer (スキップとローファー).
The critically acclaimed romantic comedy about a country girl chasing her dreams in Tokyo!
Mitsumi is bound for high school in Tokyo! She's got book smarts, but this small-town girl is about to find out she's massively unprepared for the social norms of big city high schoolers.

English translation of the Japanese manga Ane Naru Mono (姉なるもの).
Yuu has had a rough life. After losing his parents in a car accident when he was five, he found himself bounced back and forth among relatives, with no place to truly call home. Plagued by a constant feeling of loneliness, all he wants is a little companionship, and he's about to get way more than he bargained for! Her name is Chiyo, and she'll grant Yuu one wish. The only problem: She's a demon of unimaginable power!

English translation of the Japanese manga Peter Grill to Kenja no Jikan (ピーター・グリルと賢者の時間).
DISCLAIMER: graphic sexuality
After winning the Grand Fighting Tournament, Peter Grill hoped he'd finally be allowed to marry his guild-mate sweetheart. However, being crowned the world's strongest man comes with its own set of challenges: namely the queue of ogres, elves, and other warrior women lining up outside his door. They aren't out to challenge him for his title -- they want his seed for their bloodlines! What's a strongman to do?!