The Beginning of lovee? Straightforward and pure high school love! Rintarou, the boy who've been friends with since we were small. Large, grim and popular. He turned down a girl again. What a waste! "No, bec...

At age 30, Shou Arai came to a realization; he had no gender. Now he was faced with a question he'd never really considered: how to age in a society where everything is so strongly segregated between two gen...

Beware the red snake! Told from the perspective of a young boy, The Red Snake is a story of the above boy, the house he inhabits, and the forest around his house that stretches on and on. The characters in t...

After years of life and education abroad, Chidori returns home on her parents’ demand and is immediately sucked back into the world of Japanese tradition, of tea-ceremony and kimonos, arranged marriages an...

If it looks like a dog and acts like a dog and insists it's a dog, it's...a dog? Probably? She adopted it anyway, and her life with this "dog" will never be boring!

A tale of two siblings—one unconventional, the other harboring a great secret.

Masako Hana who became a disciple of the famous rakugo storyteller Sanzan Yutei Koshogatsu. The small brother and sister are surprisingly...!?

(from ebookjapan): Ryoko Yamagishi depicts the world of ancient Japan! A young girl takes care of her grandmother (Baba-sama) who has lost her mind on a southern island. They were mistreated as a nuisance...

To this day "The Tale of Genji," a story written as a picture scroll in Japan's Heian period (794-1185), is regarded as the most important work in ancient Japanese literature. A shining baby boy is born to ...

Aya and her twin brother Aki thought they were going to a celebration of their sixteenth birthday at their grandfather's home, but the funeral-like atmosphere tips them off that something's not right. Their ...

Born in a Bunraku family, Tachibana Sakon is trained to become a Bunraku puppet master. With a pretty face, timid character and such reliance and dependence on his puppet friend Ukon, no one would expect tha...

For a certain reason, a handsome, young calligrapher by the name of Seishuu Handa uproots himself and moves to an island on the westernmost edge of Japan. "Sensei," as he comes to be known, is a city boy thr...

Three members of a modern-day Japanese cult who are taking part in a "deserted island" program in which they must work together to purify and refine their spiritual essence and transform themselves into more...

"Were you... thrown away, too?" The Edo period. Circus sideshow worker Ichi is left in charge of the care and training of a beast captured to become the sideshow's next showpiece. Ferocious as well as ghastl...

Karaboshi Haruki has no presence as far as can be recognized, and so he became an adventurer with only the desire to "stand out." One day, a dungeon appeared under his home in Hokkaido. Coincidentally, he pi...

More than ten years have passed since dungeons suddenly appeared on Earth. In a world where people with excellent skills play an active role as adventurers, the skill that high school student Takeshi Miyamot...

Magic is by no means something that is convenient! Kotaro, a college student who has a complex about his height, ends up unexpectedly enrolling in magic development, taught by Arisu-sensei, a witch. With the...

Yamazaki Kento was unexpectedly reincarnated into a fantasy world with only a tablet filled with mysterious apps he needs to unlock. Kento Yamazaki, an ordinary young man who can be found anywhere, finds ...

"If nothing changes whether one laughs or cries, then in this lifetime, I refuse to cry." This collection consists of six historical short stories which tragicomically depict people trying to do their best i...

After incurring her mother's wrath with her free-spirited and uncontrollable behavior, Suzume is sent to Kyoto to learn the art of home making from her aunt. There, Suzume finds herself caught up in strict t...

Sorry, I know you must've been lonely. Don't worry. I won't keep you waiting long." Maruyama, Nagasaki's pleasure district — where the music of shamisens mingles with the language of foreign lands. From ar...

For five hundred years, a giant snake god has lived in the ancient mountain. Miyo, an unlucky woman from the nearby village, is offered as tribute to the great snake. Miyo fears that she will be devoured, bu...

Narumi Detective Agency is where the people of very early modern Japan go to for help with mysterious and supernatural cases. But Narumi is just the face and occasional fist of the operation—the real hero ...

High school boy Tsubasa moves to Kitami City up in Hokkaido, where he meets a "gal" at a bus stop. The sight of her standing alone against the white snowscape, bare-legged despite the freezing cold, captures...