Takuma is a single guy who does nothing but go to work and come home. Too tired to do chores, he decides to get a robot to cook and keep house. “Mina-chan” is such a good housekeeper, Takuma jokes that s...

Official English: INKR Yuujin Kamoshima and Takara Takarada are fellow actors in the same theater troupe who live next door to one another, with similar day to day lives. Though they aren't exactly close f...

Three classmates, including Mari, a full-time housewife, Sayo, who is in divorce mediation with her husband, and Satoe, a career woman, gather when their high school classmate Hiromi die lonely in an apartme...

Two people who met for the first time today. Should we have the "world's best wedding" 3 years later? The Nanami High School that Ui enters is a special school where girls and boys spend their dorm life in a...

A hardworking career woman who never married died alone, found in a miserable state. Her niece, Yamaguchi Narumi (35 and single), who was hit hard by the news shifted from looking for marriage to preparing f...

Nina had a rough start to life, stealing to survive—and eventually being sold into slavery by her own brother. But to her surprise, her captor, Prince Azure, ordained that she would live the life of a pr...

A one shot about Laila and Anastasia, who inspired each other through ballet. Winner of the 2018 Niigata Manga Award & the 96th Tezuka Manga Award.

This volume includes ten of Junji Ito’s short stories, as selected exclusively from the Shōgakukan publisher catalog and presented and accompanied with a gallery of six color illustrations. Stories: 1: A...

Fuzuki Katori is a heavy-set woman who loves to eat and is sometimes ridiculed as "Calorie" by those around her. Although she is not uninterested in men, Fuzuki is shy and inexperienced in love because of he...

Every young couple has high hopes for their unborn child, and Sara and Kouta Takano are no different. But only days away from giving birth, Sara learns about the tragedy of Malala Yousafzai's attempted assas...

“Aoki, I didn’t know you thought about me that way.” Aoki has a crush on Hashimoto, the girl in the seat next to him in class. But he despairs when he borrows her eraser and sees she’s written the na...

Aiko is not good at housework, but she is very romantic and aspires to marry someday. Tomoko loves housework, but she is not sure whether she wants to get married or not. These women in their 30s do not shar...

“Until the day humanity falls.” In the year 2020, Earth’s magnetic poles disappeared and humankind was nearly wiped out by cosmic radiation. Within the span of a hundred years, living creatures began ...

"Life changes with just one event." The mayor of London was killed by someone on the subway. Al, an ordinary college student who happened to get on the same train, and Ellis, a detective with a reason, are i...

In the country of Larvata, mages are oppressed and seen as filthy beings. Leon is a talented but rather weak mage. Zex is an orphan boy with great innate magical talent. Their meeting will change their lives...

A compilation of short stories about weird high schoolers. 1. Kawaii Hito (Someone Cute) 2. Tomodachi ni Natte Kuremasen ka (Would You Like to be Friends with Me?) 3. Kaku-ha (Artist) 4. Hashire Yamada! (Ru...

Tomoyo Shiino has stood by her friend Mariko through years of abuse, abandonment, and depression. However horrific her circumstances, their friendship has been the one reassuring constant in Mariko’s life�...

Winter 2019 Winner of the Four Seasons Award What does your brain conjure up when you're sleepless at night?

Note: Won a New Face Award from the 23rd Japan Media Arts Festival in 2020.

General of the Three Kingdoms, Kongming had struggled his whole life, facing countless battles that made him into the accomplished strategist he was. So on his deathbed, he wished only to be reborn into a pe...

Mix crow feathers, squirrel fur, and human hair together and voila, you end up with a fragrant decoction that erases memories. On Yeonjin’s third day as secretary at an oriental medicine clinic, she realiz...

Description Introduction In addition to winning the Authentic Mystery Grand Prize, it has also won top prizes across the board in mystery rankings! "The culprit is 〇〇." His classmate Taro Suzuki's in...

In The Unwomanly Face of War, Alexievich chronicles the experiences of the Soviet women who fought on the front lines, on the home front, and in the occupied territories. These women—more than a million in...

1) Kimura-sensei 2) Juusei o Kezuri Dasu 3) Trainspotting 4) Taxi Driver 5) Kids Return 6) Soratobu Kujira Won the 24th Japan Media Arts Festival Awards an New Face Award in 2021.