Hayame leads a modest, peaceful life as a housewife. One day she meets a jackass student named Issei, but thinks little of it.
As Hayame’s life falls apart around her, Issei makes an unexpected proposal which will turn her life upside-down.
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With Hayame’s position already shaky among her co-workers, Issei’s appearance has incited further animosity against her. Seigo attempts to help her by moving her to another inn, but this does not sit well with Issei, who not only has to worry about his limited time left with her, but is also now extremely concerned about their history together! How exactly did Hayame and Seigo meet, and what happened between them ten years ago?
Based on the hit Nintendo video game SPLATOON! Four inklings get caught up in a Splatoon Turf War!
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Inside an underground facility connected to the Deepsea Metro subway system, Goggles and Team Blue must pass a series of tests to discover the four “thangs” that will open the door to a fabled Promised Land.
Beyblade Burst (ベイブレードバースト) is the new generation of Beyblade based on the popular Beyblade toy franchise by Takara Tomy. The third incarnation of its series, the manga was serialised in Shogakukan’s Shōnen magazine CoroCoro Comic in August 2015. The anime adaptation premiered in 2016.
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Dante begins his Beyblade training in Japan with the bey club Victories, but what’s this? There’s another bey club in town, and they’ve got all the latest equipment that Victories doesn’t?! The leader of Spark Wings, Fumiya Kindo, mocks Dante and his affiliation with the old-fashioned Victories, which results in a Beyblade battle! In the meantime, Dante’s former BC Sol clubmate Delta Zakuro has arrived at Japan for an important match!
The journey to a hundred friends begins with a single conversation.
Socially anxious high school student Shoko Komi’s greatest dream is to make some friends, but everyone at school mistakes her crippling social anxiety for cool reserve. With the whole student body keeping its distance and Komi unable to utter a single word, friendship might be forever beyond her reach.
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Komi is starting her second year of high school, and she’s feeling a bit melancholy that all the good times of the previous year are behind her. How can anything else compare? But when Komi runs into a girl in her new class with an outrageous fashion sense crying in the bathroom, she’s able to put all her wonderful friend-making experience to good use and reach out to another person in need. Komi has leveled up!
Jinichirou Taira is thirty and unemployed. Chancing upon a recruitment ad calling for applicants to ‘protect the world’, he signs up without a second thought, and is soon thrust into the pilot’s seat of a humanoid weapon called ’RIZE’ to battle against unknown creatures that threaten the very survival of mankind! An epic sci-fi series unfolds in the front line of the battlefield!
Kaishin Ohno was never the flashy, outdoorsy type. In fact, he was so invisible in middle school that he was nicknamed ‘Stealth’. On the very first day of high school, however, Fate decides to drop him, literally, into the life of bouldering prodigy, Toki Natsume. After spending his youth avoiding all the obstacles that have stood in his way, the irrepressible Toki is going to show Kaishin that there is no wall he cannot overcome, especially the one that will change his life forever!
This is the story about a meeting of happenstance between two doppelgangers—Nero, a world-famous contemporary artist who has grown weary of his obligations; and De-Won, a poor college graduate trying to make the most of his last school vacation. A chance encounter at a hot spring in Japan has Nero convincing De-Won to switch places with him for three days, but will they be able to pull off the greatest deception when they come from such different worlds? Nero’s booked for a live painting performance at one of Japan’s most prestigious art galleries, and De-Won knows next to nothing about art!
A little bit of magic, a little bit of mystery, and a whole lot of comfort food.
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An aristocratic lady who can’t eat her own cooking, a young man set adrift in life, and a boy of mysterious origin: three people brought together by fate. Lisa’s greatest wish is to cook a delicious meal for her guests, but not only are her culinary skills questionable, her motivations lie elsewhere. Meanwhile, two ‘lost boys’ find their way to her estate, and gradually discover something they did not realise they were looking for.
Having saved up enough to buy a house, former high-flyer knight Astra goes into early retirement. But his dream of living out his days in peace goes up in smoke when a little witch girl called Noah shows up at his brand new residence! Noah forms a peculiar friendship with Astra and ends up becoming his housemate, and soon thereafter, all sorts of wacky characters turn up at their doorstep, ensuring that Astra’s retired life would be anything but peaceful.
With a true samurai’s resolve, Kanza seizes his chance and stakes his life on this dream!
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As the third son of a pauper samurai, Kanzaemon Hoshino is not allowed to have dreams- but dream he did in secret, of becoming the world’s best archer in the Toshiya, also known as the ‘Olympics of the Edo era’. Opportunity soon presents itself when he stops a raging bull in front of the master of the top archery dojo in Japan. Where sons of nobler samurai see an amateur, Master Nagaya sees an unpolished prodigy.
Warning! This is a collection of seriously scary tales!
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A mysterious day in a certain town. The price of a promise. The desire to accelerate the progress of mankind. This collection of tales explores the strange possibilities of our reality. Warns against overambitious desires, and reminds us why horror opens our eyes to the wider world. It’s sure to send a chill down your spine!
The journey to a hundred friends begins with a single conversation.
Socially anxious high school student Shoko Komi’s greatest dream is to make some friends, but everyone at school mistakes her crippling social anxiety for cool reserve. With the whole student body keeping its distance and Komi unable to utter a single word, friendship might be forever beyond her reach.
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Valentine’s Day is a total minefield for people with communication disorders, but this year Komi has a secret weapon to combat the stressful holiday- friends! Armed with homemade chocolates, Komi is ready to give Tadano a Valentine’s gift. At same point! Before the day is over! She swears!
Don’t miss this horrific collection of sotries filled with puzzles, twists and terror to give you chills through the night!
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Fuuka is on top of all the trending activities on social media. The latest craze? An escape game that is so difficult, there hasn’t been a single successful challenger yet! With her not-quite boyfriend Sougo in tow, she wins the coveted invitation to the game! But their excitement soon turns to trepidation when the ominous host of the game greets them at the door. What dark secret is he hiding?!
Aoashi is a manga series written and illustrated by Yūgo Kobayashi. In 2020, the manga won the 65th Shogakukan Manga Award for the General category.
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Ashito Aoi is a young, aspiring soccer player from a backwater town in Japan. His hopes of getting into a high school with a good soccer club are dashed when he causes an incident during a critical match for his team, which results in their loss and elimination from the tournament. Nevertheless, he catches the eye of someone important who happened to be visiting from Tokyo. How will things turn out for Ashito?
