The closing stages of Sengoku (Warring States) Japan. A setting commonly explored in Japanese manga through vivid scenes of gory battles, samurai, and feats of bravery, honour, and loyalty. Iwaaki Hitoshi dares to go against the popular grain by not focusing on the 3 famous unifiers, but by depicting stories of a society in transition. Rapidly changing cultural norms and class expectations pit the old versus the young, the war-weary versus the war-mongers, and the parochial versus the foward-thinking. The first story, "Snow Ridge," explores the changing role of samurai and provinces while the second story, "Sword Dance," deals with kendo's evolution from warfare to art.
Company employee Tokiwa lives with his cousin Asagi. The two of them were living their normal, comfortable lives until one day, intoxicated with liquor on the night of Tokiwa's birthday, they began to reveal their deepest secrets..."The truth is, I remember my past lives.""The truth is, I'm a time traveler." A science-fantasy tale in which the fates of a reincarnation and a time traveler are intertwined!
The life of daimyo Uesugi Kenshin commanded authority and fear during the Sengoku period of Japanese history. In this retelling, the powerful lord is reimagined as a woman.
A coda to the OVA and novel of the same name, this six-chapter manga gives us a deeper glimpse into the back-stories of Rei Fukai, James Bukhar, Tomahawk John, and other members of the F.A.F. However, some of the details about the characters' pasts and relationships appear to deviate from the sequence of events as seen in the anime. Therefore, this manga should only be read after having first watched the anime or read the novel, and treated as an alternate story of sorts.
From Midnight Scans: My place has always been next to you. Yukihime really likes her childhood friend, Dai-chan. But she's treated as a kid by the "older" and "guardian" Dai-chan. The sad Yukihime finally gets into a big fight with Dai-chan. He tells her coldly that he won't interfere anymore. Yukihime decides to apologize and express her feelings, but...?! Includes three other short stories: • Yume Koi Chiho comes off as a cold person, but actually she is just shy. She likes Tomohiro from her class but is too timid to talk with him properly. So when Tomohiro confesses to her under hypnosis, Chiho is secretly overjoyed but tells him to snap outta it and runs away. But the following day, he keeps talking to her?! - Shoujo Crusade • Kiken na Kyouikujisshuu Toudou Natsu believes that love is fated and hopes to find it in the new trainee treacher, but to her dissapointment he turned out to be a plain guy, but wait...what is this? behind those thick glasses is someone totally different. Is it someone whom Toudou wanted to have fated meeting with...? • Himitsu no!? Fuuki Iinchou Mai is in love with the Discipline Comittee Chairman, Yuujirou. She always breaks the rules so that he noticed her till one day she coincidentally knows his secret in pretending in school. Thus, as return in keeping the secret he has to go out with her but what this act turns to is...?
[From Baka-Updates] Coming in an omnibus form, it's a side story of Toribako House! The words you longed for, the many things you held dear, everything and everyone, right here!! A girl who has no luck with guys, a weak-spirited otaku boy, a natural lady-killer, a middle-aged couple, a distant relationship -- everyone keeps looking for happiness!?
Kanade is an honest working janitor and Ryo is a gigolo living a self-indulgent lifestyle. The two are childhood friends and share a secret they can’t tell anyone. They have a dependent relationship where they’ll dirty their hands for the other, but what happens when they both end up as murderers…?
From FCTranslations: Azuki, a young girl whose father is the president of an entertainment corporation, is always out of luck when it comes to dating. It seems like every boy she had dated before all tried to use her as a bridge to get into the world of media. So when Azuki met the guy of her dreams, who also happened to be a contestant in the audition her father set up, she wasn't so sure what to do anymore. *Contains in the 4th volume, Juliet Club: An idol in a famous group tries to escape from his fans by studying in the library. There, he meets a girl who he mistakes as one of his fans and tries to send her away. It turns out that the girl actually doesn't know that he is an idol. They continue to study together in the library, neither of them knowing the other's name, while love slowly blooms between them... *Also another story titled We, the Demon, and Christmas Every year at the time of Christmas, the demon appears, and the Angel twins intend to catch him.
Fuguno Masuo is a hapless 24 year-old businessman who is unlucky in love, He's never even had a girlfriend! After consulting a fortune teller, Masuo believes he'll never have a chance in love. All that changes when he meets the beautiful Nagisa Shiozaki at a marriage interview pub, who herself has had the same poor luck with guys. Now he'll do anything to woo the girl, but he'll have to fend off other suitors and the affections of a co-worker, all while keeping himself out of awkward situations that always end badly for him. Originally penned by YAMAHANA Noriyuki under the pen name HANAKO.
From PresenceDear: Marika is impulsive and hates to lose. She's also a woman who falls in love easily. She falls for a sexy older man, a cool classmate, and a beautiful wealthy man. And the man she chooses in the end...? A romantic love story, from the love of her student days to her marriage.
Kirari Miyamoto is absolutely ecstatic now that she is going to be the writer Mitsuru Kajiura's new editor. But, when she finally goes to see the prince-like figure of charm and charisma she had envisioned for years, she is disillusioned by the uninspired, divorced 38-year-old in front of her. Vowing to help Mitsuru recover that gorgeous inner world she loved so much, she says she will do anything to help his words come alive again... even if that means undressing herself in front of him and allowing him to touch every corner of her body...!!
