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“Iron Maiden” is an instrument of torture modelled after Mother Mary's form. The interior is full of long nails, and people who are enclosed in it would be pierced to death. But the “Iron Maiden” that exists nowadays is simply a counterfeit made by us based off of old tales. The “maiden” who possesses a gentle, loving face as well as a violent “body”... Did the “Iron Maiden” really exist in the past?
Since birth, Huang Fu Jie has been viewed as a monster. His sorrowful childhood turn him into a tricky and cunning man. Eunuch Zhang Ping is his only source of comfort. The unloved prince and the intelligent eunuch are set off to create big waves in the battle for power, reversing the heaven and earth.
A graveyard in contemporary Israel has an unlikely visitor. The elderly gentleman from Japan, a former news correspondent, lays a bouquet of flowers at the tomb of one Adolf Kamil. For he remembers the tale of three Adolfs: Kamil, a Jew who grew up in Kobe, Japan, the son of a baker; Kaufmann, only child of a German consul stationed at that port city and his Japanese wife; and the Fuhrer with whom the Far Eastern nation made common cause. ---- **Won the 10th Kodansha Manga Award for General Manga in 1986, shared with Makoto Kobayashi's What's Michael?**---**Volumes 372-376 of the Osamu Tezuka Complete Works**
‘Escort’, refers to paid warriors, their targets of protection, are also referred to targets that are wanted by the government. On the eve of civil chaos during the last years of Sui dynasty, with the rise of a reign of terror around the country, various peoples’ feelings of grudge and animosity develop…
The story begins during the Sung Dynasty of ancient China. The country is in great chaos due to the infamous Jin Kang Rebellion. Fearing the possible destruction that is sure to ensue, Concubine Liu tearfully entrusts the care of her baby daughter, Princess Yi Fu, to a common citizen named Tang Hui. Tang Hui immediately escapes with the princess to the south. And so, Princess Yi Fu's whereabouts become a mystery. Now, ten years later, the Tang have returned to power and the great family wishes for all exiled family members to return. But Zi Li is happy with her life. She knows that returning means giving up her love; for a peasant could never court a princess. And courtship between a princess and a palace warrior is equally frowned upon. But that does little to quell the fire that burns inside Zhong Lu,a famed warrior charged with the task of finding and restoring the princess to the throne.
From AQUA Scans: The strange course of newly-wed life between the death princess and her tyrant husband... Sequel to Shinigami-Hime no Saikon.
Part 1: Hiroshima, 1955. Ten years after the city was consumed by a scorching flash of light, a woman's soul is still deeply shaken by the earth-shattering explosion that devastated her home and changed her life forever... A family from Hiroshima struggles to come to terms with their survival of the atomic bombing of their city. The protagonist is Minami Hirano, about 20 years of age. Part 2: Set some decades later, the niece of Minami Hirano is bewildered by her father's mysterious disappearances. She and a friend follow him to discover what he is doing. The main theme of this is historic manga concerns the question what impact the war and the atomic bombing had on the most vulnerable. Fumiyo Kôno examines this question in her outstanding book—an award-winning, widely-discussed masterpiece!
From Bliss: Arthur and Laurent were childhood friends that grew up together, but they had the difference of a noble and servant status. As they grew older, they came to understand the difference in their stations. Although both of them have affections for each other, such feelings could not be accepted...
Izumi Inaba, a modern high school student, slips back in time to the end of the Edo period and becomes the Shinsengumi's servant. A coming-of-age ensemble drama that interweaves patriots at the end of the Tokugawa shogunate, modern cuisine, and an unexpected encounter that transcends time begins here!
From Udon Entertainment: The Grim Peddler waltzes through fairy tales, giving the stories' inhabitants their hearts' desires. But benefactors beware, for his gifts don't always turn out quite as expected! Classic fables like Sleeping Beauty, Hansel and Gretel, The Frog Prince and more are turned on their side through the unexpected reversals and terrifying twists of this all-new series.
The symbol of beauty and money, Tatiana Cartien, the most eligible bachelorette of the Freya Empire. The despair of being betrayed by her trusted fiancé lasted only a moment, as who could've known a bigger shock would happen. "I'll only endure for a few days, getting discovered in an idiotic manners of all ways." To think that her family, who she believed was on her side, knew her fiancé's nature. Tatiana threatened to never get married, and her mother, who once coddled her, abandoned her. "If you say you don't want to then I guess you should leave this house." "..." "Of course, you should leave behind everything I've given to you." The time she has left is one week. If she can't find someone worth marrying, she'll be kicked out onto the streets with nothing. Just when she thought, "Is this the end?" one person came to mind! Kainel Towncent, an illegitimate child who had once been treated with contempt, who then rose from mercenary to the hailed war hero of Freya in 3 years. A road with a dead end, there's nothing left to lose. In order to survive in this grim world, grabbing the hand of the devil is enough. "Tatiana Cartien. No matter what anyone says from now on, you're the lady of Towncent. If you come to me with an offer of marriage first, then you need to take responsibility until the end." --- As the beloved daughter of a viscountess and the fiancée of a duke, Tatiana Cartienne was the belle of high society. But when she refuses to marry after discovering the duke's infidelity, she begins to see that she was simply a pawn in her family's power play. In her attempt to break free, she turns to Kynell Townsend, a war hero who was once humiliated by the viscountess for his attempt to woo Tatiana. With title and fortune out of the picture, will they be able to reset their love story?
Beautiful as a flower, delicate as a young blossom, the ruler of a nation accidentally slips and falls through the passages of time to the present world. By strange coincidence he ends up in the body of a famous superstar with all eyes on him! How does the emperor, who is straight as a pen, become bent as coiled incense after traveling through time?! Read to find out!
