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Iwao Asakura, a.k.a. Gen, president of Asakura Corporation, a subcontractor demolition company, regains his passion as a world-class demolition engineer when Keiko Otsuki, an employee of major general contractor Sanyu Heavy Machinery Lease, brings him a demolition job. He accepted her invitation to join the \"Sanyu Group\" and established the company \"Sanyu Blasting Co. Later, he added an old acquaintance, Roku Iwashita a.k.a. \"Roku the Tugger\", a wooden construction specialist, Hideo Tokita a.k.a. Hide, a crane engineer who was about to commit suicide due to debt, and Hikaru Nakahara, a truck driver and former TV personality, to his team. However, in order to become \"Japan\'s No. 1 demolition company\" that is not bound by the traditions of bid-rigging that persist in the construction industry, he leaves the Sanyu Group and reestablishes himself as Itsumo Blowup Co.

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A mysterious boy lies naked and unconscious on the street. The story begins when ninth grader, Ai Oomori, and his third grader brother, Seigi, find him. This boy has no memory of the past and doesn\'t even know his real name. He is like a little baby. Ai names this boy Makoto and takes him back home. Makoto has superhuman physical powers and can even recover quickly from injuries. Who is Makoto? Makoto is easygoing and not at all bothered by everyone\'s curiosity. Until that is he is pursued by a cruel woman who disguises herself as a spider. A neo sapiens, this spider woman has been dispatched by a mystery organization called, \"Love & Peace.\" Her mission is to bring back Makoto dead or alive. Source: MU

A collection of five short stories set between Universal Century 0079-0093 and features the return of Frederick Brown introduced in the original Mobile Suit Gundam: Record of MS Wars.

From Viz: Kamui Shiro is a young man who was born with the power to decide the fate of the Earth itself–a destiny he can barely bring himself to believe. But as other players in the prophecy begin to gather around him–the \"Seven Seals,\" with the power to protect the Earth, and the \"Seven Harbingers,\" who are fated to destroy it–he has no choice but to come to terms with his fate.

In 1992, Shintaro Kago began publishing what was supposed to be the first full-length manga of his career. Unfortunately, the magazine that published it, Bandai\'s Cyber Comix, was discontinued in October of that year and the manga remains unfinished to this day. Only three chapters exist. Kago did recycle the basic concept of a girl able to switch between our reality and a cyberspace-like spiritual realm in a later one-shot (ataraxia) and an even later different full-length work (Six Consciousnesses Thought Changing Ataraxia).

Manga adaptation of 1980s. Five hundred years ago, Rudolf von Goldenbaum united the disparate governments of humankind and established a mighty human empire, a tribute to his own greatness that stretched across the galaxy. Demanding loyalty and discipline, Rudolf created an order designed to long outlast his own rule; but all human works fade in time. Today, the decaying empire faces the threat of the Free Planets Alliance, and military leaders on both sides jockey for power in the face of a seemingly inevitable conflict. On the side of the empire, the young general Reinhard von Lohengramm sees war as opportunity, and the empire as soft clay ready for his own sculpting. On the side of the alliance, would-be historian Yang Wen-li would like nothing better than to live out his days in peace - but times of war have little use for men who waste their days studying the mistakes of the past. Circumstances will make heroes and villains of both these men, as they write new history one blood-splattered page at a time. ---

The series began as a fairly humorous and lighthearted satire of Japan\'s teenage delinquent-gang subculture told from the perspective of Matsushita Tadashi (who also narrates these early Karate Bu stories), a 2nd year student at Kangokou High and a constant target of Kangokou\'s numerous bullies who beat him up routinely after school. He is almost always accompanied by his best friend Saitou Takaki, who is also constantly harassed. As the pair grow increasingly tired of being victimized they decide to join the titular Karate Club, which is notorious throughout Osaka\'s youth gangs for training and producing the city\'s most hardened and toughest teenage thugs while maintaining the facade of a legit school sports club. But when they join the club, they find themselves picked on just as much if not worse by the club\'s current members. But as the story progresses they grow to be increasingly capable fighters. Along with the manga\'s change in attitude and central character, the various teenage fighters throughout the series grew increasingly stronger and even began to tap into superhuman ki abilities, putting Osu!! Karate Bu in the company of other similar epic Shōnen fighting manga such as Yu Yu Hakusho, Dragon Ball, and Fist of the North Star. Osu!! Karate Bu was wildly popular in its native Japan, but is otherwise almost completely unknown in most other countries. It spawned a four episode OVA mini-series released over a period of two years from 1990-1992, a 1990 live action movie, and a 1994 Super Famicom fighting game.

Frederick F. Brown is a mobile suit trainee in one of Zeon\'s schools, but always had a hard time keeping up with everyone. Ten months after training hard, he\'s thrust into actual combat for the first time together with Zeon\'s declaration of war. He becomes witness to the horrors and atrocities associated with war first hand as he fights to stay alive.

\"My name is Gen Kurosu, and as long as I stand, the Victory Flag will never fly over the heads of the Red Army! The machines roar and blood sprays! My name is Gen Kurosu!\" Motocross is a sport in which contestants race for fame on steel horses through rugged, rough terrain. The essence of motocross is the struggle against the harsh nature and oneself. This is the story of a lone warrior who, despite being called \"Stupid Don Quixote,\" stands in the way of the \"Red Army,\" the most powerful motocross team in Japan, which has achieved an undefeated record of 150 victories in a single year. This is the memorable first serial publication of manga master Tetsuo Hara!

*Reads from left to right.* A collection of poem manga and full color manga filled with warmth and childhood innocence. Includes: - **Rosebud Rosie** - **The Bright Gray House** - **The Child in the Box** - **My Neighbor Ippei-kun** - **The Light in August**: A short poem manga about a girl and a game of hide-and-seek she played when she was younger. - **Etchings of the Seasons**

(from ebookjapan): Lily has had the same dream over and over since her mother died when she was six years old. Now 17 years old and she still has the same dream, but on a trip, the huge tower in the fog that she saw in her dream appears in reality.