From the author of “Sensei’s White Lie” comes a new, shocking piece. Kaji Ritsuko, an author of short stories, finds herself unable to write. On a certain day, a remnant from Ritsuko’s past reemerges. Aoi, a male friend she used to completely confide in, appears in a dream and asks her, “Your life… is that really it?”. The next morning, Ritsuko is awakened by a phone call. Aoi has committed suicide. The glimmer of a forgotten dream, the day-to-day of a modern couple, the death of someone irreplaceable… A life of “loss” that she had always averted her eyes from begins to move…
Saki comes from a poor family and leads a boring life filled with constant studying. She worries about her relationship with her parents not ending well and any lingering backlash caused by their fights. One day, she happens upon a group of troublemakers who pressures her into smoking a cigarette. Somehow, her relationship with them turns out to be more pleasant than expected. The time she spends with them makes her alive and revitalized. However, this is only the beginning of her unfortunate life. A tragic suspense story about a young girl falling from grace.
Wandering the packed tunnels of Shinjuku Station, famous author Yosuke Mikura makes a strange discovery: a seemingly homeless drunk woman who can quote French poetry. Her name is Barbara. He takes her home for a bath and a drink, and before long Barbara has made herself into Mikura's shadow, saving him from egotistical delusions and jealous enemies. But just as Mikura is no saint, Barbara is no benevolent guardian angel, and Mikura grows obsessed with discovering her secrets, tangling with thugs, sadists, magical curses and mythical beings - all the while wondering whether he himself is still sane. + Rurouni Kenshin manga + Heroman manga
The \"Noisy Fairy Squadron, a secret unit under the direct control of Kycilia Zabi of the Principality of Zeon, is deployed somewhere in the North American continent. With only female members, they fight in the One Year War against the Earth Federation Forces. They are forced to face the unreasonableness of war and the bonds with their comrades...
The story follows antique store worker Imagawa, aging doctor Kuonji, and writer Sekiguchi, who are all fascinated by mysterious events happening in Hakone, including a series of murders of Buddhist monks and a little girl in a kimono who wanders through the mountains. Tesso no Ori is an adaptation of the fourth novel of Kyogoku Natsuhiko's Hyakki Yakou series.
The story revolves around three teenagers: Nomiya Tomomi, a high school dropout, Togawa Kiyoharu, an ex-sprinter who now plays wheelchair basketball and Takahashi Hisanobu, a popular leader of the high school's basketball team who now finds himself a paraplegic after an accident. Real features a cast of characters who find themselves being marginalized by society, but are all united by one common feature: a desire to play basketball, with no place to play it in. Nomiya, being a high school dropout, has no future in his life. Togawa, being a difficult personality, finds himself constantly feuding with his own teammates. Takahashi, once a popular team leader, now finds himself being unable to move from the chest down. Real also deals with the reality of physical disabilities, and the psychological inferiority that the characters struggle against. The characters break through their own psychological barriers bit by bit.
"Hyung!" Hae-gyeom fits perfectly like a puzzle in Jihyun's life, who's lost his younger brother, Jihae, during their childhood.One day, Jihyun starts to feel a little strange in Hae-gyeom's behavior, whom he sees as a younger brother. So complex emotions begin to emerge. One day, Hae-gyeom said, "I'll do everything I can to make you see me as only me, no one else.""...."This confession dissipated the childhood memory Jihyun associated with Hae-gyeom, forcing him to face reality, "Am I not who you want?" Hae-gyeom asked."It's not about that, just keep being yourself. And nothing will make me give up on you."+
.Three years ago, the operation leader Jiang Ting made an error in judgment, a chain explosion occurred at the scene, and there were heavy casualties in the unit. Three years later, he, supposed to have died in duty, returned to the world, doing everything he could to bring forth the bloody, bizarre truth. Heroic souls resting in death, the ones behind it all closely approaching, sentiments built fighting side by side in blood and fire"I used all of my luck in this life, to exchange for you. Thank you for bringing me back to this world, Yan Xie."
In case you don't know, this is a remake version of Real Account, not season 2. In a world driven by fictionalized friendship, courtesy of the program named "Real Account", the table suddenly turns, and the cybernetic world turns real! How will they survive?
2nd grade junior high school kid Shirai Sachi (14-years old) gets tutored by the beautiful and easy-going woman Chabatake Nana (21-years old). Although she slacks off when tutoring, actually not helping his studies at all, for Sachi it's all fine and dandy. Being alone together with a hot, older woman in his own bedroom, frolicking around, unintentionally revealing neathage, or just lying down on his bed, with her bare long legs or the cleavage of her ample breasts in perfect view. Who could complain? It's an adolescent boy's fantasy fulfilled!
“Dad loves someone. Someone who isn't you, mom.” After hearing her daughter's shocking words, a battle with her husband begin! Kasumi married Yosuke, whom she admired since her school days. However, she finds it difficult to get along with Masaya and Emi, who are Yosuke's friends. Ever since Masaya moved to Tokyo on a job away from home, Emi, who has come to visit frequently, seems to be closer to Yosuke...? When Kasumi finally decides to divorce Yosuke, he takes an overbearing attitude toward their daughter...!
A "what-if" alternate history in which the Japanese Self-Defense Forces (JSDF) fight a desperate struggle against the Soviet Union after it launches a surprise invasion on Japan during heightened Cold War tensions.*This is the original story ("Tokyo Wars") as published in 1991, not the 2008 re-release under the name "Raid on Tokyo", though there are few differences to note other than the title.