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This is a story that takes place in a certain prefecture in the north. In contrast to the few daylight hours it gets, its people are cheerful if a bit eccentric. Among them is Akita, a horned girl. A naturally argumentative and positive child, she lives happily every day. Spicing up her life is Asahi, her slightly odd childhood friend, and Komachi, a city girl who isn't quite used to life in the prefecture yet. There's also Akita's older sister, a member of the Girl Scouts... Wait, what's her name, again? Anyway, these cheerful and innocent girls will bring a smile to even zombies. Whenever you're feeling blue or tired... give it a read. With any luck, their antics will cheer you up.
From Storm in Heaven:In the future, a devastating war has forced mankind to take refuge under ground. While most of humanity is content, several people dream of the impossible–of seeing the sky. The Narise Corporation has been researching just how to do that, using a special robot, Ciel, who has the unique ability to conjure up images of the world above ground through his songs. However, when murder strikes the company, Ciel has to run away...but he won’t ever forget his promise to lead his friend to the sky.
A collection of 24 short stories about the troubles and stress at work faced by a wide variety of people, including a novelist, a dancer with a secret, a rabbit-powered bus driver and an elephant tamer.
Takeru Gakusha was a aspiring writer, until the universe exploration missions started, he decides to apply for these, but in the meantime he meets someone who changes his life by taking him in as a "Teacher" at the Yokai Carecenter, meets people who he will love for the rest of his life and is sent to space in the meantime, how will he communicate with the people on earth and will he survive this missions?
From Tokyopop: Unfulfilled love always ends tragically… or does it? Through different seasons and different eras in time, two lovers cross paths again and again, trying for that one chance to get it right. Different lives, at different points in history, but one thing remains constant—their love for each other. Spanning the beginning of history, WWII-era Japan, modern-day America, and the far distant future, these love stories remind us that love truly has no boundaries.
Contains 12 chapters: 9 short stories, and 3 Miss China stories. 1. The Universe is so Vast and Wonderful! 2. Leaving One Night by the Light of the Full Moon 3. To Invoke the Stars 4. Little Melancholy 5. The Young Scientists' Club 6. See You Later, God Willing 7. Marsy in the Land of Time 8. Natsuko 9. The Young Scientist Club on Mars 10. The Melancholy of China 11. China's Wish 12. China Strikes Back The Japanese edition collects all 12 chapters in one volume. The Spanish edition from Glénat released the full series in 3 volumes. The English edition from Dark Horse published only the Miss China chapters, first in comic format, then in one trade paperback.
A girl struggles to save her farm of domesticated giant ants.
1) The Blue-Bird's Whererabouts 2) Breaking Apart The Blue Sky Continuation of the first story. 3) Missing Our Piece Still the contnuation to the first story. 4) If I Hold You 5) Demon-guided Angel Invasion
This award-winning classic story focuses on Marlee, an agent of the space empire sent on a mission to track down the opera singer Eroccus. There are three intertwining narratives which span planets and hurl the readers back 30,000 years in time. The narrative takes place in a non-linear fashion, unfolding across space and time, before folding back upon itself at its culmination. Note: Winner of the Seiun Award (1983).
Tatsumiyajima is the central island in the middle of a small cluster of islands, in a sleepy backwater of the Japanese isles. Not much happens there, and the island's young people go to school knowing that their lives are likely to remain peaceful and undisturbed. Or so they have been taught... but the truth is different. The fate of mankind is on the line, and Tatsumiyajima is the last line of defense against a hostile and incomprehensible enemy. At the center of it all, fighting for Humanity's continued existence, is the giant robot Fafner, the dragon that guards this final treasure of mankind.
By a shiny day, the older brother of Shunta, a potter, made a beautiful clay doll looking like a girl and called Nene. She was so cute that Shunta couldn't help wishing that she was a real girl... and then a miracle happened, the next day, Nene was alive, moving and creating living dolls by kissing clay dolls. So begins the life of Nene the doll, a shiny life soon disturbed by a strange inventor, creator of a male android.
Hai hu, is a rich playboy during the day. At night, he is hero for the people, known as the Sea Tiger. He fights a world renown organization lead by Blue Dream. Blue Dream wanted to conquer the world and destroy everything on Earth so that it could be restored into an unpolluted state like it used to be. Full of action, drama and mind-twisting plot.
