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Park SungAh is a highschool student by day and shaman by night. In the shaman's eyes, the people who are close to death walk upside-down… And one of these people is her crush!
Hiro has two loves: baseball and porn. But due to an elbow injury he gives up baseball choosing a school with no baseball team. His childhood friend Hikari attends a different school with baseball ace Hideo and the two wish Hiro had not given up baseball. Hiro joins the soccer team but meets Haruka, a very clumsy girl, who is manager of the unofficial baseball club. When the soccer team challenges the baseball club to a game, with hopes of humiliating them, the baseball club nearly loses until Hiro, disgusted by the soccer team`s arrogance, switches to the baseball club.
Parker Wilson finds an abandoned Akita puppy at the train station, and develops an unbreakable bond with him. Based on the true story of Hachiko, this manga follows inspiration from the 2009 American movie, Hachi: A Dog's Tale.
A strange reunion with his first love. Stowed away deep in his heart The continuation of that summer break ―― Set in Tanegashima Where the past and present will intertwine A brilliantly heart-wrenching adolescent love story.
From Attractive Fascinante: A forbidden relationship between a sensei and a student connected by chocolates and jazz, a couple who has yet to see the importance of each other's existence as a blessing, a May-December relationship connected by Millefeuille and strawberries, one who struggled to accept his own sexual preference, another who's trying to find peace with himself while carrying the burden of work, love and family and one who finally decided to go for what he wanted. 6 beautiful stories to bring you through the ups and downs of life and love, complete with humor and sweetness.
Luna is seventeen years old, doesn't have a boyfriend, and is getting crazy about it. When a old friend, two years younger than her, comes back into her life, everything will change.
From Viz: Takemoto lives in a run-down student apartment, where his greatest worry is when he'll next be able to afford to eat meat and whether he'll get to class on time. Although he's away from home and living on his own, Takemoto is far from finished growing up. Along with his crazy cast of friends, Morita, Mayama, Yamada, and Hagumi, Takemoto sets out to discover life and his true self. Was adapted into a live action film in 2006 and a live action tv series. In 2003, this manga won the 27th Kodansha Manga Award for shōjo.
Risa Ito, who considers herself an urban manga artist, actually grew up deep in the mountains! Food, vehicles, events, dialects, customs, Jomon pottery... The strongest Deep Japan is here! A heart-wrenching autobiographical comic brought to you by “Native Countryside” Risa!
From Attractive Fascinante: Kijimuna, an Okinawan fairy who lives in a banyan tree. About the same height as a young kid, with reddish skin and hair. They will come down from the tree and do naughty things to humans at night. You’ll get happiness if you nurture it and the fairy will never betray you. Tomohisa bought a potted plant that comes with such a resident, Kite. When feelings gradually develop between them, Tomohisa’s senpai and ex-lover, Kazunori, wants to reconcile with Tomohisa. Will Kite try to stop it from happening or will he let Tomohisa choose his own happiness?
From MangaHelpers: A+ student Ichinose Taiyo is the brains of his class. His grades are always high, he's generally liked by his classmates and everyone thinks he will get into a good college then onto a financially well-off career. But his life long dream that no one else, not even his family, knows about is to be a manga author, which realistically speaking has near impossible odds of working out. The reasons why he keeps it a secret is because he'd rather not try if he's more than likely to fail and also because he doesn’t want to end up like his classmate Anezaki Runa. Runa is also aspiring to be a manga author but is obsessed with it to the point where everyone keeps a distance from her because of her anti-social and weird habits. But one day, Runa finds out about Taiyo’s secret and forces him to pursue his dream. Taiyo learns that throughout his life, he has cared too much about public perception which will continue to limit his ability as a manga author unless he opens himself up even if it means rejection. With Runa’s help, he learns to believe in his dream and show his true potential. [vyc]
Barefoot Gen recounts the bombing of Hiroshima from the perspective of a young boy, Gen, and his family. But the book's themes (the physical and psychological damage ordinary people suffer from war's realities) ring chillingly true today. Gen and his family have long been struggling without much food, money or medicine, but despite hardships, they try to maintain a semblance of normal life. The adults are exhausted and near despair; the children take air raids and starvation more or less in stride. Nakazawa, a Hiroshima survivor, effectively portrays the strain of living in this environment and shows how efforts to stay upbeat in dire circumstances sometimes manifest as manic, irrational humor. The story offers some optimism: characters perform acts of self-sacrifice for the sake of neighbors and loved ones (e.g., when Gen's pregnant mother becomes ill from malnutrition, he and his brother pose as orphans and perform in the streets, throwing the money over the walls of their home so they won't get caught). Underneath this can-do attitude are the parents' deep guilt and sense of helplessness. When the children clamor ecstatically over a scrap of food, the parents dissolve in shame and grief. The art is sharply drawn and expressive, and the narrative has such a natural rhythm, it's easy to get pulled into the family's life, making the cataclysm readers know awaits them all the more real, intimate and difficult to take. Despite its harrowing nature, this work is invaluable for the lessons it offers in history, humanity and compassion.
The highs and lows of a mother raising her autistic son.