Slice of Life - Page 140

Suzuki Saburo is the typical isekai MC. A high school boy who started to get into cooking after getting an injury during baseball, he suddenly found himself in another world one day. With the only thing on his person being his custom knife, he wandered a desolate prairie for three days before falling unconscious. <br><br>When he woke up, he found that a nomadic tribe of elves took him in. However, there’s one big problem — the tribe has terrible cooking. Can Saburo help teach the nomadic elves the true meaning of deliciousness?

Poor Mugi Tadano! Heartbroken after his girlfriend moves away, he takes a summer job at his friend Kazuki's beachside snack bar/hotel on a tropical island. It seems like the perfect plan - until he meets Yuu, who might just be the cutest person that Mugi has ever seen.

"I don't think anyone will want to be friends with me..." is the thought that has always run through Nayul's head.One day, she's unexpectedly reunited with Seoyoon, a boy from her past, when he transfers to her class. Nayul and Seoyoon used to be best friends when they were younger, but after several misunderstandings and unknown reasons, he began to avoid her, still treating her coldly upon their reunion.Will Nayul's foggy world ever brighten one day?

Within the winding streets of Kyoto's geisha district, there lives a 16 year old girl named Kiyo. After failing to become a Maiko, an apprentice traditional Japanese performer, Kiyo works as the caterer for her troupe. This is the story of her daily life.

\"I don\'t know if I want to rap. I don\'t have anything I want to sing about...Or anything I want to say.\" Oji Yukito is a 17-year-old drug dealer living in the desperate environment of the streets of Osaka, suppressing his emotions each and every day. He lost his drug-addicted mother and his beloved sister when he was a child, leaving him an orphan. Despite his loneliness, he has a best friend who believes in him. In the midst of continuing to sell drugs, enduring beatings from his boss, and bleeding...Just what is it that lies in his heart?

Even in this day and age of the 21st century, many gods live amongst humanity. Mayu is a cat god who is the master at finding lost objects, but she is very lazy and all she does all day is eat, sleep, and play video games. Mayu lives with her caretaker, Yuzu, who operates a pottery store while at the same time doing everything for Mayu. The pair meets other gods in their daily lives and have exciting adventures.

\"One young salaryman who had been using camping in a plug-in hybrid car that used both electricity and gasoline as an escape plan suddenly finds himself transported to another world with his car! He\'ll start his life anew in this different world!\"

The story follows the life of a teenage boy named \"Mesh,\" so-called for his unique \"mesh\"-colored hair: blonde with silver strands on the sides. It begins with a scene where Mesh, after being beaten, escapes from a mob and encounters Milon, a forger and painter. Mesh ends up staying at Milon’s house, and the two form an unlikely bond as they navigate life together. Each chapter is a poetic blend of crime, peaceful everyday moments, or the vibrant nightlife of artists in a fictionalized Paris. \"Mesh\" is regarded as one of Hagio Moto’s defining works, marking a pivotal shift in her artistic style. It was her first series to adopt a more realistic look while retaining the ethereal beauty characteristic of 1970s shōjo art. The story ventures into more mature themes while continuing to explore Hagio\'s recurring motifs, such as parent-child relationships and adolescence.

This is a story about the love and hardships of a 29-year old guy named Makoto Suda. Makoto is an ordinary office worker in every sense but one: in front of Takashi, his stepchild, he has disguised himself as a woman and played the role of a beautiful mother. Leading this life of a “fatherless family”, for some reason he falls in love with a woman. One morning he happens to see her on a crowded train but…

Kohaku is a girl who spent her junior high school years as a loner and dreams of living a fulfilling life in high school. However, on her first day of school she falls down the stairs and ends up hospitalized for a month! This means that everyone besides her has already formed a group of friends at school... In order to avoid being a loner, she summons up the courage and calls out to the only odd-numbered group in her class, but it seems that they are high up in the school caste system, and are actually involved in a blood-splattered love triangle with a non-human...! A high tension high school comedy about escaping being the class loner!

From Seven Seas: Sachi and her boyfriend Takara are a young couple in high school. They go to school together, hang out, and even engage in the more intimate side of dating. However, after a recent evening of sex, Sachi gets the feeling that something isn’t right and buys a pregnancy test. Later, in the bathroom of a family restaurant far from her home, she sees the two red lines that will change her life forever. A tender and honest look at the realities of teen pregnancy. Note: Won the 47th Annual Kodansha Manga Award for Shoujo in 2023 and the Eisner Awards in the Best Publication for Teens category in 2024.