Slice of Life - Page 272

"Don't waste your life on useless things!"<br>Two middle-aged men revived their youth souls and set to Shangai to meet the daughter of their late bandmate!

In the year 1947, the people of Shinjuku are down on their luck. With little money to buy food or necessities, some resort to gambling in order to survive. Traveling Tetsuya chooses to spend his time at Mahjong parlors where he is wiping the floor clean with his adversaries. However, Tetsuya meets the intensely-skilled Boushu-san, this is when he realizes that his skills are still lacking.

Unable to sleep or find satisfaction in his daily life, Yamori Kou begins exploring the city at night, where he meets a strange girl who offers to help his insomnia by sleeping beside him.

Hiyama Nachi has always hated that she didn't tan in the sun like her teammates in the softball club. The difference made her stand out and uncomfortable. Then she met a kind, quiet boy, and accidentally discovered his secret, a secret that made him different beyond what she could imagine!

short story 2 from The Bigger the Better - Heavenly Original Webtoon Anthology

Taken from Perfect Illusions: Yuma is having trouble warding off perverts every morning on her way to school. Her classmate Suwa starts going to school with her, in order to protect her, and the two become a couple. However, Yuma is also interested in her biology teacher who rides the same train as her every morning, and… The series is composed of coherent episodes that feature different characters. Kiyoku Yawaku won the 33rd Kodansha Manga Award for shoujo in 2009.

Picking up what appeared to be a runaway girl, next to the cigarette vending machine at a convenience store, Hira Katsuki, the protagonist, reluctantly takes her home to protect her, thinking it would be troublesome to leave her with a handmade cardboard tag around her neck that says "Please pick me up" and that she would be involved in a crime if left unattended. When he asks her why she ran away from home, she continues to joke around about it. The two gradually come to know each other through their conflicting conversations, and promise to live together for one week only. Living together while being unaccustomed to each other, the two of them…

The girl who was adopted by two mothers met her soulmate- another girl, when she was 16 years old. After dating for ten years, she decided to give herself to a man at the age of 28 … because she did not want to live this "abnormal life". Only after leaving her, did she finally understand the true meaning of love during those countless days and nights. However, can they still go back to the way things were?

Ikumi is a high school girl whose hobby is making stuffed toys. When she is rescued by Ayato, an elite student at her school, she decides to give him a handmade stuffed animal as a thank-you, but she witnesses him secretly throwing it away in the shadows. Then the "curse" of the stuffed animal is activated, and Ayato is turned into a doll...---Note: Originally a oneshot published in LaLa 6/2023 issue on April 24, 2023. Serialization started in LaLa 10/2023 issue on August 24, 2023.

A combination illustration and manga artbook featuring the ultramarine works and fantastical world of Sakatsuki Sakana. ---The few short manga stories included are a side stories that served as a precursor to Sakatsuki's eventual ongoing publication (https://mangadex.org/title/77c7d3eb-16e9-4ef2-81f0-4d3876a037c5/star-tripper-planetarium-ghost-travel). They are irrelevant to the main storyline, but follow 303's solo travels around Sakatsuki's starry universe.- 3.1 - Prologue- 3.2 - Listening to the Rain- 3.3 - Buying Sweets- 3.4 - Drinking Kikiriri- 3.5 - Seeing Space Fashion- 3.6 - Climbing the Tower- 3.7 - Making A Guess- 3.8 - Epilogue

A heart-warming story of a happy-go-lucky girl and a talking sloth living on a declining Earth.

Arika Mamiya, the face of the idol group Lyrical Trick, suddenly disappeared without a trace one day. Now it has been over a year since then and her disappearance remains a mystery. Meanwhile, in a bid to promote the group, LT decides to hold an audition for the third generation members. Among the candidates is a blond girl named Nana Miyajima, who stands out from the rest of the crowd. It turns out she is actually Arika's best friend who has infiltrated the idol group to uncover the truth behind Arika's disappearance!