Slice of Life - Page 294

In the fictional Tokyo suburb of Mahoro, Keisuke Tada (Eita) works as a "benriya" - a general problem solver for hire. One day in January, former classmate Haruhiko Gyoten (Ryuhei Matsuda) appears unannounced. Back in their schooldays Haruhiko was a quiet person who rarely talked. Now, Haruhiko is talkative. Both men are over 30 years old and divorced. Without giving an explanation, Haruhiko suddenly asks to spend the night at Keisuke's home. Keisuke turns down Haruhiko, but Haruhiko is persistant and finally Keisuke allows him to sleep over for one night. What Keisuke is unaware of is that Haruhiko plans to stay for more than one night. Eventually, Keisuke accepts Haruhiko as his assistant and they become involved in various cases involving an assortment of people from different walks of life.

Juntoku is a priest who inherited his family's temple, and the one he doesn't want to see the most right now appears during a monthly sutra copying session: a big, handsome man named Hasegawa Michi. Michi was a high school classmate, who then became his close friend, and then… the one he loved. And yet, whether he knows of Juntoku's feelings or not, Michi suddenly reduces the distance between them…!?

Published in Bi-weekly Magazine, Evening for “Ore no Reiwa Project”

Ayato Sanada, a serious first year student attending Okuma East High School, joins the photography club but one of it's members, a second year student named Kazuki Shindou, constantly distracts him with her embarrassing ideas and activities. How can he deal with such an uninhibited person?!

Manga pages featuring Genderless-chan and Top-chan from this art series by Kotarou Chiwa. (English)   Creator-approved translation by TheElusiveTaco.

A young man, who is living alone for the first time after finding employment. At his tiny, no-bath apartment he finds a landlord who looks like a little sister. She does the cooking and housework, so sometimes seems like a grandmother, but she also enjoys a normal middle school life with her friends.

Even now, right by your side, could someone you love be eating food that tastes better than your own?

In the spring of his last year of high school, Taiyou Ashie hopes to perform his first live performance at the culture festival. However, when all of his band members quit to study for university exams, he's left all alone. <br><br>Desperate to bring new members to the Light Music Club to perform with him, he meets Tsukimoto Hikari. He rejects Taiyou time and again, and his fingers freeze on the guitar even though Taiyou thinks Hikari can play better than him. Can these boys possibly navigate the painful line between “reality,” “fantasy,” and “dreams”?

“That makes a grand total of 100 thousand dollars.” After Tsukasa’s mom is killed in a car accident, her dad becomes addicted to drinking and gambling. One day, he disappears, leaving Tsukasa with a debt of 30 thousand dollars. There’s no way a student like Tsukasa could get her hands on that much money! Eventually, debt collector Reiko shows up, inviting herself into Tsukasa’s home and telling her to pay up. She offers the young girl a way of getting cash fast: by selling herself to Reiko. “Want to sell me your body?” Tsukasa agrees without really understanding what that entails, and when Reiko moves in with her, their relationship suddenly takes an unexpected turn…

Note: The Scanlators (September Scanlations) are only doing the main story of Saki and Jun from this series of three books (Otokogokoro, Koibitogokoro, and Koigokoro). Everything else unrelated to their story will be excluded. The number of chapters comprising their story in each book is as follows: Otokogokoro (2 chapters), Koibitogokoro (6 chapters + omake) entire book, and Koigokoro (2 chapters + omake).

Twenty year old Ogawa Akira is taking the medical school entrance exam for the third time when he is overwhelmed by anxiety and flees the testing room. He soon finds himself wandering the streets of Tokyo lost and exhausted. Then by chance a woman drops her earring, and he picks it up and returns it to her. He is dumbstruck by her beauty. Overhearing that her name is Kyoko and that she works at the nearby cabaret club, he promptly decides to get a job at the club, with the hope of a getting closer to her and maybe finding his place in the world. Adapted into a TV mini-series in 2014

The kingdom of Douwa, which is subdivided into 13 states, is a peaceful nation that's currently making arrangements to celebrate its monarch's 99th birthday. Each of these states is independently governed by an agency that's answerable only to an organization known as ACCA. Jean Otus is second-in-command of ACCA's infamous "inspection agency," which is in charge of monitoring all the other offices. The agency keeps track of ACCA activities across the kingdom and handles the long-term storage of data from each office. Jean often has to make inspection trips to various districts and monitor their situation and personnel... Which is why he's among the first to notice that some form of unrest may have begun to broil within the as-of-yet perfect system of governance.