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Japanese teenager Yota Moteuchi has a problem, he's in love with his classmate Moemi, but can't bring himself to ask her out. Even with the help of his friend and high school heart-throb Takashi, his reputation as the dateless wonder and his lack of courage are a curse that seems impossible to overcome. Now, in the midst of the all-too-short winter vacation from school, Yota sees his chance to win Moemi's heart. Little does he know that his fate waits just around the corner, and the name of the one who will change his life is... Ai.
When Futaro was five years old, his father left his home. Futaro's mother got sick in poverty. Also, Futaro has a ugly face, like Quasimodo. He's been discriminated against and treated like trash by almost everyone in his neighborhood. Finally, his mother dies because they can't afford medical treatment. Burying his mother's body, Futaro makes up his mind to do anything for money...
Anthology of short stories based on the Digital Devil Saga: Avatar Tuner video game.
Mikan Sakura grew up with her grandfather on the countryside of Japan. When her best friend, Hotaru, transfers to a prestigious school in Tokyo, Mikan follows her. The school is actually an elite Academy for gifted people with "Alices," an ability that is unique depending on the individual being. Once Mikan arrives to the gates of the school, she encounters an Alice teacher named Narumi, gets enrolled due to a series of events, and is told that she possesses a rare Alice. Despite her initial view of the so-called greatness to the school, Mikan slowly discovers that beneath the grand facade of the Academy, there is a never-ending stream of lies and buried secrets. The school's increasingly manipulative and sinister actions towards her make it a dangerous place to be. Little does Mikan know that her enrollment in Alice Academy set the gears in motion to an even greater tragedy.
A group of employees from the Fujitani Pharmaceutical Company are on a hiking trip. After the company suffered a crisis, the CEO hopes to improve teamwork and morale among new and old employees with this trip. Not everyone is as excited as he is. Unfortunately for them, they soon find themselves having to deal with problems that they weren't prepared for. What's going to happen to these employees? Will they fall in love with hiking? Will they be able to work together, get along well, and bring the company back to its feet? Read and find out in this heartwarming story of adventure, friendship, and teamwork.
Rudolf is the Crown Prince of the House of Hapsburg, a dynasty that has borne the title of Holy Roman Emperor and has held power equal to the Church since the Middle Ages. Ever since their experience together during a lakeside incident, Rudolf finds himself bound by fate to an orphan boy called Alfred... Introducing Tomoko Kato's epic and dramatic historical romance.
In the final battle against the Demon Cult, the Black Serpent leader Jeonghwa was betrayed by the Murim Alliance, losing all her comrades. Barely surviving, she swears to eliminate both the Demon Cult and the Murim Alliance who drove her comrades to their deaths. “Heavens! If justice truly exists… grant me the opportunity to avenge my fallen comrades!”
Nagisa once lived in a small fishing village; but, after a long-ago tragedy, he moved as far away from it as he could. After collapsing from overworking himself in the city, however, he comes back to the village, to the memories and people he escaped from, and to Kaito, the only one he never wanted to meet again…
After dying of sickness at 15, I had been reincarnated into the world of the MMORPG “War Chronicles of Desgarde”! The help feature taught me the basic summary of this world, but there seems to be additional secrets about me, aside from my reincarnation. Let’s survive in this Isekai world to become the character I played in my previous life, a necromancer! (Wait, there’s a Necromancer King? What’s that?!)
“Iron Maiden” is an instrument of torture modelled after Mother Mary's form. The interior is full of long nails, and people who are enclosed in it would be pierced to death. But the “Iron Maiden” that exists nowadays is simply a counterfeit made by us based off of old tales. The “maiden” who possesses a gentle, loving face as well as a violent “body”... Did the “Iron Maiden” really exist in the past?
Touki Futahara is the younger sister of Iori Fuyutsuki's childhood friend and an incoming student at their high school. She's a self-proclaimed little devil and "the girl most envied by seniors." Now she's waiting at Touki's door every morning. "Senpai! Give me your hand! Let's hold hands to stay warm!" But Iori knows that Touki's actually more like a shy puppy who blushes at the slightest touch. All the bold teasing is just an act, and she's feeling nervous inside.
(Rainbow Field, a location within the manga) is a heavy book. Its thick black cover and roughly 300-page girth are a sign of things to come: this is a black, bleak story, complicated and convoluted. It is a story that you can read again and again, and notice new things each time. It is a story that you need to read again and again to puzzle together. It is a story heavy with symbolism and maddeningly intricate. Suzuki is a troubled boy. He's lived with uncaring foster parents for most of his life, alienated from the other kids at his school, owner of a cynical, unhappy mentality. Komatsuzaki is a violent, unpredictable bully whose head trauma causes him to act in mysterious, inexplicable ways. Arakawa is a no-nonsense, normal girl who pines after Komatsuzaki but can never have him. A teacher with just one working eye. A mother who committed suicide. A daughter in an endless coma. Attempted rape, murder, extortion, sexual deviance, and a freakish explosion in the butterfly population. All of these elements are whirled together in a story spanning 10 years, a tale of blackness, pain and apocalypse. And maybe just a bit of hope and redemption. It's a spiritual cross between the misanthropic suburban malevolence of Kyoko Okazaki's Rivers Edge and the eerie mysticality of Donnie Darko. (taken from Mangascreener)
