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An office worker man in Japan gets entangled into a children trafficking business run by a group of kids when his daughter suddenly vanishes one day.
Kidou Ryodan Hachifukujin is set in the near future where Japan has been subjugated by China and now fights against its former ally America under the Chinese banner. Fukujin, literally “luck god,” are special armor suits that are impervious to most conventional weapons. The story follows new recruits in the army of Japan, in a war torn future. There's an eccentric girl, a pacifistic guy, an advanced suit of armor impervious to all weapons figure in a story about war, violence, and militaristic subservience.
Following the events of Skull Heart, Tobia and his companions encounter Europa, Crux Dogate's second wife and an original villain from Crossbone. She forewarns them about a resurgent Jupiter Empire invasion. The F-99 "Recordbreaker" is a noteworthy mobile suit, resembling Crossbone Gundams and being the first to utilize the "Wings of Light," which later became synonymous with the V2 Gundam.
The Universal Century began with mankind moving its burgeoning population into outer space. The year is UC0079. The cluster of colonies furthest from the Earth, Side 3, proclaim themselves the Principality of Zeon and launch a war of independence against the Earth Federation. Now, it is nearly one year since the war broke out. In the “Thunderbolt sector”, a reef section of space where a large quantity of wreckage from battleships and destroyed space colonies from the war lies, a violent battle plays out as the Earth Federation Forces set their sights on recapturing the Zeon-controled sector.
A new tragic tale from the "One Year War" unfolds. Flanagan Boone, a Zeon soldier, trained under his beloved Commander Garma Zabi, but then, the Gundam, the "White Devil of the Federation," appeared... A new One Year War begins from the perspective of Flanagan Boone, who appeared in the famous episode "Across the Atlantic Ocean " (Episode 28) of the "Mobile Suit Gundam" anime!
The story focuses around Makoto, a student who's talent is making stuffed toys. He starts researching the mysterious disease going around called 'Sudden death' after finding out that his latest creation looks like the mysterious stuffed rabbit rumoured to be causing it.
Left to himself at an early age in the slummiest parts of today’s Japan, Kiichi learns how to survive on his own. As a teenager, how can he adapt to a society whose rules he rejects? Unless he creates his own rules… Just like in The World Is Mine, the other series by Hideki Arai, the satirical author levels a violent and exhilarating accusation against the contemporary hypocrisy and stupidity with a malevolent jubilation. Kiichi, a raw icon of strength and integrity, stands alone against the world’s injustice and becomes an unforgettable character. –Angoulême Festival Catalog 2007 (Official Selection)
*Second arc of Kiichi!!, taking place 10 years after the events of volume 9.*Ever more uncompromising in the face of injustice, Kiichi has become a star. Known around the world for shaking the Japanese establishment, he doesn't intend to stop there. Now at the head of a big company, between school of thought and mafia, whose members number in the thousands, he wants once again to get the population moving, even if it means provoking the powerful of the country!
[From Kotonoha]: Published by Kodansha in 2002 and awarded the prestigious Tezuka Cultural Prize, Fumiko Takano’s The Yellow Book is one of those rare works which you enjoy reading in order to feel the tender familiarity that arises between the protagonists and yourself. This collected volume was named after the longest of the four stories that it contains: a drama about an adolescent girl who falls in love with Roger Martin du Gard’s saga, Les Thibault. The remaining stories capture various fragments of everyday life with tenderness and humor. Through the kaleidoscope of its feminine views, The Yellow Book touches the readers heart by attending to what, in sum, makes up life—the little things of our every day.
From MangaHelpers: This is the visual diary of Kiitarou's experience with youkai. He's a boy with a very strong spirit sense, but when he entered a forbidden storehouse, he was kicked out of his home. He soon found a new place to live, where he met a zashiki warashi (house spirit) named Suzu. He and Suzu soon began to attract all kinds of spirit creatures, starting with a nurikabe (appears as a wall that impedes travelers) and mokumokuren (appears as eyes in a torn paper wall). What kind of folkloric creature will he meet next? [tethysdust]
One day a beautiful girl who is famous at school suddenly comes to kento Ikuno\'s apartment. She shows him a \"ticket\" written in bad handwriting that reminds him of his childhood. This is a love comedy about a \"ticket that makes you do anything they want\".
From Crunchyroll: In the Edo period, there was a shrine maiden called "Itsuki-hime" in the mountain village of Kadono. Jinta, a young man who acts as Itsuki-hime's guardian despite being a stranger, encounters a mysterious demon who speaks of the far future in the forest where he went to defeat it. From Edo to the Heisei era, this is the first volume of a huge Japanese fantasy series about a demon man who travels through time while continuously questioning the meaning of wielding a sword.
