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Ranju aims to bestow her voiceless pet mermaid with the power of speech by equipping it with vocal cords. Nonetheless, the challenge persists: how can she accomplish this remarkable task? This notable endeavor has earned an honorable mention in the Autumn 2018 Kodansha Monthly Afternoon Seasonal Manga Awards.
Kaoru was an aspiring mangaka, with big dreams and (what he thought was, and still does think,) oodles of talent. Now he's just another hikikomori (recluse) who hasn't left his room in 5 years...Until one hot summer night, when he hears, from some distant place, voices which call him. Voices that only he can hear. Voices that are calling for help. Following the voices, Kaoru opens the windows, and steps out into the night.
A young man comes to live on a small island in the south seas, and resides in a hotel that is far from ordinary – which matches the guests and staff…
Despite saving France, Joan of Arc was condemned to an unfair punishment of burning at the stake. Yet, instead of facing death, a demon whisked her away to a different realm where she encountered thirty-two renowned women, known as "witches," from history. There, a perilous contest called Walpurgis Night transpired, in which only one witch could prevail and attain her deepest desire. As the last witch standing, Joan of Arc plunged into the fierce fray.
When the conditions of his rundown dormitory become too harsh, the final student residing there contemplates leaving. However, he is hesitant to do so because a zashiki warashi is frightened by the prospect of his departure, fearing for both her own well-being and that of the building.
I defeated the demon lord, but I was left deserted, betrayed… and a wish from the goddess. “My wish is to go back to the past and make those bitches pay for what they’ve done to me.”
Mi-hun is a loner. He doesn't get out of the house after his parents' deaths. But after his encounter with the mysterious raincoat wearing man from the next door that just moved in, strange things starts happening in his dull and repetitive life. He finds out that the unexplainable 'spontaneous human combustion' incidents that are happening in his town are somehow connected to that raincoat man. He can't help spying on his new neighbors, but that turns out to be the biggest mistake in his life.
"Immortal Tatsu," the legendary yakuza who single-handedly defeated a rival gang with a lead pipe, is a name known to strike fear in both hardened police officers and vicious criminals. Soon after his sudden disappearance, he resurfaces with a slight change in profession. Now equipped with an apron, Tatsu has given up violence and is trying to make an honest living as a house husband. While adapting to mundane household tasks, Tatsu finds that being a house husband has its own challenges, from the battlefield known as supermarket sales to failures in the kitchen. Despite living peacefully, misunderstandings seem to follow him left and right. Gokushufudou follows the daily life of the comically serious ex-yakuza as he leaves behind his dangerous previous life to become a stay-at-home husband.
From Viz: He was the fiercest member of the yakuza, a man who left countless underworld legends in his wake. They called him “the Immortal Dragon.” But one day he walked away from it all to travel another path - the path of the househusband. The curtain rises on this cozy yakuza comedy.
(from ebookjapan):**"I will become the best financier in Osaka!"** Tatsuyuki Haibara, unemployed after his company went bankrupt, decides that finance is his true calling and goes to work as a salesman for the finance company Teikoku Kinyu (Imperial Finance). However, it is not a sweet job, and Haibara is confronted with various human dramas and underworld situations related to money, such as a woman who became a soap opera star by shouldering a debt, a man who got involved in fraud, and a confrontation with an underworld moneylender... The story is set in Osaka, the commercial capital of Japan, and is the first in a series of Osaka Finance manga! ---- **Won the Kodansha Manga Award for General Manga in 1992**- **Won the Osamu Tezuka Excellence Award in 1997**
A man who yearned for a life of freedom reincarnates into another world and becomes a carrier—a non-combative class considered useless. Can he make use of his skills to live his dream life or could he be meant for something more? A sexy isekai manga about a man proving there’s more to him than his class! Sei has always yearned for a life of freedom, and when he’s reborn into another world, it seems like he would finally have his dream life. Except he was born as a “carrier,” a non-combative class that mostly uses their abilities to transport goods. But Sei has found a way to use his powers both in and out of fights, surviving on his own despite his low class. And while he travels the land seeing sights and picking up women, he’ll prove that a lowly carrier is capable of conquering the world!
The story is set in a fantasy world of swords and magic, but this isn't a typical fantasy world since the technological progress have advanced so much that smartphones are everywhere!!<br><br>Everyone lives a peaceful life until one day a brother and a sister find a very strange sword.
