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Saudi Arabia, Morocco, India, and Japan. A series of short stories staring at "because she's a girl" of 10-year-old girls with different countries, religions, cultures, and values.
Koushi Inuzuka is heir to an ancient family tradition of powerful martial arts. Unfortunately for his father, Koushi wants absolutely nothing to do with such dangerous things. His goal is to become an avenging prosecuting attorney, turning him into a bookworm that his father simply can't understand. Still, Koushi finds a great deal of comfort both in his studies and in the structure of law. Until the day that Momoko Kuzuryu, daughter of another great house, drops into his life and demands that he, the last scion of the strongest family of bushido martial arts, sire a baby with her. From that moment on, Koushi is forced to think and act faster than ever before as ever-stronger opponents appear to challenge him. The race to stay alive hinges on unlocking memories from his suppressed past and, possibly, unleashing his forgotten physical courage. And somehow, at the center of all those memories, stands Momoko. How can a wimpy bookworm survive the attention of skilled assassins for long? Then again, his opponents are discovering that some forms of strength have nothing at all to do with muscles or techniques...
(From MAL) The stage is set when Ichirou Gomen, a newbie producer of the record company Gaia loses yet another production opportunity to inexperience. Wanting to pass on his childhood dreams of stardom to a fledgling singer, he toils learning the process day by day through failure.However, his life is sent into a loop when he follows a beautiful performing voice, the voice of Jam Hiiragi, playing live to a group of homeless people at a streetside. Wrangling the prodigy talent and her bratty complications, together they face off and challenge the professional world of the music industry.
Still in her early twenties, beautiful Toshiko Tomura has won the Akutagawa Prize for her story "The Book of Human Insects." The great honor is not her first: she has previously won the New York Design Academy Award, before which she was the lead actress of an established theatrical troupe. Yet, while the media go abuzz, the woman in the limelight slips away from the metropolis; what the sole paparazzo who manages to trail her to an abandoned country house witnesses is an immobile figure of an old woman and the star herself, naked, in a reverie as bizarre as it is erotic...
The author, a high-school teacher, recounts his 12 years on "night patrol" in Yokohama City, where he comes face to face with youth dealing with issues ranging from self-mutilation to drug abuse.
A geta-sandals wearing girl from Kumamoto at a high school cheerleading club.
It's the year 305 of the Alcian calendar, and the world is currently controlled by "numbers." Every human born is branded with a "Count." This Count can be anything; the amount of kilometers walked, or the amount of people who have said your food is tasty. If your Count drops to 0, you will be sent into the Abyss. After Hina's mother's Count dropped to 0, her last request was for Hina to look for the Legendary Flying Ace.
In the ancient world, the gods gave their wisdom to the child Usumgallu. Here, a new myth begins!!
Caught in a war between the mystic warriors known as the Candala vs. the cruel shape-shifting monsters "BUTO"... can Alvaro and his sister survive in this foreign land?
Thanks to an accident, Tanaka is able to see ghosts. One day, he visited the infirmary because he felt unwell, but the school nurse, Saejima-sensei tells him the shocking truth? A new spin in the horror comedy genre!
Kanmori mizuki is a young boy who lives in the countryside. On his 16th birthday, his grandma tells him that they promised the water goddess Suika to give her a boy as a tribute after he turned 16.This story is about the daily life of Mizuki and Suika.
A story about a 35-year old OL that one day out of the blue turns into a magical girl.
