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From ANN: An autobiographical work in which Hideo Azuma tells the story of his inability to cope with the pressures of his job as a mangaka and of his exeriences with alcoholism. The work is split into three sections, each of which details one of Azuma's breakdowns. The first section (Walking At Night) is set in 1989 when Azuma suddenly walked out on both his job and his family and became homeless for the first time. Much of this section is given over to describing the practicalities of eating, sleeping, and killing time whilst homeless. The second section (Walking Around Town) covers a similar set of events in 1992 but this time Azuma managed to find labouring work as a gas pipe layer after a period of living rough. This section also looks back over Azuma's career and describes the pressures he worked under in the 1970s and 80s. The third section (Alcoholic Ward) covers the author's descent into full-blown alcoholism and his experiences of being committed to a hospital rehab programme in 1998.
From BangAQUA: A marvelous actor who has stage fright plays various roles in real life! The agency Catherine is the company which sends so-called extras in real life. Yaegashi Taiga, a marvelous actor that has stage fright, tries his best to fulfill the requests he is given by this company. One day, he is told to work on a request with the newbie Amae Shizuku... But Shizuku has a secret and...?! Please come to our office if anything troubles you! The excellent extras will support you throughout your daily life.
From MangaHelpers: A new transfer student has come into town, a girl with a mysterious air and black clothing who is called Inugami Sakuya. What few know is that by moonlight, she hunts and kills those possessed by "Inugami." A man can become possessed by being bitten, leading to a nighttime transformation into a beast driven to eat women. Sakuya gets no thanks for brutally ending the lives of these unfortunate men with her sword, and she is often too late to save the women they threaten. Sakuya also must deal with her own inner demons, which are all too real... [tethysdust]
From Hee Jung Park comes ten stories of love, sadness, longing and alienation. A young man finds himself continuously drawn into the orbit of future suicide victims, while another finds redemption in an unlikely ally. And an apathetic lover can only enliven his pallid relationship with the crimson color of blood... 1) Blood 2) So Long... 3) Crazy Guy 4) Feel So Good 5) Insomnia 6) Ember 7) Kwanglim is Amazing 8) Music Box 9) Ul Heul Lee 10) Crybaby Angel
Two couples, two stories...Since they were kids Sou has always been Rikiya's subordinate and now that they are in the student council things haven't changed that much... or have they? When a freshman comes into play jealousy and secret plans are put in action. But is he really interested in who he says? The student council will never be the same...
The Second Works (Magna Carta)This is just a partial.
Sumire is a 17 year old high school girl who wants nothing more than to make friends with her new classmates. She's so dissappointed that they all seem to hate her, calling her a pervert, a dirty old man, creepy, weirdo... alas, what is a poor lifesized puppet to do in this cruel world.
Year XXXX, The Age of Chaos, a dictator meets a vampire who has awaken from 300 years of slumber and is hungry for some tasty blood.
Miyu is an eternally youthful vampire princess. She is the Guardian, whose duty it is to return the Shinma - god demons that prey on humans - to the dark. Her only companion, and protector is Larva, a Western Shinma who is bound to serve her. Together, they hunt stray Shinma across Japan. New Vampire Princess Miyu is the sequel about Miyu and the war with awakening Western Shinma, Larva's old fellows...
A girl falls for a man who happens to be friends with a rock star club owner, and the rock star and the people who hang out at his club proceed to hurt her emotionally and physically, which could ruin her relationship with the man she loves – but is the rock star a good guy or a bad guy? From Baka-Updates: Tokano Yuuka has been going out with her boyfriend Yazaki Norikazu for a little over a year now but doesn’t get to see him everyday since he works in a different city as a newspaper writer. Although they are apart, they love each other and things are going well. Norikazu gets an opportunity to interview Saeki Keito, the lead singer of the most popular band in Japan, Zero Sum Game, because they were good friends in high school. Being a fan of the band, Yuuka gets to tag along. However, Yuuka soon finds herself being raped by the members of the band while Keito distracts Norikazu because it seems that Keito has an obsession with him. After the traumatic event, the relationship between the three becomes extremely complicated.
From Intercross: First love. Reunion. Misunderstanding. Passing by each other. And...a teary happy ending. "When you can play this tune, play it for me"...Suzuno has always been searching for the boy who told her that, whom she met at a piano recital when she was small. After entering high school, she was chosen to play the piano to accompany a chorus competition. Suzuno started practicing with Aiba-kun and Fujisawa-kun from her class, but Fujisawa-kun told her that they used to meet when they were small...!?
Shiori just got a letter from Riichi. They were childhood friends up until he kissed her and left for America, and the thought of that jerk coming back has her so distracted that she gets caught in a wave and almost drowns! She would've died, too, if it weren't for that mysterious boy with a tattoo... He cut himself so badly to save her, and he left her with the kind of ring a boy would give to his girlfriend--but she never saw his face. Later in the day, Shiori spies a hot pro surfer from America... named Riichi! He's back, and he still wants to date Shiori, and...how did he get that terrible cut...? -- ShoujoMagic
