Yuuya, one half of the boy pop duo ZINGS, may be the laziest performer in the Japanese music industry. His partner is out there giving 110% every night (and, thankfully, he’s quite popular), but Yuuya’s half-assed, sloppy dancing, and his frankly hostile attitude toward the audience, has the fans hating him and his agent looking for any excuse to cut him loose. The career of a pop idol just isn’t the path of easy leisure and adulation Yuuya expected… After a particularly lifeless concert appearance, Yuuya meets a girl backstage. She's dressed to the nines in a colorful outfit, she’s full of vim and vigor, and all she wants from life is to perform. There’s just one problem: She’s been dead for a year. This is the ghost of Asahi Mogami, the beloved singer whose time on the stage was tragically cut short, unless… If ghosts are real, is spirit possession really that much of a stretch?
(from ebookjapan): The year is 0169 of the Universal Century. The Earth Federation government has lost power, and the struggle for supremacy among the colonies has intensified, making it the \"Space Sengoku Era\". Ash King and other like-minded people stand up to put an end to the endless war!
The three chapters follow the daily life of Kahori Hanamura, an 18-year-old romance prodigy who has recently moved from the countryside to Tokyo to write for a literary magazine. She spends her time causing trouble for her cousin and editor Satoko Hanamura, who would much rather she meet her deadlines instead of skipping showers and ordering Transformers online.
One day, Asagiri-kun, a member of the public morals committee, discovers his classmate Yumegahara-san drawing erotic manga in the school library. Asagiri-kun struggles to rehabilitate his shameless girlfriend, but Yumegahara-san's delusions are non-stop...!? Not to make it the worst, but the purest school romantic comedy!
A very popular romance novel of the highest purity - long-awaited manga adaptation! Kiho, who has always studied since she was a child, did not have any friends when she entered junior high school. She becomes friends with a classmate who asks her to help him with his studies, but for one reason or another, she is further isolated from the rest of the class. Furthermore, one day after failing the high school entrance exam and entering a high school that she had slipped through the cracks, she loses the meaning of life and decides to end her life, when a fateful encounter occurs. ......!?
Richard asks the street painter Pascal for a portrait on the spot. As soon as he sat down on a chair and took off his hat, Pascal ran away. The word he uttered while being caught was 'Richard'. Richard invites Pascal to his house, and the story of Pascal moving back and forth between the past and the present in a mansion full of beautiful art begins...
This manga tells the legacy of Mitsuyo Maeda a Brazilian naturalized as Otávio Maeda, who was a Japanese judōka (judo expert) and prizefighter in no holds barred competitions. He was also known as Count Combat or Conde Koma in Spanish and Portuguese, a nickname he picked up in Spain in 1908. Along with Antônio Soshihiro Satake (another naturalized Brazilian), he pioneered judo in Brazil, the United Kingdom, and other countries. Maeda was fundamental to the development of Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu, including through his teaching of Carlos Gracie and others of the Gracie family. He was also a promoter of Japanese emigration to Brazil. Maeda won more than 2,000 professional fights in his career. His accomplishments led to him being called the "toughest man who ever lived" and being referred to as the father of Brazilian Jiu-jitsu.
Takina Inoue, a high school girl working as a member of an all-female taskforce of assassins and spies known as "Lycoris" dispatched to eliminate criminals and terrorists in Tokyo, is sanctioned by her superiors at the DA agency for disobeying orders in order to save a colleague. She is transferred to work with the elite Lycoris agent Chisato Nishikigi at one of the agency's branches, which operates under the cover of a cafe, called "LycoReco".
\"When I woke up this morning there was a beautiful girl, but that was… me!?\" - Idol Otaku Aisaka Yousuke wakes up one morning and realizes he\'s now a beautiful girl named Aisaka Yoko. Now with his new appearance and his great Idol knowledge, he will attempt to become the number one idol.
A series depicting a new side of the Liella! members serialized in Love Live Days
Aung San Suu Kyi: Tatakau Kujaku (“Aung San Suu Kyi: The Fighting Peacock”), by cartoonist Akatsu Mizuha, was first released by publisher Oakla Shuppan as part of a series of manga on Nobel Prize winners. It depicts Suu Kyi’s early life, examining the impact of the political legacy of her father, assassinated independence leader Aung San, and ends with her receiving the Nobel Peace Prize in 1991." - The Irrawaddy.
From Dark Horse: She's cute. She's a barrel of fun. She's irrepressible. And… a bit of a klutz. She's Haruo Hattori, and now she's leaving her little country farm town, her boyfriend, and her loony family for college in the big city. Before she leaves, she makes a pledge that she'll remain true to her boyfriend, despite all the temptations a big city can throw at her, and the temptations pile up like cordwood when the need for a few yen to rub together nets her a job at Club 9, a hot hostess bar. The charming country girl lights a lot of fires in the hearts of the club patrons, and her short skirt is fanning the flames! How ya gonna keep `em down on the farm once they've been to Club 9?
