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Barefoot Gen recounts the bombing of Hiroshima from the perspective of a young boy, Gen, and his family. But the book's themes (the physical and psychological damage ordinary people suffer from war's realities) ring chillingly true today. Gen and his family have long been struggling without much food, money or medicine, but despite hardships, they try to maintain a semblance of normal life. The adults are exhausted and near despair; the children take air raids and starvation more or less in stride. Nakazawa, a Hiroshima survivor, effectively portrays the strain of living in this environment and shows how efforts to stay upbeat in dire circumstances sometimes manifest as manic, irrational humor. The story offers some optimism: characters perform acts of self-sacrifice for the sake of neighbors and loved ones (e.g., when Gen's pregnant mother becomes ill from malnutrition, he and his brother pose as orphans and perform in the streets, throwing the money over the walls of their home so they won't get caught). Underneath this can-do attitude are the parents' deep guilt and sense of helplessness. When the children clamor ecstatically over a scrap of food, the parents dissolve in shame and grief. The art is sharply drawn and expressive, and the narrative has such a natural rhythm, it's easy to get pulled into the family's life, making the cataclysm readers know awaits them all the more real, intimate and difficult to take. Despite its harrowing nature, this work is invaluable for the lessons it offers in history, humanity and compassion.
"Why do I keep crossing paths with you...? ♡" Everyone experiences those feelings at least once. Sometimes it feels like you're getting smaller in front of someone you like. The problem is, I'm actually getting smaller!
Noah, an orphan, is deceived by a friend and put up for auction. The person who brought him was rumoured to be a ruthless man, Gilbert, who won the bid for Noah, who has a rebellious attitude, for 200 million. Noah was prepared to be treated badly, but during his first sexual encounter he was taught pleasure he had never felt before. I should have wanted to escape, but I was gradually moved by the clumsy kindness of Gilbert and the reason why he bought me.
Manga artist Toratoki Yamamura's serialized work "Revenge Clown'' has been decided to be made into a movie, and with the support of his beloved wife, he is having the best night in both his professional and private life. However, that was just the beginning of the nightmare that was about to begin... What is the unexperienced murderous intent called by unconscious malice? ? What is the true identity of the mysterious revenge demon "Clown Man"? ? Suspense-horror master Shingo Honda collaborates for the first time with Shinsuke Takahashi, a master of writing, to unleash an astonishing and earth-shattering ``wet-clothed'' suspense story! !
This is the story about two kids (Rokuro and Benio) and their lives as onmyouji warriors...
At the end of the 21st century, humans have made great advancements in technology and were able to create a giant energy source to power that technology. However, this new source of energy overloaded and turned into a more devastating force than nuclear weapons. The catastrophe wiped out the majority of human civilization and those who survived lived in terror of the anarchy that took over. Hagakure Kakugo comes from a secret family that has protected people for generations from powerful organizations and evil from taking over. They are only awoken in time of need and it has been decades since Kakugo was conscious. His body had been heavily modified by fusing it with metals to enhance both his offense and defense. He uses an armor called the Exoskull that attaches to him to greatly boost his already superhuman power. Thus begins a story about a young man and his armor’s journey through hell.
From Tokyopop: A woman develops an unusual closeness to a doll that will effect her human family from beyond the grave... A man wants to make his doll into the perfect human lover, but discovers that humans are not perfect... A father buys his son a doll to help him get over the death of his mother.
The manga continues with the story of Alicia from "A Female Warrior Who Fell to the Goblin Kingdom"...
The stage: the city of Snowfield in the western U.S., far from Fuyuki. There, a "false Holy Grail War", quite unlike the original Holy Grail War, unfolds. There were those who had been keeping an eye on the auguries of the Holy Grail in Snowfield. According to an investigation by the Mage's Association, the Holy Grail War system in Snowfield was an imitation of the one in Fuyuki. What's more, the system was incomplete, leading to the exclusion of one of the seven classes and the selection of beings as Servants who ordinarily could not be summoned. It was, verily, a strange fake. As an organ of the U.S. government executes its various plots, the Servants are summoned one after another---
Asahi, a shy girl who is being bullied at school, goes to the ghost girl Kiyo and a female teacher who wait in the abandoned school building every day after school. The straight distortion of the girls sheds a small light at night. There is nothing scary. If you are near and far.
The story drags us into the daily life of Mashiro, a handywoman, who takes care of helping the people of the village. One day, the Dominantor Empire invades the region and captures all the women to make them their slaves. When her friend dies before her eyes, Mashiro, mad with anger, manages to wake up the millennial robot who was secretly residing in the village. It is now her chance to stop the thirst for uncontrollable power of the Dominator Empire. Soon, she is joined by other mecha pilots in this crazy quest to oppose an entire Empire.
