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A compilation of short stories by Keiichi Koike. 1. Knockin' on Heaven's Door 2. 3000 Leagues Searching For Mother 3. Lazaro Franco's Fourth Hour 4. The Ronin and the Sea 5. Looper 6. Kenbo's Diary 7. Sponge Generation 8. Airway 9. Horizon 10. Landed
This is regarded as the chapter where "the best situation has been provided," but it takes the courage of a certain character to change the course. This will answer everything, however there is one chapter left - Matsuribayashi-hen. (Source: Wikipedia)
Ritsu inherited his sixth sense from his grandfather, along with a demon guardian named Blue Storm. Strange things just seem to happen around these two, and it's left to them to get to the bottom of all these mysterious events. Each story is independent but features recurring characters you'll come to know and appreciate as they, each in their own way, try to deal with things 'not of this world'. **Note:** Won the Excellence Prize of manga section of Japan Media Arts Festival in 2006.
The 5th arc of the Re:Zero kara Hajimeru Isekai Seikatsu manga. Subaru and Emilia receive an invitation to a party from Anastasia and decide to go to Priestella, the city of the watergates.
How would you win over an enemy who just won't stop killing you? Laila thought she had escaped death by figuring out how to turn back time, but her assassin finds her again... and again... and again! All because her sadistic villain of a father had to murder his entire family... When all her evasion plans fail, there's only one option left: coddle her enemy through his childhood and hope he'll spare her when he comes back to exact his revenge. But why is this wacko so pigheaded?! (Source: Tapas)
Han Woo-jae put his dream of becoming a screenwriter on hold to take care of his family and support his already successful writer wife, Lee Seo-jin, until their daughter turns 8. One day, a mysterious girl approaches Woo-jae, claiming that his wife is doing "bad things" behind his back. She tells Woo-jae that she is the only person who knows all of Seo-jin's deep, dark secrets. As Woo-jae learns about his wife's past, he wonders what lengths he must go to protect his family and keep them together. (Source: Tapas, edited)
Two childhood friends, a boy and a girl, used to share a secret magic. Now that they're in high school though… A story of secret love from an outstanding writer.
Shiki Yukitaka is desperate for money, but he makes way too little as a long term substitute teacher. While drinking one evening, a pretty woman asks if he would be willing to assassinate people for 5 million yen a kill. Although Shiki is hesitant, he grudgingly admits that he might do it, provided all the targets are serious evildoers. He soon finds that her offer is deadly serious, when she introduces him to the rest of the team and points them towards their first target. The driver, Yan, is doing this for the money as well. Shiki's partner, Kuzumi, is a cop. He doesn't appear to be interested in the money, but he seems to be driven by a deep anger. On Shiki's first mission, things don't go quite as planned. They didn't count on their target's 18 year old daughter Itsuki being locked up in the house. She's been confined for 10 years, due to her spooky ability to read things from people's minds when she touches them. She claims to want to be their ally, and Shiki is reluctantly made responsible for her care. With the police investigating their crime, is keeping her alive too dangerous? How long will the team be able to get away with continuing their highly paid vigilante murders?
Introducing Minato, who just after entering university dropped out and became the board chairman of the cooking school her recently deceased grandmother left behind. The head of confectionary – Nakamura, explains to Minato the school’s current position. Heading the advice of her childhood friend and current Chinese cuisine chef Ichika-kun, Minato inquires the popular Japanese cuisine chef, the handsome Akiyama, and the Italian cuisine chef – Maeda, to become lecturers at the school. The kind and gentlemanly Akiyama, the unfriendly and strict Maeda, the splendid, despite his cute exterior, Ichika, the cool and mysterious Nakamura….Together with the 4 handsome chefs, Minato is opening the cooking school. What will happen from here on…!?
Just when I thought it'd start with you, you disappeared; I would've never thought this... Yuna has lost trust in love after her first boyfriend Takumi broke up with her. Shiina-kun from her class has already confessed to her twice and now finally she approached onto love another time. But Takumi appears in front of her!! What will the swaying Yuna do!? (Source: Chibi Manga) *Contains a side story in volume 1 (from the perspective of Takumi), and two oneshots in volume 3.*
It's July 2016, and the Tadamura family gathers in the Hirasaka village for the funeral of the grandmother and head of the family: the young man Yukito, his step-sister Yue, his father Masashi, his uncles Nobuteru and Tsunemasa, and his cousins Terumi and Teruya, all come to pay their last respects. But on that evening, Yue witnesses an incomprehensible scene: the grandmother's dead body starts to move and disappears into the night! The morning after, the family wakes up in a strange world, seemingly cut off from reality, where two suns shine… (Source: Batoto)
Late 19th Century, Tokyo. Namiko, born as the daughter of an army lieutenant, loses her mother, and finds herself suffering at the hands of her new stepmother. Soon, her kindly aunt introduces her to Navy General Takeo Kawashima. Now Namiko lives happily ever after, or so she thought…
