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Sojiro, employed at a confectionery company, and his wife, Makoto, have joyfully opened their home to a foster child, Kuriko. But there's a catch – Kuriko seems to communicate mostly with a simple "mhm," perhaps due to nerves. Sojiro, who has vague memories of his own early childhood, struggles to bridge the gap between him and Kuriko. However, Kuriko harbors a deep fascination with Sojiro's special talent – crafting delectable sweets! The art of confectionery becomes the thread that weaves this family closer together. Join this heartwarming journey of a seemingly disconnected parent and child as they evolve into a bonded "family".

This is a short story collection anchored with the tale of a young woman who is trying to ignore the reality that her husband is a serial killer, including "The Record of Peter Kürten", "Sensual Nights", "Lord Iechika Mogami", "The Lady of the Rhine", and "The Thief Akikazu Inoue". --- **Volume 265 of the Osamu Tezuka Complete Works**

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Kouhei is a doctor at the local university hospital who has lost touch with his high school friend Tadashi. While Kouhei grew up to become a successful young doctor, Tadashi became a jobless, poor-as-dirt, flaming gay writer. But one lonely night, at his wits end, Tadashi sends Kouhei a text message and receives a reply. Of course Tadashi has secretly harbored feelings for Kouhei for a long time. But when he finds out Kouhei is getting set-up for an arranged marriage… (this is for the first chapter only; the other 4 chapters are unrelated) The only thing keeping Tadashi, a struggling song lyricist, alive is food handouts from Kouhei, a successful doctor. In fact, Tadashi has been leeching off of Kouhei for practically their entire professional lives. Before they arrived at this queer living arrangement, they once enjoyed a little fling back when they were in high school. Though the affair ended briefly afterwards, they've remained fast friends still. But Kouhei's parents want nothing more than to see their son settling down. As Kouhei is pushed ever more forcefully into an arranged marriage, will he finally admit that he sees Tadashi as something more than just a friend?

Gustav Bauer, a renowned painter of the world of 12, is called upon by Queen Ephedra to paint her royal portrait. However, the Queen's plans go far beyond what she could have imagined. Involved unwillingly in a dark plan, the artist will realize that fate is cruel and that his destiny will lead him to enter history in a way he had never imagined.

«Even in another world, I will only love you. Someday you will come there and find me. I will wait for that day.» After coming home from work, Myung Shiwoo unexpectedly finds someone in historical clothing lying outside his door. Is there such a thing as destiny?

A contract with twisted twins. A story of the three being tossed by fate –Towa, who carries the debt of his ex-boyfriend. To return the debt he made a contract with the handsome looking twins to live with them as master and pet. The twins lived in a high-class mansion and the two of them are really close to each other. Towa was happy to see how close they were, but the twins actually have a complicated past–. A story of a Super Celebrity Twins x Poor in debt boy.

Chihiro Murakami works at a film advertising firm and looks up to Kiyoharu Honna, the stylish editor of the trendy magazine his company does business with. He's cool, his smile is beautiful, and he's good at his job. But Chihiro hasn't had a chance yet to get close to him. However, one day he ends up looking after a dead-drunk Honna and goes home with him and…!? A selfish beauty and the man wrapped around his finger.

The main character, whose family was killed by Kamigamushi, takes in a Kamigamushi child in her loneliness. Although she was supposed to hate them, she gradually changes as she lives with it...!

Ametani, who lives in the end of his life hoping to die, is called by a beautiful girl and is invited to "destroy the world together" ...!? 死ぬことを願いながら、終わった人生を生きている雨谷はとある美少女に呼び出され、「一緒に世界を滅ぼそう」と誘いを受けることになるのだが…!?

Ten years ago, the frustrated Gu Zhuoyan met Zhuang Fanxin, a bright ray of sunshine. Zhuoyan was healed, and Fanxin was moved- but their mutual interest ended due to the distance between them. Ten years later, Gu Zhuoyan finds himself on a blind date with the one that got away. All the feelings he had long sealed away in the depths of his heart awake once again, but how will he win back the heart of his old flame?

University student Mimi and her boyfriend Naoto encounter one chilling mystery after another. There’s the enigmatic neighbor woman dressed in black from head to toe—but if she’s so odd, why does it seems like there are many others like her? Then, whose eyes track Mimi’s movements from the cemetery next door? And why does a bizarre red circle drawn on a basement wall change with each passing day?

Yuuki Hase desperately wants to be friends with Kaori Fujimiya, the girl in class who seems to always be alone. Just when he thinks they've hit it off, she tells him her secret: Every week, her memories reset. Yuuki resolves to befriend her as many times as it takes, but is he prepared for how much it will hurt to be one-week friends...?

A kidnapped and blindfolded princess's time in darkness with her silent caretaker. The ten minutes an ordinary woman spends with her tied-up stalker. The last six months a man has before he loses his beloved wife to cancer. These are a few of the moments we share with the characters brought to life by Toryumon Takeda in this collection of seven short stories, including her highly acclaimed “My Wife Whom I Loved Dearly.” But what will become of each of them?

Surely a Happy Ending / 반드시 해피엔딩 This is the story of a late budding romance, faced with danger and a life at stake. Yeon-Woo and Seon-Jae have a marriage agreement that lasts 100 days. On the day that marriage ended, Seon-Jae suddenly passed away. At that time, their ‘real’ marriage has only just begun. Yeon-Woo, who is swept in sorrow, is given a chance to return 100 days back in time and she decided to prevent the death of her husband.

A 29-year-old single woman! Become Hyangdan in Chunhyangjeon of the Joseon Dynasty! The ordinary protagonist, Mo-rae Lee, wondered if she should be in a relationship, but the uncomfortable gazes around her bothered her, and her friends also got married one by one. On a gloomy night, while reading her mobile novel, 'Gwanghallu Romance', which is said to make her love come true, she opened her eyes to the Joseon Dynasty! Lee Mong-ryong? Everyone knows Lee Mo-rae not as Chun-hyang, but as her maid, Hyang-dan... A story that seems to flow differently from the existing Chunhyangjeon. The strange relationship between the two families and the secrets of Mongryong and Bangja are unknown. In the Joseon Dynasty, the only smartphone to rely on is a strange choice like a dating simulation game. What kind of romance can she, who was her mother's solo mother, find in the Joseon Dynasty?

SeoHyun is the number 1 ranker of the forgotten trash game ‘Asra’. He has now come to conquer Asrian, a mega-hit VRMMORPG that inherited Asra’s world setting! But what he thought was a damage-focused hidden class was, in fact… [Congratulations! You’ve selected the ‘Support’ hidden class!] “Huh…?” …A support class unlike any other! A support that hard carries by fighting and grabbing people by the neck! The tale of Hyun, the greatest support, begins now!

Grace lost her best friend in an accident back in high school. Years have passed, but she still suffers from deep depression and insomnia. She finally decides to face her greatest pain...

Military deserter Date Hiroki finds himself tasked with preventing the assassination of the great General Macarthur, in a plot that could potentially result in the execution of the Emperor of Japan.

In a world coming to its end, who do you want to be loved by? As the end of the world ticks by, this is a story of two girl's trembling love, and their terrifying memories.

Former prince with the memory of previous life x former commoner without memory. “Do you still love me, now that you are reborn?” Hiroto, a college student, has memories of his “previous life”. He used to be the heir to the throne. He was deeply in love with a commoner man. Then, that day, their love was ruthlessly torn apart. Ever since he regained his memories, when he still was a child, Hiroto has been searching for his beloved Mika in this world. He vows that this time, they will find happiness together. Fate brings them together once again, but Mika’s reincarnation, Kou, has no memory of his previous life… A reincarnation BL story drowning in past sins and passion!

Caitlin and her boss, David, are not only secretary and employer, but lovers, as well. When she met him four months ago, Caitlin quickly fell under the spell of his charm. But David only wanted a sweet, temporary affair with no complications. How can there be a future for them when they want such different things?

What do you spend the time left of your life when it's measured in heartbeats? This is the story of Hato Iijima and Hatsu Takagi, connected to each other by a rare disease called "Tempocardy".

Poor art school student Suzuki Keiichi wakes up one day to find himself as part of an auction in some desert land he knows nothing about as a way to pay off his debts. He has no idea what's happened to him until he's suddenly bought by a man he's never seen in a language he doesn't understand. He's terrified, and it turns out the man is a prince who bought him to be the servant of his younger brother. Every day he plots a way to escape from this unknown land, but he finds himself slowly captivated by the prince's charms.

As a young college student, Jiwon just wants to play video games, study, and...secretly date an older woman who already has a boyfriend?! Nobody knows about the affair, until an attractive upperclassmen named Yuhyeon catches them. He asks Jiwon on a date to keep it secret but, one night becomes much more…

In an office full of complicated romances, Lee Jaehee's work life has been hell. It doesn't help when her good-looking best friend, the former pro gamer Shin Seonjae, starts working on her team and earns a lot of unwanted attention. As rumors about him abound, ghosts from Seonjae's past come back to haunt him, and Jaehee is eager to help him. But there's only so much she can do against stalkers and gossip! Besides, she already has her hands full dealing with her growing feelings for Seonjae.

One day, Alissa, the royal librarian, finds an abandoned diary. Not realizing it's under a unique magic spell, she takes it home, where she discovers that whenever she writes her name in it, she's transported to an unfamiliar place, where she meets with a boy called Louis. Thinking it to just be the world inside a book, Alissa befriends the young Louis and spends a lot of time with him.Meanwhile, after years of making his people worry by staying single, a young king invites all the unmarried noble ladies to a ball where he will finally choose his queen. Alissa attends the ball with a light heart, confident that nothing will happen to her, until, strangely enough, the young king takes an interest in her...

Oneshot from "Raiku Makoto" festival, a series of manga works running in lots of different magazines through the months of September and October 2009.

Sumida Uta was supposed to start a new phase of her life with her husband, Kimi-kun, in their newly built house... but Kimi-kun passed away from an accident soon after. Those around her have been trying to help her move on by telling her that she's still young and that she should start moving forward with her new life. But right now, she just can't seem to imagine that happening. And that's because Kimi-kun is still in their house with her! She has lost her dearest husband but after remembering her dream of opening a restaurant, she begins to work on her new life with the help of her (ghost) husband!

In powerful black-and-white comic strip images, Satrapi tells the coming-of-age story of her life in Tehran from ages six to fourteen, years that saw the overthrow of the Shah’s regime, the triumph of the Islamic Revolution, and the devastating effects of war with Iraq. The intelligent and outspoken only child of committed Marxists and the great-granddaughter of one of Iran’s last emperors, Marjane bears witness to a childhood uniquely entwined with the history of her country. Persepolis paints an unforgettable portrait of daily life in Iran and of the bewildering contradictions between home life and public life. Marjane’s child’s-eye view of dethroned emperors, state-sanctioned whippings, and heroes of the revolution allows us to learn as she does the history of this fascinating country and of her own extraordinary family. Intensely personal, profoundly political, and wholly original, Persepolis is at once a story of growing up and a reminder of the human cost of war and political repression. It shows how we carry on, with laughter and tears, in the face of absurdity. And, finally, it introduces us to an irresistible little girl with whom we cannot help but fall in love.

Men are servants of knowledge. The Sorcerers' Guild was no more... The guild possessed many dangerous grimoires, worshipped pure magic. The guild was condemned as a terrorist organization. A chivalric order of scientists was formed, hunting it down. One after another, the sorcerers were captured, executed. Gradually, the guild lost its power. Eventually, they declared disbandment. The remaining sorcerers were scattered across the world, marked as dangerous, forced to live as wanted criminals. Spectral Wizard was among them...

Outer space, the far future. A lone seed ship, the Sidonia, plies the void, ten centuries since the obliteration of the solar system. The massive, nearly indestructible, yet barely sentient alien life forms that destroyed humanity's home world continue to pose an existential threat. Nagate Tanikaze has only known life in the vessel's bowels deep below the sparkling strata where humans have achieved photosynthesis and new genders. Not long after he emerges from the Underground, however, the youth is bequeathed a treasured legacy by the spaceship's coolheaded female captain.Other manga:+ Ouran High School Host Club+ Triage X manga

The elite Cosmo Academy attracts applicants from every stellar nation in the galaxy. One young hopeful is Tadatos Lane, an orphan esper from Terra. The final stage of the academy's entrance exam is a perilous mission simulation aboard an actual derelict starship. The applicants depart for the ships in groups of ten, but when Tada's crew arrives on the Esperanza, they are horrified to discover that they now number eleven. As the test progresses, things go awry and the atmosphere grows increasingly tense. The crew members begin to suspect sabotage, and Tada appears to be the likely culprit. The original printing of this manga were volumes 13 and 14 of the Hagio Moto Works Collection.

A collection of Shimazu Kyouko's short stories filled with human drama.

Shiga Azuma, a promising young leader of an underground organization, stops to buy flowers for his father's grave from the flower shop of the blind Anji Haruki. And he keeps coming back, drawn to Haruki's inner light and comforting presence - the complete opposite of his world. But their relationship unearths darkness, obsession and secrets on both sides, and threatens to destroy them both.

Second-place prize winning oneshot from the Yatagarasuhai Competition published in Harta magazine's March 2022 Issue No.92.

Tsukiko has always had in innate ability to see spirits and monsters. When she gets a call from a young girl in a rural village, asking for her help, she finds out that the village is full of secrets, and that she may be a secret herself...

The fight for the crown continues as the three princes find themselves no longer children.

If you plant your yard full of red spider lilies, you can deceive spirits into believing it to be one of the many roads to the afterlife, and perhaps, meet the deceased dear to you...

An alternative take on the couple from Koi ni Ochite Gomennasai (Erotoro vol. 4), involving time laps.

From Psycho Pandas:A short 16-page oneshot about the relationship between two high school boys who want to be together and the girl who won't let them.

Yee Su-yoon is a high school student who has everything going for him – top of his class, top fighter and a Barbie-like girlfriend named Kang Ha-eun.But why does he mistreat his girlfriend and seem to always protect a girl named Chae Shin-hee?

Ellie goes to see her family in Capri to celebrate her stepbrother Luke’s engagement…but what the rest of the family doesn’t know is that Luke is also her ex! It’s hard to keep her spirits up, hanging out at the resort alone. Ellie is afraid Luke will think she’s not over him, and when no one is looking, Luke keeps hitting on her. Ellie is in a tough spot, so in order to deter Luke, she pretends to be dating her other stepbrother, Jack, even though she can't stand him! But soon their pretend kisses become real, and being with Jack makes her heart pound. What on earth is she feeling for him?

Everyone faces uncertainty at some point in their lives. Even a brilliant surgeon like Kenzo Tenma is no exception. But there’s no way he could have known that his decision to stop chasing professional success and instead concentrate on his oath to save peoples’ lives would result in the birth of an abomination. The questions of good and evil now take on a terrifyingly real dimension. Years later, in Germany during the tumultuous post-reunification period, middle-aged childless couples are being killed one after another. The serial killer’s identity is known. The reasons why he kills are not. Dr. Tenma sets out on a journey to find the killer’s twin sister, who may hold some clues to solving the enigma of the “Monster.”

After finding out his sister has been gang-raped by a secret fraternity before she commited suicide, Lee Kirin decides to catch the rapists and take revenge on them. He approaches one of the known members of the group, Kang Moo, and asks him for his cooperation. However, in order to join the fraternity and find out who led his sister to her death, he is asked to have sex with everyone in the fraternity. As time goes by, this isn't the only challenge he has to face in order to come closer to the truth. <br><h3>Trigger Warnings</h3> <spoiler>Rape, Suicide, Blood, Gore, Violence, Death</spoiler> If you are sensitive to any of the listed triggers, I would not recommend reading this manhwa. Sensitive content is the foundation of this story and it practically omnipresent. Please make responsible choices and prioritize your own well-being.

Chu Qi Tong believed she would spend her entire life in the palace, manipulating those hidden schemes and power plays. That is, until she met Ning Zhuang Yao. The girl, dressed in red, entered her heart like the blazing sun, making her realize that in this world, besides power, there is something called love. Chu Qi Tong: "In the past, I schemed endlessly to help Ah Ze take the throne, but now, I move step by step only to give you a lifetime of peace." Ning Zhuang Yan: "The one I love is a stunning beauty who could topple kingdoms. She may not be able to give me a phoenix crown or ride a steed to marry me, but the moment she took my hand in the Golden Luan Hall, under the gaze of countless eyes, I knew she surpassed all the perfect men in the world."

Kikuchi Ima”s first love was her sister”s boyfriend, who is 11 years her senior. Nine years later, she meets him again … and this time, he is her homeroom teacher. What will become of this one-sided love?

Working in a TV station means you have to work under pressure. Budi, a video editor in MOTV, and Arum, a reporter who also works in the same place, already prove it. Follow their work life and how they face pressures.