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From Ivyscan: In 1875, after the death of her parents, Uno goes to live in the Kanou household as a companion to Mariko, who is the same age as Uno. The two girls become very close and attend Cimons private school. This great romance tells the story of the loves and dreams of two girls growing up during the westernization of Japan in the Meiji era.

I'm Seiko. I'm childhood friends with Yoshi-kun, and we always hang out together. But these strange new feelings I have for him leave me stumped... I'm Yoshito. Is Sei-chan just my childhood friend, or...? This is Shiroi Mado no Mukougawa, the story of a budding romance between Seiko and Yoshito, of their fluttering hearts, and of their hearts brought together.

When goofy inventor Senbei Norimaki creates a precocious robot named Arale, his masterpiece turns out to be more than he bargained for! This series helped launch Toriyama's career and was awarded the Shogakukan Manga Award for sh?nen and sh?jo manga in 1982.

Stories about Tezuka raising his three children.

This is one of the most well-known titles by Yamagishi Ryouko. It shocked the public immensely when first published, because the story depicted how the legendary regent of Japan, Prince Shoutoku - who also supported the spread of the new religion; Buddhism - fell in love with a man, suffering because of it, and acting on his unrequited love. This is no ordinary shounen-ai manga, but its homoerotic theme is the biggest motivating force behind this convoluted story with complicated language and plot-line. 'Hi Izuru Tokoro no Tenshi' is regarded as a masterpiece in the manga world. Hi Izuru Tokoro no Tenshi won the 1983 Kodansha Manga Award for shōjo.

Divided into 4 chapters entitled respectively 1970, 1974, 1976 and 1980, the story focuses on a young couple, Keiko and Kosuke. They meet during high school and soon become friends. Koisuke aspires to become a famous movie director and Keiko helps him with his project in a competition. The outcome is brilliant but not much later Keiko sees him kissing another girl. During the next years they will meet again, but will they be able to overcome their misunderstandings?

An extremely rare sci-fi story that was never collected after serialization in Volumes 2-8 of マンガ奇想天外 in 1980-81.

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A new discovered 10th planet, called Lametal, will collide with earth on 9th September 1999. While the impact won't affect the giant ice planet critically, earth will be destroyed. Yayoi, daughter of Lametal's queen and entrusted with the mission to abduct a large number of humans for slavery, befriends the orphaned boy Hajime and starts to question the intentions of her mother. Together with her human family and friends, she takes up the fight against Lametal and searches for a way to avoid earth's destruction. This is a true classic manga with a dark and tragic story, signed by Leiji Matsumoto's distinctively art style. It's set in the same story universe as Captain Harlock and Galaxy Express 999 (Leijiverse) but several hundred years prior to those two.

A series revolving around an elementary school teacher named Machiko, who wears a revealing mini-skirt, and is regularly finding herself in accidental sexual situations.

A twisted old man, gifted with extrasensory powers, silently holds sway over an entire block of apartments. The occupants are puppets for him to control. Life is his to give…and to take. But suddenly there is a new voice in his head, and before he knows it, a young girl with her own battery of psychic abilities has arrived to challenge him! Soon, the sprawling complex becomes a battleground between two minds possessing incredible, unimaginable power.

(from MangaUpdates): Tezuka himself is a main character in this one, about a mangaka who finds himself in a science fiction story about robots and transforming creatures. This is an adaptation of the tokusatsu series Thunder Mask.

This is volume 5 of the Kuwata Jirou Masterpiece Selection. (from ebookjapan): A small, unnamed island exists in the nearby waters of South America. Its location is not clear because the island changes its position little by little due to volcanic activity. There is a cursed forest on the island, and it is said that there is a master of the forest who has been living for hundreds or thousands of years, but the master of the forest never dies thanks to the water of life that allows him to live forever. Hearing this story, the sailors search the island for the water of life... but what is waiting for them?

Collection of early works by Jiro Taniguchi. Table of Contents: Saketa hōkō (裂けた咆哮) Za pakku (mure) (ザ・パック [群れ]) Yūkara no mori (ユーカラの森) Irataka no juzu (イラタカの数珠) Arano o ayume (荒野を歩め) Kareshibanada (枯柴灘) Taka (鷹)

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Ayako is a young girl of wealthy family, but in her past hides a terrible secret: her real mother had been raped in prison by a mysterious hideous creature, resulting in her birth. Ayako is perpetually chased by Dr. Ogata, who is trying to expose her demonic origins. The work remained incomplete, consisting of six independent chapters.

(from ebookjapan): A collection of George Akiyama\'s masterpieces, including eight heart-wrenching masterpieces and shocking problem stories. Jun, an innocent boy who loves his dog Jiro, is asked by his mother to find a pair of sandals that Jiro seems to have hidden. Jun orders Jiro to look for the sandal, but Jiro somehow brings Dostoevsky\'s \"The Brothers Karamazov\" with him. ......?