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Bronze No Tenshi

Plot: Russia, 1828. Natalia's family is fallen nobility, left poor by her father's chronic illness and mother's poor management. Her family's only chance at revival is her marriage to a wealthy noble. With her family's hopes riding on her future husband, what chance does a poor poet have at winning her heart...?

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Hakobune No Yukue

The following content is intended for mature audiences and may contain sexual themes, gore, violence and/or strong language. Discretion is advised. Consists of 6 one-shots: 1) Hakofune no Yukue / The Course of the Ark - Original publication to tankouban - Kurata is going to retire from her company and get married, leaving her problematic relationship with her colleague Sasahara behind. However, her last unlucky elevator ride with Sasahara may force her to face things she intended to leave buried. 2) Week Ender - Published in a doujin called "Megane no Hito" (the person with glasses) on 5/2006 - The brief musings of a woman romantically involved with a man with glasses. 3) Koi, no Youna Mono / Something Like Love - Published in Comic Zero-Sum on 6/2006 - A ramen dinner between friends who might want to be something more. 4) Tsumari ha Byou no Youna / So in Other Words it's Like a Sickness - Published in Comic Zero-Sum on 11/2005 - When he cut his hand one day during his part-time job at a convenience store, high-schooler Satoya met a lovely girl who offered him her handkerchief. Will love blossom between them, or will their personal hangups about romantic relationships doom theirs before it can even begin? 5) World's End Satellite - Published in Melody on 5/2006 - 1) During a disappointing night out, a woman ponders the changes in her relationship with her boyfriend over the two years they've been together. 2) A casual conversation between a woman and her inattentive lover. 6) Sora no Kiyoku / Memories of the Sky - Original publication to tankouban - A woman spends her work holiday with her lover in a haze of sex and thoughts of their relationship. [fallacies & tethysdust]

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Baby Pop

Cool and gorgeous Nagisa paired with her perverted and stupid step-father Ryunosuke makes for a hip-hop story that presents a father and daughter who cannot be honest with each other.

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Alice in Junk Box ~Dia~

A collection of oneshots based on the Alice series.1. Ace story (Ace/Alice)2. ??Related:> Alice in Junk Box( http://www.mangago.me/read-manga/alice-in-junk-box/ )

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Dousei Mou Nigerarenai

From Chibi Manga:Naho dreamt to become an OL but while she was waiting to have the aptitude to become one of them, she started to work in a Design company. But because her manager, Sakisaka, had a bad impression about her, he just played with her. But then, he decided to help her and he even comforted her?!This love story isn't to be dealt with by ordinary means!

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Porando Hishi Ten No Hate Made

In the 18th century, The Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth was an elective monarchy, in which the king was elected by the nobility. The kingdom thrived under its unprecedented in the history of Europe, yet flawed democratic political system. Many difficult t

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K - Memory Of Red

From AQUA Scans:In Shizume city there's a legend about a red king with demon-like abilities that single-handendly created the Homra organization, as long as you get accepted into Homra, you can gain extraordinary powers.

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7 Seeds Fanbook ~Edge of Emotions~

not found...

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Izayakaku

The war between the two clans intensifies. Most of the Genji (Minamoto Clan) have fallen, and were taken as captives. Among them was the young Yoritomo, a surviving successor of the Minamoto Clan. Yoritomo was pardoned by the head of the Taira Clan and was exiled to Hirugakojima, a small island in the Izu province. Yoritomo lived a peaceful and contented life in exile and never once thought of taking revenge.One day, a monk was sent to the same island, supposedly banished for insolence towards the Emperor. Incidentally, this ill-mannered monk called Mongaku is Yoritomo's acquaintance. Mongaku meets Yoritomo and tries to convince him that the time has come to take revenge on the Taira. However, Yoritomo shuns Mongaku’s words….

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The Embalmer

From Tokyopop:A chilling dramatic series about Shinjyurou Mamiya, an embalmer in a nation where men of his profession are viewed as outcasts engaging in an unaccepted and unclean practice. For Shinjyurou, it's just a job. But in doing it, he's gained an understanding of death, and more important, what it truly means to live...

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Amato Amaro (Yaoi)

The following content is intended for mature audiences and may contain sexual themes, gore, violence and/or strong language. Discretion is advised. Economist Vittorio Conti wants to see what having sex with a man is like, and does what any reasonable person would do in his situation: ask his bodyguard if he wants to give it a try. Straightlaced Armando Pagani refuses at first, but for how much longer?

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The Three Times

Plot: Hina, a Japanese foreign student. Junho, sufferer of Elite OCD. Won, a girl with her own way of seeing the world. A campus life story of these three people. Deals with the issues of Japanese, Korean and global society.The author, Yellow Goo Mi, was born in Japan, but since her parents are Korean, the Japanese government will not give her a Japanese citizenship (which is considered a problem in some aspects; these people are slightly alienated by the 'real' Japanese people in society, despite their extremely Japanese upbringing). As a person with a Japanese and Korean heritage, she writes about the problems in modern Japanese and Korean society, plus the global society in more recent chapters.The first part of the webtoon focuses on Hina and the Japanese society, an example being the more increasing problems with Japanese bullying (ijimae).The second part of the webtoon focuses on Jun Ho and the Korean society, an example being the flaws of Korean education system. Currently, the webtoon now focuses on the global society.Original webcomic

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Prince no Shukumei

Back in her lush, beloved Carramer, Carissa Day purchased the perfect Bed and Breakfast for raising her babies-to-be. Trouble was, an aristocratic "intruder" proved she'd been swindled -- her new home was actually his royal lodge. Worse, he proved to be Carissa's teenage crush, Eduard de Marigny, Marquis of Merrisand -- now more irresistible than ever.Penniless and pregnant -- with triplets! -- Carissa had to flee. Eduard, however, had other ideas. Namely, a partnership giving Carissa a title and protection -- and giving him an instant heir. Still, even with reignited passion burning between them, even with a kingdom at her feet, could Carissa wed her first and only love -- and forever forsake having his heart?'Carramer no Yumemonogatari' 3 and #6 of 'The Carramer Legacy' series.

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Deep Love - Pao no Monogatari

Being abandoned by his owners, having his mother die of starvation, a puppy who suffered lifelong separation from his siblings wandered around the city. Meeting and parting with kind people, experiencing brutal treatment from unjust people. Pao, who learned to live within the harshness of reality, awaits even more ordeals...

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Cousin

Tsubomi Shirakawa, 18 years old, has graduated from high school, but while her circle of friends have already found jobs or started college, she has decided to become a -Freeter-, and begins part-timing at a local rental video store. Meanwhile, she finds out that her cousin Noni, whom she has not met from as long as she can remember, has debuted in show business.Tsubomi may have a chubby figure but was uninterested in beauty of figure or form. However that is about to change when, a coworker, Shiro, brings her to visit a bar where she falls in love with the owner, Nasukawa.

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Paradise Kiss

The following content is intended for mature audiences and may contain sexual themes, gore, violence and/or strong language. Discretion is advised. Yukari wants nothing more than to make her parents happy by studying hard and getting into a good college. One afternoon, however, she is kidnapped by a group of self-styled fashion-obsessed artists who call themselves "Paradise Kiss." Yukari suddenly finds herself flung into the roller-coaster life of the fashion world, guided by George, art-snob extraordinaire. In a glamorous makeover of body, mind and soul, she is turned from a hapless bookworm into her friends own exclusive clothing model.In this manga we meet characters from Gokinjo Monogatari like Mikako (and her little sister, Miwako - she's in "ParaKiss" group) and Arashi's father (only poster, but still) and new like Isabella.

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Hikari

Plot: Three students are living fairly normal lives when, one day, they are overcome with intense stomach pain and a star symbol appears like a tatoo on their skin. With the symbol came supernatural powers, as well as enemies coming to kill them.As more and more people develop similar supernatural powers, the story starts to turn into a Battle Royalesque bloody playground, only with an entire city as the setting and many innocents caught in the crossfire.Among other themes, the story asks the question, "When is it alright to kill?" and delves deep into the darkness of the human psyche.

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Tada, Kimi Wo Aishiteru

From Shoujo Manga Maniac:Amateur photographer Makoto and the homely but endearing Shizuru meet during university orientation and become instant friends. Shy by nature, Makoto finds himself opening up around Shizuru, and the two often go to a forest toge

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Chocolate Girl

The following content is intended for mature audiences and may contain sexual themes, gore, violence and/or strong language. Discretion is advised. Plot: Kyouko is an entertainment manager and a negative character. She always think of the worst. She is appointed to scout a troup of actors, and there she meets Riku...

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Hanamuko No Yakusoku

Till death us do part. A solemn wedding vow, and one Lord Deverell's young bride ardently wishes to bring about - sooner rather than later! Only minutes after the wedding, Alexandra is brandishing a pistol at her husband, accusing him of ruining her father and killing her brother. So Deverell makes one more, wholly unexpected, vow: that he's completely innocent of both crimes and will prove it.Â

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Love Cruise*

The following content is intended for mature audiences and may contain sexual themes, gore, violence and/or strong language. Discretion is advised. Plot: Collection of short stories:1) Love CruiseYuri starts her extravagant cruise trip alone, after her aunt calls her and asks Yuri to go in her place since she had to work. However, since Yuri was just dumped by her boyfriend, she couldn't enjoy the trip at all. Then, she is called by an audacious young boy, however, the next time they met, he turns into an adult?!2) Kawaii no ga OsukiEma loves cute things, but they don't suit her. She especially loves the bears created by Minami-san and thinks they will make the perfect wedding gift for her sister. After discovering who Minami really is, will she be able to work with him?3) Otameshi KudasaiNogawa is a serious sales person who only shows a smile to customers and guests. One day, he offers a free sample of fried Gengis Khan to a yakuza princess. Later, she begins working with him, much to his dismay.4) Ryuujin-sama to Oyome-samaOne day, Kawamoto Mizuho encountered a dragon god who chose her as his bride by paying her father a large sum of money. Although unsure of how to emotionally connect with the dragon god, Mizuho consents to the proposal. Can Mizuho learn to love the dragon god, and does he truly love her or does he only want to use her?

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Lady Snowblood

The following content is intended for mature audiences and may contain sexual themes, gore, violence and/or strong language. Discretion is advised. What is Lady Snowblood about? Vengeance. Pure and simple, this is a revenge story.Yuki was named as a child of hell by her mother. Yuki's father was killed by a group of men who conspired to use him to start an uprising; they then brutalized her mother. Her mother subsequently killed one of her attackers and ended up in jail, where Yuki is born. Yuki's mother was serving a life sentence; there was no way she could escape and continue her revenge. Consequently, she concocted a plan which included seducing the guards in order to produce a child who could pass beyond the prison walls.Dying in childbirth, Yuki's mother impresses upon a friend the importance of imparting to her infant daughter the necessity of her revenge--the grudge that she could no longer carry, but which she passed to her daughter. The friend agrees to do so, and Yuki ("snow," so named for her snow-white skin) is trained to become the instrument of her mother's vengenace.Twenty years later, Yuki is a skilled assassin. For the price of 1,000 yen she will perform murderous miracles, often proceeding through trickery, deceit, and the assumption that as a woman she poses as little threat to the criminals she is often dispatching.

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Dear Tear

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Chouritsu Houmuru Zyklus;code

Musical instruments have minds and bodies, feelings and thoughts. When tossed aside and abandoned, they can become corrupted, even murderous. Petrauchka is an instrument unlike the others; she can't make music at all. After she's found by the mysterious Rentarou in a trash heap, they must team up to calm a despairing lute and perhaps reveal the secret to Petrauchka's lack of musical ability. Can Rentarou somehow unlock her latent talents?(Source: Fallen Syndicate)

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Shitsuji Wa Daitanfuteki Ni Uso O Tsuku

The following content is intended for mature audiences and may contain sexual themes, gore, violence and/or strong language. Discretion is advised.

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Ikenai Candy Love

The following content is intended for mature audiences and may contain sexual themes, gore, violence and/or strong language. Discretion is advised. Satoko has suddenly been informed by her irresponsible boss that she’ll be fired soon and only has one more month before she is kicked out. She tried to reason with the company’s number two, Tanigawa-san for some leniency but the cool yet quiet Taniga

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3 AM Dangerous Zone

Plot: Momoko, who dreams of becoming an illustrator, finds employment in an ultra fast-paced office that specializes in designing pachinko parlors!! With the office running a yazuka-like business and employing a designer, who has a habit of suddenly stripping in the middle of the night, Momoko believes that the company employees are a bit... no, definitely eccentric!! She continues pulling all-nighters, unable even to return home... And in the midst of cigarette-filled fumes, where women's authority takes a step back, she asks herself, "Why am I here?"

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Wild Com.

A suspenseful trio of short stories.Psychic Squad Wild Com. finds its lead character struggling with the denial of her psychic abilities--powers that could spell life or death for those around her.The Beasts of June is a poetic tale of urban violence, of two free spirits caught in corruption's heartless grasp.The Eye of the Needle provides a shocking thriller wrapped in the guise of a fame-twisted romance.Tough, intense, and thrilling, WILD COM. offers three distinctly different tales from the master of shôjo action.

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Zoku Anastasia Kurabu

The long-awaited finale to Anastasia Club.

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Water.

Collection of short stories:1.) Colour -Story about two girls who question if it's right to be together2.) Kisses -Story about a young woman who leaves her boyfriend and moves to her best friend apartment not knowing that her friend loves her

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Haru Koi

Collection of short stories.1) Haru Koi2) Ring of an Unrequited Love3) Misa's Eatery4) Nanatsu's Promise

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Ane no Kekkon

Yori Iwatani is close to her 40s and is giving up on love and marriage. She has decided to live a quiet solitary life in her hometown. But when a handsome former classmate appears, things change for her.

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Alichino

From Tokyopop:Beautiful creatures called 'Alichino' grant any wish to those who find them--but at a price!A young lady searching for an Alichino wants to bring her brother back to life. She meets Tsugiri, a handsome young man who she thinks is an Alic

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Broken Angels

The following content is intended for mature audiences and may contain sexual themes, gore, violence and/or strong language. Discretion is advised. From Tokyopop:Fujiwara Sunao is a rather unusual young lady. Not only does she prefer to wear her hair short and dress like a boy, but she also possesses the power to control water! One might think Fujiwara would be an odd fit at her school, but strange

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Toukaidou Hisame - Kagerou

Halfway through the Tokaido, Hisame’s adventure continues with his childhood friend Itsuki. The plot thickens as Hisame discovers things about his father, and the mysterious demon blade Sengo Muramasa that used to belong to him. Yakumo, a newly introduced antagonist, desperately tries to get his hands on this sword, and will use all means to achieve his goal. The only link to Hisame's past and clues to as why Yakumo wants the demon blade lies with Hisame's sensei, Hibiki. Can Hisame discover his past and put the pieces together?This manga is the sequel to Tokaido Hisame.

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Takemiya Jin – Web Extras

Collection of Takemiya Jin's web-only oneshots, released on Rakuen: Le Paradis' website.All previous web extras are available as part of the Love & Piece series, published in Omoi no Kakera.

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Otomodachi Kara Hajimemashou.

Akira is a young girl who, while not a recluse, is incredibly awkward when it comes to socializing. She desperately wants to make a friend, but it seems like it will take ages before that will ever happen.

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Happiness (yoshizumi Wataru)

From ShoujoLove:Akatsu-kun is a young man in love with his work partner, Kayano-san, a pretty and intelligent woman. One day, while Akatsu-kun was shopping in a little store, he saw a little boy who was reading a Playboy magazine, then, Akatsu-kun reali

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50 X 50

Kawanishi Wataru and Higashino Shuzou have known each other for 10 years. They both work at the same company, and they both hate each other, thinking the other is competition. One day, out of the blue, they find themselves in bed together... and that's when their denial begins! [from BAA]

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Hataraki Man

This is one-shot stories of working people drawn from the viewpoint of Matsukata Hiroko, who is a 28-year-old single woman and is an editor of Weekly Magazine, JIDAI. She's often at odds with Tanaka Kunio, a novice editor. Her work already stresses her out and he's unapologetic about his own mistakes! Everyone refers to Hiroko as a masculine woman for how seriously she takes her work. She smokes too much, works too much, and never has sex. However, when it's time to get a story done, she switches into "Working Man" mode where her testosterone in her blood increases, she works three times her normal speed, and all thoughts of life's necessities disappear.--Please read at Entropy website

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Yami No Alexandra

Venice, 17th century. Safinia lives a simple and happy life with her father, a renowned artisan and his apprentice Angelo. Everything changes when a man named Ricardo Carrá comes looking for her saying the rich Poliziano family wants her as the lady's companion who has "a weak constitution". However there's more to it than it seems and after her refusal, her father is mysteriously accused of robbery and murdered.

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Worldend: Debugger

Miharu is smart, attractive and talented. One could say he's been playing life in "easy mode". That is until a teddy bear steals his wallet and a strange man comes out of an arcade game and demands Miharu play a game; the D-game! What's worse, the man even claims to be from the future. What will happen when Miharu must play to survive?

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My Sweet Honey?

From HaruHime:Story 1. Use our rental to get yourself a boyfriend. You don’t have to return him, so you can have him for as long as you want.

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Udon No Onna

not found...

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Planet Ladder

From Tokyopop:Kaguya is the orphaned survivor of a war she can't remember. She has grown to love her new life and the parents who have adopted her, until once again, her life is torn away from her. A boy she remembers only in her dreams comes to Kaguya and gives her the truth ... that she is a princess from another world...

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Zanbara

Ichiyo and Akehiko (both 15 years old) have been brought up in an amicable environment at a prosperous restaurant in Japan. They live a safe, happy life, but, as was the norm in feudal Japan, they train at the local dojo with determination to become strong. The times are turbulent, and violence brims the streets of nineteenth century Japan. Under such conditions the boys will have to learn what it means to wield a sword, to take someone’s life and understand the precarious life of living by the sword. [ravfar]

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Futago

From Stiletto Heels:Yukari was enjoying her single life when her elder twin sister, Ayaka, suddenly pays her a visit to ask her for some strange advice, and brings along a guy she met in Hong Kong with her! This is a story about a set of mismatched twins.

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Koi (matsumoto Tomo)

[From In the Water]:Mouri has been dragged into a gokon by her best friend but Mouri neither wants a boyfriend nor is afraid of showing her true self, as crude as her personality may be. But when she catches the eye of a guy just as relentless, and cree

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Tomie

Tomie was serialized in Gekkan Halloween, a shoujo horror manga magazine (The magazine is now defunct).Plot overview:Every male who encounters Tomie becomes obsessed with her and eventually kills and dismembers her. But Tomie is not human, and is always reborn...Note: There is a third volume of Tomie called "Tomie: Again" which was included in the new japanese reissued two- volume version of the Junji Ito Horror Comic Collection (???? ?????). These new stories are not included in the original ComicsOne editions of Tomie, but are available in Dark Horse's Museum of Terror volume 2.Note 2: Besides Junji Ito's Horror Comic Collection (Also called Museum of Terror), in 2000 Tomie was also published in a compilatory tankoubon called "Tomie, The Complete of Tomie" -???? ???THE COMPLETE OF TOMIE-. Regardless of the title, this volume does not include "Tomie Again" within its pages.Note 3: Some people also consider "Tomie no kyoufu gaka" [ ??????? ?? ??] as part of the Tomie franchise. Tomie no kyoufu gaka was the first Tomie's compilatory tankoubon that was ever released (It was published in 1996) and features five stand-alone stories (Gaka, Ansatsu, Mouhatsu, Youjo and Takitsubo) that were published a year later in Junji Ito's Horror Comic Collection.(For more information about Junji Ito and his other works visit: junjiito.mutagene.net )

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Arcana 16: Fairy Tales/nursery Tales

Volume 16 : Fairy Tales/Nursery Tales1. The Golden Wolf and Red Riding Hood by Takayama Shinobu2. The Grateful Crane by Saeki Yashirou3. Pinkylina by D. Kissan4. Shiro by Kaede Tooru and Mizutani Yuzu5. The Snake King by Kayase Shiki6. Little Merman by Kari Erika7. A Little Old Japanese Tale by Ogaki Chika8. Akazukin-san to Ookami-san by Ninagawa Tomo9.10. The Prince is a Herbivore by Kanou Ayumi11. Stork's Contract by Akanatsu12. Piggies by Mitsu Nanae13. The Snake and the Black Lion by Serikawa Mame14. The Centennial Brier and the Oblivious Princess (The 100 Year Thorns and the Unknowing Princess) by Akazaki Mutsumi15. Thumbelina – Another Side by Mikami Ritsuhiro16. Godfather Death God by Sakura Maro

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Lega No 13

From Aerandria Scans:Venice, the latter half of the 16th century. Young Legare works as an apprentice to his father, an apothecary, but his real passion is the forbidden art of Alchemy. One day, a fortune teller predicts that he will meet four people with the power to change destiny and shortly after, his father is incarcerated on suspicion of alchemy. Legare, the real alchemist, is forced to produce gold for the person who arrested his father. Follow him through the mysteries of Venice, through his struggles, his encounters with powerful friends and enemies, and his search for the Philosopher's stone.

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Chronos - Deep

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Gente - Ristorante no Hitobito

Plot: Follow-up to Ristorante Paradiso, that focuses on the daily lives of Casetta Dell'orso's staff.

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K - Lost Small World

Is the story of how Misaki Yata and Saruhiko Fushimi met and parted ways.

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