Omohide Poro Poro follows Taeko Okajima, an eleven-year old girl as she goes through life as a fifth-grader in 1966. Made into the studio Ghibli film Only Yesterday.
weekly comic strips of a teen girls thoughts and dumb moments
From Day of the River: Nakajima Hiromi was born into an ordinary family and raised under ordinary circumstances. Working at a medium-sized company, she hopes that one day she'll be able to attain some sort of happiness. With the fear of being isolated, Hiromi isn't sure how to interact with her introverted coworker, Katsuma Yukihiro. But in order to help things along, somehow Hiromi has entered his home... and will be living with him?!
Amanda is a little girl who feels lonely because her mother is too busy to play with her. She gets a pet ferret named Peach who acts like a princess and treats everything like a fairy tale. Amanda and Peach get into funny antics with their friends and other pet ferrets on a daily basis!
From Manga-Sketchbook: 14 pages short story which originally appeared in AERA COMIC'S "Nippon no Manga" anthology. To get anything other than the pretty pictures out of this short story, one should have read Natsume Souseki's Sanshiro.
Hugh is haunted by a dream of a strange Victorian house that he doesn't remember ever seeing in life. This dream, while not at all unpleasant, is becoming more vivid every time he enters it. His close friends, affluent Vladimir and clothes designer Vi, are concerned for his well-being, and they reach out to their wider circle of acquaintances in an effort to make sense of Hugh's predicament before it is too late. Yoshimi Uchida quit writing many years ago and rumour has it that she’s been turning down offers for reprint.
Machiko should be floating on cloud nine. She's snagged the most popular guy in her grade and she's finally been able to form a close friendship with someone in her class for the first time in her life. But things aren't so simple---the other girls in the class are quick to accuse her of not being serious about her new boyfriend, and bad rumors are starting to spread around the school about her. So when she meets Takaya, a rebellious teenager who's the same grade as her younger sister, she can't help but be drawn to him, and he seems equally attracted to her. Who will she choose?
"Well then, how much will you pay to have me?" - Office worker Sumika has lived in perpetual mourning since losing Haruki, her first love who once lifted her out of the grief of losing her only family. A friend from work drags her out to a party, and there she meets Mr. Katsuragi, the vice president of the company hosting the party. It ought to be their first time meeting... and yet, he gives off the impression of already knowing Sumika very well. On top of that, just when Sumika is at her wits' end trying to think of a way to save the family that took her in, Mr. Katsuragi offers to buy her hand in marriage...?
After taking some time away from relationships and love, it's been 10 years... "How can I find a girlfriend?" Mukai is a man in his 30's living at home with his family. He realized it's been 10 years since he's had a girlfriend. He told his last girlfriend, Miwako, that he wanted to "protect her". He was then told "what does that even mean?" and their relationship eventually fell apart. Ever since then, Mukai has felt things like "love" and "marriage" were distant concepts. However, he starts to find interest in the new person in the office, Nakatani...? Now begins Mukai's new search for love, stuck between new encounters and memories of his past!+
Life can be so wonderful as terrible. The young Umeno, bullied since she started high school, decided to put an end to her life, but her suicide attempt failed and she survives. And it's precisely in the hospital that fate seems to provide her a new beginning, she'll know people who would show her a different meaning of life, above all a boy her own age in a terminal illness ...Can hope germinate even in the coldest of winters?
There's a rural legend that says that if you find a red sea glass, your love will come true. A simple, slice-of-life romance in a small town.
Introducing a new manga for Kirby\'s 25th anniversary! This is the peaceful land of Pupupu. But the pink, round, hungry little guy, Kirby, is always causing a ruckus and making things very lively! Even Hikawa Hirokazu, the creator of the first Kirby series in CoroCoro, gave his approval! It\'s the 25th anniversary of the series, and the start of a new manga series!
