When Kazusa enters high school, she joins the Literature Club, where she leaps from reading innocent fiction to diving into the literary classics. But these novels are a bit more…adult than she was prepared for. Between euphemisms like fresh dewy grass and pork stew, crushing on the boy next door, and knowing you want to do that one thing before you diediscovering your budding sexuality is no easy feat! As if puberty wasn’t awkward enough, the club consists of a brooding writer, the pretti...

His name is Alfardo J. Donson, novelist and ... crocodile. Together with his very good friend Rabbit Boy, he undertakes gentlemanly adventures in culinary excellence throughout Japan (Sanuki udon in the “udon” prefecture, oysters at an oyster shack somewhere on the Sanriku Coast … you get the idea), encountering other intriguing denizens of the animal kingdom along the way. Whether you love animals, love to eat out, love nobility or love the book One Stormy Night, your cravings will certai...

Stop comparing and start blossoming.In Japanese, the expression Oubaitori refers to four flowering trees - cherry, plum, peach and apricot. While each blooms in its own way, none is considered more beautiful than the other. The message is simple yet profound: there is no need to compare, because you are on your own unique path.This book offers a gentle invitation to honour your individuality and embrace the pace of your own growth. With mindful med...

From the writer of "Anohana: The Flower We Saw That Day" and "The Anthem of the Heart" comes the next expressive tale of the fight against one's own demons.Mari Okada grew up in rural Chichibu, a truant for most of her adolescent life. She observed school life from afar, often refusing to leave the confines of her room. But with the fateful encounter of a visiting school teacher, Okada found a way through the echelons of school using her untapped skill of turning words on a page in...

In the town of Mifuse, time halted following an explosion at the local steelworks. Ever since the blast, bizarre phenomena have filled the sky, and the townspeople discover they can’t leave the area or contact the outside world. The same old radio and TV shows play, as if they are stuck repeating the day of the explosion. Hopeful that things will go back to normal, the town leaders forbid change to avoid any inconsistencies when time begins to flow again. One day, a teenager named Masamune...

Izumi tells Kazusa that he hasn't thought of doing things with her at all. And Kazusa should feel relieved to hear this, but… Now she's swimming in a sea of confusion over sex and love: How are they different? How are they linked? As these thoughts race through her head, things get more complicated when she spots Nina and Izumi hanging out by themselves. If Nina brought up these questions about sex in the first place, then what if the two are…?

After Nina mentions that she wants to have sex before she dies, the Literature Club starts getting overwhelmed by the complications, the doubts, the delightsjust the idea of sex! But the girls must focus on keeping their club from getting shut down, and an unlikely candidate joins them as their faculty advisor. All the while, Kazusa wrestles with the confusing change in her relationship with Izumi, her childhood friend. As if walking in on him during a solo session wasn’t shocking enough, ...

Protecting your turf, keeping other guys from pawing at your girl, showing everyone who's boss...it's all in a day's work when you're a street thug-er, a street cat!

Kazusa was a quiet middle schooler, but she arrived in high school determined to make friends. So (as a huge Harry Potter fan) she decides to join the literature club. When one of the club's icebreakers is “say one thing you want to do before you die,” one of the girls blurts out “sex.” The prudish club president, the class beauty, and the other nerdy girls' reactions are wildly different. Far from a typical sex comedy, O Maidens in Your Savage Season depicts how these girls challenge and ...

Ella is shocked to find out that her older brother has borrowed a huge amount of money from Zarif. Who’s Zarif? He’s the king of the desert country Vashir and someone who just happened to propose to Ella three years earlier. Ella loved him, but after realizing that he just wanted a physical relationship to create an heir, she turned him down. After her father’s business received a bankruptcy notice, Ella’s mother collapsed. Disgraced and humiliated, Ella goes back to Zarif for help, but he...

Nozomi has married Shinji, an office worker in Tokyo, and is enjoying her newly-wed lifestyle. Until suddenly, Shinji's older brother runs off with his new family, forcing Nozomi to move into Shinji's family's home in the sticks! This is a cheeful manga about the struggles of mother and daughter-in-laws.

This TV drama-turned-manga deals with the everyday lives of three physicians in small-town Nijino. There's Saku, a strange man who's somehow an equally sincere surgeon. Next is Taiyou, a male nurse trying to overcome gender stereotypes. Finally, Masora is a young female internist with a secret. This series follows these three and their comical, heartfelt interactions with each other as well as the community of people that makes up their small town.