Part 1: Hiroshima, 1955. Ten years after the city was consumed by a scorching flash of light, a woman's soul is still deeply shaken by the earth-shattering explosion that devastated her home and changed her life forever.
A family from Hiroshima struggles to come to terms with their survival of the atomic bombing of their city. The protagonist is Minami Hirano, about 20 years of age.
Part 2: Set some decades later, the niece of Minami Hirano is bewildered by her father's mysterious disappearances. She and a friend follow him to discover what he is doing.
The main theme of this is historic manga concerns the question what impact the war and the atomic bombing had on the most vulnerable. Fumiyo Kôno examines this question in her outstanding book- an award-winning, widely-discussed masterpiece.

Note: Won the 2004 Japan Media Arts Festival's Grand Prize for manga and the Tezuka Osamu Creative Award in 2005.

From PresenceDear:

1) Yume Miru Seiza (The Constellation Shine in the Sky)
A businessman misunderstands his newest employee's interest in Shinjuku.

2) Hakuchuu Byakuya (Midday, Midnight Sun)

3) Beautiful Days
Yamaguchi was bullied in elementary school. His one friend, the class president, disappeared without a word before they entered middle school, but Yamaguchi never forgot him

4) Summer Landmarks
As a child, Minoru promised to keep his grandfather's secret. Years later, a private detective starts poking around the family rental property, asking questions about the past. But, as it turns out, Minoru's grandfather is not the only one with a secret.

5) Renai Kyoubushou (Love Phobia)

Extra) Friday Next Week
Continuation of Yume Miru Seiza

From ShoujoMagic:

• 3D Material
Suzushiro, a 19-year-old design student, was tired of living every day the same as the one before it, and that was why she agreed to give her virginity to Eiichi. He asked her in a bold and simple way; she replied simply, and there were no strings attached. Now, as Eiichi's eye wanders to Mizuno, a business student who's much cuter and more popular than Suzushiro, Suzushiro wants to know where she stands with Eiichi.

• Angel's Hallway

A nightmare-devouring tapir becomes stuck in Akane's dreams until she can feed him a proper nightmare.

Compilation of short stories:

1. Rabu. Sutori Ichi Musu (Love stream)

2. Wandering

3. Tomadoi
A mangaka falls in love at first sight with his new assistant editor. The mangaka's assistant who was a classmate of the assistant editor tries to be their cupid...

4. Fighting Love 20 Years

5. Fighting Love 2000

6. Refrain

7. Drifting and Whirling
Hero regularly dates with a younger and rich office worker for money! But soon, he can't keep such an unfaithful relationship...

8. The Miracle of Christmas
A homosexual college student who is working at a convenience store falls in love with his colleague, a heterosexual and gamblesome high school graduate. Hero keeps pretending to be a good friend but soon he can't anymore because the colleague finds a girlfriend. Then another colleague, a very fat boy who has a steady girlfriend tries to play cupid...

Extra

Coming in an omnibus form, it's a side story of Toribako House! The words you longed for, the many things you held dear, everything and everyone, right here!! A girl who has no luck with guys, a weak-spirited otaku boy, a natural lady-killer, a middle-aged couple, a distant relationship -- everyone keeps looking for happiness!?

Stories from the Oniyuri Hot Spring, a no-name hot spring which slowly starts to gain fame as more women come to visit.

Interlinked stories.

From Mohiro Kitoh, the author of Narutaru and Bokurano, comes this wonderful collection of short stories that reinforces his reputation as a skillful story teller. Spanning almost 20 years of the artist’s career—from his professional debut work Zansho to his latest contribution to IKKI magazine Pochi no Basho—this collected volume offers a unique view of Kitoh’s artistic development.

Includes:
1. Zansho - Summer Heat
2. The Girl on the Pole at the Intersection on 3rd Street
3. Bringing Flowers to Kasei Inn
4. Soiled, Beautiful
5. A & R
6. Papa's Song
7. Pochi's Place

From Lezhin:
A realist lesbian accidentally comes out to a closeted lesbian, whose only lesbian experience was through 2-D artworks. Find out how their college lives start involving a daily dose of lily.

1. Hada no Ue no Renai Jijou (Above Skin Love Circumstances)
Yamaji is a middle-aged, middle school art teacher who is dating Tsukishima, a younger man. Tsukishima possesses a perfect body type, which Yamaji loves to sketch. Reflecting on that perfection, Yamaji realizes his own body is less than perfect - flabby! - and he needs to improve it before Tsukishima rejects him because of it.

2. Zaiaku wa Hada no Ue ni (Sin Is Above Skin Level)
Tsukishima, a regular businessman, has begun a blissful life living with his lover Yamaji. But though things are happy on the surface, Tsukishima can't shake the feeling that Yamaji only likes his body...

3. Hada no Ue ni Furu Hana (The Flowers Touch)
Tsukishima and Yamaji admire the cherry blossoms together. While looking at the beautiful trees, Tsukishima thinks that Yamaji is far more beautiful. A springtime continuation with our lovely couple.

4. Renai Tsuu (Heartache)
When stoic Mizusawa, a janitor, saves businessman Aoki from falling down some stairs, he gets a friend for life! Aoki is always tracking him down at lunch time just so they can eat together. But Mizusawa isn't sure how he feels about Aoki...

5. Renai Tsuu - Akka

6. Yurusareta Uta (Permitted Song)
Humans keep monsters as slaves for fighting and protection, but there is one, Zai who refuses to fight. Zai is special since he can use magic by creating spells with his songs, but he refuses to sing too... will he, for his master?

7. Omake
Three pages about the characters from Yurusareta Uta.

From Lezhin: We've all had those days. Drink cuz something awful happened. Drink cuz something really awesome happened. But I'm not as think as you drunk I am!

Li Mei is a chubby girl who can’t hold back from eating junk food. One day, her mother gets her a home tutor, a boy called Jiu Teng Zou, who happens to be a senpai she's long admired. At first he seems cold, but what will happen when they start to get to know each other?*Note: Chinese names are used as this was translated from the Chinese scanlation

A collection of Takemiya Jin's doujinshi, published in tankoubon by Yuri Hime.

1. Otonari-san (The Woman Next Door) 1
2. Otonari-san (The Woman Next Door) 2
3. Chocolat Orange
4. Anta Miteru to Muramura Sunda Kedo (Looking at You Kinda Turns Me On) 1
5. Anta Miteru to Muramura Sunda Kedo (Looking at You Kinda Turns Me On) 2
6. Kimikoishi-uta (A Song About Missing You)
7. Chocolat Orange 2

From Antisense Scanslations:
Adzuki An always wanted a dog, but not just any dog, a Toy Poodle. Her mom is always telling her that no one would be able to take care of it and An can't even take care of herself! Her snacks and school supplies litter the house. Will An be able to convince her family and realize that taking care of a puppy is hard work?

1-3. Harumachi no,
4-6. Hebi no Seikatsu
7. Kotaeawase

One night, on his way home, Kuranosuke encountered his childhood friend, Kazushi Natsui who asked him, "Would you become a mother of a little boy?"

Kuranosuke realized through his ​​insecurity, that the past was no longer buried and distant as he had thought. The fact that Kazushi, his first love, marrying and having a child was something that he could have never imagined. Kuranosuke did not consider the possibility of forming a family at that time, but to help the smart Wakaba, he eventually accepted Kazushi into his life again. However, Kuranosuke couldn't imagine that he meant much more to Kazushi than just as a mother to Wakaba.

A gentle story about girl learning about the world and people.

Due to the job demands of her parents, who repair old buildings and works of art for a living, nine-year-old Mou Yuu has travelled all the way from the city to a rural village. In this village, where the lush greenery of nature has been preserved, Yuu makes new friends and has many adventures with them. Perhaps because of her heritage, or simply because she is in such close contact with nature, she also encounters the supernatural and mysteries that cannot be explained.

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Interesting fact: this work is drawn/written by a Chinese manhua artist, but simultaneously published in Japan. The Chinese and Japanese versions vary, and the dialogue and narrative have been localised to meet the tastes of their respective markets.

The story starts with three friends, they all do art together, trying their hardest, but as the story progresses, the narrator begins to think that life isn't worth it and he doesn't need to try hard anymore.

Eshikawa is a man who has lost sight of his life and stumbles through it, with no clear meaning or purpose. One day, he is informed that his ex-girlfriend committed suicide, which sets his brain on retrospect mode. He goes on a journey of self-revelation and contemplates upon the myriad of human emotions, the joys and sorrows of normalcy.

ABe's manga debut.

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