Sumire 17 Sai!!, by NAGAYOSHI Takeru
Sumire 17 Sai!!, by NAGAYOSHI Takeru
Sumire is a 17 year old high school girl who wants nothing more than to make friends with her new classmates. She’s so disappointed that they all seem to hate her, calling her a pervert, a dirty old man, creepy, weirdo… alas, what is a poor life-sized puppet to do in this cruel world.
Related Series: Sumire 16-sai!! (Alternate Side-story Sequel)
Genre(s): Adventure, Drama, Romance, Shoujo
Sumire 16 Sai!!, by NAGAYOSHI Takeru
Sumire 16 Sai!!, by NAGAYOSHI Takeru
While bicycling to school her first day as a high school student, Renge Ohyama meets a weird girl who on closer inspection appears to be a life-sized doll–and this is not an advanced robotic creation or even a magical doll. Rather, a scary looking middle aged man controls her movements, puppet-like, and speaks for her via ventriloquism. Unfortunately, this perverted-seeming old man and his doll happen to attend her new school. Even worse, is in the same class and sits right behind her. And it seems the doll wants to be friends?!
Genre(s): Adventure, Drama, Romance, Shoujo
HOTEL, by Boichi
HOTEL (complete), by Boichi
Compilation of short stories by Boichi:
• Hotel
It is the year 2272 A.D. A computer continues to live on in order to complete a mission in a world where all life, including Mankind, has gone extinct. This is a record of those 27 million years of its heroic struggle.
• Present
Hanako suffers from a terrible disease. After awakening from a deep slumber, Hanako has only three days to live. During those three days, her husband, Takao, must endure a heart-breaking experience, knowing that the person Hanako really loves isn’t him.
• Subete wa Maguro no Tame da (It Was All for the Tuna)
Tuna have become extinct and Jun Shiozaki will do everything possible and imaginable to bring them back.
• Stephanos
Set in modern-day Japan, our main character Noriko finds out that she is pregnant with her lover Matsumura’s baby. He, however, is an important doctor with a family and everything already. Noriko wants to have the baby, but Matsumura says that it’s actually a rapidly growing cancer and that they have to remove it immediately. It might also be neither of these things…
• Diadem
A “Diadem” is a word for ‘crown’ that has its root in Greek. “Stephanos”, which appeared in “Mandala” 01, was also a ‘crown’. It seems that we could consider this the second work in a continuing series of shorts that should perhaps be called a “Crown series”.
Genre(s): Drama, Sci-fi, Seinen, Tragedy
Wolfsmund (Ookami no Kuchi), by KUJI Mitsuhisa
Wolfsmund (Ookami no Kuchi), by KUJI Mitsuhisa
Wolfsmund is a dark historical manga set in the early 14th century of Europe (Switzerland). The story revolves around the eponymous fortress in the St. Gotthard Pass which is ruled by a sadistic tyrant. Basically, each chapter deals with characters who for some reason have to cross the pass and who end up getting interrogated by the mentioned tyrant.
What sets this manga apart is the fact that there’s rarely a happy ending for our protagonists. The author pulls no punches to show us just how brutal and inhuman the Middle Ages really were.
Genre(s): Action, Drama, Historical, Seinen, Tragedy
QP The Soul of Violence, by TAKAHASHI Hiroshi
QP: The Soul of Violence, by TAKAHASHI Hiroshi
After a four-year absence, Ishida Kotori (QP) returns to the city where even his face instills fear amongst the locals. Trying desperately to move away from his once violent past and live an honest life, former classmate and now high profile gang member, Azuma Ryou, has other plans for QP’s future…
QP: Soul of Violence is written by Takahashi Hiroshi and set within the same universe as his other works, Crows and Worst.
Related Series: QP Gaiden (Side Story)
Genre: Action, Shounen, Seinen
