Once upon a time, there was a princess who locked herself up in the top of a little tower, and a young man set on becoming the palace artist. When the King decrees that, "He who can paint a portrait of the 'Locked-up Maiden' will be made the palace artist", Gunjou thinks he's set… but the princess is not willing to come down, and Gunjou is not willing to give up.

One volume of touching short stories revolving around life, death, companionship, and the deeper meaning to be found in the world around us. Includes the following short stories: 1. Once Upon a Time A lost little girl wants to find her way home… 2. See You Next Time A girl calmly reminisces about her dead friend. 3. Imp in the Night A little imp wonders why he's afraid of the night. 4. Sakura Antique Store The story of an old watch sitting in the window display of the Sakura Antique Store. 5. Shiroi Kumo (White Clouds) A beautiful and touching story about life, death, and the heartening belief that we will all arrive at the same place when our time has come. 6. Molehill The story of a young mole who decides to become human so that he can see his girlfriend's face… 7. The Lands of Dreams A girl is trapped in an endless dream… 8. Grape Picking Two teachers discuss the godliness of children. 9. Let's Go Home An elderly couple's reminiscences as they pay a visit to the village from their shared childhood. 10. The Story of a Flower They don't have a mother, but… 11. The Road Where Flowers Bloom A careworn man whose life stuck in a rut, a book with Sakura blossoms stuck in the pages, a mysterious woman who claims to have been killed by him, a childhood best friend's mysterious reappearance… 12. Egg Water The taste of the water bubbling up from a well in the backyard of a little old lady's house… 13. Hoppie's Bear The unlikely friendship between a lovelorn office worker and a strange – and strangely mature – girl. 14. To A Certain Place… Returning home.

1: Oeufs D'ange (Tenshi no Tamago) A man is asked by a young painter to be her model. 2: Velvet Going Underground A doll becomes a super idol. Hijinks ensue. 3: Childhood's End Alastair runs away and meets the Rabbit. 4: Bite Me Something Allistaire followed Mr. Rabbit all the way to Wonderland. Will he be able to find him among the crowd? 5: Long Along Alonging A girl asks a vampire to be his apprentice. But what is her motive? 6: Till Dawn In a dark tower, a caged voice is singing until a hunted man enters the darkness. 7: Leçon Un Sequel to Long Along Alonging. 8: My Skin On My Back 9: Highland Walker Sequel to Leçon un. 10: Perfect World The story of a young wife whose husband is infected with a fatal disease called Flower-Blossomitis. 11: Perfect Lady Sequel to Perfect World and drawn especially for this book. 12-13: Looks Like A Teaspoon A boy named Allistaire is often teased at his all-boys school. One night he dresses like a girl and stumbles upon the boy who often bullies him, Simon. Allistaire runs off into a tower and as Simon runs after him, we see the sign "Welcome to Wonderland" hanging by the tower's door. 14: The Pearl Blue Story Do you believe in mermaids? Coggy, a young boy finds a mysterious lady laying down near the shore of the beach. He brings her home to help her. 15: I Am A Piano A piano tells the story of her life and the people she encounters. 16: Parade

Rayet, codenamed Scuro, works as an assassin for the infamous group Scarlet. His sole job is to assassinate other assassins as part of the "clean up team". Sick of taking lives, Rayet attempts to leave Scarlet. With the help of a fortune teller named Junki and his assistant Ritsuna, Rayet may succeed. However, Scarlet's rules do not contain a way to let him leave alive.

In a certain country, drinking fresh water can be dangerous, and beer is brewed as a result. Freia, a young girl who hopes to become a master brewmeister, travels with her beer-loving companion Kater in search of a sparkling, golden beer.

In the distant future, Earth has been devastated and its inhabitants seek a new home in the heavens. However, constant warfare forces humans to return to Earth, which has turned into an uninhabitable planet except for a certain area called the Divine States. The Divine States are too small to accommodate all the humans, so they duplicated the area and created the Harmonic Divine States. In order to retrace their steps and rediscover their journey to the heavens, the returned humans began to reproduce history from the year 10,000 BC, using a mysterious history book called Testament. History reproduction proceeds smoothly until A.D. 1413, when a war broke out in the Divine States. This causes the Harmonic Divine States to crash onto the original world. The humans living in the Harmonic Divine States lose their land and invade the original world. The people of the Divine States surrender and they are divided by the invaders from the Harmonic Divine States. They try to resume the reproduction of history from A.D.1457, but the update of history terminates in A.D.1648. A rumor of apocalypse begins to spread around the world.

One day, Sagara Kurohiko who was fed up with everything is surrounded by a bright light and loses consciousness. When he wakes up, he finds himself in a different world with a humongous tree! In addition, he for some reason can easily read the “forbidden spells” that nobody has been able to read thus far. Because of that, he ends up enrolling in the academy that trains “Sacred Tree Knights”. **Hiatus Note:** After the latest Chapter 3, the series went on hiatus in October 2018 due to original author Shinozaki Kaoru's poor health, which made it difficult for them to supervize the manga series. ___ **Character Designer:** [Shimesaba Kohada](https://mangadex.org/author/87fa8e4c-b760-4ff8-a208-37a7bc31ca27)

Once upon a time Little Red Riding Hood Risa fell in love at first sight with Ren, a boy from the wolf tribe. She pursues him even though it is forbidden and despite Ren's rejections. What will happen?

An artbook with a couple VQ-themed mangas, and comments about the first Vanquished Queens book. **Cover**: Mibu Natsuki (みぶなつき)

Queen's Blade: Vanquished Queens (Visual Book) is an alternative series in the Queen's Blade franchise. It's remarkable for its depiction of the cast being "vanquished", or defeated in means usually contradictory to the what happened in the anime. Scenes of the beautiful fighters being defeated, that reveal new events that happened between Queen's Blade and Queen's Blade Rebellion and explain why most of the previous characters aren't back for the Rebellion saga. --- **Illustrations list**: **Volume 1** 1. **Cover**: Eiwa (えぃわ) 2. Eiwa (えぃわ) 3. Akaga Hirotaka (赤賀博隆) 4. Hirata Katsuzou (平田雄三) 5. Eiwa (えぃわ) 6. F.S 7. Kuuchuu Yousai (空中幼彩) 8. Takamura Kazuhiro (高村和宏) 9. Kuroki Masahiro (黒木雅弘) 10. ZundarePon (ズンダレぽん) 11. Mibu Natsuki (みぶなつき) 12. Matsuryuu (松竜) 13. Kantaka (かんたか) 14. Eiwa (えぃわ) 15. Koume Keito (小梅けいと) 16. Tsurugi Hagane (蔓木鋼音) 17. Nakano Tomokazu (中野友和) 18. Oda non (織田non) 19. Hiiro Yuki (緋色雪) 20. Morisawa Haruyuki (森沢晴行) --- **Volume 2** 1. **Cover**: Oda non (織田non) 2. Eiwa (えぃわ) 3. Akaga Hirotaka (赤賀博隆) 4. F.S 5. Kantaka (かんたか) 6. Koume Keito (小梅けいと) 7. Tsurugi Hagane (蔓木鋼音) 8. Nakano Tomokazu (中野友和) 9. Hiiro Yuki (緋色雪) 10. Morisawa Haruyuki (森沢晴行) 11. Kuuchuu Yousai (空中幼彩) 12. Oda non (織田non) 13. Eiwa (えぃわ) 14. F.S 15. Eiwa (えぃわ) 16. ZundarePon (ズンダレぽん) 17. Hirata Katsuzou (平田雄三) 18. Kuroki Masahiro (黒木雅弘) 19. Hisayuki Hirokazu (久行宏和) 20. Kaneko Hiraku (金子ひらく) --- **Volume 3** 1. **Cover**: Matsuryuu (松竜) 2. Eiwa (えぃわ) 3. Matsuryuu (松竜) 4. F.S 5. Kantaka (かんたか) 6. Koume Keito (小梅けいと) 7. Tsurugi Hagane (蔓木鋼音) 8. Nakano Tomokazu (中野友和) 9. Hiiro Yuki (緋色雪) 10. Morisawa Haruyuki (森沢晴行) 11. Kuuchuu Yousai (空中幼彩) 12. Oda non (織田non) 13. Eiwa (えぃわ) 14. F.S 15. Eiwa (えぃわ) 16. ZundarePon (ズンダレぽん) 17. Homare (誉) 18. Kaneko Hiraku (金子ひらく) 19. 2-go (２号) 20. F.S

From Terrad: Sae and her friends from school make the "Magic-Users Club", where they try to learn magic (usually ending in some horrible/funny mess-up). Note: Image at MangaUpdates is wrongly attributed to this series and belongs to the alternate story. Please do not replace it.

Mari Kurusu has had a crush on Kuro Rouzen (the weird guy in her class) for quite a while and when he eats her love letter she thinks it means rejection. Later she finds out his secret, that he is part of a top-secret organization that protects the humans of Earth and he brings her back to the organization to erase her memories. But for some reason, the organization choose's not to erase her memory…

Konohana Kitan is the heartwarming story of a new apprentice named Yuzu, and the other fox girls who work at a hot spring hotel called Konohatei. The staff at Konohatei live by one belief: no matter who one may truly be, no matter what, anyone who is a guest is a god. Of course, that includes you. Let the hospitality of Yuzu and the Konohatei heal your tired soul.

Set in a village inhabited by Youkai, Konohanatei Kitan presents the lives of several fox mononoke working in a hot spring inn. The stories revolve around a new employee, Yuzu. Yuzu had always been living in the mountains, but now has to adjust to a new life working in a high class inn. She is oblivious and clumsy at first, but with her simple cuteness, she is able to get along with all the other foxes.

One day a boy named Pete finds a map of "Treasure Island" that his deceased father left behind. He starts on a voyage to find it together with "Captain," who was a friend of his father. But his ship is attacked by pirates, led by Bowarl, and the two are caught. When a storm hits the pirate ship, the two are thrown into the sea and washed up on the shore of a solitary island in the southern ocean. To their surprise, this island is the one they have been looking for… The manga that made Tezuka famous. It is an action-adventure drama inspired by Robert Louis Stevenson's book. This is the redone version for the Tezuka 400 Complete Works. When time came to collect NTI for the Complete Works, Tezuka had promised that *All* of his works would get collected, but the original version was presumed lost. Tezuka, wishing to keep on his promise, decided to redraw the entire manga from memory. The version restored characters previously cut (like Peter Pan). The original ending was also restored, making this the definitive version of *New Treasure Island*. Among other alterations, this 1984 version is a 4Koma manga whereas the original was a mix of 2/3Koma. --- **Volume 281 of the Osamu Tezuka Complete Works**

A fantasy story for kids featuring a girl named Melmo, who can change her age as she wishes by eating special candies. Melmo's mother dies in a traffic accident, leaving young Melmo and her younger brother Totoo. Anxious, Melmo's mother in heaven asks God to prepare some magical candies, and hands them to Melmo. There are two kinds: Melmo can grow 10 years older to become any sort of adult she wishes by eating a blue candy. By eating a red one, she can become 10 years younger. Using these miracle candies, Melmo disguises herself as a nurse, schoolteacher, policewoman, and overcomes troubles together with her brother, Totoo. --- **Volume 280 of the Osamu Tezuka Complete Works**

A short overview of the life of Oda Nobunaga, as told from the perspective of a ninja fighting other time-travelling ninjas! (from amazon.jp): The mangaka, who had serialized "Blazing Ninjaman" in Shonen Sunday, received an offer from Shogakukan's "Middle School 6th Grader" to make something for children, and he obliged. It is said to be a masterpiece even better than the original Sunday serial. The main character is also named "Ninjaman" but it is an original work with a completely different protagonist and worldview. It is a historical action Ninja vs. Ninja gag manga that revolves around Oda Nobunaga.

Tomboyish Himeko loves sports and playing with the boys, but longs to be a feminine, gentle girl like her name implies. When it looks like all is lost, suddenly a familiar face gives her a magical hair ribbon that grants Himeko the ability to appear like anyone in the human world in return for being a magical observation subject. This is a remake of the classic shoujo manga and anime of the early 90's by Mizusawa Megumi.

A collection of five short and funny stories set in the first four years. Chapter 1: Hermione's heart gets stolen … by Malfoy?! Chapter 2: Harry lets Hermione and Ron cut his hair - with disastrous results. Chapter 3: The whole of Gryffindor starts a snowball fight, and somehow, Snape gets involved …

In the eight volumes of the series, the mangaka choses some of the most famous operas of all times to tell their stories. The first two volumes deal withe the operas in Wagner's Ring Cycle, the third contains La Traviata, Rigoletto, Aida and so on, each o the volumes containing various operas, their actions being divided in acts following the staging tradition.

Igarashi sensei (Candy Candy, Lady Georgie, Akage no An) delights us now with this wonderful tale. Official Release: - Indonesian release by Elex Media Komputindo as **Wizard of Oz** (2008)

1967, summer. Kenichi, a 11 years old boy, discovers a magic mountain, thanks to a salamander confined in a museum. Read left-to-right.

Based on the Dragon's Dogma video game, this manga series is about the adventures of the Arisen Karol and his main pawn Elise. Karol's simple life as a fisherman changed when his home village of Cassardis was attacked by a dragon, who then proceeds to consume his heart, marking him as the Arisen. Now he seeks to reclaim his heart and along the way, he learns more of what truly makes an Arisen and of the mysterious Pawn Legion.

Set in a world where every object has its own spirit, the story follows Miles, a young woman who has the rare ability to communicate with those spirits. Working as a spirit medium, Miles helps people find the objects that are compatible to them. Assisting her is a mysterious man named Gikaku who’s literally not from this world. Dubbed as the “god of destruction” Gikaku wields a terrible power which, as it seems, only Miles can contain. But for how long?