Oumi Shigemori, also known as Hanjo, is from a long line of merchants. He knows the tricks of the trade when it comes to business and making profits. But Hanjo understands that profits have to be long term and taking short cuts in business decisions eventually leads to a collapse. Making sure the buyer, the seller, and the community all benefit from the transaction is Hanjo’s philosophy. He travels around the country, helping both small and big businesses turn their finances from a molehill to a mountain.

Each volume depicts a different heroine. - Vol. 1: Tachibana Tsubomi Tells the story of Tsubomi Tachibana, a fifth grader dealing with issues such as her mother's pregnancy, her first period, and the strange feelings she has started to get when she has been around boys. - Vol. 2: Kusakabe Tsubomi Tells the story of Tsubomi Kusakabe, a fifth grader, who encounters an alien wanting to do research of earth. It turns out he has picked Tsubomi to be his research subject. - Vol. 3: Shiina Tsubomi - Vol. 4: Katanashi Tsubomi - Vol. 5: Aizaki Tsubomi - Vol. 6: Nike Tsubomi - Vol. 7: Yagi Tsubomi - Vol. 8: Honda Tsubomi Won the Shogakukan Manga Award for children's manga in 2009. (From: MU, MAL)

A bunch of love problems surround her life. Futamura Umiho is a girl with a weak personality. A new flower is about to bloom! A fresh and inspirational story is blooming. A love between flower and thunder!

Sora-iro no Hibiki is a spin-off series of Papa no iukoto wo Kikinasai!. This particular series is a prequel, starting about one year before the regular series, that tells the story of the Elder sister, Sora, and her new life as a junior high freshman.

Hibi Chouchou + Hirunaka no Ryuusei crossover in the May 5th issue of Margaret in 2014. Hirunaka no Chouchou - a Shocking Day for New Discoveries A shopping mall date with Suiren and Kawasumi. But… Suiren gets lost?! She and a small girl find themselves at the Lost Child centre where suddenly Suzume and Mamura come along! Released as chapter 75.4 in volume 12 of Hibi Chouchou. Hibi Ryuusei - Suzume’s Parallel School Diary The Suzume who steals everybody’s attention at the high school entrance ceremony. Though she's no great beauty, she does things at her own pace and is a hot topic amongst everyone. In the middle of this, the only person who doesn’t notice her, Kawasumi – will he become interested?!

During the second half of the 19th century, Europe became intrigued by the Japanese culture. A Japanese girl named Yune travels to France, where she started working in the lower parts of a town in Paris at a craft store called Enseignes du Roy. She and the store owner named Claude communicate with each other in order to get over their cultural differences. This is the story of Yune's stay in Paris.

Doujin Market. It is a place where individuals sell their self-published books. Each participant works daily to achieve their personal goals. While their are some who obtain their dreams, there are also those who get pounded by reality. This is the story of those who live in the world of Doujin. --- **Links:** - [Author's Twitter](https://twitter.com/burumakun) - [Anime on ANN](https://www.animenewsnetwork.com/encyclopedia/anime.php?id=7765)

The short stories of Tomoko Yamashita. First girl: There was a girl in the middle of the gruesome incidents. ‘I thought that I was invincible.’ Second girl: A recollection of ‘a girl’ who didn’t love an excellent boy, ‘me’. Third girl: The future where you are cursed when you are born. The only girl who wasn’t cursed is nervous about her undecided future. ‘She is pitiful for not being cursed!’

Cute, fluffy, short sketches of relationships. Creator-approved translations by TheElusiveTaco. Chapter numbers aren't really relevant; each comic so far has been a standalone short.

From amberlovepj: Living his life in rural Japan, Tamio is immediately intrigued by Takashi, the blond haired city boy who transfers into his elementary school. But Takashi is actually half Japanese, and despite his appearance he doesn't even know English and loves eating Japanese food even Tamio can't abide. Tamio and Takashi become friends, and despite his perplexity with Takashi's foreign appearance, Tamio quickly develops a strong attachment to the other boy. Tamio earnestly hopes that he and Takashi can stay friends forever. But Takashi remains dissatisfied with life out in the boonies, insisting that someday he's going to leave all this behind. Yet Tamio continues to hope and to do anything he can to ensure that Takashi will stay with him–or take him along–no matter where he goes in life, with an intense, endearing, wistful sincerity perhaps telling of sentiments more complicated than Tamio might think.

Childhood friends Tsutsuji and Kouji live in a tiny village. Due to the lack of students, their school is scheduled to be closed at the end of the year; they'll be its final batch. The two of them have always been together, but at this rate they may be separated after graduation…

From "Generation of Miracles": A mystery from the past ! During their school days, Rin and Karaku solved many mysterious cases together. Today, when they meet up as adults, they indulge themselves with memories of the past. However, what Rin still doesn't now is: that he is already dead, and walks as a ghost around the world …

Based on the book of the same name which answers questions such as: "How many grams of flu medicine are needed to cause the death of a person?" "Could it be that a person can survive with just one kidney or one lung? "Or" How many meters can a person survive from a fall? " The protagonist of the manga, Ikuta, a leading teacher of forensic medicine will be involved in strange cases that require his attention. Basado en el libro del mismo nombre el cual responde a preguntas como: “¿Cuántos gramos de medicina para la gripe son necesarios para causar la muerte de una persona?” “¿Será que una persona puede sobrevivir con apenas un riñón o un pulmón?” o “¿Desde cuántos metros una persona logra sobrevivir de una caída?“. El protagonista del manga, Ikuta, un destacado profesor de medicina forense se verá envuelto en extraños casos que requieren su atención.

Wakui Satoru is a senior staff in the company who looks out for Asano Keiji. The moment he saw the handsome Wakui's naked body, Asano's heat welled up within him. The pride of someone older, the seduction of it. The heated heart that desires to monopolize… the love that wants to be stripped bare. A fever that only happens once in a lifetime. A considerate seme who is a younger salaryman.

A compilation of early one-shots by Moto Hagio. Includes the famous "November Gymnasium" as the leading one-shot. Contains: - **November Gymnasium** (11月のギムナジウム, 11-gatsu no Gymnasium) - Serialized in Bessatsu ShoComi in the November 1971 Issue Description: When a tough, rebellious Eric arrives at a German boarding school, there is one fellow student he hates: Thoma. Thoma bears a striking resemblance to Eric, but is gentle, delicate, and idolized by his classmates. - **Snow Child** (雪の子) - Serialized in Bessatsu ShoComi's March 1971 Issue - **The Home Where the Tower Is** (塔のある家); ShoComi 1971 Issue #12 - **The Girl Who became a White Bird** (白い鳥になった少女) - Serialized in Bessatsu ShoComi's December 1971 Issue - **The Flute of the White Boy in the White Forest** (白き森白き少年の笛) - Serialized in ShoComi 1971 Issue #45 - **Note: Included in the French Moto Hagio Anthologie De la rêverie under the name ''Le petit flûtiste de la forêt blanche''** - **Bianca** (ビアンカ); Serialized in Weekly Shojo Friend Zoukan's July 7th, 1970 Special Issue. **Note: One-shot included in the English only compilation A Drunken Dream and Other Stories** - **Sayo's Self Made Yukata** (小夜の縫うゆかた) - Serialized in Bessatsu ShoComi's October 1971 Issue - **Autumn Journey** (秋の旅) - Serialized in Bessatsu ShoComi's May 1971 Issue **Note: One-shot included in the English only compilation A Drunken Dream and Other Stories** - **Poor Mama** (かわいそうなママ, Kawaisou na Mama) - Serialized in Bessatsu ShoComi's May 1971 Issue Description: A man returns from a trip after hearing news about his former love's passing.

Collecting a handful of self-published shorts along with a mix of serialized stories and essays, panpanya's English-language debut mixes art styles and narratives from a range of genres. If you are ever fortunate enough to see a crab strolling through your neighborhood, please follow its lead. By slowing down to a crab's pace and looking around and about in this world, you too may discover life's many mysteries that are hidden in plain sight. Released in English by Denpa, LLC. in December 2018.

Asao Munenori gave up his dream to become a patissier and returned to succeed his parents' bakery. One day, one of his customers, the pretty Fujikawa Hijiri, fainted right in front of him. They probably already liked each other when they became friends. After a few days without seeing each other, the dense Fujikawa expressed his love honestly without realising it. After they became lovers, Asao was glad that his hesitation in giving up his dream turned out to be a fruitful one.

Daimaru, the son of a Buddhist priest, meets Miroku, also son of a Buddhist priest, at a doujou for a 10-day stay to start his priesthood. They promise each other to shave their heads together when they take over their respective temples. Ten years later, Daimaru, who has become assistant to the chief priest of their temple, visits a beauty salon to get his head shaved. But there he is shocked to run into Miroku, who has become a hair stylist.

In order to live a normal high-school life, Mirei started her first part-time job. But after receiving her first paycheck, she almost kills a highly-ranked bishounen…?! An encounter with a super poor and pessimistic innocent girl, is this a beautiful miracle?!

Haruka (14) and Sakura (12) are sisters. Yoshiko (14) and Mai (12) are sisters as well. So what happens when best friends Haruka and Yoshiko have an attraction to each other's sisters of the yuri kind?

One day a guy's childhood friend randomly grows dog ears and a tail, but what can he do?

If people who turn into animals really existed in the modern world, how would they behave? This book gives some realistic, yet unexpected, answers. Nobody is a complete good guy or bad guy–every character is a complex figure, and even the bad guys have some very good reasons for what they do. Leo is an innocent caught in the midst of it all, but nothing like the "helpless killer" stereotype of American werewolf movies–he is a person in control of his own powers, trying to decide what to do with his life now that so much has changed.

1: Bitter Tasting Lips A new recruit pays Lucky Hole AV's chief executive officer Hiyama "Bitter Taste" Kumi a visit. Kumi decides to hold an interview and a trial session on the spot. 2: Promises Are Only Made Once The shady scout Sakuma is unexpectedly reunited with the teenage son of his former boss. What is he to do when the brat declares his love for him and attaches himself to the older man? 3: Heart On Fire The video editor Saiki, a devoted fan of Kumi-chan, is suddenly asked to act in an AV with youngster Reni – and Kumi?! 4-5: The Room That Is Too Sunny The story of how Sakuma and Kumi first met and their subsequent relationship with each other. 6: Lucky Boy A look into Kumi and Sakuma's present-day relationship.