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Waking up as a character destined to be killed by her family, Irina Sordier refuses to follow the script. She plans to survive by escaping after her father marries her off to Archduke Alexei Ruslan. That is until she is saved from her abusive circumstances by a slime! The two bond quickly, but the slime suddenly vanishes, and Irina laments its loss. Years later, she meets Alexei, but he seems to know things about her that only the slime would! Can Irina save herself and the slime after all?

Those who curse the world with their dying breath becomes demons. The ones who protect the country from these demons are the Children's Choir who have received divine blessings from the angels. Hymns sung by these children who are pure in body and soul are exceptionally beautiful. They are able to kill the demons with their pitch perfect harmony. As such, the demons are always looking for a chance to kill these children once night falls. However, there's one poor little boy who just can't seem to hit the perfect note…

Cover: Takeshima Eku

[Translated by Mystic Willow Scans] As Lee Yeo-ju hums a song that comforted her during her long hospital stay, she is approached by an idol star named Park Jae-ha, whom she has only seen in videos. "I'll help you. You need money for the surgery, right?" Jae-ha becomes Yeo-ju's savior and favorite. However, five years later, he ends his life by making an extreme choice... Yeo-ju, in shock, cries out to a shooting star to save him. Did her wish come true? She goes back seven years and possesses the body of Jang Bo-ran, a top idol at the time and a judge on the audition program "I Am the Strongest Idol"... Among the audition participants is trainee Park Jae-ha!"Just like you saved me, I will save you this time."

Jun Shizuki and Yukiji Yano are both in the same woodwind choir. Shizuki is a bartender who plays the sax and hits on anything that moves. Yano is a gifted flute player who is incredibly nice and is well-regarded within the choir. No one would ever suspect that these guys would have anything in common, but could these two polar opposites actually be in a relationship?!

An anthology of stories centered around the members of the sub-unit Guilty Kiss by various mangakas. Cover Illustration: Mezashi 1. Lili Henshin Daisakusen☆ (リリー変身大作戦☆) by Kuzu Kou 2. To Riko Shi♥Glow Guilty (ト・リコ・シ♥グロウGuilty) by Mezashi 3. Strawberry Trapper (Strawberry Trapper) by Houshou Uzuki & Konoe Satsuki 4. Ikenai Koto Shiteminai? (いけないことしてみない?) by Shipii 5. Guilty Meisou Kaigi (Guilty迷走会議) by Nanaji Yuuki 6. Kowareyasuki (コワレヤスキ) by Tanaka Shinji & Fuuka Dia 7. Guilty na Kiss no Oto (Guilty なキスの音) by Nakane Nata 8. Shadow Gate to Love (Shadow gate to love) by Tanaka Shinji & Fuuka Dia 9. Saikou no Datenshi wo Mezashite (最高の堕天を目指して) by Gratin-dori

“Giséle Alain will provide you with any service, Madame.”, she claims as she puts a sign on her door. Giséle Alain is the owner of an apartment building and decides to take on whatever request that she receives. She forces Eric, a resident of the apartment with overdue rent, to tag along with her service. Their first mission is to find a cat that another resident has lost and claims to have been missing for 3 days. Upon further investigation, they find a suspicious man taking away cats to an unknown alley. Giséle decides to investigate further and finds out who the man is without any trouble. An amusing yet calm service providing you with anything you want; at your service by Giséle Alain!

Chihiro, who quit his previous band due to a failed love affair, has been a vocalist in his current band for two years after being invited by Mikumo. Chihiro has been asked to sing a love song many times, but for some reason he has always refused. In their final year of college, job hunting started to get them busy, and before the band part their ways, Mikumo confesses how much he loves Chihiro's voice and asks him to rethink the idea of singing a love song for the last time.

"If you think of me as a man, I'll gladly become a man ! " Lee Cho Hee, is an unlucky female idol trainee who always fail to debut because of her boyish appearance ! Thinking it was her last chance, she applied for the idol audition survival show "High Teen Universe"... but there was a problem with her gender. . .

Official 4-koma published with the game Link! Life! Love Live!

This is a horror/sci-fi story about a giant planet consuming creature from another dimension that a scientist discovers and mistakenly identifies as a planet. Being given the honor to name it as its discoverer, the professor chooses to name it after his only daughter, Remina, but when Hellstar Remina is headed on a direct collision course with Earth the world goes nuts and all the people in the city start a witch hunt to kill Remina, thinking she is somehow to blame.

アイドル養成校「初星学園」に通う高校生・藤田ことねの夢は大金持ち！トップアイドルとなり貧乏な家族を支えるため、夢を追っていた――が、ことねはアルバイトに明け暮れる日々で、アイドルとして芽が出ず苦しんでいた。ある日、バイト先の寂れた商店街を盛り上げるため、ことねは簡易ライブを開催。トップアイドルには程遠い現実を痛感し涙する彼女の前に、「初星学園」のプロデューサー科に通う生徒が現れ…！？

A series of mini-comic epigraph drawn by Aki Hamazi which was distributed as a bonus for attendees of the compilation films of Bocchi the Rock!

A new jazz manga set in post-WW2 Japan about a girl searching for her sister's lover in Tokyo. **2021 Japan Media Arts Festival's New Face Award winner**

A boy communicates with the world through music… Yutaka, a boy soprano with an angelic voice, who is sensitive and perceptive and cries easily, decides to become a member of the choir when he enters junior high-school. This work portrays the harmony of the passing days of life at school, in which boys and girls share both their joys and conflicts. (via: Japan Media Arts Festival)

Twenty-six-year-old Shibakusa Tohru is about to make his major label debut when his band mates fire him. In the midst of his despair, he learns that his former classmate Shigure Narahara, now a top singer, has committed suicide. Tohru, who had been pushing for Shigure, loses his emotional anchor and should have jumped off a balcony to follow her, but instead he finds himself in a time jump back to his high school days.

In order to obtain the "ending" that will make all their wishes come true, the songwriters decide to fight with the power of their music. What awaits them is either hope or――。

Tajima Sora was an idol at the peak of popularity when she died and now the people who had gone crazy over her are slowly returning to days where they have forgotten everything about her. Mizu'umi is a high school girl who cannot accept this fact because the late idol is a god-like existence to her. So one day, 2 years after her idol's death, she committed a taboo act. This is a young adult fiction about an everlasting and undying idol and is dedicated to the current times where feelings of "like" are concentrated.

A collection of two shojo short-serials and a one-shot from Tetsuya Chiba. Part of a three-volume short stories series, alongside a volume of his shonen work and his essay manga. - **Papa's Bride** (パパのお嫁さん, Papa no Oyomesan) - Ekko (Etsuko) Nakajima is a feisty little girl who lives alone with her father. One day, after many struggles, one of her father's musical compositions get selected by the Japan Music Association. From there, many joys and sorrows present themselves before them as Ekko's father ascends in the world of music. - **Jambo Riko** (ジャンボ・リコ) - Riko (Ritsuko) is the daughter of the head of a hospital situated in South Africa. When Riko's parents do not return from their search of crucial medicine, it's up to her and a colorful crew from around the world to search for them. - **Like the Wind** (風のように, Kaze no You ni) - Chiba's last major shojo work, this recounts the story of a rambunctious boy from an beekeeping family, and the impact he makes on a rural mountain village.

Kotarou is a top-class dancer but “clumsy at everything except dancing”. However, he sustains facial injuries in an accident and is forced to retire from show business. He once lost all his pride, but his connection with his late grandmother leads him to Noh!

In Arboral Year 1294, the world is dominated by nine massive towers known as the Spires, remnants of an ancient civilization. Filled with lost secrets and powerful knowledge, nations struggle to possess them. Luca is a bugler in a mercenary company who wants nothing more than to leave the battlefield behind and become a true musician, a maestro. But marked as one of the enigmatic Branch-hexed, and gifted with the strange ability to see the sound of his instrument, Luca finds himself drawn reluctantly into a war of epic proportions! Left for dead after a battle, Luca is saved by the mysterious Pontiff and learns he is not the only person with unusual powers. The Pontiff has formed a special team of Branch-hexed individuals he plans to use to help him defeat rival empires, and Luca learns that his powers, rather than being an escape from the battlefield, now force him to be a muse of massacre.

Yun Shang was reborn— before her debut with the little brothers, who are idols part of the popular band Crown, she found out she was reborn in the body of the “Vicious Female supporting actress” all the guys in Crown hated; Lu YoYo. The little cuties who believed they were helpless, pitiful, and weak, were big bosses who stabbed people's hearts. To change this tragic fate of herself and the idols, Lu YoYo, clutching into her deteriorating heart, raised her flag and decided to change the fate of these idols.

A dazzling survival band audition, youth? Revenge? Well, the only thing for sure is… ‘As long as I’m here, you won’t debut gracefully.’ My brother, Ha Seong-woo, a famous singer-songwriter, was murdered. The killer was Baek Do-hyung, my brother’s friend and colleague. The moment I found out, I, Ha Su-in, also died in an unexpected accident… After a moment of excruciating pain, I opened my eyes to find myself back 5 years ago, when my brother died. This second chance, I won’t just stand by and watch like before. I’m going to enter <PICK BAND 2>, the follow-up season of the audition my brother won and the grand debut stage for the killer Baek Do-hyung, and ruin everything. Just me? No, I’ll gather geniuses that no one can mess with. After all, I’ve replayed this audition hundreds of times.

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.

A cold and distant grim reaper and a rational young lady whose fates are entwined by life and death. Through his silent protection, will they be able to overcome the hardships that obstruct their songs of love?

Yoonho seems to have it all: he is the successful VP of Top Entertainment and married to an A-list celebrity. But when he’s faced with a terminal illness, the shallow people he relied upon disappear, and he’s on his deathbed filled with regret. Unexpectedly, Yoonho awakens ten years in his past as a rookie talent agent at Hoop Entertainment, the company that nurtured his career. His goal: boost his loyal circle of actor and idol contacts to reach their full potential! With a decade of experience, will Yoonho be able to set this industry right?

Sakura Sanami, a newbie from the newspaper club, was deeply moved when she listened to a musical performance during an interview with Ryukoku Iwao. And in order to really be able to get that excitement she felt across to everyone she decided to…start playing it herself? A 4-koma slice-of-life manga about traditional Japanese festival bands and the music they play.

Compilation containing many of Yasuko Aoike's famous early works including: - Volume 1 - **[Aquamarine](https://www.mangaupdates.com/series/lmw6p6c/aquamarine)** (アクアマリン), 1976 - Terence Reid, a young novelist, is invited to the outskirts of London by his old friend Gil Kane. At the castle of Thomas Barrymore, who is said to have been a vicious criminal in the past, Terence meets Aquamarine, a beautiful boy with bluish-gold hair and an angelic smile who looks exactly like Thomas.... Made in the same year as "From Eroica with Love," this is a gorgeous mystery-romance that marked a turning point for the mangaka. - Volume 2 - **[Roman Suite](https://www.mangaupdates.com/series/04uiiku/roman-kumikyoku)** (ロマン組曲, Roman Kumikyoku), 1976 - Daniel, a college student, left London with his black cat, Griffon, to visit his relative, the widow of Eddowes. He is not welcomed by Claudia, who claims to be his tutor, but he enjoys seeing her beautiful daughter, Catherine, who has grown up to be a beautiful woman. Daniel's search for love leads him to the town of London, where he finds a man named Daniel, who is also his father's son. Daniel's wanderings in search of love are always tinged with sad fate... - Volume 3 - **[Allman Story](https://www.mangaupdates.com/series/6mln2ss/allman-monogatari)** (オールマンものがたり, Allman Monogatari), 1978 - Craig, a kind-hearted and beautiful young man who loves flowers, stars, and music, escapes from the all-male Allman University in search of a woman with the muscle-bound John. Dressed as a woman, they sneak into a nunnery deep in the woods. There, they find themselves in the house of female vampires.... The love and adventures of beautiful young men unfold in this forbidden garden. The Sons of Eve" is the prototype for "Dracula's House is a Riot! (Allman's Story)," and "Dear Father," which is based on the mangaka's father. - Volume 4 - **[Kill Hamlet!](https://www.mangaupdates.com/series/36u95c8/hamlet-o-korose)** (ハムレットを殺せ!, Hamlet wo Korose!), 2006 - The enormous legacy of the Blake family. A beautiful lover. Helmut, a young man who seems to have all the happiness in the world. Just before the end of "Hamlet," performed at his birthday party, he falls out of a window and loses all memory. All that comes out of his mouth are the lines of "Hamlet"... When his memory returns, Helmut learns that his lover Agnes has married his brother-in-law, Mulder. A cruel betrayal, a terrible conspiracy... In addition to the title story, which is based on a Shakespearean tragedy, this self-selected masterpiece collection contains six other stories, including "Mother's Day Off", which is modeled after the mangaka's mother. - Volume 5 - **[The Red House in the Flood](https://www.mangaupdates.com/series/48zjxuc/mizu-no-naka-no-akai-ie)** (水の中の赤い家, Mizu no Naka no Akai Ie), 1973 - A stormy dusk. Jennifer, who lost her beloved boyfriend Joel in an accident just before their wedding, arrives at the red-roofed Scott house by the river, where they were supposed to visit together. A mother cannot accept the death of her son. Her younger brother, Marc, feels inferior to his deceased brother. Jennifer is trapped in the Red House when the river overflows due to heavy rains, and a terrifying evil hand begins to creep up on her... In addition to the title story, this self-selected masterpiece collection includes the fantastical short story "Moon Festival" as a special feature.