Set in Central Asia in a rural town near the Caspian Sea during the early 19th century, the story revolves around a young woman, Amir, who arrives from a distant village across the mountains to marry Karluk, a boy eight years her junior. The story unfolds among details of everyday family and community life. However, the peaceful atmosphere is disturbed when Amir's family demands to take her back to their village. Note: Won the 7th annual Manga Taishou Award in 2014 and the intergénérations prize at the Angoulême International Comics Festival in 2012.
Sophia was sold by her parents for money and fell into slavery. As a slave, she was bought and sold by multiple masters, ending up with William, the head of the Aldridge family, who was notorious for being a sadist. Imagining the horrific situation that would await her, Sophia vowed to stand up for herself, but when William reached out his hand, it was filled with warmth and kindness. The story of how an unhappy slave girl finds happiness with her new family.
After the "Golden Coffin Case," the young martial artists couldn't avoid their separation. Wuxin returned from the Tianwaitian, while Xiao Se and Lei Wujie set foot on the path to Snowmoon City. They passed the wind at Shangguan, flowers at Xiaguan, snow at Cang Mountain, and the moon over Er Sea. Enduring countless hardships, Xiao Se and Lei Wujie finally arrived at the gates of Snowmoon City. However, there was a celestial tower called Dengtian Pavilion (Up-to-Heaven Pavilion) blocking their way. Beyond Dengtian Pavilion was a normal city where ordinary people lived. Only by passing through Dengtian Pavilion could they see Snowmoon. Lei Wujie wanted to meet someone, while Xiao Se wanted Lei Wujie to repay his debt. Both of them ventured into Dengtian Pavilion without realizing that their actions would unleash a storm of bloodshed.
In the 18th century, The Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth was an elective monarchy, in which the king was elected by the nobility. The kingdom thrived under its unprecedented in the history of Europe, yet flawed democratic political system. Many difficult trials stand in front of this freedom-loving country. Will democracy yield to tyrrany? Read "Ten no Hate Made" to find out! Created by the author of world famous "Lady Oscar" (Versailles no Bara) - Riyoko Ikeda - this gripping historical story of war, love and deceit is certainly worth reading!
Hu Linghua is the "evil lady" that everyone fears. Her true identity is the complete opposite of an evil woman, with a lovely face and pure personality. It was supposed to be something no one knew about…. Until she received a secret order from Crown Prince Sun Bailian. Receiving the order to "become my consort and brother," Linghua begins a double life as both the "favored consort" and the "brother" of the crown prince...?!
From Easy Going Scans: At the end of the age of shogunates, a great man is given a second chance to restore a crumbling, feudal Japan. Toward the end of the Edo Period, samurai and visionary Sakamoto Ryouma led a revolutionary movement to overthrow the Takagawa Shogunate. Inspired by the Western principle of "all men created equal", he envisioned a modern Japanese government, free of oppressive feudalism. In 1867, he and his close friend Nakaoka Shintaro were assasinated before his dreams could be realized. Tenshou no Ryouma explores the historical alternative-universe where Ryouma is saved through Shintaro's sacrifice. Given this second chance, will Ryouma finally be able to establish a new, modern Japan?
From AQUA Scans: A group of scattered people who?ve lived sin-filled lives head off to battle once again after their deaths; each one harboring their own reason to fight? When the fighting is finished and their sins have been atoned for, their souls will be returned to them. Kanata no Togabito ga Tatakau Riyuu is an epic fantasy from a long anticipated new author, and the story of those who fight on and are burdened by the sins from their past.
Collection of short stories, including; - Flower - Memories - SOUND OF SAND - Farewell To Weapons - Hair - Electric Bird Land - MINOR SWING - Chronicle of The Planet TAKO - Chronicle of The Planet TAKO, Chapter of Dawnlight - Fire-ball - That's Amazing World - Magic pot of Aladdin - That's Amazing World - Noah's Ark - That's Amazing World - old man and sea - That's Amazing World - Knights of The Round Table
Adel, who entered the emperor's office due to the magic of the imperial magic, accidentally hears the secret plan of the emperor. 'Emperor' 'fiance' 'fake' 'killing' ... the interior minister and the emperor who came to Adele when he came back to school and took his breath away. "I want to give you a chance to choose." "...chance?" "Go to prison ... be my fiancée!" The beginning of the fateful love of the orphaned girl Adele and the emperor of Krishi.
The time is the Sengoku era, the place is the country of Kyushu, Hyuga. Kagashi is asked to exterminate a fox youkai, enters the mountains, and encounters a strange woman.
A martial arts historical series about a peasant turned samurai and caught in the turmoil of the final year of the Edo Period (1868).
With Japan in the midst of a bloody revolution, an elite cadre of samurai swordsmen known as the Shinsengumi must protect the embattled city of Kyoto. Tetsunosuke Ichimura has spent his life dreaming of working at the Shinsengumi, and his wish has recently been fulfilled. As a page for Vice-Commander Hijikata Toshizo, he is privy to a wealth of secrets and is among Japan's highest ranking officials, some of whom are actual historical figures. When a strange gun-toting swordsman, Ryoma Sakamoto, recognizes Tetsunosuke and his brother as the sons of someone he calls the "Peacemaker," trouble brews and the other Shinsengumi run the outsider out of town. Full of action, this sword-fighting and gun-toting story is centered on the bakumatsu, a chaotic and bloody time of revolution that would ultimately result in the disbanding of the samurai and the opening up and Westernization of Japan. Fifteen-year-old Tetsu must witness the war around him, and perhaps gain some amount of wisdom about the samurai.
