Genre - Slice Of Life

Miyamae Haruka, 22, is a soon-to-be graduate and at first glance a very unremarkable looking young woman. No one will even stop to help her up when she falls and each time she applies for a job, she's blithely passed over. Things are getting desperate and if Haruka cannot get a job soon, she may become known as a jobless university graduate -- a very unenviable title for any young graduate to bear. So Haruka decides to lower her expectations. She goes to apply for a job she found on an ad and is shocked by how flippant the interview is. Little does she know, the job she really wanted is already taken and she is now interviewing for a spot as the newest idol... who is supposed to be 17 years old! And so begins the birth of a new idol, Haruka 17, and follows the adventures and ordeals Haruka must go through as her star rises. She discovers that the world of an idol can be sleazy, terrifying, and a cruel competition. With the positive and negative relationships she develops with the other people around her, she begins to discover herself as well. ---------- Haruka is about to graduate from a first-rate college and is looking for work but no one wants to hire her. Faced with the prospect of becoming a "shuushoku rounin" she finally lowers her expectations and decides to apply at a tiny talent agency for a job as an agent. When she shows up for the interview however, it's like no interview she's ever had before. She's asked all sorts of embarrasing questions and asked to say lines in front of a camera. Later she finds out that they thought she was interviewing to become a talent, and the agent position she wanted has already been given away. However, they think she has that special quality that can make someone a star. She refuses at first, but finally gives in. Thus starts Haruka's career in the entertainment industry.

Writer Haruka takes time out of her busy schedule to reset her mind when she is overwhelmed by deadlines. taking a stroll through the neighborhood, relaxing in the public bathroom, sampling the cuisine of the area, and taking in the park. She is determined to still enjoy any little "vacation" she can by getting creative, despite the fact that she cannot take a big vacation or travel far.

On his way back from a business trip, the protagonist decides on a whim to take a train back to his old hometown. The moment he pays respects to his mother's grave in the transformed town, he is transported back to a summer when he was still in junior high school, only with all his middle-age consciousness, knowledge and abilities intact. On this journey across time, he understands for the first time the burdens born by his father, and his mother's tears. This is the kind of fantasy manga were made for, executed by an artist of great talent. This is a serious, delicate, and ultimately moving time travel variation. Middle-aged salaryman Hiroshi Nakahara accidentally takes a train ride back to his old hometown to visit his mother’s grave. Then for reasons he can’t explain, Hiroshi is transported back in time, and discovers that he’s an 8th grader again, but with all of his adult memories intact. Can he, or should he try to change the decisions he made before? But more importantly, can he find his way back to the present day, or is he stuck in the past?

A young university student from Russia named Marko is eager to graduate and spend more time with his fiancée. But those ambitions are dashed when he is taken hostage by extraterrestrials! It will take these aliens ten years to complete their job for Marko. In this surreal story of a life distant from Earth, all Marko can do is make the best of it and get to know the weird animals who are now his coworkers.

After the demise of their folks, the three kin Seiji, Kozue and Shima get taken in by their uncle and move from Tokyo to Ohasama in the wide open. Will they have the capacity to adjust to their new life amidst no place? A cheerful cut of biography starts...

The king of heart is the king that captures all girls’ hearts. Yui, a teacher at a cram school, is a girl who can’t leave a person alone when she sees that person in trouble. After seeing her neighbor, Sakimoto, collapse on the street, it was only a natural thing for her to nurse him back to health. But upon that incidence, she started to be interested in this somewhat mean guy…?!

The hero union's BBS, where legends assemble, crossing numerous measurements. An announcement board made by saints for legends. Out of line settings, protests about confidants, stories of disappointment, and talks of mystery motivation, they are all found here! Indeed, even now, new strings are being made! A comedic accounts about the travails of heroes.

From Day of the River: Upon entering high school, the very quiet but extremely cute Suiren becomes the immediate center of attention among the boys…but one particular boy does not look her way. The story of a quiet girl and a quiet boy. A short, refreshing love story.

The story starts with college student Taichi, who comes from a not-so-well-off household and is desperately searching for work. He (literally) stumbles across fellow student Kouhei while on a job hunt, and is incredibly enticed by the delicious bento Kouhei has in hand. However, something seems a bit off about Kouhei–and when Taichi consults his friends about it, he gets an answer he really wasn’t expecting: Kouhei is severely hearing impaired.

Hidamari no Ki is about a friendship between a samurai and a doctor in the final days of the Tokugawa Shogunate. It received the Shogakukan Manga Award in 1984 for general manga.

Short stories of romance between girls who strive to improve on their magic in an academy.

Yoshida was quickly dismissed by his squash of 5 years. On his path home in the wake of drinking his distresses away, he saw a secondary school young lady sitting in the city. "Ill let you do it with me, so let me remain." "Try not to try and kid about something to that effect." Thus, the tale of living with the secondary school young lady Sayu started. The cut of-life lighthearted comedy between a runaway secondary school young lady and a multi year old salaryman results.

The year is 1991 and 6th grader Yaguchi Haruo only has video games to live for. He's not popular in school and he's neither handsome, funny, nice nor even friendly. The only thing he has going for him is that he is good at video games. One day at the local arcade, he plays Oono Akira, a fellow classmate but who's popular, smart, pretty and a rich girl that absolutely destroys him at Street Fighter II. Not only does he lose to her 30 times in a row, he can’t beat her at any game. Haruo can’t seem to shake Akira off as she follows him from arcade to arcade everyday after school and beats him every time. As weird as it sounds, the odd pair begins a strange bond and friendship.

University student Miyu always sacrifices time with her friends just so she could visit the house of her brother in law and his son. The brother in law tries to stop her from helping out around the house since their relationship should have ended after the death of his wife, but Miyu just would not give up. Why is she so adamant about hanging around them?