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Eighteenth century, Tibet. Kang Shiva, a thirteen-year-old doctor-apprentice boy, lives in a mountain village. One day, when he came home from the herb collection, the bride and the party who was marrying were staying in his house. The bride's name is Moshi-La. She is the bride of Kang Shiva, and came all the way from a foreign country...! A heartwarming story of the daily life in Tibet of a gentle boy and his mysterious bride is woven.

From Evil Flowers: Fukka, the daughter of the Inuiyama's lord, is determinate to do everything to help her father win the war and get him home safely. Because she's a girl she's not allowed to go to the battle field with him, but she hears about a certain "war ghost" called Byakkimaru has been seen near her town. The legend says that if you get Byakkimaru to join your side you will win the war. The little princess starts a trip in search of this ghost determined to save her clan.

Cleopatra is the ruler who has most inspired poets and artists over the centuries. Her beauty and exotic charm through the Roman Army into confusion. Her enemies kept depicting her as a corrupter and a vicious ruler, on the other hand, the dignity of her death inspired touching works of art. Cleopatra was the last heiress of Alexander the Great and the last Egyptian Pharaoh. During her private and political life she had two great love experiences: Julius Caesar and Mark Antony. The death of Cleopatra was fit for a queen: as goddess Isis she'd rather be bitten by an asp than suffer the humiliation to be displayed as a trophy in Rome during the celebration of Octavian, the future Emperor Augustus.

In order to benefit their families, Koyuki (Age 16) was wed to Shin (Age 37). Despite the large age gap, both are exceedingly inexperienced in the matters of love, so they never quite know how to act around each other. To make matters worse, Shin is forbidden from being physically involved with Koyuki until she turns 20. In this environment, how will they form a proper husband-wife relationship?---Married off to a man more than twenty years her senior, Koyuki has no idea what her new life has in store for her. She's so in the dark, in fact, that she hasn't even seen her husband's face! But Koyuki isn't alone in fumbling through the intricacies of wedded bliss. Mask-donning Shin might have many years on his young wife, but as it turns out, he's just as naïve as she is! Will this pair of innocents ever get past their awkwardness (and the age gap)?!

An unpopular woman in her thirties, our protagonist's only pleasure in life is reading all the web novels she can get her hands on while soaking in the bath. Tragically, she carelessly fell asleep in the bath and drowned, and before she had opened her eyes, she entered a fantasy novel world with a fictional Otome game theme. What's more is that she transmigrated as the villainess Leysritt! All I wanted was to be able to enjoy my second life quietly! But because I saved the prince's life after he was run over by a carriage, the prince's younger brother took interest in me, and now I've become his fiance?! With my knowledge from being a nurse in my past life, I want to be of help in this world. If I want to avoid a future of ruin I must aim to be like Nightingale. (Synopsis: Gourmet Scans) Gourmet Notes: Nightingale isn't a bird but a person called Florence Nightingale (1820-1910), known as "The Lady With the Lamp," was a British nurse, social reformer and statistician best known as the founder of modern nursing.

To break an ancient curse that plagues the royal bloodline, young Prince Tasara is destined to be sacrificed in death. Nara is enlisted as a palace servant to carry out the prince's execution when the time comes. But he develops a soft spot for the cursed prince, and after committing an atrocious and unforgivable act against Tasara, Nara is desperate to right his wrongs. Soon, their lascivious relationship that had been kept under wraps tests his resolve. Will Nara be tempted away from his original mission? There's no telling how far he would go to earn Tasara's forgiveness.

Kaka, an unusually strong girl with a talent for combat, sees it has her duty to protect and assist her caretaker and master Genjou-sama, a kind but frail young priest who nearly died saving her from a tiger. When poisoned water threatens to destroy their village, Genjou-sama leaves for the capital to find a solution. In his absence, demons burn down their formerly peaceful village and transform the villagers placed under Kaka's care into monkeys. Kaka flees in a desperate attempt to find Genjou-sama, only to find a haughty powerful spirit is now using his body as a vessel! She learns that the human Emperor has been secretly replaced by the evil Demon King, and that this spirit has come back for one simple purpose: to restore order. The contact he offers is simple. If she accompanies him on his journey to the capital and all goes according to plan, the spirit will give Genjou-sama back, relinquishing the priest's body and retrieving his soul from the underworld. Will Kaka take the risk?

"To end his eternal suffering, he must slay one thousand enemies!" Manji, a ronin warrior of feudal Japan, has been cursed with immortality. To rid himself of this curse and end his life of misery, he must slay one thousand evil men! His quest begins when a young girl seeks his help in taking revenge on her parents' killers... and his quest won't end until the blood of a thousand has spilled! Won the Media Arts Awards 1997 Excellence Prizes in Manga Division, Won the Best U.S. Edition of International Material for the Eisner Award in 2000.

From Hana-mi: A oneshot about the developing relationship between an out-of-world wanderer and a mistreated boy.

He returned from the depths of hell. Using this nine feet long sword, he splits mountains, ocean dividing, flies to the heavens, and rules the word! He was poisoned, losing all his power, he was accused of high treason. Can he take back what’s rightfully his?

For a long time, it turns out that our human world is not a real world, but a fantasy world created by the ancient goddess of the goddess, the “Shanhe Society”. So, in addition to the virtual space we are in, there is a real world full of fairy tales.

With a baby in her arms, Marian finally arrives at Bellfield Hall. There are terrible rumors about the master of the mansion, Heywood Denshaw. They say that, as the despot of the town, he snatched the manor and the mill away from the person who was supposed to inherit them. When she finally arrives, the master and housekeeper come out together. Marian is captivated by his eyes—they’re as cold as the winter sky. Yet Marian must somehow get him to give her a job!