In 1878, as the wave of Western culture spreads through Japan, Miyo, a girl orphaned in the Satsuma Rebellion, works at a curio shop in Nagasaki called Vingt. The dresses, sewing machines, binoculars, boots, and other items acquired at the Paris Exhibition by the proprietor Momotoshi Koura have arou...
Inspector Oogura Amane has just been reassigned to Investigation Division 6, which is considered a graveyard for police detectives transferred there. Disappointed to discover that her only partner is a slacker by the name of Ebisu Kei, she soon finds out that he has the ability to read the slightest...
"Dame Oyaji is the story of Damesuke Amano, a hapless office worker who faces a tremendous amount of bullying on the job and especially at home, where he has (contrary to traditional Japanese notions of family) absolutely no power or say in the runnings of the household whatsoever. Amano lives with ...
Twenty year old Ogawa Akira is taking the medical school entrance exam for the third time when he is overwhelmed by anxiety and flees the testing room. He soon finds himself wandering the streets of Tokyo lost and exhausted. Then by chance a woman drops her earring, and he picks it up and returns it...
The Sorrows of Young Werther (German: Die Leiden des jungen Werthers) is a loosely autobiographical epistolary novel by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, first published in 1774. A revised edition followed in 1787. It was one of the most important novels in the Sturm und Drang period in German literature,...
" Victim - using the latest and greatest technological advances, you can now enter the game world; a revolution in gaming experience!...." What does it feel like to be a game character? Why are massacres in the game world considered enjoyable? Amusing? Relaxing? Come and read this short, full-color ...
If you've ever had a guy steal your girl through the use of a squid-related judo move, this oneshot will definitely speak to you!It straddles the line between being comedic and just plain odd. If I had to give it some deep meaning, I'd say it speaks to the futility of life. Sometimes the bad guys ju...