1782: Anna and Lef Fyodor defied the current tsar by siding with the peasants, and paid with their lives. Before they did, they entrusted their only daughter, Rosalinda, to a farmer couple. The only thing left connecting Rosalinda to her past is one amulet: "To my beloved Anna, Lef Fyodor." 12 years later, Rosalinda - given the name Rota by her foster parents - has a deep, fervent love for singing. A chance encounter during an errand has her cross paths with Adrian, a young Cossack. Adrian and Rosalinda get along well, and he even teaches her to read! However, this is the start of the unfolding drama surrounding the instability of their homeland - and Rosalinda's past being revealed to her, all while she aspires to become a great singer. A thrilling tale of drama, mystery, and romance set in late 18th century Russia from the great Hideko Mizuno! (*[Fire!](https://mangadex.org/title/d15267de-2481-4a74-bb3c-7b7504f245d9/fire)*, *Honey Honey's Wonderful Adventures*)

*Unrelated to Rainbow Parakeet* A shojo one-shot compilation with themes and elements of dance, music, and theater. Lune Kordok is a young man who has come to Warsaw in pursuit of attending its conservatory, in a time where Russians aggressively make their presence known. He makes friends with both Joseph, a man who works at a second-hand shop , and the young Frederic Chopin. However, Lune had died two months prior of pneumonia. What is Lune's true nature, and how will he affect the two other men? In addition to the above (serialized in Weekly Shocomi, 1975/10/05-10/26), also includes: - **The Curtains Are Also Blue Tonight** (カーテンは今夜も青い, Curtain wa Konya mo Aoi); Shojo, New Year's Special Issue 1958/01 - Chitori, a young theater actress, has a deep fear of the color red. The color red keeps appearing before her, and it seems to be set deliberately - who is after her, and why does she fear red so much? - **The Merchant of Venice** (ベニスの商人, Venice no Shounin); Middle School First Year Course Supplement 1959/04 - Tezuka adapts Shakespeare's famous comedy with a modern flavor and even more humor. - **Peacock Shell** (孔雀貝, Kujakugai); Shojo Club Supplement, 06/58 - A young architect washes up on a certain island that has closed itself off from the rest of the world. He falls in love with Lima, the princess of the island, as he finds himself involved in its affairs. This all intertwines with the legend surrounding four rocks near the island - a peacock-colored shell is underwater near one of them, and should it be found, love will be secured.... - **Song of the White Peacock** (白くじゃくの歌, Shiro Kujaku no Uta); Nakayoshi Summer Vacation Issue 1959/09/15 - Yuri Ogawa never knew what happened to her father, who went missing during the war. However, one day, she and her mother are introduced to a white peacock that he kept on the battlefield. Yuri wants to be a pianist, and she and her peacock become big stars... --- **Volume 87 of the Osamu Tezuka Complete Works**

Alain, the second prince of the Kingdom of Cors, has faced a dire problem. His mother, the king’s concubine, decided to poison the crown prince to make Alain the next king. However, Alain doesn’t wish to harm his brothers and join the fight for the throne, so he asks Saul, a Matara warrior trapped in the castle’s dungeon, for help in order to flee from Cors. To receive Saul’s cooperation, Alain must make a special vow with him and confirm it… with his body?!

A collection of short stories by Yoshihiro Tatsumi. - **Just a Man** (男一発, Otoko Ippatsu) - **Occupied** (はいってます, Haittemasu) - **Forked Road** (わかれみち, Wakaremichi) - **Sasori** (さそり) - **Shiku** (飼育) - **Abandon the Old in Tokyo** (東京うばすて山, Tokyo Ubasuteyama) - **Kemono Namida** (けもの・なみだ) - **Click Click Click** (コツコツコツ, Kotsu Kotsu Kotsu) - **PAPER CRANE -A Letter to I.S.-kun-** (ORIZURU -S君への手紙-, ORIZURU -S-kun e no Tegami-) - **Saikai** (再会) - **Beloved Monkey** (いとしのモンキー, Itoshi no Monkey) - **Goodbye** (グッドバイ) - **Daihakken** (大発見, ENG. - A Great Revelation) Several of the stories in this collection were published in English by Drawn & Quarterly in the compilations Abandon the Old in Tokyo and Goodbye in 2009. (Source: Wikipedia)

The story is set 300 years before *Donten ni Warau*, during the Tensho Period. At Lake Biwa, the largest lake in Japan, the battle with Orochi ensued.

Seinen (and one Josei) One-shot compilation focusing on insincerity, revenge, and the two-faced nature of men. Includes the following: - **The Record of Peter Kürten** (ペーター・キュルテンの記録, Peter Kürten no Kiroku, ALT. ENG. - The Tale of Peter Kürten) - Manga biography on the infamous serial killer also known by the moniker *"The Vampire of Düsseldorf"*. Peter Kürten, a former prisoner-of-war, forms an idealistic couple with his wife and is a devoted unionist at meetings. In actuality he is a sexually perverted serial killer nicknamed the Vampire of Düsseldorf who taunts the police with escalating murders. After one of the murders, the police force a fake confession from another man, causing Peter to angrily reveal the truth to his wife, who gives him up to the police. At trial it is revealed that Peter is actually a criminal with a history of incest, bestiality, arson, and murder. When his lawyer tries to defend him by claiming madness, Peter angrily exclaims that his actions are revenge against the bourgeois. Peter is executed by guillotine. (Tezuka based the story on the work of Shunsuke Tsurumi) - **Sensual Nights** (もの憂げな夜, Monouge na Yoru) - A wealthy Japanese playboy visits Vietnam to seduce a woman who has supposedly stopped aging while waiting for her sweetheart who was taken away by soldiers. As he is in the middle of preparing to have sex with her, his contact tells him that the woman's man was taken away by the Japanese army during the Pacific War, causing a deep hatred of Japanese people in her. He panics, but recovers when the woman reacts by offering him her body. When she fights back against his attempts at intimacy, he tells her that her lover is likely dead and forces himself on her. The man then sees a sight of a wrinkled old woman that startles him so much he jumps out of the window. The woman he had seduced was actually the daughter of the unaging woman and her sweetheart, and his contact was her fiancé. - **Lord Iechika Mogami** (最上殿始末, Mogami-dono Shimatsu) - Piipii, a meager farmer, dreams of being a samurai so he can support his wife and their four children. One day he is employed by a lord to be his double, and Piipii's family is secretly killed. Piipii trains to be a lord, grooming and dressing himself to be the spitting image of the lord. As a test, the lord tells him to give the order to open the castle gates. Piipii rides back to visit his family, only to learn about their deaths. On the lord's wedding day, his double is supposed to replace him during the wedding ceremony to protect him from any attempts on his life. During the switch, Piipii murders the lord and consummates the marriage with the lady Sasa instead. When she learns of his identity, the lady has an affair with a syphilitic beggar, and kills herself. The disease spreads to Piipii and Sasa gets her revenge. - **The Lady of the Rhine** (ラインの館にて, Rhine no Yakata nite) - A Japanese woman accompanies her husband on a business trip to Düsseldorf. She catches him having an affair, and when she confronts him, he leaves her. As she desperately searches for him in the streets, the woman is hit by a car and is hospitalized for a month. When she recovers, she visits her benefactor Lady Rathwood, the owner of a castle they had visited earlier. As she lives with Lady Rathwood, the woman learns of her hatred for men and her hatred for her husband is kindled. One day she discovers that the car she was hit with belongs to Lady Rathwood and she witnesses Lady Rathwood taking off the disguise of the woman who seduced her husband. Lady Rathwood calls her husband to the castle and gives the woman a knife, telling her to take her revenge. The woman refuses and goes back to her husband. - **Fire Mountain** (火の山, Hi no Yama, ALT. ENG. - The Thief Akikazu Inoue) - Time is during the Second World War. The ruffian Akikazu Inoue (whose first name could also be read as Showa) went to the Sobetsu village in Hokkaido, became an assistant of Mr. Masao Mimatsu, an observer of Showa Shinzan, which rapidly generated. The description that Mikami lived for the observation and protection of Showa Shinzan was based on a true story. --- **Volume 265 of the Osamu Tezuka Complete Works**

Yuri, a modern day teenager who had just received her first kiss, is suddenly whisked away to ancient Anatolia, where an evil queen needs her for a blood sacrifice. Thankfully the timely intervention of Prince Kail saves Yuri from the queen's grasp. For now. Kail promises to send Yuri back to her home, but the queen's persistent schemes to kill them both, plus their growing interest in each other, keep those plans delayed. **Winner of 2001 Shogakukan Manga Award for Shōjo** Note: Final 28th volume contains a side story called Orontes Renka, set in the same historical period. The Hittite empire is about to become an Egyptian territory through marriage between the Hittite princess and the Egyptian king. A traveler from Egypt, Maripas, visits Anatolia at that time but gets robbed of all his belongings while playing good samaritan. He's thankfully offered shelter by an unusually well-educated Hittite woman named Yuri. But this seemingly innocent meeting soon turns into a thrilling romantic adventure – cases of mistaken identity and runaway royals are about to complicate international relations!

Who died at that time... Which one? John is red-haired and freckled. His only pride is that he is a close friend of the school's popular twins, Jekyll and Hyde. The twins always pretended to be each other, but suddenly one of the twins died. Who was left... Which one!?

*Currently Out-of-Print with no digital edition from Drawn & Quarterly* In Fallen Words, Yoshihiro Tatsumi takes up the oral tradition of rakugo and breathes new life into it by shifting the format from spoken word to manga. Each of the eight stories in the collection is lifted from the Edo-era Japanese storytelling form. As Tatsumi notes in the afterword, the world of rakugo, filled with mystery, emotion, revenge, hope, and, of course, love, overlaps perfectly with the world of Gekiga that he has spent the better part of his life developing. These slice-of-life stories resonate with modern readers thanks to their comedic elements and familiarity with human idiosyncrasies. In one, a father finds his son too bookish and arranges for two workers to take the young man to a brothel on the pretext of visiting a new shrine. In another particularly beloved rakugo tale, a married man falls in love with a prostitute. When his wife finds out, she is enraged and sets a curse on the other woman. The prostitute responds by cursing the wife, and the two escalate in a spiral of voodoo doll cursing. Soon both are dead, but even death can’t extinguish their jealousy. Tatsumi’s love of wordplay shines through in the telling of these whimsical stories, and yet he still offers timeless insight into human nature.

(from ebookjapan): Sawako Matsumoto works for Manhattan Trust, one of the largest banks in the United States. This Sawako has returned as the vice president of the Japan branch. Corporate competition between Japan and the U.S. unfolds in the banking industry. This best-selling work depicts the turbulent period of the Japanese economy in the 1980s. Winner of the Shogakukan Manga Award and the Grand Prize of the Japan Cartoonists Association Award. It has also been made into an Anime! --- - **Won the 33rd Shogakukan Manga Award for General Manga in 1987, which it shared with Ishinomori's other famous work, Hotel** - **As mentioned in the description, Manga Intro to the Japanese Economy Won the 17th Japan Cartoonists Association Award Grand Prize in 1988**

In 1875, after the death of her parents, Uno goes to live in the Kanou household as a companion to Mariko, who is her same age. The two girls become very close and attend Cimons private school. This great romance tells the story of the loves and dreams of two girls growing up during the westernization of Japan in the Meiji era.

A bright-spirited young historical scholar, Iba, disappears while on a lone expedition to study the ancient Silk Road. A year later his girlfriend, Kyoko, sets out for the Silk Road in order to find clues that will help to unravel the mystery of Iba's disappearance. When she arrives, she finds the charm she gave Iba for protection and moments later she is sucked into a black vortex and loses consciousness. Kyoko awakes to find herself in a very different place and discovers that Iba is not only alive but is a warrior-slave under the reign of Genghis Khan in 13th century Mongolia! At last, when Iba and Kyoko reunite, they find that there are a series of events, crueler than the ones they have already endured, awaiting them…

The story takes place in the Dark Ages of Europe in the 16th century. Except rather than just dealing with the plague, we've got monsters, witches and other things that people have to worry about. The ministry in Europe can't have this continue, so they decide to get help from special boys living in Japan. These kids are apparently the avatars of deities born upon the present era to destroy the devil.

A young lady about to make her debut into society is devastated to learn that her tutor will be dismissed at the same time.

With her talkative crow Jacky in tow, Daisy Louise goes to London in search of Marie, who has been sold. With the help of Glen, a journalist, will Daisy be able to learn of Marie's whereabouts?

Iba decides to live as Genghis Khan, the "King of Wolves," and while ruling the surrounding countries, he trains his own son, Kublai, to become a military commander with the help of his trusted subordinate, Benkei. However, the facts of history are undeniable, and the year of Khan's death (1227) is approaching!! Now, the most powerful and greatest enemy appears in front of them!! Before reading this read "King of Wolves"!! (From the back of the book)

In Edo period Japan, a mysterious foreigner washes upon the shore of Shinsengumi-claimed territory. The foreigner is nicknamed "Yankee", and eventually takes a liking to leader Souji Okita. As the two become good friends and even better warriors, the Shinsengumi faces threats beyond their control, and sends Okita and Yankee to take on enemies to further claim Japan as their own.

This is sequel of [Otogi Moyou Ayanishiki](https://mangadex.org/title/f145aa3f-e009-402a-b4a4-3442386aa820/otogi-moyou-ayanishiki). Suzu and Shinkurou have come home! Suzune and Shinkurou fought together with the mononoke Ojaru-sama and the tengu Genpachirou to protect Ima Province from the youma Kifune! Just as peace has been restored, the newly married couple is summoned by the military governor of Ima Province Ootegawa-sama, and it’s decided that they’ll travel to the capital. However, along the way they find that some kind of creature is hindering their path?! *For the complete details, please see the 5 volumes of Hana to Yume Comics’ “Otogi Moyou Ayanishiki” !

Follows Vlad III's rule of Wallachia and the principality's conflict with the Ottoman Empire.