After many years of running a used-book store, its ponytailed owner can tell when someone who enters his store will buy a book or not. But running a bookstore isn't as easy as one might think. Published in Harta volume 98 (October 2022 Issue).

In Kitakaruizawa, a human larger-than-life springs forth from the Kobayakawa Research Center in the middle of the night. That same human, in an instant of pain and agony, turns to dust and is swept away by a forceful gale across the landscape, a tremendous sight witnessed only by clan of truck drivers rushing down the late-night highway. The experiment of Doctor Kobayakawa ends in a disappointing failure, yet the elder brother of a young Akio makes the acquaintance of the Doctor, unmistakably a trap, one bearing the danger of a new experiment…

Tell Me A Lie is about a girl, Terumi Arai, who has the ability to read a person's mind when she looks into their eyes.

Created in the late 1950s, BLACK BLIZZARD is Yoshihiro Tatsumi's remarkable first full-length tankobon and one of the first published examples of Gekiga. With BLACK BLIZZARD, Tatsumi explores the dark underbelly of his working-class heroes that five decades later will make him one of the most well known Japanese cartoonists in North America. Susumu Yamaji, a 24-year-old pianist, is arrested for murder and ends up handcuffed to a career criminal on the train that will take them to prison. An avalanche derails the train and the criminal takes the opportunity to escape, dragging a reluctant Susumu with him into the blizzard raging outside. They flee into the mountains to an abandoned ranger station, where they take shelter from the storm. As they sit around the fire they built, Susumu relates how love drove him to become a murderer.

The one-shot is about the protagonist's goal of going North on his scooter, and Aso said that the story is "90% a story of my own personal experience." The manga is Aso's first to be published in Young Magazine.<br /><br />The manga is the seventh one-shot published as part of Weekly Young Magazine's 35th anniversary BULLET project. The project is publishing 35 one-shots over a one-year period.

Hiyama Nachi has always hated that she didn't tan in the sun like her teammates in the softball club. The difference made her stand out and uncomfortable. Then she met a kind, quiet boy, and accidentally discovered his secret, a secret that made him different beyond what she could imagine!

**"Tokyo swallows and digests tens of millions of human beings, then expels them. And here is some of the excrement: her name is Barbara."** (from ebookjapan): Yosuke Mikura, a popular and indulgent novelist, meets a shabby girl named Barbara at a train station. Ever since she's been staying at his house, MIKURA's inspiration has been brilliant and he finds himself on top of the world. ...Is she a demon or a goddess?　 A mysterious tale of an artist's glory and pain! [Official English](https://emanga.com/products/barbara?variant=32122317702) --- Link to the Live Action Film Adaptation's Trailer on **[YouTube](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y2vKPj8gxkA)** --- **Volumes 145 and 146 of the Osamu Tezuka Complete Works**

Amidst the chaos of World War II, two Japanese soldiers hear of Zephyrus, an utterly captivating woman rumored to exist on an island in the South Pacific. The tales of this bold enchantress seducing men to their dooms are both chilling and fascinating. Over twenty years pass, and Zephyrus resurfaces in Japan, seemingly unchanged, to wield her mysterious power over men once more. The one man immune to Zephyrus' charms is simple drunkard, Gohonmatsu Seki, son of one of the wartime soldiers. Employed to spy on Zephyrus, what will Gohonmatsu uncover about her ultimate plot to create international discord and consume the world of men? What brought this woman to conspire for decades against patriarchal society -against an entire gender- and can anything be done to stop her plans? [Official English](https://emanga.com/collections/osamu-tezuka/products/swallowing-the-earth) --- **Volumes 259 and 260 of the Osamu Tezuka Complete Works**

James Block is a former sports star whose criminal endeavors landed him in jail. In prison he meets "Dr. F", a strange old man who tells James about a beam that can turn living things invisible. After escaping from prison, James finds and uses the laser on himself. But, because the beam has not been perfected yet, it only rendered his skin invisible, leaving his insides visible to the outside. Angered at his disfigurement, James takes the name "Alabaster" and begins eliminating the hypocrites and the boastful. He is joined by Ami Ozawa, the granddaughter of "Doctor F", who was rendered invisible after the doctor used his pregnant daughter as an "F Beam" test subject. On their trail is Rock, a vicious FBI agent. [Official English](https://emanga.com/products/alabaster-vol-1?variant=32122232710) --- **Volumes 89 and 90 of the Osamu Tezuka Complete Works**

There is something different about Haruhi Suzumiya today and Kyon plans to get to the bottom of this change in her mood.

I like romantic comedies. However, romance doesn't develop like that in reality. There was once a time where I thought that. Encountering a girl who fell from the sky, my school life changes with a clang.

This world is full of strange wonders: giant snakehead fishes fall from space, planets are sold and bought, toy monkeys start conversations, a ¥ 300 million lottery hit is won, and special motors make islands fly! After being dumped in a garbage dump the past records of the robot Debris-kun (memory) disappeared into stardust. Due to a chance encounter, the pretty high schooler Nina picked him up stating she would not be a robot master but a teacher. So they lived together with her talented slacker husband Tahei. "After one year, five years later, 10 years later…and 50 years later…" Every time you go through a volume, time is progressing very quickly in this work.A robot does not grow old, but human beings do. The girls grow into adult women, the surrounding environment grows into devastation. Human beings are dying, but the stardust memory of the robot does not die. This manga might give you the feeling of being watched in the transience of the world, possibly from God's point of view. And so the story, in God's speed, proceeds to the future! Following ["Mobile Brigade eight Fukujin"](https://mangadex.org/title/1682), Satoshi Fukushima's new "time skip comedy" series for boys and girls is "Stardust Nina"! [MU+GoogleTranslate]

(from ebookjapan): Highly intelligent birds have exterminated humans and become the rulers of the earth! 　However, the bird society that was born to correct the evolutionary distortion on the earth is not an ideal world, and it soon begins follow the same path as human society. What will become of the decadent avian society...?! Also contains the Otona Manga (Adult Manga) "The Story of Fumbling Animals". Licensed in English by Ablaze as "Tomorrow the Birds". --- **Volumes 94 and 95 of the Osamu Tezuka Complete Works**

Anthology of Sasaki's surreal stories that were published in Garo.

*Debut One-Shot of Ao Kojima, published in the Sept 2022 issue of harta (volume 97).* A working woman experiences day to day life in emptiness. But with a visit to a stranger’s house, how would her life change?

In a world faced with a flood of overpopulation, the scientists of the world are called together to come up with solutions. Prof. Leeman suggests for man to live in the sea, but is shunned. In an act of desperation, he turns his son into a merman, and sends him into the sea. This boy is found by a mother sea turtle, and is given the name Pippy. Pippy, unaware of his true parentage, grows up alongside others in the ocean, until he has a terrible encounter with humans. Thus, Pippy goes into the human world, and a long journey awaits him. --- **Volume 137 of the Osamu Tezuka Complete Works**

A small noodle shop can be found in a run-down shopping arcade at the last tram stop between the world of the living and the underworld, serving creatures from Japanese myth and legend, and the occasional lost human soul who can't quite make up their mind about passing on. CW: issues of suicide and survivor's guilt

Story showing what happened some time after the events in the last chapter.

The story of a beautiful girl Mitsuki and the Animal caretaker Yuzu.

A unique collection of one-shots loosely connected to Shino Ura's other short works. The history of an animal shaped like humans. The story of a girl who switched her face with her self in a puddle. The story of a mermaid in a flask in a garbage-filled river. A story of gods on modern streets. A collection of scifi works which originally appeared as a webcomic with additions for the tankoubon format.

A story about a young Reimu's flying lessons, stargazing and growing pains. Also featuring Rinnosuke, Yukari and Newspaper Lady.

On his was back home, Mine Ryouta is accidentally got himself attacked at a park, a hotspot for gays, but is rescued by Souma, a guy from “the other side”. Ryouta is warned not to pass over to “the other side”, but he cannot forget the charming eyes of that junior. The closer he gets, the more barriers start to burn down. An unstoppable first love! A dangerously charming seme and an in love matters inexperienced man get sexually involved. This is the premise for the characters created for this new doujin series!

The third entry in Keisuke Itagaki's military autobiography series (My Youth in The Narashino 1st Airborne Brigade).