My Kairos - The Tale of Little Gladiator

A story of the inhabitants Palace of the Earth Spirits before the events of Subterranean Animism. Told with humor and feeling in a unique drawing style. Take place before the event of Subterranean Animism, and Koishi Komeiji still hasn't close her 3rd eye.

Wrapped in snow and ice, a country of severe winter. In the country that has lost its spring, the populace freeze, starve, and compete amongst themselves for rations to live another day. When a girl who hides in herself an earnest desire and an old knight that is wanted by the country meet in a hellish world, an adventure that will overturn the world begins. With the kingdom as their enemy, they will take back everything that was stolen. (Source: MangaUpdates)

Short full color picture book drawn in unique style, that may or may not have been slightly inspired visually by Tove Jansson works.

After being sentenced to death, the girl Gladiolus was sent to a planet inhabited by robots and is forced to fight as a gladiator to win her freedom!