Road to Rome

Sayo is assigned to sew a yukata as home economics homework. She takes out the fabric her mother had intended to sew but was unable to. As she begins to sew it herself, she keeps reminiscing about her memories with her mother...

Publisher Hayakawa is celebrating its 70th anniversary with two manga anthology reprints. One collection is dedicated to mystery works while the other compiles SF stories printed over the publisher's long career. - **The Ripe Star** (Ureta Hoshi) by Osamu Tezuka, February 1972 in SF Magazine - **Dual Isolation Cell Satellite** (Eisei 2-ren Dokubou) by Leiji Matsumoto, February 1972 in SF Magazine - **7P (2)** – H.G. Wells by Shotaro Ishinomori, October 1969 in SF Magazine - **Captain Past** by Go Nagai, November 1970 in SF Magazine - **Ragini** by Moto Hagio, February 1980 in SF Magazine - **Dorothy** by Keiko Fukuyama, August 1984 in SF Magazine - **Aquatic People** (Mizubito) by Hideo Azuma - **THE GHOST OF SF KID** (SF Kozou no Yuurei) by Tori Miki - Heikou Wars by Eiji Yokoyama - Ojii-chan no Shosai/Uchuu by Tetsuya Imai - Megane wo Kai ni by Yu Tsunamino - Futokou by Tsubana - **Mister Donut** by Daisuke Nishijima(Original concept: Yusaku Kitano), June 2002 in SF Magazine - Mahou Shoujo Time-chan Sono 1 Onee-chan wa Kaidan wo Ochiru Yume wo Miru no ka by Akihito Yoshitomi - To, Aru Hi no Boku no Himo by Natsujikei Miyazaki - **Sister of My Dreams** (Ore no Yume no Imouto) by COCO

The Abunazaka Hotel stands between this world and the next. The guests that find themselves here are drifting on the brink between life and death, carrying heavy burdens in their hearts. Which way is the right direction to go—?! A total of four full-length stories featuring the drama of all the guests that gather at the hotel: “The People of Abunazaka Hotel”, “A Woman’s Life”, “The Three Hosts”, “To the Snowy Mountain”, and a short story, “An Angel’s Story.”

The elite Cosmo Academy attracts applicants from every stellar nation in the galaxy. One young hopeful is Tadatos Lane, an orphan esper from Terra. The final stage of the academy's entrance exam is a perilous mission simulation aboard an actual derelict starship. The applicants depart for the ships in groups of ten, but when Tada's crew arrives on the Esperanza, they are horrified to discover that they now number eleven. As the test progresses, things go awry and the atmosphere grows increasingly tense. The crew members begin to suspect sabotage, and Tada appears to be the likely culprit. --- - **Won the 21st Shogakukan Manga Award for Shonen/Shojo in 1976**

Marlee, an agent of the advanced civilization Central on the planet Blue Ear, finds himself on a mission to track down the troubadour Lagthorin. His mission leads him to the planet Corundum, where he finds the elusive musician and subsequently dies. Back at Central, he is regenerated into a new clone, Marlee Two, who sets off once more, drawn back to Lagthorin and her song. And so the strings of fate guide Marlee forward, inescapably intertwined with both the events on the planet Corundum and, 30,000 years across time, with the long-extinct race of the planet Silver Triangle. A 1-volume classic sci-fi manga. Winner of the Seiun Award in 1983.

In the year 2999, only eleven cities still survive on Earth. The climate has changed drastically, and a biochemical apocalypse has made women extinct. For centuries, the male population of Earth has survived by depending on only one woman, called the Holy Mother, whose ova are harvested to create genetically engineered children. By now, any concept of a world in which women exist as ordinary people is long gone. Society has re-structured itself around all-male families, and relationships between men and adolescent boys have become the norm. At the beginning of Marginal, the Holy Mother is assassinated by a terrorist known as Grinja. The government in power doesn't want to start a mass panic, so it pretends that the Holy Mother has only shed her vessel, and that she will be miraculously "reborn" in the near future. The public, which is superstitious and devout, believes this easily. Only government officials know that behind the scenes, there is a frantic effort to create a being able to give birth. The manga's story revolves around Kira, who becomes involved in a three-way relationship with Grinja, the aforementioned terrorist, and Ashijin, a young man who calls himself Kira's owner. A complex plot and flawless world-building make the story irresistible, and Kira's search for freedom is as symbolic as it is gripping.

A story about a certain myth about the legendary Unicorn.

A gag manga* that takes place after *Horizon of the East, Eternity of the West*, focusing on Tada and Frol's misadventures at the Cosmo Academy. **NOTE: Included in most editions of They Were Eleven! alongside the sequel. Absent from both official English releases.*

As winter draws to a close, German boarding school student Thomas Werner dies one morning. He leaves behind a single letter addressed to his fellow student Juli that reads "Here is my love. Here is the sound of my heart." With his faith shaken to the core by the words, the scholarly Juli sinks to the depths of despair. His cynical roommate Oscar finds himself watching over Juli's fragile mental state while keeping his own feelings for Juli under wraps. Then new student Eric enters the school - and he has an uncanny resemblance to the deceased Thomas… Enter the world of a boy's boarding school in Germany where all will be revealed about the suffering and redemption that comes with love. Even today, this early work of Hagio Moto is still regarded as a brilliant masterpiece. This is volumes 11-12 of Hagio Moto Works 1 Bianka (ビアンカ) 2 Tou no Aru Ie (塔のある家) 3 Cake Cake Cake (ケーキケーキケーキ) 4 Sara Hill no Seiya (セーラ・ヒルの聖夜) 5 Sangatsu Usagi ga Shuudande (３月ウサギが集団で) 6 Poe no Ichizoku 1 (ポーの一族　　　１) 7 Poe no Ichizoku 2 (ポーの一族　　　２) 8 Poe no Ichizoku 3 (ポーの一族　　　３) 9 Poe no Ichizoku 4 (ポーの一族　　　４) 10 Kyobetsu Hata no Isansouzokunin (キャベツ畑の遺産相続人) 11 Thomas no Shinzou First (トーマの心臓　上) 12 Thomas no Shinzou Last (トーマの心臓　下) 13 Juuichinin Iru! (１１人いる！) 14 Shiiro no Yuukyuu / Kuro no Eien (東の地平・西の永久) 15 Kono Musume Urimasu! (この娘うります！) 16 Tottemo Shiawase Moto-chan (とってもしあわせモトちゃん) 17 American Pie (アメリカンパイ)

(from ebookjapan): Around 1880, the Baron de Portsnell and his family visited a seaside town. They had come from London, and they soon became well known in the city. The baron and his wife and their children, Edgar and Marybelle, exuded an elegance that was out of place in a country town. The sight of them was like looking at a perfect painting. In fact, their beauty was a magical beauty out of time. They were the "Poe's Clan", vampirnellas who consume human blood. The family rented a house on the outskirts of the city and began to search for someone to welcome into the clan, pretending to be human. Edgar was intrigued by Alan Twilight, the son of the city's foremost trader.... [Official English](https://www.fantagraphics.com/products/the-poe-clan-vol-1?_pos=1&_sid=27aa05edc&_ss=r) --- - **Won the 21st Shogakukan Manga Award for Shojo in 1976, which it shared with Hagio's other serial, They Were Eleven**