• RIVER'S EDGE

    RIVER'S EDGE

    Haruna Wakakusa and Yamada become friends after she saves him several times from her boyfriend's constant bullying. Through him she gets to know Kozue Yoshikawa, a fellow student who also models professionally. The three emotionally stunted teens' lives briefly yet intensely intertwine for one semester before splintering from the aftereffects of one disastrous night. For both Wakakusa and Yamada, their emotional awakening fosters an unlikely friendship between the two battered souls.

    Genre(s): Drama, Josei, School Life, Slice Of Life

    Updated Time: Aug 04, 2020

  • HELTER SKELTER

    HELTER SKELTER

    Through round after round of extensive plastic surgery and vigorous maintenance, Ririko has become the absolute manifestation of beauty, and becomes a wildly successful model, actress and singer. However, soon her body, unable to withstand the burdens of surgery, begins to crumble, and along with it so does her mind, as she plummets towards a frightening and inevitable end.

    A story about a woman's vanity, greed, hatred and despair, by the author of River's Edge.

    Helter Skelter won the 2003 excellence prize at the Japanese Media Arts Festival, and the 2004 Osamu Tezuka Culture Prize.

    Genre(s): Drama, Josei, Mature, Psychological

    Updated Time: Oct 28, 2016

  • Tokyo Girls Bravo

    Tokyo Girls Bravo

    The story takes place in the 80\'s. Kaneda Sakae, a high school girl living in Sapporo, suddenly moves to Tokyo with her mother...

    Genre(s): Comedy, Drama, School Life, Slice Of Life

    Updated Time: Sep 25, 2022

  • Love Life (OKAZAKI Kyoko)

    Love Life (OKAZAKI Kyoko)

    After his live-in girlfriend breaks up with him, Santa Hayashiya runs away from his apartment at night because he can no longer afford the rent. A classmate, Junko Sakurada, invites him to move in with her and her brother, but the relationship between the Sakurada siblings seems... strange. A story of yearning, a story of people that want to love and be loved.

    Genre(s): Drama, Slice Of Life

    Updated Time: Nov 27, 2022

  • Chiwawa-chan

    Chiwawa-chan

    A collection of short stories by Kyoko Okazaki published in the 1990s. The title story, \'Chiwawa-chan,\' follows the friends of Chiwawa, a girl found dead in Tokyo Bay, who come to realize they do not know anything about her such as her real name or her background. These stories were published irregularly from the June 1994 issue to the May 1995 issue of \'Monthly YOUNG ROSE,\' and some were also featured in the October 1994 special issue of \'FEEL.\' Furthermore, this collection includes material that were drawn specifically for the Young Rose Comics Deluxe edition of \'Chiwawa-chan.\'

    Genre(s): Psychological, Romance, Comedy, Drama, School Life

    Updated Time: Nov 17, 2023