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The title character, Maruko, is a nine-year-old third-grade student. She is lazy, disorganized and usually late for school, in strong contrast with her neat and tidy older sister who must share her room with her. Maruko, like many kids, tries to avoid homework and chores, takes advantage of her doting grandfather and squabbles with her sister. Nevertheless, she is a well-meaning child who tries to do good.
Maruko's real name is Momoko Sakura (さくらももこ Sakura Momoko), the same as the pen-name of her creator Miki Miura 三浦 美紀 (who used her own childhood experiences as inspiration). Her nickname "Maruko" is made of marui ("round", because of her round face) and -ko (girl child); the prefix chibi and the suffix -chan also refer to a cute child.
Maruko's trademark face fault in reaction to embarrassment is the sudden appearance of vertical lines on her face, sometimes with an unexplained gust of wind blowing behind her head. This is sometimes mimicked by female fans of the series who draw the fingers of one hand down across the face to show embarrassment. On the internet this is often used as emoticons, by speech marks. For example: -_-"
Other characters include Maruko's classmate and best friend Tama-chan. A fan favorite is Maruko's kind but absent-minded grandfather. Naive and easily tricked, he keeps a pet turtle and loves watching TV with Maruko. When feeling distressed or nostalgic, he spontaneously retreats to a surreal inner world for a few seconds to improvise a sad yet comical haiku about his state of mind.Genre(s): Comedy, School Life, Shoujo, Slice Of Life
Updated Time: Dec 27, 2016
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Yuji has just started a new semester of high school and everything seems to be normal. That all changes one day when he goes out shopping after school. The entire world around him freezes except for two monsters that begin to devour the frozen people. Upon seeing him move they call him a "Mystes" and try to kill him.
Then a mysterious girl with hot eyes and long flaming hair comes to his rescue. She brings back all the people that were devoured and unfreezes the world. According to her she didn't bring them back, but created temporary replacements. She also says that Yuji is an extremely rare form of these replacements, or "Torches" known as a "Mystes" with a treasure inside. Thanks to this, more monsters will come after him, and she will protect him at all costs.Genre(s): Action, Adventure, Comedy, Fantasy, Harem, Romance, School Life, Shounen, Supernatural
Updated Time: Oct 22, 2016
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A romantic story set in showbusiness and modeling world, CRASH reveals the influence played and the links joining the publicity, cinema and TV worlds: as a vector to the image manipulation, that tends too often to dehumanize the top model or actor, reducing him to a simple image in 2-dimension.
Genre(s): Josei, Mature, Psychological, Romance, Shounen Ai
Updated Time: Oct 22, 2016
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In a school where after school activities are mandatory among all students, Hajime and her friend Sayo come across a new club that they have never seen before. The club is called "The Cultural Activity Preservation Club." The two enter the room to find all kinds of analog jobs and activities, such as handcrafting mats and toothpicks. This is a unique cultural manga mixed with comedy so as not to bore you, this is Double J!
Genre(s): Comedy, School Life, Shounen
Updated Time: Oct 23, 2016
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OYA NIWA NAISHO NO KOIMONOGATARI
An anthology of short stories:
1) Hurt me Gracefully (Shinayaka ni Kizutsuite) by KITAGAWA Miyuki : this is the first chapter of Shinayaka ni Kizutsuite.
2) Devil Cat's Temptation by NAKAHARA Migiwa.
4) Takaya-kun of House Tanaka by SHIMAKI Ako.
6) Story of a Long, Long Night by YOSHINAGA Noriko.Genre(s): Romance, Shoujo
Updated Time: Oct 23, 2016
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The manga follows the story of 16-year-old Mana on an adventure through the Aquarian Age.
A sixteen year old girl, Mana returns to her hometown to reunite with her childhood friend after having been gone for seven years. But her friend, Kaname, seems to have changed too while they've been apart.
Mana's re-emergence soon sets off a series of events that alters the lives of Kaname and his best friend, Naoya. Classmates Isshin and Tsukasa, as well as their teacher Tomonori, find themselves drawn in as well.
Soon, they all discover that they have a part to play in the "Aquarian Age" - a war that has been secretly raging for thousands of years.
Now the future of the world depends on one girl and her destiny.Genre(s): Fantasy, Harem, Romance, Shoujo, Supernatural
Updated Time: Oct 23, 2016
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Reiji Oozora is a total loser! Not good at anything especially schoolwork! One day his friend Maiko Yukino offers to share her class notes with him to help him out on the condition that he takes her wherever she wants to go. She takes him to a secret place where a virtual reality game called Dragon Drive is played. Reiji signs up, gets his own dragon, which ends up being the smallest and weakest in the game! Because of its tiny size Reiji names the dragon Chibi.
Right after joining the game Reiji and Maiko are sent to battle a classmate who has as crush on Maiko named Daisuke. Reiji runs from the battle and just when it seems like he can't win his dragon does something impossible! It suddenly powers up and defeats the much larger dragon. Reiji wins and is suddenly addicted to this new exciting game.
A staff member of the Dragon Drive virtual reality game named Agent L realizes that there is something incredible about Chibi's performance and invites Reiji and Maiko to a special training room. There she reveals the real purpose of the game is for players to bring out their dragons' true potential. Just then a strange girl riding a dragon appears and takes them to a fantastic magical world. It turns out it this world is in peril of being taken over by an evil group called RI-ON and the only thing that can possibly stop them in none other than Reiji's little dragon! Thus the adventure begins!Genre(s): Action, Adventure, Fantasy, Sci-fi, Shounen
Updated Time: Oct 23, 2016
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High school student Yukari Fujimaru knows a potential star when she sees one because she sees the special "aura" they give off, in the form of angelic wings. Yukari's fellow student, the beautiful and responsible student body vice president, Ryoko Katsuragi, has a small pair of wings herself, and is one of these aspiring talents. She's so talented, in fact, that no one even knows that "she" is actually a boy in disguise. Due to a series of events, Yukari has come to discover Ryoko, or rather, Ryou's secret, and is hired as a manager for Ryou by the president of the Peacock Talent Agency. Living together with the promising Ryou and his rather dashing room mate, Makoto Ayori, the number one star in Peacock who is also the lazy, ruffle-headed student body president, is bound to be an adventure! Now, to make her own down-to-earth dream come true Yukari must help her new friend become a star while doing her best to protect both her beloved room mates.
read right to left. but read vol.5 ch.24 and 25 from left to right.Genre(s): Comedy, Drama, Gender Bender, Romance, School Life, Shoujo, Slice Of Life, Supernatural
Updated Time: Dec 24, 2019
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From Viz:
All alone except for her loyal mutt Lupin, 18-year-old Suguri moves from the countryside to the big city to find a career and a new life!
In her first job at a pet store, she meets an assortment of quirky dogs and even stranger owners. What she lacks in retail experience, she makes up for through her natural rapport with all things wagging and fluffy!
[taken verbatim from the blurb of the English volumes]Genre(s): Comedy, Drama, Romance, Seinen, Slice Of Life
Updated Time: Mar 19, 2021
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[One shot anthology]
She's afraid of her "white jacket" chemistry teacher...She's out of breath just by merely passing him! And now, she's got supplementary classes with him close by in the same room! What is she to do??
Four other short stories are included in this love story anthology by Sakurakouji Kanoko. Be swept away as a "Partner in Crime" when a precious school statue goes missing, or discover just who your "Box Prince" is when your parents want to monitor your actions with a robot!
Read these five touching love stories and feel your heart race!Genre(s): Comedy, Drama, One Shot, Romance, Shoujo
Updated Time: Oct 24, 2016
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From Midnight Scans:
Story 1: Rakuen
Nana, a 16-year-old girl, has had a happy relationship for 1 year with a University student named Shugo. Though, it all comes to a halt, when a doctor tells her that in 6 months, she will become completely blind. While her condition worsens everyday, she decides not to tell Shugo anything because she fears she will be pitied. Will their love be able to survive this tragedy or will it go all downhill?
Story 2: Summer Rain - A girl and her mother move to the countryside where her father had been raised up in, the lonely girl finds herself in a friendship with somebody new...
Story 3: The Smiling Doll - ''We'll always be together,'' her friend had said to her before she died...Genre(s): Drama, Horror, Romance, Shoujo, Tragedy
Updated Time: Oct 24, 2016
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A collection of short love stories:
1. Love Charge;
Mao is a normal girl with a problem: she often wakes up early for school and because of that she gets pretty tired. So, In mornings she´s cold towards Minato, her boyfriend. She thinks its not really important, but...?!
2. Love Talk;
3. Koisuru Sekai No Katsumi De (Falling in love in corner of the world);
Mikazuki is a shy girl often bullied by her classmates becouse of her looks and act. When the new transfer guy, Yoh, showed up: memories from past, mixed feelings within fear, came back for her. But Yoh suddenly cuts her hair...?!
4. Academic Rubber
5. My Dangerous Serious Boyfriend
6. Confession BoxGenre(s): Drama, Romance, Shoujo
Updated Time: Oct 24, 2016
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