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In the title piece, Chiruhi, Orin is a prostitute who works on a boat near the seashore. She falls in love with a young hairdresser, who is one of her customers, even though she knows it is an impossible love. This collection consists of seven historical short stories which tragicomically depict people trying to do their best in the city of Edo throughout the seasons. (Source: MU)

Twenty-nine years after Tokyo was established as the capital of Japan, a series of bizarre and mysterious crimes happening in the city of Kawara. Mysterious flame demon, dark red princess, fireflies seller, puppeteers also appearing near the place of accident. The perpetrator might be spirits or human's dark side. Hirakawa Shintaro, a journalist, is investigating those mysterious cases with Manzo's help. Their investigation to find the perpetrator brings them to an intrigue inside Takatsukasa family.

Cesare, the eldest child of the notorious Borgia household in fifteenth-century Italy, learns he has a sister he's never met—Lucrezia. He is also given a poison called "Cantarella," which has been handed down in the family for generations. The story unfolds after Cesare (here played by Kaito) meets Lucrezia (Hatsune Miku) for the first time... (Source: Seven Seas Entertainment)

After being bullied at his old school, Makoto wants to be the main character of his own story. When he finds a bill with his face on it on a school trip to Kyoto, he takes it as a sign, which leads him to fall into a river. Once he comes to, he realizes that he has been transported back to the period of time in Japan known as the Bakumatsu! (Source: MU)

Tengujin is a story about two twin brothers who live in a world where Eastern and Western Japan and splitting apart and have formed two warring countries. In this "idiot adult's world", many social issues press on society and drove it to war. Gods of the world, mainly tengu, influence the start and end of the events that lead to war such as Japan splitting into two, so the younger twin, Mozuku, desires to end the idiotic war the adults started and meets with the God of the West (Sai) with his older brother, Shinonome. Zanouka, the second story in Tengujin, is about the former incarnations of Mozuku and Shinonome. Mozuku is a young bard who is the inheriting son of a feudal lord of a dead mountain with only poor people remaining on it. He keeps a rigid, realistic perspective on life and refuses to believe in things like tengu. While cleaning the tengu's small shrine, his beautiful voice attracts the attention of the tengu of the mountain, Tondonbou (Shinonome's former incarnation), who hides half of his face behind a mask. After meeting the tengu, Mozuku sets to seeking him out again, wanting to see what was hidden behind that mask. (Source: Aku Tenshi) Note: Series is on hiatus.

Born into a life of acting and dance with a traveling theater troupe in 14th-century Japan, 12-year-old Oniyasha has one problem—he doesn't know what the point of any of it is. Why must I step with the left foot here instead of the right? Why is one performance good and another, bad? Why do people dance at all? It all seems perfectly arbitrary, until a chance encounter in a run-down shack sets him down a path to revolutionizing the art form and influencing much of Japanese culture to come. A fictionalized account of the early life of Zeami Motokiyo (Oniyasha), the founder of modern Noh theater—the world's oldest surviving theater art—this coming-of-age artist's journey vividly brings to life a man far ahead of his time during one of Japan's most culturally and socially vibrant eras. (Source: Kodansha USA)

This manga tells the story of Napoleon's empire, including the Thermidorian Reaction, the Italian Campaign, the Egyptian Campaign, the Battle of the Nile and the coup of 18 Brumaire, and the French invasion of Russia. (Source: Wikipedia)

A collection of five short stories: 1) Rikara Seiten is the illegitimate son of the King. He's considered to be an insult to his kind and his brothers make fun of him by humiliating him and his position. It's thanks to Rikara, a prisoner (or as Seiten would say: a fallen angel) that he finds the strength to fight and win back his life. 2) Rougoku ni Saku Hana A stern magistrate, Hakuto, is habouring unrequitted love for a superior and seeks a quiet spot i which to shed his tears but finds more than he imagined in the form of forgotten prisoner Doukoku. 3) Lingering Attachment (Miren) After all else is destroyed a general and his lord come to know each other's feelings. 4) Bed de Kimi to After graduating high school two soccer team mates enjoy life as newly weds but have problems finding time to be alone. 5) Tag Out! When baseball captain Tamaki hit a stray ball into the principal's office he never expected it would lead to him becoming a servant for the young, handsome and rich school alumni Shinobu. NOTE: Chapters 1-3 are set in ancient China, whereas chapters 4-5 are set in the modern day Japan. (Source: M-U)

1-4. Yuki no Touge In the end of the Sengoku period, the great daimyo family of Satake is driven away from Hitachi-no-kuni to Dewa-no-kuni after the Sekigahara battle. They plan to build a new castle there, but the head of the family, Yoshinobu Satake, listens more to the young vassals' advice than that of the experienced chief vassals'. The experienced vassals oppose and start to plan something to defend their place... 5-9. Tsurugi no Mai It's Sengoku period. Haruna, a daughter of a farmer family, gets herself raped and her family killed by hooligan warriors in the chaos of war. Using the funds she got of the Go stones stolen from the warriors, she joins the dojo of the famous Nobutsuna Kamiizumi to learn kenjutsu in order to get revenge on the warriors. There, she meets Kamiizumi's apprentice Bungorou Hikita, who starts to teach her the art of the sword with the shinai that Kamiizumi has just invented... (Source: Translated from Wikipedia.jp)

His Majesty comes close; he's so handsome that the flushed queen pushes him reflexively and falls with him into a pool of water. Then they swap their bodies. The way to swap back is unknown. The most important thing is that the emperor is quite angry now!! Since they can't return to normal, the emperor has to deal with his mean imperial concubines that he doesn't even know, and the queen has to mediate between high-ranking ministries... (Source: Webnovel, edited)

In the second half of the 2nd century, Naru, a warrior from the Mahan tribal union of Goguryeo, was sold as a gladiator-slave to the Roman Empire and waged a desperate struggle for freedom. (Source: Naver Corporation, translated)

The daily life of the famous writer Natsume Sôseki shows the beginning of the Meiji era, when Japan was opening toward the West. (Source: MangaUpdates)

The main story is retold from Xiaolan's perspective.

He doesn't remember who he is, but he wanders the European nobility in search of the truth. On nights of the full moon, he thirsts for blood and the human memories they contain, hoping to reclaim his own. (Source: MU)

The princess of love, Koiko is given the power to zap people to admire her, but the power will leave her when her time of adulthood and marriage arrives. There was one boy she had never zapped before, Shirou. However, he turns out to be someone different when he didn't show up as he promised. It turns out that he was one of the legendary shadow ninjas. Koiko, heartbroken, runs to find him, only to find new things she never knew about him.

10th Century. There were two men in the Heian-kyo. the Great Onmyoji "Abe no Seimei." and nobleman "Minamoto no Hiromasa" blessed by the Spirit of Music.

Seven years since the rare solar eclipse occurred, Adashino continues to assist those in medical need. After visiting a patient at a beachside home, the tactful doctor notices a shadow resembling a bird. This spontaneous sighting leads Adashino to reminisce about a story Ginko once told him about a Mushi that assumes the same form. Such a revelation, however, may lead to false optimism. [Written by MAL Rewrite]

Charlotte, a bookworm who dreams of becoming a writer, starts her new job as a maid for Lord Matthew and his sister Lady Anna, the last remaining members of the Parvens family. Her ability to write catches the attention of them both. Now, for Matthew, she is tasked to write letters pretending to be him, while for Anna, she must secretly report on Matthew's day-to-day affairs. Putting pen to paper has never been so difficult! What will become of Charlotte when the Parvens family's twisted deceptions come to light? (Source: Tappytoon)

It's 1965 and guerrilla fighting and war has divided north and south Vietnam with conflict. American intervention is being sent in as support, and along with the army a young Japanese-American journalist by the name of Hikaru Minami, enters Saigon, South Vietnam as a newspaper reporter for 'Stars and Stripes.' After witnessing serious crimes being committed, he is almost killed when a mysterious girl, known only as Princess, comes to his rescue. Is this love at first sight?

During the Interwar Period (1925-1932), Tomoji lives in the Japanese countryside while Fumiaki works as a photographer in Tokyo. One day, they meet... This story is inspired by real characters who founded later a branch of Buddhism.

The time is 972 A.D. in Kyoto, the capital of ancient Japan. Kyoto is becoming a corrupt and run-down city; selfish samurai and onmyoji, who care only about gaining political power are everywhere. To make matters worse the city is suffering from famine and widespread disease. Unable to ignore the condition of the city any longer, the Imperial Court decides to send Minamoto no Raiko, a famous samurai well-known for his archery skills, to recover a legendary gem, the Magatama, said to hold mysterious power to save the world. However Raiko also falls ill to disease. Instead his youngest sister, Hikaru, decides secretely to make the journey in his place. Hikaru meets many people, and has many adventures while on her trip for the legendary gem. (Source: Tokyopop)

The time is the Stone Age. Before a tribe living in the wastelands, a woman drifts ashore. Their elder thus decides to take her in as the future bride of their only male. Hunting mammoths, singing, dancing, taking a nap, occasionally going to hot springs: this is the laid-back daily life of cute Stone Age girls living in the harsh period leading up to the Ice Age! (Source: Futabasha, translated)

"I shall destroy the factions of justice and avenge the deaths of my comrades!" Jeonghwa, the captain of the Black Serpent Squad, loses everyone she grew up with when the lawful factions betray them after the battle against the chaotic factions. On the verge of death herself, she must now claw her way up to deliver true justice to the so-called justice factions. (Source: Webtoon Entertainment)