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Kowloon Generic Romance

In a future where nostalgia reigns, Kowloon Walled City stands as a meticulously recreated slum, a haven for those who long for the Hong Kong of the past. Real estate agent Reiko Kujirai works within its dense, labyrinthine confines, but her heart yearns for the new and exciting places beyond its walls. Her only coworker, Hajime Kudou, is her polar opposite: a man who finds comfort in the city's retro charm and is put off by anything modern that seeps past its borders. Despite their constant bickering over the most mundane things, the two often find themselves enjoying each other's company. Their quiet, familiar dynamic is shattered one day when a prank goes wrong, leading Hajime to make an

The Works of Ichikawa Haruko

This collection brings together the early short stories of Haruko Ichikawa. Across two volumes, characters navigate surreal and intimate realities: a boy discovers his uncle has a mysterious 'daughter,' a youth awakens in a strange land guided by an ethereal companion, and an injured athlete finds solace with a robotic sibling. Other tales delve into quiet mysteries, from a marine biologist's reunion with her brother that masks a deeper scientific pursuit, to a delinquent's encounter with a peculiar transfer student at a college on a moon of Saturn. Each story explores themes of isolation, connection, and the subtle, often supernatural, boundaries of the human experience.

Kino's Journey: The Beautiful World

Kino travels the world astride Hermes, a talking motorrad who supplies the speed while Kino supplies the balance. The two are inseparable, moving from one country to the next along a road that keeps stretching ahead of them. By their own rule, they never stay anywhere longer than three days — just enough time to learn a place's customs and meet its people before moving on. Some of what they find is gentle and some of it is cruel: happiness and grief, violence and decay, beauty and hard-won wisdom, all of it waiting behind the next border. Because the world is imperfect, Kino and Hermes keep going, unwilling to trade the freedom of the road for a place to settle, and curious about whatever

Afterschool Time of the Earth

Humanity has been wiped out by mysterious dark monsters known as Phantoms. Four survivors have found one another and share a quiet, peaceful existence: Masashi, a kind and dependable teenage boy; Sanae, who is shy; her bolder friend Yaeko; and Anna, a little girl. Their days pass in a perpetual "after school" state, as though the rest of the human race might still come home. But strange things begin to appear around them, and it becomes clear that the monsters have not left the Earth. As they spend their days together, the four of them must face what really happened to their planet, and whether they are truly the last of the human race.

The Disappearance of Haruhi Suzumiya

One week before Christmas Eve, Kyon, the only ordinary member of the SOS Brigade, wakes up to a world where everything has changed. Haruhi Suzumi attends a different school, Yuki Nagato is a quiet human bookworm instead of an alien interface, and Mikuru Asahina has no memory of him. The SOS Brigade, and all the extraordinary adventures it brought, seems to have never existed. With only a cryptic bookmark left by the robotic Nagato as a clue, Kyon is thrust into a solitary quest to understand this new reality and find a way back. His investigation leads him to revisit a pivotal past event, forcing him to confront what his world—and his friends—truly mean to him.

Sister of Ms. Asamiya

Asamiya Aoi is a seemingly naive yet surprisingly resilient young girl traversing a futuristic landscape. Her only guide is a sketchbook left by her father, a book filled not with simple drawings but with detailed maps and valuable research notes. Her solitary journey takes a turn when she meets Kyoko, a young woman who recognizes the immense monetary value of the sketchbook's contents. Feigning concern and friendship, Kyoko joins Aoi with the secret intention of stealing the precious book. As the two travel together, their path intersects with the lives of various people in this strange world. Their journey becomes a test of character, forcing Kyoko to confront her own motives while she t