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  Enter the Princess! The legendary Silver Crystal appears.

  “I'm the pretty guardian in a sailor suit!”

 How much abuse can a simple girl take from a stuffed dog?

Two boys, two lives, one destiny.

Don’t look into her eyes… Poor Sawako Kuronuma just can’t seem to make any friends, no matter how hard she tries. Her naturally creepy appearance has had kids calling her Sadako (the evil character from “The Ring”) for so long that she can’t even remember the last time someone called her by her real name. That is, till the most well-liked boy in her class, Shota Kazehaya, extends an olive branch. He alone sees how hard Sawako works as class rep to take on all the unsavory tasks to spare her classmates a hard time and how much she tries to be friendly and kind to people. Because of this, and some discreet meddling on his part, slowly Sawako’s classmates begin to open their eyes and look past her ghostly appearance and creepy smiles to the shy and kind girl she really is. And Kazehaya’s interest in her is more than more kindly friendship, but Sawako is a little slow on the up-take and idolizes his ability to charm people and his positivity. Misunderstandings are in the forecast in this budding shoujo story on both the part of our unlikely heroine and those...

T’was beauty that tamed the beast. Yuiko Kubozuka was an outlier as far as high school girls go—she’d rather waste her time trying to befriend animals and suffering their scorn than pursuing the opposite sex. This is a constant old tease from her classmates. Then she chanced to meet the wild-looking young man Leo Aoi when looking for her neighbor’s pet cat. Bloody and wild-eyed, he looked more like a savage beast than the kind and gentle transfer student she came to know. There’s just one problem—whenever Leo is confronted with someone/something poses a danger to himself or Yuiko, his beastly violent fight or flight response kicks in. Yuiko, with her fearlessness of the normally naïve Leo, becomes the only person that can calm Leo down and reach him in his vicious animal mode. Causing more problems through misunderstanding than his bestial tendencies, Yuiko’s friendship with the mysterious Leo may end up very hazardous to her health.

Are you a true friend? Kenji’s life had been a rather bland and simple one. He owns and operates a small neighborhood convenience store with his mother and is the guardian of his infant niece, Kanna. Middle age isn’t at all what Kenji had imagined for himself as a kid. After the “alleged” murder of his childhood friend, Donkey, Kenji has set off on a personal mission to figure out which of his childhood comrades created the cryptic symbol that is linked to the growing number of mysterious deaths and a cult leader known only as “Friend.” But anyone who gets close to the truth somehow manages to get themselves killed, and now Kenji finds that his missing sister may also be involved in this mess. Will Kenji’s fate end up like so many others pursuing the “Friend,” or will he fulfill a childhood dream and save the world?

The luck of a rabbit’s tail. Set in a historically fictional Japan, this prequel to the popular romantic drama “Tail of the Moon” involves the cousin of the male protagonist of the flagship series. Both refer to themselves as Hanzou Hattori, which often causes confusion, but regional distinction is made between the two to alleviate this. Our male lead for this prequel volume is Kami no Hanzou, a guard to the feudal lord Nobuyasu who frequents the red light district in his pastime. Here, he meets a new face, Kaguya. She was taken in six months earlier with a grievous wound to her back that left a nasty scar and has worked doing chores and taking care of the children around the brothel who took her in. Ironically, it’s her scar that saved her from the sort of life most women in the brothel lead, but as she has amnesia it’s a mystery as to just how she acquired such a wound. Now, that the seemingly lecherous Hanzou has taken interest in her, what can she do but abide by his wish simply to talk? But it’s what is discovered through that conversation...

The Straw Hats pirates are really in for it this time!-Struggling to help the beautiful and determined Princess Vivi overthrow the villain who is seizing control of her country, Alabarna. Mr. Crocodile has led his evil band of miscreants, the Baroque works, (a few of whom have eaten some Devil Fruit, making them even more formidable) into a position of supreme political power, and he intends to force the King to reveal the secret of the Pluton before completely destroying the royal family, Princess Vivi included!