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Status: Finished

College student Tsuneo loves the ocean and the creatures it harbors, and he dreams of studying abroad in faraway waters. All he needs is enough funds to go, so when a girl in a wheelchair suddenly barrels into his life, he readily agrees to work part-time as her caretaker. Getting close to the prickly Josee is easier said than done, but before he can give up, an impromptu trip to the beach shows them both that sometimes, they must take that first plunge to see the wonders that await. The hit animated film based on the striking story by Seiko Tanabe has been beautifully illustrated by Nao Emoto and collected in this single omnibus edition!

Note: The chapter count includes an epilogue.

Tags: Disability , Josei , Tsundere , Drawing , Scuba Diving , Heterosexual , Coming of Age , Tragedy , Rehabilitation , Female Protagonist , Male Protagonist , Primarily Adult Cast , Love Triangle , Urban , College , Coastal

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Perfect World

Also known as Perfect World.

Status: Finished
Genres: Drama , Romance , Slice of Life

26-year-old Tsugumi Kawana reunites with her first crush from high school, Itsuki Ayukawa, at a get-together between an architecture firm and the interior design company she works at. He sends her heart aflutter, until she realizes he's now disabled, and in a wheelchair. At first she feels she couldn't date a guy in a wheelchair, but then her feelings begin to change...

Tags: Disability , Josei , Love Triangle , Primarily Adult Cast , Female Protagonist , Heterosexual , Work , Tragedy , Adoption , Urban , Parenthood

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Comic Days

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Koe no Katachi

Also known as A Silent Voice.

Status: Finished
Genres: Drama , Romance , Slice of Life

Based on a one-shot that won the 80th Weekly Shounen Magazine Newbie Best Mangaka Award.

Shouya is a bully. When Shouko, a girl who can't hear, enters his elementary school class, she becomes their favorite target, and Shouya and his friends goad each other into devising new tortures for her. But the children's cruelty goes too far. Shouko is forced to leave the school, and Shouya ends up shouldering all the blame. Six years later, the two meet again. Can Shouya make up for his past mistakes, or is it too late?

Note: Includes 2 extra chapters.

Tags: Rehabilitation , Language Barrier , Coming of Age , Bullying , Disability , Time Skip , Denpa , School , Heterosexual , Suicide , Male Protagonist , Primarily Teen Cast , Female Protagonist , Ensemble Cast , Filmmaking , Kuudere , Shounen , Tomboy , Tragedy

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INKR Manga Planet

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Kami-sama ga Uso wo Tsuku.

Also known as the gods lie..

Status: Finished
Genres: Drama , Romance , Slice of Life

Natsuru Nanao, a 6th grader who lives alone with his mother, strikes up an unlikely friendship with the reserved and driven Rio Suzumura. Natsuru plays hookey from soccer camp that summer, and instead of telling the truth to his mother, he spends all his time with Rio and her kid brother at their rickety house, where a dark secret threatens to upend their fragile happiness.

Tags: Primarily Child Cast , Heterosexual , Coming of Age , Family Life , Seinen , Male Protagonist , Philosophy , Tragedy , School , Bullying

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Yubisaki to Renren

Also known as A Sign of Affection.

Status: Releasing
Genres: Romance , Slice of Life

Yuki is a typical college student, whose world revolves around her friends, social media, and the latest sales. But when a chance encounter on a train leads to her meeting friend-of-a-friend and fellow student Itsuomi-san, her world starts to widen. But even though Itsuomi-kun can speak three languages, sign language isn’t one of them. Can the two learn to communicate the budding feelings between them?

Notes:
Ranked 17th place for the Tsugimanga Award in the Print Manga Category in 2020.
Nominated for the 45th and 46th Kodansha Manga Award in the Shoujo Category in 2021 and 2022.
Nominated for the 68th Shogakukan Manga Award in the Shoujo Category

Tags: Shoujo , Language Barrier , Female Protagonist , Disability , Primarily Adult Cast , Heterosexual , College , Love Triangle , Bar , Cohabitation , Urban , Chibi , Tsundere

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INKR

Comic Days

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Koe no Katachi

Status: Finished
Genres: Drama

A story about a grade school class that accepts a girl with impaired hearing.

Winner of the 80th Weekly Shounen Magazine Newbie Best Mangaka Award.

Tags: Bullying , Language Barrier , Shounen , School , Disability , Male Protagonist , Tragedy , Time Skip , Primarily Child Cast , Suicide

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Kagami no Kojou

Also known as Lonely Castle in the Mirror.

Status: Finished
Genres: Fantasy , Mystery

Kokoro is a junior high school student—but after years of bullying, she’s become so anxious that she no longer goes to school. One day, she’s pulled through her full-length mirror into a castle in another dimension by a girl in a wolf mask. The mysterious girl tells Kokoro and six other kids that they are all competing in a scavenger hunt. If one of them finds a key that unlocks a secret room, that person will get one wish granted. As long as they observe the rules of the world, they can come and go as they please. The seven kids gradually grow closer as they explore the castle, but the scavenger hunt is never far from anyone’s mind. After all, only one of them can win and receive their heart’s desire.

Tags: Seinen , Coming of Age , Found Family , Hikikomori , Primarily Teen Cast , Bullying , Fairy Tale , Female Protagonist , Time Manipulation , Isekai , Age Gap , Age Regression , Video Games , Suicide

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Tonari no Young Jump

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Yankee-kun to Hakujou Girl

Also known as Love’s in Sight!.

Status: Finished
Genres: Comedy , Romance , Slice of Life

An infamous delinquent, Kurokawa Morio meets a partially blind girl, Akaza Yukiko.

Note: Includes 11 extra chapters.

Tags: Disability , Rehabilitation , Male Protagonist , 4-koma , Shounen , Delinquents , Female Protagonist , LGBTQ+ Themes , Orphan , Age Gap , Heterosexual , Mixed Gender Harem

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Nico Nico Seiga ComicWalker

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Sayonara no Asa ni Yakusoku no Hana wo Kazarou

Status: Finished
Genres: Adventure , Drama , Fantasy , Romance

The story begins with Maquia, who is from a family where all the members stop aging in their mid teens. She has no parents and, although her days are peaceful, she feels lonely. Their peace is shattered when an army invades, seeking the secret to her people's immortality. Leilia, the most beautiful girl in her clan, is taken away, and the boy Maquia has secret feelings for disappears. Maquia is able to escape, but she loses her friends and her home. Wandering alone in the forest, she finds Ariel, a baby boy who has lost his parents. The story follows the changing relationship between the two as Ariel grows up and Maquia does not.

Tags: Tragedy

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Tomei na Yoru ni Kakeru-kun to, Menimienai Koi wo Shita

Status: Releasing
Genres: Drama , Romance

On an April night in Tokyo, still too early for fireworks, university student Kakeru Sorano meets a woman named Koharu Fuyutsuki. She is a beautiful girl who stands out from the crowd, laughs a lot, and exudes a warmth that contrasts sharply with Kakeru's own introversion. But there was something Kakeru didn't know at first—she can't see.
Unlike Kakeru, Koharu hasn't given up on anything, even with her blindness. She attends university daily, shows interest in clubs, makes friends—and dreams of launching fireworks one day. Kakeru wonders why, when she can't see them...but maybe it doesn't matter. And maybe he can start moving forward, too, for the girl who's always been by his side

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Manga UP!

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Vitamin

Status: Finished
Genres: Drama , Psychological , Slice of Life

High school student Sawako is caught in a compromising situation. As a result, the other students in her school bully and ostracize her to the point she looks to suicide and drops out of school. She starts drawing manga and the hobby becomes her "vitamin."

Tags: Bullying , School , Coming of Age , Drawing , Female Protagonist , Shoujo , Nudity ,

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