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Arizona State, Cameron - 1:23 P.M. While two men meet, a gunfight suddenly happens between them. One of them stays alive, then leaves. A woman breaks free from the trunk of the car she’d been left in and picks up the revolver that had been dropped and...

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A white monster makes three promises with the children. "To become a monster" "To kill each other" and "To die together" This is their story.

The closing stages of Sengoku (Warring States) Japan. A setting commonly explored in Japanese manga through vivid scenes of gory battles, samurai, and feats of bravery, honour, and loyalty. Iwaaki Hitoshi dares to go against the popular grain by not focusing on the 3 famous unifiers, but by depicting stories of a society in transition. Rapidly changing cultural norms and class expectations pit the old versus the young, the war-weary versus the war-mongers, and the parochial versus the foward-thinking. The first story, "Snow Ridge," explores the changing role of samurai and provinces while the second story, "Sword Dance," deals with kendo's evolution from warfare to art.

"A record you can see." Shorts by various authors set to Satie's Gymnopedies.

Dance in the Vampire Bund: The Memories of Sledge Hammer is a two-volume interlude between Dance in the Vampire Bund’s first fourteen volume story arc and the upcoming second part of the series, which will launch in 2014. The Memories of Sledge Hammer delves into the past to look at the doomed love affair of one of the Vampire Bund’s most deadly operatives. Three months have passed since Princess Mina, queen of all vampires, has recaptured the Bund. The damage inflicted to vampire/human relations runs deep, but a peaceful postwar restoration is now underway. Yet appearances can be deceiving. Somebody is trying to kill government liaison Reiko Gotoh, but her lycanthrope bodyguard, Seiji Hama, is nowhere to be found. The mystery of Hama’s whereabouts can only be solved by examining the past, when the ill-fated couple first met. The past may be the key to saving Gotoh in the present—and to the future of the Vampire Bund itself!

From Promfret: Sakuraba Kenji is an aspiring baseball player, however due to some circumstances he gave up on baseball, and moved to a new High School so that he is able to give up on it totally. On the day that he visit the new school he will be attending, he meets a girl, Mamiya Itsuka who mistakenly does something to him, causing him to faint. When he awakes, he realizes that the place he will be staying at is Itsuka's home!

A young woman makes some preparations to move. While emptying a drawer she finds a well-hidden damaged cup. What is the story behind the carefully stored dish? Entry for the Silent Manga Audition.

From MangaHelpers: Yamato Yura arrives at her new high school dormitory and makes friends right away-- her cute roommate Sonora, and Sonora's friends Karira and Honoka. However, these girls all seem to have model air-guns, and, before Yura knows it, they've convinced her to join a club called C-cubed. Only after joining does she fully understand the meaning: Command, Control, and Communication. C-cubed is a club for people into survival games! Will little Yura really be able to handle herself among her new friends? [tethysdust]

From Viz: A mysterious orb envelops the city of Tokyo. All forms of communication are severed, leaving the inhabitants of the newly dubbed "Tokyo Jupiter" ignorant to their fate. Along with the United Nations, a special organization known as TERRA is formed: their mission is to liberate Tokyo from the otherwordly MU--those responsible for Tokyo's capture.

Today Kanai-kun is absent from school. Kanai-kun has passed away. Who was Kanai-kun. Was he actually here?

Oneshot about a virtual reality social networking service. Like the one in Accel World.

Story about Makoto Osawa, a university student on the regatta (rowing) team. He and his friend have dominated the intercollegiate competition for the double scull. Along with his friend's girlfriend (and team manager) Misao , the team has dreams of participating in an Olympic competition. But his friend's death in a racing accident leaves Makoto broken up, and he has to deal with pulling himself together as well as facing the trials of love and friendship.

A couple of high school pupils, Masaru Kato and Kei Kurono, are hit with a subway train in a effort to save the life span of a drunk homeless guy who'd fallen onto the tracks. Following their deaths, Kato and Kurono find themselves transported to the inside of an unfurnished Tokyo flat, where they meet with a Gantz expert Joichiro Nishi, as well as other clueless players. The pair soon understands that they're prohibited to depart the flat. At one end of the room there's a sizable black sphere called "Gantz". After some time in the area, the Gantz world opens up, showing wires attached to his head and a hairless nude guy using a breathing mask, and different weapons to allow them to use. Included in these are the custom fitting black suits which give them superhuman speed, strength, stamina and damage resistance, a control which functions as a stealth and radar unit, Xgun, X Shotgun, Y-Firearm. Later on the show the Gantz sword, Gantz Bike are manufactured much more powerful at the same time as accessible weapons are given in the 100 point menu.   Brief info and a picture is revealed of a few of the Gantz' objectives; Gantz orders them to go and kill them. Except for one assignment, every one of the goals are aliens living on Earth, which take on a wide selection of types. During the mission, individuals that are ordinary cannot view the extraterrestrial beings or the players. Them transport to the part of the assignment, and they can't return or leave until all of the enemies are killed, or the time limit has run out. Each person is given points for the aliens they've killed, when they survive an effective mission. The menu offers three choices:   The participant can go back to their regular life, never having to be summoned by Gantz again. As a cost, their memories of the assignments as well as Gantz will be erased. The participant gets a unique and incredibly-powerful weapon. The participant can restore a person that has died during a mission from Gantz' recollection. Points are tallied up following an assignment was finished, do and the players are permitted to leave as they see fit until their next mission, together with the exception of talking about Gantz which would lead with their heads bursting. During the third mission of Kato and Kurono, every one of the participants including Kato are killed, however the last leader giving a chance to live to Kurono is killed by Kato. Kurono survives the third mission bleeding on the ground along with his limbs cut. Following the next assignment inside embracing a hero, leader complex similar to Kato Kurono begins to transform. Kurono participates together with the goal of restoring his dead friends using the 100 point compensation choice as the show continues. A fresh team of Gantz players is gathered, which Kurono leads, as among the greatest combatants plus the most seasoned veteran. Through his interactions with all the other members of his life or death conflicts and the team, Kurono slowly develops into a leader that is responsible. Following the Oni assignment Kurono revives Kato, and shortly after Kurono meets his death from the vampires. As the show continues, the rules of the assignments change; regular folks can now see them, the aliens they face are increasingly more strong and dangerous, plus they participate in a mission with another Gantz team from Osaka. Kato becomes the center of his search to restore Kurono and attention in the manga. By the end of the assignment, Kato that is just like the initial time expired, he gets the better of arguably the most powerful alien in the show and is set bleeding on the ground going to expire.   After several assignments, an old player named Nishi, who understands more in relation to the others about how Gantz works, reveals them a "catastrophe countdown" on the Gantz world that the other players were unaware of. By the end of the week, the Earth is invaded by a huge alien force and starts exterminating the human race, while their utmost tries to use Gantz' innovative technology and weapons in defense. It's suggested that Nishi expired, but his departure seems to not be clear. In his area Eeva totally controls all Gantz teams prior to the statement by killing most of the hunters, giving an expression of the mortality to the human race. Kurono that will be air to the whole world is called on by the world, and having the help of a revived Kato, Kurono gambles all his potential for winning and saving the human race on himself. Kurono manages to overcome the alien mothership stops from destroying Earth. The collection finishes with Kato and Kurono being greeted as heroes and returning safely to Earth. Other manga:

Akio and Yoshino believed all there was left for them was to graduate. But life had different plans for them. Yoshino moves on while Akio stays behind, and something between them begins to change. The story of their youth continues.

In a post nuclear holocaust world,it has become a truly sinister dog-eat-dog world where only the strong survive. few humans are left and are easy pickings for mutated creatures but now here comes the mutated humans...

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From Casanova: After being kidnapped by an "alien woman", Yuuta developed a severe case of gynophobia. Having to be in charge of a bath house, Yuuta couldn't be more inconvienced by this. Just when he was thinking of trying to cure his phobia no matter what, a beautiful girl called Uni suddenly appears in front of him, and that's not all, that girl says she's the daughter of the alien woman who kidnapped and that her mother won an award by investigating him. Her mother feels truly grateful for this so she sent Uni to repay Yuuta with anything he desires and told her not to come back before she does it. What will happen after Yuuta asks her to cure his phobia in the least painful way possible?

The story is set in the 90's. Our main character attended a high school in a rural area, and drew his female classmates in his erotic manga. After graduating, he is accepted to a college in Tokyo. There, he finds everything he was looking for - a manga circle.

From MangaHelpers: A terrorist group has declared independence on the South Pole, and they have placed extremely powerful nitrogen bombs off many coasts. They plan to take revenge on the world, by forcing them to live briefly in fear and then die. The US tragically failed to defuse the bombs. There are three of them off the coast of Japan, set to explode in 10 days. Luckily, the Japanese bomb disposal team has a powerful resource. That resource is a little genius girl, Machida Machiko. She's looked after by Aranagi Nagito, a trainee bomb defuser. She's made a pact with him, and with the leader of the bomb disposal program, to clear out the bombs and clean up the world. After certain events in their first defusing operation, though, it looks like all they'll have left to use is a defusing program written by Machiko. Will they be able to save Japan and stop the powerful terrorists? [tethysdust]

From Shogakukan: In the year 2020, anti-government student movements are raging again. Having encountered a two-wheeled robot named "Rideback" modeled on a human being, Rin Ogata rides on the "Tetsuma", and the world's destiny begins to change!!

The manga starts off with a very odd killing. Then, it jumps to a few days later where Yousuke ends up breaking a small shrine. It later gives him the guardian Suzaku - just in time too, for he must face the murderer that opened the manga.