VERTICAL COMICS
AFTER RAIN GN #5
(W) Jun Mayuzuki (A) Jun Mayuzuki (CA) Jun Mayuzuki
Akira Tachibana is a soft-spoken high school student who used to be a part of the track and field club but, due to an injury, she is no longer able to run as fast as she once could. Working part-time at a family restaurant as a recourse, she finds herself inexplicably falling in love with her manager, a divorced 45-year-old man with a young son. Despite the age gap, Akira wholeheartedly embraces his mannerisms and kind nature, which is seen as spinelessness by the other employees, and little by little, the two begin to understand each other. Although unable to explain why exactly she is attracted to him, Akira believes that a concrete reason is not needed to truly love someone. On a rainy day, she decides to finally tell her manager about how she feels...but just how will he react?
AJIN GN #13
(W) Gamon Sakurai (A) Gamon Sakurai (CA) Gamon Sakurai
High school student Kei Nagai is killed in a traffic accident, but immediately revives to learn that he may not be human at all. Instead, he may be a Demi-Human, a mysterious almost immortal being blessed with amazing super-human abilities. Scared, he runs away, and is aided in his escape from society by his friend Kai. Unfortunately for Kei, the manhunt is on and he will soon be caught within a conflict between mankind and other Demi-Humans as they prepare to fight for global supremacy.
BAKEMONOGATARI GN #1
From the bestselling novel series by renowned author NISIOISIN, comes the manga adaptation of the Monogatari series, with artwork by Oh! great! One day, high-school student Koyomi Araragi catches a girl named Hitagi Senjougahara when she trips and falls. But the girl, much to his surprise, doesn't weigh anything! At all. She says an encounter with a so-called "crab" took away all her weight... Monsters have been here since the beginning. Always. Everywhere...
GOLDEN SHEEP GN #1
(W) Kaori Ozaki (A) Kaori Ozaki (CA) Kaori Ozaki
From the creator of the acclaimed The God's Lie comes Kaori Ozaki's latest series! Winter of junior year. Not quite able to become adults, we couldn't stay as we were as children, either. Our tale explores a group of teenagers and their impatience and rebirth. Tsugu Miikura, a high schooler who loves to play guitar, due to family circumstances, moved away from the rural town where she had spent her childhood. After several years, she's back in her old hometown. She reunites with her childhood friends-Sora, Yuushin, and Asari-the friends she'd buried a time capsule with back in elementary school. Tsugu is overjoyed to be with her friends once more, but the bonds that she thought would never change have in fact started to grow major cracks...
MY BOY GN #5
(W) Hitomi Takano (A) Hitomi Takano (CA) Hitomi Takano
Satoko Tawada first encounters beautiful 12-year-old Mashuu practicing soccer by himself in a park as she's heading to work. Satoko, who had played soccer herself when she was younger, decides to help the kid prepare for his tryouts. When Mashuu doesn't make the first team, Satoko continues to work with him, encouraging him not to quit and supporting him at the games. Their emotional connection strengthens as the two spend more and more time together, and fill the emptiness in each other's lives. And when Satoko learns that Mashuu's parents are largely absent, she starts to become more involved in his personal life. Have Satoko's intense feelings for her young friend crossed the line from maternal to inappropriate?