One Sparkle a day, does not keep her away...

Jay Vaughn is your average teenager; he likes loud music, has a messy room, and is often late to class. His life is average at best on a good day, but how will his life change on the day Quintessa Beaumont is transferred to his school? Will the two be the perfect match, or will things with them go up in flames? This is a story of love and loss, separation and reunion, including many intertwining characters and storylines, LGBT romance, and polyamorous relationships.

Manga Biography of Osamu Tezuka's life covering his youth, to his tragic passing. This was serialized in the Asahi Shinbun, a famous newspaper, by Tezuka's then chief assistant, Toshio Ban, not long after Tezuka's passing. Ban interviewed as many surviving family, friends, and colleagues of Tezuka's as well as gathering other research materials.The content is divided into three arcs (per volume) covering a period of Tezuka's life, which are as follows:- **Volume 1 - The Appearance of Osamushi, 1928~1945** (オサムシ登場, Osamushi Toujou) - Covers Tezuka's youth, his developing talents during his school days, fascinations with bugs, manga, and animation, and his trials and tribulations during the war.- **Volume 2 - Dreams of Manga, 1945~1959** (漫画の夢, Manga no Yume) - Covers the immediate struggles of the Post-War period, his time in medical school and the decision between being a physician or a mangaka, his debut and career throughout out the 50s. Also covers the emergence of the assistant system, the many assistants that would later become famous mangaka themselves (Matsumoto, Ishinomori, the Fujios, etc.), the obsession with movies and the influence they have on manga, and the gradual shift toward animation.- **Volume 3 - Dreams of Anime, 1960~1989** (アニメの夢, Anime no Yume) - Covers his time entering animation interning at Toei, the founding of his Anime Studio, Mushi Production, the culture of the studio, the anime adaptation of Astro Boy (Tetsuwan Atom) and the emerging anime production philosophies, the collapse of Mushi Production, the "Dark Tezuka" period, Tezuka Productions, Black Jack, the events leading to the Osamu Tezuka Complete Works, later anime productions, and his tragic passing.(https://www.stonebridge.com/catalog-2020/The-Osamu-Tezuka-Story)

Dragons; despite their pacifistic nature, hold remarkable power. It's no surprise that mortals would seek to claim their strength for themselves. This predicament is rather unfortunate for Gangcheol. As the strongest of the dragons, he's decided it's time to teach those mortals a lesson, pacifism be damned.

"My dad is a famous guitarist. Sometimes, he shows up out of the blue, and teaches me how to play guitar.Mom hates Dad and the guitar, and she takes it out on me... But I won't let that stop me. Even if I'm scolded, even if I'm bullied - so long as I have this, I'll be just fine."A stirring and emotional one-shot by Wakatake Abishi about one girl's drive for rock that never stops ringing!

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In this collection of hauntingly elliptical short stories, Oji Suzuki explores memory, relationships, and loss with a loose narrative style, filling each tale with a sense of unfulfilled longing. He plumbs the dissolute depths of human psychology, literally bathing his characters in expansive shadows that paradoxically reveal as much as they obscure. A young man catches a cold after being soaked in the rain and is tended to by his grandmother. He drifts, dreaming of a train trip with an older brother he doesn’t have. A traveling salesman comes across a boy lying in the middle of the road and stops to have a cigarette and tell a story that sifts through memories of faces and places before settling back on the boy and pretending to not look at the stars. A young woman walks along the river with her bicycle and a friend who is nothing more than a disembodied head—discussing past times together, memories they have of each other.

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