The sun's rays enter the city of light, as various stories unfold:   Bright, dark and harsh; a story filled with people from whom you'd want to avert your eyes. Yet, it's close to reality; so maybe it's true to humanity.   Like an old bond between a boy and a girl, a friendship is born between girls who rarely speak to each other.   A man who dirties his hands for money, and the girlfriend who waits for him to come home.

Two unfortunate siblings meet their end and get transported into a new world filled with magic and endless possibilities.

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"Love Letter From Koigokoro": Mei delivers love letters to support those in love. One day, she meets a boy named Raia… "Love’s Destiny": Mako loves fortune-telling. After her morning horoscope tells her she might meet her destined one today, she starts noticing her classmate Kyousuke… "Muni with the Jinx": Muni is always unlucky due to being possessed by a jinx. One day, her crush, Makino, sees her secret poetry notebook and… "Gakyou Shojo": Ayameko can’t stand her classmate Ei, who is always drawing. But one day, she finds a sketch of her boyfriend Yuuta in Ei's notebook… "The Sun's Sweet Revenge": Miyo has started dating her childhood friend Haruhi, but she’s too embarrassed to tell her friends, so it remains their secret…

From the mangaka who told his life story in A Drifting Life, and gave you Abandon the Old in Tokyo and The Push Man and Other Stories, comes this collection of gekiga of the 1970s which have never before been translated into English. Personally selected for publication exclusively by Landmark Books by Tatsumi, the stories strip away the gloss of the Japanese Economic Miracle to reveal the stresses, desires and angst of the millions of young people who flocked to the cities where life was not what it was promised to be. Compared to Tatsumi’s earlier stories, this collection paints a much more pessimistic world. The stories run on a different beat. The banality of modern life and its values bleed through.

Betrayal, hidden identities, family secrets. Left alone after her mother's murder, Reyn struggles to accept her wings, and searches for truth in a world that wants her dead. But the more she discovers, the more she begins to fear herself. Her brother has all the answers, but he disappears that same night. Can Reyn find him before the world discovers who she really is?

Benjamin Herrmann is a cynical loner, cold and close-minded. However, that won't help him as his mother secretly signs him up for a student exchange program. Now he must spend a year in Japan, at the Tatsuya High School finishing a checklist that needs him to be the exact opposite of himself. On arrival he meets his assisting student: Mizuho Sakiyurai. She makes it their mission to finish the list by the end of the year and tries to break down the walls around her new friend from the west.