Introducing…
Yuiji Aniya’s A Convenient Man!
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Meet Kitamura, convenience store manager, age 31. With normal good looks and normal good taste, a normal job and a normal income, he feels a normal amount of unhappiness in his normal relationship with a normal woman. Wait! There is a storm warning over this barren life.
Meet Minamihara, younger man and part-time employee. Minamihara lives boldly, courageously. And he is the storm who throws Kitamura’s life and heart in unexpected directions.
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With A Convenient Man, Yuiji Aniya introduces us to two more unforgettable characters who foolishly, bravely stumble through life while opening their failings, secrets, and dreams to the reader!
Translated by Barbara J. Vincent
Edited by Kimberly Lammens
Lettered by Liz Marina Barillas
Available on all platforms at eManga!
Preview: Head on over to our official site to check out a few suspenseful (and unavailable at eManga.com) preview pages!
“A child who wasn’t loved while small, when he becomes an adult remains a child.”
A timid art teacher, over forty but still confused by love, despairs of ever finding a companion. A love-starved boy watches the kindness of families all around him, but insists he doesn’t need anything like that. A college student living with his long-term partner purposely tantalizes a neighbor by loudly making love. A bassist fears “weirding out” his bandmates, so he keeps his life with his male lover under wraps. A contrary professor gives himself to a self-assured colleague one night, but it’s not what either of them expect.
Marry Maiko debuts with this quiet bombshell of emotional stories!
Translated by Barbara J. Vincent
Edited by Kimberly Lammens
Lettered by Liz Marina Barillas
Available on all platforms at eManga
Extended preview pages are now up at BLBB’s home page! And, oh maaaan, what a cliffhanger!
Once upon a time, two ridiculous failures met.
Kumada, once a talented rakugo artiste, had become a famously violent gang member. Uneducated Ogawa, dazzled by Kumada, had become frustrated with his own inability to use anything but the simplest of words. Together, this unlikely duo sought their place to belong in life and in love.
Three extra tales of unexpected feelings complete this volume: one of sorrow and poetry in the early Shōwa era; another of close but distant brothers; and one that reveals the secret motivations behind the perfect… woman?
Translated by Barbara J. Vincent
Edited by Kimberly Lammens
Lettered by S. Russell
Available on all platforms at eManga
Extended preview pages available at our home site.
When you’re a sadist and the boy you love is a masochist, picking on him is a pleasure.
Pain doesn’t affect Yoshie… no, that’s not quite right; it feels good! Sensei’s forceful massages at the Seitai Clinic are the best. But Sensei’s solemn and bone-obsessed son, Mikawa, is secretly listening to Yoshie’s breathless moans! Is it only a passion for bones that excites Mikawa? Yoshie soon realizes that pain in your heart isn’t the same as pain in your body.
Bonus! A young man loves the pâtissier who works at his dad’s café, but with their age gap, will his love ever be taken seriously?
Translated by Leighann Harvey
Edited by Kimberly Lammens
Lettered by Alexandra Gunawan
Available on all platforms at eManga
By the same author as Entangled Circumstances and Secret Thorns!
Extended preview pages available at our home site.
They say that the smallest movement from a butterfly’s wing has far-reaching effects… and that butterflies are the souls of the dead.
In North Africa, a rocky but fated romance flutters to life while the horrible violence of World War II rages. Richter, a fragile, brilliant German scientist, is a prisoner of the Allies. Grandall is an American soldier with a personal grudge against the enemy. To stay Richter’s execution, Grandall makes a startling decision. When tragedy hits Grandall, Richter surprises him with an offer of comfort. These two events begin a relationship that will affect everyone. But an extreme test lies in wait as the landscape of guilt, doubt, and fear intensifies.
A gorgeous and exotic tale that will thrill your heart!
Translated by Barbara J. Vincent
Edited by Kimberly Lammens
Lettered by Liz Barillas
Available on all platforms at eManga!
Preview pages also available at our home site!
Weekend of Dreams by isino aya (Yume Mita Shuumatsu)
It started out as a way to prepare for a future lover. Too long denied a flesh and blood companion, his substitute—a teddy bear—is now his love object. What happens when a persistent, excessively cheerful neighbor consumes his serious, carefully ordered life? An explosion of hurtful, panicked words.
Stepping back into his quiet life, he can’t avoid what his insufferable neighbor left behind: cracks that expose his festering loneliness. Only one person can fill those cracks, but he’s disappeared.
WEEKEND OF DREAMS: With her brutally honest, trembling line art, isino aya creates a companion collection to Sink into You. Love and acceptance, joy and sorrow, desire and disgust: they move beyond simple shapes in black and white.
Translated by Barbara J. Vincent
Edited by Kimberly Lammens
Lettered by Alexandra Gunawan
Available on Nook and Kindle!
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Original Japanese edition published in 2005 by Oakla Publishing Co., Ltd.
