The Garden of Words (Novel) - Recommendations

• Vol: 1; Ch: 4
• 2022

The story is set in Tokyo, after bubbles that broke the laws of gravity rained down upon the world. Cut off from the outside world, Tokyo has become a playground for a group of young people who have lost their families, acting as a battlefield for parkour team battles as they leap from building to building. Hibiki, a young ace known for his dangerous play style, makes a reckless move one day and plummets into the gravity-bending sea. His life is saved by Uta, a girl with mysterious powers. The pair then hear a unique sound audible only to them. Why did Uta appear before Hibiki? Their encounter leads to a revelation that will change the world.

• Vol: 9; Ch: 43
• 2015 - 2020

Satoko Tawada, a 30-year-old office worker at a sporting goods company, encounters Mashuu Hayami, a 12-year-old boy, playing soccer in a park at night. She was treated cruelly by a former lover, he is dealing with a high-handed and uninvolved family. Both are burdened with loneliness, and they sense that the other has something that they’re searching for...

• Vol: 2; Ch: 6
• 2005

Yoshiyuki has been given the chance to finally live a normal life, but only after losing the only woman he's ever loved. Now, he wants to experience anything and everything he possibly can. He decides to sell himself and gets a job as a host. In his line of work Yoshiyuki comes in contact with many men and women that affect his bleak outlook on life. Will these experiences help Yoshiyuki leave his past behind him or will his already fragile heart be permanently broken?

• Ch: 10
• 2009

After the ending of his last true love, a white-collar worker experiences the excruicating sorrow of parting. Walking around the empty city aimlessly and now living a prosaic life, how will he be able to put back the broken pieces of his heart and love again? A philosophical and heartwarming story about an emotion called "love"...

• Vol: 1; Ch: 5
• 2013

Yuki is the perfect wife - helpful, beautiful, kind, a great cook. No one knows where she came from, but everyone who meets her seems to like her. Yuki herself is happy too, until one day her husband's love cools off. She dispears from the village as snow slowly falls and when it melts, everyone will forget her. Where will she go? Was she really ever there or was it an illusion?

• Vol: 1
• 2019

On the day before summer vacation, every boy in a first-year class of a downtown Tokyo middle school disappears. Was it some accident? A mass kidnapping? Actually, the boys holed themselves up in an abandoned factory on the riverbed. With support from the schoolgirls, the boys start a revolution against the adults from this "liberation zone."

• Vol: 1
• 2021

There’s an urban legend that claims the ghost of a young woman will appear if you set off fireworks in a certain abandoned airport. Three high school students are united by their shared desire to meet this ghost–and each of them is close to death. What happens when they come together one fateful summer night as the boundary between life and death grows thin?

• Vol: 1
• 2005

In the Soviet-occupied Japan of an alternate history, two childhood friends who have grown apart find each other again and begin a search for a missing third friend-and possibly save the world in the process. 

• Vol: 3; Ch: 18
• 2010 - 2012

In a small port town, there’s an old legend that sometimes, a cat will take the form of a human boy and choose a lonely girl to live with. The cats call these girls “witches” because only they can see the cats in their human form. This is the story of those witches and the cats that live with them, as they share their warmth, lick each other’s wounds and try to find the magic called “happiness”, one step at a time.

• Vol: 1
• 2019

New college student Hinako, who moved to a small seaside town to surf and have fun, finds herself falling in love with firefighter Minato after he saves her from a fire. Their young romance comes to an abrupt end when Minato drowns…but in her grief, Hinako discovers that singing a song they used to perform as a duet summons Minato into the nearest body of water–be it a puddle, glass, or bathtub. Will Hinako be able to reach Minato again?