Draw This, Then Die! Ai Yasumi, a first-year high school student living on Izu-Oshima, loves manga more than anything. When she learns that her long-admired, yet long-inactive, favorite manga artist Hoshi no Rei will be exhibiting at COMITIA, she sets off on a journey to Tokyo. What she doesn’t expect, however, is that a fateful encounter at the event will change her life forever. “How does one become a manga artist?” Ai steps into the world of manga creation—a path she thought she understood, yet knows so little about. This is the story of a girl taking her first steps down the road to becoming a mangaka. (Source: MAL News)

The Ghost in the Shell In the year 2029, Niihama City has become a technologically advanced metropolis. Due to great improvements in cybernetics, its citizens are able to replace their limbs with robotic parts. The world is now more interconnected than ever before, and the city’s Public Security Section 9 is responsible for combating corruption, terrorism, and other dangerous threats following this shift toward globalization. The strong-willed Major Motoko Kusanagi of Section 9 spearheads a case involving a mysterious hacker known only as the “Puppet Master,” who leaves a trail of victims stripped of their memories. Like many in this futuristic world, the Puppet Master’s body is almost entirely robotic, giving them incredible power. As Motoko and her subordinates follow the enigmatic criminal’s trail, other parties—including Section 6—start to get involved, forcing her to confront the extremely complicated nature of the case. Pondering about various philosophical questions, such as her own life’s meaning, Motoko soon realizes that the one who will provide these answers is none other than the Puppet Master themself. [Written by MAL Rewrite]

Kujima: Why Sing, When You Can Warble? In the autumn of his first year of middle school, Arata Kouda meets Kujima, a strange creature that sort-of looks like a bird. Since Kujima is hungry, Arata brings it home with him… But because of his older brother who failed his entrance exams, Kujima gets carried away by the situation and ends up freeloading at the Kouda residence. He says it’s just until he makes it through winter, and the warmth of spring comes, but… (Source: Shogakukan, translated)

This is a story that is established with people and cities. The city of coal mining is crowded with small scale excavators, commonly known as “Hakoniwa.” In this city that changes every day like a maze, there is a girl named Kagari who runs a map maker business and a boy named Yuya Yang Yang Yang Dreaming of freeing themselves from “Hakoniwa.” Finally, both of them, together with the unique population of the city, found themselves facing a conspiracy that shook the entire city. The fate of “Hakoniwa” depends on the Kagari picture on the map. クラメルカガリ