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Chapter 1: Stray Page 3
Chapter 2: The Scent of Blood Page 43
Chapter 3: Complications Page 87
Chapter 4: Nightwalking Page 129
Chapter 5: Payback Page 159
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Translation Notes
Page 11
A French dog is a
bit of American-
inspired Japanese
cuisine invented
in Hokkaido. It's
basically a corn dog, except with fish sausage and an exterior that's often coated
in candy sugar. Melon bread is a type of sweet bun with a crispy cookie-dough
top which when baked, looks like the skin of a muskmelon. Despite the name, they
usually don't taste much like melon.
Page 12
Curry bread is a fried dough bun
with curry inside. Tsubu-an is a
coarsely ground Japanese bean
paste, often mixed with margarine
and put in a sandwich. Mayo-corn
is just what it sounds like—the combination is popular in sandwiches and as a pizza
topping. All of the items requested are likely to be found in Japanese convenience
stores, bento shops, or (as in this case) school cafeterias.
Page 19
"Tatsuya" is a
reference to Tsutaya,
a national video
and music rental
chain. Media rented
at Tsutaya is given
to the customer in
a distinctive blue
fabric envelope with
the store's name on
it, which is what
catches Okazaki's
eye in this scene.
Page 146
LINE is Japan's
most popular
social media
and text mes¬
saging app. It's
largely replaced
other forms of
text messaging
for most smart¬
phone users, and is widely used throughout southeast Asia as well. It's notable for
its popularization of the use of virtual stickers in text messaging, and the LINE cast
of sticker characters have become extremely popular in their own right.
(Museum Gliost the Lady By Kazuhiro Fujita
Deep in Scotland Yard in London sits an evidence room dedicated to the greatest
mysteries of British history. In this “Black Museum” sits a misshapen hunk of
lead—two bullets fused together—the key to a wartime encounter between Florence
Nightingale, the modier of modern nursing, and a supernatural Man in Grey. This
story is unknown to most scholars of history, but a special guest of the museum will
tell tlie tale of The Ghost and die Lady...
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series '
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Eater, the
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mangai and
anime seen
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“Fun and lively...
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The city of Tokyo is plagued by a deadly phenomenon: spontaneous
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the power to run at the speed of a rocket, leaving behind the famous
“devil’s footprints” (and destroying his shoes in the process).
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epidemic before the city burns to ashes?
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© Hiroyuki Takei/Kodansha Ltd. All rights reserved.
New action series from Hiroyuki Takei, creator of
the classic shonen franchise Shaman King!
In medieval Japan, a bell hanging on the collar is a sign that a cat
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nonetheless a stray — a ronin. This one-eyed cat samurai travels across a
dishonest world, cutting through pretense and deception with his blade.
Japan's most
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Both touched by spirits called yokai,
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art by CHASHIBA KATASE
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social commentary...
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A drunkard for a father, a household of poverty... For 17-year-old Atsuko,
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encounter with Itaru-the wealthy heir of a huge corporation-changes
everything. The two look identical, uncannily so. When Itaru curiously
goes missing, Atsuko is roped into being his stand in. There, in his shoes,
Atsuko must parade like a prince in a palace. She encounters many new
experiences, but at what cost...?
Hico Yamanaka/Kodansha Ltd. All rights reserved.
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Parasites: shape-shifting aliens whose only purpose is to assimilate with and consume
the human race... but do these monsters have a different side? A parasite becomes a
prince to save his romance-obsessed female host from a dangerous stalker. Another
hosts a cooking show, in which the real monsters are revealed. These and 13 more
stories, from some of the greatest shojo manga artists alive today,
together make up a chilling, funny, and entertaining tribute to Dne
of manga's horror classics!
© Hitoshi Iwaaki, Asumiko Nakamura, Ema Toyama, Miki Rinno, Lalako Kojima, Kaori Yuki, Banko
Kuze, Yuuki Obata, Kashio, Yui Kuroe, Asia Watanabe, Mikimaki, Hikaru Suruga, Hajime Shinjo,
Renjuro Kindaichi, Yuri Narushima/Kodansha Ltd. All rights reserved.
Happiness 1
KODANSHA COMICS Digital Edition
Happiness volume 1 copyright © 2015 Shuzo Oshimi
English translation copyright © 2016 Shuzo Oshimi
All rights reserved.
First published in Japan in 2015 by Kodansha Ltd., Tokyo.
Electronic Publishing rights for this English edition arranged through
Kodansha Ltd., Tokyo.
No portion of this book may be reproduced or transmitted in any form or
by any means without written permission from the copyright holders.
English digital edition published by Kodansha Advanced Media, LLC,
San Francisco.
www.kodanshacomics.com
ISBN: 9781682334416
Digital Edition: 1.0.1
Translation: Kevin Gifford
Lettering: David Yoo
Editing: Paul Starr
Kodansha Comics edition cover design by Phil Balsman
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