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In a distant empire, the young Emperor is consumed by his duties, yet the people whisper that he’s overdue for marriage. When Tran, a spirited working-class woman, unexpectedly saves the Emperor—disguised and in danger—their unlikely friendship ignites into a daring romance. As they face formidable enemies determined to thwart the Emperor’s reign, together they craft a legacy that redefines the future of the empire.

Note: A one-shot prototype titled Emeraldas was published in 1975 in Akita Shoten's Monthly Princess.

During the time artist Nao Yazawa was drawing (https://mangadex.org/title/13e39275-7b8b-4b70-a758-1314392e0e48/wedding-peach), she was also producing comics for the Japanese monthly magazine Shogaku Sannen-sei ("Elementary School Third Grader"). These stories, roughly paralleling the original Wedding Peach storyline, feature younger characters aimed at a younger audience.Wedding Peach: Young Love is a collection of these often-overlooked episodes. Fans of the original series will be tickled to see their favorite characters, both hero and villain, recast in this warm and fuzzy alternate adventure.Yazawa even throws in a few new characters for readers to fall in love with. There's the demon trio of Blitz, Cloud and Noise and a few more Jama folk, too. Together, they join Wedding Peach and her heavenly crew for one final tussle between good and evil.___The series was only published in volume form outside Japan, and was released as "Volume 7" of (https://mangadex.org/title/13e39275-7b8b-4b70-a758-1314392e0e48/wedding-peach) in some countries.

A high school boy and his wacky teammates aim for Koshien!

A pharmaceutical company started to secretly develop a new drug. The new drug's goal was to prevent humans from aging. They finally succeeded in developing the new drug after three years of research, but it couldn't be trusted without a clinical trial. Eventually, the researchers began testing the drug on people of unknown status illegally. As a result, 12 of the 20 subjects lost their body rhythm within a week and no longer aged. However, as the researchers became eager to report the findings, an unexpected change in the subjects' bodies began.

[From StudioRobb]: This is the story of a teenage boy named Takeru Tachibana and his struggle to recover his sister Sayoko from a "cyborg dogfight circuit". When Takeru was 10 years old, his town was bombed during an enemy air-raid in which his parents were killed and he was mortally wounded. Sayoko, cut deep with "survivor's guilt" and a "co-dependent" inability to deal with living alone, rashly sells her brain to the Albion Corporation run by a mysterious CEO named Véltare Marçeau in order to pay for a risky surgical operation that Takeru may or may not survive. Her brain is placed in a cybernetic body, the process of which essentially eliminates the brain's memories and heightens its aggression. Her new identity is The White 13, or "The Ice Doll", and for the next five years she is placed on a dogfight circuit fighting other cyborgs in gladiator-style extravaganzas where she eventually becomes the grand champion and obtains the rank of "sirius"... The story begins shortly after Takeru has liberated his sister from the dogfight circuit only to discover that, outside the cicuit, Sayoko's brain has a "self-destruct" mechanism and that she is dying. Takeru has one week to find a way to cure his sister or return her to the circuit or she will die. Adding to the problem are the "dogged" efforts of the Albion Corporation to recover "their stolen property" as well as a cast of characters who all have their own scars of some sort...

From Aerandria Scans: Ever since ancient times, there have existed people who prevent the darkness of the night from swelling... They are the sorcerers, the only ones who have the power to oppose the darkness!

This isn't an ordinary high school—these kids have magical powers! Having the ability to cast a four-dimensional image can bring you fame and fortune, but you've got to be good at it. And that's what goes on every day in this school for "Projectionists." Some, of course, have an easier time at it than others. And sometimes having magical powers just gets in the way of the usual concerns that complicate a teenager's life. This complete in one-volume collection features stories that focus on different members of the student body. Step into this multi-dimensional world with these magical kids and see how each student deals with his or her special gifts! —CMX

Mana and Kenji, twin sister and brother, found a star as little children. On a far off world, their star is called the Talshas, meaning 'Stone of Wind and Gods', and it will grant the wishes of one person for as long as they live. And though it has lain quiet for 10 years, that is swiftly changing. The twins' lives are rocked by tragedies and miracles, chance meetings that are not as innocent as they seem, and trust forged and broken as a war between two distant planets descends around them. And ultimately, the only real wishes are the ones made for the sake of another.