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Hidden Away

Kowloon Generic Romance, volume 2

By Jun Mayuzuki  

24 Sep, 2025

Translation

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2020’s Kowloon Generic Romance, Volume Two is the second tankōbon for Jun Mayuzuki’s science fiction manga series, titled Kūron Jenerikku Romansu in the original Japanese. Kowloon Generic Romance has been serialized in Shueisha’s seinen manga magazine Weekly Young Jump since November 2019. Amanda Haley’s English translation was published in 2022.

Kowloon Walled City1 realtor Reiko Kujirai makes two unexpected discoveries regarding her abrasive but goodlooking co-worker Hajime Kudou. The first is that Reiko is very inconveniently infatuated with Kudou. The second is that she is too late: Kudou is spoken for.

More discoveries follow.

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A Real Estate Novelist

Kowloon Generic Romance, volume 1

By Jun Mayuzuki  (Translated by Amanda Haley)

9 Jul, 2025

Translation

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2020’s Kowloon Generic Romance, Volume One is the first tankōbon for Jun Mayuzuki’s science fiction manga series, Kūron Jenerikku Romansu in the original Japanese. Kowloon Generic Romance has been serialized in Shueisha’s seinen manga magazine Weekly Young Jump since November 2019. Amanda Haley’s English translation was published in 2022.

Kowloon Walled City is1 home to 35,000 people on just 2.6 hectares2. That’s over a million people per square kilometer. One thing is sure: real estate firms will never lack for clients.

Good news for the employees of the Wong Loi Realty Company!

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