Tsutomu Itô

Shangri-La follows the lives of a group of homeless people in Japan who run into a man who nearly commits suicide and decide to help him out of his financial troubles. Using their various ingenious resources they embark on a complex scheme to blackmail a crooked businessman, whose bankruptcy claim has put people out of work. It’s a fun romp as these seemingly homeless people manage to outsmart the very people who cast them from society.

A high school girl is the best in her judo club until a girl from a rival academy arrives and takes her down. Can she summon the heart to beat her rival and become the next representative for the nationals?