In a real estate agency of an ever so slightly odd shopping street works Tsukasa Amamiya, who has been subject to daily, passionate advances by wizard and potential tenant Mitsuki. After being introduced to several properties that match his criteria, Mitsuki ultimately lays down one final, tricky condition: "If you come live with me, Tsukasa, then I'll decide on this place." Tsukasa, hoping to prevail in the situation he finds himself in, lies and says he has a partner. But from then on, things around him start taking a turn for the weird...? A mysterious tale of love between an overly-confident wizard and a seemingly aloof - but secretly sentimental - guy with glasses.
It's been four years since Yuya Tsuda's seen his childhood friend who moved overseas, Ryoichi Sakura. But Ryoichi's sudden confession of love sends him into a crazy panic! What's going to happen next......!? Find out in these two astonishing cover-story chapters and brand new extra comic. Also featuring three other stories, this is Hazuki Yuki's first ever BOYS' LOVE compilation!
Extroverted student, Hayato, never really got to enjoy fast-food before since he lived in a wealthy and sheltered household. So he tags along with his not-so-enthusiastic classmate, Kei, to eat out after-school practically everyday. However, fast-food isn't the only thing he wants to indulge on. A usually passive and lazy Kei suddenly gets dragged along with Hayato's pace. And by the end of this, it seems like Kei becomes the spoiled one.-- Other cute and fun stories are included in this manga as well :) --
Masaru is a hoodlum with a big heart, but he's not so sharp when it comes to school. Yu, his next-door neighbor, agrees to tutor him. Yu marvels at his pupil's foolish antics, but when Masaru falls asleep, Yu can't help but reach out and...
Meet Kouji, college student by day, catfisher by night. He repeatedly gets men he meets online to support his lifestyle while making sure they don't find out he's a guy! His luck runs out this time as his mark Nuts figures out who he is. You'd think Nuts would rat him out, but he has other plans, and takes him to a hotel... Kouji, awoken to a side of himself he had no idea existed, covers his butt - and his feelings - while just maybe trying to plot some kind of way to get back at Nuts.
The main story involves Asahi and Keita, a couple who have kept their relationship a secret since it started. For six years, they have not expressed their love in public. They only act like real lovers when they confine themselves in Asahi's apartment. Will this secret relationship last forever? Will Keita, the one who confessed, grow tired of keeping their relationship a secret? This and four other stories in Secret of My Uniform.
From the time when we're born, there are voices in our heads that suggest choices that can either make us fall into vice or abide by virtue. In the case of high school student Kodama, in the prime of his youth, his "Conscience" struggles to keep up with his "Temptation" as Kodama's p*rverted mind is filled with thoughts of his cute classmate, Hasumi. What's worse is that Hasumi asked Kodama to hang out! It's basically at date at this point, right? (At least that's what Kodama thinks.) This is dream come true for Kodama, but his poor "Conscience" is going to have to find a way to keep his host in line so he doesn't do something he'll regret.
Ma'am, just say 'no' if you don't like anything. Even though it feels weird to be touched there for the first time, it feels too good to resist when he rubs her delicate spots!? Ayame Horai, a daughter of the Yakuza, was allowed to leave her home under one condition?live together with her bodyguard, Ritsu. He takes the request of looking after her too literally, though. He even hand-washes her panties!! One day, Ritsu saves Ayame from danger. She's anxious after the event, so she asks him to lie down beside her. As he does, Ayame feels him get hard. Does it mean that he wants to have sex? Shivers and waves of hotness run down her spine as he teases her nipples. She wants him to touch her more as she lets off embarrassing moans while spilling her love juices...
Tetsu Koiwai is your average teacher that just so happens to be the caretaker of his vampire childhood friend Shima Inoue. In an effort to closely watch over Shima and keep him out of harm's way, they have formed a student-teacher relationship. The plot thickens however, when Shima has a taste of jealousy and Tetsu's blood.
Yoshi, a student in an all-boys high school find his only solace in Urakawa-sensei, the school's nurse. Urakawa is a fresh breath of air with his gentle demeanor and attractive appearance. But there's more than meets the eye as sensei seems to be close to another student named Sugao. Yoshi is in for a big shock as he learns things he wished he never did.
"I didn't, Masatoshi, you jerk!" "Ohhh? Let me check, then." Embraced by his beefy body and with his fingers gently caressing her... why is she so turned on by him...!?
After quitting her job, Akane returns to her hometown and is reunited with the Masatoshi, the man who always picked on her. Masatoshi jokingly asks her if she got dumped by someone, but she's shocked to learn that he's a cop now! After he stops a robber at her family's store, he tells her he'll protect her and crashes at her parents' place...!
Although she's happy to have him around, Masatoshi jerks her around by jokingly doing dirty things to her... is she the only one whose heart is racing here...? "You're so wet... if you get my hopes up, I'll go all the way."
Just what are Masatoshi's intentions with her...!?
The introverted Chiaki has an old friend who's his complete opposite...
Chiaki's high school debut ends in failure due to how popular Kento is. Chiaki tries to keep his distance, but Kento follows him around like a puppy. They then have a fight when Chiaki finds out that the reason Kento is always with him is that someone "asked" him to. When Chiaki goes to apologize, Kento pushes him to the floor and...
Was this guy was a wolf masquerading as a puppy...?!
The escalating love story of the big lonely doggy and the introvert☆
Although Kazuyo is a pro at what she does, her life is plagued with nothing but problems. From cleaning up messes left behind by her incompetent coworkers, to having to take care of Yuriko, the new temp worker, Kazuyo is left sighing her days away in frustration. Having to show everyone she encounters how to be better is an exhausting task, and her only solace is her secret love affair with Hakamada, a member of the sales department. But what will come of her desire to treat herself to these dangerous nightly pleasures?
"You named our daughter after your ex...?!" Soko lives with her kind husband and three-year-old daughter. Although she may be busy, she's living happily everyday. There's only one thing she doesn't understand about her picture-perfect husband. Instead of wearing his wedding ring, he wears a memento ring for his late relative. But one day, Soko finds out her husband's secret, and feels there is a woman popping up behind the scenes. "Am I imagining things? Or...is my husband actually having an affair?!" What path will this marriage full of doubt and suspicion take...?!
"I won't forgive him! I'm going to get my compensation!!" I caught my husband, with a smile on his face, going into a hotel with a woman I've never seen before. ON OUR 10th ANNIVERSARY. I can't believe he lied to me, saying something at work came up. Meanwhile he's nonchalantly having an affair... When I was wallowing in despair, my coworker, a divorcee, reached out to help me. Instead of hiring a private investigator, I'll use my coworker's advice and gather proof on my own!! Risque messages, secret hotel rendezvous, social media hints... I'll be a spy and overcome difficult missions to get cold, hard proof of their infidelity, and make them pay!!
Andi took some time off to vacation in Switzerland, where she fatefully met the beloved journalist Sean and fell in love. And then just got married... But waiting, all alone while he travels across the globe, is not something she would call a marriage. Eighteen months after the wedding, Andi sent him the divorce papers to start a new life, but Sean, still in love with her, wanted another chance to fix things. Then Andi tells Sean: In that case, I need you to take a test.
Amie is a designer and a member of the family that owns a huge jewelry company. At her cousin's wedding party, she meets a man with whom she falls passionately in love and spends the night together. The next day, however, she discovers his true identity. He is Preston, the new CEO of her company. By order of her grandmother, who has absolute power, she and Preston travel together to a new product launch. On the plane, they reach an agreement to keep their relationship strictly business, but it's hard for them to spend day and night together when their body gets hot just by looking into each other's eyes.
"There's a man that's dying to meet you." Claudia was invited to a caroling party in the town she recently moved to. And upon meeting that man, she developed butterflies in her stomach. Dark hair, tall, with deep blue eyes. He's a handsome man you will never forget once you meet him. Why did he want to meet me? I still had doubts, but when we shared a moment, I began developing feelings I hadn't had in a long time, which made me panic, and I ran away. The next day, the chief of police came to her workplace to file a complaint. And it was Zachary, the man from last night...!
Jane's father died when she was eight years old, and she and her mother lived in poverty for a long time, but now she lives a peaceful life as a maid for a kind countess. One day, a handsome man named Kendal visited the mansion. While serving tea, Jane couldn't help staring at him. He was well-dressed. He had a deep voice. He told her that his uncle, a wealthy Yorkshire man, had asked him to find a woman and bring her to him. "Her name is Ms. Jane Bailey." M-Me? Jane is startled by the unexpected words.
Chafed by the "sivilized" restrictions of his foster home, and weary of his drunkard father's brutality, 14 year-old Huck Finn fakes his own death and sets off on a raft down the Mississippi River. He is soon joined by Jim, an escaped slave. Together, they experience a series of rollicking adventures that have amused readers, young and old, for over a century. The fugitives become close friends as they weather storms together aboard the raft and spend idyllic days swimming, frying catfish suppers, and enjoying their independence.
Manga Classics brings Emma to life with this beautiful manga adaptation of Jane Austen's classic tale of youthful folly and romantic exuberance. When her former governess finds happiness as the bride of a local widower, the brilliant and beautiful Emma Woodhouse - one of Jane Austen's immortal creations - flatters herself that she alone has secured the marriage and that she possesses a special talent for bringing lovers together. The young heiress next busies herself with finding a suitable husband for her friend and protege, Harriet Smith, setting off an entertaining sequence of comic mishaps and misunderstanding in this sparkling comedy of English- village romance. Beneath its considerable wit, the novel is also the story of a young woman's progress toward self-understanding.
Great Expectations tells the story of Pip, an English orphan who rises to wealth, deserts his true friends, and becomes humbled by his own arrogance. It also introduces one of the more colorful characters in literature: Miss Havisham. Dickens set Great Expectations during the time that England was becoming a wealthy world power. Machines were making factories more productive, yet people lived in awful conditions. Naive Pip, creepy Miss Haversham, beautifully cold Estella, terrifying Abel Magwitch and the rest of Dicken's fantastic cast are perfectly envisioned in Crystal Chan's new adaptation featuring artwork by artist Nokman Poon.
As an orphaned child, Jane Eyre is first cruelly treated by her aunt, then cast out and sent to a charity school. Though she meets with further hardship, she receives an education, and eventually takes a job as a governess at the estate of Edward Rochester. Jane and Mr. Rochester begin to bond, but his dark moods trouble her. When Jane uncovers the terrible secret Rochester has been hiding, she flees and finds temporary refuge at the home of St. John Rivers. Charlotte Bronte's classic tale of morality and social criticism takes on an entirely new life in this Manga Classic adaptation of Jane Eyre.
When Elinor Dashwood's father dies, her family's finances are crippled. After the Dashwoods move to a cottage in Devonshire, Elinor's sister Marianne is torn between the handsome John Willoughby and the older Colonel Brandon. Meanwhile, Elinor's romantic hopes with Edward Ferrars are hindered due to his prior engagement. Both Elinor and Marianne strive for love while the circumstances in their lives constantly change. Manga Classics brings new life to Jane Austen's very first novel. Sense and Sensibility is a classic tale about love, romance and heartbreak in this brilliant manga adaption.
On the very day of his wedding to the beautiful Mercedes, a young merchant sailor named Edmond Dantes is falsely imprisoned for life, laying to waste his plans of marriage and hard-earned fortune. Following several long years in prison he has managed to escape and reinvent himself as the mysterious Count of Monte Christo. It is the reign of Napoleon Bonaparte and the Count has been plotting his revenge on the three men who had him falsely imprisoned. With a new identity, an incredible education abroad and a vast fortune, has returned completely unrecognizable to those who had committed their crimes against him.
Manga Classics brings to life Rudyard Kipling's original collection of short stories in this fantastic collection. Heavily influenced by his childhood in British-ruled India, Kipling created some of the most well-read children's stories in Western Culture. Book One of The Jungle Book(s) includes Mowgli's Brothers, the story of Mowgli, the abandoned man-cub who was raised by animals in the Indian jungle, Rikki-Tikki-Tavi the heroic mongoose, and Toomai of the Elephants, the tale of a young elephant-handler, and in The White Seal, we meet Kotick, a rare white-furred northern fur seal as he searches for a home where his family will not be hunted by humans. Originally published as a series of short stories for magazines in the late 1800s, the Nobel Prize-winning Rudyard Kipling would eventually publish the classic The Jungle Book in 1894.
The Stories of Edgar Allan Poe is a brilliant collection of some of his best-known stories: The Tell Tale Heart (a murder's haunting guilt), The Cask of Amontillado (a story of brilliant revenge), and The Fall of the House of Usher (an ancient house full of very dark secretes). Also included in this collection are The Mask of the Red Death (horrors of 'the Plague'), and the most famous of all his poems: The Raven (a lover's decline into madness). Best read in a dimly-lit room with the curtains drawn, Poe's brilliant works come to life in darkly thrilling ways in this Manga Classic adaptation.
Midsummer Night's Dream portrays the events surrounding the marriage of the Duke of Athens, Theseus, and Hippolyta. These include the adventures of four young Athenian lovers and a group of six amateur actors (the mechanicals), who are controlled and manipulated by the fairies who inhabit the forest. The play is one of Shakespeare's most popular works for the stage and is widely performed across the world.
The King and the Queen of the Fairies are quarrelling - and everyone around them must pay the price! The Duke of Athens and his bride-to-be, a company of hapless amateur actors, two pairs of star-crossed lovers... no one is safe from the wicked eye and cunning spells of the King's impish servant, Puck. Not even the Queen herself! Manga Classics brings you an easy to read version of A Midsummer Night's Dream with FULL ADAPTED MODERN ENGLISH text of Shakespeare's charming play, coupled with lush visuals and fast-paced comedy.
Siblings Marilla and Matthew Cuthbert were planning to adopt an orphaned boy to help out around their farm, Green Gables - instead, they got Anne Shirley. A plucky redheaded girl with a vibrant imagination, Anne turns first Green Gables and then the rest of Prince Edward Island on its ear. Manga Classics? is proud to be the only authorized manga adaption of Anne of Green Gables by the Heirs of L.M. Montgomery. This trade paperback volume presents a faithful recreation of this classic kids novel, from the Lake of Shining Waters to the Dryad's Bubble!
An ancient evil lurks in the dark heart of Transylvania - but it won't lurk there forever. Now Count Dracula's immortal eyes look towards London, a new land full of opportunity and unsuspecting victims. A ragged band of survivors must stop him before it is too late... but how?
Manga Classics? proudly presents a beautiful, faithful recreation of Bram Stoker's famous vampire story Dracula.
Obsessed with natural philosophy, the young Victor Frankenstein succeeds in creating life from its basic elements - and abandons the newborn monstrosity in terror when he cannot bear to look at it. The rejected creature vanishes, and Victor attempts to forget what he has done... But the monster survives. It learns. Deprived of everything, fated to forever be alone, it has nothing left but revenge.
Manga Classics? presents a frightening new manga adaptation of Mary Shelly's famous tale of creation and destruction!
The dead still walk in Denmark. Already crushed by his father's death and his mother's hasty remarriage, the young prince Hamlet is confronted by his father's ghost, bearing terrible news: he didn't simply die. He was murdered. Now Hamlet lives only for his vengeance - no matter how many other people must die for it. Manga Classics? proudly presents an exciting manga version of Shakespeare's masterpiece Hamlet in its full glory, featuring the COMPLETE, UNABRIDGED TEXT from the original play!
The dead still walk in Denmark. Already crushed by his father's death and his mother's hasty remarriage, the young prince Hamlet is confronted by his father's ghost, bearing terrible news: he didn't simply die. He was murdered. Now Hamlet lives only for his vengeance - no matter how many other people must die for it. Manga Classics? proudly presents an exciting manga version of Shakespeare's masterpiece Hamlet in its full glory, featuring the FULL, ADAPTED MODERN ENGLISH text for easy reading!
Victor Hugo's classic novel of love & tragedy during the French Revolution is reborn in this fantastic new manga adaptation by Crystal S. Chan! In 19th-century France, Jean Valjean, who for decades has been hunted by the ruthless policeman Javert after breaking parole, agrees to care for a factory worker's daughter. The decision changes their lives forever. "Les Mis" has been adapted for stage and screen, and loved around the world by millions of readers. The gorgeous art of SunNeko Lee brings to life the tragic stories of Jean Valjean, Inspector Javert, and the beautiful Fantine, in this epic Manga Classics production of Les Miserables!
In this classic tale by William Shakespeare, a brave Scottish general named Macbeth receives a prophecy from a trio of witches that one day he will become King of Scotland. Consumed by ambition and spurred to action by his wife, Macbeth murders King Duncan and takes the Scottish throne for himself. He is then wracked with guilt and paranoia.
A brilliant general in the service of Venice, Othello is also the new husband of the adoring - and young - Desdemona, whose innocent hero worship has blossomed into love. But can a beautiful girl, so much younger than her husband, truly be faithful? Othello's trusted ensign Iago seems to think not. Can Othello trust him? Can Othello trust anyone? Manga Classics presents Shakespeare's classic story of love, hate, vengeance, and betrayal, in its full, original glory! (This volume features the complete, unabridged text from the Shakespeare Play.)
A brilliant general in the service of Venice, Othello is also the new husband of the adoring - and young - Desdemona, whose innocent hero-worship has blossomed into love. But can a beautiful girl, so much younger than her husband, truly be faithful? Othello's trusted ensign Iago seems to think not. Can Othello trust him? Can Othello trust anyone? Manga Classics presents Shakespeare's classic story of love, hate, vengeance, and betrayal, with FULL ADAPTED MODERN ENGLISH text for easy reading.
Romeo and Juliet is a classic romantic tragedy written by William Shakespeare. It is a tale of two young lovers from Verona, Italy who defy the wishes of their feuding families, get married then, and tragically end their own lives in the name of love. It is their deaths that ultimately help the rival families of the Capulets and the Montagues find reconciliation. Manga Classics brings an incredible new experience with this adaptation of Shakespeare's most popular and frequently performed plays: Romeo and Juliet.
A classic Shakespearean tragedy, Romeo and Juliet is the tale of two star-crossed young lovers who dare to defy their feuding families, put aside all obstacles, and find happiness together - but at a tremendous cost. This grimly beautiful tale, set in Renaissance Italy, follows Romeo and Juliet from their fateful first meeting to their last. Manga Classics brings you this incredible manga version of William Shakespeare's most popular play, with FULL, ADAPTED MODERN ENGLISH text for easy reading!