"I encountered her...a cute, but 'weird' sempai!" This magic-loving but stage fright-addled sempai with a failure rate of 100% is sometimes cute and sometimes erotic, so you can't take your eyes off her. The short, magical gag comic that has caused an uproar all over with its sheer humor is now in collected form! The ultimate non-athletic heroine is born!!
Niko Nanase has a secret: Although she's a first-year student at a VIP private high school, she herself works part-time jobs whenever she can to make ends meet for herself and her two younger sisters. However, when high-school hottie and tv-drama star Leon finds out about her double-life, she thinks she's ruined...until he proposes a solution to her money problems: Be his maid!
Kanna Tezuka is a serious 15 year old manga artist, already being published as a pro. So when she finds out her high school is starting a manga drawing course, even she gets excited. But it's a fiasco! The teacher is useless, and the only other students three prettyboy artist wannabes quickly adopt Kanna as their (unwilling) sensei. But they all have ridiculous delusions about being an artist, and if Kanna can't bring them back down to Earth, she'll never get any work done! A sharpwitted satire of the manga world from the creator of I Am Here! and Missions of Love!
"I'd rather be dead." Rune Balot was a lost girl with nothing to live for, when a man named Shell took her in and cared for her... until he tried to murder her. Standing at the precipice of death, Rune is saved by Dr. Easter, a private investigator, who uses an experimental procedure known as "Mardock Scramble 09." The procedure grants Balot extraordinary abilities and now Rune must decide whether to use her new powers to help Dr. Easter bring Shell to justice, or if she has the will to keep living a life that's been broken so badly. Includes special extras after the story!
Mio loves radio, where she can be herself in private while still sharing her interests with the world-totally unlike her twin brother, Yuuta, the popular extrovert on the volleyball team. But when the love of Yuuta's life decides to study abroad in Australia, he asks Mio to do the unthinkable-go to school in his place! Suddenly Mio is thrust not only into the world of volleyball, but of men's dorms...and must do whatever she can to keep her secret!
Without a single boyfriend in sixteen years, Natsume has zero relationship experience ... and it's all thanks to her super overprotective neighbor-high school teacher, Mikami-sensei!! Whether at home or at school, Natsume is always being manipulated by his strangely overbearing affections. But while it may have seemed like sibling love at first, their relationship soon takes an unexpected turn ... !
The pure and upstanding Momo Inuwashi absolutely adores her brothers, even to a fault! She's created a castle to protect them and would die to defend it. But...Tamaki Yugenji found a crack in the walls! Can he throw these siblings' lives into chaos and expose the terrible secret Momo is hiding even from her brothers? Find out how this 4-way romantic mess pans out in the new series, Momo's Iron Will!
In the Monster Soul world, a war was waged between humans and monsters, with the monsters falling on the losing end of a treaty. The peace between the monsters and humans is tenuous and monsters are frequently persecuted by humans. As a result, monsters tend to stay away from humans and keep a low profile. One group of monsters, known as the Black Airs, lives boldly with a purpose: to have fun and take care of each other. They get in to all kinds of trouble with reckless abandon, but as long as they stick together, they'll be all right...probably. From the Trade Paperback edition.
Superstar creator Mitsurou Kubo (original concept and character designs for Yuri!!! on Ice) reveals how you never know when fortune will strike. Yukiyo Fujimoto's life has been in a rut. He is about to turn thirty and has never held a steady job or had a girlfriend. And at a time when the prospects for hope seem at their lowest, suddenly his phone blows up! Out of the blue he is contacted by several women from his past! His moteki has finally come!! Love has struck and cupid's arrow has hit him repeatedly and, coincidentally, all at the same time! Yukiyo may seem to have many options now, but is he ready for love? And are any of these women? The stage for love might be set, but the time might only be right for him to finally grow up!
Punishment: Dog Food-. Punishment: Know your mother's pain-. Punishment: one split evenly-. Punishment: Forever beautiful-. The frog man from hell executes his "punishments".
Aya was deserted right before her marriage and was left without a place to live. One day, she finds herself wandering back into the house she was supposed to own after her wedding. To her surprise, the cold-blooded boss she hates from work had moved in as the new owner! A dangerous love ignites under one roof between the girl who lost love and her sadistic boss, presented by Yumi Hisawa!!
Kako gets tangled up when she lies about her age in order to attend a company-mixer party for singles and ends up totally infatuated with her young local policeman! And it looks like it's mutual with Kota... until he finds out Kako's still in high school. Read on to see if straight-arrow Kota manages to find a way to do the right thing as our story unfolds in the first volume of this upbeat new romantic comedy from Maki Miyoshi!
Every family has its share of problems, be they big or small. Shino Tadokoro has the perfect high school life, full of romance and friendship. Her biggest problem is her shut-in brother Tamotsu. She stubbornly keeps his existence a secret, telling even her closest friends that she is an only child. Completely oblivious to Shino's concerns, Tamotsu suddenly declares that he is giving up the shut-in lifestyle. Is there still time? The curtain rises on a tale of family reconstruction!
"There's no mistaking it. You're suffering from a case of L.O.V.E.!" The man I fell in love with is some weirdo who has no idea what love is -- Sachi is in love with love. She is determined to meet her soulmate -- after all, her own mother and father married for love and always seemed so happy. Sachi falls for someone new every day in the hopes that she'll find Mr. Right. She gets her heart broken over and over again -- but she doesn't let herself feel that pain, instead she just races to her next crush! After falling for countless different men, Sachi meets Jogasaki. According to Jogasaki, love is an illness. He's a total weirdo who has been trying to find the drug to cure "L.O.V.E.". Sachi and Jogasaki, neither of whom know anything about real love, set out to develop this miracle drug together. But will the two of them be able to face up to their own feelings?!
I ran into Natsume again at our junior high class reunion and, long story short, a group of us have been going out for drinks together lately. My friend claims Natsume is into me (Wow!), but if that's true then he doesn't show it. If anything, he's always giving me attitude...! (Grr...) How does he really feel about me? I need to know, so I can decide on my next move...! In this romantic comedy of self-sabotage, will Hanako keep digging herself into a deeper hole, or will she finally be upfront about her own feelings?
What do you do when nothing's going right in your life?
Minori (29), who has been struggling from day to day, has become pessimistic about life as a whole. This year has been especially dreadful. Work has become a hellish experience because of her new boss. Her childhood friend and longtime crush, Asai, just told her he only sees her as a friend. When all seems hopeless, Minori is suddenly visited by a "Toshiotoko", a fairy whose job is to bring luck and happiness to their charge. With his gentle and encouraging support, she slowly learns to take control of her life by the reins. What will Minori discover as she continues her search for what happiness really means to her?
How reliable would you say your memory is? As humans, our minds can omit memories. Memories can become idealized. Sometimes, they can even be entirely fabricated. There are various ways by which one's recollection of past events can become distorted. One could even say that it is a type of mental defense mechanism meant to protect us. But what if you had the chance to see your memories in their original state, unblemished and untouched...? Would you take it?
Meet Hakucho, the hippocampus and their assistant, Rohen, two mysterious individuals that live and work at an old-fashioned cafe that's more than meets the eye. Their shop comes to those plagued by their past, offering a chance to see the truth behind their memories. When restoring a client's memories, Hakucho summons a mystical creature from their ancient pipe. The creature enters the client's mind, scouring its depths to reveal that which has become obscured. However... sometimes, the truth is perhaps best left forgotten.
"Why do I have to be the one to 'put it in'?"Shun Mizuo has always got a smile on his face. He's popular amongst his coworkers and he's good at his job... but he's useless in the bedroom. One day, heartbroken after discovering his girlfriend cheating on him, he drinks himself into a stupor and reveals his "situation down there" to Amachi, his beautiful-yet-frosty coworker. What happens when, suddenly, Amachi says that she feels that this moment with Mizuo must be fate?! An office romance between two people both hopeless in the bedroom!
Cell phone novelist Yukina Himuro has decided that, in order to satisfy her fans' demand for love stories, she must experience romance firsthand. But with her icy reputation, how can she find someone willing to play the part of boyfriend? By blackmailing the most popular boy in school, of course!
Rui would do anything for her younger brother, Kyo-a sensitive boy who became a shut-in after a confession to his male classmate went awry. But she'll need money to care for him, and in a town where the highest of the high are neighborhoods separate from those who are striving just to make ends meet, that's no easy task. Due to her boyish looks, her friend helps her cross-dress to get a job at a host club (of sorts), but when her first interaction goes horribly wrong, she think's it's all over for her...until uber-rich boy Tohma saves her. Amused by her story, he makes her an offer she can't resist: Serve as his "male" butler until March of next year, and he'll give her $10,000...but only if her true gender isn't revealed!
One day, a superaverage 2ndyear high school student who wants a girlfriend, Aoshima, suddenly awakens to the ability to time slip. Ten years in the future, he is *gasp* married to the cutest girl in school, Wagatsumasan! In the present, they are only classmates, so how in the world does he end up with the unobtainable Wagatsumasan?! A timeslipping Romcom coming at you from a brand spanking new duo!
The Negima class at Mahora Preschool has a new teacher, and Asuna Kagurazaka develops a crush at first sight. But in a class full of mayhem, she must face love rivals, stalkers, comedic robots, and even dinosaurs. Will she able to overcome all these obstacles and win the heart be of the man she loves?
Follow the adventures of Negi Springfield, a fresh magic academy graduate, as he starts his new job as a teacher at an all girls high school. Can he balance his teaching duties while pursuing his dream to become a great wizard like his father?
One by one the world's deadliest death row convicts come to Tokyo to get a "taste of defeat". Finally, they meet face to face in the underground martial arts arena!! With over 60 million copies printed, the BAKI series spans 4 completed series with a 5th on the way, all following Baki Hanma on his various quest to defeat his father. A new BAKI anime focused on this part of the epic will premiere on Netflix this year!
MEWSHIDO In medieval Japan, it's a hard life for a stray cat. Every day is filled with struggles and prejudice, from oppression by fellow cats working for cruel masters to extortion by catnip druglords. But being a stray also means incredible pride and independence. The wandering samurai Norachiyo has no master, though he still wears the telltale bell of a cat who has a "person." This rogue warrior travels across Japan, protecting the weak and cutting down those who have forgotten the virtues of being a stray - all with unrivaled swordsmanship. Although Norachiyo leaves little trace but his fearsome reputation, this enigmatic warrior has made plenty of enemies who are more than willing to get their claws on his head. Will Norachiyo's past catch up with him, or can he spend his nine lives in freedom?
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 one of manga's horror classics!
In the gritty, futuristic city of NeoSaitama, the streets run slick with acid rain and blood while an army of cyberneticsclad ninjas run amok under the menacing rule of the Soukai Syndicate. As incessant strife wrought by a ninja turf war takes the lives of all citizens who end up in the crossfire, one can only hope to end the day without getting a suriken to the skull. But in these dark, tragic times, a spirit of vengeance rises to kill all wicked ninja who terrorize NeoSaitama. This crimson avenger is Ninja Slayer, and he will not rest until all ninja have been slaughtered at his hands.
For Shion, an elite student in the technologically sophisticated city No. 6, life is carefully choreographed. School, study, and the occasional visit with his friend and classmate Safu. One fateful day, however, he takes a misstep, sheltering an injured boy his age from a typhoon. Known only as Rat, this boy is a VC a fugitive living outside the computerized tapestry of city control and helping him will throw Shion's life into chaos and start him down a path to discovering the appalling secrets behind the superficial perfection of No. 6.
The son of a famous pianist, music student Shinichi Chiaki dreams of studying abroad and becoming a conductor like his mentor. Unfortunately, his fear of flying grounds his lofty plans! As he watches other classmates achieve what he has always wanted, Shinichi wonders if he should quit music altogether. Then one day he meets fellow student Megumi Noda, also known as Nodame. This oddball girl cannot cook, clean, or even read a music score, but she can play the piano in incomparable Cantabile style. And she teaches Chiaki something that he has forgotten: to enjoy his music, no matter where he is.
TACHIKAWA, TOKYO. AKIRA TAKASHIRO IS A NORMAL HIGH SCHOOL STUDENT WHO IS DEVOTED TO PLAYING BASKETBALL. IN THE EARLY AFTERNOON ON A DAY THAT SHOULD HAVE GONE LIKE ANY OTHER, A GIGANTIC EARTHQUAKE SUDDENLY STRIKES THE CITY. THERE IN THE SCHOOL RUBBLE, AKIRA WITNESSES A MOUNTAIN OF DEAD BODIES...AND AN UNKNOWN CREATURE THAT EATS THEM. THE TALE THAT UNRAVELS IS ONE THAT WILL OVERPOWER AND SHOCK YOU!! GET READY FOR AN EXCELLENT URBAN MONSTER ATTACK!
Nima Momosato is jinxed. Whenever she has a crush on someone, they end up finding love elsewhere right in front of her eyes. She ends up joining a slightly weird club that observes and studies other people's love lives and relationships. Really, that's what they do! Enjoy this new type of romance comedy in which love never works out!
This manga has been made into a movie and a TV drama in japan."I wish we could just spend all our high school days sittin' and chattin' by this river." This seven chapter volume is a collection of the funky, off-the-wall, and sometimes cynical after-school conversations between Seto and Utsumi, two high-schoolers from the Kansai region of Japan.
Mutsumi Oribe is a high school student who drifts ashore to an island after her plane crashes on its way to a field trip. However, the island has become a nest for giant, carnivorous insects. Can these high school students, who have now become prey to these monsters, escape the hell that is this island?!
Saku Tsukimiya is a high school boy who much to his dismay looks like a girl. On the night of his seventeenth birthday, he hears a mysterious voice in his dreams calling him a princess. When he wakes up, his body has undergone an unbelievable transformation... Saku, a man is the reincarnation of the legendary princess Kaguya?! Join us for this gender-switch love comedy!
Akari Shimotsuki is a normal high school girl. One day, At the moment she was about to confess her feelings to her long time love Mamiya, she loses consciousness and finds herself in an entirely unfamiliar world. Additionally, for some reason she is now in someone else's body and people are addressing her as "my lady"... Mysteria Romantica is a love fantasy that crosses time and space!
Bentt, a traveling scholar, comes across a young man named Iris in an abandoned mine. Iris eats crystals, has eyes that sparkle like rainbows, and is the last surviving member of a race known as the Diamonds of the Desert. Setting out on a journey together, the two begin to slowly open up their hearts to each other. However...
The beautiful mermaid I fell in love with became human.A "male" human.Manato Koganei, a part-time worker on the brink of despair meets a beautiful mermaid shining in the moonlit night (and she's all battered up for some reason)?! She says she wants to "become human and fall in love", and is successfully reborn... but with a "third leg"?!!! A non-human existence? A sex change?? BL??? Say hello to a very odd love comedy~
This is a tale of my heart warming and strange calamity... At a certain rural junior high school... Itsuya Tsuruta, who came as a substitute art teacher has a secret mysterious power. The junior high school student, Toki, triggered by experiencing her power, becomes obsessed with Ms. Itsuya day by day...
Hisui, who works as a drag-king artiste in the Kinkei travelling Troupe, is very popular with women. She catches the eye of the Emperor, and gets invited to the Harem. She joins the Harem because the Emperor reminds her of her missing older brother, but the jobs she is given are...? Popular since it was published in "Monthly Princess", Volume 1 of a Chinese fantasy!