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Caught off guard, Tamako, who has no confidence, sex appeal, or romantic experiences, finds herself working for an office full of suspicious people that specializes in designing pachinko parlors. And thus, her days of agony begin to unfold.(Source: Antebellum Scanlations)

During a rainy day, Samon stopped at a flower shop to take shelter from the storm. There he met Koito, the girl from that store that goes a year behind him at school. After that, when he finds himself involved in the love affairs of his classmates and finds himself alone in his class, Samon projects his fury on Koito saying "What amuses you so much so that you are always smiling?", And ends up hating himself. That made Samon anxious, and on graduation day, for some reason, Koito gives him a diary. Actually, Koito admired Samon. In that newspaper he said "Life during middle school was fun because you were there ...". Despite hating himself, Samon likes the things written about him in Koito's diary. Time passes and, upon entering the second year of high school, he reunites with Koito, who entered that school following him ...

Kei is a young, not-so-successful screenwriter. One day, she finds an unexpected visitor at the door of her apartment. A little girl named Niko, a secret child of a famous actress Mifuyu Shibano. Niko is sent to Kei because she is the only person who knows this secret, since she used to work for Mifuyu when she was not so famous. As she begins to live with Niko, she finds the girl is very self-contained. She tries an 'exchange diary' to communicate with her.

Nogawa is called over to a meetup with her group of high school friends for the first time in years. However, one face among them brings about great ire within Nogawa - a certain Sawamoto, the first of their friend group to get married. During the course of their meetup, Nogawa reflects on what about Sawamoto sets her off...In addition to the title story, also includes:- **Ms. Ruiko's Glasses** (, Ruiko-san no Megane) - *Mimi*, January 1980- **The Fig Tree** (, Ichijiku no Ki) - *Deluxe Bonita*, March-April 1982.- **Winter Journey** (, Fuyu no Tabi) - *Deluxe Bonita*, May 1983- **My Private Dream, The Night I met Joni Mitchell** (, Joni Mitchell ni Atta Yoru no Shiteki na Yume) - *Bonita Eve*, July 1983

A young girl tries to help an old tree from dying.

The very first manga by Asuka Katsura, who's worked on the Le Portrait de Petit Cossette manga and Blood+. Bolt and Lantern is an original oneshot set in 19th century england. Coco is a young girl who, due to the recent deaths of both her parents, has inherited the aristocratic title of "marquise" and the expectations that go along with it. A new tutor named Nidell is brought in to teach Coco all the languages that nobility are required to be fluent in, and quickly finds himself facing a past he's tried to hide and becoming more like a father-figure to Coco than a tutor. Bolt and Lantern's art is both cute and detailed at the same time, and is a must read for any fan of 19th century clothing! Or cute little girls and dashing young men. And a pretty, big-boobed maid later on, as well as an arrogant little boy. Fun ensues!

Yuji girlfriend Misaki may seem hard and cold on the outside, but inside she actually soft and loving. As they prepare for their high school entrance exams, Misaki decides that they should temporarily cut off all their dating activities. Will they be able to study hard enough through this period to get into the same high school?

I have been frail since birth. In order to keep me alive, my parents got me a godfather. They said he would keep me safe and healthy. One day, he suddenly came to us and asked me to marry him. Saying that he's my husband?! Oh my G**!Bride of the Water SpiritThe Water Spirit's Bride

Two government workers perform a very unusual job, for the same pay as every other paper-pusher! Kaoru Jinnai and Yamazaki Yuusuke pick up corpses to be cremated before organ harvesters can reach them in post-apocalyptic Japan. What seems to be a simple task takes on complication after complication, from the looting, gunslinging harvesters to clingy family who don't want to let the bodies go just yet.NOTE: On hiatus

Lady Edith has a grandfather who is a mummy maniac and sponsored the ruin excavation at university and a brother who studies Ancient Egypt at the university. But she hates archaeology because it's behind the times and absurd. The one day, she took in a kitten who was nearly dying and saved her from death. Edith's life changed in a major way after that...!? She can see lotus flowers sometimes and ancient Egypt temples. Who is the goddess who calls her 'My priestess' in her dreams?

Shuhei Kurata is stuck. Going to a new school where he doesn't fit in, standing still as his old friends leave him behind. Watching silently as the woman he loves slips further and further away. He feels detached and out of place, as if maybe it all might be a dream. Perhaps it isA 1-volume series.

Saiyuki Ibun recounts how a man will grow up to become the light (Komyo) of the future. He is supposedly history's most powerful, clever, unrestrained and gentle man.

A poignant and intelligent collection of short stories linked to the progression of the seasons. 6 stories:1. Soft Shell2. Falling In Love With The Sky3. One Piece (The Dress)4. The Name Of Water5. Tough6. Wind Grass Child

From Tokyopop:Beautiful creatures called 'Alichino' grant any wish to those who find them--but at a price!A young lady searching for an Alichino wants to bring her brother back to life. She meets Tsugiri, a handsome young man who she thinks is an Alichino. While Tsugiri turns out to be a mere mortal, he does have a mysterious connection with these rare creatures--a connection that brings him and those around him grave danger!

Normal City is set in the far future where mankind exists on other planets. The existence of ESPs is accepted- but only as a "tool" for the army.The main character's name, "Kitty 101", was given to her by a scientist named Troll. Kitty 101 was biologically created by combining several strings of DNA with man-made DNA. She was also given an XY chromosome which turns her into a male on a regular basis.When she was a baby, Kitty 101 was stolen by one of Troll's scientists, Jason Haven, who wanted to save her from the experiments. He named her Mars Haven and brought her up as his own daughter because she reminded him of his lost daughter.Time passes, and Troll proceeds with his experiments on the ESPs under his disposal.

Having been forced to leave the side of passionate Rin three years earlier, Sarasa thinks she has found happiness again in the gentle arms of Akira. But fate plays bittersweet tricks when least expected, and what may have seemed like the past has its ways of catching up.

Chitose is an office lady who works seriously. Her childhood friend, Kokoro, is a celebrity. He is a champion figure skater. But behind his success there are two peculiar characters: a witch and a knight. And when Chitose discover Kokoro's secret, the wheel of fate starts to move...

From MangaHelpers:One day, Alice Liddell is kidnapped by a hot guy with rabbit ears and transported into a strange new world! Oddly enough, this "white rabbit" acts as if he's enamored of Alice. As she enters the bizarre Kingdom of Hearts, Alice is certain that it is all a dream that she just can't seem to escape. When she asks various other denizens of the Kingdom of Hearts (mostly gorgeous men) how she can get home, they all tell her the same thing: There's no way for her to return home until the end of the "game" that has just started! [tethysdust]

A cyber-punkish collection of stories revolving around the theme of the "DOLL." 1. Keep Those Condoms Away From Our Kids The tale of boys and girls who have lost their sexual desire. Mihara Mitsukazu's debut work. 2. The Iron Maiden The tale of the strain a girl experiences from having grown up in a home without love. 3. The Sunflower Quality Of An Integrated Circuit Vanilla is a robot made by the SG Company. She's loaded with all the latest functions and completely subserviant to humans. And you even have the separate option of upgrading her to a lover robot. One Vanilla is a maidroid in the home of an elderly master and his younger wife. The atmosphere in the house is cold and stiff because the wife is having an affair with a younger man. The lonely master comes to look upon Vanilla as his own dear child. He suggests that when the sunflowers bloom, they go outside together to watch them. "Is that a command, sir?" asks Vanilla. "It is not a command," he replies. "It is a promise." And so forms the piercing and painful integrated circuit--the alternating current of intercourse--between a lonely old man and the emotionless Vanilla. 4. The Other Side of the Rose Wire What was the thing a girl like an angel endlessly carried? 5. Fish Out of Water A girl who lost her memories when she was dragged into a llake with her suicidal mother... awakens from her dream. 6. Mister Mineral Inside the body of a cute girl who's just like a doll... are internal organs, and blood, and... 7. Alive The sad tale of a human and a clone who pass right by each other.

Yuriko is 35 and single. She spends her days working at a kindergarten to take care of her sick father. One day in her dull everyday life, she gets into an accident. Shortly after, her life begins to change for the better. A clumsy adult romance about a woman who thought she had given up on love.

It starts with poisonous herbs under the cradle. Then under the sheets. And inside the clothes. Even mixed in the milk that they feed the newborn. This way the child gradually gets used to poisons and becomes the perfect assassination tool - the "Poison Princess" whose every kiss, tear and even touch bring death. Her only chance of survival is to fulfill her duty as an assassin and find a way to live on in the enemy land she is sent to if her heart is strong enough.

THIS +19 SERIES MAY CONTAIN THEMES NOT SUITABLE FOR MINORS.

{Paradise Love Scanlations}One countrys cruel custom: "leading the life of a stand-in". Away from the center of the city in a theater, an actor, a boy called Robert, is asked to become the stand-in of Elisabeth who has the right of succeeding to the throne. "I will definitely survive and come back". Is Robert to be swallowed by the things to come as the wheel of fortune starts to spin? Deceit, traps, hatred. The long-awaited 1st volume that portrays human relationships tainted with greed.

Master of the Haunted Inn introduces us to a young man sometime in middle Meiji-- the late 1880s or early 1890s. He owns an inn where people are said to be able to see the ghosts of their loved ones.To this place comes a young woman who was married to a man she'd never seen before, an invalid whose dying wish was to wed her. He died on the same day as they met. Even with this history, she feels herself his wife and desires earnestly to see him again.In other stories we have lovers yearning for a last meeting, a little girl out looking for her father, and a young temple servant, dead many centuries, who cannot rest in peace.

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Eun-Jo decides to commit group suicide, unable to cope with the burden when her daughter dies in an accident. However, she opens her eyes to the day before. She soon realizes that once midnight strikes, she is sent forty-eight hours backwards. How can she stop this? Eventually, she decides to continue reliving the past so that she can improve the life of her future self. But what happens when nothing she does has an impact on her future?

Yaeun Chu is about to turn thirty. While her friends marry and start new lives, she works full-time at a lighting company and sees her boyfriend on the weekends. That all ends when she discovers he's having an affair with one of her coworkers. Drowning herself in work until her body and mind begin to fail her, Yaeun struggles to keep her head above the raging waters of romance, personal happiness, and life after thirty.Night Fish / Fish's night / mulgogiui bam / Thirty : Thirsty /

"THEY'RE JUST ORDINARY GUYS."This is the Charisma House. Today, too, the charismatic men inside fixate solely on their own, unique Charisma.

A 31-year-old woman dreams of returning to her high school days. She was the class president and the idol of the school. However, she did not have the courage to reply to the boy she loved back in high school. After a high school reunion, she decides to commit suicide upon finding out that the boy she loved back then is with another woman now. She was saved by her class mate and given a medicine that can revert her back to how she was when she was 15... Now she's a 15-year-old idol?!

Two twin sisters contracted a mysterious bacteria from a trip and suddenly gained enormous power. One psycho sister began trying to kill the other because they both loved the same man, while the other sister and her boyfriend began to flee as everyone else became innocent victims...

Asako was just starting her new job trying to change a light bulb when she ran into the company president Junichi. The encounter showed that Asako has an excellent memory, so Junichi tries to make her an executive secretary. Asako disliked Junichi's arrogant attitude, and Junichi disliked women in general from bad experience, but eventually they open their hearts to each other. However, Junichi already has a fiancee who is the heiress of a major company.

From Shoujo Manga Maniac:Body & Soul is a manga "wellness guide," and also a surprising and touching love story. The initial story of Miku's quest for health precedes a fantastic love adventure, where love appears little by little, and where we don't expect it...

The Zero-Sum Original Anthology Series features themed oneshots from various mangaka that publish in Ichijinsha's Zero-Sum and Ward magazines. Volume 16 theme: Fairy Tales and Nursery Rhymes1. Kin'iro Ookami to Akazukin (The Golden Wolf and Little Red Riding Hood) ~ Takayama Shinobu2. Tsuruon!! (*Abbreviation of Tsuru no Ongaeshi, or The Crane's Repayment of Kindness) ~ Saeki Yashirou3. Koyubihime (Pinkylina) ~ D. Kissan4. Shiro (White) ~ Mizutani Yuzu & Kaede Tooru5. Hebi no Ou (The King of Snakes)~ Kayase Shiki6. Little Merman ~ Kari Erika7. Nihon Chotto Mukashi no Hanashi (A Little Old Japanese Tale) ~ Ogaki Chika8. Akazukin-chan to Ookami-kun (Little Miss Red Riding Hood and Mr. Wolf) ~ Ninagawa Tomo9. Totsugeki Ningyo Yarou (Attack! Mermaid Dude OR *Bousou Ningyo Yarou i.e. "Out-of-Control Mermaid Dude" on the pages in the actual comic) ~ Mikawa Verno10. Ouji-sama wa Soushoku-kei (The Prince is a Herbivore) ~ Kanou Ayumi11. Kounotori Musubi (The Stork's Ties) ~ Akanatsu12. Piggies ~ Mitsu Nanae13. Hebi to Kuro no Lion (The Snake and the Black Lion) ~ Serikawa Mame14. Hyaku-nen Ibara to Shiranai Himegimi (The Hundred-Year Old Thorn Shrub and the Oblivious Princess or The Centennial Brier and the Oblivious Princess) ~ Akazaki Mutsumi15. Oyayubi-hime ~Another Side~ (Thumbelina ~Another Side~) ~ Mikami Ritsuhiro16. Shinigami no Nazuke-Oya (Der Gevatter Tod or The Godfather of Death) ~ Sakura Maro

Perverts are people who know the shape of their desires. They have carefully traced those contours like a blind man using both hands to measure the shape of a vase. Colette works in a brothel in early 20th century Paris, an occupation she can't escape. She and the other girls support each other, satisfying the desires of their clients, day in, day out. The one source of hope in her difficult life was her trysts with Leon. But Colette could never be sure if Leon really loved her... The strength of women in their pleasurable confines; the naked desires of the 'amorous gentlemen.'

Yoko is the new teacher of the Dandelion Class, an elementary course provided within the hospital. All her students are admitted to the hospital with serious diseases. While trying to find her place with courage from her students, one of them takes a turn for the worse...

Mayu, the eleventh grade student, yearns after "Love of Summer". Naoto Wada, a companion who pretended as a college student to picked her up, was her classmate of the same high school in fact...She responds to the relation which is called by Naoto 'after school' though he should be her boyfriend for a limited time. She wants to shorten the distance since she is not satisfactory that much. The cool attitude of Wada is persistently contrary to Mayu whose feelings are rising. When Mayu, who cannot control her feelings, throws an overflowing thought at Wada, he shows an unpainted face before her eyes? Moving & sad comics with full of happiness and sorrow in love.

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A cute and touching story of a single mother, Sumireko, and her daughter, Nozomi. The manga starts off with Nozomi being sixteen years old in the first chapter, then hops back to before she was born. Finally with the third chapter starts the "real" story, when Non-Non (Nozomi) is three years old. Won the 19th Kodansha Manga Award for Shoujo in 1995.

Who's in love right now?! Nozawa Nao is just a normal middle schooler, except that she's been obsessively studying about love and romance. Will her thoroughly-researched tactics help her snare the man of her dreams?!

A young woman comes across a remote village that has an unusual form of worship.

Collection of short stories: SheherazadeYouko just started working as an office lady at a new company. According to the gossip, Shinogami, her boss, is cursed and any girl who gets involved with him will die. After a lively welcome party, a drunken Youko wakes up in Shinogami's bed. What will become of her and this gorgeous man? Sheet no SukimaMomoko and her boyfriend go to apply for a marriage registration form, but the man at the public office, Hisame, is so rude that he offers them a divorce registration form as well! One month later, Momoko returns and...? Yoru no BanninMaya consistently stays late at night at the office to finish her work, which earns her a nickname from the security guards. One guard in particular won't allow her to stay despite her cries of saying that she'll be done in 5 minutes. However, he notices that she's been getting thinner and decides to make her lunch?! What exactly is going on? BlancGirl is getting married soon and goes to visit her cousin that she grew up with. However they're closer than just family.(Also included in Kinjirareta Ai no Kajitsu) KizuatoA woman whose husband was killed in a car accident sexually abuses her handsome servant.(Also included in Kinjirareta Ai no Kajitsu) IzayoiTsukiko is driven to suicide, while Akito tries to keep her away from her doctor. But what is Akito's relationship between Tsukiko and the doctor; what is the doctor's real identity and who exactly is Akito?

Painter Joseph, who has outstanding copying skills, but is not recognized due to his lack of creative talent, could not overcome his sense of shame and tried to make an extreme choice.Rene, the secretive woman who stopped him.Joseph's heart pounded at her request to paint paintings for her, and he followed her to the painter's metropolis of 'Delmo', to seize his last chance.However, after he arrived in 'Delmo', he received a completely different request than what he expected

This charming new manga follows the father and daughter of the Sugisaki household, with its vain, gorgeous, and very doting father, and his equally stylish, cool, but far drier daughter - but can two different generations of shoujo main characters inhabit the same house?