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[From ShoujoMagic]:Kahara Hitomi met Nagatsuki Atsuya when she was a child, and they made a promise to see each other again, but Atsuya never showed up. Because of that unkept promise, Hitomi hasn't been able to trust any guy ever since. Although Atsuya broke Hitomi's heart, she can't stop thinking or dreaming about him--even now that she's a college student--and she secretly wants to find her first love again. Then one night at a club, a man named Nagatsuki Atsuya appears before her! But is he the same Nagatsuki Atsuya...?

What does it take to find your true inner self? Zen's memory has been wiped, and he can't remember if he's a killer or a hero. And a lot of people will do anything they can to keep it that way. Zen's unearthly charm attracts a veritable rogues' gallery. A bounty hunter becomes obsessed enough to become his new partner, while the daughter of General treats him like some sort of guru. But when he meets a mysterious doctor who may know him from the past, Zen learns that the secret of his lost memory is definitely more sinister than saintly.

From: Easy Going ScansOfficer Park Yoon Hee is a beautiful young detective who has high hopes of being accepted in the Violent Crime Division. However, her father and chief of police, has other plans for her so instead of the Violent Crime Division he assigns her on the Unsolved Crime Division were nothing ever gets done and there is only 2 staff members including her!The excitement that she most eagerly longs for though, is about to barge in her life when she will meet a mysterious boyOriginal webcomic

From ShoujoMagic:For heroine Ooba Kanoko, life is not much fun. Her family runs a small restaurant where she slaves and is horribly mistreated by her two sisters, parents, and grandparent. (Not to mention the fact that her name said aloud as "Oobaka no ko" = "stupid kid"!) Poor Kanoko cooks, cleans, and takes the blame when things go wrong. However, her life takes an unusual turn when her family suddenly loses what little money it had, and everything they own is about to be reposessed -- and along comes a ragged looking, tall stranger with an interesting proposition that will turn Kanoko into a billion dollar Cinderella! At a price to Kanoko...

The story of Garan, a travelling executioner who roams the land, killing bad guys.

From Aerandria Scans:In New York, behind all the hustle and bustle of the big city, Kazuya and Keith execute "requests" in order to live. No one knows about them. But what happens to people who look directly into Kazuya's jet black eyes?! For some reason, they start to change, little by little. The much-awaited first volume of a romantic horror between light and darkness.

At age 20, Yuko is leading a life without aspirations, what with work as an assistant in a company and her boyfriend Yutaka. Determined to give a new twist to her lifestyle, she accepts Yutaka's offer to work at his side by night as a bar hostess. But Yuko quickly becomes disenchanted: this choice brings her much more trouble than pleasant surprises, leading her to face difficult situations, even dangerous ones. And above all, she doesn't succeed in getting closer to Yutaka who remains elusive and indifferent to her signs of affection. Despite his infidelity, Yuko persists in clinging to that futile and fruitless relationship. Will she react before being unable to break the deadlock? How far will she let herself go?

It started with a brutal beating at a pachinko parlor, and now Bakune Young-maniac, moron or mastermind -- has taken Japan's biggest crime boss as a hostage as Step One of his plan to rule the world! Soon, yakuza, police, hapless detectives and Bakune's former gym teacher collide as Bakune holes up with his hostage in Osaka Castle, and the manly men of the Japanese mob vow to do anything to rescue their boss! Can Russian-roulette-playing police chief Sorigami salvage the situation with his highly trained army of human robots? Will Johnson Membodeath, the ninja, stop the madness by killing everyone in sight? Savage satire of the action-violence manga genre!

This is the story of Shizuka, a beautiful young lady, and Yarisu, her overboard companion. The two of them get hired to work as hot spring companions, entertaining customers and keeping them company, with absolutely no sex involved. Or almost.

Danny is an American teenager living in Japan. He came to Japan to improve his karate, but fell in love with Shinobu, master of a dojo.

From ANN:February 23rd, 20XX. Looking for a job in the famous TV station at Odaiba, college senior Jin Mishima attended the recruitment orientation. Not far away from the station, Nanako Okano, a gothic lolita trying to attend a concert, found out that her friends tricked her about the concert ticket because of jealousy. The two bumped into each other and "reunited" -- they were junior high classmates -- moments before an earthquake of Richter Scale 8.1 turned the island (the entire city, in fact) into ruins.

Summary:This is Kayono's first volumized collection of short stories, and all of them center on tales of strange worlds.1) Ostentatious Mysterious Handsome Man (Rei Kai Bi Dan)Momoe hates to go home, so she spends her nights wandering the streets. But what happens when she meets a man named Chain Saw who's on a special mission!?2) Ancient Osaka Masquerade BallNaniwa Masquerade: Frustrated that her childhood friend Yuan won't look at her like a woman, Ai goes to a host club, and there she finds what she's been waiting for...!?3) This Love by AnonymousAsuka is afraid that she'll be forced to become the lover of a man whose ideals are far from her own, so she runs away to Kyoto. There, she falls in love with Takuma, a high school student who's in Kyoto on a field trip.4) Like a Beautiful Hellish DemonNaoka is beaten so badly by her stepfather that she loses consciousness and has to be taken to the hospital. There, she meets and falls in love with a hellish demon who feeds upons the souls of humans...

A level seven earthquake hit the the Kanto area at 4:55am. 10 survivors are stuck underground on the subway; 2 salary-men, a couple with a young son, an old couple, a calm and collective girl, the subway engineer, and their appointed leader, a man who's never worked to overcome the obstacles in life. How will they escape? What can they do to escape?"It's amazing what people will do to stay alive."

[From StudioRobb]: This is the story of a teenage boy named Takeru Tachibana and his struggle to recover his sister Sayoko from a "cyborg dogfight circuit". When Takeru was 10 years old, his town was bombed during an enemy air-raid in which his parents were killed and he was mortally wounded. Sayoko, cut deep with "survivor's guilt" and a "co-dependent" inability to deal with living alone, rashly sells her brain to the Albion Corporation run by a mysterious CEO named Vltare Mareau in order to pay for a risky surgical operation that Takeru may or may not survive. Her brain is placed in a cybernetic body, the process of which essentially eliminates the brain's memories and heightens its aggression. Her new identity is The White 13, or "The Ice Doll", and for the next five years she is placed on a dogfight circuit fighting other cyborgs in gladiator-style extravaganzas where she eventually becomes the grand champion and obtains the rank of "sirius"... The story begins shortly after Takeru has liberated his sister from the dogfight circuit only to discover that, outside the cicuit, Sayoko's brain has a "self-destruct" mechanism and that she is dying. Takeru has one week to find a way to cure his sister or return her to the circuit or she will die. Adding to the problem are the "dogged" efforts of the Albion Corporation to recover "their stolen property" as well as a cast of characters who all have their own scars of some sort...

It is the story of two boys, Machizo and Tetsuo, who create manga together.Machizo's father is a successful mangaka (manga artist). Machizo feels he's living under his father's shadow, and resents his father's success.Tetsuo, who is at school with Machizo, enjoys drawing manga and is good at it. His favorite mangaka happens to be Machizo's father. The two boys strike up an alliance to draw a successful manga to win a contest, with Machizo writing the story and Tetsuo drawing the graphics. An important part is also played by a violent girl named Kimiko, who has a crush on Tetsuo.Ongoing English Trans.

The year is 1949. Japan had been defeated in World War II and was occupied by Allied Forces consisting of American, Australian, British, Indian and New Zealander troops.A young woman meets a young man. Both have lost everything because of the war. Tome Kano, a barmaid, and Katsuya Ranzaki, a wealthy investor. The two are fed up with their lives and want to live "real lives" for once. Katsuya's starting up an all-girls baseball team with Tome on it allows them to do this. In this dramatic story, the dreams of a nation come alive. Through the determination and strength of Katsuya and Tome, girls baseball becomes a sensation, and Tome a superstar.

From Aerandria Scans:The story is told as a collection of allegories based in a medieval fantasy setting, but aimed at mature audience. The main character is Helga, a girl who lives completely ostracized from her fellow-villagers, but she seems to enjoy it rather than suffer from it. The people in her life, whose stories we also get to explore, are her best friend Eda, the kind young mayor and two of his servants. And in the heart of the village and the story is the bell-tower which changes everything with its chime...

The shogunate installed by the Tokugawa is abiding order, the people live in peace and in a relative prosperity.However, the dark part of the human heart does not cease to arouse their cupidity : it is the ideal doorway for all demons that, by possessing humans, seek to pass into their world.Exorcising these demons is Jonosuke's mission, the master of keys. Known for being the best locksmith of Edo, Jonosuke uses particular locks to put the wicked spirits under lock and key. With the help of the bewitching O-kin, a divine who uses unorthodox methods, Jonosuke is going to meet during his demon hunt some notables of his time, who will prove to be precious allies when he faces a plot aimed at the upper spheres of State.

Keiji's hometown is a bit weird, and among the strange customs is the funeral each person has for themselves when they turn 33. He's come back for the "funeral" of his former best friend Hakuga, but being back is bringing back memories of his relationship with Hakuga, and the feelings he never thought he'd have to deal with again.

A story set in the near future, about a middle-aged loser whose only refuge is a virtual bishoujo game.Related Series

A new teacher finds himself a newly appointed position as a teacher at an all girls school... on an island... in the sky! How will he make do in his new surroundings? Or the residents of this island who seem like they came from another world? And what's more, how will he fare at being a teacher?

The Vampire Bund, a peaceful island nation of vampires off the coast of Tokyo, ruled by Princess Mina Tepes, has seen its share of conflict and turmoil. Yet there are times of relative tranquility when the Bund is a popular tourist destination.When two teenage tourists visit the Bund and are unexpectedly turned into vampires, they appeal to Mina and her loyal lycanthrope bodyguard, Akira, for help. Their only hope is to find a cure to reverse their vampirism within forty eight hours, or they will be stuck as vampires forever.Unfortunately for them, their race against time turns into a game of cat and mouse that takes them across the entire Bund in pursuit of the one person who holds the key to their salvation.

A series of stories featuring the exploits of Doll, a highly skilled and extremely reliable detective for the hotel mega-chain, The Sunrise.

From Kotonoha:Seventh grader Hayashi Renei is troubled by a strange dream: Her dead brother-- killed in an automobile accident--comes back to life as Coo. The dream comes again the following night and then every night thereafter. Coo's world is a cruel one--crueler than the real world, even--with its own share of pain, suffering, and sadness. Renei is searching for her house with her brother and others whom she meets in Coo's world so that she can return to reality and the land of the living...

From TheWaffleHouse:When Hana's abusive father causes her to run away from home, she gets picked up by Takaya, the top host at a host club. Hana is soon attracted to Takaya, but can she find happiness with a host who is paid to hang out with women? Moreover, does Takaya care about what she thinks?

From Tokyopop:High school student Moon Bin Lee has difficulty sleeping due to a recurring nightmare: he's stranded over a thousand years in the past chasing a dark-haired girl into a deep abyss.Before long, the nightmare overwhelms him, and he is unable to tell whether he is Moon Bin, a Seoul teenager at the end of the second Millennium, or Sa Kyoung Kim, the son of a prominent warrior family in the middle of the first Millennium. People in his present-day life assume roles in his historical life as he struggles to learn exactly who he is and what he's expected to do, straddling a transmigratory portal through time and space.In the present, his school's kendo club battles to stay in the championships...but in the past, Moon Bin finds himself at the threshold of a territorial dispute on the plains of Mongolia ...

From Mangascreener:Nawoki Karasawa is one of the longer-active and more prestigious names in the typically small time, lesser-known world of gag manga. In a genre where art skill is second to just about everything else, Karasawa's dialogue is hilariously sharp and witty.A gag parody of Shinji Mizushima's immortal "Mangaka Zankoku Monogatari" (Karasawa's title only differs by adding "cho" [super] to "zankoku"), a manga about the dreams, ambitions and suffering of a group of bright young mangaka, Karasawa brilliantly takes the piss out of just about everything involved with being a mangaka. It's lewd, raunchy, endlessly cynical and laugh-out-loud funny.Originally published in Ikki and the Big Comic Spirits special issue "Casual" from 2000 to 2003, it was collected into a single book in 2005.

This is about two siblings with the vampire-like tendency for blood, and at first share the same home alone till their caring aunt decides to move in with her husband to care for them, however their normal life is going to get far crazier as a doctor and other characters become involved in the plot.From Tokyopop:The members of the Takashiro family share a terrible curse: only human blood can slake their thirst. Sent away after the death of his mother, Kuzuna Takashiro remained blissfully unaware of his 'condition.' When Kazuna's teenage hormones begin to rage, his uncontrollable bloodlust suddenly rears its head...

Juuza is a total rebel who obeys and bows to absolutely no one, and with his terrible self taught fighting style, he has absolutely no one to fear. Juuza once gave up on his true love since he realized blood relation made a relationship impossible... But now that she is dead, Juuza has a thing or two to say to the man who was unable to protect her.

From Easy Going Scans:Five different people are gathered in an abandoned hospital after getting a mysterious phone call, and the mastermind behind the curtains holds their families hostage. He orders them to figure out the one culprit who killed his brother... Or otherwise, they will all die.

From Aerandria Scans:Rinko is an ordinary girl who was born with a mysterious birthmark on her left arm. But when that mark starts to get darker, strange accidents begin to happen everywhere around her, involving even the people she cares about. What will the powerful magic awakening inside Rinko bring her?In 1987, Purple Eyes in the Dark was awarded the Shogakukan Manga Award for the shoujo manga category.

Jiro Tenge (???? Tenge Jir??), one of the eldest sons of the moderately wealthy Tenge family, has become an agent working for the United States, and his secret murders are discovered by Ayako Tenge (???? Tenge Ayako?), his youngest sister. This problem is aggravated by her discovery of terrible incestuous affairs in her own family; the wife of her older brother is actually her mother, who has to frequently have sex with Ayako's father, the family patriarch Sakuemon. To hide these secrets, the familyunder pressure from Sakuemon and his eldest son Ichirodecides to keep Ayako locked up in the basement for the rest of her life.Despite the efforts of her mother and younger brother Shiro, she lives for nearly two dozen years under the family's house, while great political and social changes occur above her. Ayako eventually leaves the basement after growing into a beautiful and attractive woman, and seeks affection from others while remaining terrified of the outside world. This sets off a chain reaction of events which spells tragedy for the Tenge family.

Unknown to the world aliens have begun to invade people's bodies. A young race car pilot named Toshio was won by a mysterious organization for a "test" for money. That test turned out to be a hellish training to become a Zombie Hunter. However, Toshio decided to return to a normal life but soon face the harsh reality of a Zombie Hunter. Surrounded by shallow figures and aliens Toshio accepts his new life as a Zombie Hunter ...(mangaka never finished the story)

A collection of oneshotsHoichi the Earless: A surreal story about a boy who writes disturbing songs and who sees the spirits of the dead. Read this if only to see the intense illustration on page 27.Paradise Cabin: A group of entertainers is plagued by the spirit of a deceased fellow entertainer.Other oneshots not translated.

(Rainbow Field, a location within the manga) is a heavy book. Its thick black cover and roughly 300-page girth are a sign of things to come: this is a black, bleak story, complicated and convoluted. It is a story that you can read again and again, and notice new things each time. It is a story that you need to read again and again to puzzle together. It is a story heavy with symbolism and maddeningly intricate.Suzuki is a troubled boy. He's lived with uncaring foster parents for most of his life, alienated from the other kids at his school, owner of a cynical, unhappy mentality. Komatsuzaki is a violent, unpredictable bully whose head trauma causes him to act in mysterious, inexplicable ways. Arakawa is a no-nonsense, normal girl who pines after Komatsuzaki but can never have him. A teacher with just one working eye. A mother who committed suicide. A daughter in an endless coma. Attempted rape, murder, extortion, sexual deviance, and a freakish explosion in the butterfly population. All of these elements are whirled together in a story spanning 10 years, a tale of blackness, pain and apocalypse. And maybe just a bit of hope and redemption. It's a spiritual cross between the misanthropic suburban malevolence of Kyoko Okazaki's Rivers Edge and the eerie mysticality of Donnie Darko. (taken from Mangascreener)

Popular high school student Suwa Daisuke has no interest in dating newcomer Aikawa Hinako, a quiet loner. That's because she recoiled from his flirtatious touch, and he took it as a personal affront. Daisuke informs one of his buddies that he wouldn't date her, not knowing Hinako was listening. Daisuke's attitude changes after he accidentally hears her confession in an abandoned church; she's been sexually abused by her stepfather and has given up a child for adoption. His former annoyance turns to compassion and concern. Hinako is unaware that he knows her terrible secret. Believing him to have no romantic interest, she becomes more relaxed and comfortable in his company. Their relationship faces a lot of obstacles, including jealous classmates.

Two young doctors, the passionate and well-liked Osanai and the ambitious Tatsugaura, are both investigating the mysterious 'Monmo' disease, found only in one remote village, which causes bizarre bone deformation, making its victims take on a beastlike appearance before their deaths. Osanai, caught between the allure of his urban medical world and the rural peace offered by the remote village, does his best to help the victims retain their humanity in the face of a medical establishment which views them only as guinea pigs and oddities. Meanwhile, Tatsugaura schemes against Osanai and tries to infect his rival with the disease in order to gain fame from researching the results.

28 years earlier, there was a plane crash in the mountains of Gifu Prefecture. The barrier that the Kobo Daishi, Kukai had created to seal away the demons was destroyed in crimson flames... Present day, Oniwakamaru, King of the Yokai, appears inside the body of pure and innocent Tachibana Hitori!!

Story: Detective Akira Yusa sees his brother Shinichi killed before his very eyes. He spots a young girl, Kilico Sakaki, at the scene of the crime and instinctively knows that she did it. After a bloody fight, Akira arrests her. Trained as a professional assassin by her stepfather, Toshio Sakaki, in everyday life, Kilico acts like an ordinary college student. Her arrest is treated as a mistake when she manages to hide all evidence of Shinichi's murder. Akira's subsequent investigation of Kilico runs into difficulty when he finds that it's too big for a police detective to handle. Her encounter with Akira makes Kilico remember her terrible past and have doubts about being an assassin. Kilico goes to Taiwan to train as a jewel connoisseur, the Sakaki family's legitimate business, behind which they hide all their illegitimate business. Fired for taking his investigation too far, Akira follows Kilico to Taiwan. The two meet again and become very close, as they get involved in the internal conflicts within the Tenrenban gang, Taiwan's biggest Mafia group.

Collection of One Shots:Chapter 1-3: Moony & Moony 2It all starts when Yuusuke Satou is forced to spend spring holidays at the dormitory along with Moriya. Then, one night Yuusuke discovers that Moriya has troubles seeing at night and while he takes care of Moriya he eventually falls in love with him, but he is worry that Moriya might not return his feelings and will hate him...Chapter 4: The Spring In A NIght of Cherry BlossomsChapter 4.1: Waiting For The Moon ~ ExtraChapter 5: Moon Flower

Just another story of youth, love, life, and death. From the author of Ping Pong Club and Himizu, though less comedic than the former and less soul-crushingly depressing than the latter. From Mangascreener: The latest completed story from Minoru Furuya, the author of Inachuu Ping Pong Club, Himizu, Boku to Issho and Green Hill. Furuya's work has always featured a lot of pinpoint comedy and pathos, and while Ciguatera does not stray from this format, it is a lot more rounded and mature in its presentation.

Collection of short stories by Kaori Ozaki ("Immortal Rain"), including her debut story. The earliest story in the volume was written when she was sixteen, and the last one when she was nineteen.CAUTION: There is quite a lot of nudity here; it's more art-house variety than hentai, but if you'd rather not deal with nudity period, this probably isn't the book for you. The stories are good, though.

Volume 1 : The Laughing Vampire.While a young boy, just resurrected as a vampire, commits acts of awful ferocity, the city around him shows all its perversion. The adults abuse of their power, the boys degenerate and use all the available means to achieve their goal to give vent to their low instincts. Whoever can't understand and make opposition is doomed to change or becoming crazy. So which is the real horror? The vampire who kills in order to feed himself or the crawling disease hidden in the society that slowly corrupts without being noticed?Volume 2 : Paradise.Following the events narrated in the first volume, Luna and Konosuke are now living together with the old woman vampire as fellows, as lovers, in a diabolic innocence, killing to quench their thirst for blood, joining death and love under the dream of the eternal youth. Meanwhile a young boy, named Makoto, is looking for his lost sister Miko, who disappeared years ago under mysterious circumstances. But what has really happened to that girl who liked eating grubs and dreamed to become on of them? And is someone really hiding a terrible secret? The paths of all the characters will dramatically collide, bringing unexpected consequences after the things are gradually revealed.A story suspended between weirdness and decadence, showing a clear nostalgia for the German cinematography and Federico Fellini, where the blood is used to trace a great and only apparent amoral story.

[From SnowKiss]:Aiko should be dead, but when she awakes in a secret hospital, she has no recollection of what happened that night until a monster showed up and her memories flood back. Her arm changed into a powerful weapon similar to the monster, a chimera arm.The secret organization Atheos asked her to help them fight off the chimeras. An accident happened that led Aiko to understand how much she wants to live, and decided to join Atheos, in order to find her place.

Vow of Vengeance. Seventeenth-century Japan: A rebellion in the Aizu teritory has been brutally crushed, leaving twenty one brave warriors dead and most of the nuns of the local convent slaughtered. Now the surviving nuns have sworn to seek revenge. They turn to the greatest swordsman of the land to train them so they can kill the ones who slew the men and the other nuns.

From Tokyopop: Sato Tatsuhiro is a drug-addled "hikikomori" (a Japanese shut-in) who thinks a sinister organization, NHK (Nihon Hikikomori Kyoukai), is the cause of all his problems! He falls in love with a girl, Misaki, who he thinks is trying to assassinate him, but doesn't know how to talk to her or if he can trust her. The more he stays in his house watching anime porn, reading manga, and doing drugs, the harder it is for him to leave. Only Misaki can keep him from rotting away in his own apartment!

[From Attractive Fascinante] :1-5) To Takei, who's a Math teacher in high school, the school is the perfect feasting ground for students. But never did he expect that one of his former students would become a teacher as well as his colleague! For the number one lusty teacher Takei, his days of humiliation are starting soon!6)Our Oath- The mixed up sex lives between a businessman, his secretary, and their two sons.Junai Fetizm (Sequel)

While in their usual patrolling duty, the Crossbone Vanguard managed to find jovian forces trying to kill an escapee. While rescuing the woman, they happen to stumble in Jupiter's newest "wipe out the entire world" scheme. Unlike the previous times, they actually are too late to organize counter measures and there is almost no hope of stopping them due to many adverse circumstances....The pirates must now fall back on desperate plans, taking huge risk while trying to stop the abominable "Zeus Thunder" project before mother Earth is completely engulfed by the flames of war.