SLICE OF LIFE

Story about Makoto Osawa, a university student on the regatta (rowing) team. He and his friend have dominated the intercollegiate competition for the double scull. Along with his friend's girlfriend (and team manager) Misao , the team has dreams of participating in an Olympic competition. But his friend's death in a racing accident leaves Makoto broken up, and he has to deal with pulling himself together as well as facing the trials of love and friendship.

From Aerandria Scans:"Won't you become my girlfriend?"On the day of her high school entrance ceremony, Ao got asked that by Riku, a guy that she has only just met. But by that, he meant to ask her to become his fake girlfriend, just to pretend. Ao was surprised by the sudden request, but after knowing Riku's true feeling, she decided to agree to become his fake girlfriend...?

Memory eaters live on people's memory.They are originally death messengers who remove human's memory when they carry souls. But some of them are charmed by the memory's beauty and become Exiles: Memory Eaters. Dio is one of them, but he does not steal human memory like other Exiles, but earns it by helping people. One day, Dio finds a girl who is losing too much memories from Exiles . He tries to help her, but Ces, who was a model death messenger, is around her. What is he doing here?

[From Kotonoha]:Published by Kodansha in 2002 and awarded the prestigious Tezuka Cultural Prize, Fumiko Takano's The Yellow Book is one of those rare works which you enjoy reading in order to feel the tender familiarity that arises between the protagonists and yourself. This collected volume was named after the longest of the four stories that it contains: a drama about an adolescent girl who falls in love with Roger Martin du Gard's saga, Les Thibault. The remaining stories capture various fragments of everyday life with tenderness and humor. Through the kaleidoscope of its feminine views, The Yellow Book touches the readers heart by attending to what, in sum, makes up lifethe little things of our every day.

This manga is about the every day occurrences in Sukiya Keiko's not all that ordinary life. From meeting a person that can fly to being all alone in the world she experiences things beyond and within your average day.

Celestin, a young man abandoned as a baby and found wrapped in a fine cloth, tries to marry his way into the aristocratic lifestyle he considers his birthright while popular revolution is beginning to stir in the streets...

Changing schools is something Yuuchi is accustomed to, due to his parent's profession, and with their recent venture to Africa, he is returning to his aunt's home after 7 years. The time that has passed since his last visit has faded his memories of the people he knew, and the ties that bonded them to him, including his cousin Nayuki. Slowly those people, coincidently all being girls, find their way back to him. However, time has passed and things have happened in their own lives that sets the tone for the series. Secrets that are coming to surface, and memories that are returning to not only Yuuichi, but to those surrounding him. A very heartwarming tale that touches upon a spectrum of emotions, mystery, and the supernatural.

In this collection of hauntingly elliptical short stories, Oji Suzuki explores memory, relationships, and loss with a loose narrative style, filling each tale with a sense of unfulfilled longing. He plumbs the dissolute depths of human psychology, literally bathing his characters in expansive shadows that paradoxically reveal as much as they obscure. A young man catches a cold after being soaked in the rain and is tended to by his grandmother. He drifts, dreaming of a train trip with an older brother he doesn't have. A traveling salesman comes across a boy lying in the middle of the road and stops to have a cigarette and tell a story that sifts through memories of faces and places before settling back on the boy and pretending to not look at the stars. A young woman walks along the river with her bicycle and a friend who is nothing more than a disembodied headdiscussing past times together, memories they have of each other.

Atsushi Ando (15) moves back to his home town with his family after 6 years. The story focuses on the fortunes and misfortunes he encounters in this town mostly due to pranks pulled by the ghost of his older brother, Hitsushi Ando, AKA Q-Chan, whose death prompted the family to move away in the first place.The catch is, only Atsushi can see his brother's ghost.

Yurie Hitotsubashi was just an average middle school student living in the city of Onomichi on Japan's inland sea. She spent her days worrying about exams and trying to get Kenji, the clueless boy she likes, to notice her. Then during lunch one day she suddenly announces to her friend Mitsue that she had become a goddess the night before. Their classmate Matsuri quickly latches on to Yurie's newfound divinity as a way to promote her family's financially struggling Shinto shrine. She hopes that in replacing Yashima-sama, their ineffective local god, with Yurie, it will make the shrine more popular. Now all Yurie has to do is figure out what she's supposed to do with her power.

Izumi, a young art student goes to visit her old professor who is living out in the country. Izumi is trying to get away from something and wants to take a break at the professor's house for a while. When she stumbles on Sensei's secret sexual fetish, it sets off a tense relationship full of awkward moments and weird demands.Adult topics, but not ecchi.

From Lililicious:Aqua Blue Cinema is about an actress and a girl she meets through unusual circumstances.

Aki-san's wife has gone to visit their daughter in Milan, Italy. Not knowing that how things will turn out, he finds a sure sign.

A man who isolated himself from the world for thousand years in the hope that he will become a human. A mountain spirit who decieved him for his own good. Now that they meet again after thousand years, the spirit finally tells him the real way to become human. While the man continues his struggle for becoming a human, the spirit tells him stories....Original Webcomic

From Kotonoha:Based on a script by the author of Old Boy and brought to life by the late manga genius Hirosuke Kizaki, Shoujo Nemu tells the moving story of Nemu, a young girl who dreams of becoming a manga artist. Even though people couldn't tell because of her shyness, Nemu possesses extraordinary talent, but it's not until her encounter with Goro, a veteran manga artist plagued with self-doubt, that she begins to realize the true nature of her passion. What follows is an unusual friendship that ends up changing both their lives.

A fluffy story about a coworker who can't express her love for her subordinate.

Includes:She Got Off the Bus at the Peninsula:Mitsuko Kunizaki has inherited a small grocery store from her grandmother. Being a single mother to a little boy, she intends to close it down and move on with life. However, in the solitary store that sits next to the last bus stop at the tip of a peninsula lie some long-buried memories that slowly reemerge as Mitsuko arrives at what used to be her homememories of a lonesome childhood and of people who came to the peninsula to end their lives.The Labyrinth Cat:Residents who have just moved in are always lost in this complex apartment. However, there is one little feline that will help them get back to their apartment house.Bio Luminescence (created under the pen-name Soyogo Shima)Also includes two Mushishi stories set in modern day Japan and with different characters than the long running series.

"People become unhappy because they only think about the past and the future... not the present.."So-Na, unable to remember a painful event in her past, is living only for her mother's nursery, "The Snowdrop". When she meets Hae-Gi, the intentionally isolated and beautiful model, they instantly click and fall in love. However, a dark secret that connects them, threatens to tear them apart. Like a modern-day Romeo and Juliet, Snowdrop is about two star-crossed teens who fall madly in love.(Warning: Shounen-ai between side characters.)

From MangaHelpers:The story opens several years after a devastating war, where incredibly strong 'mechanical dolls' slaughtered many, many people. These robot weapons, which look exactly like humans, are still feared and hated. During a storm, Craw finds one of these 'dolls.' She is nothing like the weapon he would expect, but is instead gentle, cheerful, and very eager to be of use to the people around her. She claims her name is Mayple, and she seems to be programmed as a maid and cook.Soon, Craw has set up a cafe for Mayple to run, where she can cook sweets and tea for everyone in town. It's going to be a rough road ahead of her, as many townspeople hate her on principle and will not shrink from violence against her. But maybe Mayple, who always keeps a sunny attitude, will be able to find a way through the prejudice and make a place for herself in the post-war world. [tethysdust]

In kindergarten, naive Mitsuko began to think of Yoshioto, who was staying at her house, as her papa. And she vowed that she would be Yoshioto's bride when she grew up. Can this dream be fulfilled? In the journey to see him, she slowly understands her own feelings and her heart that refuses to mature, but nonetheless thinks she's already mature. In her search, they gradually melt into one.

Anji is the complete opposite of her beautiful, smart and ambitious older sister Anri. To make matters worse, Anji has a hopeless crush on Anri's boyfriend Baek-hui, who is her sister's match in looks, brains, manners and goals. But is Baek-hui all that he seems?From Baka-Updates:Anri and Anji are sisters. Anri is one year older than Anji. Anri is a person with determination and guts, not to mention top grades and attitude. Anji has really nothing to offer. She can be quite mean and unreasonable. But, when it comes down to her sibling, she can be pretty determined.This story details the troubles that Anji goes through because of Anri's two-faced boyfriend, Baek-Hui Kang.

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...

Ichina is a 2nd year high school student. She lives with her mother Youko whom she hates with a passion. After getting dumped by her boyfriend, she ends up having a one-night stand with her best friend Sekitani, who also recently broke up with his long-time girlfriend. Will they become more than friends? And who is the strange guy who's waiting at home with Youko when she gets back?The desirable Tsuu-chan from Yogoreteru Hima Nanka Nai is a character in this story as well.

A collection of short stories.

From Stage Storm:Miss Marilla Cuthbert and Mr. Matthew Cuthbert, middle-aged siblings who live together at Green Gables, a farm in Avonlea, on Prince Edward Island, decide to adopt an orphan boy from the asylum as a helper on their farm. Through a series of mishaps, what ends up under their roof is a precocious girl of eleven named Anne Shirley. Anne is bright and quick, eager to please but dissatisfied with her name, her pale countenance dotted with freckles, and with her long braids of red hair. Being a child of imagination, however, Anne takes much joy in life, and adapts quickly, thriving in the environment of Prince Edward Island.

Manga about the everyday lives of Lulu and her little adventures in the late industrial revolution era.~Description from Batoto

A collection of short stories. The title story:Shinobu grew up in a town so small that he didn't even have any classmates in elementary school. Without any friends his age, he spent his time learning about flowers with a local horticulture expert. Now that he's moved away to a city, he still sticks to himself, since he never really learned how to make friends. That is, with the exception of Yukihito, who came up to him one day and became his friend. The trouble is, now Yukihito means the world to Shinobu, and he doesn't know what to do about it.

A 4-koma series about a lunar bunny named Reisen and her comical life with an earth rabbit-youkai Tewi, her master Eirin, the lazy Kaguya, along with the numerous rabbits that live in the secluded mansion, Eientei.

From JShoujo Scans:With the ability to see the negative emotions of people, and to see it as if they're monsters, whose character can be different and weird, she is Deng. Because no one can understand how she feels, a wall has been built around her heart. However, after living with her innocent brother and with the help with some good friends and Karas, the person that can consume evil intensions, her world has begun to change

4-koma gag manga for Release the Spyce anime broadcast.