From Yen Press: Meet Kobato Hanato, a sweet and rather simple young girl on a quest to have her single, dearest wish granted. But first, she must learn the ways of the world from Ioryogi-san, a gruff blue dog whose bark is just as bad as his bite! Under his “tutelage” (read: constant verbal abuse), Kobato puts her efforts into passing various trials of common sense so that she may obtain the key to getting her wish—a magic bottle which must be filled with the suffering of wounded hearts that Kobato herself has healed. But with Kobato’s common sense sorely lacking, she keeps flunking Ioryogi-san’s trials left and right! It looks like the road that lies ahead of Kobato will be a long one indeed!
From Manga Junkie: A 4-panel manga about a cat & her owner. A lot of cute, chibi kitty goodness, recommended for light readers. From Baka-Updates: A kitten Hime is accidentally adopted by first-time pet owner Onii-chan. Follow them as the inexperienced boy and the shy kitten grow into owner and pet and as they make many friends along their way.
Everyone who lives there has a “reason” for doing so. Towards the end of the Taisho era (1912 - 1926), Fuji, a translator, moves into “Kaika Apartment” - a luxurious housing complex overflowing with elegance. Little does he know that the residents there all harbor secrets…but what are they? And, does Fuji have a secret of his own...? Peculiar tales of an apartment complex filled to bursting with bewitching, intertwining human relationships.
Yokoi Taku has trouble getting along with people, so he moved to Tokyo as soon as he graduated from high school. He now lives alone, making a living by delivering newspapers and drawing doujinshi, though people totally ignore his non-erotic works. One day, a girl named Saitou Megumi suddenly shows up at his door, claiming that she came all the way from Tottori to meet him because she's a big fan of one of his doujinshi. It ends up that she has faced many hardships herself, and with no intention of leaving, she ends up living with him.
After losing her entire family to a combination of tragedies deliberately caused by certain people, a girl decides to take her own life. Before she has the chance, tough, she witnesses a murder and is subsequently cornered by the perpetrator. In search of a greater challenge, he proposes to help her to kill the people who led her family to death… so long as she agrees to allow herself to be killed by him in the end.
Kazuki, the heir to the Todou Group, goes alone to America to learn in earnest to be the next president upon graduating from college. How is Saiju Chiharu that has been together forever with him supposed to let go of Kazuki...!?
Sequel to Kindaichi Kindaichi (frequently with best-bud, Miyuki) travels to various places where a murder has taken place, typically involving ghosts, curses, myths and folklore of significant events from the distant past, and solves the mystery using ingenious deductions of curious clues and his cool magic.
From Intercross: Hatsune is a useless, devious girl. One day, Hatsune's father decides to make her live with a fastidious boy! Kaede-kun, being fed up with how unladylike Hatsune is, decides to form a "Women's Efficiency Training System."
To sell 10 million copies! This is the dream of the newbie editor, Sakurai Tamako. As she goes through funny moments, sad times, and even hardships, Tamako is running towards her dream!
Ben Radford thought Kay Napier was a fortune hunter, out to get the Endacott family fortune by posing as the long lost Kimberley Endacott. Kay just wanted to know whether or not her recently deceased mother was a kidnapper. Will the two find the answer, as well as love?
From MangaHelpers: This is the official comic based on the game of the same name. An all-girl's school is preparing to consolidate with another nearby school, which will make them co-ed. Uryuu Shingo is chosen to be a male 'test student' at the girl's school before they officially merge in the following year. On Shingo's first day, he learns that many of the girls are not happy about the coming merger. Specifically, Seno Airi is staunchly opposed and refuses to welcome him to the school. Some of the other girls are friendly, but Airi has a lot of power over public opinion. The truth is, though, that Shingo has met Airi before. When she and Shingo's little sister got lost, he helped them find their way. Airi seemed to like him then, back when she didn't know he was going to be her new male classmate. Maybe he'll be able to win over Airi, as well as all his other interesting female classmates! [tethysdust]
From Intercross: Rinko really loves Jun-kun, a manga hero! Yet when Shin - a total playboy and the type Rinko dislikes - makes fun of her, she decides to...?!
From Bad Eggs: Moka's brother Megu is returning from New York City where he lived with their father. Not only that but she saw a tv program on art and is now interested in the subject. When she goes to the library she meets Masato-kun who she begins to like. But Masato-kun turns out to be a playboy. What will happen to Moka's first love? Serialized in Ribon from 11/2004 to 8/2005, compiled into two tankoubon
The first three stories are about 3 brothers. 1) The eldest brother, Shunpei, picks up a prostitute boy in order to refuse an arranged marriage by his grandfather 2) No One But You The middle brother, Takashi, makes his old temporary lover enter his father's company 3) Body Guard The youngest brother, Tomoaki, loves his manservant. The other three stories are unrelated : 4) Bluish Spring The professor who invented the medicine of "rejuvenation" tells his student of his feelings 5) Sea Turtle Ping Pong Tale Romance in the high school ping-pong club. 6) Family A homosexual couple with a kid looks back over the past of their youth. Additional story (extra from the first 3 stories) : The Suffering of Kirishima's Chairman ~ Pgs. 25-31 New year's family reunion, from the grandfather's point of view.
To his co-workers, Shin Yuukare appears to be the perfect elite--efficient, unruffled, and flawless, unlike his clumsy and easily flustered subordinate Mizusawa. It'd be hard to find greater opposites anywhere and yet when the puppy-like Mizusawa confesses to his idol, no one's more surprised than Mizusawa when Shin accepts and they start dating. But perhaps life is relative and no matter how elite you are there's always someone else you just can't measure up to and sometimes the most hopeless person move mountains if the right person believes in them. Can Mizusawa help Shin get out of the shadow of his little brother and can Shin let Mizusawa bask in the warmth of his heart?
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.
This manga tells the story of the previous Holy War, taking place in the 18th century, 250 years before the original series, in the Saint Seiya universe. The story centers on the relation between Tenma, the Pegasus Saint and his beloved friend, Alone, who would eventually become his greatest enemy, Hades. The story takes place in the same time period as Saint Seiya Next Dimension.
