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The story of two small-town high school boys and best friends, both striving to escape from their suffocating lives in the close-minded hamlet.
A mystery “hero” has appeared! His mission? To teach all the bad guys a lesson!
By night, junior high student Yoshimori Sumimura is a "kekkaishi"--a demon-hunter who specializes in creating magical barriers around his prey. By day, Yoshimori's got some other demons to battle: an addiction to sweets and a seriously crotchety grandfather! Yoshimori's pretty 16-year-old neighbor and childhood friend, Tokine Yukimura, is also a kekkaishi, but their families are feuding over who is the true practitioner of the art. Kekkaishi received the 2007 Shogakukan Manga Award for shounen manga.
A girl sees stars in the people and things around her. Some are bigger and shine, others dull and dim like her own. She meets two boys from school one day who show her that all stars can shine brightly, if you see them the right way.
Wakaba got locked up in an elevator with a completely strange guy. Moreover, they happened to share a kiss. He's someone she'd never meet again... or so Wakaba thought, but it turned out that that guy, Chitose, is the boyfriend of Nao, her friend!<br>Nao introduced a surprised Wakaba to her upperclassman in her club, Takaomi, but no matter what, Wakaba can't forget about Chitose...
One day a 23-year-old Japanese musician travels to Mongolia in order to get inspirations for writing a piece of music. There he meets Kanon whose mother runs the "Hotel Kanon" in the desert. Kanon grew up in Mongolia, does not know who her father is and takes him for dead as her mother told her so. Then Kanon's mother who fell from a horse dies of injury. Before her death, she tells her daughter that she came to Mongolia because she could not stay in Japan as she had an affair with Kanon's father, a musician, who is actually still alive, and she asks Kanon to find him in Japan by becoming a violin virtuosso, but dies before telling her his name. Thus Kanon goes with the young man to Japan where she learns to become a musician in a music school run by Mikami, a handsome young man and worldwide very successful musician and conductor. Soon the younger sister of her mother gives her photos of three musicians, one of whom might be her father. Kanon's erring search for her father begins...
Maeda Mitsuyo, the greatest judoka, and grandmaster of Brazilian jiu-jitsu had a tiny problem. A no good punk has been beating the students of the Kodokan judo school. To catch him, he prepares a trap to ambush him in the middle of the night. That’s when he would meet the man that will go down in the past of history as the strongest man he fought. The ancestor of the fierce Bunshichi Tanba!!! The Meiji era, when the samurais were just a thing of the past, was the era when the strongest men thrived. Another strongest fighting legend is about to be written once again.
[From OSTNT] Qi is the origin of all life. Qi Gong is the origin of all cultivation. Yang Qi throw away everything for the woman he loves but in the end he was betrayed by the one he loves the most. Hunted by other aristocrats and with no home to return to. Now with his Qi Gong being destroyed he no longer has the capability to use any martial arts. However, the Heaven has yet to turn its back on him...
Since the Edo periods of Japan, gladiator arenas exist in certain areas. In these arenas, wealthy business owners and merchants hire gladiators to fight in unarmed combat where winner takes all. Toki Taouma, nicknamed "Ashura", joins these arenas and devastates his opponents. His spectacular ability to crush his enemies catches the attention of the big business owners, including the Nogi Group chairman, Nogi Hideki.
Nishimi Kaoru has moved from city to city and school to school because of his father’s job, so having his first day at a new school was just routine for him. Being intellectual in addition to being a transfer student all the time, he has always been seen as an outcast. All he has had to do was bear it as usual until the next time he moved. But things were slightly different this time. First, he started to get close to the class president, Mukae Ritsuko, and secondly, unlikely as it seemed, he grew closer to Kawabuchi Sentaro. Sentaro was infamous for getting into fights, skipping class and was an overall bad boy. Strangely enough, the three of them find common ground in music, namely jazz, and Kaoru finds himself actually enjoying the new town. This series won the 57th Shogakukan Manga Award for general manga. ***Volume 10 is a side story.
A boy gets into a relationship with his deceased older sister's lover.<br>
Something strange is going on in "Soil New Town." The sudden disappearance of a seemingly normal family leads the two detectives Yokoi and Onoda to the idyllic town in the middle of nowhere. What looks like a routine case at first quickly turns into a complex and deadly riddle where nothing is what it seems to be. Will the two disparate investigators manage to solve the mystery before it's too late?
