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From ADV: A pizza delivery boy must save the world! Young Kenta Akagi has never been anywhere except for his hometown of Lutzheim, where he currently ekes out an existence as a pizza delivery boy. Faraway places, strange foreign folks, the wars they fight, and the adventures they have are just stories to him, until he meets a young girl - the kind of girl that wars are fought over! People seem afraid of her, but Kenta doesn't understand why. All he knows is that he seems to remember her from somewhere, and that he has to protect her no matter what!
A collection of short stories published in the 40 year anniversary edition of Kodansha's Afternoon magazine, Go-Chan Magazine.
[From .hack//Wiki] Raid, a newbie Edge Punisher in The World R:2 decides to sell all of his gear and items in order to buy a rare sword. Unfortunately the sword draws the attention of a group of PKers who decide to kill him and steal the sword for themselves. Dead, naked, and penniless it seems that it's all over for Raid, when he is suddenly saved by a group of players from the Seventh Division of the guild Moon Tree.
Lin Mu Yu is one of the top players in Conquest the game before Destiny. He decides to delete his account due to a promise with his father. Before he deletes his account he sells of all of his equipment and deletes all of his skills. After deleting his account he suddenly gets his deletion overwritten by a mysterious source and ends up getting trapped in the game itself. Without anything except for 3 of his skill how will he survive?
From Tokyopop: Daisuke Aurora works with the special division of peacekeepers in the city of Jewde, one of the largest cities on the planet. He and his android partner, Heat Guy J, team up to make sure that anything illegal stays off the streets and out of circulation. However, their presence doesn't sit too well with the local mob leader--a ruthless, unbalanced, well-armed son of the late Don, who is out to prove that he is not too young to take over the family business. In the city that never sleeps, will Daisuke and Heat Guy J end up sleeping with the fishes? Wiki: Coinciding with the anime series in 2002, a manga version of Heat Guy J was released. It was eventually distributed in the U.S. by TOKYOPOP in 2005. It was written and drawn by Chiaki Ogishima. While the main characters and general setup were similar to the anime, the manga has its own unique storyline and supporting characters. There is only one volume in the series, and it includes several pages of bonus material related to the show.
In a distant Island, people suffer from a strange disease called "Pinocchio". This disease causes patient's limbs to rot, and before long, leads to death. But disease can be cured by using artificial limbs or "exchanging" limbs of people with special antibodies. These people with the antibodies, who only exist one in ten-thousand, are called "Doner", and their bodies considered national treasures. One day, Dorothy, a Doner, exchanges her precious right eye for a male Plastica(robot servents) who was about to get thrown away. Their meeting sparks the beginning of a story of a strange master and her strange Plastica. [ruggia] Summary from MangaHelper
The story centers around the young linguistic genius and university professor Testa. He is introduced by his senior, Sergeant Rossa, to the Allied Cryptanalysis Department. There, he is tasked to break the enemy werewolves' code, which the werewolves are using to encrypt their radio transmissions. Testa is astounded, as the only sound the encrypted code produces is the howling of a wolf. His research yields no results, and he resolves to capture a live werewolf for better cryptanalysis. After exhausting all possible means, he finally finds a female werewolf, Yonaga. A three-chapter adaptation of the winner of the Shonen Jump+ x Animax Anime Scenario Award, for which the artist, Akira Akatsuki, was a judge.
Enslaved Ninja are forced to compete in the Arena and fight until death!The victor is given the chance to progress until they defeat the current champion. If they succeed, the winner will be rewarded greatly and granted freedom.
Strider Hiryu was the youngest Strider to ever reach the rank of "Super-A" grade. He was the greatest Strider the organization has ever produced, but he eventually grew disenchanted with them and retired. An uncollected prologue tells how Hiryu had been forced to kill his sister, Maria, who had inexplicably gone insane. He left the Striders for Mongolia, where he lived in seclusion for some years.The collected manga opens with a Strider assignment gone horribly awry. Two Striders, Kain and Sheena, had been assigned to Kazakh, but were ambushed by a paramilitary organization. Kain and Sheena defended the city valiantly, but were eventually overcome by the simplest of ruses: an armed child. Sheena managed to escape, but Kain was captured by a military officer bearing the Strider tattoo...
Hajime is a guy who can't talk to girls properly, even to a game character. But then a girl who calls Hajime her father, barges in on him while he is working. It seems that she has come from the future and she was Hajime's daughter. She has come back to the past to cause a breakup between Hajime and a lady who he is supposed to marry in the future, and make sure they won't get married. The bad part is that she still does not know who the lady is.
In a world that has forgotten God, demons have begun to appear. Two "angels", in the form of two powerful transforming heroes, have emerged: but they can't cooperate to save their lives, in both ordinary life and when they're fighting evil! "Mad Dog" Segawa, a.k.a the superhero Avalon, is a thug who wants to become a fine and upstanding person in his everyday life. Meanwhile Mitsuki, the hardworking and uptight student council president and daughter of a prestigious family, just wants to shrug off her restrictions and live freely. Neither of them knows that the other is the opposite hero... how will this strange situation play out! From Baka-Updates: This story is about two unique students. One is a infamous delinquent who wants to be a be a gentle person and the other is a smart class president who wants to party and have fun. What do they have in common? They are superheros/angels who fight against monsters in the name of justice!
Set 2 years prior to the start of the TV anime.
