From Tokyopop: Naota's life isn't simple: he lives with his eccentric father and grandfather in a two-story house above a family-owned bakery in a town marked by a gigantic factory at its heart. The factory looks suspiciously like a hand iron, replete with a steam release at the top--not the most typical landmark. Life is already strange enough, but to top it off, his older brother's ex-girlfriend starts making extremely suggestive passes at him...and an impish, playful alien smacks him in the head with a bass guitar and then infuses herself into his family.
Follow Ryu as he plays in the mahjong world with gangsters, crooks, and all sorts of people.
Nishino Yuzu was all pumped to start her second year of high school, but as she begins her new school life, she meets a strange new classmate in Shinjou Kanata. "I don't understand him. We can't get along." or so she thought, but through glimpses of how kind and dependable he is, she gradually begins to take interest. What could this feeling be...? Here you'll find a girl that you can't help but cheer on!
Kasane Hibino, a 15 year old girl managing a ramshackle driving range, winds up meeting golf superstar Jambo Otokozaki. Will she be successful in achieving her goals?
It's Kyoto, and yet it is not. A microcosm of peculiar origins, "Mirror Kyoto". A small incident causes a young girl, Koto, to wander into this world. She runs into a mysterious monk, gets chased around by a tech-obsessed girl, and heartily enjoys her chaotic and colorful new life, but meanwhile, out of sight, a certain plan is being set into motion… In this mysterious city where spirits and humans have been thrown together, the festivities are about to begin!
Chichi no Jikan follows Shinogi Kyuuichi, a male biology student who lives in an apartment near a helpful female neighbor/friend, Takarai Ayaka. One day, he is visited by aliens, who demand that he raise their baby for a year... or else the world is history. The baby is apparently human, and is raised the way humans are: through breast-feeding. Kyuuichi's sex is not a problem for the aliens: they give him a simple device that switches his body to a woman's with the mere touch of a button. Conveniently, Kyuuichi's female form is very well-endowed.<br>Although she's understandably confused and uncomfortable by the whole situation, Ayaka helps Kyuuichi out as he navigates the unfamiliar experience of raising a child, and breast-feeding it in particular. That means going to a store to buy a breast pump, visiting a maternity hospital to get a massage to release Kyuuichi's stored-up milk, and giving the baby a bath together. Kyuuichi, as a biology student, is fascinated by the whole thing from an academic perspective.
After being betrayed by his country, Jirou left his past as a hitman behind and came back to Japan where nothing mattered anymore in his eyes. But that's before he meets Nami, an active hitman seeking vengeance for her father's death. But not any hitman, a wallman! Jirou is then brought back into this world and teams up with her.
Three boys in junior-high who cross-dress because of differing reasons meet each other through a cross-dressing community website, and decide to meet up in real life. "Parou" started cross-dressing because he wanted to attract a heterosexual boy he liked. "Marika" is a transgender girl and identifies as female. Lastly, "Yui" is an antagonistic boy who adopted the persona of his older sister after her death. In contrast to Parou and Marika, Yui is sorely disappointed at the meeting.
Sequel to "Sakigake!! Otokojuku", which sees the return of Otokojuku, the school seeking to train true men of Japan. The story focuses on Shishimaru Tsurugi, half-Japanese son of Momotaro Tsurugi, the original series' protagonist, as he comes to Otokojuku and is joined by a whole new generation of new characters, both children and heirs of former characters and completely original characters.
Hideo Suzuki is a thirty-five year old mangaka assistant struggling to be the hero in his own life by breaking back into the lime light with a new serial all the while juggling his relationship with his girlfriend and his own delusions. However, as hard as Hideo may try, the world seems to have a different set of plans for him; sinister and dark machinations that completely overturn his reality as he knows it. Nominated for the 3rd and 4th Manga Taisho Award (2010 and 2011).
Suddenly a high school student Subaru Natsuki has been summoned to another world on the way back from the convenience store. With the biggest crisis of his life being summoned to another world and no sign of the one who summoned him things become worse when he is attacked. But when he is saved by a mysterious silver-haired girl with a fairy cat, Subaru co-operates with the girl to return the favor. When they finally manage to get a clue Subaru and the girl are attacked and killed by someone. Subaru then awakens in the place he was summoned and notices the ability he gained "Returns by Death" a helpless boy that only has the ability to rewind time by dying. And beyond the despair can he save the girl from the fate of death!
Somewhere in Japan a young boy spent much of his time in the hospital due to illness. Looking out from the hospital window, he always thought: "I want to be a bird a bird, and fly freely across the never ending sky" On that fateful day, he passed.... Only to find himself reborn as a bird?! But he was different from a normal bird. they don't spit fire from their mouths, right? Now that he could finally fly, he set off, only to find the blue sky being blocked out by dark clouds. This is a story about an unusual bird who wants to fly freely under the blue sky, but is met with dark clouds, said to have adverse effects on all the creatures in the unknown kingdom of Nouzen.