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Kaji Kotori is a shy girl and was always bad at making new friends, especially with guys. Since the start of high school she has been made fun of by Kaji Yukito who’s the center of attention in the class. Rumors are that he was a delinquent during Middle school but he doesn’t look like one. Here comes the life of Kotori and how she adapts to love. ~~~ I met him by chance and I knew love. My imagination was way different than reality. My lack of restraint of this emotion open the gate of my future world. Kotori, the summer I was fifteen…

-from Baka-Updates: A manga that revolves around an old-fashioned all-night food stall, the various dishes that the stall owner prepares to suit the tastes of different customers, and the joys, griefs, trials and tribulations of his faithful patrons. Nominated for the 2nd Manga Taisho Award (2009). Won the 39th Japan Cartoonist Awards Grand Prize (2010).

More collections of chilling short stories dealing with urban legends, ghosts and superstitions all organized around a specific theme (School, Visitors etc.).

Even in this day and age of the 21st century, many gods live amongst humanity. Mayu is a cat god who is the master at finding lost objects, but she is very lazy and all she does all day is eat, sleep, and play video games. Mayu lives with her caretaker, Yuzu, who operates a pottery store while at the same time doing everything for Mayu. The pair meets other gods in their daily lives and have exciting adventures.

A magical cooking lesson about making horan (soft-like pancake made without baking).

Spin off of Zero No Tsukaima; The adventures of Gallia's knight Tabitha

In Giant Killing a ragtag bunch from East Tokyo are struggling in Japan's top football league. The team is going through an abysmal spell right now where they are nearing the bottom of the table and have lost five matches in a row. Losing hasn't done much to team morale, because it was already at a low. Fan support, on the other hand, is also looking bleak. In the world of football, once the fans turn on a team, the end is near. The team doesn't recover, coaches are fired, players are sold, and the team drops to lower divisions. In a situation where profits often prevent them from ever being successful again against even the mediocre top division programs... ETU, East Tokyo United, has only their coach to blame. ETU hires a new coach that once played in ETU. This coach wishes to prove to his ex-players and fans that even against the biggest clubs in the nation, he can make the team win. In 2010, this manga received the 34th Annual Kodansha Manga Award for General Manga.

Nozomi Yumehara, a regular student, finds a magical book called the Dream Collet in the library and meets Coco and Nuts, two creatures from the Palmier Kingdom. They plead with Nozomi to restore their world, which has been destroyed by an organization called the Nightmares. By completing the Dream Collet and finding the 55 Pinkies, they can make any wish come true. Meanwhile, the Nightmares are moving into the real world. When Nozomi agrees to help, she transforms into the magical girl Cure Dream and joins four fellow students to form a team of Pretty Cures.

In order to be bought by a rich family, Narumi Inoue, hiding the truth that he is a man, goes to a girls' school. As a trainee, Narumi was sent to serve a girl from a rich family who hates maids (only weekends)! Keeping the 'heart of treating/serving people,' Japanese maid, Maid in Japan, Narumi's battle will start…!? If it is found out that Narumi is a man, he will be castrated. Don't miss the cross-dresser maid boy's love and sufferings while serving!

Marriage Royale's story revolves around the male protagonist, a high school student named Tsukasa Hinomoto, who is told one day by his parents that he was adopted. Furthermore, they tell him that his real father is a manager of a large company, meaning he is very rich and holds a lot of power. Tsukasa's real father wants his son to marry a good woman, so he sets up an event known as Marriage Royale where beautiful girls from all over Japan will come together at a school built especially for the event and vie to become Tsukasa's fiancé. The school is located on an isolated island near Japan, and Tsukasa himself is taken there to live in a mansion in the care of two twin maids: Miku, the elder sister, and Miu, the younger sister.

Tsuji, a high school student whose sister was killed by a spirit several years before the beginning of the story, joins his school's Paranormal Research Club after hearing rumours of its president being a brilliant exorcist, hoping to gain the skills necessary to avenge his deceased sister.

Nobody know where it is, but it's a place that offers shelter to those who hate their lives or are trapped in the labyrinth of their own hearts... a mysterious hotel. Even now, those who are tired of their lives come to stay in the "Kiri no Mori" Hotel...