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Yonagahiko - a god(?) with a human face and a serpentine body - lives on a mountain-side with a small, mysterious boy named Tetsuichi. There is a popular legend about that mountain; a legend which tells the tale of a human who once slew the mountain god and gained possession of his powers...

From Blissful Sin: "Please marry me, Asakusa." Though, I thought I was asking where Asakusa was. Alex, a traveler from England, wanted to get to his destination, Asakusa, but he got lost in a quiet residential area. He unleashed the only Japanese words he knew at a man walking towards him, incorrect Japanese taught to him by a friend who was playing a prank! But the other person blushed and replied, "Yes"...?

Nonoshima can see fairies, spirits and ghosts. He's quite eager to share these experiences with his best friend, and said friend is equally eager to comply...but what are the true reasons behind his being so accommodating towards the eccentric "Nono"?

Katou has money problems, loans and he hasn’t paid his rent for 5 months now. When his realtor Yui suggest that, if Katou does a job for him, he will give him 3 more weeks to pay the rent (before kicking him out or worse), Katou happily agrees… From 'Sweet Tale' collection of short stories/oneshots: Story 1. Boy Next Door Story 2. One Heart Story 3. Otoshimono Story 4. Long Way Home

An epic horror-action-adventure! Spanning the generations of the Joestar family, each arc focuses on a certain member of the family and his/her battles with vampires, super vampires, and other Stand users. 1: Phantom Blood - Jonathan Joestar 2: Battle Tendency - Joseph Joestar 3: Stardust Crusaders - Jotaro Kujo 4: Diamond wa Kudakenai (Diamond Is Unbreakable) - Josuke Higashikata 5: Vento Aureo - Giorno Giovana 6: Stone Ocean - Jolyne Kujo 7: Steel Ball Run (AU of Phantom Blood) - Johnny Joestar (alternate universe Jonathan Joestar) & Gyro Zeppeli (alternate version) 8: JoJorion (AU of Diamond wa Kudakenai) - Josuke Higashikata (alternate version) & Yasuho Hirose (alternate universe Koichi Hirose)

After Mitsuhashi’s family moves into a new neighborhood, he decides to use the opportunity to become a delinquent. Upon meeting Itou he finds out that he wasn’t the only one who had this idea. Making friends and foes along the way will these two take over their school or just end up as wannabes? wo boys, Mitsuhashi Takashi and Itou Shinji, meet each other at a salon. It turns out both boys are transferring to a new school and decide to take the opportunity to reinvent themselves. No longer will they be run of the mill high school students, they will become the biggest delinquents Japan has ever seen!

This short manga is based on the novel; Sugar Candy Bullets Can’t Pierce Anything. The plot follows two girls and their summer-time adventures in a rural area. Nagisa Yamada is a bored teenager who finds everyday life extremely unappealing - thus she plans on joining a Military School as soon as possible. A strange new student named Umino Mokuzu (who claims to be a mermaid) transfers into Nagisa's school and, much to our heroine's bewilderment, soon begins to follow her around incessantly. Initially, an annoyed and discomfited Nagisa strives to avoid any encounters with Mokuzu. But she soon begins to comprehend the pain and sadness concealed beneath this strange girl's cheerful and carefree demeanour...

Hime Koibito is about two girls in an all girls boarding school (like so many other shoujo-ai) and an upcoming Christmas eve dance. Karen whose family owns a public bath is in the middle school and asks Nakayama an "outsider" and new student to the high school to go to the dance with her. Nakayama is bullied and shy, but Karen is outgoing and determind to get Nakayama to go to the dance with her....

Grimm Otogi is a descendant of the Grimm Brothers, authors of the well known Grimms' Fairytales. Upon picking up a mysterious book he discovers in his house, Otogi is attacked by a demon. He soon learns that the Grimm brothers vowed to sacrifice the lives of their descendants in exchange for the fairytales, forcing Otogi to defeat the demons from these cruel and twisted stories if he wishes to survive.

From Cinderella Story: Yue Cheng is collecting cats for her homework report, and what she did is captured by the cats' "watcher". And after following a cat that she wants to catch, Yue Cheng and her friend found themselves in the cat spirit's territory. What will happen...?

The year is 2022. Mankind has finally perfected virtual reality. And within the VRMMORPG (Virtual Reality Massively Multiplayer Online Role Playing Game) Sword Art Online, there was a player called Kirito. While he was enjoying the world of SAO, he and the other 10,000 logged-in players all received a frightening message from the Game Master—that the only way to escape from that world was to clear the game, and that a game over within the game would mean their death in the real world. That was the frightening true story behind this game. Kirito was one of the first players to accept this “truth”, and began his solo play, refusing to form a party, as he threw himself into the never ending battles that lay before him…

From Serenus Dreamers: The main character is a pervert...!? What will become of the fate of the guy she wants to make as her boyfriend...!?