As part of the Manga Classic Literature (Koten Bungaku) series, Ikeda adapts for manga the tale of the bamboo cutter. This is a Japanese folk-tale dating from the 10th century. One day, an old and childless bamboo cutter discovers a child inside a glowing bamboo plant. The child grows up into a beautiful lady, Kaguya Hime (Princess Kaguya) and the news of her unusual beauty spreads around...
This is a novel shot, so basically there are not much pictures and the shot only consist of words and very little illustrations. 11 Pages altogether, inclcuding the cover page. This is about two childhood friends who meet up.
American party planner Kate meets a beautiful young man at an oasis in the desert country of Zad.
One morning, 16-year-old Sey's world is turned upside down when her mother announces she's moving to Italy to finish her novel. She's made arrangements for Sey to live with her friend, Meja, and Meja's creepy son, Terry. Not exactly Sey's ideal living situation, but she has no other choice. Sey has a killer crush on a teacher named Mr. Cho, and she's beyond shocked when she learns that Terry knows him well ... VERY well. And so begins I.N.V.U. (I Envy You) - a hip, moving, topsy-turvy look at the lives and loves, trials and travails of 4 teenage girls.
Fujiwara Naeka is a typical 17 year-old high school student. Or so we thought. She's really one of 2 surviving heirs of a tycoon who has the right to inherit his mass fortune when she turns 18 in half a year. Fubuki, a young and beautiful maid, and Kogarashi, a big burly maid guy with a mask, have been assigned to keep Naeka and her brother Kousuke safe from those who would plot their demise, and to steal the fortune she would inherit.
An old man teaches a girl how to be bad.
Izumi Wakakusa is a renowned actress obsessed with beauty. When an hideous mark shows up on her face she suddenly disappears and gives birth to a little girl: Sakura. Sakura is always pampered and overprotected by her mother, until the day that she discovers why she was born.
A 4-koma drawn up for the game Valkyria Revolution by SEGA. Sadly the artist and author were not posted on the website. Original raw: http://portal.valkyria.jp/azure/comic/
From NetComics: Commonly acknowledged as a genius biologist, Dr. Gangjae Lee has a conceited and blunt personality that tends to push people away. But that doesn't bother him since he is a happy husband who has been married for 7 years to Jaehee, a woman whose astonishing beauty and sexiness captivates men. While living a double life as a college research professor, Dr. Lee secretly participates in a human cloning project run by Dr. Suh. Through numerous trials and errors, and thousands of experiments, a few clones are born. But these miracles of science are sub-quality clones whose life spans don't stretch much past 7 years. Although their methods improve, the two doctors give birth to another sub-quality clone, but this one is of Dr. Lee's wife, Jaehee. They call her by three different names: Jaehee, Clone S04, and a name her lover and popular novelist Jinhun gives her, June. Together with Dr. Suh and Jungwoo, and hidden from the eyes of the world with the support of underground financial powers, Dr. Lee devotes himself to this project. But one day, his wife who he treasures more than his own life, gets brutally murdered and the story takes a different turn...
In life you have three chances to become popular. But what happens once you are popular…?!
Neko Majin is a parody of Dragonball Z by Akira Toriyama. The protagonist Neko Majin fights evil-doers and has a few other Dragonball Z-esque adventures. Short stories : • Neko Majin • Neko Majin Z • Neko Majin Mike
Continues the story of Shingo and Kakami.