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A Keio College (top notch Tokyo college) exam candidate, Touma Inaba, is interupted when a cute young girl, Urara Kasuga, arrives at his hotel room door. She later turns out to be his cousin who he barely remembers from his childhood. Urara, who had felt something special for him (an other-than-cousinly-love), invites Touma to live with her since he has no place to stay other than the hotel room. Before taking the test, Touma meets Meiko Yotsuba, a beautiful, sophisticated woman also trying to get into Keio. Meiko gets into Keio but Touma does not, due to a cold Urara had given him shortly before. Although he did not make it, he pretends he does to earn the respect of Meiko. Touma is caught up in a love triangle with Urara and Meiko, while struggling to keep Meiko believing he's really a Keio student and still be there for Urara at the same time.

1) No One Can Do ItHajime is a wandering samurai, who carries a musori sword and is aiming for the top. His goal is to have a fight with the famous Muichi, but upon his arrival in a village his sword gets stolen. And to top it all Muichi turns out to be… 2) ShenziThe year is 2007 A.D. The advance of civilization has led to remarkable achievements. Those achievements have paved a way for a project which successfully used neural energy to evoke the latent abilities in humans. Those who gained powers beyond the average humans are called Shenzi. 3) Snow-like Cherry BlossomsOne day problem student Karukami gets off on the wrong train station. There he meets Sakura Kisaragi, a cheerful girl that is waiting for her lost dog. A heartwarming story about trust and life. 4) Tower of BabelIn the Tower of Babel people live while they are served by robots. But something goes wrong and the robots turn against humans, it is now up to violent princess Reiche and the swordsman Farose to make things right.

At first, Sakura Nakahara, had a crush on Takehiko, her childhood friend who was cool, smart and excellent at sports. Lately, however, Sakura started to become really close with her 'supposed to be' enemy, Yuki. Yuki, on the other hand, knows that Sakura likes Take, and tries to help them get together even though he likes Sakura too.

Onodera Saku est une fille qui se comporte comme un garçon manqué pour faire plaisir à sa mère extrêmement attristée de la mort de son fils. Assis à côté d'elle, Nishioka est victime de moqueries des garçons de leur classe à cause de ses longs cheveux semblable à ceux d'une fille. Il décide un jour de couper ses cheveux suite à une querelle. Le jour suivant Nishioka aide Onodera lorsque sa trousse de toilette tombe puis ramassé par un garçon qui l'ouvrit sans demander... Quelques années plus tard Onodera se confesse à Nishioka cependant elle est éconduite par ce dernier. Comment en ait-on arrivé là ?

[From Shoujo Magic]: Takasuka Yue is best known for her work "Good Morning Call" / 『グッドモーニング・コール』 ("Guddo Mooningu Kooru"), but this adorable work should not be overlooked. The heroine and her conflicts are some of the cutest things you'll ever see! Haru, an energetic, honest, and sweet young girl, meets the popular grade schooler Yashima at a bowling rally, and she unintentionally develops a strange interest in him. He's very forward about wanting to date Haru. However, Haru is in love with her childhood friend, Yuusaku, who thinks of Haru like family and rejected her love confession before he left for America one year ago. But now Yuusaku is back! How will both boys respond to learning that they have competition for the role of most important man in Haru's life?

 

"Progressive Rejuvenation Syndrome." This is an extremely rare disease causing the inflicted person to gradually become younger. The main character of this story, Munenori Agawa, is the only person that could save Rena Amami from this odd disease. Agawa's saliva is the only thing that can halt the disease from making Rena younger, so they must kiss everyday in order for her to survive. This causes an immense amount of conflict and drama between Agawa and his new girlfriend, Sayako Asou. This triangle relationship story tests the capabilities and limitations of human love.

Après avoir été mis à la porte des dortoirs principaux pour avoir fait venir un chat errant, Kanda Sorata est forcé de vivre dans les salles plus petites où les élèves en difficulté sont envoyés pour vivre. Bien qu'il ne s'occupe pas de ses colocataires, Sorata ne peux pas attendre de sortir des salles de Sakura. Mais quand Shiina Mashiro se déplace dans le dortoir, tout change. Mashiro est un génie artistique qui, à un jeune âge, a remportée de nombreux prix pour ses compétences, mais en raison de son enfance étant axé sur l'art, elle n'a pas le sens commun et les compétences sociales. Forcé de prendre le rôle de prendre soin de Mashiro, Sorata apprend sur lui-même et commence sur la voie de l'amélioration de soi.

Yajima Kintaro was once the infamous boss of the Hasshu League biker gang, who at their peak boasted more than 10,000 members, but after meeting and falling in love with a partially sighted girl named Akemi, he gradually mellowed and disassociated himself with gang life.Unfortunately their love proved to be short lived when Akemi died in childbirth, but her last wish was that Kintaro would become a salaryman and raise their son, Ryuta in a stable environment. It's a request Kintaro cannot refuse, and after saving the life of the CEO of Yamamoto Construction he finally gets an opportunity to change his lifestyle once and for all. However, it seems the life of a salaryman is anything but stable when your employers are a multi-million pound constructor whose managing board is made up of corrupt ex-governmental ministers that are busy setting plans in motion to stage a hostile takeover and seize the company for their own nefarious dealings.

Tout comme la rivalité de Salieri avec Mozart, Kim-Na-Ra, une jeune nageuse habituée à gagner, verra que quelqu'un la surpasse dans sa spécialité. Une rivalité naît, mais au fur et à mesure qu'elle grandit, elle devient autre chose.

HA Il-gwon's debut work (2006). The "beauty" virus is spreading around the nation, targetting ugly girls and driving them to madness. Park Jangmi wonders - why must life be so unfair? As she ponders, she stumbles upon a mysterious barber shop, with a mysterious barber...

The two high school girls, Hanazono Mito and Tatsuda Seshiru, have been friends since kindergarten. But while Seshiru is an honour role student, Mito is constantly breaking school rules. One day, Mito helps Seshiru evade the advances of the arrogant Ran, a rich boy and model who mistakes Mito's interference for jealousy (because of course every woman wants Ran for herself! Yeah, right). This lands Mito in hot water with Ran's fangirls, who later gang up to kick her ass! A new transfer student with wild hair is the one who saves her, but he won't tell Mito his name...!?

 

The story is set in the Edo period of feudal Japan. It revolves around Yamada Asaemon, nicknamed Kubikiri Asa (literally "Neck-chopper Asa", often transliterated as "Decapitator Asaemon"), a ronin who is responsible for testing new swords for the shogun. The character is based on a real-life line of sword-testers who served the Tokugawa Shogunate up to the early 19th century. -- Wikipedia

From the pages of history comes the legend of the Samurai Jubei and the book he was pledged to protect. Now that book has been stolen and Jubei must retrieve it before Japan descends into bloody civil war.

The main character Udagawa Gosuke has received his father's dojo, mainly because his father and older brother were made to commit hara-kiri. He wasn't really supposed to get it simply because he's a second son. But due to the way his pops and brother died, he doesn't have a whole lot of self confidence, so he practices fencing day-by-day at a nearby dojo. However, because the people at that dojo are asses, he soon tries to invent a dojo and a style for people who just enjoy it.However what really sets this aside from most shounen is that the main male and female characters are actually married. (At age 15 no less!)The girl Utagawa Shino is the younger sister of his senpai, and is a bit...weird, to say the least. She makes rabbit masks to help bring in a bit of money, although to say that she's obsessed with rabbits would be an understatement. She claims it's because "the rabbits will someday reach the moon." When Gosuke invents his new dojo, he decides to make a style of swordsmanship known as "Rabbit Style Fencing."

Sekina's a rebellious teenager who can't seem to plan ahead more than one day at a time. At school, she's seen as a problematic student in the eyes of her teachers. At home, things aren't going well with her mother who's a single mom. The only place she feels at peace is at Ageo's rock cafe. There, she meets Yanagi. Yanagi understands the pain she carries deep within her, and she finds herself slowly falling for him. One day, Sekina finds herself face to face with Yanagi again... but this time, he's the substitute teacher for her class...?!

1) Sanbika2) Killing Moon3) Vita Maquinicalis4) Monster Prince5) Farewell, Mizuhara6) AfterwordShort blurbs by the author on each of the works published in the collection.7) Secret of the BeehiveA youth decides to leave home once he was able to. What is he running away from? Or is he just pacing in circles?8) KatsuraSet during the period nearing the end of WWII, youths are still being educated to place their country above their own lives. In their solitude, they question the value of losing their lives for a war that they are losing.9) Plastic PlasmaGang wars are rife amongst the high schoolers, but a deeper struggle is brewing underneath all that false bravado.10) Author's InterviewShort Q & A with Motoni Modoru.11) Sound MasturbationStory on the contentious relationship between a right hand man and his master.From Nakama:In a future filled with despotic rulers, alternative science and questionable morals a young man named butterfly faces off with his ruler. Both are ruthless, cruel and more then a little uncaring of any other human life. Who will win in this oncoming showdown?12) Sequel, Monster PrinceThe king is on his death bed and his only wish is to see his beloved brother once again. And with a flash of light, an ethereal being appears... Alas! Whilst beautiful, it was not the face he knows.* The first 5 works were first published in Kaibutsu Ouji.

Two young men vow to transform the destiny of Japan, by any means. As children, they survived the horrors of the Cambodian killing fields together. Now, can they topple the leaders of both the Japanese Parliament and the yakuza crime syndicate?Although cold and calculating when need be, Hojo and Asami exemplify the traits their colleagues lack: loyalty to friends, compassion for the downtroden...and an irresistible way with women.Deputy Police Chief Ishihara sets out to expose their ingenious machinations, but instead falls helplessly in love with Hojo...Note:While this was originally 12 volumes in Japanese, when translated into English by Viz it was printed three ways: first in comic book form (each issue had 2 chapters), second in a 5-part 14-vol compilation of the comic books, and finally in a 9 volume manga series. Because the translation is so early, the books were flipped to English left-to-right orientation.The nine English volumes correspond to these compilation parts, floppy issues, and original chapters:V1: Part 1, Issues 1-4, Chapters 01-12V2: Part 1, Issues 5-9, Chapters 13-27V3: Part 2, Issues 1-5, Chapters 01-13V4: Part 2, Issues 5-9, Chapters 14-26V5: Part 3, Issues 1-7, Chapters 01-13V6: Part 3, Issues 7-8, Chapters 14-16; Part 4, Issues 1-5, Chapters 01-09V7: Part 4, Issues 5-7, Chapters 10-14; Part 5, Issues 1-3, Chapters 01-05V8: Part 5, Issues 3-8, Chapters 06-15V9: Part 5, Issues 8-13, Chapters 16-22

After her parents divorce, An Uekusa and her mother move from Tokyo to rural Shimane. Used to the anonymity of city living, An can't get used to the almost overbearing kindness of the people in her mother's hometown. But when personal tragedy strikes, An discovers how much she needs that kindness. In 2005 Sand Chronicles was awarded the 50th Shogakukan Manga Award for shōjo manga.

Yayoi is an energetic girl who is living happily with her single dad. All her life, she's always blamed herself for the death of her mom, and also she believes that her most important things always disappear on her birthday. This changes when a substitute teacher comes along...In this volume:1) Sangatsu no Yume2) Kitto Kagayakeru -Because of some conditions with her body, Rei is always spending her school time in the school's infirmary, watching the various teams prepare for the school's Athletics Festival coming up. When sneaking out of the infirmary one day, she's found by one of the Cheer Group leaders, asking her to join their group! Rei intends to participate with all her power, without leaving any regrets behind...3) Midori no Kakehashi4) Harmony5) Harukaze Fuku Shima

What if you were to meet your childhood friend again after ten years of separation? This was exactly the case for Mitsuya, a recently transferred company executive who found out that the person living three doors down from his new apartment was none other than Noboru, his older brother's best friend... and his first love. As a young and brash middle schooler, Mitsuya had forcefully kissed Noboru and drove him away. Deeply regretting his action, he kept a tight lid on his feelings. But now, being with Noboru again is bringing all those heated memories back, as if they were never gone to begin with. "Merry Checker" is adapted from this manga.

A manga adaptation of the famous Chinese literary classic, Romance of the Three Kingdoms.

Yano Shiki, un garçon qui ne montre qu'une façade. Minase Akiha, une étudiante transférée calme et réservée. Minase Haruka, la face cachée d'Akiha.C'est leur histoire d'amour bizarre, où la distance entre eux est sans limites/zéro.