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A collection of one-shots by Yokoyari Mengo.... more>>

Hagane no Kokoro

Neo Dutch Wife

Stand By You

"Kawaii"

Meet Yukiho Amamiya, a 14-year-old girl who becomes a gravure idol to help her sister. She's cute, and she knows it - but she can't seem to be cute around the boy she likes. Will she ever hear him call her "cute"?

One Flower (Ipponbana)

Koi wa Zenkei Shisei

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In a faraway future, Earth is shrouded in thick, heavy clouds. The sun no longer shines upon it.... more>>

A world in which most plants have withered away and oxygen levels have been depleted.

However, humanity has managed to survive by developing the technology needed to turn people into plants, producing a small amount of oxygen.

To live as a human being in an uncertain world, or to abandon one's own suffering and embark on a new life as a plantー

People are forced to make a choice. <<less

Seiichi Osabe is just a normal if not insular 14-year-old boy with a beautiful, loving mother and a hardworking father. The bond between him and his mother is iron-clad, but when an accident involving his cousin sows the seeds of doubt in his head, Seiichi begins to question whether his mother's doting nature is normal, or something more sinister and abnormal. Where do you draw the line between motherly love and unhealthy adoration? And how can you tell where that line is when your mother's love is all you've ever known?... more>>

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In the future, mankind has been able to create machine bodies so they can be able to live for thousands of years. Humans are now second class citizens and if they do not acquire an mechanical body, they are either hunted or forced to live a life of poverty. ... more>>

Tetsuro Hoshino is a young boy whose mother is killed by the machine men for a hunting trophy. Outraged, Tetsuro seeks out revenge and vows to keep his word to his mother to get a machine body. He soon meets a woman named Maetel who gives him a free ticket on the space train Galaxy Express, which if he rides, he will be able to receive a free mechanical body. But nothing is as it seems as rumors rise that all who board the train never return.

This is a story of how one boy learns about the world and his quest for a new body.

Note: Originally serialized in Shuukan Shounen King from 1977 to 1981, a sequel was serialized in various incarnations of Big Comic from 1996 to 2005. In tankoubon form, this sequel wasn't released as a stand alone titled, but tacked on reprints of the original series. This means, for example, that Shogakukan's 1997 release covers the original series in volume 1 to 14 and the sequel in Volumes 15 to 21.

Won Shougakukan Award in 1977 for Shounen Manga category

Viz released five volumes of the sequel. The original manga has yet to be translated into English. <<less

Azumi focuses upon the life of the titular young female assassin. The manga begins an indeterminate number of years after the Battle of Sekigahara.... more>>

As Azumi begins her duty, the manga introduces its characters into mainstream history. Many of the early missions that Azumi undertakes are the assassinations of the prominent supporters and generals of the Toyotomi Clan, against whom Tokugawa Ieyasu expected to again go to war. The manga 'reveals' that many of the Toyotomi leaders who conveniently died of diseases or accidents prior to the final confrontation between the Toyotomi and Tokugawa were actually victims of assassinations by Azumi and her comrades, thus indicating to the reader when the events were taking place.

Note: Won an Excellence Prize at the 1997 Japan Media Arts Festival and the Shogakukan Manga Award in 1998. <<less

The “apartment comedy with laughs and tears” centres on a 4-year-old boy named Satou Kotarou, who moves next door to Karino Shin, an unsuccessful manga... more>> artist. Kotarou has no parents and lives alone. Not only does he seem to earn a living, he actually seems more put together than his own strange neighbours. <<less

Ogi Juugo has forsaken the entertainment industry ever since it caused the death of his family. However, fate had different plans. After proposing to his... more>> girlfriend and being shot down, he realizes that his girlfriend is actually a model. Acting on his love for her he decides that it is time to return to the industry. <<less

Puuka is a an unpopular bikini model. On the way to a spot for a photo-shoot, she and her manager hit a zombie with the... more>> car. When Puuka tries to escape she gets bitten and turns into a zombie herself. How will she continue her career as a zombie? <<less

Kounosuke Ryuudo is a samurai who is stuck in perpetual poverty. Looking for a job is fruitless, as he cannot wield a blade. Quite literally, in fact.... more>>

One day, after being accosted by some criminals and wishing to only reach the sweet embrace of death, he receives a marriage proposal from a mysterious woman...

The newest work from the author of Kasane. <<less

A young assassin girl armed with a katana is hunting down her targets in a busy metropolitan city named Tsukumo.

The story is set during the Allied occupation of Japan after the Second World War, and focuses on a plot to assassinate American and Allied... more>> general Douglas MacArthur. <<less

Both a sequel and a reboot of . The series ties into , as Sakamoto Ryōma co-stars, and transplant the setting from the 17th to... more>> the 19th century. <<less

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The gangsters of the gloomy country x bureaucrats who ignite Japan!! The "violence" and "power" of this country released by Sho Fumimura x Ryoichi Ikegami... more>> of "Sanctuary"!! Kill the instigators of the Okinawa independence movement and sniper Chinese soldiers at the Senkaku. Encourage a revival of the Okinawa gangsters dominated by the Chinese mafia. On the other hand, Kai Kozu, who leads the public security special mission group "BEGIN". He wants to make Okinawa a battlefield for Japan to survive...!? <<less

The manga will tell stories of those without names buried by history. [ANN]

The story follows Hinata, a girl from a distant future where men no longer exist in Japan.

It's the story of a trip from a teens league of friends in Tokyo of the 80's till today, mirroring their paths and relationships.

Story about a salaryman who was going to get married soon but his bride runs away with another guy. His life sucks. He had to... more>> borrow a lot of money to buy a new house for his married life but ended up with nothing. Then his boss offered a solution: make his house into a girls' dormitory for female employees in the company. His new life begins here. <<less

One day, humans the world over wake up to find themselves shrunk. Can they survive amidst the hazards that Nature entails from this new perspective?... more>>

This is the story of young Alice and her dog Poco as they struggle to adapt to their changed -- and yet so similar -- world. <<less

Sometime in 1970s, the two young man are meant to meet. Steve Jobs and Steve Wozniak (Woz), so-called 'Two Steves', has a ambition to bring computers to people. They are empty-handed, but Jobs' passion and Woz' genius bear fruit. Apple Computer.... more>>

"Steves" is the manga of legendary two Steves based on early PC history. <<less

It is Universal Century 0079, at the end of the One Year War between the Earth Federation and the Principality of Zeon. The space colonies of Side 4, or Moore, were previously destroyed by a Zeon attack, and many colonists lost their lives. Side 4 became a shoal zone filled with the wreckage of destroyed colonies and warships, lit by constant flashes of lightning due to collisions between electrified debris. It soon came to be known as the "Thunderbolt Sector."... more>>

The Moore Brotherhood, an Earth Federation Forces unit made up of surviving citizens from Moore, set out to exterminate the Zeon forces in the Thunderbolt Sector in order to reclaim their homeland. To halt the Federation advance, the Zeon forces deployed their own Living Dead Division, which was established to collect combat data on soldiers with prosthetic limbs.

Io Fleming, though part of the Moore Brotherhood, hates being tied down by his homeland and family history. Daryl Lorenz, having lost his legs in earlier battles, is now an ace sniper of the Living Dead Division.

When they confront each other on the battlefield, they will reach a mutual realization.

These two are destined to kill each other. <<less

After becoming the target of an internet witch hunt, and with a fast approaching deadline for her new script, writer Youko Kojiri flees to her... more>> hometown. But on the cruise connecting the lake's piers, many loops and turns are awaiting her. <<less

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A collection of the author's short stories published between 2007 and 2017, including her debut work, the title story.... more>>

1. Everyday (2008)

2. Rebanira (2012)

3. Sawayaka Psychedelic (2009-2011)

4. Oyayubihime (2017)

5. Tsunagu Yoru (2014)

6. Sayonara Daisy (2008) <<less