Kana loves drawing more than anything. Everyday she goes home to find her mother and brother arguing. Only with her precious art book, does she... more>> feel at peace. However, one day her mother throws the art book out. Enraged, Kana leaves home and wanders onto the streets... <<less

A mysterious mansion has towered proudly over the Tokyo district of Numanakarai since the Taisho period. Those who enter either never escape, or leave having... more>> experienced horrors untold, and with the desire to take revenge. <<less

A manga loosely based on the career of Go Nagai and how his most known works were born.... more>>

It tells about Geki Nagai (a character based on nagai himself) who is struggling to break out of his typecasting as the go-to guy for gag manga by breaking into the sophisticated world of story manga. <<less

They say don't make a deal with the devil ...

It’s 1935 in Gyeongseong, and struggling artist Iho Yun has been commissioned by the reclusive, elderly Madam Jeonghwa Song to paint a portrait. Madam Jeonghwa... more>> Song allows Iho to set eyes upon her -- an unprecedented event -- and standing before him is a young woman. But why does she ask him to paint an elderly version of her? “Don’t finish the portrait.” Tucked between the previous artist’s paint tubes is an ominous letter. Iho learns that no artist has left Madam Song’s abode alive or of sound mind. Just what is she hiding and what will happen if Iho finishes the portrait? <<less

Moka's brother Megu is returning from New York City where he lived with their father. Not only that but she is also interested in the... more>> subject of art. When she goes to the library she meets Masato-kun, whom she begins to like. But Masato-kun turns out to be a playboy. Will Moka's determination win him over? <<less

Included stories:... more>>

• Colored Pencils

• Fireworks

• Marigold

• Musical Bbbboooox

• Indian Summer

• Lover

• Winter Moon

• Lamplight

• Clockwork Glasses

• City of Strawberries

• Fish Boy <<less

Down on her luck having graduated from a scammy university with no job prospects Xiao Jun doesn't have a lot of hope for the future... more>> but everything changes when a strange creature slinks out of her air conditioner. Could this be the start of a beautiful relationship? <<less

<<Honorable Mention>>Draw the game! Two major brands collaborate for a manga competition! Jump and top game publisher Ubisoft team up for a new manga competition! Four of Ubisoft's biggest games: Assassin's Creed, Watch Dogs, The Division and Far Cry are used as source material. Here are the 5 award-winning works!... more>>

List of the award-winning works:

Grand Prize:

2nd Prize:

Honorable Mention:

Honorable Mention:

UBI Special Award: <<less

Ever since he was small, all the girls in the neighborhood have fawned over Tsutomu Yamaguchi, whose name came from a song and whose adorable face closely resembles the monkey character Monchichi's. Even back then, it was enough to make his friend and neighbor Mikako sick. Now that he's a little more grown, Tsutomu looks like the lead vocalist of Manbou, Ken Nakagawa (Midori friend/boyfriend from ; we meet main characters from Tenshi on market/fest), and that makes him even more popular with the ladies. But Mikako--now a trendy teen with modern sensibilities--couldn't care less. Or could she...? Gokinjo Monogatari is a sharp-witted and stylish slice-of-life story!... more>>

Continuation (after years) in . <<less

Abe Takahiro is an ordinary, well-adjusted, high school student, who falls in love with his bespectacled classmate Asai Rumi, thinking she's just a cute member of the art club. Alas, his love is anything but ordinary - she's actually a hardcore yaoi-loving fujoshi who is utterly convinced Takahiro and Shunsuke Chiba, the handsome class playboy and his best friend from middle school, are having a torrid affair. With comical misunderstandings, awkward half-confessions, and the revelation that class idol Matsui Yoko is an otaku enamored with Rumi as well, poor Abe has his work cut out for him if he hopes to woo the Otaku-Type Delusion girl.... more>>

Source: Jmanga <<less

20-year-old Minoru Aihara has come to Tokyo to make his dreams of becoming an action manga artist come true. To his amazement, he lands a job as a live-in assistant of his favorite mangaka, Kenji Takakura, who writes a popular fighting manga called "Ultimate Banchou."... more>>

Upon arriving at his new workplace, however, he discovers that his idol is not the tough guy he'd always imagined. The truth is, Kenji Takakura is the pen name of Ichiko Sekai, a girl his age who is basically a moe character (she looks and acts like a little kid). After Aihara's obvious disappointment starts them off on the wrong foot, it's going to be tough for him to prove to her that he has what it takes to be a manga artist! <<less

Togeun quits his job at his dad's company and moves out of his parent's house to pursue his new purpose in life, drawing! Except... he doesn't actually know how to draw. When he discovers the artist whose work he had been admiring is his old classmate Sonagi, Togeun begs her to teach him how to draw in exchange for giving her a place to work. Thus begins the cohabitation of two unlikely friends.... more>>

From : View the delightful everyday life of a sitcom consisting of NEET, college applicants, couch potatoes, and a Korean who acts like a foreigner. <<less

Takemoto lives in a run-down student apartment, where his greatest worry is when he'll next be able to afford to eat meat and whether he'll get to class on time. Although he's away from home and living on his own, Takemoto is far from finished growing up. Along with his crazy cast of friends, Morita, Mayama, Yamada, and Hagumi, Takemoto sets out to discover life and his true self.... more>>

Note: Was adapted into a in 2006 and a live action tv series.

Won the the 27th Kodansha Manga Award for shōjo in 2003 (shared with ). <<less

Nagakawa Shinichi and Sanada Yuuki both get involved in an accident and die together, but they are given a chance to live again. A voice lets them survive for seven more days. However, after the time limit, one of the two must die again.... more>>

Also, their lives will be shared, including emotions (guilt) and physical sensations (pain). They are told not to leave the other's side, else both of them will die. Now, with each of them wanting to save his/her own life, how will the next seven days of non-separation be like? Will they get along? <<less

A experimental manga series about a boy named Jun and his surreal voyages. The character is a alter-ego of Ishinomori himself.

This is a tempestuous and heartbreaking love story about Ayuta, a rounin who aspires to attend an art university, who, in a jam-packed train, falls in love with Haruhi, a psychiatrist eight years his senior.... more>>

This is the manga adaptation of the Naoki Award-winning Murayama Yuka's bestseller. <<less

Haru, a young art student at Tokyo returns home to assist in her mom's funeral. There, she meets Taro, a kid of 14 years of... more>> age. With him, she's gonna see some things that will change her vacation completely. <<less

A guy named Yuuto (an otaku) is interested in a web artist known as "Sayane." Recently a girl at school named Kashiwagi Kotone over-heard a... more>> conversation about Yuuto liking the web art of Sayane; but it turns out that Sayane is Kashiwagi!?! Yuuto hasn't figured that out yet... but he got a job at his favorite anime shop and caught Kashiwagi in that anime shop... <<less

A connected anthology about artists living in a rowhouse in Kyoto.

Lilith is a phantom thief who is after genius artist, Michelle Corradi’s portrait. After she had already stolen some pictures, Michelle had the idea to... more>> catch her. When she announces to steal his new artwork he met her and fell in love with her. What will he do to meet her again..? <<less

After the woman he loves, Erika, dies of an illness, Jeanie sees no reason to keep on living. He used to be an artist who painted beautiful blue skies, but now he hasn't even got the desire to do that anymore.... more>>

One day, a strange girl called Coppelia comes into his life. Is she a shinigami, finally come to lead him to his beloved Erika in the afterlife? Or is she something more sinister, a dangerous marionette who has her own reasons for seeking his life? <<less

Renald la Toul. His position in the Royal Art Academy was unlawfully snatched from him by an old art-mate. The day of his expulsion, a lady sees him sketching a little girl with his father in the park, and requests for him to draw her portrait for her Omai.... more>>

It seems like if there are gods that cast something away,

There are also gods that gather things up.

Renald finds hope among the misfortune.

Strike a brush of hope on a canvas of life! <<less

A collection of short stories. ... more>>

1) Love Dancing Beneath My Eyelids

College student Numakami has known for a long time that his classmate Mahara is in love with him. But Mahara is pure, innocent - and still a virgin. For some inexplicable reason, this makes Numakami feel annoyed at being the object of his affections.

2) She's Missing

Yanagi is in love with Kobayashi, who can't seem to stop talking about Adachi - a girl in their class. What will become of these three teenagers and their complex relationship?

3) Minun Musiikki

A quiet pianist and an obnoxious, outspoken cellist often find themselves alone in the music room together...

4) Yes It's Me, (5) Yes It's You, (8) Yes That's It

The story revolves around Toma, who is head-over-heels in love...with himself! However, so is everyone else around him; and he knows that his business partner and old friend Enoki is no exception. Toma doesn't blame him -- after all, he is only the most brilliant, beautiful, and all-around perfect person to ever walk the face of the Earth! Who wouldn't fall for him? Weirdly enough, Enoki is convinced that Toma returns his feelings. But they should both know by now that there's no one he loves more than himself...right!?

6) Loathe!

"I love you. And I know exactly what you love and what you hate. But regardless of how much I love you or how much time we spend in each other's company, there are things I loathe about you as well..."

7) Dreams Unfold at Night

A serious story about transsexuality and gender issues. <<less

A highschool otaku named Aki Tomoya runs into his dream girl one day... only to find that she has the faintest presence, to his chagrin!... more>> Now with his otaku passions, Tomoya wants to turn the girl into a heroine in the only realm he is familiar with: 2D dating simulation game. To accomplish this objective, he scouts Eriri Spencer Sawamura, his half-foreigner childhood friend equipped with artistic talent, as the illustrator, and Kasumigaoka Utaha, a famous prodigy writer, as the script writer. Oh, did we mention the dream girl's name? <<less