Gaku is the son of former Japanese national volleyball star Kei Shishiya. Through middle school, he’s played as his team’s ace hitter, though part of him wonders if that’s a title he earned, or one he was simply given. One day, Kei meets Noboru, a generational volleyball talent with a monstrous spiking arm, and vows to turn him into the next national standout. In the wake of that choice, Gaku realizes he can’t play the style his father demands, but swears he’ll defeat both Kei and Noboru with a game that’s entirely his own.
Dating can be tough when you nerd out over barbecue. Kenta, a practical pitmaster, looks for a grill-friend in Chihiro, an aloof and faultless business babe... or is she? Scared of being rejected for who they really are, the two of them find comfort in food and each other... and all is well until Kenta must transfer away. With their developing relationship at steak, Chihiro proposes they tie the knot and they marry for better or wurst. Winging a long-distance marriage is one thing, but here's the rub — they barely know each other!
Spin-off Comic from "The World of Otome Games is Tough for Mobs" Starts! A kindergartener mob life comedy! Even when they're tiny, they're still female chauvinists!
There's a village atop a mountain in South America: a green place where the blue sky goes on and on. Chiro, a girl with strange abilities, lives there. This is the story of her experiences with the vast, deep and heartwarming world around her.
Akio, a compassionate and empathetic individual, comes to the aid of Mel, an enchanting elf who unexpectedly finds herself in another world while on her journey home. Initially, Mel sees Akio as her savior and offers to serve him, but instead, Akio decides to share his life with her for a while. This unexpected encounter profoundly alters Akio's life, which was previously fraught with challenges.
The villainess, Mystia, remembered her past life on her 10th birthday and has unwittingly turned the characters in the otome game "Kyun Kyun Love School" into yanderes! In order to avoid becoming the love rival of the "heroine" who will lead her to her downfall, she starts making every effort to break off her engagement with her "prince-like classmate!" That's was what supposed to happen... But, because of her kind personality, her favorability increased instead! She also resolved the traumas of the "self-indulgent noble" and the "innocent yakuza teacher" causing them to hold warped affection for her. Furthermore, there was an exclusive maid she didn't remember seeing in the game... With all these abnormalities, can she change her situation by the time the heroine enters school? An unstoppable and heart-thumping number of complicated misunderstandings! A suspenseful school romantic comedy that will paint you a picture of Hell!Mistia Erlaine is the daughter of a noble family who just started at high school. She's surrounded by a group of adoring classmates and her charming fiancé. Everything seems perfect. Except that this world is actually a dating sim called "Kyun Love," and she's destined to become the main character's evil rival! Mistia is determined to do everything she can to avoid her fate but it’s not as easy as it sounds. Especially when all the boys keep falling in love with her!
Eyama Aito, a high school student, is the victim of daily bullying. One day a strange letter arrives inviting him to a "captivity game." He may choose one person to hold captive for one month with a chance at winning a large amount of money. He chooses the ringleader of his bullies, Aya Kirishima, and the only rule of the game is to not kill her. Everything else is fair game. Eyama's revenge begins!
Princess Asahi, an athletic princess, sets out on a journey with her holy sword (+ guardian spirit) and summoner in search of her abducted fiancé, Prince Junon. However, when they finally found the prince, he had become a woman due to a curse...!!
A high schooler who submits jokes to radio shows and a former child actor aim for the top of the comedy world! --- Alt. Official English: [Viz](https://www.viz.com/show-ha-shoten)
High schooler Odagiri Momo leaves her home island to attend high school on the mainland. Having grown up on a boring island, Momo dreams of becoming a detective and is always on the lookout for cases. After moving into her first apartment, she meets the mysterious beauty Akaishi Kotone and falls for her at first sight. Declaring she'll make the reluctant Kotone her “assistant” against her will, the two form a buddy team to solve small everyday mysteries together. (Source: Comic Cune, translated)
Richard, the ambitious third son of the House of York, believes he is cursed, damned from birth to eternal darkness. But is it truly fate that sets him on the path to personal destruction? Or his own tormented longings? Based on an early draft of Shakespeare’s Richard III, Aya Kanno’s dark fantasy finds the man who could be king standing between worlds, between classes, between good and evil.
The heroes of war were "slaves." Eustacia is a country where those without magical powers are considered "inferior." Dino, who had been a spectacle as a swordsman in such a country, is forced to go to war with Sandaria, but...?
Yasutaka Iijima, the glasses boy in the corner of the class, has a hard time with Ema Kitaoka, a gal in the same class at high school. However, after coming into contact with her at a third-year camp, they start to talk to each other outside of school. They are both unsure of each other's "true feelings."
Your body is their business! Five young students at a Buddhist university, three guys and two girls, find little call for their job skills in today's Tokyo... among the living, that is! But all that stuff in college they were told would never pay off — you know, channeling, dowsing, ESP — gives them a direct line to the dead... the dead who are still trapped in their corpses and can't move on to the next reincarnation. The five form the *Kurosagi* ("Black Heron", their ominous bird logo) *Corpse Delivery Service*: whether suicide, murder, accident, or illness, they'll carry your body wherever it needs to go to free your soul! The kids from Kurosagi can smell a customer a mile away — it's a good thing one of the girls majored in embalming!
Iinuma, a somewhat dull salaryman, eats food as his craving drives him! This is an appetite-stimulating gourmet manga where you can just watch him eating his food!
A So-So Match on a Dating App… Haida, cursed with chronic bad luck, signs up for a dating app as part of her “what-the-heck” phase. She matches with Kuroi, a man who joined for equally reckless reasons. But their conversation never quite clicks, and an unmistakably low-key, awkward mood sets in. Everything they do backfires, resulting in a date that is astonishingly unexciting. Thinking there’s no way there’ll be a second date in an atmosphere like this… wait, what? Why are they making plans to meet again!? A first date with someone you met on a dating app that just doesn’t take off? The deadpan, surreal banter is way too addictive! A slow-burn, gently unfolding romance that begins with a matching app. ___ **Additional Links:** - [Official X](https://x.com/moriagaranai)
Mamoru Nishiarai is a transfer student to Seigaku High. Once there he meets with a group of eccentric game lovers who call themselves Dennou Kenkyubu. He joins their club and has to undergo a variety of events and adventures with them.
A shinigami, as a god of death, can kill any person—provided they see their victim's face and write their victim's name in a notebook called a Death Note. One day, Ryuk, bored by the shinigami lifestyle and interested in seeing how a human would use a Death Note, drops one into the human realm. High school student and prodigy Light Yagami stumbles upon the Death Note and—since he deplores the state of the world—tests the deadly notebook by writing a criminal's name in it. When the criminal dies immediately following his experiment with the Death Note, Light is greatly surprised and quickly recognizes how devastating the power that has fallen into his hands could be. With this divine capability, Light decides to extinguish all criminals in order to build a new world where crime does not exist and people worship him as a god. Police, however, quickly discover that a serial killer is targeting criminals and, consequently, try to apprehend the culprit. To do this, the Japanese investigators count on the assistance of the best detective in the world: a young and eccentric man known only by the name of L.
The year is 158 AD, and the Roman Empire thrives under the 20th year of Emperor Antoninus Pius’s reign. Lucius, a Roman bathhouse architect, is now sixty years old and plagued with back pain. His wife Satsuki has mysteriously disappeared, his son, Marius, is beyond comprehension...and to top it off, he still has the Roman bathhouses to worry about!
Moritaka Mashiro (Saiko), with his superb drawing skill, is invited by his writing genius classmate Akito Takagi (Shujin) to tread the difficult path of the mangaka!! His sights are set on his naive yet earnest joint dream with Miho Azuki, who is aiming to become a voice actress!! Saiko and Shujin team up as writer and artist, aiming to be serialized in Weekly Shonen Jump, make a hit, and then release an anime. They bring their manuscripts into editors and set off on the road to becoming pro manga artists!! This is a new-age story of manga success!! AnimeNewsNetwork Links: [Season 1](https://www.animenewsnetwork.com/encyclopedia/anime.php?id=11197) [Season 2](https://www.animenewsnetwork.com/encyclopedia/anime.php?id=12311) [Season 3](https://www.animenewsnetwork.com/encyclopedia/anime.php?id=13867) [Live-Action Movie](https://www.animenewsnetwork.com/encyclopedia/anime.php?id=17268)
The year is 2206, and mankind has only 100 years left on planet Earth. The "Nation-Toppling Battle", a war with the survival of each country on the line, begins!!
"In Tokyo, anyone can become the protagonist of a love story." Nagao Kanji has recently moved to Tokyo, where he now finds himself uneagerly working at a small advertising firm. He reconnects with an old friend from back home, Mikami Kenichi, a medical student from a wealthy household who never lacks female company. For years, the two have shared a crush for their childhood classmate, the kindhearted and innocent Sekiguchi Satomi, who now also lives in Tokyo. Mixing things up is Akana Rika, an infectiously cheerful girl working at Kanji's company who decides that she will call him by the nickname of "Kanchi." Tokyo Love Story is Saimon Fumi's masterpiece manga about the relationships between these four young adults living in bubble era Tokyo. It was adapted into an extremely popular TV drama in 1991.
When Roman architect Lucius is criticized for his "outdated" thermae designs, he retreats to the local bath to collect his thoughts. All Lucius wants is to recapture the Rome of earlier days, when one could enjoy a relaxing bath without the pressure of merchants and roughhousing patrons. Slipping deeper into the warm water, Lucius is suddenly caught in the suction and dragged through the drainage at the bottom of the bath! He emerges coughing and sputtering amid a group of strange-looking foreigners with the most peculiar bathhouse customs…over 1,500 years in the future in modern-day Japan! His contemporaries wanted him to modernize, and so, borrowing the customs of these mysterious bath-loving people, Lucius opens what quickly becomes the most popular new bathhouse in Rome-Thermae Romae! --- - **Won the 3rd Manga Taisho** - **Won the Short Story Award at the 14th Osamu Tezuka Cultural Prize in 2010**