Itai Shiori (26) is an office lady who has gone through her entire life boyfriendless. She might look apathetic, but she still wants to be loved as much as anyone. Never letting a hot tip go to waste, constantly challenging herself. However, her natural awkwardness and cringeyness tend to lead to unfortunate results… An unfortunate but lovable OL's daily life!

The loneliness and sadness of a boy, Sabu, who has awakened to paranormal abilities.... In prehistoric times, humans had the mental ability to speak with their hearts and minds instead of words. Following the development of language ability, the ability that should have degenerated is revived!? A transfusion of blood from a girl awakens the psychic powers of a boy, Mutant Sabu, and he is born! The short series about a hero with unusual abilities is now ready to begin! ---- - **1966 7th Kodansha Children's Manga Award winner, shared with Ishinomori's very famous other work Cyborg 009**

A Yuri anthology of working adults. Volume 1: Ano Musume to Me ga Au Tabi Watashi wa Shakaijin Yuri Anthology || **Cover Illustration**: Harukawa Haru. **Subsequent stand-alone illustrations**: Yukiko, Saki Hajime Story 1 Masking Lady (Harukawa Haru) Story 2 About the women in the company (Mikanuji) Story 3 Everyone's Missing Out (Irua) Story 4 Fish and Water (Kanarashi) Story 5 Meter Stop (Seta Seta) Story 6 Waiting at the Blue Bells (Kuwabara Tamotsu) Story 7 Good job (Fuyume Saya) Story 8 Gachinko Alumni Association (Esu Esu) Story 9 Rainy day-dream (Oku Tamamushi) Story 10 Oblivious you (Mizuasou) Story 11 In my studio apartment palace (Satsumaage) Story 12 Saccharine Beauty (Suzuki Senpai) Story 13 I want to make my work senpai moan!(Kurukuruhime) Story 14 Hand-Delivered Love Letter (Yuki Yukiko) || Volume 2: Anata no Soba ni Iru to Watashi wa Shakaijin Yuri Anthology || **Cover Illustration**: Saki Hajime **Subsequent stand-alone illustrations**: Kiriyama Haruka, Koruse Story 1 Someday you too (Seo Minosuke) Story 2 Best Dishes (irua) Story 3 Of the same Love (Kuwabara Tamotsu) Story 4 Kira Kira Trap (Pyaa) Story 5 When Your Night Ends (Harukawa Haru) Story 6 Cabaret Girl and Corporate Slave (Hisakawa Haru) Story 7 Love at first voice + Renko (Mizuasou) Story 8 The day you left the company (Mikanuji) Story 9 Bye Bye, Shithead + With you, after then (Mimidori) Story 10 Human Dog&Cat (Seta Seta) Story 11 Store manager I quit my Job! + The day Tanaka-san quit (Suzuki Senpai) Story 12 Uneven wedding rings (Kurukuruhime) Story 13 Someday to you (Yuki Yukiko) || Volume 3: White Lilies in Love Hana kaoru toki, Anata wa Shakaijin Yuri Anthology Volume 4: White Lilies in Love Watashi ga Yoishireru no wa, Natsu no Hizashi to Anata dake Shakaijin Yuri Anthology Volume 5: White Lilies in Love Akane Sasu Koishin wo, Akaku Somete Hoshii no Anata ni Shakaijin Yuri Anthology

An essay manga by the legendary Tetsuya Chiba about his current life and how his family escaped from China back to Japan post-World War II.

A girl who calls herself the Demon Lord falls upon the main character, an elementary school teacher living in the countryside, and they decide to get married?!

Akechi Ran, an office lady in her 30s who had always dreamed of an engagement ring and a wonderful marriage, lost both her dreams and her man after her fiancé betrayed her. While drinking and complaining with her best friends, Homura and Kei, with whom she spent her youth on the softball team in their all-girls school days, they are shocked by the reality that 10 years have passed since graduating high school and none of their dreams have come true. They then find out that Homura only has one year left to live. To make Homura's dream come true, the three of them band together, live together, quit their jobs, and open a detective agency in Asakusa. She's lost her job, her man, and her dreams, but she has two best friends! Will they be able to turn their lives around?

The assistant to a sorceress with strange powers, Mieru meets Radi on the street. He has the same name as the prince she has admired but he's the exact opposite! From him, she receives the Lapis Lazuli, a charm for increasing magic…

Little Rin Fujiwara hated her own face a lot. It was not until her 6th birthday that a make up box she got as a present changes her perspective completely. In front of the mirror, Rin would play with the make up, which becomes like a magic that makes her stronger. Rin believes make up can change both appearance and heart, because it gives the confidence a girl needs. Years later, Rin attends her first high school year. She decides to help other girls there to become pretty as well, using her make up box. Rin, hidden under the identity of Ageha, a legendary make up stylist, with a help from her classmate Kisaragi, who has to hide his real identity by crossdressing as a woman, is willing to do magic in front of the mirror and change girls “just like when a caterpillar transforms into a butterfly”. How to meet Ageha and have her make you more beautiful? Easy, just write your name and class on the butterfly card and put it on the bulletin board on the 3rd floor. Ageha will come for sure, so what are you waiting for?

At age 31, office worker Chikage Deguchi feels she missed her chance at love and success. When word gets out that she’s a virgin, Chikage is humiliated and wishes she could turn back time to when she was still young and popular. She takes an experimental drug that changes her appearance back to when she was 15. Now Chikage is determined to pursue everything she missed out on all those years ago—including becoming a star!

The story begins with a scientist, Dr. Yorkshire Bell, noting that dinosaurs flourished and became extinct when they advanced beyond their ability to adapt to change. Giant mammals, such as the saber-toothed tiger and the mammoth, came and went the same way… --- **Volume 44 of the Osamu Tezuka Complete Works**

The angel Alexiel loved God, but she rebelled against Heaven when she saw how disgracefully the other angels were behaving. She was finally captured, and as punishment sent to Earth to live an endless series of tragic lives. She now inhabits the body of Setsuna Mudo, a troubled teen in love with his sister Sara. Setsuna's misery mirrors the chaos among the angels, and their combined passions threaten to destroy both Heaven and Earth.

Welcome to Momoko's waking nightmare. Things were settled, they were! She was SUPPOSED to have gone to a normal school, made normal friends, and led a blissfully normal life. But the universe is just cruelly, irredeemably, monstrously unfair, so instead she found herself thrown out of home, stuck in an all-boys boarding school with a roommate she hates, cursed with a hideous haircut and wearing clothes which, to be frank, she wouldn't be seen dead in. And the only thing worse than her current situation is the one that she'll be in if anyone ever realizes that she is, in fact, a girl. Everything is wrong! Particularly the fact that, even though she's surrounded by amazingly gorgeous guys, her chances of romance are less than zero. But with life this complicated, something's bound to give - and so it does. from SIH

Michiru Kita’s a weak-spirited girl who has a hard time saying what’s on her mind. One day, she notices mysterious, ring-like markings around the necks of two of her classmates, Chika Akatsuki and Shito Tachibana — two boys who miraculously survived a horrible accident six months before. Michiru, possessing the rare ability to see these rings, knows that they warn of impending death. Thinking that, perhaps, she can do something to save her classmates’ lives, she approaches them…but it seems the boys have already made a different kind of deal and garnered themselves a heavy debt.

Twelve-year-old junior high school girl Hasumi Kohaku moved into town in search of her mother. She is gifted with ESP and the ability to fly– well, only when the sun is down. Otherwise the sun could make her power fade away. Kohaku soon uses her powers in front of her classmates, in order to save her friend Yuuro from falling out a window… but during the day!

Ichinose Hime is the daughter of the Prime Minister of Japan, and because of this, she has been unable to lead a normal school life. Hoping to hide her title and lead a normal high school life and get a boyfriend, she moves to a high school far from her old school. However, after going through all of this trouble to cover up her identity, a boy named Kirihara Natsuno finds out her secret. Unfortunately for her, he isn't so willing to keep the secret if she doesn't pay up. Will Hime get to live out a normal high school life as she had wished, or will it be a repeat of history?

A fairly close manga adaptation of George Orwell's Animal Farm, serialized in Weekly Shonen Magazine. A tale of the rise and fall of a society farm animals form after they overthrow their owner. Animals toil and suffer on Manor Farm, owned by the cruel and careless Mr. Jones. One night, Old Major, an elder pig on the farm, has a fantastic dream one night, of which he informs all the other animals; one where animals overthrow the human race, and the fruits of their labor are made theirs to keep. Though he dies not long after, the animals are emboldened with his vivid visions of a potential future - and one day, through a fierce uprising, they take ownership of the farm from Mr. Jones. Manor Farm - now renamed Animal Farm - maintains itself under an ideology known as Animalism, built upon Old Major's dream and stances regarding humans. However, tension is high, and different parties have their own intentions about the fate of Animal Farm...

Nanoha Takamachi, now age 13, and her friends work as magical girls!

Two buddies running a detective agency, all the mess they keep falling into and the overdue back rent: will our guys manage to make it through this potentially explosive mix ?

Ichigo is out on a date with her crush when suddenly she's involved in an odd incident in which her DNA is merged with the DNA of an almost extinct wildcat. When four other girls' DNA is merged with the DNA of four other almost extinct animals, it's apparent that they're part of a much bigger plan. Ichigo and her friends have been chosen to become a part of a secret project called the "Mew Project." Their mission: To protect the planet from aliens who are using the planet's animals to attack humans.

Remi Tachibana is a girl who adores mysterious phenomena like UFOs - as well as the works of Shotaro Ishimori (Ishinomori). One day, while she gushes over UFOs to Ishimori, a young man named Shun Kuroki comes in, wishing to become Ishimori's assistant. Remi and Shun take an immediate liking to each other, and Shun gets accepted. However, a series of strange phenomena begin to occur. Shun also appears to be hiding something as well... Soon, Remi will find herself in a bizarre tale straight from the SF manga she loves! Ishinomori's attempt at an authentic long-form shojo manga, a SF romance set within the lush mountains of Akita.

Kobato is a high school freshman who wants to live a normal life, not become a great detective. He tries to lead a quiet and modest school life with his like-minded friend, Osanai, but one mystery after another keeps coming his way. Even though he doesn't want to stand out, Kobato is compelled to solve mysteries. Will he ever find peace? (Source: Magazine Pocket, translated)

Miku Yamada has a longtime crush on classmate Kyohei Fujioka. But no matter how many times she tries to show him how she feels, clueless Kyohei just doesn't get it. Frustrated, Miku gives up on him, only to have him start calling her "Cactus" for being prickly when he's around. Will Kyohei ever figure out Cactus's secret? - Includes other stories: Okosama Brat Taishi stays at Rie's house because his parents work overtime. Rie thought that he was actually her real brother! Now, Taishi says that she's "idiotic now and then". People think of Taishi as cool and mature, but Rie knows that he's just a brat inside… Sono Saki no Sweet Hidaka Mao was confessed to by her crush Chihiro-kun in junior high, but as soon as they started going out, she became unable to communicate with him. She is still confused about her feelings, but will this year's Valentine's day bring them together again!? ———————————————— Italian/Italiano: Miku è segretamente innamorata del suo compagno di classe Fujioka ma ogni volta che vuole dichiararsi, quest'ultimo cambia discorso o non crede alle parole di Miku. Cosa farà la nostra protagonista? Un divertente e interessante shoujo tutto da scoprire ^^

Yoshino Nako has a saying. "If I'm happy, I can do anything!" In her sister's place, Nako-chan steals the groom of an arranged (political) marriage and helps them elope. But when the Hayami group starts failing, she must pay the consequence by housing the delinquent brother..

(from mangaupdates): Tezuka himself is a main character in this volume, a mangaka who finds himself in a science fiction story about robots and transforming creatures. This is an adaptation of the tokusatsu series Thunder Mask. --- **Volume 270 of the Osamu Tezuka Complete Works**