After losing everything, a man disappears into the crowds of Shinjuku and takes refuge in a small free mahjong parlor. With only loose change in his wallet, he makes one decision: survive. Inside, the tables are battlefields. Weakness is punished. Hesitation is fatal. Those who refuse to fight are erased. every hand is a test of nerve, deceit, and endurance. Survival may require becoming someone you never meant to be.
Wakagi Hokuto is a mahjong player who has an extraordinary amount of luck, to the point where he can get tenhou once a week. With this power, he aims to become like the North Star, an unmovable giant of a man.
Follow Ryu as he plays in the mahjong world with gangsters, crooks, and all sorts of people. **Included one-shots:** Volume 9: - Grasping at the Clouds (雲をつかむ) - A Couple of Things I Know About Her (彼女について私が知っている二、三の事柄)
A collection of oneshot about high school love stories
After reincarnating as Leticia, a minor extra in an otome game, the “new” Leticia unexpectedly inherits her twin sister’s engagement to Lionel, a rumored chubby and awkward duke-to-be. But Leticia sees the potential beneath his rough edges and takes it upon herself to help him grow. As Lionel transforms into a refined and handsome noble, his feelings for her deepen rapidly. Though she only wanted a peaceful life as an extra, Leticia suddenly finds herself at the center of an intense, ever-growing devotion from her now-irresistible fiancé.
1. Dakedo Happy Paradise ~Side Story~ "Anyways Happy Holidays" 2. Angel Love Song Mizuho is a young girl who just had an argument with her boyfriend, Kei-chan. On the way home, she met a guy with a guitar from the greenhouse who called himself Tenshi. Mizuho took him home and asked him to form a group for the competition to win a cruise dinner so she could make up with Kei-chan. So will Mizuho get back together with her boyfriend, or will something else spark? It was also included in Bloody Kiss v1 tankoubon (2006).
In the center of the world lies the human kingdom of Radiata. People throughout the land sing of its glory. Sharing the world with the humans are the fairy creatures. Dwarves, elves, goblins, and others all lead their different lives. Although they are not exactly friends, humans and nonhumans live side-by-side in harmony. In a small village, a young man named Jack lives with his sister. Dreaming of becoming a great knight like his father before him, he ventures forth one day to join the famous Royal Radiata Knights. But the fragile peace between humans and fairy creatures threatens to shatter… where exactly does Jack's destiny lie? This is Jack's Side of the story. Based on the homonymous game.
A spinoff of Tohai starring Doujima, nicknamed "Lion".
Casio and his little sister Nokia both work as bounty hunters who use magic packets that they download through their mobile phones and cast with the built-in camera to defeat mysterious apparitions called phantasms. The bounties for these phantasms are quite high, but the enormous fees for the magic packets they download and the property damage they create has reduced them to a homeless status living off cup ramen. This all changes when they meet a foolish albeit wealthy, young woman called Sony who didn't bother to properly research Casio and Nokia's true nature before becoming their sponsor.
It all started out with Jain, an old man. Not many people really know his past except for, well, a mafia boss,and a few others. At the beginning of our story, Jain finds a girl,bloody and knocked out on the sidewalk. So, unlike most people, he decided to shelter her in his home. But what is she, and does Jain know what he's doing by feeding, loving, and caring for her?
A Ten spin-off series in which Igawa Hiroyuki, struck by the will of the genius mahjong player Akagi, quits his job and plunges into the world of mahjong. On a visit to Akagi's grave, Hiroyuki meets the legendary Ten, the boss of the East-West tournament, and challenges him to a mahjong match to settle the score...
Sawatari Ai is an insatiably curious high school student. One day, she notices that a boy named Akizuki Tooru has joined her class, but according to her friends, he's always been around! He was a childhood friend of hers, so why doesn't Ai remember him? But the weird thing is…Ai's memory lapse isn't the only weird thing. She's about to be faced with hyper psychic action! Note: Volume 2 only has one chapter that deals with the main story; the rest of the volume consists of unrelated oneshots. Dusk Is Twittering (Tasogare wa Sasayaku) - Is a school story about a boy–who draws–that transfers to a new school for follow a girl he has a crush on. Unfortunately for him, she already has a boyfriend. The Sound of Melting (Tokeru Koe) - Is school life story about a girl that dislikes her own voice due to being compared to her mother, who is a singer. Despite this, she loves to sing. So, there is a boy the sends her slips of a love letter after her voice lessons based on her voice. Midsummer's Criminal (Natsu no Ran) - About an adult that tutors a 6th grader, who looks like an adult.
Ibuki Morisato dreamed of kissing a prince turned into reality when her dream prince appeared as the new transfer student?!
Special comic anthology from Hirari focusing on club activities. Contents: || 01. Ryokka Iinin to Kase-san. (Takashima Hiromi) 02. Hanagui (Watashiya Kaworu) 03. Houkago no Kanojo (After School Girl) (Morinaga Milk) 04. Yubisaki de Skip (Fukasaku Emi) 05. Tenshi wa Kizu Darake (Oujima Tamaki) 06. Hitome Anata ni (Sangoku Hajime) 07. Mucchan no Ame to Muchi (Kazakami Shun) 08. Ame no Hi no Mermaid (Sano Tae) 09. Hitoribu no Futari (kashmir) 10. Mahjong Joshi Bukatsudou Chuu! (Hakamada Mera) 11. Manager no Oshigoto (Kumichou) 12. Wabisabi (Hirao Auri) 13. Zatsudan Chaos (Wata Noriko) 14. Nekobu (Maeda Tomo) 15. Drum-kan Hyakkei (Yoshidamaru Yuu) 16. Borzoi to Yamaneko (Inumaru) 17. Ja Ja Uma Narashi (Fuji Koyomi) 18. mPlanetarium (Mishima Kurumi) 19. One Two Step (Kohashi Chizu) 20. Ano Toki no Yakusoku o Hatasu Sono Hi Made (Fujisawa Makoto) ||
The small country Sunkwoll is in a tight spot because it's under attack of the great country Zarmine. But the general, Rain, who's reputed to be an exceptionally gifted swordsman, is against the war and won't enter the battle. But how is one supposed to wage a war like this anyway? *Note: Author passed away in Feb 2019, leaving the source material for the manga, novel incomplete.*
Junichiro Koizumi. Prime Minister of Japan, or God of Mahjong incarnate? Watch him clash with other world titans such as George W. Bush, Kim Jong Il and Vladimir Putin in the one force that matters in the political world: mahjong.
Featuring eerie urban legends that became popular on the internet, faithfully adapted into comics by skilled authors. A true horror anthology for urban legends! +++**Contents** ### Volume 1: A Hundred No-Joke Internet Message Board Stories Cover: Ayano Kyou 1. Shimizu Aki 2. Kitaoka Tomo 3. Katsumata Hiroki 4. Tsutsui Itsuki 5. Wasai ### Volume 2: A Hundred Truly Scary Internet Message Board Stories Cover: Ayano Kyou 6. Kageyama Gogatsu 7. Shimizu Aki 8. Miyao Ikumi 9. Kitaoka Tomo 10. Wasai ### Volume 3: A Hundred Deathly Scary Internet Message Board Stories Cover: Izumi Tomoki 11. Shimizu Aki 12. Kitaoka Tomo 13. tomura 14. Saitou Shunke 15. Tegure +++
Consists of a collection of 5 short stories. [From ShoujoMagic]: Ijiwaru Tenshi Ayumi is a high school student. Her friend's brother, Shouma, is younger than her, but he looks handsome and older! Shouma asks Ayumi for her digits right off the bat, and he's smooth like a player--not really Ayumi's type. The more time she spends with him, though, the more she likes him. But is Shouma really sent from heaven... or is he just a tease? Listening with the Heart The Goddess Smiled! Hold Me Again Tomorrow Magic to Make you Beautiful
Now in high school, Takeru goes to his elementary school reunion and runs into Marika, his first love. This causes him to remember his elementary school days when he was in love with her, his classmate who'd recently become mature.
The Hermes family has been producing excellent magicians. However, it was discovered that their third son, Frey, was only suited to the unpopular ice attribute in the modern era. As a result, Frey was looked down upon by those around him and was exiled from the Hermes family. "I'll show them... I'll become stronger," Frey declares, and he meets a lovely girl. However, she is none other than Arcelia, the Sage of Ice, one of the Seven Sages who saved the world. In order to become the world's strongest ice-attribute magician, Frey looks up to Arcelia as his master, but before long, his feelings change to love. He might even... propose?
In the era of the Romance of the Three Kingdoms, the fall of the Han Dynasty in Ancient China, a strange boy named Qwan and his winged companion Teikou are on a quest. In order to find his purpose and the truth of his existence, Qwan is told that he needs to find the holy text, the Essential Arts of Peace. During his journey, he eats the bodies of demons, which apparently serve as his meals. Will this super-strong demon eater locate the texts and discover his destiny?
Zerodaimu Kyupura Pa Azalraku Vairu Rua Darogu (a.k.a. Zero) once stopped the evil demon lord with his incredible psychic ability, and in the process saved the world from destruction and earned the honorable and highly imaginative title 'The Man Who Stopped the Evil Lord.' Now, he has accepted a position as a teacher at Psychic Academy, a school for gifted psychokinetic youngsters who have demonstrated incredible raw powers and want to learn how to hone their abilities. Among the student body is young Ai Shiomi, Zero's little brother, a somewhat meek boy who, despite parental prodding and his fraternal reputation, feels that his limited skills hardly justify his presence at the prestigious academy. However, everyone else is convinced that he, like his celebrated brother, is destined for greatness. A lot of pressure for a boy just entering adolescence!
Koyori is a high school girl who wants her childhood friend Nagi-kun to see her as a woman instead of treating her like a little girl…!?
It's Christmas Eve – and the three protagonists have plans of sort – but things don't quite work out as expected.