Winner of the 105th Newcomer Manga Award.
Somehow, before the appearance of the female lead, I became the male lead’s temporary wife. Since things had already turned out this way, I decided to try my very best. However… “It’s so fortunate that someone like you became Cedric’s partner.” “…I’ll admit it. It’s a fortune that you were the one to become his wife, Dylan.” “It’s such a fortunate chance that you were the one to become the Lady of the Brighton House.” …I think I did too much of a good job. When Cedric’s destined partner arrives, I will have to leave. What should I do? To someone like that, Cedric had said this. “Would you have ever thought that the one I would fall in love with would be you?” …Would you still say the same to me after the real female lead, Adeline, makes her appearance? --- The spunky Lady Dillon didn't realize she was the villain of a romance novel until she encounters Marquess Cedric. Seeing him jogs a dormant memory of the novel's plot, in which her beloved younger sister dies in childbirth after marrying Cedric. Determined to prevent this, Dillon marries him herself, but what fate awaits her when she knows he's meant to fall in love with the real female lead later? In this marriage of convenience, it seems nothing turns out quite how either of them expects...
"From now on, I'll protect you". Yui, a high school sophomore, returns to her hometown for the first time in eight years due to the reunion of her divorced parents. Reunited with her popular older brother, Hayato, and her handsome grown-up childhood friend, Ritsu, a fascinating new life is unavoidable! ...Until she realizes she may be in love with her brother. "Date me? You can use me as a disguise to hide your feelings for him." A heartbreaking love triangle!
Naoto Date is a feared heel wrestler in America known as Tiger Mask who is extremely vicious in the ring. However, he decides to change after returning to Japan when a young boy tells him he wants to be a villain like Tiger Mask when he grows up. The boy resides in an orphanage, the same one that Tiger Mask grew up in during his childhood. Feeling that he does not want the boy to idolize a villain, Tiger is inspired to be a heroic wrestler. The main antagonists are Tiger's Cave, a mysterious organization that trains young people to be villainous heel wrestlers on the condition that they give half of their earnings to the organization. Tiger Mask was once a member of Tiger's Cave but no longer wants anything to do with them, instead donating his money to the orphanage. This infuriates the leader of the organization and he sends numerous assassins, including other professional wrestlers, after Tiger Mask to punish him. Most of the environment and characters are fictitious, but real-life pro wrestlers Antonio Inoki and Giant Baba are included in the story as well.
The Edo period has ended, and former samurai Haruyasu is adrift in a strange new world. Not even the promise of rebellion can cure him of his desire for death. But after an assassination gone wrong, Haruyasu finds himself at the mercy of his intended victim's bodyguard, an intriguing young woman with the power to heal–so intriguing, in fact, that he decides he wants to live in order to learn more about her. But what will she ask in return for saving his life?
Kansai COMITIA69 '4 Hour Speed Manga Award' Grand Prize. A girl returns home to see an old friend.
A Martial Arts Whirlwind with a Spirited Young Girl Who Loves Karate! Natsuki Kisumi is a strong-willed second-year student at Gouju High School and a member of the karate club. Her skills are so impressive that even the club captain, Yanagisawa, recognizes her talent. However, her boyfriend, Osawa, is less enthused about her karate obsession. He wishes she would embrace a more traditionally feminine demeanor. Anime adaptation: [AniDB](https://anidb.net/anime/3352) | [ANN](https://www.animenewsnetwork.com/encyclopedia/anime.php?id=5329) | [MAL](https://myanimelist.net/anime/2083/Natsuki_Crisis) | [AL](https://anilist.co/anime/2083/Natsuki-Crisis/) Video game adaptation: [IGDB](https://www.igdb.com/games/natsuki-crisis-battle) | [IMDB](https://m.imdb.com/title/tt3788208/) Official Release: - Indonesian release by m&c! Comics (2000)
A collection of oneshot about high school love stories
In June 1983, Maebara Keiichi moved to Hinamizawa Village and was enjoying his peaceful life with his friends. In the midst of that summer, Keiichi discovers mahjong and falls in love with the old game. However, the enigma of the mysterious deaths that occur in Hinamizawa village and his consecutive losses in mahjong begin to eat away at Keiichi's mind... Is this constant defeat a conspiracy, a coincidence, or a curse? From the moment he grabs a mahjong tile, his peaceful life begins to go awry.
Chitose is eager to fall in love, and she thinks she's found the perfect candidate in Yamato. Yamato is good-looking, considerate… and a little bit of a delinquent! Chitose discovers that Yamato takes money for kisses and dates! Chitose wants Yamato's lips for herself, but she has absolutely no intention of paying for them. Look out, Yamato, because Chitose – a refreshingly spirited heroine – is out to Get Chu!
Earth has long become accustomed to the strange and frightening phenomenon of “dimensional gates” that suddenly appeared over a hundred years ago. These gates brought on many new changes including the birth of heroes called “hunters” who could fight back the monsters that came out of the gates. However, because these hunters were specially chosen by transcendent beings called “sponsors,” the hunters began to call themselves “gods” and organized a new world order called “Eden.” Unfortunately, the people who were not chosen became slaves to the hunters and these self-proclaimed gods. Now, in the present, Junkyung Lee, a powerless ordinary person, is training hard so that he can get sponsored to be a hunter. However, in the middle of his training, he and his mentor, Sungkoo, suddenly get attacked by the ruler of Eden. Before Junkyung gets killed, Sungkoo manages to send Junkyung back a hundred years into the past with the task of changing the course of history and the fabric of society! --- Note: Raw is splitting chapters by season (last chapter is season 4, ep. 45), while tappytoon translation is not (last chapter is ep.150).
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.*
Iwano Hiroyuki is a high school teacher living in Tokyo with his loving wife and newborn daughter. Trusted by his students, he believes he’s living an ordinary, everyday life… Until he wakes up naked and imprisoned. Standing over him is a stranger who calls herself Kako, a woman who claims to know Iwano. Slowly but surely, Kako causes Iwano’s life to come crashing down around him. Believing her actions are rooted in his past, Iwano heads to Osaka, where he spent his university years, to trace the long-forgotten truth…
Takamine Takane is the goddess of her high school. With perfect grades, athletic prowess, and unrivaled beauty, this student council president sits at the top of the social pyramid. And then there's Shirota Koushi, a below-average student with no friends or social prospects to speak of. One day, Shirota-kun accidentally sees Takamine-san's naked breasts and finds out the secret behind her unbelievable success. From then on, his school life changes. "Become my closet!" Shirota is forced into underwear-putting-on servitude!? ___ **Alt Official Raw:** [niconico Manga](https://manga.nicovideo.jp/comic/46371) **Official English Volumes:** [Yen Press](https://yenpress.com/series/please-put-them-on-takamine-san)
*An adaptation of Hen Shi Jiao Qing's novel: Quick Transmigration Cannon Fodder’s Record of Counterattacks* Ning Shu had dropped dead. But fortunately, she became a task-taker in charge of counterattacking for pitiful cannon fodder. Thus, Ning Shu played various kinds of life roles in various worlds, encountering many people who caused trouble for no reason. Transmigrated protagonist, reborn protagonist. Ning Shu had no choice but to painfully collect moral integrity in various worlds.
A new idol on the rise, Souda Natsumi and her friend from highschool Iiyama Yukiya meet again at a music store. What lies at the end of this unwanted encounter?!
Lady Carinne is in danger of being sold off in a political marriage, but the arrangement falls through when she spends a night with a mysterious stranger, willingly conceiving his child. Her spiteful father locks her away as punishment for years, until one day - another suitor steps forward, offering to marry Carinne and take her child in. When she arrives at his castle, however, she realizes he is someone she has met before…
There was once an oni mother who gave birth to a human-looking child. Instead of an oni's horn, this child was born with a sword in hand called the "Onigirimaru" or Oni Slayer. He has no name and is only referred to by the name of his sword. Though he appears human, he is pure oni. Believing that he will become human once all of his kind vanished from the world of humans, he sets out on his destiny to slay all of his kind. Even now, in the mother world of Japan, he is still out there slaying oni.
Ostracized and tormented by his peers to the point of breaking, Kazuhisa Kaya set off into the nearby forest atop the mountain with one purpose: to dig a pitfall and bring about the death of the person behind his suffering. However, right when Kazuhisa was about to succeed in his revenge, a sudden earthquake throws his plans out of whack! Caught unaware, all he can do is patiently lie in wait until someone lumbering across the path happens to fall into his trap. Kazuhisa's excitement is short-lived, however, as the corpse at the bottom of his pitfall turns out not to be the bully he was expecting but a grotesque, pig-looking monster, and his confusion only grows as he’s suddenly greeted by a pure-white room and a RPG-like status screen. Strange monsters now wandering the mountain and with newfound powers at his disposal, Kazuhisa is forced to throw all concerns over his tormentor to the wayside as he focuses on a new goal: survival. That's not going to be as easy as it seems, however, as he’s not the only one to have been wrapped up in this mess... (Hanashi Media) ___ [Official English Light Novel](https://hanashi.media/another-world-survival/)
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.
A spinoff of Tohai starring Doujima, nicknamed "Lion".
The internet is full of rumors about the Neet and Hikikomori genius gamer siblings Sora and Shiro. The two go as far as to refer to the world as a "shit game", but then one day a young man calling himself "God" summons them to parallel universe. There, God has forbidden war, and "everything is to be settled with games". Yes, even the national borders. Driven into a corner by other species, the 'human species' is down to its last city. Can Sora and Shiro, these related failures of society, become the saviors of humankind in this parallel world?
Everyone on the Clockwork Planet considers Naoto Miura a machinery nut. Every moment of every day, he has his mind on gears and his hands tinkering with delicate mechanical motors. But nobody understand how he can hear and feel gears in operation, even from a long distance away. Then one day, a clockwork maiden falls from the sky, presaging events that would shake the whole world...
Based on the life of a famous Mahjong Novelist, Asada Tetsuya, this manga chronicles the history of the man who is now known as the "Mahjong Saint" in his journey through the world of Mahjong and gambling in general. In the year 1947, the people of Shinjuku are down on their luck. With little money to buy food or necessities, some resort to gambling in order to survive. Traveling Tetsuya chooses to spend his time at Mahjong parlors where he is wiping the floor clean with his adversaries. However, Tetsuya meets the intensely-skilled Boushu-san, this is when he realizes that his skills are still lacking. --- - **Won the Kodansha Manga Award for Shonen in 2000**