One day, a young man named Himuro Shousuke shows up out of nowhere, claiming he wants to become a shogi master. When he is told that he must follow the appropriate channels to become a pro shogi player, he produces a recommendation from a highly respected master, Mikami Sankichi. Shousuke claims he trained with Sankichi in Kochi, and now he's ready to skip the early steps of becoming one of the elite. People are understandably skeptical, but Shousuke begins to beat the skilled players they match him up with. Some are unhappy about an outsider coming into their hierarchy at a high level, but will they be able to stop his rise? The future is full of the internal politics of the shogi world and exciting shogi matches! [tethysdust] A manga about the Japanese board game of "shogi," similar to chess. Gekka no Kishi won the Shogakukan Manga Award in 1997.
A vida nos reserva grandes surpresas. Tudo ia bem na vida de Ann Uekusa até receber uma bela notícia: seus pais iam se divorciar. Ela e sua mãe se mudam para o interior do Japão para refrescar um poucos dos ares da cidade grande e planejar uma nova vida. Ela, que está acostumada a não ser notada por ninguém, quando está na cidade natal de sua mãe, acaba vendo que cidade pequena todo mundo se conhece e se ajuda mutuamente, logo vai perceber que a bondade é algo que não se pode desprezar quando mais se precisa nas horas mais difíceis.
Oneshot manga with six short tales of fantasy and friendship by Shimizu Aki. **Content:** - The NEET Woman and the Second Grader A 19-year-old NEET and near-hikikomori named Tsuda Yasue encounters a crying second grade girl outside her apartment and tries to figure out how to handle her. - Flow My Tears, the Onion Said A girl suddenly is spoken to by an onion she is preparing to cook. - The Young Lady and the Gardener A young, wealthy lady who lost her sight after her father died sits at her window and makes grandiose requests while a gardener that works outside her window tries to fulfill them. - The Ouroboros-drome An Alice-in-Wonderland like tale. - The Secret of the Pair Two history fangirls meet, and one of them reveals a secret that leads to the other playing out a very familiar situation. - Advice on Love A five-years-later continuation of the NEET Woman and the Second Grader.
Naotatsu is set to stay with his uncle as he enters a new high school. However, a woman he has never met, Sakaki-san, picks him up at the station. He now shares a house with a salaryman who quit to become a mangaka unbeknownst his parents (the uncle), a cross-dressing fortune teller, a college professor, and a 25 year old office lady all quirky in their own ways. Naotatsu, a high school freshman, begins the strange days of living under the same roof with them. Ranked #2 in 2020 by Freestyle Magazine Ranked #5 in the 2020 Manga Taisho Awards Ranked #5 in the 2020 Kono Manga ga Sugoi! Awards for male readers Won "New Creator Prize" in the 2020 Tezuka Osamu Cultural Award
The series follows the adventures of Sabu, a young Edo bakufu investigator, aided by the blind master swordsman Ichi. They deal with a wild variety of macabre mysteries and sordid crimes. Sabu is engaged to Midori, the daughter of his boss, who works as a police officer for the Tokugawa shogunate. The situations they deal with often shine a mournful and cynical light on the human condition, but the staunch friendship between Sabu and Ichi helps them cope. The manga gives a strong portrait of life in Tokugawa Edo, enhanced by the artwork which draws on Japanese traditional art. **Note**: From 1966-1967, the manga was serialized in Weekly Shonen Sunday. From 1968-1972, the serialization was moved to Big Comic, causing a shift in demographic. Periodic one-shots with the two leads were still published after in different magazines. --- - **Won the 13th Shogakukan Manga Award for Shonen in 1967**
Akihime is a seemingly normal girl attending junior high school, but she is actually the daughter of Ryokuhouzan's tengu. She lives with her mother in the human world, living a normal human life. However, her childhood friend Shun is constantly trying to convince her to go to the mountains with him, so that they can become tengus together. Despite his continuous urgings, Akihime refuses because she has feelings for her classmate, Takeru-kun. Machi de Uwasa no Tengu no Ko won the 2009 Shogakukan Manga Award for best shoujo
Yukari Maki, a diligent high school girl. One day, she spots her classmate, Yusuke Kusaka, who was rumored to be a delinquent, singing a love song. Never having imagined such a sweet, yet sad, singing voice could come from him, Yukari was instantly captivated—without knowing that it would soon be the beginning of a sad, unrequited love.
One day, Fujimoto, a 29-year-old temp worker (whose age equals the number of years he’s lived without a girlfriend) suddenly receives a surge of calls and emails all at once from the women connected to his past. That’s right, he’s finally hit popularity, something which comes only once in a lifetime for everyone! Feeling elated, Fujimoto decides to meet them one after the other…or so the story goes. Nominated for the 3rd Manga Taisho Award (2010).
This manga features Hohoko, a high school student who lives with her musician father. Yahiro, another student who helps in the school library along with Hohoko, is a fan of her father’s group, Hana to Hoho, and realizes who her father is. Hohoko, a book lover, and Yahiro, a music fanatic, write messages to each other in the school library, where private conversation is forbidden, and thereby gradually get to know each other. Hohoko is decidedly drawn to Yahiro, but what he really likes is her father’s music. The fact that he became friends with her because of her father weighs down on her heavily. Gradually, a secret about Hohoko’s mother that her father has kept from her, along with Yahiro’s views on love that result from past trauma, become clear. The two characters’ chance encounter constitutes the story of one summer in their lives, drawn with a touch of tranquility. Won a New Face Award from the 23rd Japan Media Arts Festival in 2020.
***Awaken the "malice" sleeping inside you.*** Chinatsu is a middle school girl who's an honor student and highly trusted by her teacher. She gets along with her friends, and she spends her days happily without hating anyone. However, on her period, Chinatsu realized it. That she hated her homeroom advisor, and she's extremely irritated by her surroundings. She had put a lid on her own feelings and pretended not to notice, but when she became aware of it, the "monster" inside of her begins to rampage and reveal her true nature. (Source: Comic-Days)
IS (Pronounced Aiesu in Japanese) is not your everyday manga. This manga strictly deals with cases of intersexuality. IS stands for Inter Sexuality. This manga deals with very serious issues concerning intersexual people. The pain they go through, the troubles they confront, and ultimately their inability to reproduce and even find a partner who will accept them as they are - It's all there in a form of manga. First volume has different cases but from volume two onwards manga becomes a longer tale of Hoshino Haru, IS and their life, trials and tribulations towards the adulthood. IS won the 2007 Kodansha Manga Award for shōjo manga.
Sana Kurata, a child actress, faces many problems in her classroom, including a major one - her bullying classmate, Akito Hayama. Sana's outgoing and friendly nature leads her to work towards correcting all of the problems around her. Her 'meddling' irritates Hayama but at the same time captivates him, just as Hayama's gloomy nature irritates Sana and compels her to change him. As these two opposites attract each other, they face many hardships which bring them closer to a mutual understanding. --- - **Won the 1998 Kodansha Manga Award for Shojo**
Igarashi is now in college. The bittersweet memories that he left behind in childhood are now beginning to resurface when he meets his childhood friend Chiyo-chan again after 10 years.
Middle schoolers, Shiro and Masumi, encountered a mysterious dragon that brought them back to the time of the Three Kingdoms; situated in ancient China. As soon as they arrived, they were rescued by the Han Kingdom. Not long after these events, Masumi was kidnapped and Shiro barely escaped death… Soon the story gets more complicated as they are stuck in the past. In 1997, Ryuurouden won the Kodansha Manga Award for shōnen manga.
This is the story of boys with wings who chase their dreams. Your struggles, your complexes…they belong to you alone.
Une jeune fille fut retrouvée pétrifiée dans un parc. Depuis cet incident, Niimi Kakeru et la remarquable princesse, Kujô Miyako, tous deux en 2ème année de l'académie Shiromitsu, vont être embarqués dans des affaires mystérieuses... Dans l'ombre de ces affaires, des personnes se voient obtenir des pouvoir surnaturels. Adaptation en manga du jeu très populaire :『9-nine-』!
Fifty-year-old Yuria has a quiet life teaching embroidery classes in her home, where she lives with her writer husband and his mother. Then one day her world is turned upside down when husband has a subarachnoid hemorrhage and upon arriving at the hospital, Yuria is met by a tearful young man who announces that he is her husband's lover. Won the 45th Kodansha Manga Award in General Category in 2021.
Suite du manga Arachnid. Alice Fujii ne s'amuse toujours pas beaucoup. Elle a survécu à une agression d'assassins dans son école, mais toutes ces batailles, la vérité derrière sa famille, les deux trahisons de ses faux amis qui sont désormais morts et la perte de son Kumoito ont des répercutions sur son état mental. Ainsi, elle passe ses journées seule à fendre la tête des zombies violeurs qui envahissent le Japon depuis l'incident. L'Organisation veut l'embaucher comme son nouveau Boss, et ailleurs ses alliés Gokiburi et Kabutomushi la recherchent.
Suzuka Nagami is a beautiful third-year middle school student who has excellent grades and is the student council president. She wrote a novel about a little sister who dotes on her older brother, and the the novel wins a light novel award. After they discuss the matter, Yuu is the one who debuts as a proxy light novel author instead of Suzuka, under the pen name Chikai Towano.
Everyone wants a fresh start in high school and that applies ten fold for Toujima Asahi. She hopes that she can create a new image of coolness at Futatsuzaka High School; a school that used to be all girls until recently, which explains the female population being 5 times that of the male and the extracurricular activities being female oriented. Change isn’t as easy as Asahi thought, but then she is introduced to Maharu, a strong minded girl, and to Naginata, a sport similar to kendo. Asahi realizes that Naginata is what she needs in order to become a new person, as the sport allows those who are not the most athletic to shine even on a national level. Live action movie adaptation (2017): [MyDramaList](https://mydramalist.com/23246-asahinagu) Official Release: - Indonesian release by Level Comics as **Asahi Nagu** (2011)
It is the year 4088. It has been over one thousand years since the Crisis of Systems (Lost Property), which resulted in the destruction of four planetary systems, leaving only a single inhabitable planet, Zion. Mankind is forced to live in space colonies, since that one planet is constantly being invaded by alien life forms that have come to be known as Victim. To stop the aliens and to allow people to land on Zion, mankind has developed the astronomical humanoid weapons, Ingrids, also known as Goddesses. G.O.A. (Goddess Operation Academy) is a school dedicated to the training of young men to pilot these Ingrids…
Yori and his twin sister Iku used to be inseparable during their childhood. But lately Yori's attitude toward his sister has changed. He is eager to stay away from her and treats her coldly. Despite his odd behaviours, Yori doesn't hate his sister at all, but is in fact madly in love with her. He no longer sees her as a sister but as a woman. He knows that his love is unacceptable, so he tries to forget Iku by bedding her best friend and even by applying to attend a boarding school in another city. However, it becomes even harder for him to suppress his feelings especially when Iku starts talking about going out and having a boyfriend. Yori can't allow someone to steal his little sister away from him, so he confesses. Iku loves his brother and is willing to do anything to keep them together. But if Iku's love is a love toward a brother, Yuki's love is a love that goes beyond the affection for a sister: a forbidden love. Links: [AnimeNewsNetwork](https://www.animenewsnetwork.com/encyclopedia/anime.php?id=6643) (live-action movie] [AnimeNewsNetwork](https://www.animenewsnetwork.com/encyclopedia/anime.php?id=5197) (OAV)
In a large mansion lives a boy, an aristocrat who was cursed by the witch to "let everything he touches die." With him is his maid Alice, who besides serving him, likes to tease him. The boy who is interested in her doesn't mind the teasing, but not being able to touch her is painful! If they are unable to hold hands, how will their love ever bloom?
Rintaro Senkawa is a regular guy in his mid-20's who got a little drunk one night and fell to his death. But that is just the beginning of Rintaro's story, as he finds himself unexpectedly in Hell where he meets his guide, the painfully sexy devil Koyori. Can Rintaro take his situation seriously enough to repent for the sins of his former life or is he fated to be eternally tempted, teased, and tortured by scantily-clad devils with iron spiked clubs?