Shishio Academy is a prestigious, the best school in Japan, in which only the elite of such fields as study, sports, pedigree can study. But in reality it is a school of principles of “devouring the weak by the strong”, where everything is measured by the results of the games. This is a massacre in which only a definite winner can survive. Guren is a legend of the shadow world, conquering and invincible, and at the same time he wants to start a normal, carefree life. He fails the entrance exams to the academy on purpose, therefore, following his results, he qualifies as the lowest grade F. However, after reuniting with his younger sister Karen, the situation changes dramatically. And when his sister is in danger, he shows his true abilities!
Asato, a high school student with a strong sense of justice, is investigating small pranks that frequently occur at school and comes across the newly appointed school nurse, Egou Nemu. Nemu is admired by everyone at school because of her beauty, but she has a curt attitude towards everyone. However, when Asato learns Nemu's secret, he is invited to Nemus home. Asato is at the mercy of Nemu, who has a sweet attitude that he doesn't show during the day, but there is an even more important secret―in that room.
Keidai Saeki is a high school student who remembers his past life in Pompeii, living as the Italian warrior Sirix. His friends around him are all also reincarnated - although they don't quite remember things the way he does. Keidai's wife from the past? She's now a middle school boy - while his best male friend is now a cute girl?!
A tale of obsessive love and constant pursuit, told over a 1000 years. Escaping from a brother who had just ascended the throne, Yoshitsune, along with his servant, comes across a house in the middle of a desolate mountain. Oddly enough, only a young woman lives there, who seems to possess a very dark and ominous past. This long journey of more than a thousand years focuses on our main protagonist Kurou. It can be somewhat confusing at the beginning, but once you understand the plot this story can be quite entertaining. The main thrust of the story goes like this: Kurou meets a beautiful woman by the name of Kuromitsu, and begins a relationship which transcends life and memory. Kurozuka tells the tale of a journey undertaken by immortals, and those who chase after immortality. The majority of this story takes place many centuries in the future, after Kurou has been separated from Kuromitsu. Having lost almost all of his memories, Kurou seeks to understand why he cannot die, to rediscover his identity, and to find the woman that haunts his dreams.
My childhood friend who became separated three years ago is dancing on TV as a top idol. And it was the childhood friend who moved to the next to my room to see it!?
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.
This is a tempestuous and heartbreaking love story about Ayuta, a rounin who aspires to attend an art university, who, in a jam-packed train, falls in love with Haruhi, a psychiatrist eight years his senior. Tenshi no Tamago is the manga adaptation of the Naoki Award-winning Murayama Yuka's novel of the same title.
Kotaro Makaritoru is a manga that follows the antics of the long haired protagonist, Kotaro Shindo, a skilled karate expert, sole member of the Kyokutan-ryu Karate Club and an uninhibited pervert, who spends time feuding with the Student Council and Discipline Committee, along with various clubs within Tsurugamine High School, due to his habit of stealing panties, fighting, and his trademark rule breaking hair.
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.
Professional matchmaker Nakao Yuto has helped scores of people find their perfect match. But as a hopeless mama's boy, he's never had a relationship of his own. Everything changes the night he stumbles upon Monster Town, a hidden enclave bustling with sexy, supernatural singles. From a werewolf bachelorette to an irresistible succubus, many beauties struggle with finding love. Yuto decides this is the perfect place to set up shop–and maybe even find action for himself. Except there's one major problem—local matchmaker and God of Love Cupid doesn't appreciate a mortal showing him up on the job! (Seven Seas Entertainment)
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 beautiful Seto is told that she has 6 months to live. At school, she meets a tomboyish girl who wants to leave her boyish past behind and debut as a shoujo heroine-esque high schooler.
In a world where everyone has a monster crest from birth, a select few rise to become Monster Trainers. Reyn Erhardt, a slime trainer, the lowest of the low, cares nothing for status and just continues his daily regimen of training for his personal slime, Pem-Pem. Yet in school dominated by monsters as grand as dragons, those who cannot hope to rise to the top take out their frustrations on the lowest ones, and Reyn and Pem-Pem make for easy marks. Or do they?
Naota is a normal Japanese sixth grader (although a little cynical), but when his older brother leaves for America to play baseball he leaves his homeless 17 year old girlfriend Mamimi behind. Mamimi is sending mixed signals and advances to Naota, and he doesn't know what to do about her. But to make matters worse, Naota's world is totally turned upside down when he is run over by a woman on a Vespa. During their first encounter, she hits him over the head with her guitar, which then causes a horn to grow out of his forehead. She calls herself "Haruko" and her presence changes Naota's life to even further insanity. [Official English](https://www.darkhorse.com/Books/18-934/FLCL-Omnibus-TPB)
"The literature department of the university that I enthusiastically entered was a garden of women. "Enami is an aspiring young writer to be who realized that he is lonely. He wants to debut in a novel-like encounter seeking a suitable heroine against his opponent of destiny!
A super-sheltered girl, Shiranui Rei, has a lot of things she doesn’t know! She asks her questions to her senior, who is also a library committee member. But sometimes, her questions are hard to answer…!?
By the order of Shogun Ieyasu Tokugawa, ten ninja from the Iga and the Kouga clans must fight to the death in order to determine who will be the next Tokugawa Shogun, with the surviving clan ruling for the next thousand years. But Oboro of the Iga clan and Gennosuke of the Kouga clan have fallen deeply in love. Now these star-crossed lovers have been pitted against each other. Can their romance conquer a centuries-old rivalry? Or is their love destined to end in death? Note: Won the Kodansha Manga Award in the category "Best General Manga" in 2004.
A high school boy, Yomi Hashiba, is troubled. He is unable to understand what Mizuki Hanai, a cool girl who became his girlfriend a month ago, is thinking... One day, while he is worrying about his relationship with Mizuki Hanai, he starts to understand her "Kanji"...? (same pronunciation as feeling)
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.
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.
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.
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**
Furuya contemplates the accidental death of his girlfriend, Sara. ___ Published in *Jump SQ. RISE 2018 SUMMER*.
On the evening of the summer festival, my sandals caused a foot blister so that I couldn't walk anymore, but then Takada-kun, a boy from my parallel class, stepped in to help me out. A straight and pure-hearted love, as well as all the intricacy of adolescence that comes with it.