Rinko is an ordinary girl who was born with a mysterious birthmark on her left arm. But when that mark starts to get darker, strange accidents begin to happen everywhere around her, involving even the people she cares about. What will the powerful magic awakening inside Rinko bring her? In 1987, Purple Eyes in the Dark was awarded the Shogakukan Manga Award for the shoujo manga category.
Collection of 4 short stories: - Nemurihime ni Hyakumankai no Kiss Akari wants her first kiss to be perfect like in fairytales. One day she comes across the school's playboy, Kira Kousuke, in the library. He steals her first kiss because he was dared to. What will happen now? (From: MAL) - Psychedelic Unicorn - Street Lily - Diamond Dust Kaya and her friend Yui have been ice skating for 7 years. Now they are practicing for the Junior Skating Tournament. Kaya can't seem to skate a triple axle (third rotation). Kitsuya, an artist, comments on Kaya's ice skating, and the romance between them begins. Will kaya master the triple axle and do well in the skating tournament? (From: MAL) Italian: 4) Diamond Damato Kaya e Yui sono due amiche e pattinano fin da piccole … Entrambe parteciperanno ai campionati Juniores e sembra che non ci sia nulla che le renda rivali, nonostante il torneo. Ma un giorno a causa di un disegno realizzato da un ragazzo, Yui si ingelosisce ed è qui che inizia la rivalità tra le due ragazze!
Gotou-san, la plus jolie fille de l'école, demande quelque chose à Maeda-kun devant lui. Gotou-san l'aime secrètement, mais Maeda, qui ne lui fait pas confiance, ne la remarque pas.Quel est l'avenir de l'amour indéfectible de Gotou-san ?
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..
What if humans had the power of... gods? Karin is left all alone after her favorite pet Shiichan dies. When she meets a mysterious boy named Kazune, the ring that her parents left her begins to shine, and the "ordinary girl" who is terrible at studying and sports is transformed into a "little goddess"?! A popular heroic fantasy filled with love and adventure!
(from ebookjapan):Samson Takaki, president of the impoverished indie organization "Akatsuki Pro Wrestling Troupe," is terminally ill with cancer. Although his body is in shambles after years of wrestling, he continues to put on a good show. He believes in turning his life around. ...The Mandala of men's lives! Life is wrestling!
Georgie is a story about a girl who lives with her family in Australia. They live on a big farm out in the country. Georgie is very playful and cute girl. She loves her brothers, Abel and Arthur, and they're the best of friends. She always wear a bracelet which carries a big secret, which she is unaware of. Her mom is very strict with her, and she can't figure out why. The secret is soon to be known, and her whole world will crash. Georgie tries always to be brave; she's tough and very much a tomboy. Official Release: - Indonesian release by Elex Media Komputindo as **Lady Georgie** (1995)
D'un côté, il y a Hori, la lycéenne à la mode et populaire à première vue, mais qui est en fait une fille très simple et qui pense avant tout à sa famille. Et de l'autre, il y a Miyamura, le lycéen réservé qui se cache derrière ses lunettes, mais qui est en réalité un garçon chaleureux et aux nombreux piercings. Que se passe-t-il quand les deux se rencontrent par hasard sous leur véritable jour ? --- Maison d'édition FR : **Nobi Nobi**
Tsubaki Kamui is the granddaughter of a prestigious antiquarian. A mysterious man named Sena Takuto asks for an appraisal on an artifact, one that he stole in order to prove that he is the grandson of the Grand Duchess Anastasia. Is this thief really descended from the house of Romanov? Will Kamui help him?
Rina is always busy studying and working to support herself. After the depressing news that she again lost first place in the school rankings to Julius, an expressionless guy who is her archrival, Rina finds Milch, a little fairy girl. Later, she meets Sylvie, a Fairyland knight who has come to rescue Milch.
Although a truly gifted hairstylist, Kiri Koshiba has no interest in using her talent to pursue fame and fortune, unlike the three popular boys in the "Scissors Project" at school. Determined to become the best makeover team in Japan, they give showy makeovers to handpicked girls. As much as Kiri tries to shy away from the Scissors Project spotlight, she finds herself responding to beauty's call…
This is a no-holds-barred story about an ex-biker gang leader turned cop, Kenji Date. Operating under the nickname Hyena, Date rubs pretty much everybody within the police force the wrong way as he goes about his business ridding the city of all its scum. Bad Police also contains two separate short stories at the end of the volume: **Bomber** The Chinese leader, Deng Xiaoping, had promised to rid Hong Kong of its criminal organizations. One of the places they migrated to was Japan. Kamon Shou is a delinquent who just got released from Youth Detention after spending two years there and is about to feel first-hand the effect the Hong Kong mob has on Japan. **Artemis** Ginko is a detective working for the famed Holmes Detective Agency, an agency that takes on the most dangerous of jobs: ones that even the police wouldn't even think about doing. She gets hired by Ms. Nancy to retrieve her seven year-old son, Tom. Tom was taken away by her father-in-law's mafia organization in hopes of cultivating Tom to become the next leader.
She's a second-year high school student with a single all-consuming question: Will the boy she likes ever really notice her? He's the school's most notorious juvenile delinquent and he's suddenly come to a shocking realization: He's got a huge crush, and now he must tell her how he feels. Chapter 232 does not exist, there's no chapters missing. Special Chapters: bb1 What's up Doc (February 9, 2010) Diamonds on the Inside (November 30, 2016) Give it Away (March 15, 2017) Hello Again (November 8, 2017)
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.
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**
Katagiri Aoi lives in the countryside, and likes it just fine there. Yet, to her dismay, her parents are moving to Tokyo, and she has to come along. Just before leaving her home town, however, she has a chance encounter with a visiting Tokyoite, Sugita Tsuyoshi, a city-born playboy type. On impulse, he kisses her–only to realize that this kiss, unlike all the others, carries unexpected meaning for them both. Extra stories: vol1: Love vol1: The River Person vol3: Psycho Love vol4: Wait For a Night When Snow Falls vol4: Your and My Rendezvous (Rendebu) vol4: A Tearful Tale of Love
Najika is a great cook and likes to make meals for the people she loves. But something is missing from her life. When she was a child, she met a boy who touched her heart–and now Najika is determined to find him. The only clue she has is a silver spoon that leads her to the prestigious Seika Academy. At Seika she meets two brothers Daichi and Sora, could one of them be the boy from her childhood?
After confessing to my beloved Hanazono-san, I was rejected with the reason, 'I already have an engagement arranged by my parents.' That person is the wealthy and handsome Ikegai-kun, who also happens to have a good personality. Thinking that I had no chance in a straightforward competition, I, Hachiya, decided to cross-dress as a maid and work at the Ikegai house. My plan is to make Ikegai-kun fall for me and break their engagement... Thus begins a slightly silly, cross-dressing maid's comedy that leads to a chaotic love triangle (?)
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
There's a new student at St. George International School, and soon he becomes one of the most talked-about students. Even though it's an international school in Tokyo, Japan, the new student (Yonogi Dai) is a Japanese boy. Dai was raised in the US and recently came to Japan for the first time. Dai turns out to be a distant person, uncaring about other people and those who want to be his friends. He looks quite cute and gentle but he's actually unsocial and can be harsh. Jerry Morton who's very popular and well liked among the student just wants to ignore this cold Dai, but being the kind hearted (and nosy) boy that he is, he begins to approach Dai. Jerry and Marty and their other friends soon find out that indeed Dai is rather difficult to deal with, but it doesn't take long before Dai becomes their friend. However, sometimes when they feel that Dai is getting closer to them he would say or do something that shows that he doesn't really think them as his close friends. The story then begins to unfold itself. Dai's new friends start to discover the truth about the mysteries surrounding Dai. Why he's in Japan, about his family, about Ken in the States who seems to be the only one he's having personal contact with, and about his relation to a very famous game, "Sabbath Child". They discover the real Dai just like Dai discovers his true friends in life, and also himself along the way.
From Del Rey: Little witch-girls Chocolat and Vanilla are best friends, but only one of them can be Queen of the Magic World. To determine who deserves the title, they must go to the Human World and enter a strange competition. Whoever attracts the most human boys wins! The girls had planned to be best friends forever, but both of them want to be Queen. Will their rivalry ruin their friendship? --- - **Won the Kodansha Manga Award for Children in 2005**
1. Midara na Senritsu Hiwai na Yubisaki (Lewd Melody Obscene Fingers) by SHINJO Mayu Yurika has grown so used to doing what others tell her to do that she never realized she was like a caged bird. She accepted it as a matter of course when arrangements were made for her to get engaged to Satoshi, her controlling piano teacher. That is until piano genius and fringe element Hibiki teaches Yurika how to put emotion in her music–how to fly from her cage–among other less innocent things… (Also included in Motto Oshiete) 2. Hyoutenka no Maria by MINAMI Kanan A story about a girl named Miona who saved the drunken university student Rikuya from freezing to death. To thank her, he takes her to an amusement park… they get along very well and Miona kinda fell in love with him. Next day she sees on tv that a female student from the same university as Rikuya was stabbed… and she begins to think that it was him… 3. Abunai Houkenshitsu (Dangerous Health Room) by AYUKAWA Mio Fujimori-sensei has a secret that involves the health room. Could he be meeting someone there…!? 4. S no Junjou M no Yuuwaku by KOUSAKA Yuuka Yuu is in love with Makoto, only to find out that her mother is engaged to Makoto's father. Now she must live with Makoto, and his equally handsome twin brother. 5. Kare no Taion Kanojo no Toiki (His Body Temperature Her Long Sigh) by ASAMI Miyabi Yukina is on the same committee as Narimiya. She notices the cologne that he is wearing and stares at him sadly. Could the fragrance be the cause…!? **Also included in [m]Kedamono Shounen Shoujo[/m] 6. Kakusei Full Moon (Full Moon Awakening) by YUUHI Ryuu Yuzuki and Takara are childhood friends and so close that people consider Takara to be Yuzuki's girlfriend. But it's all in good fun–because Yuzuki is eighteen and Takara is only thirteen. Now that Takara's body is maturing, though, the joke isn't as easy to brush off as it once was…especially with a full moon pulling Yuzuki's desires to the surface. 7. Tomodachi Ijou x H Miman (More than Friends, Not Up to Sex) by USAMI Tae Making a confession is the most difficult part in a love relationship. Follow Miku in her way of saying "I LOVE YOU TEPPEI".
High school freshmen and twins, Nae and Moe, and Ken and Takeshi, enjoy their lives as students and close friends. Until Moe suddenly dies in a traffic accident… and her corpse disappears? Between the vanishing corpse and a pharmaceutical corporation, her three remaining friends are struck with the reality that something is amiss in their world..