SEINEN

Kazuyoshi Ishii has had a bad day. The former director of K1, one of the world's greatest karate tournaments, was imprisoned for two years for tax evasion. Just as he is released and he can return to karate, he is struck by a truck. However, just before his death, a talking cat appears before him. The cat explains that while Ishii is dead, it can give him a new life - so long as he can complete a task for it. With no other choice, Ishii agrees. Succumbing to his injuries, Ishii falls to the ground, dead. At that moment, high school girl Kei Ichinose wakes up from a three-day coma. ---

Ochibi-san has a unique feature that I am sure will make it a hot commodity back homeit is in Japanese and in English! The 128-page collection of one-page gag comics are presented in full-color when in Japanese and are then translated into English on the opposite page by the renowned American commentator/reporter Richard Berger, based in Japan. The volume is made up of newspaper strips that were in the Asahi Shinbun.

When the national idol Kusakabe Yuka suddenly retired from the entertainment business, it shocked the world and it devastated teenager Hata Kosaku. Kosaku was Yuka's biggest fan and her departure left him depressed. His classmates at the Tamo Agriculture School finally are able to get him to leave his room and attend his class, but to everyone's amazement, Kusakabe Yuka (her stage name) comes into the class under the name Kinoshita Ringo as a transfer student. Kosaku realizes he has the once in a lifetime opportunity to get to personally know his dream girl and, together with his group of friends, try to find out why she is here and become closer than just classmates.

From the inner flap in chapter 01:Mounted warriors line up and rush to the assault. Brandishing swords on horseback, the warriors slash at each other... This kind of image of feudal combat is all a lie. Well, then, how did Samurai really fight? A declaration of war has now been made against the lie of combat that was forged during the Edo period, and continued uncontested to this very day.

A young man, who is living alone for the first time after finding employment. At his tiny, no-bath apartment he finds a landlord who looks like a little sister. She does the cooking and housework, so sometimes seems like a grandmother, but she also enjoys a normal middle school life with her friends.

St. Kleio Academy is a very exclusive school: all of the students are clones of famous historical figures such as Beethoven, Queen Elizabeth I, Napoleon, Mozart, and Freud. All of them, that is, except for Shiro Kamiya. As Shiro struggles to adapt to this unusual campus, St. Kleio's first graduate, a clone of John F. Kennedy, is killed. Are the clones doomed to repeat the fate of their genetic progenitors, or can they create their own destinies? And how does a normal boy like Shiro fit in?

Ryota plays it cool around all of his classmates, especially when it comes to girls. But he's always the one on the spot in a perverted situation. In some of these many random anecdotes about the lives of fifth graders you'll find: peeping at collarbones, eating chalk, accidental skirt flipping, missing bloomers (you know, those girls' gym shorts things), and many others. Who says grade school can't have a high-school-type love story?

Daejagaegyo (), a precarious bridge hanging in the volcanic storm valley.The Great Assassin Bridge that established the legend of the Assassins.Where lives are exchanged for gold. no matter whoBecause if you pay the price, you can take anyone's life.

When an American scientist carrying a cure for the AIDS virus is kidnapped by an arms merchant, John Kyosuke is forced back from retirement. He accepts the challenge to regain posession of the anti-serum. He finds out that some of the people he is after are closely related, which gives his conquest a whole new meaning...Volume 1 includes the oneshot that would eventually lead to the series Damned.

A 4koma manga

The story of the girls who met at Okinawa's sea.Amane who invites her neighbor living next door Sango to the sea.While bringing about a stormy mood, the two of them also head for the sea today!

28 years earlier, there was a plane crash in the mountains of Gifu Prefecture. The barrier that the Kobo Daishi, Kukai had created to seal away the demons was destroyed in crimson flames... Present day, Oniwakamaru, King of the Yokai, appears inside the body of pure and innocent Tachibana Hitori!!

The stork brought an angel into the lives of a childless middle-aged couple. His parents are kind, their house is luxurious and the meals are delicious, but to continue to revel in this happiness Hitori must conceal a certain fact from his family...

A continuation of Say Hello to Black Jack, published by Shogakukan instead of Kodansha.

A compilation collecting the new one-shot which depicts the later developments following the final chapter of the main story, a previously uncollected one-shot, latest interviews with Toume Kei and the director of the anime adaptation, Fujiwara Yoshiyuki, and more.

Echo-Pun is a 4koma about Eiko and Haruka, two childhood friends who loved superheroes and pretended to be heroes while playing together. While in grade school, Eiko had to move away, but the two promised to meet up again in high school and become superheroes for real. Haruka grows up into a normal girl, and upon entering high school, she suddenly meets her old friend Eiko. Eiko, however, is wearing a costume, fighting bullies, and calling herself Echo, a superhero. She tries to keep Eiko out of trouble both with the bad guys and with the disciplinary committee president, a girl named Kamikaze Shiori who, for some reason, seems quite interested in Eiko. Can Haruka reclaim her old friend, or will she be dragged back into the world of alter egos, costumes, and justice?

"I want to change" Sakura, Tsuchigure, who entered Sendai Hoshimi High School, had a secret that her friend Karen could not tell. That is the creative activity of "drawing a manga." ...Sakira was giving up her creative work for a certain reason, but her encounter with "high school drama" changed her daily life dramatically. --- Now, the curtain of the youth group drama that everyone shines is up!

Yuzu Okashi is a shut-in author living alone in neglected squalor. When the neighbor girl Makoto forgot her apartment key, Yuzu took her in until her mom got home. When Makoto saw the mess in Yuzu's apartment, she promised to take care of Yuzu like a mother should! (Anilist)

The sea is clear and the sky is full of stars. Kaname and Ami live in the countryside and are preparing for the school festival. Their relationship is somewhat close despite their clashes...?A lyrical coming-of-age tale by Masaru Oishi!