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Fifth grade. The threshold of puberty, and the beginning of the end of childhood innocence. Nitori Shuichi and his new friend Takatsuki Yoshino enjoy happy... more>> homes and loving families, and are well-liked by their classmates. But they share a secret that further complicates a time of life that is awkward for anyone: Shuichi is a boy who wants to be a girl, and Yoshino is a girl who wants to be a boy... <<less

Geeko's weird, creepy, friendless classmate Nero has destroyed all of their mutual classmates, perverting them into her grotesque, monstrous minions. Now she's sending them after... more>> Geeko, the only survivor. However, Geeko is setting out, dressed in her skimpy school uniform and armed with a big chainsaw, to end Nero's mad science, no matter how many undead former friends she has to saw down on the way. <<less

After a nuclear war turns most of the Earth into desert wastelands, surviving humans had used the sands in order to survive. One of them... more>> is a professional mercenary named Sunabozu, who makes a living by hiring himself out to anyone who needs his talents. <<less

Something strange is going on in "Soil New Town." The sudden disappearance of a seemingly normal family leads the two detectives Yokoi and Onoda to... more>> the idyllic town in the middle of nowhere. What looks like a routine case at first quickly turns into a complex and deadly riddle where nothing is what it seems to be. Will the two disparate investigators manage to solve the mystery before it's too late? <<less

In Victorian-era England, a young girl is rescued from a life of destitution and raised to become a proper British maid. Emma meets William, the eldest son of a wealthy family, and immediately falls in love with him. William shares her feelings, but the strict rules of their society prevent their relationship from ever coming out in the open. Traditional class distinctions and rich, historical details provide the backdrop for this appealing romance.... more>>

Note: Volumes 8-10 are "Emma: Further Tales". They fill in details from the Emma manga, both before and after the events in that storyline.

Each chapter explores the motivations or simply shows a day in the life of a particular character from the story.

Find out about the romance between Doug and Kelly in their early days, or follow the adventures of Eleanor as she overcomes her heartache and begins to live again, or visit with Tasha and her family on her day off.

Won an Excellence Prize in Japan Media Arts Festival (2005) <<less

After years of barely talking to her big brother, Uiha suddenly wakes up to find that she has a body-double, who is both her copy... more>> and her complete opposite. <<less

Miho, a woman of beauty, intelligence, and temper, comes to Cheju Island to teach school and is immediately flung into a world of terror and the supernatural. A demon attacks her, and she is saved by the chance appearance of a mystery man with seemingly only one mission: demon killing.... more>>

1999 Grand Prize of Exported Korean Comics Awards <<less

Deathco is a girl who's good at killing...and not much else. She works for The Guild, an international league of assassins whose members infamously dress... more>> in costumes when they're hunting their targets. <<less

Kenzaki Shinichi is the leader of the Anti-Vector Task Squad. He's in charge of hunting down Vectors, humans that carry with them the deadly Resurrection Deficiency Syndrome, a disease that can keep someone from resurrecting when they die.... more>>

Chapter 41-48 were released as "Immortal Hounds" chapters but changed name with the release of chapter 49 to "Immortal Ridge" to serve as part of the sequel. <<less

This is a 5-volume manga series comprised of individual short stories that all have to do with coffee one way or other. Each of them... more>> is bittersweet with a philosophical bent. <<less

The sequel to Pet, focusing on the future lives of the story's "pets," in particular Hiroki, Tsukasa and Satoru.

An independent collection of short stories — Ultramarine Schooldays highlights the color that evokes faithful memories, tenderness, and melancholy. These stories take place in Japan and in the West, in the past and in the present. They may involve a romance in the city, an energizing walk in the forest, the daily mundane life of a waitress working in a café, or a medieval intrigue; but what connects these stories are the powerful messages they deliver. ... more>>

Volume 1:

• Tale of tail Window to the spirit world

• Princess prisoner

• Teacher and I

• Flower's cavalier

• Pink chocolate

• Forest of wonder

• White fire (three parts)

• Albertina

Volume 2:

• Ninon's love

• Time-bell

• The Ten Swords of the North Xenia and Reuther (five parts)

• His Music

• Pink chocolate, second act

Volume 3:

• Red-roofed house

• Pink chocolate, third act

• Twilight (two parts)

• Merry garden

• Oenothera princess (three parts)

• Snowfall night

Volume 4:

• Over the Bridge (two parts)

• Rainbow (three parts)

• Spy and Spy

• Pink chocolate, acts four and five

• Old Elm

• Farewell to Gunjyo Schooldays <<less

The girl I love is my brother's ex-girlfriend. She's a trashy girl who's clingy, stubborn, and takes advantage of my weaknesses. But I can't seem... more>> to stop our relationship. <<less

The word is out on the streets: a reward of five million dollars to the opportunist that wastes the courier calling herself Bambi and returns her living cargo. ... more>>

Chainsaw swinging psychos, gold-toothed Elvises, Derringer-packing grannies and all the other scum in these badlands could care less whether Bambi is kidnapping this toddler she christened "Pampi" or if she's snatching him back from his captors. With a pink gun in one hand, and a leashed Pampi in the other, can antihero Bambi's huge ego and formidable gun skills hold off an army? <<less

The story takes place in the '60s, in a mysterious city where madness and lust seem to be the citizens' constant companions. A detective named Sata (with a "certain" wound) pursues a woman accused of murder.... more>>

Note: The French edition won the Prix Asie de l'ACBD in 2014. <<less

Chiaki Honda is a middle-school boy who neglects his studies. Furthermore, he smokes, and has dyed his hair a bright green. One evening at the arcade, a girl challenges him to a match. The girl, who straightforwardly introduces herself as Nanako Kikuchi, suggests a bet, nonchalantly wagering her body for Chiaki's watch. Chiaki is soundly defeated, and he goes home fuming.... more>>

His life goes on, of course. The next day, he meets a strange young man on the train who looks an awful lot like him. And eventually he runs into Nanako again. <<less

An adaptation of Jules Verne's 1864 novel, "Voyage au Centre de la Terre".... more>>

The story involves German professor Otto Lidenbrock who believes there are volcanic tubes going toward the centre of the Earth. He, his nephew Axel, and their guide Hans descend into the Icelandic volcano Snæfellsjökull, encountering many adventures, including prehistoric animals and natural hazards, before eventually coming to the surface again in southern Italy, at the Stromboli volcano. <<less

Twins, separated by fatal illness and a selective cure. Kasumi and her sister, Shizuku, were infected with the Medusa virus, which slowly turns the victim... more>> to stone. There is no cure, but of the two only Kasumi is selected to go into a sort of cryogenically frozen state along with 159 others until a cure is found. At some point in the undetermined future, Kasumi awakens to find herself and others who were in suspended animation in an unfamiliar world with violent monsters. Resolving to unlock the mysteries of her current situation and the fate of her twin sister, Kasumi struggles to survive in a treacherous world. <<less

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Kurayami Dance is a manga based on the original draft for Shadows of the Damned, which was a loose adaptation of Kafka’s The Castle. ... more>>

Undertaker by day, biker by night, Kaido Wataru dreams of one day riding at an unsurpassed speed. But the moment he finally reaches 300 kmh, a terrible accident sends him into a 3-year coma. When Wataru awakes, he finds that the Japan he once knew is long gone. Now followed by an otherworldly creature and equipped with a mysterious transplanted eye, Wataru embarks on his very own road movie... <<less

The latest horror series from Rei Mikamoto. Follows Mio Amasato, a high school girl who controls a bizarre mechanical doll.

Yet another maid-tastic manga from Kaoru Mori, "Shirley" is an evocative glimpse into the daily life of winsome, 13-year-old Shirley, a maid in turn-of-the-century England.... more>>

It has no connection with the other maid story of the author, also Emma is a Victorian Maid, but Shirley is a Edwardian Maid.

Volume 1 includes two other short stories:

1. An Afternoon with Nelly and Me

2. Mary Banks

"Mary Banks" tells about a maid with a Master who loved playing pranks on his servants. Frogs, spraying them with water, trip ropes and other forms of foolishness were all she could look forward to any day. But when her employer passes away unexpectedly, what will happen to Mary Banks?

Shirley or Shirley Medison/Madison?

Shirley and the oneshots in volume 1 were first published as fanzine (doujinshi) around 2000-2001, at that time the title was "Shirley Medison". In 2003 the first volume was released by Enterbrain publisher as just "Shirley", CMX later translated her name as "Shirley Madison". In 2006, the author decided to continue her work with Shirley and released two chapters under the title "Shirley Medison", these were followed by 2 more in 2010, then another 2 in 2013 and again 2 in 2014. Finally in 2014 all previous "Shirley Medison" chapters were released in "Shirley" volume 2. <<less

The sequel to Chimamire Sukeban Chainsaw.

Eight short stories:... more>>

1. Box Seat

About the silent exchange between a man and a woman on the train.

2. Kanojo to Kare (Boy and Girl) (3 parts)

A seductive beauty gets entranced by the strait-laced school boy who helped her out.

3. Thank You

A man in black perfoms his incredible choreography on the train.

4. Motto Motto...! (More...and More!)

About the encounter between an art student and his muse.

5. Hana Seigaku Kan no Hi (Heavenly Home Ec)

Visit the most popular maid café in town and meet lots of beautiful girls and one unusual maid.

6. Aoi Udedokei (The Blue Wristwatch)

What is a man to do when he gets hold of a wristwatch that is said to enable its first-time user to rewind the past ten minutes?

7. Hana Chibo (Five-Fingered Flower)

An extraordinary case of pickpocketing disrupts a town's peaceful everyday life.

8. Haruhiko Kikou (Haruhiko the Eccentric)

In a rural village, pair of siblings decide to accomodate a travelling mystigician. <<less