"I spent all my time wondering 'what if,' then one day I woke up and I was 33." She's not that bad-looking, but before she knew it, Rinko was thirty-something and single. She wants to be married by the time the Tokyo Olympics roll around in six years, but...that might be easier said than done! The new series by Akiko Higashimura erupts with sharp opinions on girls and tons of laughs!!... more>>

Note: Nominated for the 9th and 10th Manga Taisho Award and the 40th Kodansha Manga Awards in 2016. Won Best U.S. Edition of International Material at the Eisner Awards in 2019. <<less

Sakura Manabe is a 16-year-old high school student and is living with her 12-year-old sister Momiji and 27-year-old sister Botan, who works to support the... more>> three of them. Their 19-year-old brother Kashiwa has been away at college for two years and has suddenly decided to come back to live with them. However, when Kashiwa arrives, Sakura and the others discover that Kashiwa has now decided to live as a woman. Sakura and her two sisters now have to cope with the new reality of having another sister. <<less

Oomura Takeshi is one unlucky fellow. He has has this case of bad luck ever since he was little. One day, while on his normal... more>> runs with bad luck, he meets an Angel named Elle, and he finds out that his father wished the curse of bad luck upon him. Takeshi has the oppurtunity to pass on the curse, but accepts it to save a young girl. For his noble act, Elle becomes human and lives with Takeshi to protect him from the curse, which is something Takeshi isn't particularly happy with. <<less

A man’s nightmares turn out to be anything but...... more>>

His wife has disappeared, his mother is too weak to care for herself, and there's a strange growth appearing nearby in the woods.... <<less

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Russia, 1828. Natalia's family is fallen nobility, left poor by her father's chronic illness and mother's poor management. Her family's only chance at revival is her marriage to a wealthy noble. With her family's hopes riding on her future husband, what chance does a poor poet have at winning her heart...?... more>>

And the "poor poet" is no other than the famous Russian poet Aleksander Pushkin. <<less

Edo, 1855, in the Hill of the Three Hundred district: Japan's isolationist foreign policy has been lifted, and the era of the Bakumatsu has begun. The samurai Ibuya Manjiro, 26 years old, has just begun his career as low-ranking retainer to the minor daimyo Lord Matsudaira. Tezuka Ryoan, 29, a disciple of Dutch medicine, has just been accepted as a student at Teki Academy in Osaka. Each has a temper to go with his talent, and in a time of brewing upheaval the two are not slow to find trouble, which brings them together in spite of their mutual dislike. Tezuka is called in one night to sew up Ibuya after an illicit duel; a... more>> few weeks later, Ibuya finds himself the only thing standing between Tezuka and a gang of swordsmen sent by the head of medicine for the Shogunate.

Note: Won the Shogakukan Manga Award for general manga in 1984. <<less

Can a relationship survive after an affair? Azu is 30-year-old stay at home mom and she runs a nail salon in her apartment. While carrying... more>> the frustration of thinking that her husband Junpei (32) doesn't love her as a woman anymore, she raises the child they were blessed with and continues through the motions of everyday life. One day, while Azu is running her salon, a customer asks to borrow her cellphone, and shows her something dangerously entrancing. A few days afterward, she receives a notification from an unknown man, sending Junpei and Azu's relationship into the deep-end. From Yukari Koyama of the TV drama "Rose-Colored Crusade" comes a challenging original work. You are invited to the story of 4 married people that could take place anywhere, filled with temptation, betrayal and broken hearts. <<less

Haruna Wakakusa and Yamada become friends after she saves him several times from her boyfriend's constant bullying. Through him she gets to know Kozue Yoshikawa,... more>> a fellow student who also models professionally. The three emotionally stunted teens' lives briefly yet intensely intertwine for one semester before splintering from the aftereffects of one disastrous night. For both Wakakusa and Yamada, their emotional awakening fosters an unlikely friendship between the two battered souls. <<less

At the beginning of the XX century, the relationship between England and Japan was strained. England wanted to extend its influence over Japan, and Japan wasn't willing to let any other culture pass its borders. Koto, though, a Japanese girl, didn't care if the people she meets have almond shaped eyes or not, or if they wear a kimono or a western dress. Actually, she is fascinated by this foreign way of life that brings so many innovations into Japan. More than anything else, it's the clothing that seems to grab her attention, as she wants to become a tailor and create dresses for women of every culture.... more>>

Unfortunately though, she's a woman, so she knows her dream will end as soon as she gets married. She will have to start acting like a noble and a respectable woman would. In fact, she is betrothed to Masaomi Kidoin, the second born of one of the most important and oldest families of Japan. The day she's told she will marry Masaomi, Koto attends a ball at the British Embassy and meets Sagitto, a half English and half Indian spy that captures her imagination and heart. But can their love story have a happy ending when the British and the Japanese are tracking down Sagitto because they want him dead, and Koto is forced to live a life that doesn't fit her?

In vol 4.: Pandora no Hako - oneshot <<less

Ichiru Mizunuma is the student council president at the prestigious Ichimatsu High School. Shockingly, he is stabbed by fellow student and council vice president Kyosuke Hino.... more>>

What is Kyosuke's motive? What is the badly injured Ichiru's secret plan? <<less

What will Seimei of Abe, the royal palace’s most powerful sorcerer, do when he has to deal with a lovesick demoness, his jealous dragoness wife,... more>> and an arrogant new rival – all at once? Also includes Seimei’s back story, a romantic twist on a classic Japanese folklore. <<less

Rosie's mother loved her father till the day she died... even though he abandoned her when she got pregnant. Rosie wants to tell her father... more>> how her mother felt, so she goes to work at her father's mansion as a maid. However, her father isn't there. Instead, a sexy man named Sebastian meets Rosie. Rosie is won over by his kindness, and before she knows it, she ends up in his bed. Will Rosie now share the same fate as her mother? <<less

I'm confused, is what many readers will feel, when they read this short story about a guy, his wife, and the long red something!

A man walks in to his fiance cheating on him, and after he leaves he bumps into an old friend who seems to live in... more>> a fairy-tale world.. <<less

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Our protagonist finds herself bound to a handsome gangster after a kidnapping incident.... more>>

Little did she know that he was the strongest gangster in the city.

As other delinquents start to surround her, things only get more and more spicy. <<less