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1) Tsuki no Toiki: Ai no Kizu -

Feudal Japan: a girl is found among the bamboo with a slash wound on her back. Having no memories of her identity she is taken into a local brothel and put in charge of babysitting and housekeeping duties. One day, a frequent handsome customer, who also happens to be the head guard of the local castle, notices and wants her as his partner. Having none of that, the girl whacks him across his face, but he does not give up that easily.

2) Tsuki no Toiki: Natsu no Yume -

To protect Hanzou's homeland from attack by her family, Sara must infiltrate the ninja town of Iga and steal their secret gunpowder formula. As an added bonus, she gets to marry Hanzou in the process. There is just one problem...it's not the Hanzou she thinks it is! And when our lecherous Hanzou from the first story comes around to visit, he gets quite a surprise. <<less

One fateful morning, Hirofumi awakens to discover he has no memory of the previous two years. He has forgotten his classmates and everything he's learned... more>> at school. All he recalls is the car accident that caused his amnesia. When he finds a letter written to himself, he is shocked to discover that he has been romantically involved with the tragic and handsome Daigo! Can true love triumph over the loss of memory? And will Hirofumi be able to make Daigo smile again? <<less

Reiji and Kasuga head out to Tokyo to become the "Gods of Rock," but they seem to always attract trouble. On their way, Hayama Ryo... more>> and Fujii Ran join them in their quest. <<less

A dramatic story set in contemporary Japan, about a guy with amnesia, who finds out he was turned into a super-cyborg in a corporate weapon... more>> research program. He goes on a mission of revenge. A little shallow, perhaps, but a good example of shounen SF/action manga. The manga ended abruptly, because the magazine it was being serialized in changed its target public and it was decided that Xenon didn't fit in anymore. <<less

The obedient Yin Lian finally mustered up the courage to confess to the childhood sweetheart, but received an ambiguous answer. However, not long after this... more>> fruitless confession, another sudden high-profile confession completely shattered Yin Lian's peaceful life! The man who caused that apocalyptic catastrophe had openly appeared in her life as an ordinary student… <<less

Stork, the man with no memories, and Tit, the boy with no home, travel across the grim world where the sky is grey and the... more>> birds are believed extinct. They have met accidentally and continued together, both searching. Stork searches for his past and Tit searches for a bird. They are followed by the dark mysterious man, who may have relation to Stork's past. <<less

Seventeen-year-old Nanaka Kirisato is a high school student serious about her studies and goals in life. She frequently criticizes her best friend, Nenji Nagihara, for... more>> being a childish delinquent who spends his time fighting other boys. Then one day, after a heated argument with Nenji, she falls off a flight of stairs and suffers a brain injury, resulting in her mind reverting to that of a six-year-old. With this in mind, Nanaka's father and Nenji must keep her injury a secret as she struggles to live a normal life and grow up all over again. <<less

Tsutsui Yukitaka is a freshman entering high school who hopes to become a good baseball player. However, when he walks into his new apartment, there... more>> is a man in the room who claims that he is an alien who lost his memory. He is in fact the first prince of Planet Dogra, known to have the best brain but the worst nature. <<less

Rose Hip Rose is a manga about a teenage girl who fights crime. While the setup doesn't sound so great, it gets better as the manga progresses. The series' major strong point is the art. Along the way, she ends up having a showdown with a major criminal named The Goat. However, it seems that The Goat doesn't seem to like being caught. Be wary, though, the series is very violent.... more>>

The art and story are by Fujisawa Tohru, author of GTO and Bad Company. The art is quite nice, but somewhat different from GTO's. If you like violence, gore, Fujisawa, or cacti, Rose Hip Rose is the manga for you. Oh yeah, did I mention it was violent?

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In the Abe Seimei Koikatari series... more>>

V.1 - Hana no Utage

1. Feast of the Flowers

Ming became blind after an unknown illness two years ago. One night, she meets a man in her dreams who restores her sight. She falls in love with him, but how will she find him again?

2. The Girl Among the Moonlilies

A princess chases a firefly which leads her to a man. She is so surprised by him that she steps backward and accidentally falls over a cliff, losing her memory. What will happen to her?

3. Moon's Dew; Star's Tears

4. Winter's Bloom

V.2 - Hanakanmuri no Hime (The Flower Crown Princess)

1. The Golden Phoenix, the Silver Phoenix

A princess longs for a lost love and almost loses her life until a mysterious exorcist opens her heart and mind to the truth and to what has been right in front of her all along.

2. The Hime with the Flower Crown

A young princess learns with the help of a mysterious young boy that putting away childish things may ultimately lead to a fulfilling new world and to the fulfilment of her beloved father's wish.

3. Memories of a Flower

While trying to solve the mystery behind the ghostly apparition of his beloved princess, a young man learns to ease his own sadness.

V.3 - Hanaemi no Otome

1. Hanaemi no Otome

A daughter of a high status man is being cursed by Douman, a man with strong spiritual power. Abe Seimei is set to save her.

2. Kaze no Hatsune

Story of young Douman's love, and also of how he met Seimei for the first time.

3. Tsukimiya no Maihime

V.4 - Hana Akari no Yakusoku <<less

Anuki is a boy caught in a war between two countries. When he was small he was abandoned by his father so that a princess could be saved. This event triggered amnesia in Anuki, as such he doesn't remember his childhood.... more>>

As he grows up he decides to join a flight of mercenary units to be trained as a pilot so that he can help in the war, there he becomes the ace pilot and is highly aclaimed for his skills. But is he fighting for the right side? <<less

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1) Soko wa Nemuri no Mori -

Yui has stopped growing because of something that happened when she was 12 years old. One day, 18-year-old Yuri found a young man with amnesia near the hidden cottage she lives in, and brought him home. Yui named the man "Pochi" because he cannot even remember his name, and she treats him as her pet...

2) The Stars Knows Everything -

Futari no Tame ni Sekai wa Aru no extra. Chiharu is dating the stundent rep Kyou but it's a secret - so she disguises their relationship with Fukaya Hisaki - it's too bad that Kyou's bestfriend feels she's 'corrupting' him and decides to intervene...

3) Climb the Stairs of Cinderella. Kaya is a child prodigy, best in choir without any lessons, perfect piano playing, but she has a hard time dealing with other's jealousy, especially when Katsuma, the boy she likes is in love with Misaki, her bestfriend, but Misaki doesn't know....what should Kaya do? <<less

Sayoko Tachibana lost her parents amidst war. In order to save her fatally injured brother, she chooses a fateful future for herself…?! This is a science fiction action novel depicting the story of a young woman baring the title of "Sirius", battling through her last 7 days.... more>>

This is the story of a teenage boy named Takeru Tachibana and his struggle to recover his sister Sayoko from a "cyborg dogfight circuit". When Takeru was 10 years old, his town was bombed during an enemy air-raid in which his parents were killed and he was mortally wounded. Sayoko, cut deep with "survivor's guilt" and a "co-dependent" inability to deal with living alone, rashly sells her brain to the Albion Corporation run by a mysterious CEO named Véltare Marçeau in order to pay for a risky surgical operation that Takeru may or may not survive. Her brain is placed in a cybernetic body, the process of which essentially eliminates the brain's memories and heightens its aggression. Her new identity is The White 13, or "The Ice Doll", and for the next five years she is placed on a dogfight circuit fighting other cyborgs in gladiator-style extravaganzas where she eventually becomes the grand champion and obtains the rank of "sirius"...

The story begins shortly after Takeru has liberated his sister from the dogfight circuit only to discover that, outside the cicuit, Sayoko's brain has a "self-destruct" mechanism and that she is dying. Takeru has one week to find a way to cure his sister or return her to the circuit or she will die. Adding to the problem are the "dogged" efforts of the Albion Corporation to recover "their stolen property" as well as a cast of characters who all have their own scars of some sort... <<less

Little Akido has no idea that an innocent prayer at a shrine would turn his simple existence upside down. Suddenly a bevy of cute gals... more>> comes into his life - some claiming to be Emulates that want to "make a contract" with him! <<less

Sawatari Ai is an insatiably curious high school student. One day, she notices that a boy named Akizuki Tooru has joined her class, but according to her friends, he's always been around! He was a childhood friend of hers, so why doesn't Ai remember him? But the weird thing is...Ai's memory lapse isn't the only weird thing. She's about to be faced with hyper psychic action!... more>>

Note: Volume 2 only has one chapter that deals with the main story; the rest of the volume consists of unrelated oneshots.

Dusk Is Twittering (Tasogare wa Sasayaku) - Is a school story about a boy--who draws--that transfers to a new school for follow a girl he has a crush on. Unfortunately for him, she already has a boyfriend.

The Sound of Melting (Tokeru Koe) - Is school life story about a girl that dislikes her own voice due to being compared to her mother, who is a singer. Despite this, she loves to sing. So, there is a boy the sends her slips of a love letter after her voice lessons based on her voice.

Midsummer's Criminal (Natsu no Ran) - About an adult that tutors a 6th grader, who looks like an adult. <<less

Mizuki is a girl who wants to run away from her life. As she smiles at everything sad that happens to her, her soul becomes... more>> heavier day by day. Her escape door is Adam, an English singer. But is he really real, or is everything they've been through just a dream? Adam sees his dead Japanese girlfriend in Mizuki, but strangely, nobody, apart from a girl who met her at the gates of heaven, can see Mizuki. This is a story that takes place somewhere between dream and reality. <<less

The distorted memory becomes a masquerade. Everyone hides behind a mask and performs the wildest acts with no consequence. But, life is not a masquerade. The main character is a girl who suffers daily from what she accidentally witnessed years ago.... more>>

She keeps having flashbacks of a gruesome scene. It always starts with her as a little girl following a black kitten, and suddenly the black kitten turns into a panther! A woman welcomes the panther to join her and the rest of the panthers. And then, unaware of the presence of the little girl, the group starts having "fun."

The girl becomes horrified by the scene. She makes a noise and they notice her.

"Hunt her down! Kill her!" the woman says to the panthers.

She managed to escape from the pack, but they got to her parents. In her flashbacks, her parents were chased and fell off a cliff. The authorities told her that it was a car accident. She has lived on the edge of illusion and reality until she sees the photo of the woman on a magazine.

A photo is all she needs to confirm what her flashbacks tell her. Now, she is ready to get even. <<less

The planet had died once before... On the day of Despaira, a god appeared in the sky and saved the world; his name was King Shishioh. But now with the throne of the king empty, a vicious battle between two brothers is unfolding. Who will ascend the throne?... more>>

Note: Cover shown is from the 2008 reprint. <<less

A collection of short shounen-ai stories by Mizushiro Setona, all connected by the theme of plantlife.... more>>

[STORY 01] (English Title) Breakfast (Japanese Title) ブレックファスト (Romaji Title) Burekkufasuto

The tale of a boy who displays the symptoms of man-eating syndrome.

[STORY 02] (English Title) The Tale of the Ring (Japanese Title) 指輪物語 (Romaji Title) Yubiwa Monogatari

The tale of two boys who are dating each other and mutually hiding the fact that both are dating their teacher, who frets because a ring has been lost.

[STORY 03] (Japanese Title) Honey β

The tale of a flower that blooms by inhaling memories. But even if our memories are taken from us, some precious things are never forgotten. "I don't fear losing my memory if I can feel this way again tomorrow..."

[STORY 04] (English Title) Undying Illness (Japanese Title) フジノヤマイ (Romaji Title) Fuji no Yamai See "," story 2.

[STORY 05] (English Title) Aconite (Japanese Title) トリカブト (Romaji Title) Torikabuto <<less

Imprisoned for a thousand years, eighty-eight fabled beasts seek resurrection from their world so that they can unleash their wrath upon present-day Japan. And a... more>> band of young warriors would love nothing more than to let loose these beasts so that they can feast upon the human world. The only thing preventing civilization's annihilation is the Girl of Water, who is lost in the human world--without any memory of who she is! As the elemental warriors continue their search for her, they cross paths with another of their kind: Ishigami, the Man of Earth. However, Ishigami is one who wants to stop the dreaded resurrection... <<less

Kirishima Eisuke, a scoutman for adult videos, picked up Clarence, an amnesiac and handsome foreigner in the city. Eisuke always kept distance between himself and... more>> strangers, but he can't seem to throw Clarence out. <<less

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This is a shoujo horror anthology, containing 9 stories.... more>>

1) I Know Basketgore

After loving Shouhei ever since her second year of middle school, Natsumi finally gets to go out with him. But then she starts getting calls telling her to break up with him. Then mysterious things start happening around her. Pots falling from windows, insects in her locker, glass shards in her towel. Are these just harmless pranks, or is someone truely out to get Natsumi?

2) Labyrinth Maze of Memories

"Forgive me! Don't kill me" Those are the words Honjou Kumi continues to hear in her nightmares. She lost all of her memories of the time before her accident, so she doesn't understand why the students stare at her and whisper. Pranks are pulled on her left and right. What is it that she doesn't remember?

3) Best Friend

Koyuki and Hiroyo are the best of friends. They've always chosen to be with each other. Hiroyo always listens to what Koyuki tells her to do, because she knows best. So when Kinoshita says that he's in love with Hiroyo, Koyuki doesn't believe him. She says the only way she will believe him is to go to the lecture room at 5:55 pm to see the bleeding holy mother statue. Hiroyo tries to stop him, causing all three of them to see it. According to the rumor all the people who see the bleeding statue will all die. Things start happening, causing Hiroyo to be frightened. But only she is targeted. Could it be that Koyuki and Kinoshita are out to get her?

4) The Neighbor's Doll

Itsumi finds her neighbor, Yurika's, doll in the trash, so she decides to adopt it. She sets it out onto the balcony to dry and Yurika notices it there. She gets jealous because now it's all clean and cute. She gets her mother to get it back saying that it was thrown away by accident. After getting the dye on her shirt she says she only wanted it back so Itsumi couldn't have it. In the morning, the doll is sitting at Itsumi's door. However, Yurika claims she didn't put it there...

5) Black Cat

Sakura is a timid girl, unable to say no, so when she sees two classmates throwing rocks at a cat, she wants to stop them but can't. They tell her to join in or they'll tell everyone to ignore her. She throws a rock at the cat and runs away, hating herself for it.she goes back to check on the cat to find it dead from the rock she threw. An old lady tells her that the cat won't be able to rest in peace. Strange things start to happen around her, and the two other girls are dead, so will she end up dead too?

6) Former Residents of Darkness

Mihara Yuna and her family just moved into their new home. Not soon after she notices a figure standing in the doorway and she feels a cool gust of air,but the air conditioner isn't set up and it's the beginning of summer. Her father has started feeling unwell. She starts seeing the white shadow turning up in other places. And she hears voices saying to get out. Soon she hears from the real estate agent that the house is haunted that the whole family died in that house on the 29th of July. Any family that moved in died, and the day they moved in was July 28th.

7) Last Request

Mikoto and her childhood friend, Yamato are staying at her grandfather's temple which they use as a hostel. In Mikoto's room, she finds a doll. She is told that the doll is that of a dead child. She then prays for the child. She is woken up in the middle of the night by Ayano, the dead girl, asking for water. Then she continues to ask for more and more, gaining everything she wants. But then she wants Mikoto's life. Will she give it to Ayano?

8) If You Turn The Page

Emiri finds the notebook of her decease mother in her study, and decides to write horror in it. But then the events that she wrote about start happening around her. She knows she must stop writing in the notebook, but suddenly her arm is taken over and forcing her to write. People around her are starting to die, but how can she stop it?

9) Red String

Mayumi says that the red string tyed to her pinky is attached to her life long partner, Yuuya. And then, Yuuya is hit by a car at in intersection. But has the red string really been cut? <<less

Shirou's ordinary life as a poor construction worker gets turned upside down when he comes across a naked girl, Lucy, who's fallen out of the sky! Her strange and unique personality entices him and he introduces her to his apartment buddies. ... more>>

But after leaving for just a few minutes, he returns to the apartment to find Lucy gone, all his friends slaughtered and an ogre-like stranger standing amidst the carnage.

The big man suddenly pulls Shirou out of the apartment building just before it explodes! Shirou gets pushed down into the sewage system of the city and is saved by a mysterious man... <<less

After a scandal got him kicked out of his position at court, Takaaki's been idling the days away at his manor, impulsive and bored. Then... more>> one day his friend Naruhito stops by and tells him an insane story about the most beautiful woman alive -- and drags him off in his attempt to win her heart. Tagging along, Takaaki soon realizes that the "Princess" isn't exactly who she (he!?) seems to be. Who exactly is Princess Kaguya, and what is the dark secret behind her (his!?) past? <<less