"Aishite Knight" is set in Osaka, and tells the story of Yaeko "Yakko" Mitamura, an 18-year-old girl working in her father's Okonomiyaki restaurant. One day... more>> Yakko casually meets a little boy, Hashizo, and his odd cat Juliano. Hashizo has lost both parents when still a baby and has been brought up by his elder brother. Hashizo's brother Go Kato is the lead singer of the emerging rock band "Bee Hive". When Yakko meets Go and his friend and "Bee Hive" member Satomi Okawa an unexpected series of events unfolds. <<less

Meet hard-boiled cop Boyle Samejima. He's just been assigned to the remote Ogasawara Islands. There he finds coworkers, a mysterious young girl and a dolphin... more>> for a partner?! Cop x girl x ocean! Welcome to the craziest hard-boiled cop story you'll ever read! <<less

Shiharu is a high-school student who loves kids, lives in an orphanage, and works at a daycare... Until the handsome uncle of two-year-old twins offers... more>> her a raise if she'll be their babysitter. Often relying on memories of her mother's actions for guidance, Shiharu quickly finds herself falling in love with her new makeshift family. <<less

One night, a strange object falls on the head of Nitta, a member of the yakuza. Inside the box is a strange young girl named... more>> Hina. She has tremendous supernatural powers, and Nitta finds himself reluctantly taking her in. Her powers can come in handy for his yakuza business, but he also runs the risk of her using them on him! Not to mention, if she doesn't use her powers, she will eventually go berserk and destroy everything around her. Nitta and Hina's strange life together is just beginning... <<less

Kazama Masamune - a single 23-year-old man... has a child? During the season of cherry blossoms, his beloved passes away. He happens to meet a... more>> little girl outside work and realizes she is his daughter who was raised in secrecy by his lover. The worst spring of his life is transformed into a painful yet vivid spring. <<less

Kippei Katakura is a 17-year-old playboy who spends his time chasing girls, careless of their feelings. But when his 5-year-old cousin Yuzuyu comes to live... more>> with his family after her mother's sudden disappearance, Kippei is put in charge of taking care of her. As Kippei gets to know Yuzuyu and starts to understand how she feels, he also begins to realize that all girls were like Yuzuyu once. <<less

Ishiyama High is a school populated entirely by delinquents, where nonstop violence and lawlessness are the norm. However, there is one universally acknowledged rule—don't cross first year student Tatsumi Oga, Ishiyama's most vicious fighter.... more>>

One day, Oga is by a riverbed when he encounters a man floating down the river. After being retrieved by Oga, the man splits down the middle to reveal a baby, which crawls onto Oga's back and immediately forms an attachment to him. Though he doesn't know it yet, this baby is named Kaiser de Emperana Beelzebub IV, or "Baby Beel" for short—the son of the Demon Lord!

As if finding the future Lord of the Underworld isn't enough, Oga is also confronted by Hildegard, Beel's demon maid who insists he take responsibility as Beel's guardian. Together they attempt to raise Baby Beel—although surrounded by juvenile delinquents and demonic powers, the two of them may be in for more of a challenge than they can imagine. <<less

Tetsuta and Aya are two siblings who lost their mother very early in their lives. Despite being loving and devoted, their father has since buried himself in work and hardly ever spends time with them. ... more>>

Tetsuta is fully accustomed to looking after his younger sister and cooking for the family, so he vehemently opposes his father's suggestion of bringing in a helper to tend to matters around the house and care for them. But his attitude changes the moment he meets this beautiful and kind-hearted housekeeper... <<less

Going home for his grandfather's funeral, thirty-year-old bachelor Daikichi is floored to discover that the old man had an illegitimate child with a younger lover! The rest of his family is equally shocked and embarrassed by this surprise development, and not one of them wants anything to do with the silent little girl, Rin. In a fit of angry spontaneity, Daikichi decides to take her in himself! But will living with this overgrown teenager of a man help Rin come out of her shell? And hang on, won't this turn of events spell doom for Daikichi's love life?!... more>>

Completed at 9 Volumes, extra stories Bangai-Hen compiled into volume 10, and released as the final volume <<less

After losing their parents, Fumino and her brother hop from one relative to another. Getting tired of all those moves, she finally decides to quit school and work to support her brother on her own. As they sat on a park bench, her teacher appears in front of her and agrees to her demands of marrying and supporting both her and her brother!! Is he serious or just playing around...?!... more>>

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Also contains the oneshot, Tsukio to Himawari, in vol. 1.

Asahi-kun is a carefree junior-high student, never attaching to girls even though he enjoys going with them. But when the school's number 1 honor student Mitsuki "cyborg" Konno asked him to a 1-month date, in exchange for the front row ticket to his favorite singer's concert, he was forced to accept. He only has to show her what it feels like to date, right? He is ready for that...however, what he's not prepared for was his heart's reaction... <<less

Having lost his wife, math teacher Kouhei Inuzuka is doing his best to raise his young daughter Tsumugi as a single father. He's pretty bad... more>> at cooking and doesn't have a huge appetite to begin with, but chance brings his little family and one of his students, Kotori Iida, together for homemade adventures. With those three cooks in the kitchen, it's no wonder this dinner table drama is so delicious. <<less

What do you do when the MMO you’ve run for 15 years comes to an end? Akira Ono didn’t get much of a choice —... more>> he woke up trapped inside the world of his own game in the body of his in-game character: the Demon Lord. With an outcast child as his sidekick, he tries his best to survive the cruel fantasy world of his own creation, prosecution from the good guys, and of course, the final boss. <<less

At work he's smooth and cool, but at home he's a total softie?! A collection of short stories about a doting father and his precious... more>> family! <<less

Kurenai Shinkurou, a 16-year-old dispute mediator, is one day approached by the daughter of a powerful plutocratic family asking him to be her bodyguard.

Heisuke is a young man who was left in charge of taking care of his little cousin Aki for a day. Being an only child... more>> who usually stays at home alone, Aki is quiet, reserved, and will go out of his way not to make trouble for others. As they spend more time together, Aki begins to grow very attached to Heisuke, especially since Heisuke's hobby is to make sweets and desserts. The quiet Aki eventually opens up to Heisuke, and Heisuke in return teaches Aki that sometimes it's all right to be selfish and say what you really want to do. <<less

Hell is under the supervision of three controlling and cruel Demon Kings. But when a young human child named Maris ends up there, these three... more>> kings find themselves faced with a dilemma: should they execute the kid? Make him a slave? Or maybe...look after him!? With all of Hell involved, an unthinkable form of child-rearing begins! <<less

Yoningurashi shows the family life of the Hondas; Tarō, his wife Chiharu and their two children Yuri and Kotarō. A light hearted story on everyday... more>> life and their problems. <<less

Atsuki Komiya is a college student who's living alone. Suddenly his sister visits and asks for a favor, which is to take care of his niece Kasane for two weeks. ... more>>

A story about the awkward relationship of these two, the confused Atsuki and the sullen Kasane, living together. Which direction will this story go…? <<less

A man comes home one day to have his wife give him divorce papers. A woman comes home to her apartment one day to find... more>> a woman she doesn’t know wrapped in a towel coming out of the shower. They both get conned by the same real estate conman on the same house, a 4LDK. So now the man, his two sons, the woman, and her two daughters live in the same house. <<less

The story explains the day-to-day of a college freshman Yūta, who is just starting a new life in the School of Literature Department of Tama University. While Yūta grew up with his sister, when she married a divorced man with two daughters, Yūta left her to live by himself to distance himself from that new family. ... more>>

About 3 years later his sister asked him to visit and babysit her girls. His life was turned upside down when the girls' parents went missing. Yūta now has to live with his sister's three daughters: a tsundere (Sora, 14 years old), a little demon (Miu, 10 years old) and a baby girl (Hina, 3 years old), two of which are from a previous marriage and not related by blood, in a six tatami mat sized room. <<less

Yukimi is her real name but everyone calls her Bambi. She is the student discipline committee member who locks students out of the school if... more>> they're a minute late, but sneaks cigarette breaks on the roof. Lone wolf (Dhole, Asiatic wild dog) transfer student Tetsu (everyone pronounces it Tooru) Nagasawa hops the fence after she locks it and breaks her cigarette in half when he finds her on the roof, but he's a super nice guy to a mother and baby on the train. Bambi already has a boyfriend but will the wolf steal her heart? <<less

Nobuo is an ordinary salaryman with a dark secret-his wife is an alien. Despite her tentacle hair and tendency to shoot beams from her eyes,... more>> he wouldn't trade her for anything. Love knows no bounds in this extraterrestrial romantic comedy. <<less

Young Takuya has it tough. After his mother passed away it has been his job to take care of his baby brother Minoru while their father, Harumi, works the long hours of the Japanese "salaryman." Takuya must sacrifice the playtime usually associated with childhood for the responsibilities of an adult. Cooking, cleaning, sewing and scolding are all now an integral part of the young boy's life. "All work and no play" has Takuya incredibly frustrated and resentful of his little brother. Will Takuya find it in his heart to love the brother who is causing him so much grief?!... more>>

Baby and Me received the 40th Shogakukan Manga Award for shōjo in 1995.

Included one-shots:

Volume 2: Time Limit

Volume 4: Secret Boy ni Tee Dasuna!!

Volume 6: Baka de Karukete Wagamama de

Volume 15: Natsu to Kimi no Irradiation <<less

This is the story of a medicine peddler, his young son, and their life on the road after losing their beloved wife and mother. A... more>> father who never managed to grow close to his child as he was often out doing his trade soon finds himself learning many things about life, love and family. <<less

When Hana falls in love with a young interloper she encounters in her college class, the last thing she expects to learn is that he... more>> is part wolf. Instead of rejecting her lover upon learning his secret, she accepts him with open arms. Soon, the couple is expecting their first child, and a cozy picture of family life unfolds. But after what seems like a mere moment of bliss to Hana, the father of her children is tragically taken from her. Life as a single mother is hard in any situation, but when your children walk a fine line between man and beast, the rules of parenting all but go out the window. With no one to turn to, how will Hana survive? <<less