Witness the titular Punpun - who is depicted as a tiny, caricatured bird in an otherwise normal human setting - as he copes with his... more>> dysfunctional family and friends, his love interest, his oncoming adolescence and his hyperactive mind. <<less

Are the woes of the present meant to be endured for the promise of a better future or to atone for past wrongs? In a... more>> captivating epic of love, fate, and faith, seven young people must struggle with this spiritual puzzle as their alien past lives threaten the future. <<less

The plot begins when Moritaka Mashiro, a junior high student, forgets his notebook in class. His classmate, Akito Takagi, notes Mashiro's drawings in it and asks him to become a manga artist to his stories. Mashiro declines, citing his late manga artist uncle, who died from overworking. Takagi incites Mashiro to meet with Miho Azuki, Mashiro's crush, and tells her the two plan to become manga artists. In response, Azuki reveals her plans to be a voice actress. Mashiro proposes to her that they should both marry when Azuki becomes a voice actress for the anime adaptation of their manga. The two then start creating their manga, under the pen name Muto Ashirogi, in hopes... more>> of getting serialized in Weekly Shōnen Jump.

Nominated for the 3rd Manga Taisho Award (2010). <<less

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The hero (me, Junpei Manaka!) sneaks up to the roof to see the sunset. When he opens the door, he startles a mysterious beauty. She panics and runs away, but not before Junpei has caught sight of her adorable strawberry print panties...in EXTREME close-up. With that vision forever burned into his memory, Junpei embarks on a quest to find the girl, and the panties, of his dreams! <<less

Like most teenagers, Mashiro Ichijo has a secret. But Mashiro's secret is that he’s neither fully male nor female! So far, Mashiro's been able to... more>> live his life as a boy, but all this changes when he's informed of a new class he must take in order to graduate from his elite prep school. To pass, he must find the “Key”…and the only way to find it is to enter into a nightmare world where his body and soul are put at the mercy of the worst kind of enemies: his classmates! <<less

This is an autobiography that tells the story of Akiko Hayashi, the author as she was in her third year of high school at the beginning of the story. Through her friend Futami, Akiko starts going to an art class led by Kenzou Hidaka, an intimidating teacher who spends much of his time yelling at his students and keeping them focused on drawing with the use of a bamboo sword. Akiko is initially confused by the behavior of the teacher and her fellow students in the class, but she keeps going regardless, eventually becoming the manga author she is today.... more>>

Note: Winner of the 8th Manga Taishou in 2015. Won the 19th Japan Media Arts Festival Grand Prize for Manga. <<less

Mejiro is a girl who wants to be needed. After desperately chasing the acceptance of her classmates she somehow finds herself drifting away in a... more>> river. For unknown reasons, the dream seller Shirogane finds her and gives Mejiro a new life as a yokai by placing a butterfly’s dream inside her. As Mejiro explores the world of yokai she begins to gain confidence in who she is. ( <<less

While loitering in the park, Shimana Kameko, who intended to run away from home and skipped school, meets a suspicious man in a kimono. This... more>> man, who had been locked out of his house, offers Shimana a place to stay. However, he requests she fulfill three conditions in exchange for her tenancy?! <<less

Yumeji has the power to forecast a person's dream based on the multicolored auras that surround them when he looks through his fingers. His skills... more>> are unpolished, but when he sees a black aura, he knows for certain what that person will see that night, a nightmare. Yumeji has been having nightmares himself recently, where he is chased endlessly by an army of cats until he awakens. But when a strange girl named Merry literally falls into his life, his experience with dreams becomes bizarre and dangerous when he vows to help Merry return to the world of dreams from whence she came. <<less

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Angels exist in both black and white. The white angels have pleasant jobs, like making flowers bloom and warning people of danger. The black angels have ugly jobs, like making people sick. When she was a child, the black angel Lily admired the white angels, and now as an adult she's decided she wants to be one.

• A Story of Long Ago

Long ago, an angel born from a daughter and her mother's lover remembers back to when she was born.

• The Dreamer

A girl dreams the same dreary dream every night, and meets a blind man who describes a blue sky to her. She searches for the blue sky.

• Imagination

Envious of the boy who always places first in her art school, she snaps at him, only to realize how wrong she was to do so.

• I Dreamt of a Delicious Little Finger

Dreaming that in a dream, your body parts turned to bread...!

• Cups

A depressed girl, seeing that her kitten is pregnant, works so that she will have money to afford kittens, only to find tragedy.

• The Edge of the Sky, to the Furthest Horizon

A man searches for his true love. <<less

A former prince and his retinue take Hifumi to a world powered by imagination.

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Ever since he was little, Akira wanted to be a rugby player. But since he lived on a tiny island with no other children, it... more>> was very difficult for him to learn how to play. In hopes of becoming useful to a rugby team, he practiced the one thing he could do by himself, kicking. Now Akira is heading to high school, and he's going to try to make his dreams of playing rugby and having friends come true! <<less

Our first step was always curiosity. For unseen sights, unheard sounds, unsmelled scents, untouched textures, untasted tastes, and unfelt excitement. We travel to find the... more>> bits and pieces that we’d forgotten at some point. Howling at 40 degrees, going mad at 50 degrees, screaming at 60 degrees, to the primordial lands beyond the great oceans, at the edge of the earth, far removed from human civilization. This is the story of four girls who travel to the Antarctic, further even than outer space. <<less

Han Soo-Bum has nothing to lose. Dying seems to be the solution to all his problems. How hard can it be to kill himself? Unless he gets abducted by a hot guy Lee Hyuk Soo running from the law who has been falsely accused. Where will they run to, and what are these feelings blooming inside our fugitive’s heart?... more>>

Won Silver from The 3rd International MANGA Award <<less

Meet Lily. A succubus, she is tasked with finding men every day, taking control of their dreams to steal their vitality. In return, Lily will fulfill any desires they have, no matter how perverted they are. And as the succubi population rate decreases, Lily finds herself more and more overworked in order to reach her rising quota.... more>>

One day, she enters the domicile of an exhausted corporate wage slave. Lily promises to make the man's wildest dreams come true, but what he asks for shocks her. <<less

During the final years of the Taisho Era (circa 1926), the gloomy tea house Ginseikan had a very special patron. Hiruko is a Baku, a being who eats nightmares. Customers come to the tea house every night seeking release from the suffering in their nightmares, and for the price of the tasty nightmare, Hiruko will walk their twisted dreams with them.... more>>

Note: Yumekui Kenbun ran in the shoujo magazine Stencil up until the 3rd volume and then got moved to the shounen magazine GFantasy. <<less

Evan Douglas, despite being born in nobility, was bullied by everyone in his family due to his low mana capacity and even more due to his black hair and eyes that do not run in the family. The only person who was kind to him is his maid Serafina from the wolf beastman race that is of similar age and he is later exiled from the family and Serafina follows him.... more>>

But either by luck or fate, after suffering a hit in the head, Evan started having dreams of a place with extremely high-technology beyond anything he could imagine, on it, he saw dolls being controlled by some strange magic and glowing windows with moving pictures. This dream leads him to develop a new magic he calls control magic, that does not belong to any of the known elements.

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Fushimi is a high-school student who also aspires to be a mangaka. Rin is a model who appears to have some type of psychic powers.... more>> What will happen when these two cross paths? <<less

A young girl (Kaburagi Aruto) aspiring to become a shoujo mangaka, much to her chagrin, discovers she is fated to become a renowned hentai manga... more>> artist (thanks to a time-traveling robot named G-Maru who is also her biggest fan). <<less

The protagonist is a girl with the ability to visit a surreal alternate dimension full of monsters in her dreams. One day, she encounters another... more>> human girl there and receives a plea for help. <<less

An ordinary, quiet town is shaken by a series of bizarre happenings brought about by the darkness in human hearts. There are no solutions in... more>> the real world: Only "Dream Messengers" can find the answers. Dream messengers connect the fabulous with the real and control the power of dreams. Their leader, Toko Mishima, works with 8 other messengers using the powers given by an old spell and a toy made by Toko's father. Toko, her younger sister Rinko, Hajime Tachibana, who loves young girls, and the six other Dream Messengers are given the names of days or stars - Sunday, Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday, Friday, Saturday, Raff, and Keito. <<less

In the midst of a blazing hot summer beset by water shortages, middle-school girl Chinami faints from heat exhaustion. Upon waking up, she finds herself... more>> in a mysterious town by a beautifully pristine river whose waters hide many secrets... <<less

Mayu, a young stylist is dumped by her boyfriend, thus she needs to find a new home. She makes an aquaintance with her neighbor, Yuka... more>> Shimizu, a lonely girl with a very particular dream, to become a free-fight champion despite her small stature. <<less

Ja-gi Park, a high school teacher and diviner, wakes up from a vivid dream foreseeing a mass suicide set to happen in 10 days. It's... more>> up to her and a group of time manipulators to help prevent this tragic fate from happening before time runs out. However, as days pass by and mysteries unravel, Ja-gi realizes there's more to her premonition than meets the eye. <<less