Young sorceress Lina Inverse and her dim-witted sidekick Gourry Gabriev travel through a somewhat medieval setting, doing good and fighting evil. Well, by "doing good and fighting evil" I mean "stealing from corrupt rich people and blowing things up".... more>>

The stories in this volume are occasional tie-ins to the novels and short stories. <<less

"Irasshai!" Welcome to the most unruly cafe in Kichijouji and its charming staff of five who have absolutely nothing in common. When tempers rise, so do mop handles, giant boulders and repair bills. Meet Jun, a mild mannered high school student with a sharp tongue and superhuman strength. Tarou, a clean freak with a deadly aim in the art of mopping. Maki, a sloppy, lazy woman chaser. Minagawa, a talented pastry chef equally skilled in the arts of voodoo, and the impulsive, cheerful, though desperately unfortunate Tokumi. A feast of comedy based on the popular Japanese radio drama.... more>>

A rehashed version was released in 2009. <<less

"When the sinister Dark Guy and his evil army, Black Pierrot decide to take over the world, they decide to start from the Japanese countryside.... more>> Luckily, however, the great hero Blue Hunter is there to thwart him. But when Blue Hunter saves the young maiden Tachibana Honoka, he finds himself assaulted on another front... By her affection. Now he must juggle defending the earth, dating Honoka, and simultaneously trying to get her to take notice of his homely true identity, Fuwa Shinpei." <<less

A collection of short stories:... more>>

1. Pet of Love

A young man is living alone, but can't live independently, so his best friend is forced to take care of him.

2. Remote Control

Is basically about two boys, one of whom is playing a game with the other while pretending to help him become popular. But they both slowly realize it's something else entirely.

3. Iron Road of Love

A dreamless 17 year old finds something to live for when he meets a 25-year-old fellow train enthusiast.

4. Drunken Dog Night

Eitoku is a guy that spends his time either working (by finding "customers" for women) or getting drunk and bringing home strange things, and one night he runs into Hajime, and ends up bringing home the most eccentric thing of all.

5. Unforgettable Love

An apprentice hairdresser finds it hard to move on when his sempai leaves the salon to visit England. <<less

Published by Kodansha in 2002 and awarded the prestigious Tezuka Cultural Prize, Fumiko Takano’s The Yellow Book is one of those rare works which you enjoy reading in order to feel the tender familiarity that arises between the protagonists and yourself. This collected volume was named after the longest of the four stories that it contains: a drama about an adolescent girl who falls in love with Roger Martin du Gard’s saga, Les Thibault. The remaining stories capture various fragments of everyday life with tenderness and humor. Through the kaleidoscope of its feminine views, The Yellow Book touches the readers heart by attending to what, in sum, makes up life—the little things of our every... more>> day.

Note: Won the Tezuka Osamu Cultural Grand Prize in 2003. <<less

Tsukishita is completely dependent on his little brother. It's the first day of school, and his little brother has already had to find Tsukishita with... more>> the things he's forgotten. When a group of girls try to help him find his older brother, they mistakenly think he's Kagami's younger brother. When Kagami realizes who he is, he also remembers the day he confessed to Tsukishita. Tsukishita offhandedly said some heartless things to Kagami; did he really mean them the way they sounded? <<less

It's about a girl named Hatsune with a "bad mouth", for lack of a better description. She's kind-hearted, but her mouth spews the total opposite... more>> of what she means (which is probably due to the fact that she grew up with only male influence). And so she is seen as an arrogant, vulgar girl at her school, but all she wants is a boyfriend. Well, that is, until she gets accepted at the Maidens' Club, where she meets a guy named Kirie, with a somewhat unique habit that happens when a girl comes within a foot of him. And everyone says he's gay, even Hatsune. How will these two fare? Will Hatsune have a boyfriend at last? Will he be more than just a friend? <<less

Udagawa Kachiko is a studious no-nonsense high-school girl. One day, she found an entrance to a fantastic world called Fusuma Land.

Hiroyuki is a 16 year-old boy who is just starting a life of living on his own. He finds a great deal on a huge... more>> house for only 10,000 yen a month in rent. Sure the house is a little run down and perhaps even downright spooky, but it's better than nothing...until he meets Milky Way! Milky Way is a Demoness and she has her eyes set on making Hiroyuki her servant! <<less

Mouri has been dragged to a goukon (blind group date) by her best friend; but Mouri neither wants a boyfriend nor is afraid of showing... more>> her true self, as crude as her personality may be. But when she catches the eye of a guy just as relentless and creepy as her, how will she react? <<less

Family Complex... This is exactly what Akira Sakamoto suffers from, being the second eldest son of the Sakamoto family and the only NORMAL person. The rest of the family consists of beauties, from the parents to the eldest son and the 2 daughters. Poor Akira feels that he's totally out of place, and tries to hide this from the others... but then one day it all comes out. How will his family react to this? In this hilarious manga, every chapter is dedicated to one family member, starting with Akira. Family Complex isn't quite like anything else.... more>>

The second eldest son, Akira. Appears in another manga as a minor character. <<less

Evan Pryce is a celebrated New York Times reporter, and true to his prominent journalistic lineage, he has just published an exclusive scoop that is... more>> brilliant enough to be considered for the Pulitzer Prize. Unfortunately, this also makes him easy prey to the many enemies he has made throughout his career. Instead of going in hiding, however, Evan decides to hole up at his press office - not the safest place for a man in Evan's situation. Unwilling to have his star reporter remain so vulnerable to attack, the Editor-in-Chief orders Evan to cover an out-of-state story: "real" ghost sightings in a secluded village in the countryside—an article too absurd to be handled by the New York Times. For lack of a better thing to do, Evan decides to follow his editor's orders and drives across the Midwestern desert searching for a town nobody seems to have heard of. After ten days of driving by sleepy rural villages with zero results, our lost and exhausted New Yorker is just about ready to give up. But then suddenly, a road sign pointing to "Roureville" catches his eye, and he heaves a sigh of relief. Little does he know that the end of his long road trip is just the beginning of an incredible tale. <<less

When bubbly eleventh-grader Eimi Yamashita finds out that her parents are relocating for work, she decides to strike out on her own and move into... more>> a dormitory for girls. Little does Eimi suspect the exciting romantic adventures that await her there! <<less

Hojo wins three wishes from a ticket and makes some choices that affect his senpai in odd ways...

Tomomi is secretly in love with her classmate Sawada. But her love couldn't be fulfilled as Sawada is in love with another girl. Meanwhile, Ojika,... more>> the head of the broadcast club, is trying to win Tomomi's heart with his handsome voice. Finally Tomomi's gloom is driven away. She starts to see the hidden beauty of the things around her which she has never noticed before. <<less

Have you ever seen a "very manly girl"? The heroine in this story, Oikawa Ibuki, is just that type of girl. To find her true soul mate, after transferring schools, Ibuki was determined to act like a gentle lady. Yet on her first day of transfer, due to her righteous sense she went to save a small dog, and at the time she was seen by the suspicious "crow messenger"! Is Ibuki's whole image ruined!? And who is this mysterious "crow messenger"!?... more>>

Also included are the following stories:

• Handsome! Beads Club "Hyper Version"

• Very Black White Day <<less

“A grudge is a sentiment that is chained down and cannot move. That fixed sentiment becomes sadness, and when that sadness remains chained with no... more>> escape…it becomes hostile…” Baek-On and Ho-Yeon are exorcists-for-hire, traveling throughout the country in search of grudges and ghosts. Each encounter reveals a story of tragedy and loss, sentiments they are all too familiar with themselves. But sometimes the violence of the most murderous spirits is nothing compared to the cruelty of the living. Brush sleeves with death in this beautifully-illustrated collection of ghost stories. <<less

A boy and a girl are forced to join hands for all eternity!?... more>>

In a land ravaged by an epidemic known as "Troy", the only people with healing arts capable of stopping the seizures caused by the disease are the Sisters. Although they have a high resistance to the disease, they are searching for a person who is truly immune, so that they can find a cure. The main character is Sister Elraine, one of the Sisters who becomes infected with Troy. But, when she touches Kiri, a seemingly ordinary boy, her seizures stop. Could he be the one!?

In volume 1 is included the oneshot Island:

A story that takes place on the day Aira turned 14, and learned the devastating truth about the island she lives on, which is completely surrounded by a huge wall... <<less

How does a washed-out, child genius actor confront his fears? Faced with the fear of never surpassing the acting of his greatest nemesis, he idles... more>> away while his childhood mentor and director recovers in a hospital. For five years, he sits idly, wondering what it takes to be a good actor. That is, until the day he met her... <<less

“Private Shiratori Academy is a very prestigious school that strongly encourages its students to develop their own capabilities.” And the best students, four teen geniuses,... more>> live in the Meisen Dorm. But their sickly dorm manager is replaced by her granddaughter–a first-year high-school student. Kamiya Makota is dismayed by the boys’ imperious demands, and the jealousy of her classmates. Can Kamiya trust these brainy hooligans? And can she even trust herself to do the job? <<less

Two story one-shot manwha.... more>>

Soundproofing System of My Room

The girl living in room 206 is annoyed with all of the sounds coming from the guy in room 207. The guy in room 207 is fed up with the noise coming from the girl in room 206. What happens when the two confront each other about their noise problem?

Extremely satisfied

An extremely bored girl calls someone to fix her tv. <<less

Meet Yuka, a 6th grade fashionista who, thanks to her ability to put together just about any outfit on the fly, can disguise herself as... more>> nearly any age she wants. She's just a little bit crazy, and has been known to pass herself off as the older sister of her actual older sister. This manga is the tale of her life… [Animeraider] <<less

4-koma manga... more>>

One day, an un-named ordinary high school girl (her name is left to your imagination), meets Cheko, a maid sent forth from a village of maids. Cheko the maid can melt, fly, remove her head and violate physics.

Surrounding the "ordinary high school girl" and her strange little maid are yuki-onna's who hate cold, a cute squid that can speak, moe yankees, tsundere maid assasins, ecchi lesbian teachers, trap yuki-otoko's, gentlemanly yakuza and many more. <<less

When an old friend from kindergarten moves in next door, Anzu struggles to remember having a childhood friend named Ichigo. However, she soon comes to... more>> realize that appearances can be deceiving, because this beautiful girl is not actually a girl at all! <<less

Jung Euimoon and Eun Myroyung are both members of the second Biology Club, which has been downgraded to the oldest facilities in the school to... more>> make room for the new Biology Club. Jung Euimoon uses Bunsen burners to cook his breakfast and routinely camps out at the Biology Club room to get away from his numerous siblings. Eun is a loner and reads tarot cards--which always foretell unhappy auguries--to amuse herself. They each think the other is strange. These two seem to be opposites, but they have more in common than they think. Who knows what the future holds in store for them. <<less