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From BH007: One day, in the middle of (Tokyo), the Hell's Gate appeared. In the area coverd by the gate, the laws of physics do not apply. Furthermore, people living nearby have begun to develop supernatural powers, and are known as contractors. Among these contractors, is BK201, a contractor with power over lightning who is renown as one of the strongest reapers and for some reason, hated and hunted by most major world organizations...
Promotional manga based on the hit Phoenix Wright videogame series by Capcom. This fifty page manga was released along with a limited edition version of GS:YG in Japan. It features two sections, one focusing on Phoenix and one on Edgeworth, as they meet at a television studio. (Phoenix Wright isn't really the main story. They're both about the same videogame series, and I didn't know how else to connect them.)
From Esthétique: Diana Spencer never had ambitions to become royal, but she dreamed just like the rest of us. That all changes when Prince Charles visits her home one day hoping to see her sister, but instead ends up inviting Diana to a Ball at Buckingham Palace! At the ball, a chance meeting with a stranger helps Diana draw the attention of all of England's aristocracy, including the Prince and Queen, and, of course, Camilla Parker Bowles. This is a story about how pure-hearted Diana Spencer became Princess Diana, The People's Princess and the Queen of the Pure Heart a royal beloved the world over.
The closing stages of Sengoku (Warring States) Japan. A setting commonly explored in Japanese manga through vivid scenes of gory battles, samurai, and feats of bravery, honour, and loyalty. Iwaaki Hitoshi dares to go against the popular grain by not focusing on the 3 famous unifiers, but by depicting stories of a society in transition. Rapidly changing cultural norms and class expectations pit the old versus the young, the war-weary versus the war-mongers, and the parochial versus the foward-thinking. The first story, "Snow Ridge," explores the changing role of samurai and provinces while the second story, "Sword Dance," deals with kendo's evolution from warfare to art.
"My name is Li Zuo, seeks death!" "All eyes are on par with me! Let me announce something~ I am a cultivator!" "Brothers, give me a rocket, and I will use the kill immortal sword to hack the magic G**!" Because of hundreds of millions of debts, Li Zuo fell down the stairs while working as a live broadcaster and traveled to another world of sword and magic, Where he obtained the live broadcast cultivation system, and became a cultivator. Making money to marry another world's rich beauty, pretending to be strong, beating people in the magic world, and reaching the pinnacle of life!
In order to get the sacred magic found in the human world, androgynous wizard master July leaves the forest he governs, and moves towards the palace in search for the magic...
From Shinnen: The Hachiouji family hunts demons in the darkness. The heiress of the Hachiouji family, Takamichi, lost her older brother at a very young age. She isolates herself, but, one evening, two werewolf pups are given to her. After just a few years, they have grown quickly, and they even go to the same senior high school that she does!
From VIZ: In company-owned rabbit-hutch apartments live tenants who can't afford to live anywhere else, and the apartment complex in which high-school girl Hatsumi Narita lives is ruled over by the rumor mongering, self-righteous Mrs. Tachibana. Get on Tachibana's bad side, and life becomes hell. When Hatsumi has to buy a pregnancy test because her popular sister Akane's period is late, Mrs. Tachibana's son, Ryoki, who used to bully Hatsumi as a kid, promises not to tell the world about Hatsumi's secret, only if she becomes his slave. Suddenly, Azusa Hatsumi's protector in their youth, reappears to save her again! He's moving back into the neighborhood! Despite the budding romance between Hatsumi and Azusa, Ryoki has control over her through the secret that could ruin the lives of everyone in Hatsumi's family, and he hasn't forgotten who his slave is!
Compilation of short stories: • Subarashii Shitsuren (Marevelous Heartbreak) Salaryman Naitou’s love life and work life are both going downhill. He sleeps with woman after woman, but none of them really does it for him. On top of that, he has a major crush on his boss, who only chides him for coming in late after his wild nights of unsatisfying sex and generally treats him as an errand boy. Then, one evening, a stranger accosts him at his apartment door. • Ore no Shachou Boku no Hisho • Kairaku no Chi • Kou Mono (The Supplicant) A husband and brother deal with the fallout of a life cut short. • Ichiban no Ai (The Greatest Love) Former Section Chief Masaki considers it an honor to do his best in his temporary assignment as secretary to President Shirasaki. The problem is that Masaki has fallen in love with the company president, and he has no hope of that love ever being returned, as the President clearly worships his wife. Resigning himself to an unrequited love, Masaki contents himself with anonymous assignations at the local gay porn theater. Until one day when the President discovers Masaki's sexual preference and his pastime. - From The Moon in a Box • Koi no Katachi
Tomoki had always been in love with his sempai, but had never been able to tell him how he feels. On the sempai’s wedding day (which Tomoki reluctantly attends), a heartbroken Tomoki meets up with the sempai’s younger brother, Atsuya, who had now grown into a handsome young man from the last time Tomoki saw him. Atsuya had always known how Tomoki felt about his brother, having witnessed Tomoki masturbating to the smell of his brother’s shirt once. Ashamed and embarrassed, Tomoki tries to put the incident behind him, but the cruel Atsuya would have none of it. He meets up with Tomoki in the wedding reception bar and reminds him of his past misgivings. When Tomoki tries to escape, Atsuya ties him up and rapes him…What will happen to Tomoki and Atsuya now? Can Atsuya change Tomoki’s heart, or will Tomoki forever regard him as a substitute, a replica, for his older brother? ************* Taken from Fushichou: Tomoki is in love with his sempai, Sawaki. One day while at Sawaki's house, Sawaki's brother Atsuya, caught him jerking off while smelling Sawaki's shirt and afraid Atsuya would let the secret out, Tomoki avoids his sempai. Four years later, Sawaki is getting married and Tomoki is invited to the party and while his 'love' for Sawaki is still as strong as ever, another person has their eyes on Tomoki. It's Atsuya, the younger brother of Sawaki who wants to conquer Tomoki's heart... will he have success?
Kirishima, is a popular teenage boy and a star athlete at his school. For some unknown reason, he seems to have vanished off the face of the earth after quitting the volleyball team. His disappearance eventually became pivotal to the collection of stories about various individuals who are connected to him in some way, with each having a unique point of view about connections, relationships, social boundaries, and the similar events that revolve around them. This story is based on the omnibus novel "Kirishima, Bukatsu Yamerutteyo" by Asai Ryou which was first published in February 2010.
