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"When you lose something, there is something that you remember." Hinata Wahei, a 28 year old office worker, with the sole ambition to start his new single lifestyle, was suddenly forced to live together with three sisters. The unforeseen co-existence is filled to the brim with trouble...? A story about a small family of 4. It's a tale from "I'm home" to "I'm off."
In middle school, Ichinose Kimitaka taught his friends how to play basketball. Despite his experience with the sport, his friends quickly outmatched him in skill. After an incident brought on by his frustration and jealousy, he was crushed to overhear those same 'friends' discussing how they wished he'd just kill himself. On his way to toss out his special basketball shoes, he met a girl who was just as frustrated, throwing her own dancing shoes away. She was so tall, and her hands and feet are so large, that she had been rejected from her chosen hobby of Spanish dancing. He urged her to give basketball a try, and the two exchanged their shoes instead of throwing them away. As he enters high school, Kimitaka learns that meeting him changed that girl's life for the better, and she is now a happy, social basketball player. Will Kimitaka be able to find the courage to make new friends and pursue his own talents?
The year is 1991 and 6th grader Yaguchi Haruo only has video games to live for. He's not popular in school and he's neither handsome, funny, nice nor even friendly. The only thing he has going for him is that he is good at video games. One day at the local arcade, he plays Oono Akira, a fellow classmate but who's popular, smart, pretty and a rich girl that absolutely destroys him at Street Fighter II. Not only does he lose to her 30 times in a row, he can’t beat her at any game. Haruo can’t seem to shake Akira off as she follows him from arcade to arcade everyday after school and beats him every time. As weird as it sounds, the odd couple begins a strange bond and friendship. Third runner-up for the 2013 Manga Taisho Awards.
Mock Turtle SoupA colored single-volume manga, that consists of 8 separate stories, filled with avante-garde illustrations and poems.
A collection of extras from creators in Shueisha's Margaret shōjo manga magazine to raise funds for the victims of the Great Eastern Japan Earthquake disaster.
Stuck by a disease that’s slowly eating him away, Ryou yearns to be free from the cage, to breath in fresh air on his own. His doctor tries to relief him of his pain while searching for a cure to the disease. Healing Elegy’s a bittersweet story focusing on the interaction between doctor and patient.
While frog Pyonkichi is hopping in an empty lot in Nerima, Tokyo's Shakujii Park, middle schooler Hiroshi trips over a rock and squashes him. However, Pyonkichi is reborn as an imprint on the front of Hiroshi's shirt and now gives him advice and commentary on his life.
University student Satake Aoi wakes up rolled up in a red string and with a stranger inside his house that says he's a god. Aoi scapes, but something is... different... He's now extremely popular and everybody's fighting for his attention. What's the relation between these events and some promise he made with the man that calls himself the god Ookuninushi-no-mikoto and what will happen from now on?
"I'll teach you what's bad." As a high schooler, Ayumu's at a sensitive period in her life. She ends up being educated on adult matters by a bearded old man wearing a black t-shirt
[From Nakama] Saiki unexpectedly meets his senior high school rival, Satou. When Satou confesses, "I've always liked you," Saiki's brain panics! Even so, Saiki has feelings he cannot express in words for Satou, who sweetly and forcefully pursues him. Then one day, kissed by Satou, Suzuki's body responds ... !?
From Dangerous Pleasure: After being forced to quit his job and getting dumped by his girlfriend in the same day, Sawazu went out drinking with his four university friends to vent his depression. The day just after he announced, "I shall become gay," he woke up to find himself naked and lying beside his good friend Udaka. And after telling the stunned Sawazu, "I've always liked you," and "I won't see you anymore," Udaka left... Hand Which is a set of stories portraying friendship and love between men. Besides its stunning debut, it also includes extra one-shots that are popular amongst fans.
