In the new neighborhoods that sprung up in the countryside on the outskirts of Tokyo is Shinsei High School. Among the students is the young and restless Shingo Tamai, a first year student. At the beginning of the school year he presents the new coach of the soccer team, Tenpei Matsuki, whom was also a former goalkeeper of the Japanese national football and bronze medal winner at the Olympic Games in Mexico. Matsuki intends to build a team that can compete at the highest levels. His intense workouts originally seems too much for many members of the team, including Shingo. He decides to boycott the team's "official" Matsuki team and creates his own. After a first victory, he is always defeated by that of Matsuki, which begins to be seen by Shingo as an invincible enemy. Subsequently, the two will be able to clarify their conflicting relationship and Shingo will eventually become the captain of the only school team coached by Matsuki. (Source: Wikipedia)

A period drama based gag manga about two crows, Karappe, the titular character, whom is weak to his unending affection for human girls, and Karaten, a cowardly, yet very passionate crow-tengu, as the two travel across the mountainous countryside of old Japan. The series was initially credited to Fujio Akatsuka, but later production shifted to Don Sasaki, under that of which the art style took a noticeable change.

Unrelated to the G.I. Joe franchise (from ebookjapan): 1941 - The Japanese attack Pearl Harbor, resulting in unjust discrimination against the Second-gen living in Hawaii. Joe, a second-generation Japanese American, is one of them. He is sent to a juvenile reformatory by an unreasonable policeman. As the war situation became severe, the U.S. military, worried about the shortage of soldiers, made a plan to send the Japanese-American boys in the reformatory to the front lines as soldiers! Thus, an American captain comes to Joe and his friends, and the hellish military training begins!