Alex and Rita are two souls who died at the same moment on different ends of the earth. This is the story of their interactions with the humans who can see them as they travel towards each other.

Shuhei Kurata is stuck. Going to a new school where he doesn’t fit in, standing still as his old friends leave him behind. Watching silently as the woman he loves slips further and further away. He feels detached and out of place, as if maybe it all might be a dream. Perhaps it is…

A master chef and the owner of the bar where he is about to begin working at, is actually high school classmates. In the past, they had shared a kiss, the scent of flowers still clings onto the owner's body...The master chef who thinks about the past, is carrying complex feeling everyday? Also, the owner is someone with his pheromones on high, and super popular with other men that one night, he was attacked by an unknown stalker! Decadent wine and love stories between adults... Tonight, Dive awaits you arrival. (Source: Nakama)

Republication of Maki Kusumoto's work over the past two decades.

Because she wants to leave on vacation, Riko accepts to date an older man ... for money. A first step towards an uncharted ground and dangerous ... Because easy money is attractive and the desire to spend it permanent. Should we live under a rain of diamonds to be happy? Torn between her desires and ideals, Riko will have to find her way. (Source: Milan, translated)

Izumi suffers from the fact that she can not meet the expectations of her mother and is not a good student. She does not enjoy life, does not bother with school anymore and gets involved with older men under her pseudonym 'Alisa-chan'. But suddenly an angel appears, who no longer gives way from her side and slowly leads her life in a new direction.

If you are aware of fashion in Japan, you must have seen Liliko's face. For the last few years, she has been at the top of the modeling world, with her face and body promoting the biggest brands. But as everyone who is in this world admits, staying on top is a constant and never ending battle. There are always new faces introduced to the public. Younger models and new looks are brought into the fold every season. And keeping that position means learning to adapt and learning to cope with change. To maintain her position Liliko has decided to go under the knife. This is not her first go with this service. It is yet another round of plastic surgery, all done to keep herself looking young and vibrant. However, in this case just a little nip and tuck was not enough. Liliko is bent on undergoing a full body makeover. From head-to-toe, every inch of her will undergo cosmetic surgery, and thus begins her madness. (Source: Kodansha USA)

Yukari is a spirited high school senior in the process of studying for her college entrance exams. Sadly the prospect of subjecting herself to a meaningless dull life leaves her feeling depressed about the future. In a bout of frustration, Yukari begins to ignore her courses and she begins to hang out with a group of fashion design students. But what Yukari doesn’t know is that this circle is known as Paradise Kiss, and they are run by a pair of young designers already making their mark on the Asian scene. Furthermore, while her life is going to soon change, it will not be due to the elite political or commerce based future her family may have hoped for, instead her life may eventually be set in a world of high fashion, with her strutting down the catwalk as the face of Asian fashion! *Source: Kodansha USA, Vol. 1* ---- Wildly-popular artist Ai Yazawa’s beloved fashion-centric manga, Paradise Kiss, is back in a glamorous omnibus edition to celebrate 20 years since the manga began serialization. Follow Yukari’s through-the-looking-glass journey as she is drawn into the world of fashion by a group of passionate, young aesthetes who are determined to make their couture label a success, with Yukari as their muse… *Source: Kodansha USA, 20th Anniversary Edition*

An art student becomes infatuated with an older woman who serves noodles at the university cafeteria. Little does he know that she has been fantasizing about him herself. Complicating the matter is her past relationship with the student’s professor. *Note: volume 1 includes the first two one-shots published before official serialization*

A collection of 9 wonderfully weird and violent short stories from the mind of Kaneko Atsushi. 1. **A Convenient Fiction** (コンビニエンス・フィクション) 2. **The Paranormal Phenomena Research Society** (超常現象探究会) 3. **BANG! x3** 4. **Eat Meat!** 5. **Tanaka Kachou VS Hamakawa Unyu** (田中課長 V.S. 浜川運輸) 6. Hit and Run (ヒット・アンド・ラン) 7. **The Thief and The Pencil** (泥棒と鉛筆) 8. **Full of Holes** (穴だらけ) 9. **FUCK THE FUCKIN' FUCKED FUCKER**

Shinjyurou Mamiya is an embalmer, a profession seen as "unclean" in Japan. Shinjyurou has accepted the life of an outcast amongst most people; to him it is a job and nothing more. He has gained an exceptional understanding of death and its consequences, as well as what it means to live. Mitsukazu Mihara brings us another psychological masterpiece in several thought-provoking volumes, the first alone of which explores the meanings of beauty, love and loss. (Source: Anime News Network)

These haunting tales of human-like androids, called Dolls, range from romantic to tragic, from comic to ironic, and everything in between. In these stories, dolls have an uncanny way of working themselves into the lives of their masters: A woman develops an unusual closeness to doll that will affect her human family from beyond the grave...A man wants to make his doll into the perfect human lover, but discovers that humans are not perfect...A father buys his son a doll to help him get over the death of his mother. Doll provides a firsthand glimpse into the psychology of the human-doll relationship and examines the question of what it means to be truly human. (Source: TOKYOPOP)