Taking inspiration from the Russian classic Crime and Punishment and then placing the behemoth of a book into a modern metropolis, Ochiai Naoyuki retells Dostoevsky's drama from the eyes of a struggling Japanese writer. In the 2006 remake Crime and Punishment ~A Falsified Romance~ Ochiai's lead is an incredible talent with award winning abilities. Tachi recently placed as the Best New Writer in a major literary competition, but the stress of living up to his family's goals of him becoming a powerful man has broken him on the cusp of greatness. He dropped out of college. However after moving to Tokyo he struggles with his identity and the duality of life in this surreal megalopolis. Despite being recognized for his tremendous potential, success does not come quite as easy, and life is a constant struggle. For Tachi Miroku life is nothing but a battle, with his past and his moral fiber. He hasn't been to work in four months and his dreams are a total mess filled with abuse, taunting, and the strong smell of blood. Tachi is alone and without direction in life right now. You could say he is a hikkikomori but that is only where his troubles start. (Source: Otaku Magazine)

“In order to get up on stage, you need to be special.” Hikaru Ogino spends her days singing oldies in her family’s bath house, but when her best friend Ran — a former idol — invites her to try out for an “idol survival camp” together, it’ll put her talents to the test. Can Hikaru outshine the competition and make her stage debut, or will she fall flat? Witness the birth of a new star in this exciting story about chasing your dreams! (Source: Azuki)

Midori Akitsu ends up in another world after dying from overwork!? I got reincarnated in another world after God blessed me with a special ability. This ability is "to be loved by non-human beings." Huh!? Meaning that humans might not like me, but all the fluffy animals will love me? Whoaaa! I get to pet a white tiger and dragons to my heart's contents! (Source: Coolmic)

Naoyuki, a sincere, very honest and direct country boy comes to Tokyo for high school and stays with his city cousin's family. At first everybody takes advantage of him thinking that he's too naive to catch on things, including his cousin, Satoshi who's in college and demands that in exchange for tutoring him, Naoyuki have sex with him... Then Satoshi finds out that Naoyuki isn't as gullible as he looks and starts falling in love with his pure-heartedness. Vol #2 introduces a new schoolmate of Naoyuki who also falls in love with him but Naoyuki is very confused about his own feelings for Satoshi and the difference between sex, love and friendship. Includes one-shot: Kimochi no Yukue

Meet Tetsuo Atarashi. Age: 32. Occupation: porn comic writer. Marital Status: single, but has an estranged 14-year-old son who he fathered at the irresponsible age of 17. Sexual Potency: Currently None. Given such circumstances, it seems only natural that all Tetsuo desires is a kiss potent enough to get him back to his A-Game. Unfortunately, life plays a cruel hand when his long-estranged and "gay" son, Haruka, suddenly shows up at his door! Thrust into fatherhood in a homoerotic world, what is Tetsuo to do?! Kiss All the Boys takes slap-stick comedy and raging hormones to the opposite extreme! (Source: Amazon) **Included one-shot:** Volume 3: Summertime Accomplices

Exiled from Japan during the Boshin War in 1868 as the new Meiji government took hold, two defeated samurai, Hikosaburô and Manzô, eventually settle in Crow territory in North America. One day out hunting, Hikosaburô encounters a young native female who has just given birth hidden in the scrub. Called Running Deer, she tells of how she escaped from white traders who had ‘bought’ her. They soon come looking for their possession! Saved from the murderous deceit of the traders by the chief of the Oglalas, Crazy Horse, they soon form a profound friendship and respect for each other’s cultures to the extent of Hikosaburô and Manzô being renamed ‘Sky Hawk’ and ‘Winds Wolf’ and fighting alongside their new brothers in their struggle against the invaders. Taniguchi gives an accurate portrayal of the Indian Wars of the period culminating in the infamous Little Bighorn encounter. (Source: Ponent Mon)

The Meiji Era (1868-1912) was probably the most defining period in Japanese history. It was a time of massive change from the more traditional; Tokugawa era to a positioning of Japan in the modern world. Contemporary writer, Soseki Natsume, suffered due to all the social and cultural changes and expressed his feelings through his character Botchan, a classic in the vein of Mark Twain or Charles Dickens. This massive work over 10 volumes could, in other hands, have been but an informed text book. However, the solid script by Sekigawa explores the period through an adult story whilst the art by Taniguchi portrays the material with exquisite and elegant detail. (Source: Ponent Mon)

A girl keeps missing her stuff and she discovers that it's a tiny god living in her room who takes them. Follow her as she becomes friends with the god and their adventures in the room as others interact with them...

Yoshino Michi is 32 years old. She's been married for five years, but hasn't had sex for the last two. It's not as if she doesn't get along with her husband, it's just that the sex part is lacking. It was a bit unexpected, but one night when she when drinking with her colleague, Niina Makoto (36), she wound up confessing that her marriage had turned sexless. And then, a shocked Niina responded *"My marriage is sexless, too,"* and smiled with a lonely look in her eyes. (Source: Coolmic)

Ostracized and tormented by his peers to the point of breaking, Kazuhisa Kaya set off into the nearby forest atop the mountain with one purpose: to dig a pitfall and bring about the death of the person behind his suffering. However, right when Kazuhisa was about to succeed in his revenge, a sudden earthquake throws his plans out of whack! Caught unaware, all he can do is patiently lie in wait until someone lumbering across the path happens to fall into his trap. Kazuhisa’s excitement is short-lived, however, as the corpse at the bottom of his pitfall turns out not to be the bully he was expecting but a grotesque, pig-looking monster, and his confusion only grows as he’s suddenly greeted by a pure-white room and a RPG-like status screen. Strange monsters now wandering the mountain and with newfound powers at his disposal, Kazuhisa is forced to throw all concerns over his tormentor to the wayside as he focuses on a new goal: survival. That’s not going to be as easy as it seems, however, as he’s not the only one to have been wrapped up in this mess… (Source: Hanashi Media)

Sawamura Soushi is a soldier in a war-torn future. He meets a cute, innocent young girl named Nadeko, with whom he starts up a friendship. Nadeko is a flower girl, one of the girls who has a flower growing from her heart. One day, when Sawamura is trying to protect her from danger, she confesses her love to him and protects him with the plant growth that suddenly comes forth from her body. Sawamura soon learns that there is a special squad of flower girls and their partners, and that their abilities are awakened when they fall in love. But does he really love a girl that is a decade his junior, and will he be willing to be a good partner for her? What's more, he learns that the awakening also starts the growing of the flowers in their bodies, so that the flower girl soldiers have only a short while longer to live. How can Sawamura and Nadeko make the best of such a terrible situation? (Source: MangaHelpers)

The planet had died once before… On the day of Despaira, a god appeared in the sky and saved the world. His name was King Shishioh. But now with the throne of the king empty, a vicious battle between two brothers is unfolding. Who will ascend the throne? (Source: Juné)