Campy queen vs. Miss forever-alone: this defeat-your-insecurities (romantic?) comedy goes out to all you folks full of self-loathing!! Unpopular with men, unattractive, and unsure of herself...... At a mixer one night, insecure and forever-alone Fujiko found her soulmate- No, wait, it was a femme guy playing mother hen?! Fujiko has never been confident in herself as a woman, but with help from prettyboy queen Koyanagi, now she's going to give femininity another shot...! (Source: MangaPlaza)
"Sorry I'm not at all like him... I love you". Torao Yamada commits suicide after learning his lover passed away. However, he wakes up in the future and learns he was cryogenically frozen for 250 years. The android that takes care of him is nice, but is a version of his past lover that is "lacking by 30%"... This is a sad and futuristic story about a hard-headed young man who seeks out love. (Source: Renta!) *Note: Includes one extra chapter.*
Minami Fujii is an employee at a high-powered advertising firm. She’s good at her job but finds herself torn between the pressure and expectations of her career and her attraction to two of her coworkers: the younger, arty Ishida, and the classy, put-together Ogiwara! (Source: TOKYOPOP) *Note: Includes one extra chapter.*
Beautiful People is a manga comprised of six profound and thought-provoking short stories. It includes a tale of a vampire who raises a child as her own, a story of a young man who copes with an alcoholic father amongst other problems with the help of an online friend and four others short stories. (Source: Anime News Network)
Kiri and her husband, both in their 30s, have been happily married for several years. They don't have any children yet, and Kiri knows that at her age they'll need to start trying soon if they ever want to. Yet she can't seem to take that first step, knowing that once she makes a decision, she won't be able to turn back. While Kiri agonizes, feeling more drained with every pregnancy announcement she hears, her husband seems awfully detached and casual about the whole thing...? In a sudden rush of motivation, Kiri takes the plunge and manages to get pregnant, only to face a world of new, unfamiliar challenges as a first-time mom-to-be. This story of one woman's journey into motherhood is for the women also struggling to decide, for those already expecting, for long-time mothers reminiscing about their own pregnancies, and of course for the men in all their lives. It's a story anyone and everyone can enjoy. (Source: MangaPlaza)
"Falna...as long as a Ragtonia lives, the Necromancer will feed off of their life force. He took too much from you. He killed you. But I can give your life back to you, if you'll choose to start living as a Liesian again & fight the Necromancer. When the Necromancer attacked this country, several thousand people were killed. Several thousand more had parts of their bodies stolen. They all became Ragtonia. Kill the Necromancer, release the Ragtonia and free this country from horror & destruction." (Source: Aurora Publishing)
A cyber-punkish collection of stories revolving around the theme of the "DOLL." 1. **Gum no Iranai Kodomo-tachi** (Keep Those Condoms Away From Our Kids) The tale of boys and girls who have lost their sexual desire. 2. **Rissa no Tetsu no Hitsugi** (The Iron Maiden) The tale of the strain a girl experiences from having grown up in a home without love. 3. **Shuuseki Kairo no Himawari** (The Sunflower Quality Of An Integrated Circuit) Vanilla is a maidroid in the home of an elderly master and his younger wife. The atmosphere in the house is cold and stiff because the wife is having an affair with a younger man. The lonely master comes to look upon Vanilla as his own dear child. He suggests that when the sunflowers bloom, they go outside together to watch them. "Is that a command, sir?" asks Vanilla. "It is not a command," he replies. "It is a promise." And so forms the piercing and painful integrated circuit—the alternating current of intercourse—between a lonely old man and the emotionless Vanilla. 4. **Bara Tessen no Mukougawa** (The Other Side of the Rose Wire) What was the thing a girl like an angel endlessly carried? 5. **Kago no Sakana** (Fish Out of Water) A mermaid is brought out of her dream. 6. **Koubutsu-kun** (Mister Mineral) Inside the body of a cute girl who's just like a doll... are internal organs, and blood, and... 7. **Anata wa Ikiteiru** (Alive) The sad tale of a human and a clone who pass right by each other.
Love is a piece of cake, or is it? Shino's life takes a hard reset after she quits her job, and her boyfriend breaks up with her! She decides to move to a new city and start over. Shino quickly develops a crush on her next-door neighbor who also happens to be her new manager, Kyoshiro! Unfortunately for her, he is already living with his girlfriend, Akari! Find out how this love triangle unfolds in George Asakura's whirlwind love story! (Source: MangaPlaza)
Awkward high school student Koharu Minami is in love with Shimizu, the popular boy in her class. So she's shocked when she inadvertently discovers that his friendly demeanor is all an act. Or is it? The more time they spend time together, the more Koharu notices the kindness hidden behind the constant teasing and disgruntled comments. Could finding out about "the real Shimizu" actually end up bringing the two closer together?! (Source: MangaPlaza) *Note: Includes two extra chapters.*
"I'm sure I'll have to pay for this one day." When Mitsu was a junior high school student, a fortuneteller told her, "You should marry the person you love the second most." Now all grown up, she works at a clinic. One fateful night she runs into her first love, Arishima, and they start having an intimate relationship. But Mitsu is already married to a man who is a wonderful and kind husband?! Mitsu and her husband, Arishima and his wife. Four point of views, two married lives, only one way this can end... right? (Source: MangaPlaza)
Mitsu is the perfect woman. Looked upon by men as the ideal girl, the perfect lover. Kishi is a bookstore clerk. Mitsu is an art student and one of the store's regular customers. When Kishi falls head-over-heels in love with Mitsu, he soon discovers another side to this seemingly flawless woman. Mitsu's self-destructive tendencies are an emotional hazard that even Kishi's infatuation can't fix. Together, they lose themselves in a world of intense love, drama, and going to the occasional party. But when Mitsu's former lover gives Kishi a warning about her and the meaning of "Dolis," it may already be too late to save her. (Source: TOKYOPOP)
Ibara Nayuki is a figure skater who performs around the globe, but audiences grow fed up with his passionless performances, and his coach doesn't know what to do with him. Just then, who should appear before him but Vasily, a ballet dancer once hailed as a child prodigy. "Not knowing why you're there in the rink is as good as not knowing who you really are!" (Source: MangaPlaza)

