Millions in debt, high schooler Taira’s only path to redemption is in the world of underground ping pong! “Gimme a flat table, a ball, and a racket, and I’ll show you some ping pong!” A shining table and a burning ball. Nobody will keep their sanity when this crazy ping pong battle begins! *Source: MANGA Plus*
"The Locker Game," a system where upperclassmen nominate underclassmen... Hiroki is a common kid with common sense, and for some reasons he's been nominated by the school's "prince," Saiohji!! (Source: Coolmic) *Note: Includes one extra chapter.*
Matsuka Ryou is a school girl who doesn't seem to take life seriously. She dreams of growing up and becoming a wanderer or a minstrel. She's the adviser and sole member of the light music club (although its not really a club). However when she picks up a key that a teacher drops, a whole new world is opened up to her...
You’ve never seen manga like this before! No annoying speed lines or sappy, neotenic eyeballs here — just pure Japanese counterculture. This anthology of contemporary underground comics from Japan features a wide variety of styles and topics ranging from the humorous to the profound. There’s a whole world of comics out there, and it’s not all Godzilla and schoolgirls! A great introduction to the other Japanese comics featuring Asia’s answers to Robert Crumb, Dan Clowes, and Chester Brown! List of included Oneshots: "Horse Horse Tiger Tiger" by Imiri Sakabashira "A Hooker's Room" by Naoto Yamakawa "Kisses" by Kiriko Nananan "Kitty Court Drama" by Nekojiru "What a Mixed Up World!" by Yasuji Tanioka "Million Dollars" by Yoshiharu Mitsumoto "The Abalone Cat" by Naoki and Shunichi Karasawa. *Source: Fantagraphics*
After discovering her "friend" Min-Chae was only using her to clean up her own image, bullied high schooler Se-Yo’s life takes a dramatic turn when an accident leaves her in the body of a beautiful coma patient named Kkotbi! The deity responsible for the body swap offers her a deal: fulfill Kkotbi's destiny by becoming an idol within a year or lose everything. Now Se-Yo must learn the ropes of K-pop stardom while dealing with a jealous Min-Chae, who has no idea the gorgeous new girl is actually her former friend who knows all about her dark past. (Source: WEBTOON)
Amatsuka Mai, a girl who loves sweets, is heartbroken after being dumped by her girlfriend. One day, she falls in love at first sight with Kurosaki Riri, a beautiful girl who has just arrived as a new waitress at the cafe she works at. However, Riri turns out to be a demon called a succubus? Mai shouldn't fall in love with her, but she can't forget her super sweet kiss! A cute and devilish Girls' Love comedy begins! (Source: Kodansha, translated) *Notes: \- Chapters 2 to 20 were split into multiple parts in the original serialization and later combined in the volume releases. \- Includes the one-shot "Tsukutte Agetai! Yomotsu Gohan (作ってあげたい! よもつご飯)" and one extra chapter.*
Two volumes of the author's best one-shots. Volume 1: **Mushi to Uta** (虫と歌, *Insects and Songs*) 1) **Hoshi no Koibito** (星の恋人, Star Lover); *Afternoon 2007-12* The odd relationship between a teenage boy and his uncle's "daughter." 2) **Violight** (ヴァイオライト); *Afternoon 2008-07* A boy wakes up in an unfamiliar land, with only a strange, ethereal young man to accompany him on his journey to safety. 3) **Kusaka Kyoudai** (日下兄妹, The Kusaka Siblings); *Afternoon 2009-12* A baseball player who's just quit the school team due to a shoulder injury and the adorable robot he adopts as his little sister. 4) **Mushi to Uta** (虫と歌); *Summer 2006 Afternoon Four Seasons Award winner work; 2006-10 Appendix* The story of a young man who builds models of insects for odd clients, and his siblings. Winner of the Shikitaishou award. 5) **Secret**; *kakioroshi* A two-page oneshot. Volume 2: **25-Ji no Vacances** (25時のバカンス, *25-Hour Vacation*) 1-2) **25-ji no Vacances** (25時のバカンス, 25-Hour Vacation ); *Afternoon 2010-09, 10* Marine biologist Nishi Otome takes time off and reunites with her brother, Kotaro, for the first time in a while. 3) **Pandora nite** (パンドラにて, On Pandora); *Afternoon 2010-01* The meeting between a delinquent named Nana and a strange transfer student at Pandora Women’s College, located on one of Saturn's satellites. 4) **Tsuki no Soushiki** (月の葬式, The Funeral of the Moon); *Afternoon 2011-10* A genius high school student begins living with a lonely man in the isolated snowy mountains of the north. *Note: Winner of the Tezuka Osamu New Artist Prize (2010).*
Two lonely siblings, Sophie and Benjamin, have been taken in by new foster parents. While exploring their surroundings, they come across the ruins of a mansion from a bygone age. Can the bloodsucking lady of the house spare them some time?
Continuation of the related series
The protagonist who was rarely ever at school during his middle school and high school days, is unemployed even as an adult. From morning till night, it was video games. For him who was ranked first worldwide, it was his life. One day, his character is suddenly hacked. The data was unrecoverable and there was nothing that could be done. Feeling great despair at having lost his rank that he had bet everything to achieve in a world that controlled his life, the protagonist attempts suicide. When he awakens, he finds himself inside the video game, no, it was a real world that resembled it. There, he notices that he has reincarnated into the the body of a sub character that he had created and bought premium benefits for long ago but had left neglected.
In the title piece, Chiruhi, Orin is a prostitute who works on a boat near the seashore. She falls in love with a young hairdresser, who is one of her customers, even though she knows it is an impossible love. This collection consists of six historical short stories which tragicomically depict people trying to do their best in the city of Edo throughout the seasons.
When "Nice Guy" Asai Manatsu's marriage proposal gets rejected, he thinks his day can't get any worse, until a Knight in Skull helmet tries to kill him! He's saved by a beautiful, silver-haired swords-woman and told to flee, but his nice guy impulses are too strong and he saves her from an attack, getting himself killed in the process. As he dies he wishes to be reborn in a world where people won't judge him for taking care of others...

