"Do you want to be kissed?" "Push me away if you don't like it." To avoid moving overseas for her second year of high school, Koko decides to live with her younger childhood friend, Shuri, whom she suddenly reunites with after two years of being apart. Until now, she had only considered him a cute little brother, but once they start living together, Shuri's behavior does a 180. He approaches her as if he's in love with her, whispers tenderly in her ear, and pins her down on the couch?! What is Shuri up to?! Who knows...but there seems to be no way to hold back his dangerously sweet advances! (Source: MangaPlaza)

Kairi Mochizuki, who grew up in a single-parent home, is sensitive and family-oriented. He has a childhood friend and first love who moved away. In the spring of his sophomore year of high school, Kairi's father introduces to him the woman he is to remarry, but she brings along someone else... (Source: Pocket Comics)

Sometimes in life, we have to stop what we’re doing to ask ourselves, “Why does such and such have to be like this?” The world of Katsuo Nakane’s Hurrah Sailor, deals with this question, as Konika, Ichino, Mareta, Shoya, and Ensign Kurie find themselves stranded on a planet whose inhabitants have developed virtually no technology at all. The Two United Empires and the Federation Kingdom have been at war for centuries and entire galaxies have been turned into war zones. With neither side ever achieving a decisive victory, the conflict has been dragging on so long that both sides have even forgotten the reason why the war originally started. But now, for Konika of the Federation Kingdom, and the others from the United Empire, they must put aside their differences to find a way off the planet together. During this process, they find that perhaps there are no differences between them, and some of them begin to wonder if they wouldn’t be better off not returning to the war. (Source: Infinity Studios)

Mao, a 34 year old office worker, always dreamed of getting married, but her boyfriend of five years dumped her before she turned 30 and she's boyfriendless ever since. However, she's determined to get married by the age of 35. One day, Yuito, the 28 year old office ace and Mao's trainee in the same department, confesses his love to her. Mao, who had a faint liking for him but had given up because of the age difference, is elated, but... Yuito is a man who has no desire to get married! In today's world where options overflow, what choice will Mao and Yuito make? (Source: MangaPlaza)

Our protagonist, the RTA speedrunning king of the game "Another Verse", suddenly starts feeling sleepy in the middle of practice. When he wakes up, he hears the familiar opening of "Another Verse" playing right before his eyes!? In this god-mode environment where everybody is moving quicker than usual, you have to speedrun! Clear the game world faster than everyone else! Use every trick and abuse every bug to fight, in this "fastest" Isekai fantasy!! (Source: Monthly Comic Flapper, translated)

Taiyo Nakabiru went to Okinawa on a trip in pursuit of beautiful girls and his wish to go diving. When trying to hit upon a girl, she surprises him by saying that he killed her mother. It appears that she and her two sisters know him, even though he does not remember ever going to Okinawa before. After convincing the three sisters, Nagisa, Shibuki and Mio Miyara, to let him help them out with their work and to let him learn diving from them, Taiyo's childhood with the sisters slowly comes back to him, and certain strange events involving a mystical white whale begins to haunt them. (Source: Anime News Network)

Telling the later life of Vagabond's Musashi Miyamoto, it was depicted through 140 hand-drawn drawings with ink and brush. It was released at the Ueno Royal Museum in Tokyo in May 2008, and since then it has been displayed at three other venues, Kumamoto City Museum, Suntory Museum in Osaka, and Sendai Mediatheque, with new paintings and productions. *Note: The comic was compiled in two books: "Inoueno: Mikazuki-hen" (いのうえの 三日月篇) and "Inoueno: Mangetsu-hen" (いのうえの 満月篇).*

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).*

Princess Nina has been sent to a foreign country to marry the prince only, she'd prefer the princess instead. Shuurei's not sure about this - especially when Nina turns out to be more than a little cruel and sadistic. When Shuurei shows Nina kindness, Nina breaks down in her arms. (Source: Okazu)

Gene Starwind and his partner Jim Hawking run a small business on the backwater planet of Centinel 3. But all that changes the day that Hilda hires them for a bodyguard job. Now, thrust into a mystery they don't fully understand, they're on the run from the cops, the pirates, an angry alien, and a mysterious assassin. But they've got one thing going in their favor - they have the galaxy's most advanced ship, the Outlaw Star. Gene Starwind dreams of life as an Outlaw, and fate smiles on him as he seems to suddenly wind up with a great job. But as things go awry, and he finds himself the new owner of the fastest, most technologically advanced space ship in the galaxy. Unfortunately, it's stolen and the owners want it back... Along with his partner Jim and the lovely Melfina, Gene must fight his way across the galaxy battling pirates, aliens, and assassins as he attempts to discover the secrets of the Outlaw Star. \[Summary of Outlaw Star TV series, taken from ANN; there are significant differences between the anime and manga plots.\] *Note: Chapters 18-21 were never released in volume form, and only through magazine serialization. As of January 1999 the manga has been on an indefinite hiatus with no update on when it will be continued.*

Moe confesses to Yuuka who rejects her harshly in a haughty manner different from her usual "good girl" personality... but Moe seemed to enjoy it?

Japan is now the 51st state of the U.S.A. The isle of Neon, located near Japan, is the only place where prostitution and gambling are legal. There, Italian Mafia, Chinese Triad and Yakuza fight each other to gain the control of casinos and brothels.