There is a small maid cafe that nearly nobody goes to – Maid Cafe Seaside, quiet enough for Sanada to do his homework in. His airheaded classmate Arashiyama works as the cafe’s only maid, even though she sure doesn’t act like one. What happens when her friends stop by for a visit? (Source: Manga Planet) *Notes: Nominated to the 22nd Annual Tezuka Osamu Cultural Prize.*

Yoshiaki Maeda has been falsely accused and detained, along with delinquents from all over the Kanto region, in the juvenile correctional facility, Shouran Institute. Yoshiaki is as typical as a boy can get, so when he finds himself living in this violence-ridden prison, he can’t think of anything worse. His cellmates, Iwakura, Yamanoi, and Yoshioka, are a cunning crew and soon Yoshiaki finds himself pulled into a feud going on in the prison. Then suddenly, a prison van crashes into the facility and what shambles out of the wreckage are flesh-eating zombies … and so the curtain is raised on this bone-chilling story of panic and horror … (Source: Kodansha USA)

An average guy meets a popular girl, and puppy love gradually develops into a serious relationship. But when the girl falls tragically ill with leukemia, the young man must come to terms with what it truly means to love someone. (Source: VIZ Media)

Strange people live in a building called Getenrou. There are boys looking for porn, a space officer, robots, and then...a series of murders!? Officer Sakuraba Saeko's curiosity is piqued by two siblings who appear to hold the key to solving the mystery, and she begins an investigation of her own. Will her “sloppy” logic be able to reveal the astonishing truth hidden in Getenrou? *Note: Nominated for the 2012 Manga Taisho Award.*

**Two roommates struggle to make ends meet until an opportunity changes everything—the manga that inspired the hit live-action film Nemurubaka: Hypnic Jerks!** From Masakazu Ishiguro, the acclaimed author of Heavenly Delusion, comes a lighthearted slice-of-life story about two broke college roommates pathing out their futures. While Yumi, an aimless bookstore worker, watches her talented musician upperclassman, Ruka, strive to achieve her dreams, she finds herself wondering what it even means to have dreams in the first place. *Source: Seven Seas Entertainment, License Announcement*

This is a semi-autobiographical story of manga author Kazuichi Hanawa's time when he was taken in for a violation of bearing of arms. The main character really loves to collect guns, what can he to do about this? Nothing, really. He cant help it even if he is living in a country where its illegal to own any. All he can do is to continue his hobby and hope that nothing goes wrong. Well, it did go wrong and we follow his experience in prison. (Source: koufukuron.com)

From Ponent Mon: Seventeen authors (nine from France or French-speaking countries, eight from Japan) brought together in the same book, a succession of freely created short stories about the same universe: Japan. The French, of course, journeyed to Japan for the occasion. Each cartoonist was sent for two weeks to a different city in the archipelago (Joann Sfar in Tôkyô, Emmanuel Guibert in Kyôto, Nicolas de Crécy in Nagoya, etc.) to bring back an original creation. The Japanese tell us about their district, the city where they live or where they originally come from (Kazuichi Hanawa's story being about the northern island of Hokkaido, Jiro Taniguchi's about the town of Tottori, etc.) The result is often inspired, always surprising: Japan through new eyes. "Japan" will appear simultaneously in French, Japanese, Spanish, Italian and English. Along with "A Patch Of Dreams" by Hideji Oda, it is the first step in a series of international creations with left-to-right reading direction, created for us by some of the best European and Japanese comic book artists. List of included short stories: At the Seaside - [TAKAHAMA Kan](https://www.mangaupdates.com/authors.html?id=4331) The Gateway - David Prudhomme Summer Sky - [TANIGUCHI Jiro](https://www.mangaupdates.com/authors.html?id=714) Now I Can Die! - Aurélia Aurita Osaka 2034 - François Schuiten & Benoît Peeters Shin.Ichi. - Emmanual Guibert The New Gods - Nicolas de Crécy *Kankichi* - [MATSUMOTO Taiyou](https://www.mangaupdates.com/authors.html?id=361) The Tokyo of Qualtérou - Joann Sfar The Sunflower - [Little Fish](https://www.mangaupdates.com/authors.html?id=19995) The Song of the Crickets - [ANNO Moyoco](https://www.mangaupdates.com/authors.html?id=152) In Love Alley - [Frédéric Boilet](https://www.mangaupdates.com/authors.html?id=6069) The City of Trees - Fabrice Neaud The Festival of the Bell-Horses - [IGARASHI Daisuke](https://www.mangaupdates.com/authors.html?id=2216) In the Deep Forest - [HANAWA Kazuichi](https://www.mangaupdates.com/authors.html?id=2080) Sapporo Fiction - Étienne Davodeau

Considering herself to be a badass villain, Xiao Yixin doesn’t have the slightest interest in seeking redemption—not even when she’s in hell being sentenced. *“You are sentenced to be a good person in your next life. Now go and serve your term.”* This is how she ends up on the good men’s side and get her “good man”. *“Please don’t be mistaken! I…I…quenched the fire in your body just to complete my mission! There’s nothing unprofessional between us!”* (Source: MangaToon)

The usual school, the usual classroom, the usual classmates...but something seems a bit off... When a boy realizes the source of his anxiety, he finally puts it to words. "I'm scared to die." The moment he opened his mouth and the sounds escaped his throat, a blood-filled hell has been unleashed as it slowly seeps out... (Source: K-Manga)

A collection of seven short manga published between 2000 and 2003 by Masakazu Ishiguro, the creator who bloomed his talent in the masterpiece Soredemo Machi wa Mawatteiru. Inside you will find the hot blood and cool sharp sense that makes Ishiguro's work dazzle!! **Contents:** 1. Susume Psychic Shounendan 2. Present for Me 3. Nagenawa-man 4. Count Down 5. Barbara 6. Taizou no Helmet 7. Hero

Tadahiro Nasu is a downtrodden convenience store worker with nothing to live for but watching VR performances of Misaki Kanzaki, an idol who was once his classmate. Unable to take his oppressive life any longer, he electrocutes himself, only to find that his body has become pure electricity. With his newfound power to manipulate electrical objects, he'll do anything to support Misaki, whether she likes it or not.

A world of blood, a world where the strong triumph over the weak, Ye Yun descended to hell to slay hordes of Demons and ascend to Heaven to slay the Gods just to prove his existence as the strongest, a world where a single being can rule over Heaven and Earth. (Source: Web Comics)