Icaro is a thrilling manga science fiction adventure in the tradition of Akira, Ghost in the Shell and Clamp's sf sagas. Icaro is the mind-bending, fast-paced adventure of a young man, Icaro, with the ability to fly and a young woman, Yukiko, who risks her life -- and more -- to help Icaro achieve his dream. Best of all, it capitalizes on Taniguchi's ability to depict a vast and oppressive advanced science laboratory that has made Icaro its guinea pig and will use all its resources to keep him imprisoned for study. Icaro's fight to be free and Yukiko's sacrifice to aid him in his quest make this one of the most inspiring manga stories and one of the first significant original manga collaborations between East and West.

A quarrel with a group of delinquents, an affair of the heart, student council elections, semester exams, and a faint, faint feelings for a classmate. A timeless masterpiece that portrays the troubles in the lives of high school students! (Source: Shueisha, translated) 1. **Lemon no Youna Shoujo** (レモンのような少女) 2. **Ani to Awanaide!** (兄とあわないで！) 3. **Fukitsu na Kage** (不吉な影) 4. **Ai no Kurushimi** (愛の苦しみ)

Mary Lou Brown is a 15-year-old girl. Her elder sister, Laura, is loved by a lot of boys and they make a fuss in Laura's room every day. One day, Mary Lou meets George in front of her house. He's been looking up at Laura's room. He invites Mary Lou to a party at his house. Mary Lou gets excited. Her mother tells Laura to accompany Mary Lou to the party. Mary Lou is worried that George will be attracted to Laura because Laura is very pretty.

Just as the new semester begins, a sophomore named Yosuke Yamada from Sakurazawa High School is feeling bummed out—he got his license suspended after helping a girl on a motorcycle who was being chased by a patrol car. Now, Yosuke has gotten a call from the head of the Sakurazawa High School Biker Gang. What could the boss of this group of delinquent girls, Takami Icon, want with him?! After talking, it seems they're looking for a new sub-leader for the group, and they want to play a little game to see if he can survive a bike race without any light in the middle of the night. It seems Yosuke couldn't help but be worried...

With the ever rising price of housing and properties in Tokyo, the interest in real estate is growing tremendously. Nagase Saichi is a successful and arrogant real estate agent with the aim to become number one real estate agent in all of Tokyo.. He has achieved the best sales records at a top real estate company, Kuchihatcho, by using underhanded tactics and sugarcoated lies. But during an appraisal of an old house, he gets cursed by a God. Now Saichi is unable to lie to his clients and he begins to struggle to sell, but he won't give up so easily. Using his curse of honesty as a weapon, he will tell his customers the whole truth about all the regulations, hardships, complexities and other problems that come with buying and selling real estate. He'll expose all the dirty tricks used by real estate agents to hike up property prices.

Alice uploaded a "try to play guitar" on a video site and it got over one million views. However, she is actually a boy dressed as a girl. Will her schoolmates find out about her?

The God of Rainy Days finally saved enough vacation days for a three-year sabbatical in the human realm, and he was just starting his new life on earth, when he ran into his new neighbor who was dying from hunger. Unable to just leave her alone, he took her in and cooked dinner for her, and he thought that would be the last of it. But despite their very different daily routines, the two of them became closer when she invited him over for a meal to repay his kindness, and his secret identity as a god was exposed! The seemingly ordinary life between two neighbors seems to have become a fantastic story… (Source: Kuaikan, translated)

14 pages short story which originally appeared in AERA COMIC'S "Nippon no Manga" anthology. To get anything else besides the pretty pictures out of this short story, one should have read Natsume Souseki's Sanshiro. (Source: Manga-Sketchbook)

The story of a wealthy 'Ojou-sama' girl who wants to be a shoujo mangaka, and the strict and cool butler who helps teach her how to make manga. A collection of lessons about becoming a mangaka.