After 35 consecutive days of work, the exhausted manager of a karaoke bar injures himself in the kitchen. Just when he’s at his limit, part-timer Miyakawa-kun suddenly offers to help \*\*\*\*\*\*—!? (Source: Kadokawa, translated) *Note: Originally self-published, the work was later commercially published by Kadokawa in tankoubon format on September 15, 2024.*

The story will deal with Nakagawa's coming-of-age as she dealt with grade-school bullying and the passing of her father. (Source: Anime News Network)

The manga centers on Sugawara, an employee of a consultant firm, who is not exactly excited about the lectures he give to companies, and finds himself unresponsive in his work. After one night of heavy drinking, he gets kidnapped by an evil organization called the "Black Shock Gang," and he is given the mission to defeat heroes through an "organizational reform." (Source: Anime News Network)

The hilarious misadventures of the "Sket Dan"; a couple of high schoolers who help out people as part of their club activity: Himeko, the hot-headed ex-delinquent with a soft spot for cute things and a taste for strange food; Switch, the brainy otaku who only talks via a computerized speech-application; and Bossun, the atypical leader of this looney bunch, with the amazing power to... concentrate very hard! **Note:** Won the 55th annual Shogakukan Manga Award in 2009 for best shounen manga.

Michiko is an unemployed 30-year-old. She has just broken up with a younger boyfriend whom she supported financially until she drained all of her savings. Michiko then has a chance meeting with a former boss she used to dislike. (Source: Anime News Network) *Note: Includes four bonus chapters.*

A timid schoolgirl imagines owing the ideal cellphone in her head, but one day, there is a connection; the phone rings in her head, and someone is on the line!

One day, Mizuho, a university student, receives news that her classmate in high school, Origuchi Haruka, passed away. Mizuho doesn’t remember being best friends with Origuchi, but apparently, Origuchi told her mother that Mizuho was her best friend. And now, her mother wants Mizuho to help her find the boy Origuchi dated during high school. Mizuho told Origuchi’s mother that Origuchi was a very plain girl, and she was never seen with a guy, but her mother told Mizuho that Origuchi got pregnant and had an abortion when she was in high school. Mizuho was shocked, so she starts asking her other classmates in high school and following the traces Origuchi left behind.

Hatogaya, a man who used to love baseball and gave up on it, gets set up to take the fall for his company and gets sent to prison. A high school principal and his former coach, who's school is about to lose its baseball program bails Hatogaya out, but in exchange for getting him out of jail, he has to coach the school's "not-so-great" baseball team.

Taking place after the events of Darker than Black and replacing the events Ryūsei no Gemini completely, Hei (BK201) and Yin return to Tokyo to investigate how a Black Dandelion is granting Contractor-like powers to people who come in contact with it.