*"You're... a woman!?"* The evil prince of my favorite romance game is actually a crossdressing girl!? A love story between the game's hero and the (female) evil prince begins! (Source: Coolmic) *Note: Simultaneously released in long-strip and traditional formats, with 24 episodes and 8 chapters respectively.*
Very nice short story by Kazurou Inoue-sensei about relations between strong and cool big brother and a girl-looking little brother.
Story of a romance between a university student, Hasumi, and a young woman, Miharu—who also happens to be Hasumi's professor. Miharu is engaged, but after hearing rumors about Miharu with Hasumi, Miharu's fiancé begins to suspect foul play and breaks off the relationship, claiming to have met another girl. Newly single and somewhat lost in her own life, Miharu finds comfort in the arms of Hasumi, never truly believing that the whims she follows while on the rebound will have any lasting effects. Through a series of chance encounters, misunderstandings, and realizations, all told with thoroughly convincing and poetic style, the separate lives of student and teacher become intricately intertwined. (Source: Netcomics)
After a wide-scale restructuring, Monjirou loses his job and starts wandering the streets. There, he ends up saving an old man who just happens to be the leader of Eastern Japan's greatest yakuza organization, the Zakuro Group. Suddenly, without warning, this leader decides that Monjirou is the perfect man to succeed him! How does Monjirou adapt to the world of the yakuza? Does he really have what it takes? Find out in this sex-and-violence-filled yakuza thriller!
Dare to read the psycho-horror classic that horror manga master Ito Junji called a “frightening but moving story about an unfortunate individual who, lost in search of his true self, finds his own annihilation instead.” Little Tetsuo is a wimpy mess. His parents don’t love him. He meets the beautiful Kimiko, an ailing teenage girl obsessed with movies and mayhem in equal amounts. She doesn’t love Tetsuo either, or anyone other than herself. But she needs him. So Tetsuo becomes the man she wants—the monster she wants. He becomes HER FRANKENSTEIN! Originally published in 1986, Kawashima Norikazu’s HER FRANKENSTEIN marks the bizarre and sadomasochistic finale to a cult era in Japanese horror comics. A few years after it was published, the author burned all of his artwork and abandoned Tokyo, never to be heard from again! (Source: Living The Line)
Kanazawa Noto joins Kitakou's broadcasting club on his first day of school. Hilarity ensues.
After a terrible plane crash, Cynthia Dempsey miraculously woke up in a hospital bed. But she’d lost her memories, even her memories of her handsome multimillionaire fianc? named Will. All she remembers is her name and the feeling of this man’s warm hand pulling her out of the dark grasp of death. He greeted her warmly then, but has had this conflicted look on his face ever since. Will Cynthia ever be able to make sense of her memories or her heart? (Source: Harlequin)
Mato is excited to start her new high school life at an all-girls school, where its students are required evaluate their teachers each semester. Being the motivated student she is, Mato is determined to examine each teacher closely to give an accurate evaluation. But she may have examined a little too closely, when she sees her Chemistry and Geography teachers, Mrs. Minato and Mrs. Takita, in the lab room together... (Source: Lilyka)
Deeply traumatized by the murder of her doctor parents, Mandy has been unable to speak ever since. One day, she was being harangued by a drunk man at a party, and novelist Brian Stone comes to her rescue. Mandy, who has no relatives, takes up residence in his mansion, working as a secretary and transcribing his novels. "Why is he being so nice to me? To him, I'm just a child he needs to help. It means nothing… I mustn't misunderstand…" (Source: Renta!)
Everyone has the potential to fall to "the other side." Meth, marijuana, MDMA... Once you're hooked, there's no turning back. Enter two relentless hounds who chase, expose, and capture all manner of drug crimes. Their profession? Narcotics agents, known as "Matori." Through the investigations of agents Kusakabe and Saeki, this shocking exposé unearths the deep-seated darkness of modern society. Brace yourself for a hard-hitting documentary on drug crime! (Source: Emaqi)
Former Zeon mobile suit squad leader Cucuruz Doan has deserted, taking up residence on a small island where he helped to raise a number of orphaned children. But what about the other members of his squad? While the original story was told from federation pilot Amuro Ray's perspective, Ohno's limited series goes beyond the original television episode to explore the ramifications of Doan's actions on his own troops, bringing us a multilayered and emotionally complex view of the events from Zeon's perspective. (Source: Kodansha USA)
This is the lie in the truth, the change of daydreams in reality. No, it's the story of the souls of the changed human race. AD 2070. More than half a century has passed since the humans first got attacked by the mysterious living entity known as "Mariss." "The battle... I can't do it. It hurts to say no... Everything has already... No, I can't... Somebody, help me..." But the spirit of Celen, the pilot of "Black Witch" Destbloom, the only Heavy Weapon that can possibly oppose Mariss, has been repeatedly sapped by the hopelessness of battle. Before going out for a sortie, she had been captured for scheming to escape, and was forcibly made to sortie on the battlefield. But, on that day, a miracle fell onto the battlefield. A mysterious Fighter from an unknown nationality appeared with a SuperWeapon not obtainable from this world and purged Mariss. The humans were roused. Even then, the Pilot that came out from that Fighter was a carbon copy of Eirun Bazatt, the Pilot in the hugely popular anime "Doll Waltz Requiem"—!? (Source: Baka-Tsuki)
