Japan: the Gambler's Paradise! The rich and beautiful Maria is well-known as a legendary gambler who will take on any challenge, no matter how unreasonable or impossible! But what happens when she meets a lowly slave who solves her riddle..? Twist after twist! So tense you'll forget to breathe! (Source: Manga Box)
In a world where swords and demons clash, Hana is a samurai who has lost all reason to live. One day, in the heat of battle, he comes face to face with a god—Amanogawa Josui, a vessel-god who can control water. With no other purpose in sight, Hana forms a pact with the deity, who seeks to return to the capital of heaven, and embarks on a journey that will change his fate forever… (Source: Yen Press)
It all started with a plane landing at Narita Airport. A single passenger carried a mysterious virus, and before anybody knew it, this infection had become widespread! Responding to this crisis, the national government decided to blockade the borders of Chiba Prefecture. Within a town overrun by zombies, six people take refuge in a shopping mall in Makuhari. Having obtained food and safety, these survivors…hopelessly fall in love?! (Source: Yen Press)
"If only…everyone was in love like us, and didn’t cheat— the world would be a peaceful place." Noburu's about to find out his happy marriage is a lie! Tagawa Noburu thinks he has it all—a budding graphic design career and wedded bliss with his loving wife, Aiko. A fool for love, he's only too happy to be the perfect husband who meets her every need…little does he know that Aiko takes him for granted and is having a steamy affair with her supervisor at work! What's a betrayed husband to do? Fight for his own happy ending! A manga from Chika Semoto that'll make you think twice about cheating. (Source: Comikey) *Note: Includes eight extra chapters.*
Nobuo Matsuri, heir to the Matsuri Shinobi clan, was raised as a living weapon, an instrument of death who lived and breathed the art of the blade...until the day he fell in love. Now, years later, he's an unattractive thirty-something salaryman, married with kids, bullied at work, and general all-around screw up. Even worse, his old clan regularly still sending assassins to kill him for forsaking the old ways - and his family for leading him astray. Luckily, he still has his ninja skills, and ninjutsu is the art of deception! (Source: Jmanga)
If I have sex with a man, he always falls for me. However, the fact that it never lasts surely means I'm doing something wrong? Please tell me how to find love without sex! (Source: Coolmic)
Masato and Chiharu eventually fall in love, but Masato's father announces that he will remarry and what's worse, with Chiharu's mother! Now they are siblings, how are they going to deal with this?
Theatre of the events is the Chinese mainland in the late Ming period. Shisanmei, a beautiful woman with no memory reaches a lawless zone, dominated by bandits of all kinds. With the "Swords of the Seven Stars", a gift from an old hermit, she embarks on a new journey escorting Anji, a boy who aims to rescue his father that is wrongfully imprisoned. Soon a third mysterious element joins the singular group of travelers...
You’ve never seen manga like this before! No annoying speed lines or sappy, neotenic eyeballs here — just pure Japanese counterculture. This anthology of contemporary underground comics from Japan features a wide variety of styles and topics ranging from the humorous to the profound. There’s a whole world of comics out there, and it’s not all Godzilla and schoolgirls! A great introduction to the other Japanese comics featuring Asia’s answers to Robert Crumb, Dan Clowes, and Chester Brown! List of included Oneshots: "Horse Horse Tiger Tiger" by Imiri Sakabashira "A Hooker's Room" by Naoto Yamakawa "Kisses" by Kiriko Nananan "Kitty Court Drama" by Nekojiru "What a Mixed Up World!" by Yasuji Tanioka "Million Dollars" by Yoshiharu Mitsumoto "The Abalone Cat" by Naoki and Shunichi Karasawa. *Source: Fantagraphics*
For Tamagawa, volunteering at a cat café is the only relief from his stressful job. The manager tells him to, "relax and learn to be spoiled", but he doesn't know what that means until a new customer, Shindo Rai, comes to the café and tells Tamagawa he wants to keep him as a cat! Enter their strange, but fateful relationship. A pure-hearted and soothing romantic comedy. (Kodansha, translated)
One day, a virgin Osaka Meguru meets the completely naked loli god Yosuga. When I asked for a girlfriend, Yosuga gave me an app with the names of six girls written on it and the grateful words, ``One of them will definitely be your girlfriend.'' However, the next day, before he can do so, Meguru's neck suddenly twists and breaks. He thought he was dead, but when he woke up, Yosuga was in front of him. When Meguru couldn't understand the situation, she starts talking creepily. If the person you are destined for dies, you will immediately die! Die and start over until you get a girlfriend!! ∞ loop of suspense, love and death!!
In the year 2999, only eleven cities still survive on Earth. The climate has changed drastically, and a biochemical apocalypse has made women extinct. For centuries, the male population of Earth has survived by depending on only one woman, called the Holy Mother, whose ova are harvested to create genetically engineered children. By now, any concept of a world in which women exist as ordinary people is long gone. Society has re-structured itself around all-male families, and gay relationships have become the norm. At the beginning of Marginal, the Holy Mother is assassinated by a terrorist known as Grinja. The government in power doesn't want to start a mass panic, so it pretends that the Holy Mother has only shed her vessel, and that she will be miraculously "reborn" in the near future. The public, which is superstitious and devout, believes this easily. Only government officials know that behind the scenes, there is a frantic effort to create a new being with an XXY chromosome -- a male capable of giving birth. (This is a BL misrepresentation of an actual phenomenon known as Klinefelter's Syndrome.) The manga's story revolves around one such boy -- Kira, the product of a genetic experiment, who becomes involved in a three-way relationship with Grinja, the aforementioned terrorist, and Ashijin, a young man who calls himself Kira's owner. A complex plot and flawless world-building make the story irresistible, and Kira's search for freedom is as symbolic as it is gripping. (Source: The Pink Panzer)

