Light Speed ​​Esper is the mascot character of japanese home appliance manufacturer Toshiba. Its origins date back to 1964, when manga artist Riji Asano was assigned to design the character, which initially appeared in children's pamphlets and manuals for the company's products. Shortly after the end of the original manga and TV series, the latter got quickly re-broadcasted, while the former was rebooted by Leiji Matsumoto. After the success of this relaunch, the Matsumoto version of Esper became Toshiba's trademark mascot, who also commisioned new illustration by the artist for new products and ads. (Source: Wikipedia Japan, translated and edited)

One day, a juvenile delinquent, Eiji Razor, instinctively sensed danger and hid himself in the basement of an abandoned warehouse. When he went outside after a long rain, he saw a town taken over by the Worst, nocturnal creatures that are born from human corpses and can regenerate even after being dismembered. A dreadful virus was mixed in the rain that killed humans and turned them into Worst. While fighting off the Worst, Eiji found survivors including Taku Maejima, a young boy, Harry, an American soldier, and Tozaki, a delinquent student, and they hid in the Kasumigaseki Building as a fortress.

Unrelated to the G.I. Joe franchise (from ebookjapan): 1941 - The Japanese attack Pearl Harbor, resulting in unjust discrimination against the Second-gen living in Hawaii. Joe, a second-generation Japanese American, is one of them. He is sent to a juvenile reformatory by an unreasonable policeman. As the war situation became severe, the U.S. military, worried about the shortage of soldiers, made a plan to send the Japanese-American boys in the reformatory to the front lines as soldiers! Thus, an American captain comes to Joe and his friends, and the hellish military training begins!

A Spin off of Osomatsu-kun (Or more aptly, the shorter "Akatsuka-kun Can Do Anything" that was later renamed "$-Chan and Chibita", a series with a somewhat similar premise.) starring the titular Chibita. Much like in Osomatsu, chibita's familial situation as well as other factors, such as setting can change in each self contained gag story. Iyami appears from time to time as well as other Akatsuka characters, such as "Mojamoja-ojichan", whom was the protagonist of his own comic, this time appearing here twice as a sort of father figure/mentor for chibita.

Welcome to the starry forest! In a strange building surrounded by trees, the magician master Lemorin, the dragon Shelatis, and Enid, a little witch who dreams of marrying a wealthy man, live. Her wish is to grow up, become beautiful, and fall in love with a prince. Enid asks her magician master Lemorin for her wish again today, but he doesn't listen. Today, various customers come to see the three of them, and strange things happen. (Source: Taiyou Tosho, translated)

(translated from mediafactory.jp) The big city--a concrete jungle where human desires swirl with a strange energy. Within it, the policemen struggle hard every day to maintain law and order. Each time the gun that protects lives and public order is drawn, against the holster rubs a shining silver sight... The figure of a fighting policeman is drawn in the American big city, where desire and death meet, in Shintani Kaori's police action masterpiece.