55Japan-exclusive gag comic in the Gamest Comics series, dedicated to Dead or Alive. The comic is a series of one-off short gags featuring the cast of the arcade version of the first game, each illustrated by different manga artists. (Source: Dead or Alive Wiki)
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The story of Gundam F91 revolves around teenage space colonist Seabook Arno, his girlfriend Cecily Fairchild, and the efforts of the Crossbone Vanguard militia, led by Cecily's grandfather Meitzer Ronah, to establish an aristocracy known as "Cosmo Babylonia". In keeping with Gundam tradition, the civilian Seabook is forced by circumstance to pilot the F91 Gundam, coincidentally designed in part by his estranged mother, Dr. Monica Arno. (Source: Gundam Wikia) *Note: Two manga with the same name ran in parallel during the same time period. This entry is for the Gundam Magazine version, who never got a volume release.*
Hikaru Shimamoto is a police officer at Nishi-Shinjuku Police Station, named Prince. He graduated from the University of Tokyo's Faculty of Law. Unlike other elites, he remains in Nishi-Shinjuku Police Station, ignoring promotion. And today, as a detective, he hurried to the scene of the siege that occurred in his apartment...
Tao is a young master of the Yin and Yang way, a hermit with unprecedented powers. Naturally nonchalant, nothing can destabilize him except his untimely sleep attacks: narcoleptic, he sometimes falls asleep uncontrollably. This is why he needs the assistance of Ranran, a medium with a strong character, as beautiful as she is fearless. Together, they sell their services to the highest bidder in a changing modern China. Divination, enchantment and the conjuring of demons of all kinds are the daily life of these two experts in Fangshu, the art of the Taoist mages. One day, they leave the Celestial Mountains of the Tian Shan region to head for Hong Kong where a mission awaits them. But an unexpected encounter will push them to travel across the seas to Japan, where striking spirits, demons and divine creatures are legion and could use a good lesson. (Source: Mangas.io, translated)
Honorable Mention, 94th Shogakukan Newcomer Comic Award in the Seinen category.
During his high school entrance exam period, our protagonist, Eita, is so impressed by a movie made by a certain school's film club that he enrolls in that school and tries to join the club, but by the time he enrolls, the club has been disbanded. As he feels disheartened, a beautiful girl with a mysterious allure suddenly approaches him. She seems interested in the movie camera Eita has, but who is she? (Source: Champion Cross, translated)
Mirabelle had been raised to be the queen for Prince Julien. But Julien has chosen a commoner's daughter to be his bride instead. Feeling abandoned and despondent, that was when Elsa, the king of a neighboring kingdom, suddenly proposed marriage to her...? The headstrong princess will become spoiled by His Majesty's teasing affection! (Source: Ohzora Shuppan, translated)
*Note: this manga never received compilation volumes of any nature (e.g. tankoubon releases) and there is no available record of its content, therefore the picture displayed as a cover belongs to the edition of the Shounen Club Magazine (from Dai Nippon Yubenkai Kodansha) it was firstly published (January/1942 issue).*
