Legendary Mangaka Moyuru Hono is Back Again! The days of risking his life day and night to work on his manuscripts are a thing of the past... A semi-factual life story of a mangaka and businessman who now struggles not only with his manuscripts but also with his family business! Many superb guest mangaka appear! Don't miss the story of the closing of the Hono's bookstore, which became a hot topic on Twitter and various news sites! In addition, Moyuru Hono will appear on a TV variety show! His rivals are popular comedians!!!! Can a mangaka's best story be accepted in the TV industry? Kazuhiko Shimamoto presents his realistic mangaka fiction on the 40th anniversary of his career!

Note: Original serialization got suspended, because of author health problems. Concluding chapters of the series were published in aizouban edition, published in 2009.

Best friends Satsuki and Yukue are currently juniors in high school. To protect their friendship from the complications that stem from "boy problems", they made a secret promise to each other in middle school that if they developed a crush on someone, they would not tell the other. However, for some reason, to Satsuki's dismay, Yukue breaks this promise...?? (Source: Shueisha, translated)

Kuze Mamoru is a young actress with a lot of potential but she’s had a habit of screwing up lately. Not her lines, but for some reason her acting doesn’t always convince. When she’s hired for a drama starring young heartthrob Toujou Kazuha, she again fails to convince the director of her acting skills/ Kazuha, however, has a plan to get a real reaction from her and when it works she keeps her job. But she develops a real dislike for Kazuha, and a real flair for acting outside the script...

A marriage story about an overbearing "ideal man" and an elite man who cannot be honest with himself. (Source: Anime News Network)

This is a story centered around a male idol band named "Silver Purple" and the two girls that suddenly popped into their lives.

In an alternate world, Beatrice is alone in her brilliant and shining position that she has earned for mastering sword and magic, and she wants to cry a little. It seems she is promised to marry a miniature orc, but what's aggravating her? (Source: Anime News Network)

It's a story of love and war between biker gangs! Set in Ueda, Shinshu, Kyoshiro and his friends' wild and happy life is in full bloom! (Source: Akita Shoten, translated)

Novel about Caim's past, when Borts Grado was still alive.

In the future, advanced robotics has created heavy robots ("labors") for use in a variety of functions: construction, fire-fighting, military, and more. However, though the robots are only machines, their operators are also only human—and humans sometimes turn to crime. Since a heavy labor unit can be a dangerous weapon, the police of the future are set to fight fire with fire, using advanced patrol labor units, "patlabors." This is the story of the Second Special Vehicles Division, a motley crew of patlabor policemen and women doing their best to fight crime and live a normal life. (Source: Anime News Network)