Green Leaves Entertainment is a tiny production company on the verge of going out of business in Sendai, the biggest city in Japan's northeastern Tohoku region. The agency once managed the careers of magicians, photo idols, fortune-tellers, and other entertainers, but its last remaining client finally quit. In danger of having zero talent (literally), the president Tange hatches an idea of producing an idol group. On the brash president's orders, the dissatisfied manager Matsuda heads out to scout raw talent. Matsuda makes a fateful encounter with a certain girl... (Source: Anime News Network)

Midorimaru Matsunoki, the only son of lord Matsunoki Mumeharu, retainer of Hideyoshi Toyotomi, becomes involved in his father's secret plans about construction of a new castle. Soon after encounters a female peasant school teacher, Tae, who becomes his lover. Circumstances even come to affect the beautiful female noble Yayoi, who hates (and loves) him, and his beloved sensei, samurai Fujinosuke Murasaki, the main constructer of the castle, in ways no one would have anticipated... This is a fast-paced story with overt characterization that reflects on the fairness of love and war. (Source: DMG)

A young man has left Tokyo for Istanbul to meet his mother and find his long-lost father. But instead, he finds that he's fallen headlong into somebody else's rebellion! Jiro Manabe hasn't seen his parents since he was a child. He doesn't know what to expect, except that his mother is Turkish and his Japanese father mysteriously disappeared when he was almost too young to remember. When a stranger appears who can take Jiro to his mother, the mysteries that Jiro has come to solve only grow deeper. Is a drug-addled belly dancer Jiro's mother? Why and where did Jiro's father go? And perhaps most importantly, why are army troops trying to gun them down? (Source: Dark Horse)

Tiny schoolgirl Chiiko develops a crush on older boy Saly and believes herself to be his girlfriend, although Saly is already involved in a love triangle with a girl called Tonko. (Source: The Anime Encyclopedia)

This is the story of Suiren, the princess of the land of water lilies. After being wounded in a confrontation with an enemy known as the Oo Onibasu, she had her memories erased by her lover and was sent to live in the human world with her friend and protector, Shoubu, who had been sent there a month before her.

In the German army during their battle with the Soviets, there was a combat unit (the Kampfgruppe ZVB) that fulfilled their duty and their obligations over and over again.

*Note: Serialized as Hirahira-kun Seishun Taiko, and published as a book titled Hirahira-kun Seishun Nikki by Kodama Shuppan.*

D'Artagnan leaves his hometown of Gascogne for Paris in order to join the King's Musketeers or the Guards of the Cardinal. At his arrival, he went into an argument with Athos, Porthos and Aramis and provokes them into a duel. At the time of the duel, they were interrupted by the Guards of the Cardinal who are enforcing the King's decree banning duels. Afterwards, D'Artagnan and company became friends and adopted the motto, "all for one, and one for all". (Wikipedia)

A manga adaptation of Little Women. A 19th century tale of four very different sisters, each harboring her own hopes and ambitions for the future as their family collectively struggles to carry on in spite of their hardships.

The Second World War. The Pacific Front was the scene of legendary air battles between the American forces and the Imperial Japanese Army. Seiho Takizawa takes us on a tour of the New Guinea Campaign, following in the footsteps of Sergeant Unno, pilot of the Kawasaki Ki-45 and Nakajima Ki-43. (Source: Paquet, translated)

In 1943, Hitler looked back to the glorious history of the Prussian grenadiers, and created the armoured infantry troops known as "Panzergrenadier". This manga tells the story of the early Panzergrenadier, through the eyes of a newly commissioned Panzergrenadier officer, deeply in love with the girl he left behind him and yet to experience the apocalypse of war.

Chippo-kun is an unusual kitten. He protects mice – because they raised him! The series was first serialized in 1957, then revived in 1973.