A shojo one-shot compilation that chiefly features one-shots from the 1960's and ones published in Kodansha shojo magazines, with a theme of celebrating girlhood and girls from all walks of life. 1. **Otenba Banzai/Tomboy Banzai** (おてんばバンザイ): A gag one-shot in three parts about a thrill-seeking tomboy and her encounters with a group of petty yakuza. 2. **Gatakon Kyoushitsu** (ガタコン教室) 3. **Giniro no Me/The Silver Eyes** (銀色の目) Horror manga is all the rage at Sumi's school. One day, her teacher asks her to check up on her friend, who has been absent from school for some time. Before she knows it, Sumi ends up in a horror manga of her own! 4. **Go-issho ni Hakuchou no Mizuumi wo Kikimasen?/Will You Listen to Swan Lake With Me?** (ごいっしょに白鳥のみずうみをききません?) Ishinomori's whimsical take on Swan Lake. 5. **Manga School** (まんがスクール) 6. **Akazukin-chan** (赤ずきんちゃん) 7. **Shin Meisaku Douwa Akazukin-chan** (新メイ作童話 赤ずきんちゃん) 8. **Gendai Musume Kishitsu/The Modern Girl's Mentality** (現代むすめ気質) A whimsical commentary on all the hottest trends and pastimes of modern girls. 9. **Natsuyasumi! Cupid Sakusen/Summer Break! Operation Cupid** (夏休み! キューピッド作戦) A boy gets asked by his friend to set him up with a girl, whose friend asks her to set her up with the boy. What does Cupid have in store for these youth? 10. **MY Friend** (MYフレンド) 11. **Hatsukoi ya Aa Hatsukoi ya Hatsukoi ya/First Love, Ah, First Love, First Love!** (初恋や アア初恋や 初恋や) The woes of a girl experiencing her first love. 12.**Migimuke Hidari-chan/Miss Resist** (右むけ左ちゃん) The story of a girl in a literal rebellious phase, acting contrary to what's said to her. 13-15.**Lala-chan/Lala-chan** (ララちゃん) A three-chapter gag manga about a girl and her trials and tribulations in love.
Dante Carter was an ordinary boy in an ordinary family with his parents and younger sister. Until the whole family was murdered in cold blood. When he woke up in the afterlife, the demons of hell were waiting for him. They demanded that he reveal his true identity, because the court of heaven could not properly judge his afterlife fate. (Source: Comic Fuz, translated)
The young girl Rosa has just lost her family and was in the depths of despair, when she driven out of her home and even robbed of her mother's belongings. Alvin, a handsome nobleman, is the only one who reaches out to help her. He gives Rosa a job, a place to stay, a blue dress fit for a lady, and more... With the coming of the Industrial Revolution, the folktales about fairies are fading away. A lonely girl and a silver-haired gentleman find an irreplaceable love. This is a gentle fairy tale about the forgotten times. (Source: Kadokawa, translated)
The adventures of Popuri in Nikoniko Ginza as she learns magic from Fukiko-san in her magical pharmacy, Fun Fun Pharmacy.
The manga takes place around the 1950's, when weekly manga magazines still didn't exist. A manga creator who is somewhat popular with three serializations tells people he thinks Osamu Tezuka's manga are boring, but secretly collects all of his works. He makes a one-sided rivalry with Tezuka, and seeks to surpass him. (Source: Anime News Network)
Shotaro Ishinomori's manga adaptation of George Orwell's *Animal Farm*, an allegorical tale about the horrors of dictatorship and totalitarianism.
1. Kimi ga Anna Kiss wo Suru kara 2. Yume-iro Button 3. Kono Koi, Rare-mono ni Tsuki. 4. Katakoi Ground
Hagure Narihira is a your average hopeless romantic sophomore in a magical high school for power users. He has no friends and has a crappy ability called the "drain" that absorbs human energy within a radius of 1 meter, unconsciously with his ability. Because of this "special ability", no one wanted to be his friend much less his girlfriend.
In the 1980s two great players anchored the Yomiuri Giants: "Monster" Suguru Egawa and "Weed" Takashi Nishimoto. As pitching aces for the same team, the two had a legendary rivalry unparalleled in Japanese baseball history. With two real personages as his protagonists, the author based his bold interweaving of fact and conjecture on exhaustive interviews with Nishimoto and other featured individuals. (Source: Japan Media Arts Festival)
The god Yomi and the robotic maid Miko. This pair crosses to innumerable "ended worlds," passing along their funeral rites; it's a strange experience. Even so, the traces of those who once lived are all beautiful remnants to the god and the maid. Endless endings untold, this is the heartwarming tale of two travelers, whose funeral rites bring a close to one tale after another. (Source: Mag Garden, translated) *Note: Includes 2 extra chapters.*
Igni was born into a noble family that aims to be the strongest. At the "Rite of Appropriateness" held on his twelfth birthday, it is revealed that he can only use the elementary magic of fireball, and he is banished from his family home. Igni lives an oppressed life in the town, but when he is reunited with his grandfather, who was once called the "Pole" and was one of the strongest, the wheels of fate begin to turn... A school magic fantasy by a boy who became the strongest just because he wanted to be popular.
The story of both a female knight who, when captured by the enemy country, declared "Kill me", and an adorably radiant prince. A wholesome tale.

