With this book, Hirata set out to draw a passionate critique of discrimination against the Japanese outcaste community, known as the burakumin, around the character of Gennosuke, a young buraku whose mission to avenge and uplift his people through the sword goes horribly and gorily wrong. Though clearly intended as an anti-discrimination broadside, Bloody Stumps Samurai rubbed the Buraku Liberation League the wrong way, leading to copies being confiscated and burned and Hirata temporarily blacklisted. (Source: Retrofit Comics)

Yusuke's father dies while trying to save Naoko from drowning. The memory of Yusuke leads Naoko to the track, and six years later, they meet each other again at a Marathon competition. Naoko decides to become a manager to help Yusuke, a gifted runner, and they embark on training together to heal their sorrows from the past.

Laura and Gabriel were passionately in love - even though she was the daughter of a wealthy family, while he was a mere stable boy. But when Laura's parents reject the penniless Gabriel's proposal to marry their daughter, he disappears in despair. 7 years later, Laura is burdened by huge debts left by her late parents when Gabriel, now a successful and wealthy investor, appears before her. He is not the man she used to know, as he coldly declares: "I bet you never thought this day would come. When our positions are reversed!" (Source: eManga)

What is the terrifying secret behind beautiful honor student Yui Kamio's hair?! And why must she always keep it tied up? Super popular Kiito's high school life is plunged into chaos by the worst classmate imaginable! Hiroshi Shiibashi, the creator of Nura: Rise of the Yokai Clan, delivers a comedy that isn't afraid to let loose! (Source: Manga Plus)

One day Kaoru Aoyama is working as a normal office worker in Japan and the next she's waking up to find that she's become Patience Granger, the daughter of a viscount! She isn't sure if she's been reincarnated into this world or if she's just possessing this body, but one thing is for sure: This isn't a simple magical adventure in another world. Despite being nobles, the Granger family is destitute! Patience is desperate to figure out how to help her family, including her adorable younger brothers, but her magic proficiency lies in household magic—a type relating to domestic chores. Not only does she have her family to worry about but Patience is also ten years old. She'll be enrolling in the Royal Academy, where she'll have to navigate relationships with other nobles while trying to grow her skills. Using her knowledge from her past life and the memories she has from the original Patience, this young noble is determined to use her talents to protect her angelic little brothers! (Source: J-Novel Club)

It's a time in the future -- a time where the creation of life itself has evolved to include biodroids named after the ancient Greeks and cyborg warriors programmed to destroy. The power struggle between the various synthetic life-forms and the humans could mean the end of all life. But there is one, named Typhon, who may be able to prevent that. (Source: Dark Horse)

The future, probably Japan. Robots have long been put into practical use, and androids have just come into use. Influenced by the Robot Ethics Committee, it's become common sense for people to treat androids like household appliances. Their appearance - indistinguishable from humans except for the ring over each android's head - has led some people to empathize unnecessarily with androids. Known as "android-holics," such people have become a social problem. Rikuo, a high school student, has been taught from childhood that androids are not to be viewed as humans, and has always used them as convenient tools. One day Rikuo discovers some strange data in the behavior records of his family's household android, Sammy. Rikuo and his friend Masaki trace Sammy's movements, only to discover a mysterious Café that features a house rule that states "Humans and Robots are to be treated the same"...

Professor Saikawa and Nishinosono Moe go to camp on an island where the mysterious Professor Magata Shiki has a closed laboratory. They're curious about the murder of Magata's parents, and they manage to talk their way into the lab itself. While they are inside, a dressed-up corpse is shockingly propelled out of the door of Magata's quarters! It appears she was murdered, and she won't be the last... (Source: MangaHelpers)

Karen is reborn in another world, but she’s entirely ordinary—no powers, no special skills, and no grand mission to accomplish. Fortunately, life is easy as a rich noble. Karen lives the good life until her mother completely forgets everything about her. When it’s discovered that Karen is actually the child of an affair, she’s banished from the family and forced to live on her own as a fourteen-year-old commoner! However, two years later, her family presents her with a chance to rejoin the ranks of the nobility under one condition: she must marry either the elderly, widowed margrave who lives on the frontier, or the dashing soldier who’s seemingly destined for greatness. Which will she choose? *Source: J-Novel Club, Vol. 1*

Chinami was born with psychic powers. She has always wanted to join the Psycho Police Force. However, she doesn't know how to control her powers, so she failed the entry exam. However, after being saved from a psychic criminal, she joins the Psycho Merchants instead.

Collection of short stories by Maruo. It's almost impossible to summarize them, most of them aren't really plot driven but they deal with abnormal states of the mind and are permeated by a general surrealism. As in many of this works, he shows references to the art and culture of 1920s and 1930s Japan and Germany which had inspired his own artistic style. 1. **ＳＯＪＩＮ** 2. **Denki Ari: Waga Bunretsu no Hanasaku Toki** (電気蟻＜吾が分裂の華咲く時＞) 3. **Gansaku: Denki Ari** (贋作・電気蟻) 4. **Ishi no Shouri** (意志の勝利) 5. **Hokenshitsu no Kyuuketsuki** (保健室の吸血鬼) 6. **Nihonjin no Wakusei** (日本人の惑星) 7. **Genpin** (玄牝)