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"Why am I in a place like this... kissing HIM...?'' Awkward class loner Mitsuo Hanaori has a pet peeve: the handsome and popular Hachiya, who's always at the center of the class. He has soft hair and clear skin, everything comes easy to him, and his voice is easy on the ears, it's all just so irritating... But Mitsuo can't take his eyes off Hachiya, who scores perfect shots in basketball class, and he twists his ankle as a result. After helping walk Mitsuo to the nurse's office, for some reason Hachiya suddenly brings his face close as if to kiss him!! Mitsuo's freaking out and his heart's pounding like crazy, and to his mortification, his JUNK is responding...! To make things worse, ever since that day, Hachiya's started coming onto him on a daily basis... Just what the hell is going on!? (Source: Renta!)
Tomo's in love with his neighbor, Takeru, but Takeru's totally obsessed with his two brothers. What bothers Tomo the most, though, is the fact that Takeru doesn't seem to notice how he feels about him, no matter how hard he tries. Is it because he's younger? Or is it because he's a childhood friend? These questions plague his mind. And, because of that, Takeru walks around naked in front of Tomo and kisses him as if he were family! Tomo finally tells Takeru that he wants to date him directly, but... A love story between a young guy and his beautiful, dense neighbor! (Source: Renta!) *Note: Includes three extra chapters.*
Opening a few years after the end of World War II and covering almost a quarter-century, here is comics master Osamu Tezuka’s most direct and sustained critique of Japan’s fate in the aftermath of total defeat. Unusually devoid of cartoon premises yet shot through with dark voyeuristic humor, Ayako looms as a pinnacle of Naturalist literature in Japan with few peers even in prose, the striking heroine a potent emblem of things left unseen following the war. The year is 1949. Crushed by the Allied Powers, occupied by General MacArthur’s armies, Japan has been experiencing massive change. Agricultural reform is dissolving large estates and redistributing plots to tenant farmers—terrible news, if you’re landowners like the archconservative Tenge family. For patriarch Sakuemon, the chagrin of one of his sons coming home alive from a P.O.W. camp instead of having died for the Emperor is topped only by the revelation that another of his is consorting with “the reds.” What solace does he have but his youngest Ayako, apple of his eye, at once daughter and granddaughter? (Source: Kodansha USA)
Wandering the packed tunnels of Shinjuku Station, famous author Yosuke Mikura makes a strange discovery: a ragged hippie who can quote French poetry. Her name is Barbara. He takes her home for a bath and a drink, and before long Barbara has made herself into Mikura’s shadow, saving him from egotistical delusions and jealous enemies. But just as Mikura is no saint, Barbara is no guardian angel, and Mikura grows obsessed with discovering her secrets, tangling with thugs, sadists, magical curses and mythical beings – all the while wondering whether he himself is still sane. Written in 1973 and 1974 and inspired by the classic opera “Tales of Hoffmann” by Jacques Offenbach, Barbara may be Tezuka’s most psychological and unsettling work, shattering the fine line between art and madness with masterful precision. (Source: DMP)
"Human Metamorphosis," a satirical Manga depicting human society compared to the insect world, focuses on the life of a devious woman. Tomura Toshiko, who is said to be a genius, is a rising star writer. Her novel wins the Akutagawa Prize for the best novel of the year. While she attends the award ceremony, another woman named Usuba Kageri commits suicide in another place. It turns out that Kageri and Toshiko used to live together, and the awarded novel was copied from Kageri's transcript. Toshiko is like a parasite: approaching talented people one after another, squeezing everything out of them and stealing their works for her own fame. Behind her success story, she has her secrets.
Readers are thrown into the life of Imari Daisaku, a filmmaker whose fanciful creations have fallen of favor in a society dominated by scientific triumphs. However, his life changes forever when he encounters a peculiar group led by Count Alucard, and he receives an extraordinary gift; I.L, a mysterious mannequin with the power of shapeshifting. Together, Daisaku and I.L utilize the phenomenal transformative abilities to help those in need and are propelled into an array of thrilling and haphazard adventures. (Source: Titan Manga)
Two doctors, the young, passionate and well-liked Osanai and the veteran, ambitious Tatsugaura, are both investigating the mysterious 'Monmow' disease, found only in one remote village, which causes bizarre bone deformation, making its victims take on a beastlike appearance before their deaths. Osanai is sent to the village by Tatsugaura to see if he can find a cause for the disease while also treating the victims to the best of his ability. But in reality, Tatsugaura is scheming against Osanai and intends to infect him with the disease in order to clear the way of any obstacles of presenting his own research, and thus gaining high prestige and rank in the medical world.
Hordes of demons, once thought entombed forever in the underworld, have now returned to Earth. Evil and corruption begin to seep into our world, as demons seize human hosts. Mankind’s only hope for salvation is to use the demons’ power against them–and only a pure-hearted man like Fudo Akira can do so without losing his humanity. Once little more than a crybaby, Akira now wields the terrible power of a devil, yet holds the innocent soul of a man–Devilman! (Source: Seven Seas Entertainment)
*Vol.1 contains 3 oneshots:* **Moeru Sangoshou** (燃える珊瑚礁); Shounen King 1982-1 **Hitoribocchi no Adam** (孤独のアダム); Shounen Jets 1983 SF Comic Gou **Yoru no Mitsubachi** (夜の蜜蜂); Wings 1982-02
1. **Kaiten Tobira** (回転扉); Duo 1981 Zoukangou, 1983-01, 1984-01 1 2. **Kaiten Tobira** (回転扉); Duo 1981 Zoukangou, 1983-01, 1984-01 2 3. **Kaiten Tobira** (回転扉); Duo 1981 Zoukangou, 1983-01, 1984-01 3 4. **Fuyu ni Kaeru** (冬に還る); Hana to Yume EX 1984 Fuyu no Gou 5. **Aoi Chinmoku** (碧い沈黙); Hana to Yume EX 1984 Natsu no Gou