Chiba Prefecture's millionaire Kujukuri Gosaku established the long-awaited professional baseball team "Chiba Pirates." The team comprised most prominent players from Chiba prefecture, but the team funds ran out due to extravagant nature of Gosaku and the management of the team deteriorated. The Team soon became the lowest ranked baseball team. The remaining players are determined and optimistic, but escape from the bottom is far away.

Bat has returned to her birthplace, Rainbowria, where her mother grew up. The 17-year-old Bat, as the princess of the Black Knight Queen, has roused the sealed Starship from its sleep. The story follows Bat's adventures in the mysterious Starship.

The Yanagiya is an old Western-style house built on top of a hill. Living there are a mother, grandmother, and three sisters. The five of them live peacefully every day, but there are some things they can't tell each other and some things in their past they can't hear. Then an event comes along that brings a breath of fresh air into the Yanagiya household...?

"The theme of this book is unconditional love. It is a light-hearted look weaving the day-to-day events of the heroine, a sixteen-year-old girl named Sana, and the family, friends and pet dog who make up her world. In the midst of this lurks a number of factors causing Sana to feel insecure, and leading her to search for a way to calm her feelings of anxiety and nervousness." Excerpt from Japanese Writers House website. Copyright(c) 2007 Shinbunka all rights reserved.

Veterinarian Dr. Kou is a popular figure in the town of Kagurazaka, a place rich with the history of the Edo era! He is busy dealing with boisterous pets and their owners every day, but he loves his work. When the veterinary hospital is renovated, two new veterinarians join him, making Dr. Kou's life twice as lively! Enjoy the daily life of these handsome veterinarians and the unique characters of this town!? (Source: Office You, translated)

What's the difference between a friend and a best friend? In the workplace, at school, around the neighborhood. I had friends everywhere, but... My best friend, who I met again for the first time in 4 years, was cradling a child in her arms. Pregnancy and childbirth... She's supposed to be my best friend, so I can't believe she didn't report such important life events to me... Do you have anyone you can call your best friend now? (Source: Shueisha, translated)

Kana is 59 years old and single. After losing her only relative, her mother, she begins to live by herself in her hometown in the countryside. Her life will end alone and quietly like this. Or so she thought. But then her daily life begins to change after she reunites with a certain man. (Source: Office YOU, translated)

A teenaged Kousaku has now moved in the home of his mother's friend, because she had died a while back. Its just so happens that the Yakuza family has four beautiful daughters, but the one daughter, Hibari, thats more beautiful than the rest of the daughters is actually a boy. Hibari just can't keep his hands off Kohsuka and so their crazy yet happy lives go on. (Source: Anime News Network)

Of Shaman King fame, here's another series by Hiroyuki Takei about a buddha with the 1,000 arms armor. Sennju, an emissary of the buddha Kannon, appears in the human world to find and protect the reincarnation of the buddha Mirokou. The emissary arrives on Earth just in time to save a young girl from being bullied by some rough looking men. Just who is this girl and will she believe that he's a buddha who was sent by Kannon? (Source: MangaCity) **Included one-shots:** Volume 1: Butsu Zone (pilot) Volume 2: Death Zero Volume 3: Itako no Anna

Another military manga by Motofumi Kobayashi, Apocalypse Meow's author.

Akari, who evacuated with a cat when earthquake struck, meets Kanoko, who also took her cat with her at the evacuation site. Jin, who lived in the same apartment, also loves big cats, and the three become close to each other through cats and eventually live together.