**Where there’s smoke, there’s a catgirl chainsmoking in this comedy manga! A look at the daily troubles of one catgirl and her attempts to get her life together.** Welcome to Yani’s apartment. Please don’t mind the smell. Yani is a catgirl with a seriously bad smoking habit. Every time she tries to quit, she becomes weak to the cravings and gives in almost instantly. Behind on her rent and unable to hold down a job, her friends and sister rally around to help her out. But when she’s using her pee to put out cigarette fires, they may just have their work cut out for them. Will she ever get her life together, or is she doomed to live as a chainsmoking slob forever? *Source: Seven Seas Entertainment, Vol. 1*

Urayama Minoru is a care free boy who has no interest in the idol group AKB48. On the other hand, he does worry about Yoshinaga, his fellow classmate. She wants to become a member of the group and auditions for a spot, so Minoru goes undercover as a female in order to help Yoshinaga with her stage fright. Words of encouragement can only go so far however, and the web Minoru finds himself in is getting bigger. (Source: MangaHelpers)

Somewhere in a slightly different world line is the dimension known as Gamindustri. Neptune and her fellow goddess candidates are studying abroad at a human school to understand and learn about the humans they are protecting. A trial was given to Neptune, who had been spending every day lazily as peaceful days go by. The challenge is... to create a game?! (Source: Kadokawa, translated)

Everything about Alice—her family, her friends, her life, even her crush—is ordinary, no Wonderland to see here. But lately, her dreams have been anything but ordinary. While asleep, she finds herself interrogated by two creepy marionettes, their glass eyes peering into the darkest corners of her heart. *“What is it you desire?” “What is it you wish to visit upon the world?”* Try as she might to ignore the dreams, Alice is drawn into their violent, twisted universe. As greed and desire begin to warp the ordinary reality she knows, Alice is thrust into a dark game of slaughter made for fairy-tale heroines who’ll stop at nothing to bring their creators back to life! (Source: Square Enix)

"Even if this universe is truly nothing more than a brutal, bloody, dark forest, we Cultivators will burn all that we have just to give off a single weak flickering spark in the darkness!" "No matter how weak each spark is, how short-lived, how small... As long as the sparks flow unabated, then one day one of those sparks will light some tinder, and that tinder shall light some fallen branches, and those branches shall set ablaze each and every last tree of the forest!" "In the end, even the smallest sparks will eventually set the dark forest ablaze and illuminate the whole world!"

Itsuki, who's deemed as unknown gender and is expected to be a beta, lost his parents when he was only 15 years old. Since then he tried his hardest and worked hard for his grandma and for himself. Somehow he managed to land a job as a servant under a well-known alpha family, but despite his enthusiasm in working there, he was met by a problem—one of his masters, the younger brother Kaisei, despises all genders and is somewhat hostile, while the older brother, Ujou, is very discriminating towards beta and omega alike. But this isn't the only obstacle Itsuki have to face when his real gender comes to light...

Do you believe in ghosts...?

A collection of short stories, each split into two parts, all based on the famous otome game and anime series, Hakuouki, which follows Yukimura Chizuru as she begins her journey to find her missing father in Kyo and meets members of the Shinsengumi, who harbor an awful secret. Each story is written by different authors and is meant to individually highlight Chizuru's relationship with one of the main characters of the series. Consequently, there is a story dedicated to Hijikata, Okita, Saitou, Harada, and Heisuke.

It’s the end of the Han dynasty, when rivaling chiefs hold their authority. In order to defeat the Yellow Scarves, a group of rebels that want to defeat the Chinese Empire, military officers scattered around the country meet, forming a punitive force. The battle unfolds. This is the story of Kan'u, a girl of the Cat Tribe living in these turbulent times, and her fight. (Source: Fallen Syndicate)

The story is set in the Taisho Era at the beginning of the 20th century—except the era did not end in 15 years (as it did in real life) but lasted 25 years. To protect her family who fell from their former glory, a girl decides to marry a man whose name she does not even know. However, before she does, her little brother commits suicide in a mysterious fire, with an old book in hand. The Imperial Library Information Assets Management Bureau—also known as "Fukurou"—then appears before the confused girl. According to the Fukurou, there exists books called Maremono, which exert a great influence on those who read it. Moreover, the girl gained the ability to see an "Aura" due to the incident with her brother. Despite her confusion, the girl chooses to leave the "birdcage" of her former life. (Source: Anime News Network)

Members of shinsengumi are students or teachers.