It started with a brutal beating at a pachinko parlor, and now Bakune Young – maniac, moron or mastermind – has taken Japan's biggest crime boss as a hostage as Step One of his plan to rule the world! Soon, yakuza, police, hapless detectives and Bakune's former gym teacher collide as Bakune holes up with his hostage in Osaka Castle, and the manly men of the Japanese mob vow to do anything to rescue their boss! Can Russian-roulette-playing police chief Sorigami salvage the situation with his highly trained army of human robots? Will Johnson Membodeath, the ninja, stop the madness by killing everyone in sight? Savage satire of the action-violence manga genre!

Martial Arts In Space And Stuff

Anthony is a man with an American father and a deceased Japanese mother living and working in Tokyo. One day his son is run over and killed by Yatsu, the "The Metal Fetishist". Shortly afterward Anthony begins to transform into metal. He discovers that the work of his scientist father may be the key to his transformation. In his father's house he discovers a secret room with files and papers detailing the Tetsuo Project as a way to turn people into androids. Based on the [2009 movie with the same name](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tetsuo:_The_Bullet_Man).

The continuation of the "Cat Shit One" saga by manga artist Motofumi Kobayashi. Packy, Ratz, Botasky, and other members of Cat Shit One are called to serve during the Soviet invasion of Afghanistan and the Falklands War. **Note:** Read left to right. --- **Links:** - [Author's Twitter](https://twitter.com/sakamachi21kn)

A century long war between two Nations has finally come to a truce. After three years of peace, it seems another war will soon be inevitable. However, there are those certain few who can fight, not with guns, but with powers. What role could they have in all of this?

Souya, desperate for cash to pay his little sister’s medical expenses, has an offer from a shady company fall into his lap—more than enough money for only a year of work…on the other side of a portal to another dimension, where he’ll have to ascend to the fifty-sixth floor of a dungeon! Worse, his gig-work stint as a fantasy world adventurer gets off on the wrong foot when the transfer process malfunctions, stranding him without supplies! Will his otherworld adventure end before it even begins…?

Kirishima Eisuke, a scoutman for adult videos, picked up Clarence, an amnesiac and handsome foreigner in the city. Eisuke always kept distance between himself and strangers, but he can't seem to throw Clarence out.

A compilation of noteable submissions to the Afternoon Four Seasons Awards from 1987 to 2000 from major artists from when they were still newcomers. **Note:** Do not confuse this for the [Afternoon Four Seasons Awards CHRONICLE 1987-2000 Selections](https://kc.kodansha.co.jp/title?code=1000000684) from 2013, which cut 23 of the 48 oneshots but still spread the remaining 25 across 4 seasonal volumes. **Chapters:** **Spring:** 1​. Tsuchida Seiki - Miseinen (1987 Four Seasons Prize) 2. Takahashi Tsutomu - GOTAVOICE (1987 Spring Semi-Winner) 3. Matsumoto Taiyou - STRAIGHT (1987 Autumn Semi-Winner) 4. Irie Noriko - Neko no Te Kashimasu (1987 Winter Four Seasons Grand Prize) 5. Ohtagaki Yasuo - Ronin Heartbreak! (1988 Summer Honorable Mention) 6. Sudou Masumi - Shounen-ou ni Shiroi Kumo (1988 Autumn Semi-Winner) 7. Akizuki Risu - Oku-sama Shinkaron (1988 Autumn Honorable Mention) 8. Nakayama Masaaki - Ridatsu (1988 Winter Semi-Winner) 9. Arai Hideki - 8-gatsu no Hikari (1989 Summer Four Seasons Grand Prize) 10. Hiromoto Sinichi - Western Carnival (1989 Summer Honorable Mention) 11. Enomoto Shunji - Golden Lucky (1989 Autumn Honorable Mention) 12. King Gonta - A Mess on a Weekend (1989 Winter Four Seasons Grand Prize) 13. Irie Kiwa - Haikibun! Sakanahime (1989 Winter Four Seasons Prize) 14. Hiramatsu Minoru - Ma, Ikka! (1989 Winter Honorable Mention) 15. Aoki Yuuji - Higan to Shigan no Ma De (1990 Semi-Winner) 16. Taguchi Masayuki - Shouteki Ningen (1990 Autumn Four Seasons Prize) 17. Sugawara Masayuki - Home Range (1991 Summer Semi-Winner) 18. Matoba Ken - Mei Tantei ni Hanarenai keredo (1991 Summer Semi-Winner) 19. Yasuda Hiroyuki - MOZOO (1991 Autumn Honorable Mention) 20. Oda Hideji - Sakana (1991 Winter Honorable Mention) **Summer:** 21. Matsunaga Toyokazu - Killing Paranoia (1992 Summer Four Seasons Grand Prize) 22. Ohara Shinji - Boku wa Otouto (1993 Spring Four Seasons Grand Prize) 23. Kuwahara Shinya - YOKO vs (1993 Spring Four Seasons Prize) 24. Samura Hiroaki - Mugen no Juunin (1993 Summer Four Seasons Grand Prize) 25. Kuroda Iou - Ka, Nanten, Kuma (1993 Autumn Four Seasons Grand Prize) 26. Toume Kei - KUROGANE (1993 Autumn Four Seasons Prize) 27. Igarashi Daisuke - Obayashi ga Hikoeru Hi & Imada Fuyu (1993 Winter Four Seasons Grand Prize) 28. Yoshikai Kanji - Kodoku no Oto (1993 Winter Semi-Winner) 29. Ashinano Hitoshi - Yokohama Kaidashi Kikou (1994 Spring Four Seasons Prize) 30. Komai Yuu - Sonna Yatsua Inee!! (1994 Spring Honorable Mention) **Autumn:** 31. Aramaki Keiko - GENOMES (1994 Summer Four Seasons Grand Prize) 32. Kio Shimoku - Ten no Ryouiki (1994 Summer Four Seasons Prize) 33. Abe Yoshitoshi - Ame no Furu Basho (1994 Summer Semi-Winner) 34. Kiba Kouichi - JAGUA (1995 Summer Four Seasons Grand Prize) 35. Nihei Tsutomu - BLAME (1995 Summer Special Prize) 36. Endou Hiroki - Kitto Kawaii Onnanoko dakara (1995 Autumn Four Seasons Prize) 37. Kitoh Mohiro - Vendémiaire no Migite (1995 Autumn Semi-Winner) 38. Asada Torao - Spoonman 3.18 (1996 Autumn Four Seasons Grand Prize) 39. Wakana Shouhei - Kamen Tenshi (1996 Autumn Four Seasons Prize) 40. Shinemon - Lunch no B (1996 Summer Honorable Mention) **Winter:** 41. Hayashida Q - Sofa-chan (1997 Autumn Semi-Winner) 42. Kimura Kon - Koube Zaijuu (1997 Winter Four Seasons Prize) 43. Shinofusa Rokuro - Yasashii Kodomo no Tsukurikata (1997 Spring Honorable Mention) 44. Higuchi Asa - Yuku Tokoro (1998 Spring Four Seasons Prize) 45. Manabe Shohei - Yuuutsu Suberidai (1998 Summer Four Seasons Grand Prize) 46. Urushibara Yuki - Mushishi (1998 Winter Four Seasons Grand Prize) 47. Kumakura Takatoshi - Gurade (1999 Summer Semi-Winner) 48. Toyoda Minoru - Love Roma (2002 Spring Four Seasons Grand Prize) **Selected Descriptions:** Kio Shimoku - Ten no Ryouiki A brief insight into the life of a young graduate student looking for work who finds himself in bed with a mysterious girl he has never seen before. Abe Yoshitoshi - Ame no Furu Basho Eshikawa is a man who has lost sight of his life and stumbles through it, with no clear meaning or purpose. One day, he is informed that his ex-girlfriend committed suicide, which sets his brain on retrospect mode. He goes on a journey of self-revelation and contemplates upon the myriad of human emotions, the joys and sorrows of normalcy. Kiba Kouichi - JAGUAR As a woman is returning home one night, she runs into a man who was just in a car crash. As he's dying, he asks her to throw a certain package into the sea. Hayashida Q - Sofa-chan Hayashida Q's debut work about a female couch spirit. ___ **See Also:** - [MDList of Afternoon Four Seasons Award–winning oneshots](https://mangadex.org/list/d7b883be-732f-4d5b-8d92-818fa3c62555/afternoon-oneshot-four-seasons-award-winners) - [blog post covering this series](http://sportable.seesaa.net/article/246888518.html) - [Wikipedia article about this series](https://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E3%82%A2%E3%83%95%E3%82%BF%E3%83%8C%E3%83%BC%E3%83%B3%E5%9B%9B%E5%AD%A3%E8%B3%9ECHRONICLE) - [Wikipedia article about the contest, including a list of winners](https://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E3%82%A2%E3%83%95%E3%82%BF%E3%83%8C%E3%83%BC%E3%83%B3%E5%9B%9B%E5%AD%A3%E8%B3%9E)

Young Mikan runs away to Tokyo to follow her best friend, Hotaru, who has been enrolled in an exclusive, secretive private school for geniuses. But it turns out that Alice Academy is a lot more than meets the eye. If Mikan wants to stay by Hotaru's side, she has to both pass the strange "entrance exam" and face the even greater challenge of befriending her very odd new classmates. Whether it's Hotaru's gift for inventing gadgets, the cranky Natsume's fire-casting ability, or Professor Narumi's control of human pheromones, everyone at the school has some sort of special talent. But what ability, if any, does Mikan possess? Mikan is going to have to rely on her courage and spunk if she's going to stay in school, or even stay alive!

A story of the demon world. "How about it, Saria-sama, why not make your magic power known to the nation?"

In a world where everyone has a monster crest from birth, a select few rise to become Monster Trainers. Reyn Erhardt, a slime trainer, the lowest of the low, cares nothing for status and just continues his daily regimen of training for his personal slime, Pem-Pem. Yet in school dominated by monsters as grand as dragons, those who cannot hope to rise to the top take out their frustrations on the lowest ones, and Reyn and Pem-Pem make for easy marks. Or do they?

Fiolia is the daughter of a duke, thoughtful of her people and active in her fief. One day, she was poisoned by the heroine of an otome game and falls into a coma. When she wakes up, she regains the memories of a previous life… but finds out twenty years have passed?! Fiolia learns of the scheming that the game heroine, Anne Rose, has been up to and that has been damaging the country. In order to return the favor to Anne Rose and save the people, she must act! "Just you wait Anne Rose. You’ll pay for what you did!" The refreshing revenge fantasy of a handsome lady who is always outside the norm!! --- 20 years after a failed assassination attempt with poison, Fioria wakes to find she has all the memories of her past life. But the world she lives in is in fact the world of an otome game. And what's more, she wakes up to find the story of the game is now 20 years after the original ending of the game! With her country in turmoil and the original heroine of the story, Anne Rose, turning out to be a spy, Fioria sets out to right these injustices and give payback to the ones who have wronged her! An action packed tale of justice, *I Woke Up 20 Years Later!* is a refreshing and exhilarating revenge fantasy story. --- **Note:** In webtoon format, this series has 62 chapters. --- [Webtoon Format (Japanese)](https://www.comico.jp/comic/364) **Official Translations:** * [English](https://www.pocketcomics.com/comic/364/?languageCode=en) * [Chinese (Simplified) / 汉语](https://www.kuaikanmanhua.com/web/topic/10746/) * [Chinese (Traditional) / 漢語](https://www.pocketcomics.com/comic/364/?languageCode=zh) * [French / Français](https://www.pocketcomics.com/comic/364/?languageCode=fr) * [German / Deutsch](https://www.pocketcomics.com/comic/364/?languageCode=de) * [Thai / ภาษาไทย](https://www.comico.in.th/titles/2530)

Meet Yosuke Eguchi, leader of a high-school biker gang AND the school's handicrafts club. Which means he divides his time between fist fights and fancy needlework. And if you think he's weird, wait until you meet the rest of his gang…

Vietnam War, 1965. Hikaru Minami, a soldier in the U.S. Army, meets and falls in love with the "princess," the strongest and most beautiful guerrilla soldier in the Vietcong!

In a world where witches are shunned and have been forced onto the brink of annihilation, a samurai with no memories is transported to the hideout of some of these witches. Having the name: "Dragon King" and a keen strategic mind, its up to him to help defend the witches from those that would seek them harm.

With a bad mouth and bad features, Jou, who's as evil as his outlook, is doing the biggest bad thing of his life. He's running away after kidnapping the son of the parliamentarian! During the thrill, the two of them have fallen in love.

The story takes place in 1579-1580 when Hakutaka was training with his father Ōzaru, who was the leader of the Iga ninja dogs whilst the human Iga members controlled the dogs. Ōzaru has a rivalry with Ryōga, the ancestor of Kurojaki and the two have fought in many battles. At the time of Hakutaka growing older and becoming more skilled, he develops a rivalry with Izuna, the son of Ryōga. Over the series, the story reveals how Hakutaka became to be known as Akame as well as how the two warring clans developed over time.

During Japan's tumultuous Sengoku period, one man sells his son to a pack of devils in exchange for the power to rule. Forty-eight devils take forty-eight pieces of young Hyakkimaru, and the boy is left for dead. But through the assistance of a sage and a series of inventive prosthetics, Hyakkimaru survives. Together with the young thief Dororo, the now-grown Hyakkimaru embarks upon a quest to slay all the demons and retrieve the stolen pieces of his body.

This is the story of how one primitive lame old mecha anime became a legend that led the way for humanity. After a malfunction, Eirun Bazatt arrives during a battle between what appear to be Japanese forces fighting against monsters called 'Malice' and he's not one to run away from a fight… ___ **Mecha Designers:** [Sekiyama Konomu](https://mangadex.org/author/23880f6b-b327-478f-806b-f0f37af9ec1b), [Sadamatsu Ryuuichi](https://mangadex.org/author/99602dd5-08d3-4665-9739-bd16eaf196d4) [Official Twitter Account](https://x.com/eirunlastcode)

Chitose is a high school baseball player who had to abandon baseball due to injury. One day, when Chitose was spending a boring day off without any goal, Chitose's life changed completely with a "VRMMO game" that was suddenly sent by his sister Haruka! “Oy Onii-chan, let's play a game together in our spare time!” A high school baseball player became a gamer at the invitation of his cute sister! ? Using his "excellent baseball sense" to enjoy a fun game in a VR world!

A teenager who was orphaned as a young boy returns to the city of his childhood. Shortly after transferring to Gekkoukan High School, he is attacked by Shadows — creatures that feed on the minds of their victims. He soon discovers that he shares a special ability with other students at his new school. From them, he learns of the "Dark Hour," a hidden time that exists between one day and the next, swarming with Shadows. He joins the Specialized Extracurricular Execution Squad (SEES), and with his new friends, confronts the threat of the Shadows. Based on the PlayStation 2 game of the same name.

Vampire Hunter: The legendary Van Helsing. In order to save people, he is also a vampire who tonight beat this way and that. "Gag" Battle of vampire hunter VS over over a century!

The Koyomi Family once ruled the underside of Japan. Now in ruins, the young heir Kashitarou Koyomi remains, all by his lonesome self. Starting up in solitude and having to live with the anger and grudges of others, a self proclaimed caretaker and tutor appears, introducing herself as "Nazuna." It is here, she proclaims, "I will raise you to be a great man of evil!"

Mikado High School trains the best students to be the best mercenary bodyguards. But Morito Hayama, a merc escort student with no rank whatsoever, is suddenly assigned to guard a person so highly valued that no escort has ever survived before. Will his subject survive the experience? Will he survive?!