(from ebookjapan): Flame Productions, Inc. is located on the second floor of a rental video and CD store in the suburbs of Tokyo. A hot-blooded mangaka struggles with his manuscripts day and night, risking his life. He has never once expressed any weakness in meeting a deadline, but... Never one to compromise, the hot-blooded mangaka is on fire again today for his work! A semi-factual life story of a mangaka, with super hot blooded tension and laughter. The heroes who inherit the spirit of the legendary masterpiece "Burning Pen" gather here! --- Official Release: - Indonesian release by Elex Media as **Comic Bomber** (2009)

A compilation series of Gundam oneshots from Cyber Comix.

A new Animate is opening up, and things are looking tight without the manager. Unfortunately, he won't make it - one young man, Anizawa, has been bestowed his position in his stead! Learn alongside Anizawa the ins-and-outs of running an Animate, along with various anime production merch and events. A work meant to promote the anime goods shop Animate, packed with Shimamoto's nekketsu (hot-blooded) flavor. Though serialized in different magazines, it is printed under Studio DNA's (now Ichijinsha) Comic Zero Sum imprint. Link: [AnimeNewsNetwork](https://www.animenewsnetwork.com/encyclopedia/anime.php?id=358) (OVA)

One-shot compilation of Shimamoto's earlier works for Shogakukan: - **Blazing Transfer Student - Kaiju Battle!** (炎の転校生・怪獣戦闘!, Honoo no Tenkousei - Kaijuu Sentou!): Noboru Takizawa and crew are back for another chaotic event, this time dealing with an alien invasion. A bonus story done half a year after serialization finished. - **Warrior of the Sun Wind Breaker X** (太陽の戦士ウインドブレーカーX, Taiyou no Senshi Wind Breaker X): In a school without a dress code, leagues of students fight to force others to wear what they want. One young man stands up to protect the girl he loves from being forced to wear anything but her beloved uniform. - **Hardly a Hero** (ほとんどヒーロー, Hotondo Hero): A short serial of 5 chapters, about a seemingly good-for-nothing boy with a penchant for sleeping finding himself part of his school's baseball team. -- Chapter 1: **A Full-Powered Morning Sprint**: Shingaku High School's baseball club is in a dire state. Should it lose again, the club will disband. Sakata, the captain, sees promise in Nemuri, a boy who comes very late to school like him and has a tendency to doze off... -- Chapter 2: **A Hero of Hope**: Nemuri is now part of the baseball team, and plays with the others in their next match. However, he doesn't play quite as the others expect him to. -- Chapter 3: **Revival of the Great Hero**: Nemuri finds frustration with his habits and how they undermine his team. Luckily, another opening's been made for the team, but the conditions are severe... -- Chapter 4: **The Sleeper in the Ballpark**: The baseball team has no choice but to give a good, crowd-pleasing game, or else they'll disband for good. Is Nemuri up to the task? -- Chapter 5: **A Sleepless Victory**: Nemuri and crew wrap up the game. But is that all? - **My Love Qualifications Are Nothing!** (恋の資格がナッシング, Koi no Shikaku ga Nothing): Shimamoto's sole shojo work, serialized in Ciao. An absurd romantic gag comedy about the rather careless and troublesome Misato and her questionable attempts at getting the attention of Moriguchi, the boy she longs for.

Noboru Takizawa is an ordinary high school student who has transferred into a new school. His chaotic transfer student life begins the moment he steps on a landmine in the schoolyard. From there, Takizawa often finds himself transferring into other schools, moving others with his hot-blooded passion, and fighting against injustice within the school's structure. This is the tale of a high school legend! --- **Links:** - [Shimamoto's Twitter](https://twitter.com/simakazu) - [OVA on ANN](https://www.animenewsnetwork.com/encyclopedia/anime.php?id=1148)

(from ebookjapan): Kazuhiko Shimamoto unleashes Ultraman on fire! **"If you can't win, what's the point! Even if you lose your life!"** "Ultraman G" serialized in "TV Magazine (Kodansha)" from October 1990 to November 1991 issue by Kazuhiko Shimamoto, a hot-blooded mangaka, is back in a new edition after 26 years! Your fighting spirit will be violently shaken by the figure of the hero who stands up again and again even after being wounded and falling down! The cover illustration is newly drawn just for this new edition. Shimamoto's manga adaptation of Ultraman G, also known as Ultraman: Towards the Future. Scanlation done by Florida Man Scrubs who had given his blessing to upload it, visit his website [here.](https://floridamanscrubs.wordpress.com/)

(from ebookjapan): The captain of the baseball team, Tatsushi Fuyoshi, is summoned to the principal's office, where he is suddenly ordered by the principal to discontinue the baseball team, declaring that the club must "win Koushien" in order to survive, and as proof of his determination, he vows to defeat Hinode Shogyo, the 8th best team from spring Koushien , in a practice game in 10 days' time. The nine members start training hard that day, but three days before the game, one by one, they start to drop out...?

They took his family, they took his face, and they took his soul. Locked between the lethal but gorgeous assassin Maria and the mutant Spider Man, the Skull Man digs into the conspiracy that gave birth to his powers and those of his partner, Garo. Haunted by his past, he will not let them stand in the way of his revenge.

Based on the live action movie. Masaru Aso has gone missing from the public, due to being used as a genetic experiment by Doctor Mochizuki in order to create a perfect lifeform. Aso goes to hide in the forests from civilization due to his disgust on his "form" before he was summoned to save Dr. Mochizuki's son, Hiroshi, from being targeted by monsters from Neo Organism.

A Cyborg 009 oneshot by Kazuhiko Shimamoto done for the [3/11 tribute](https://mangadex.org/title/5e578ebb-02c6-41c8-83e1-8bfd1f4b8b7c/to-never-forget-3-11-heroes-comeback).

Since the beginning of time ninjas have been regarded as people with great skill and power, the Blazing NinjaMan (Shinobi Mantaro) is one such young man. There is only one problem, the era of the ninja has come and gone. How can Shinobi consider himself a ninja in modern day Japan (1990s) and survive the daily rigors of high school life.

Gambling. Mahjong. Death. These are the themes of this fast-paced spy manga where outrageous life-or-death gambles are made daily occurrences and insurmountable odds are overcome. The most hardcore, action-packed mahjong manga you will ever see.

A short overview of the life of Oda Nobunaga, as told from the perspective of a ninja fighting other time-travelling ninjas! (from amazon.jp): The mangaka, who had serialized "Blazing Ninjaman" in Shonen Sunday, received an offer from Shogakukan's "Middle School 6th Grader" to make something for children, and he obliged. It is said to be a masterpiece even better than the original Sunday serial. The main character is also named "Ninjaman" but it is an original work with a completely different protagonist and worldview. It is a historical action Ninja vs. Ninja gag manga that revolves around Oda Nobunaga.

(from ebookjapan): The battlefield, a place where life and death go hand in hand, a place of extreme risk to one's sanity. This is a gem of a lyrical work depicting the sorrows and woes of people who dream of peace!

An official doujinshi drawn and written by [Kaoru](https://www.mangaupdates.com/authors.html?id=4414) [Shintani](https://myanimelist.net/people/3840/Kaoru_Shintani) under the pen name of 88 Night, in collaboration with [Kazuhiko Shimamoto](https://www.mangaupdates.com/authors.html?id=909), [Noboru Takizawa](https://mangadex.org/manga/4581)'s creator. Part of a series of doujinshi where the [CAT Division M](https://mangadex.org/manga/15646/desert-rose) teams or clashes with other action/seinen manga characters including the Gunsmith Cats pair and the Sukeban Deka heroine, usually developed in collaboration with their creators (a notable exception being Desert Rose vs Akihime, where they meet the heroine of his wife Saeki Kayono's josei manga; clearly the couple developed it together)

(from mangapedia): When Gareki Sho arrives at a new school, he hands out garage kits of bishojo characters as a greeting to his classmates. However, his classmate Rei Shuga throws away the garage kits, calling them "disgusting," and Sho clashes with her. Sho goes to the club room to join the art club, and after a Q&A session with Mizuki, they end up having a sculpture vs. garage kit competition. The one who came forward as a model for the "same motif," which was a condition of the competition, was Rei, who did not think well of Sho.

(from ebookjapan): One day, a transfer student named Asuka Daimon arrived in Aika Kamishiro's class. At first glance, he looks handsome, but when he introduces himself, the class is stunned when he suddenly says he is from the future. Nagagabe, a male student in the class, even says to Asuka, "What's with that setup?"...

"A hero" is a job that in the face of danger and adversity or from a position of weakness, display courage and the will for self sacrifice. Would you like to work as such a hero in our company? You may transform, manipulate a huge robot or fight as a squad. Shall we realize your dream in our "Hero Company"?!

Burning president Mizushima, bet his life on "Table Tennis" and never once regretted it! Onsen ping-pong, the royal road to entertainment sports that anyone can enjoy. However, sometimes there are idiots who confuse it with table tennis and aim for a perfect winning streak. One such person was Monma, a new employee at a company's overnight training program for newcomers, who claimed that "there is no distinction between up and down on the ping-pong table," and won a convincing victory against the general manager of the company. Then, the president of the company shows up and tells him how to get there through ping-pong!

(from mangapedia): One day, Kenichiro, a commissioner of the Boxing Association, was kidnapped by the "World Domination Gym". Kenichiro returns safely a few days later, but his condition has changed, and he begins to accept the World Domination Gym's demands one after another, which deviate from the rules of boxing. As the boxing world is on the verge of an unprecedented crisis caused by boxers wearing the approved goods, a boxer stands up to stop the ambitions of the World Domination Gym. Shimamoto's parody of Kamen Rider and Tomorrow's Joe.

(from ebookjapan): Flame Productions is located in Tokyo. There, a mangaka was working on his work, risking his life, a rare hot-blooded type. Working alongside him is Akiko Ohno, a new assistant who has just joined Flame Productions. The first job she is assigned is to put action lines in the background of the drawings made by Hono.... A story about a passionate mangaka who refuses to compromise, is on fire with a pen in his hand! --- Official Release: - Indonesian release by Elex Media as **Burning Pen** (2010)