A compilation of early one-shots by Moto Hagio. Includes the famous "November Gymnasium" as the leading one-shot. Contains: - **November Gymnasium** (11月のギムナジウム, 11-gatsu no Gymnasium) - Serialized in Bessatsu ShoComi in the November 1971 Issue Description: When a tough, rebellious Eric arrives at a German boarding school, there is one fellow student he hates: Thoma. Thoma bears a striking resemblance to Eric, but is gentle, delicate, and idolized by his classmates. - **Snow Child** (雪の子) - Serialized in Bessatsu ShoComi's March 1971 Issue - **The Home Where the Tower Is** (塔のある家); ShoComi 1971 Issue #12 - **The Girl Who became a White Bird** (白い鳥になった少女) - Serialized in Bessatsu ShoComi's December 1971 Issue - **The Flute of the White Boy in the White Forest** (白き森白き少年の笛) - Serialized in ShoComi 1971 Issue #45 - **Note: Included in the French Moto Hagio Anthologie De la rêverie under the name ''Le petit flûtiste de la forêt blanche''** - **Bianca** (ビアンカ); Serialized in Weekly Shojo Friend Zoukan's July 7th, 1970 Special Issue. **Note: One-shot included in the English only compilation A Drunken Dream and Other Stories** - **Sayo's Self Made Yukata** (小夜の縫うゆかた) - Serialized in Bessatsu ShoComi's October 1971 Issue - **Autumn Journey** (秋の旅) - Serialized in Bessatsu ShoComi's May 1971 Issue **Note: One-shot included in the English only compilation A Drunken Dream and Other Stories** - **Poor Mama** (かわいそうなママ, Kawaisou na Mama) - Serialized in Bessatsu ShoComi's May 1971 Issue Description: A man returns from a trip after hearing news about his former love's passing.

If people who turn into animals really existed in the modern world, how would they behave? This book gives some realistic, yet unexpected, answers. Nobody is a complete good guy or bad guy–every character is a complex figure, and even the bad guys have some very good reasons for what they do. Leo is an innocent caught in the midst of it all, but nothing like the "helpless killer" stereotype of American werewolf movies–he is a person in control of his own powers, trying to decide what to do with his life now that so much has changed.

Izumi Wakakusa is a renowned actress obsessed with beauty. When an hideous mark shows up on her face she suddenly disappears and gives birth to a little girl: Sakura. Sakura is always pampered and overprotected by her mother, until the day that she discovers why she was born. NOTE: The Scanlation comes from the 4 volume Bunko version.

The misadventures of a high school hockey club featuring a student who has returned to Japan after playing hockey in Canada.

An action comedy about a school for training Yakuza.

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.

A sequel to the manga that was made into a movie, "Shiawase na Jikan" is comprised of two stories. The first is a continuation of the first book, two years into the future, and Shizuku is now preparing for her entrance exams. The second story, "Kikyou no Saku Koko" (The Blooming of the Balloon Flowers), is an unrelated original story. Tsuge Takayuki is a normal college boy, who, one day, sees a girl admiring the flowers in his front yard, and was reminded of a girl who stood by the flowers one year ago, crying in the rain. He falls in love with her, but will her injured heart accept his feelings?

Shizuku Tsukishima loves books. One day, she notices that the name Seiji Amasawa appears on the checkout cards of nearly every book she's borrowed! Before she realizes it, her heart is pounding for a boy she's never met… and that's when a mysterious black cat and Shizuku's sense of wonder guide her to an unusual shop–and introduce her to someone she's been curious to meet! Amazing things can happen…when you listen to your heart.

Jinbe is a very subtle and soft tale by Adachi, and certainly it'a story that deals a theme a bit more conflicting than most of his other works. At first sight, Jinbe is the story of a young 17 years old girl, Miku Takanashi, who lives alone with her step father Jinpei Takanashi (nicknamed Jinbe or shark). Jinbe has been living with Miku since his marriage 4 years ago, and considers Miku a God's sent gift from his high school sweet heart late wife. While Jinpei does his best as an over protective and jealous father, we have that Miku holds feelings for Jinbe which are much stronger than the ones an adopted daughter is supposed to have. The main core of the story is to deal how the strong, tender and unrequited feelings of the young Miku put to test their step - father and step - daughter bonds, without jeopardizing any of the happiness that she feels by being close to him as a proper daughter.

To learn about his roots, Sharaku must investigate the mysterious ruins that a long-lost civilization called the Three-Eyed Ones bequeathed to him. In his worldwide search, which takes both him and Chiyoko Wato to locations like Arizona, Easter Island, and Mexico, Sharaku deciphers ancient scriptures and uses gadgets he invents to help solve (or start) problems and mysteries. Sharaku is frequently bullied for his childishness, and as such the story is also about how he fights back when the x-shaped bandage that covers his third eye is removed. Behind the bandage is hidden Sharaku's malicious third eye, and the boy's hidden evil genius emerges when it can see. Sharaku's rivalries with teachers or students are occasionally developed into major plot points. --- - **Won the 1st Kodansha Manga Award for Shonen in 1977, which it shared with Tezuka's other serial, Black Jack** --- **Volumes 101-113 of the Osamu Tezuka Complete Works**

Released in 1983 by Shueisha, this volume brings together two special one-shots of Masami Kurumada published in previous years. The manga also includes six chapters of Sukeban Arashi, which had not been added to the previously released two volumes of this series. **Contents:** 1. Mabudachi Jingi 2. Shiroobi Taishou *Sukeban Arashi:* 3. The Appearance of the Sukeban 4. Die Star! 5. The Resentment of Lunch Box 6. The Love Letter! 7. Daddy is the Best! 8. Happiness Dedicated to Mother

A story about a ronin student named Oyama, living in a small apartment, trying to survive. This series made Matsumoto famous. (from ebookjapan): Shota Oyama, aka "Oidon," a Kyushu boy, lives in a four-and-a-half-tatami-mat room. He has a pile of underpants in his closet, and a strange mushroom called sarmatake grows in the closet. However, even these mushrooms are valuable food in his extremely poor life. He works part-time at a factory during the day and attends a night high school, but his failures lead to his being fired, dropping out of school, and heartbreak. Then Reiko Nishio comes to live across the hall from him. Oidon is attracted to her, but she is not the only one...

Not to be confused with [Golden Warrior Iczer-One.](https://mangadex.org/title/362fdfa6-526d-476c-bb8e-172f829afca1/golden-warrior-iczer-one?tab=chapters) This is Iczer-1's story before she came to Earth. Here is the birth of Iczer-1, but only the first volume is complete.

A fantasy story for kids featuring a girl named Melmo, who can change her age as she wishes by eating special candies. Melmo's mother dies in a traffic accident, leaving young Melmo and her younger brother Totoo. Anxious, Melmo's mother in heaven asks God to prepare some magical candies, and hands them to Melmo. There are two kinds: Melmo can grow 10 years older to become any sort of adult she wishes by eating a blue candy. By eating a red one, she can become 10 years younger. Using these miracle candies, Melmo disguises herself as a nurse, schoolteacher, policewoman, and overcomes troubles together with her brother, Totoo. --- **Volume 280 of the Osamu Tezuka Complete Works**

Akira always recklessly runs head-first at any problem. Having just transferred into Nanjou High's part-time evening classes, he picks a fight with the full-time students' baseball club, a favorite for Koushien who are monopolizing the playing grounds. In order to challenge the full-time baseball club on equal footing, Akira will aim for Jinguu, the home of "the other Koushien" for part-time high school students! Volume 2 includes the oneshots Inochi no Mound and Mou Hitotsu no Koushien. Volume 1 of the Mitsuru Adachi Early Complete Works.

A story where students face off against teachers to bring down the tyrannical education system.

Nagai's ecchi parody of Moonlight Mask (Gekkou Kamen). Welcome to the Sparta Acadamy, run by a head master called Satan's Toenail. If you get anything below a 90 on every test, they punish you with torturous devices and the like. But fear not, there is one who stands up to this great injustice, in nothing but a mask and high boots. That's right, a naked fighter of Justice, Kekkou Kamen is here to punish the unfair system of the Sparta Acadamy and bring justice to those who study too much!

A rumored girl seems that she can't graduate unless she takes extra classes and also pass the examination test with a 60. She thinks that there's nothing to do in the school, but while studying….she finds…. This is extra story can be also be found in the manga, Chocolate Christmas.

This one is just plain bizarre. Funny and ecchi, but bizarre. Hanappe is something of a loser. He’s no good with women, and some have been known to take advantage of him. After one such incident where he winds up helping in a gun robbery after a woman flashes her breast at him, he goes home to (ahem) relieve himself when two demons pop out of his television set. They are Mephisto (the she-devil) and Ofisto Bazooka (the demon) and they’ve come to grant three wishes, but instead the demon assaults his mother, Mephisto piles a ton of money in front of his father and then goes after his sister, and they lose track of things. They decide instead of granting wishes to simply live here. As a result of this unplanned madness, Hanappe winds up with the power to make people spontaneously undress and want to have sex with him. He is also given the power to shut this off, but he doesn’t learn this immediately. It has consequences far beyond what he imagines though… And then Hanappe discovers a side-effect; he has untapped strength and abilities. And then it gets weird…

Contains 12 chapters: 9 short stories, and 3 Miss China stories. 1. The Universe is so Vast and Wonderful! 2. Leaving One Night by the Light of the Full Moon 3. To Invoke the Stars 4. Little Melancholy 5. The Young Scientists' Club 6. See You Later, God Willing 7. Marsy in the Land of Time 8. Natsuko 9. The Young Scientist Club on Mars 10. The Melancholy of China 11. China's Wish 12. China Strikes Back The Japanese edition collects all 12 chapters in one volume. The Spanish edition from Glénat released the full series in 3 volumes. The English edition from Dark Horse published only the Miss China chapters, first in comic format, then in one trade paperback.

Having to repeat his final year in Tsurugamine High School, Kotaro is drawn to Judo through the encounters he make with first-year students Kumi Mifune, Sanshiro Saigo and Daigo Daigo. Having lost to Kotaro, first-year Judoka Kumi Mifune endeared to learn the Karate discipline in order to defeat Kotaro. However, the ambitious delinquent Judoka Daigo captured her as a bait to take on Kotaro and take over his long-standing Kyokutan dojo. Sanshiro Saigo who happened to be with Kumi was taken as well and caused the Judo Club to be involved in the conflict with Kotaro. With the return of many previous characters (though many of them just making brief appearances) such as Shikato Tenzen, Momotaro Ushirono, Teruhiko Tenkouji and Kyoushiro Inamori; mixed with the appearance of new characters such as the leaders of the male and female Judo Clubs; Toshihiko Iga who seemed to know Kotaro very well and Rumiko Mitsugi whose panties Kotaro and Tenzen could never "possess" respectively, the new arc of Kotaro brings him and Mayumi to the world of Judo filled with the familiar mix of comedy, ecchi, and martial arts.

An autobiographical short from 1978. Students of the Kazuo Koike manga school were given a graduation assignment with the topic of "My 24 Hours". The short originally ran in "Koike Kazuo Gekiga Sonjuku". Kemo Kobiru is Takahashi Rumiko's college era psudonym… Kobiru is a Japanese anagram of "Rumiko". <http://www2j.biglobe.ne.jp/~k_asuka/sakuhin/kemono24.html>

Sayoko is a newly transferred student: gifted with rare beauty and mysterious and magnetic charm, she captures every student's attention. Among them, the introverted Yuiko and the grumpy Mari become friends with Sayoko, while Ryou, a known womanizer, wastes no time and tries to hit on her, unleashing his girlfriend's rage. But this story has countless plot twists, characters and secrets… --- - **Kisho Tenyo received the 1983 Shogakukan Manga Award for Shoujo Manga**

The drama club at Ouka Academy has a yearly tradition of putting Anton Chekhov's The Cherry Orchard every year for the school's founding day festival. These four interwoven tales of love and friendship focus on four girls in the drama club as they prepare for this year's presentation.