Toshi is your regular senior high student, except in the evenings when he's a bartender at a joint frequented by American servicemen, where he deals drugs, pimps, and even cross-dresses a little on the side. And his best friend Miyuki just happens to be the son of a loan shark with gay tendencies. It's balanced by Toshi's madcap adventures at his all-male school (where his mates jerk off to everything in sight, and scenes from shoujo manga are performed in all their histrionic glory), as well as the unexpected delicacy of his relationships with the women in his life. This episodic drama is bursting with all the frustration, the tenderness, the audacity, the horniness and the hilarity that comes with being young and male. All the tough, silly, dirty, and sweet things boys get up to in the locker room and out of it never brought a bigger smile to your face.

Probably one of the most difficult feats in manga is to tell a compelling short story, and Mitsuru Adachi is a master of the medium. This selection of some of his best short works include two tales in the dangerous life of a pretty private-eye-to-be; a boy's stop-off on the way changes his life's destination; five short-shorts in a quirky cafe; Japan's future ace pitcher can't even throw a ball; when a school play goes bad, the world is a stage for love and karate; a drama of rugby and past lives; two off-beat time-travel tales; and more! Mitsuru Adachi's low-key but high-impact stories are a must read for any manga aficionado. This collection, titled simply Short Program, collected stories by Adachi published between 1985 and now. ||Volume 1: (from Viz) Story 1 - Change Story 2 - Take Off Story 3 - Short Program Story 4 - What's Going On!? (Part 1) Story 5 - What's Going On!? (Part 2) Story 6 - At the Intersection Story 7 - The Current State of Affairs Story 8 - Plus 1 Story 9 - Purple Volume 2: Story 1 - Before Spring Comes Story 2 - Subject - Wakaba Story 3 - A Stop on the Way Story 4 - 5X4P Story 5 - 4 on the Richter Scale Story 6 - Aim At the Ace Story 7 - Spring Call Story 8 - Spring Passes Story 9 - The Road Home Story 10 - Sayonara Game Volume 3: Story 1 - Clogs and Diamond Story 2 - Where the Wind Blows Story 3 - Angel's Hammer Story 4 - Memory Off (part1) Story 5 - Memory Off (part2) Story 6 - White Summer / Shiroi Natsu (written by Buronson) Story 7 - Square Ocean Story 8 - Idol A (part 1) Story 9 - Idol A (part 2) Story 10 - Idol A (part 3) Story 11 - Running God Story 12 - Short Mail Volume 4: Girl's type 1. Short story of a parasite (part 1) 2. Short story of a parasite (part 2) 3. Harsh life of a parasite 4. Love confession 5. Season 6. Two champions||

In a school of delinquents, there's one student that hates guys who pick on the weak, and his name is Kunio. He's as strong as they come, but unfortunately he's also lazy and perverted. Can Kunio win all of his challenges and survive the crazy antics of his opponents? --- - **Won the Shogakukan Manga Award for Children in 1995**

The hero is Dr. Kishiwada, a brilliant but demented scientist, who creates bizarre mechas, battles the forces of evil, or just mucks about. There are many parodies of B-grade sci-fi movies and of TV. Crazy, slick, and very funny.

Mio Mizumori's parents die, and she goes to live with her cousin, Tadaomi Shijou. Her only salvation is Rei Narumiya, the Golden Girl of her school. Simultaneously, Mio discovers that they have powers over the elements of nature… and a destiny to fulfill.

Onoda Nina is a 1st year student of her high school. She's having a serious crush on her senpai, the handsome and kind Atsuhito Ogi. Ogi is the president of the ESP (Extra Sensory Perception) club, and only to win his heart she joins the club. Turns out she has a tough rival, her senpai, Okada Ida who is a beauty and the idol of the school. Ida likes Ogi too and will never let Nina has his way with him. Soon they all find out that Nina actually possesses a powerful ESP, and this makes Ogi pays a lot of attention to her, much to her delight and Ida's distress. Thus begins the adventure of Nina and her friends in ESP club, and of course her 'battles' with Ida to win Ogi. Sounds very simple and just like your everyday Shoujo, right? But here's the thing. This manga is a CRAZY, super COMEDY that leaves nothing not to be laughed about. It's hilarious, it's even outrageous, and I think you'll somewhat be embarrassed for Nina (and other characters) because she herself doesn't know shame. Nothing deep, nothing complicated, nothing intelligent, nothing really romantic about this manga. It's just here to make you laugh and laugh. Everything about this manga makes it an excellent bold comedy.

It's about a boy with mysterious powers who transfers from school to school, fighting various monsters.

Mangaupdates: The story of Kuraku Asuka, a tough junior high student who gets involved with the gang scene in the Kabuki Chou Ichibangai, a rough area of Tokyo. Adapted into 1987 OVA.

If you come by this girl, you better be extremely careful - nobody knows what kind of prank she will play the next moment! She practically lives to cause mischief!

Barefoot Gen tells the story of Keiji Nakazawa's Childhood experience of war. The story is about a 6 year old boy Gen who is a victim of the atomic bombing on Hiroshima back in 1945.

All Miki Koishikawa wanted was an ordinary family and that's exactly what she had until her parents decided to move in with another couple (as in switching spouses!) and turned Miki's world upside down. Now she lives in a house with four parents and her totally cute stepbrother, Yuu. It's bad enough being brought into her parents' strange soap opera, but Miki will star in a soap of her own as she deals with friends having affairs, trying to survive in school and ending up torn between her long-time crush, Ginta, and her new stepbrother!

"A mermaid will fall in love with the first human she sees." Shiina is your average grade 8 girl -that is, except for her height, which makes her tower over the other people in her class. She's never met anyone SHE had or wanted to look up to… until a young male teacher begins teaching at her school. Yet because of his good looks and easy demeanor the other girls in her grade have turned him into the resident school idol, and there's little chance of him ever noticing her. That all changes one day when they end up in the same train during rush hour. She's surprised to find that he not only recognizes her but he remembers her name! What could this mean?

Oba Tamako tells of her time being at art high school.

Five short stories: - A Can of Happiness - Boys Just Don't Understand - A Million Words - The Opposite of Love is Hate - I'll Always Be Here

This story is a spinoff from Narita Minako's own series *Cipher* where Siva's friend Alex Levine is now the main character. Ever since Alex was young, he has harbored a complex about his extremely pretty face. People are always comparing him to a girl, so to combat this image, he has thrown himself into practicing martial arts. One day, though, he is scouted by someone to become a fashion model and thus begins Alex's tale of growth and romance!

Ami is a normal school girl. One day with her friends, she got stopped for an interview by a camera crew who thought Ami was really cute. Shortly afterwards, Ami meets a blond boy who goes to her school named Nozomu. He seems to show some interest in her too. However, after she went to the 'Darwin', a group of two boy singers, concert, she met another Nozomu. Very soon after the encounter with Darwin, she then got roped into the entertainment world as there were many people already interested in her from her live interview, who she later also became interested in.

From Project Bite Me! Scanlations: From the creator of Touch and Nine, enter the world of Hirahira-kun Seishun Jingi! One of Adachi-sensei's lesser known works, it follows 7th grader, Hirahira-kun as he deals with the 8th grade bully, Daimyoujin and tries to gain the affection of his fellow classmate, Yocchin!

Despite his short stature and his cowardly personality, Eisaku Yazawa dreams of one day becoming a gang leader of a nation of thugs. As he starts high school, he ends up meeting several delinquents who attend the same school as him.

A high school student named Komori Yuu is bitten by a radioactive spider, which gives him spider-like powers. Yuu faces Japanese versions of villains such as Electro, the Lizard, and the Kangaroo in a darker take on the Spider-Man story. **Note:** There are 5 different Japanese book releases of this series: 1. original 1976 Sun Comics (Asahi Sonorama) release - 8 volumes 2. 1986 Sun Wide Comics (Asahi Sonorama) release - 5 volumes 3. 1995 Asahi Sonorama release - 5 volumes 4. 2002 MF Bunko (Media Factory) release - 5 volumes 5. 2004 MF Comics (Media Factory) release - 5 volumes The 2002 release is what's translated here on MangaDex. ___ **Additional Amazon Buy Links:** - 1976: [All 8](https://www.amazon.co.jp/dp/B07QYMFF7V), [All 8](https://www.amazon.co.jp/dp/B085NJS5QN) - 1986: [1](https://www.amazon.co.jp/dp/4257961104), [2](https://www.amazon.co.jp/dp/4257961139), [3](https://www.amazon.co.jp/dp/4257961163), [4](https://www.amazon.co.jp/dp/4257961198), [5](https://www.amazon.co.jp/dp/4257961236) - 1995: [1](https://www.amazon.co.jp/dp/4257902523), [2](https://www.amazon.co.jp/dp/4257902531), [3](https://www.amazon.co.jp/dp/425790254X), [4](https://www.amazon.co.jp/dp/4257902558), [All 5](https://www.amazon.co.jp/dp/B00007CEBP) - 2002: [1](https://www.amazon.co.jp/dp/4840103569), [2](https://www.amazon.co.jp/dp/4840105715), [3](https://www.amazon.co.jp/dp/4840105855), [4](https://www.amazon.co.jp/dp/4840105863), [5](https://www.amazon.co.jp/dp/4840105944), [All 5](https://www.amazon.co.jp/dp/B0010MKDK4), [All 5](https://www.amazon.co.jp/dp/B00ENU5MN8) - 2004: [1](https://www.amazon.co.jp/dp/4840109559), [2](https://www.amazon.co.jp/dp/4840109567), [3](https://www.amazon.co.jp/dp/4840109613), [4](https://www.amazon.co.jp/dp/4840109621), [5](https://www.amazon.co.jp/dp/484010963X), [All 5](https://www.amazon.co.jp/dp/B00B47KG8Y)

A collection of 10 short stories spanning 12 chapters, NASA is representative of Naoki Urasawa's writing style prior to his success as an author of psychological thrillers.

Maria is a girl attending a Christian private school. Her mother is sick and in the hospital, her family poor. They live off the money of a man whose identity is unknown to Maria. He is called “Daddy Long-Legs” and he supports Maria and her mother with only one fee: Maria becoming his bride. Just who is this mysterious man? Is it the doctor? Someone she does not know? A boy from school…?

Pretty Guardian Sailor Moon Short Stories - Volume 1 is the first volume of the short story volumes released along with the shinsōban manga. Chapters: Chibiusa's Picture Diary Chapter 1 - Beware of the Transfer Student Chibiusa's Picture Diary Chapter 2 - Beware of Tanabata Chibiusa's Picture Diary Chapter 3 - Beware of Cavities Chapter 1 - The Melancholy of Mako-chan Chapter 2 - Ami-chan's First Love Chapter 3 - Rei's and Minako's Girls School Battle? The Secret Hammer Price Hall Pretty Guardian Sailor Moon Short Stories - Volume 2 is the second volume of the short story volumes released along with the shinsōban manga. Chapters: The Lover of Princess Kaguya Casablanca Memory Parallel Sailor Moon (Source: The Sailor Moon Wiki)

It has your average girl, with a childhood friend who's in love with her but won't admit it, and an older guy who likes her: a high school love story. Although the whole school knew what was happening between Azusa and Ikumi, there were rivals who came between them.

In a rainy spring day, first year high schooler Midori Saejima saw a tall, handsome fellow student take care of a stray kitten. Without knowing the boy's name, she fell in love with him at the first sight. Due to sickness, Midori returned to school three days after summer vacation – only to find out that she was "volunteered" as a candidate for student council. After a series of embarrassing accidents, both she and the mysterious boy she had a crush on, Akira Sudo, were elected as members of the student council. Being the first student council of this newly established high school, they are about to create "new traditions" for their school and a bittersweet love story for themselves.