Akimi, a high school student living on a picturesque island in the Seto Inland Sea, lives with her mother, who stopped smiling due to her father's affair. One day, she becomes close to Kai, who has transferred to the island and is being swept along by his free-spirited mother's love affairs. Both harboring loneliness and emptiness within, they are drawn to each other, miss each other, and eventually grow together.

Short manga serial of Hideo Azuma that features the first Neko-Mimi (cat-ears) in history, Sham Cat. (further details in the rest of the desc.) Serialized in Weekly Shonen Champion. Descriptions for each chapter: - Chapter 1 - **Sham Appears** An odd cat who can speak human language comes running into the apartment of a ronin student boy. The cat also turns into a bishojo! - Chapter 2 - **Cutting a Tail, and a Great Transformation...!?** Ban (The last name of this ronin student) goes to his part-time job, but Sham, wanting attention, follows him around after. - Chapter 3 - **Dig Up Shadows, Nyan Nyan!!** All living things have a great weakness. You'll know right away when you dig up their shadow... Sham displays her mysterious ESP, and an enemy bearing an existential crisis draws near. - Chapter 4 - **When You Want to be Popular, This Scent...** Ban falls in love with Ranko, the idol of Ajima Prep. He tearfully wishes, "I want to be popular for once!!" Sham easily succeeds in granting this. - Chapter 5 - **A Reassuring Ally Appears!!** Tomorrow is the entrance exams at last, yet Ban isn't doing well and becomes frantic. He is able to fall asleep from Sham's ESP, but Sham's fleas start to rampage... Sham Cat was collected into Azuma's **Absurdity Diary** (不条理日記, Fujouri Nikki), a compilation of short SF one-shots and serials which were parodies of popular SF works and it was released the same year. Absurdity Diary won the 10th Seiun Award for Best Comic also within the same year. Azuma mentions that Sham Cat is intended to be a parody of Shambleau by female American SF author C. L. Moore (part of the Northwest Smith series of short stories). But in addition to this, one could also observe two key influences in Sham Cat. Sham Cat, both the character and the manga, is Azuma's composite of two series, [Urusei Yatsura](https://mangadex.org/title/6b9206b3-5c0f-4cf8-a0cc-d2c9e1aa4df9/urusei-yatsura), and its female lead, Lum, and [The Star of Cottonland](https://mangadex.org/title/6bc9f38a-9a36-4a3f-9a70-4d465e9d597f/the-star-of-cottonland) with its lead, Chibi-Neko, both of which were being serialized around this time, and Azuma himself professed to very fond of Urusei Yatsura from its very first chapter (source: QuickJapan, issue 71). The compositions, tone, flow, plots, and characterization of Sham Cat parallels Lum and the early chapters of Urusei Yatsura, with additional elements being from Chibi-Neko. Hideo Azuma's lasting influence with Sham Cat can still be seen to this day. What frequently, and erroneously, is referred to as the 'Anime Cat Girl' are all modern day Sham Cats. One could humorously say that we have many different breeds of Sham Cats today.

Rajan, a young man who came down to the royal capital from an impoverished mountain region, saves Amrita, a girl who guides the country with her fortune-telling skills known as "Mido," from an attack. Helpless against the people suffering under the palace's misrule, Amrita sees in Rajan, a descendant of the old dynasty, the potential to become king, but at the same time, she foresees Rajan's unfortunate future...!? An Oriental, male-female, and royal palace fantasy in which a young man with a strong sense of justice and a girl with foresight challenge the palace where misrule is rampant!

A manga part of the Uma Musume Project by Cygames, a game and an anime. It follows Special Week, an aspiring horsegirl athlete-idol, as she transfers in to the Traincent Academy to follow her dreams.

Hikaru, a high school girl, was seriously injured by bullying and lost consciousness. When she woke up, she was in a coliseum in another world! There, Hikaru awakened to a certain overwhelming talent that she had locked away deep in her heart.

Welcome to the classes of horror! I will be your guide to a world that lurks under everyday life. For these lessons, you don't need text books or notebooks. If you're prepared for the worst…

In the world, there is a gambler here named Saga.

Ichiro, an ordinary otaku office worker summoned to another world, was deemed an “Outsider” who— unusually— possessed no special abilities at all, a true “powerless one.” However, he soon “awakened” in that world to discover that he was in fact endowed with a forbidden incubus-like power: the ability to dominate women through his own sexual essence. Realizing this, Ichiro begins using the seductive arts born of this demonic power to win over one beauty after another, including alluring women and youthful heroines…

Manga adaption of Morimi Tomihiko's 2003 debut novel. Set at Kyouto University, a young man is taking his rejection hard, even going so far as to stalk the girl of his affection. ___ **Additional Links:** - [Official X](https://x.com/morimi_taiyo)

A story based on real-life events in 1966. The Sanrizuka Struggle told from the perspective of the peasants fighting for their land.

"Gunjin Muko-san to Daikon Yome-san" is a story about the marriage of a large, silent military man, Tachibana Homare, and a small, simple farm girl, Tanaka Hana. Homare receives a letter with the date of the wedding ceremony and arrives at the Tanaka household, but he arrives too early, having mistaken the Gregorian calendar for the lunar calendar, and so the Tanaka household has not yet made any preparations. Hana had never even heard that she was getting married, but since he had come, there was no choice but to hold the wedding ceremony that very same day. Unable to keep up with the developments, Hana is stunned and says, "I was just pulling up radishes in the field, right...?" However, as she gets to know Homare as a person, she becomes attracted to him. (Source: Natalie, translated)

Universal Century 0079, The Magellan-class battleship Toutatis tracking a Musai-class in its progress towards Side 2 for a preemptive attack following the Duchy of Zeon's declaration of war, crash-lands in the Island Iffish colony. What they saw there was a landscape wiped out by poison gas. Eventually, they realize Zeon's aim to drop the colony on the Earth. The Toutatis, equipped with a nuclear warhead (hydrogen bomb), attempts to destroy the colony. On the other hand, a Zaku platoon had entered the colony by chance, ordered to subdue and silence dissent among friendly forces.

"Why are we staying here?" Adam B. Brown wakes up in a strange and luxurious hotel room. He was in the midst of a sumptuous feast and enough alcohol to drown himself. The latest novel by a famous author that never existed. A wedding full of dreams with the love of your life. This hotel can fulfill any wish of its guests. Is this heaven?! A grand hotel story of strange migratory birds entertained by a perfect concierge!

In the cat-filled town of Miyakecho, there is an urban legend that says cats sometimes put curses on humans. Ichika and Maki were once childhood friends until a certain incident led them to stop talking to each other. When Maki rushes in to save a mysterious white cat from an oncoming truck, however, she somehow finds herself under the cat's curse with Ichika being the only one she can turn to for help.

An irreplaceable "spot…" and the greatest friends in the world! Just when it seems like peaceful everyday life will continue forever, disaster strikes, and that's when these men move to protect what matters most to them! A compilation of stories about the legendary boys of Hiroshima!

Sawada Honoka is a 14-year-old girl who is very timid. She easily gets bullied by other classmates. Honoka is a non-believer in God, angels, and devils. Though one day, a devil baby was dropped into her room while she was sleeping. What will Honoka believe now? ---- Indonesian release by M&C! Comics as Chibi Fairy!

Collection of short stories. Contains: - Blue - Hypochristmutreefuzz - Nandattenda 7days (Kasei no Jijou no Maki) - 197X Long, long ago, when things like VHS, Betamax and satellite broadcasting didn’t exist yet, there lived a boy who loved watching movies over anything else - until one day he found something much more interesting to do in the darkness of the movie hall… - Hageshii Ousama - Kibou no Tomo - Zubizuba

A oneshot tie-in manga to Konami's 1993 arcade Action RPG, Gaiapolis. Originally published in Comic Gamest, with art by Shuzilow.HA, also known as Shuujirou Hamakawa. It is the year 10,000 AD in the kingdom of Avalon. Prince Gerard is in the middle of his sword training when he is ambushed. The illusion he witnesses afterwards brings a terrible premonition. Indeed, an ambush of another scale entirely is just about to start in Avalon...

Yuuri Onagawa is a young boy about to enter high school, who constantly pines over his childhood friend Kyouko. One day he meets her after years of separation, only to find out that she despises men now. Upset, he prays at a shrine to have them become friends once again. The god fulfills his wish, but in a way he never expected…

Negizawa Kamo and Kagyuu Jyuubee; two childhood friends who made a fated promise to each other are once again reunited as Kagyuu reaffirms her dedication to defending Kamo's dream, and her own, with the monstrous power of her martial arts. However, they soon discover that force alone is not enough, it's character, individuality, that rules this school and pits the students against each other in a brutal contest of dueling personalities vying for supremacy. Because in this school, those with the superior strength, the superior character, are king, and those whose individualities are overwhelmed are discarded. Join Kagyuu, Kamo, and their companions as they struggle to overcome the hidden evils lurking within this school, and discover the voice of each other's hearts and true desires. Do not edit genre to Shounen, series serialized in a seinen magazine (Weekly Young Jump) - [Wikipedia](https://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E3%81%AD%E3%81%98%E3%81%BE%E3%81%8D%E3%82%AB%E3%82%AE%E3%83%A5%E3%83%BC)

Maki meets a man named Tomonori who pays well. What does the word "dole" that he often uses mean? This is the story of a woman who falls for a scumbag man who nests on the dark side of society.