California Monogatari

From Megchan: Arisa Kurosaki lives on a coffee plantation in Hawaii with her parents, Lu Mei and Ken, and her younger brother Shinji. With her ability to sense the spiritual power of mana, she has often been called the dragon's daughter, but for the most part she's just an ordinary teenage girl. That is, until a boy claiming to be the son of her parents' old friend comes to Hawaii from China just to warn her that she's in danger…

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.

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**

Arisue Sei lived as happily as any normal kid would, just him and his mother – a particularly private woman – on an outlying island of Okinawa. There were also his friends Toichi and Moichi. The only unusual things about Sei were his sharp instincts and high intelligence. But everything changed when his mother was killed and he was kidnapped by the people of Neo Genesis. Now, six years after the kidnapping, Arisue Sei has returned to Japan with the title of "Doctor" at only the age of 18, and he's not the Sei that his friends remember. There are bodyguards with him who protect him from others who wish to possess his superb intellect. He says he's come back to assist with the research at Rakuhoku University, where Moichi now works, but here is where the door to Sei's secrets just begins to open… --- - **Won the 47th Shogakukan Manga Award for Best Shojo in 2002**

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.

Collection of one-shots. Also includes an extra chapter of California Story, "Garden of Dreams".

Heath Swanson, an 18 year old high school dropout, runs away from his home in San Diego, California to make a fresh start in New York City. Along his travels he meets Eve, another troubled teen who latches onto him. Although annoyed by his presence and idealistic dreams of life in California at first, the two form an inseparable bond. Living among artists in SoHo, the two help and support each other as they try to make a living in the city.

Nature made Ash Lynx beautiful; nurture made him a cold ruthless killer. A runaway brought up as the adopted heir and sex toy of "Papa" Dino Golzine, Ash, now at the rebellious age of seventeen, forsakes the kingdom held out by the devil who raised him. But the hideous secret that drove Ash's older brother mad in Vietnam has suddenly fallen into Papa's insatiably ambitious hands—and it's exactly the wrong time for Eiji Okamura, a pure-hearted young photographer from Japan, to make Ash Lynx's acquaintance… The five oneshots at the end are **Banana Fish another story** ([Mangaupdates link](https://www.mangaupdates.com/series/ffdpw36/banana-fish-another-story)). A collection of *Banana Fish* side-stories that take place before and after the main story. Contains **spoilers** for the ending of *Banana Fish* itself. 1. ANGEL EYES 2. Hikari no Niwa - THE GARDEN WITH HOLY LIGHT 3. PRIVATE OPINION 4. Ura BANANA 5. Fly boy, in the sky

A letter comes to the three Kohda sisters in Kamakura, bringing the news of their father's death. A father they hadn't seen since he divorced and left home 15 years ago. Despite feeling indifferent about their father, Yoshino, the middle of the three, and Chika, the youngest, go to Yamagata to attend his funeral on oldest sister Sachi's request. There, they meet Suzu, their young and reliable half sister. --- - **Won the 2013 Manga Taisho Award** - **Won the Japan Media Arts Festival Awards Excellence Prize for Manga in 2007**

Various unconnected oneshots from different years in the author's career.