With the setting of Edo, we have that the more a wealthy a city grows, the more people will gather, and as a side effect more seeds of discord can easily be found. In one hand we have Shusuke, a slacker "almost" apprentice of a merchant with a rather large mouth who is pretty skilled in conversational skills and reading into people's intentions. In the other hand we have Rie, and gracious Yamato nadeshiko who is actually an expert swordsman who has dedicated her life to her skills, who works as a benriya or hired hand / jack of all trades. What have these two in common? Well, besides their very own interesting backgrounds, we have that the two of them are actually quite indebted towards the same person, which is Shuusuke's merchant "mentor" & Rie's landlord.

Takafumi Ten is called to a mahjong club one night to play again Ikawa Hiroyuki, a young mahjong player. Having just robbed Ten's friends blind at mahjong, Ten arrives to take back his winnings.. Ten's mahjong style becomes more apparent as the game progresses...amateurish! Ten cheats in the last round, using a move called the Tsubame Gaeshi, and winning with a Tenhou hand. Hiroyuki is angered once Ten admits he cheated after the game. Will he come to understand Ten's "Way of Tenhou", where Ten willingly cheats and gets beat up in response for his friends? Will Ten unlock his true mahjong potential or cheat forever?

Mano Chiaki is simple-minded, incompetent and clumsy as well, so after eight unsuccessful interviews he's grateful he found a job working with genius architect Murasame. Even if Murasame is a bully and seems to enjoy torturing Mano, he's determined not to give up!

From Doko Demo Doa Manga Scanlations: Whilst working as the princess in a parade, Nao has some unexpected trouble with her costume. Luckily, she is helped out by a man dressed as teddy bear, resulting in Nao falling in love with him. The only problem: she doesn’t know who he is!

1. Teirui Makura Popular honor student little brother, Yuua, and his kind older brother, Seigo. One step ahead in the puberty department, Seigo tries to put a little distance between him and his cute little brother. However, the innocent little brother is to blame with his defenseless skinship. Finally, Seigo's lust consumes him and he can't endure anymore. Once Yuua accepted that idea, his desire to be attached to his brother grew stronger every day. 2-3. Finger Biting, The Moon's Colorful Person 4. Choroize! Jigoku A constant failure at job interviews thanks to his scary expression, Danda's employment agent sends him on a rather unusual assignment. 5. Loup-Garou Gokou extra A short extra to Loup-Garou Gokou, chapter 9 in Hide and Seek. 6. Natsu ni Shini Yuku Monogatari (Dangerous Symphony) Rock and Homero live in a world, where all kinds of laws restrict people and you can get arrested for the simplest things. Naturally, being love with another man is frowned upon.

From Shinnen: The Hachiouji family hunts demons in the darkness. The heiress of the Hachiouji family, Takamichi, lost her older brother at a very young age. She isolates herself, but, one evening, two werewolf pups are given to her. After just a few years, they have grown quickly, and they even go to the same senior high school that she does!

Kyoko Suomi is the princess of Earth in the 30th century. Kyoko goes to school among the commoners, unwilling to reveal her true identity and ascend the throne. The king will allow Kyoko to live as she pleases if she can revive her twin sister Ui, who has been trapped in time since birth.

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Hina is a typical game otaku ever since one can remember. The day he falls in love, he bumps into the worst scenery; his crush happens to be his mortal enemy's younger sister, Natsushiro Ryusei! What shall the big brother say... Or probably request from Hina?

Summary by Manga Abyss : The grocery store’s Mike, the fish shop’s Kuro, the rice shop’s Iba-chan, the soba shop's Kyuu, the yakitori shop's Sato, and the sake shop's Mamoru are childhood friends raised in the Galaxy Street’s shopping center. When these six gather they are invincible, but after they entered middle school they stopped gathering!? It’s an overflow of love and friendship in the lower part of town.

From AnimeCouncil²: The other OTHER version(s) of TTGL. The stories not told...perhaps...more like those you came up with after smoking a little too much... Twisted realities and perpendicular universes but above all they know who the hell we think they are. a 4koma manga

Story 1 - Sano tends to forget some things - a wallet, a pen. Little things. There are also things he doesn't forget - like making sure Ashihara is around to remind him when he "forgets" something. It's not deliberate. Really.

From Twisted Hel Scans: A future Korea in which being single is a serious crime. The riveting tale of escape of an unexpectedly arrested single man and his fellow inmates. Original Webtoon

From AnimeCouncil² : Gurren Lagann... School version, more ecchi and stuff, that's about it :D

Koyuki has the power to see the future, but she can only see the unfortunate things that happen to people. Until the day she meets Umehachi, a high school senior... Fanservice, mayhem, and hilarity ensues.

A re-imagining of Gurren Lagann. In this alternate version of TTGL, Simon lives in Tepelen city and dreams of becoming a Gunmen pilot after having seen the stars through a crack in the sky. One day, he comes across a strange small Gunmen. The hatch opens, and out comes a beautiful girl named Nia.

Two Brothers are climbing a mountain to learn a secret fighting technique from an old man. Three years later they are returning to their village ...

From Bliss: While buying food at the supermarket, Sunao Morihara gets kidnapped by a strange man, Kuon Tachibana, who turns out to be incredibly rich! His motive? He wants Sunao to be his friend. However, before Sunao realizes, being Kuon's "friend" actually means becoming his wife!

Noboru Takizawa is your normal student. However upon being transferred to a new school the first thing that happens is that he steps on a land mine! From that point on, he fights against the hall monitor and gets past him. In the turmoil of it all, he meets the lovely Yukari and befriends her. Later on, he meets Ibuki, who later becomes his rival to win Yukari's heart. It turns out that the school Takizawa has transferred to is trying to tyrannize the students of the class he's entered. It is now his job to try and help them out and keep their class! He does this by trying his best in showing the class has potential in a sports festival at the school. Meanwhile in the background, Takizawa's father is setting the teacher's straight and making them stop their evil ways. The basic plot is that Takizawa transfers to schools where the teachers have messed up methods to deal with students, or schools where there are obscure and crazy rules. His father accompanies him and pretends to be one of the teachers to try and sneak up on the evil or corrupt teachers and end their tyranny.

This beautifully drawn short story by Yôko Nihonbashi, creator of G senjô Heaven’s Door, introduces the silent, beautiful Yaeko Shimura, a woman who brings new meaning to the words dutiful wife and good friend.

From Yen Press: All penniless college student Taiga Mutou wants is a cool job and a cute older woman as a girlfriend. So when he spies a Help Wanted sign outside an office and a hot girl inside, he applies for the job, no questions asked. After a few bumps at the beginning, things start going Taiga's way, prompting him to steel his courage and ask out Yuiko, that hot girl he spied through the window, on a date. And when she later asks him if it's okay that she's a fujoshi (a very, shall we say, distinct kind of comics/animation geek), he tells her it's fine out of sheer excitement. But poor Taiga has no idea how much trouble he's just gotten himself into!

The foolish living things, the humans, who carry darkness in their hearts lost the light from their eyes. Deep inside the darkness, they lose sight of the way. Crushed in their despair the humans, one day, meet the 'hotaru' which carries a faint, warm light. The hotaru provided the humans with the light, and started to live alongside them. But in this ugly and blood-stained world, the hotaru's number started to decrease day by day. Yet, the humans wanted the light and started to hunt the hotaru. For money they would throw away the life of the hotaru.

From Chinatown KM&Chocolate Fudge: At first glance - he's weak guy. Arutsu is one prone to sickness and has always been. He literally fights bacteria and viruses in other people, with his friends. Our weak hero appears! Wait...maybe he's not so "weak" when he fights?!

"In nicht allzu ferner Zukunft werden die Städte von staatlich gelenkten Jugendbanden beherrscht. Wer keiner Gang angehört, ist als gesellschaftlicher Außenseiter gebrandmarkt. Der stille und geheimnisvolle Julian ist so ein Außenseiter, ebenso wie die hübsche Anna. Als Julian eines Tages Anna vor einer Abreibung durch eine der Gangs bewahrt, nimmt der Ärger seinen Lauf..." In a not too distant future, cities are controlled by government guided youth gangs. Those who are not in a gang are marked as outsiders. The silent and mysterious Julian is one of these outsiders, as well as the beautiful Anna. After Julian saved Anna from a beating at the hands of a gang, the story starts... --- In this series: V.1 - Personal Paradise V.2 - Miss Misery V.3 - Assassin Angel V.4-5 - Killer Kid Note: This is not an OEL!