Full color manga drawn for the purpose of "expressing the beauty of Japan". It is a collection of several slice-of-life stories of girls living in various locations in Japan, set against beautiful man-made and natural scenery that surrounds them.

This one-shot is the adaptation of two movies: Zatoichi's Vengeance (Tokuzo Tanaka) and Zatoichi's Pilgrimage (Kazuo Ikehiro).The Ballad of Zatoichi:Zatoichi comes upon a dying man who asks him to give a bag of money to "Taichi." Zatoichi has no idea who this is but when he comes upon a small town harassed by gangsters, he finds that "Taichi" was the man's young son. Along his travels, he also met a blind monk who makes Zatoichi question his murderous lifestyle. In trying to help the town, Zatoichi kills some gangsters and becomes a hero to the boy. He must make a choice of whether to stay and defend the town or to leave and be on his way.Zatoichi's Pilgrimage:After he's ambushed in a small village terrorized by a gang of thieves, the legendary blind swordsman Zatoichi is forced to kill a young man in self-defense. As fate would have it, his travels soon lead him to Okichi, a woman whom Zatoichi discovers is the sister of the young man whose life he stole. In anger, Okichi attacks the blind swordsman, but her conscience gets the better of her, and as she tends his wounds, the two fall in love.

A 47 page one-shot about how Harold (mangaka of Beck) got to meet the 'Red Hot Chili Peppers.'

A cross-over manga featuring characters from Higurashi no Naku Koro ni.

The manga begins as Kanae Sekiguchi, proprietor of the Tsuki no Yu bathhouse, struggles to reopen her business after the unexplained disappearance of her husband...

Before he started The Ravages of Time, Chen Mou penned a two volume series called Unhuman. The volumes are broken up into three seperate stories, each focusing on a different character. It's divided to three arcs: Arc 1: Unhuman (不是人) Arc 2: Me Lowly Woman (賤妾) Arc 3: The Final Keystone (終礎)

Haruna has some problems with her boyfriend... He doesn't pay her enough attention! The kid she's tutoring certainly notices her... How's a girl supposed to know her man loves her!?

Urara would really like to be a normal high school girl, but her mad scientist older sister and mother make this a difficult goal. For their latest experiment, they've fused Urara's neighbor and childhood friend Takaharu into Urara's body. After discovering this, Urara destroyed some of the experimental apparatus in a fit of rage, leaving them stuck with each other for the time being. Takaharu is a high school graduate who sells erotic manga while waiting to retake his college entrance exams. Takaharu takes over Urara's body when she falls asleep or passes out, and, to Urara's embarrassment, has been using it as source material for his manga. Will the two of them be able to deal with sharing a body until Urara's family can put things right?

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After succumbing to serious injuries, the main character faints in the forest, only to be found and helped later on by a young woman named Eruruu (Whose species has animal-like ears and tails). He has no memories of who he is, and furthermore he has a mask stuck to his face that cannot be removed. The elder of the village he is taken to gives him clothes, and a name: Hakuoro. He is adopted as one of the villages own members, and is also adopted into Eruruu's family, which consists of herself, her younger sister Aruruu, and the village elder, their grandmother: Tuskuruu. Notes: Based on a [leaf/aquaplus] h-game. -Bakaupdates

The story takes place in a world that resembles 19th century Europe. When a carnival comes to town one day, Ray, the son of a bar owner, meets a girl with wings. The girl's name is Vendemiaire. She was given life by her Creator and tells Ray that she is not human. This is a series of short stories showing the kindness and cruelty of mankind. You can enjoy pictures drawn with a fine touch alongside the philosophic dialogue of the characters. This 2-volume series is the debut work of Mr. Kitoh. Hints for his next work, Narutaru can also be found in this story. (Blurp above from Kodanclub)

In the not so distant future, Earth is invaded by aliens. The United Nations instates a draft, and all humans on Earth are eligible to become soldiers. Kurando Nieno is a rather scrawny high school student, scoring the lowest scores possible on the preliminary draft physical. During an air raid from the aforementioned aliens, a rather irritable black haired girl crash lands in front of Nieno and attempts to drink his blood. The United Nations air force and Eliza the vampire have selected Nieno as Eliza's delicious new food source!

It is the 18th century in Naples, Italy. There is a girl named Maria living peacefully in the city, but she is more than she appears. She is like a goddess of death, with a sword that cuts through everything. But what exactly is she? Where has she come from and what cruel destiny awaits her?

Volume 1 : The Laughing Vampire. While a young boy, just resurrected as a vampire, commits acts of awful ferocity, the city around him shows all its perversion. The adults abuse of their power, the boys degenerate and use all the available means to achieve their goal to give vent to their low instincts. Whoever can't understand and make opposition is doomed to change or becoming crazy. So which is the real horror? The vampire who kills in order to feed himself or the crawling disease hidden in the society that slowly corrupts without being noticed? Volume 2 : Paradise. Following the events narrated in the first volume, Luna and Konosuke are now living together with the old woman vampire as fellows, as lovers, in a diabolic innocence, killing to quench their thirst for blood, joining death and love under the dream of the eternal youth. Meanwhile a young boy, named Makoto, is looking for his lost sister Miko, who disappeared years ago under mysterious circumstances. But what has really happened to that girl who liked eating grubs and dreamed to become on of them? And is someone really hiding a terrible secret? The paths of all the characters will dramatically collide, bringing unexpected consequences after the things are gradually revealed. A story suspended between weirdness and decadence, showing a clear nostalgia for the German cinematography and Federico Fellini, where the blood is used to trace a great and only apparent amoral story.

Ebi sacrificed everything to get into art school, studied hard for a whole year, drew like crazy to ready herself--only to fail the entrance exam because her mind went blank. Worse, while heading home with an armful of doujinshi, she meets her friend Tachibana. Exposed as an otaku, Ebi is humiliated when Tachibana denies knowing her. Ebi resigns herself to attending a vocational school. And one of her classmates is a weird girl named Tachibana, who lost her memory in a strange accident...

Is this a dream? Reality? Or maybe something else...? Every night, a mysterious man who styles himself Peter Pan sneaks up in Manami's room. He takes her with him to Neverland, an eerie place created out of human desire. Neither pain nor obligation exist in this place. A fairytale land of freedom, where people live governed only by their own instincts. There, all of reality's troubles and unpleasantness may be forgotten. However... being human may not be quite as bad as it sounds.

You-Geon, a high school student, is saved from drowning by a mysterious girl his own age. Indeed, this girl is a North Korean agent trained to kill. The encounter which will completely change You-Geon's peaceful life means that this mysterious girl never leaves You-Geon alone for a second worried he might reveal her secret to someone. The atmosphere at the high school will never be the same again..

The quiet old lady who lives alone has long being rumoured to be an evil witch. Two siblings are determined to discover the truth, and decide to visit her little cottage in the middle of the woods.

Some kind of global catastrophe results in magic working. So now there are wizards, rangers (shape changers), and elf looking people. A remotely posted squad must fight mercenaries equipped with sci-fi technology and magic to find their missing commander.

A wildly imaginitive trek into the deepest realms of human beliefs and the mysteries of the universe. Daisuke Igarashi's amazing pen can recreate anything he can imagine on paper, resulting in beautifully chaotic, maddeningly detailed scrawls of pure wonder. You must read this manga. A true celebration of the human imagination. -Bakaupdates

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From Furinkazan: If you like +anima and are over 18, this manga is for you. X-gene is about a few chosen people, whose DNA contains genes from certain unique animals that can turn them into that animal and receive its attributes. What makes this game even more deadly is that they can kill and consume other X-genes?(as they are referred as in the manga) powers and use it for themselves. But they need to hurry, for only one can enter the ark.

Tokugawa Iemitsu struggles with his fear of death and finds salvation in the young samurai Samon of the Yagyû clan. But their relationship triggers a battle for power and respect, stirring tension between the Shogun and the Yagyû clan. In five chapters, the story depicts each of the main characters and follows their downfall as the plot unfolds.

The tale of a young policewoman/rescue worker working high up in the Japanese Alps.