One day, executive Tonegawa Yukio was ordered by Hyoudou Kazutaka, the chairman of the Teiai Group, to plan a "game of death" for the debtors! What awaited Tonegawa, who immediately held a planning meeting, was suffering, agony, and despair! The diabolical spin-off, depicting Tonegawa's anguish between the chairman and the blacksuits, starts now!

The title character, Maruko, is a nine-year-old third-grade student. She is lazy, disorganized and usually late for school, in strong contrast with her neat and tidy older sister who must share her room with her. Maruko, like many kids, tries to avoid homework and chores, takes advantage of her doting grandfather and squabbles with her sister. Nevertheless, she is a well-meaning child who tries to do good. Maruko's real name is Momoko Sakura (さくらももこ Sakura Momoko), the same as the pen-name of her creator Miki Miura 三浦 美紀 (who used her own childhood experiences as inspiration). Her nickname "Maruko" is made of marui ("round", because of her round face) and -ko (girl child); the prefix chibi and the suffix -chan also refer to a cute child. Maruko's trademark face fault in reaction to embarrassment is the sudden appearance of vertical lines on her face, sometimes with an unexplained gust of wind blowing behind her head. This is sometimes mimicked by female fans of the series who draw the fingers of one hand down across the face to show embarrassment. On the internet this is often used as emoticons, by speech marks. For example: -_-" Other characters include Maruko's classmate and best friend Tama-chan. A fan favorite is Maruko's kind but absent-minded grandfather. Naive and easily tricked, he keeps a pet turtle and loves watching TV with Maruko. When feeling distressed or nostalgic, he spontaneously retreats to a surreal inner world for a few seconds to improvise a sad yet comical haiku about his state of mind.

From Day of the River: Sakuraba Junko is turning 27 years old soon, but even so, she is without a boyfriend. But who cares?! Junko has a stable job as an English teacher and she is fine with spending her upcoming birthday alone. Well, until she is set up with on an omiai with a Buddhist monk... which, of course, she rejects. But then he shows up at her school where he has enrolled in private lessons... what will become of our Junko-sensei?

Life isn't going too well for Yuzuki. She's a 34-years-old and without a boyfriend. The elementary school she works at is close to firing her, and to top it off she doesn't know what to do with her life at all. But even when she quits her job and tries to have an arranged marriage things don't work out. Only the bread she eats at the small stationery store around the corner gives her comfort. So one day, she asks the storeowner to marry her on a whim and to her surprise, he agrees...?

Minami-ke is a manga following three sisters, Haruka, Kana, and Chiaki in their lives at home and school. It's a funny manga that depicts how these characters interact with each other and their classmates. It's a manga about ordinary girls and their ordinary adventures told in an extraordinary manner. This description doesn't give the manga enough credit, so check it out yourselves.

It's about a girl, often called as Zawa (short for her surname, Miyakozawa), in a high-school baseball team. She's talented, but being a girl, she doesn't get to participate in any official matches, and yet she trains just as hard as the rest of the team anyway, just for her own personal satisfaction. Nominated for the 3rd Manga Taisho Award (2010).

Touma Sou is an MIT-graduated-student who comes back to Japan because he wants to know how it feels to be a high school student. On the other hand, Mizuhara Kana is a strong girl who loves sports. Together, they are partners in solving cases that happen around them. Recipient of 2009 Kodansha Manga Award for Shōnen Category.

Mihama Academy - on the surface, a closed learning environment established to nurture students who find themselves at odds with the world around them; in actuality, an orchard-cum-prison built to preserve fruit that has fallen too far from its tree. Whatever the circumstances behind its establishment, Mihama Academy is at present home to five female students, all with their own reasons for "enrollment." For better or worse, each girl has established a routine obliging of her current situation; life moves at an idle, yet accommodating pace within the walls of Mihama. Yet with the arrival of the institute's first male student, the nearly preposterously opaque Kazami Yuuji, the students at Mihama begin to fall out of step with their predetermined rhythms. Will Yuuji prove to be the element the girls around him needed to take hold of their lives once more, or will the weight of their pasts prove too steep a wall to overcome? And in the first place, just who is Kazami Yuuji? While the true nature of the "job" he is wont to alight to at the most haphazard of moments remains shrouded in secrecy, one thing is for certain - his encroachment upon the quiet orchard known as Mihama Academy will prove itself momentous in one way or another. And of course, one cannot discount the possibility that perhaps Yuuji himself carries the weightiest past of any of the students...

A collection of oneshots. • 777 • demande • 恋女 • the OL cafe • Roulette Two women find a way to pass the time while waiting to cross the street. • Mio Post The protagonist wants to find out more about a woman she sees on the train. • Parfum A woman distracts her lover. • P. V. About an indecisive woman. • Mannequin An artist who makes mannequins seems too closely attached to her work. • Baby You A woman considers whether to date her co-worker. • To Meet A sumptuous story of the relationship of two women. What is it “to meet”? What does “each other” mean? • Topaze Two women remember a certain dessert. • Infinite 20 Minutes A woman has a lover who comes very infrequently. When the woman finds out that the lover loves Marlboros, she stocks up on them in an attempt to make her lover visit more frequently. • Multiplying Lights A simple lighter sheds light on a relationship between two women. • .925 A woman proposes to her lover, but? • Up and Down A college student gets to know her new neighbor. • helter-skelter A sequel to "Up and Down." The neighbors decide to go to a public bath.

A collection of discrete but interconnected love stories centering around trains and train stations. • Overpass Junction Two people's lives intersect at a train station.

The club room of the defunct Tea Ceremony Club has been taken over by a 4-person group calling themselves "The Amusement Club". A full-bodied comedy, overflowing with love, it's guaranteed to give you the energy to live healthily and heartily for tomorrow. *Contains the story Hearts Melting Together in vol. 2.

Himeno is a sweet, shy little centaur girl. In her world, everyone seems to be a supernatural creature, and all her classmates have some kind of horns, wings, tails, halos, or other visible supernatural body part. Despite their supernatural elements, Himeno and her best friends, Nozomi and Kyoko, have a fun and mostly normal daily school life!

Parasites: shape-shifting aliens whose only purpose is to assimilate with and consume the human race… but do these monsters have a different side? A parasite becomes a prince to save his romance-obsessed female host from a dangerous stalker. Another hosts a cooking show, in which the real monsters are revealed. These and 13 more stories, from some of the greatest shoujo manga artists alive today, together make up a chilling, funny, and entertaining tribute to Hitoshi Iwaaki's manga horror classic!

Every night, strange happenings visit the residents of shared pension and cafe 'Tsukishiro'. One evening, the main character Touya saved Yuzuriha, and there's something about the mysterious beauty that makes him feel nostalgic. Yuzuriha asks him "Do you believe that there are beings from another world?" From Morimoto Shuu, a lovable story of living together!

For the sake of this world at least, would you accept my feelings?Big Banko, the 44 pages one shot about the most energetic highschool girl of the universe!

Mozuya Koto is afflicted with the medically accepted disorder known as Dr Josef Tsundere’s Bipolar Personality Disorder, or just “tsundere” for short. With her golden hair, blue eyes, twin tail, and being rich on top of all that, Mozuya Koto comes equipped with all the basic necessities of being a top class tsundere. When Mozuya wants to be friends with somebody or when she likes somebody, she will take offensive actions that are completely opposite from what a normal person would actually do in the same situation and it is completely outside of Mozuya’s control. The manga is pretty serious most of the time, focusing on Mozuya’s troubles with getting along with people as she keeps turning violent due to her tsundere disorder.

From Loveless' Site: Amidst the crowds in Asakusa district, Tokyo, a young man is assaulted by a group of bandits. When a red-haired stranger comes to his rescue, Suoh falls in love at first sight, but all's fair in love and war.

Satoshi, a 16-year-old first year high school student just got a part time job as a housekeeper for a mansion surrounded by roses. A girl called Shizu lives there, who appears innocent and pure but lives haphazardly. However, there seems to be a mystery surrounding her: who is the other girl that looks at Satoshi with a cold blank stare?

A collection of stories: 1-3. Hime to Knight to, Tonari to Watashi. The one I'm falling in love with isn't my knight but I can't seem to forget about him... Just what should I do with these feelings of mine? 4. Bokura no Koi no Yamai Her close friend Hiiragi has suddenly forgotten her! Will she be able to get his memories back? 5. Seito Kaishitsu, Megane no Uso. - Kare ga Doku o Haku Riyuu Under hypnosis, the megane student council president confesses his love to me?! But wait! Is it only under hypnosis, it is really true?

While loitering in the park, Shimana Kameko, who intended to run away from home and skipped school, meets a suspicious man in a kimono. This man, who had been locked out of his house, offers Shimana a place to stay. However, he requests she fulfill three conditions in exchange for her tenancy!?

Anzu goes to a preschool with her friends, the shy Koume and the eccentric Hiiragi. Together, they try to gain Anzu attention from their male caretaker Tsuchida, though he is clearly more interested in the pretty Yamamoto who supervises the class next door.

1) Ruriiro no Yume (Azure Dream) A woman sleeps with her co-worker one night. Both are interested in more, but there's something standing in the way: the protagonist's dreams for the future. 2) Princess of the Stars Takes a look at the realities of being in a relationship. 3) Honey & Mustard 4) Nostalgia About the relationship between a widow and the woman who has always loved her. 5) Virgin Season The next story in the 20-Musumex30-Otome series. Emi and Keiko have trouble finding time to spend together. 6) Mangetsu no Yoru ni wa (On a Night When the Moon is Full) Keiko and Emi go on a trip together. 7) Soft-Boiled Fujoshi (Hanjuku Joshi side story) "Soft-Boiled Fujoshi" is about a minor character from Hanjuku Joshi. Moe is more important to fujoshi than love is... or is it?

Life is a comedy when seen from afar, and a tragedy when seen up close.

Mikoto Rikudou, your average Secondary School kid, lives an ordinary life and doesn't think much about the unexplained appearances of figures called "demons" in the city. This is all turned upside-down when he finds the most timid girl in class is one of them, he is caught in the middle of a battle between these creatures and ends up becoming one himself… only to be told he will have to kill other people using his new powers or lose his own life instead.