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From Chibi Manga: Sasaki Ichika and Sasaki Umi are couple. Handsome boy and pretty girl, they are people’s admiration. But, both of them have some regrettable secrets...?
Through round after round of extensive plastic surgery and vigorous maintenance, Ririko has become the absolute manifestation of beauty, and becomes a wildly successful model, actress and singer. However, soon her body, unable to withstand the burdens of surgery, begins to crumble, and along with it so does her mind, as she plummets towards a frightening and inevitable end. A story about a woman's vanity, greed, hatred and despair, by the author of River's Edge. Helter Skelter won the 2003 excellence prize at the Japanese Media Arts Festival, and the 2004 Osamu Tezuka Culture Prize.
Taken from JShoujo The track & field team Sakurai Natsumi joined is an uncommon team, who instead of training, play basketball and soccer everyday. The captain of Tokiwa Middle School's track and field team is Yoku-senpai, a second year student, who despite his small height of just 152 cm, is good at every sport he plays. Even though it was Natsumi’s brother Ryo who made Yoku the captain, she criticizes Yoku-sempai for being a bad captain. But soon she understands why her brother made that decision just by seeing Yoku's high jump. His beautiful jump makes her fall in love with him on a day where the sport’s ground was colored in orange by the setting sun, a day she will never forget.
Rookie detective Chikara has been assigned to the closed minded, hard-faced senior detective Ibuki. One day Chikara, who had tailed Ibuki in order to uncover his secrets, witnesses Ibuki carrying a suspicious heavy bundle out from a church. Then after almost being run down by a car, Chikara is asked to spend the night with the beauty who'd been driving in lien of compensation...?!
After meeting the enigmatic woman Hureika in a sideside village during her travels, the beautiful genius sorceress Lina Inverse’s fate takes a dramatic turn. Separated from her partner Gourry, she finds herself swept ashore onto an unfamiliar land. Faced with violent monsters, she is suddenly unable to wield her magic…. But her grand adventures only begin once she is saved by Lyos, a boy who claims himself to be the “Knight of the Aqua Lord”…. Alternate retelling of the Slayers TRY anime.
From Antebellum Scanlations: Momoko, who dreams of becoming an illustrator, finds employment in an ultra fast-paced office that specializes in designing pachinko parlors!! With the office running a yazuka-like business and employing a designer, who has a habit of suddenly stripping in the middle of the night, Momoko believes that the company employees are a bit... no, definitely eccentric!! She continues pulling all-nighters, unable even to return home... And in the midst of cigarette-filled fumes, where women's authority takes a step back, she asks herself, "Why am I here?"
From MangaHelpers: At school, Kamazaki feels as though there is a circle drawn around her, a line that no one will cross. A part of it is because her face looks mean, and another part of it is because she's rather socially awkward, but the largest part of it all is that she has earned a reputation for being really bad-tempered and violent to the people around her. This all changes in her second year of high school. The cute, friendly, and popular Kume Asami one day inexplicably crosses that invisible line and decides to be her friend. Kume introduces "Kama-chan" to friendship and to the 5-man soccer club that meets on the school roof. As Kama cautiously enters Kume's club, she may find herself able to grow past the bad expectations people have of her, and enter into a new, happier, high-school life. [tethysdust]
From Storm in Heaven: Takatou Masaki is the second youngest of four sons, and seemingly a delinquent by nature. His hot temper has put a wedge between himself and his strict father, gotten him kicked out of one school, and tossed him at a school notoriously horrible for the one thing he's truly good at, basketball. A chance encounter with the willful Yuuki Kanako may serve as a catalyst for change, as the indefinable connection she feels with him draws them together... Won Shogakukan Manga Award in 1988.
Ruka, who never had a boyfriend in 17 years due to her shyness, keeps dreaming of a silver knight calling her name. One day, she hears a rumor about a stone that can make its owner have sweet dreams while sleeping. Followed by a strange event, Ruka tries the stone and is brought into the dream. However, what she finds in that dream isn't something that she had expected. She wakes up neither in her bed nor in her own world, but in a world where Valkyries rule...
From MangaHelpers: Hinomoto Kyuji is currently the biggest name in Japan's high school soccer league. Everyone expected him to go pro in the Japanese league, but he believes that staying in Japan would be a waste and thinks he needs to go abroad and enter the European league. Then, he meats Nanjo Ichimaru, another high schooler that eerily resembles Hinomoto's childhood favorite soccer player. Both Nanjo and Hinomoto get pulled into the SA Nishigaoka Japan league team, a weak and struggling team that has seen better days. Will these two be able to lead the team to victory? [DrCoke]
Combining some of the early works of Adachi Mitsuru, these books include the two stories Hatsukoi Koshien and Nakimushi Koushien, respectively covering 2 and 4 volumes. Both are focused on baseball youth and the desire to reach Koushien, the famous stage of the high school baseball national championships. Volume 7 and the end of Volume 6 contain a selection of short stories. Volume 1-2: -Hatsukoi Koshien part 1-2, +10 page omake Volume 3-5: -Nakimushi Koshien part 1-3 Volume 6: -Nakimushi Koshien part 4 -Ace Futari -Ken Volume 7: -Seishun Icchokusen -Aozora Tsurete Teruteru Bouzu -Kitakaze Karakara
Inside the village of Poe a mysterious noble family takes residence with their son Edgar and ill daughter MaryBelle. Edgar is quickly intrigued by Allan an heir of a transportation company, who catches his eye by almost running him over with a horse. As the story unfolds a few residents of Poe slowly begin to wonder about the new family... Other short stories involving the main characters are included. This is supposedly the first published BL manga.
