
Ken-chan to Neko. Tokidoki Ahiru
Little stories about a boy named Ken and his daily life in 1976 with his stay-at-home mother, working father, cat Momo... and sometimes a duck. (Source: Lovely Strange Dark)
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Little stories about a boy named Ken and his daily life in 1976 with his stay-at-home mother, working father, cat Momo... and sometimes a duck. (Source: Lovely Strange Dark)

She was supposed to have been summoned as a saintess, but was thrown into a country called Japan. Rei Natsukawa, a.k.a. Alexandra Ollier, hides her magic power as she works for a small company in modern Japan. She says that she'll be happy with a peaceful and uneventful life, but several small obstacles stand in the way of her lifestyle. This is the ordinary, yet not-so-ordinary story of a powerful mage. (Source: Akita Shoten, translated)

A consciousness jumping from person to person every night leads the lives of its hosts for one day at a time. (Source: MU)

Kei Sonofuji is trying to get a new start by changing her image before getting into high school. But just as it seems everything is going to go well, she gets sick and has to miss the first week. Just as she thinks she's missed out on everything, she gets a surprise from one of her classmates! (Source: MU)

An anthology comic of Adachi to Shimamura by various mangaka.


1. It's A Prize Beyond My Reach. They grew up together, lovely Umesawa and dorky Ototake. He loved her, but it was hopeless. Then while helping her with cleaning duty he noticed she wasn't wearing any panties... 2. Spider Sis. His sister always spies on him. She sees him with a girl and runs away. But then he comes home to find her sleeping on the floor... 3. Contact. Boisterous--yet sexy--Fujisaki catches classmate Okada peeping on girls. Okada avoids her for the rest of the day. After school she waylays him and drags him off to a nearby park. Turn's out she's always been curious about Okada--without his pants on! 4. Pussy Food. A lovely woman finds a boy in box wearing a cat suit and takes him home. A dab of margarine in the right spot gets him going... But is he just a boy? 5. Lil Sis Fetish. She's going to save her onii-chan from being otaku if it's the last thing she does. But then she agrees to cos-play for him just once... 6. Rain Witch. He found her in the pouring rain, alone, silent, wearing only a nightgown. He couldn't leave her there--was it pity, or raw lust? 7. Metamorphose. Handsome and popular Takafumi ignores plain Miho. She drags him into a storage room to get her revenge. But he doesn't seem to be really resisting... 8. Crazy About Brother. Finally she's got the Whoopee Dancer, a new toy sensation. She runs up to her room to try it out. Then her brother hears her scream and comes running to help her... 9. Young Boy, Young Girl. Girl sneaks out to an old shed in the schoolyard. Boy follows to spy on her and is shocked by what he sees. 10. Future Cat Anaemon. In this parody of Doraemon bullied Tsuyoshi seeks help from cute Anaemon who gives him a Slave Gun. To make sure it works Tsuyoshi uses it on Anaemon... (Source: MU)

A mother leave her alcoholic and gambler husband. Without money or housing, she can no longer rely on herself to raise alone her six year old son. Harsh but fair, proud and brave, she has one life goal: to make his son a man balanced and right! But between poverty, the Yakuza, the judgments of others and lack of father figure, his task will be far from easy. Ode to women, of their courage and unconditional love that they can devote to their children.

The story of an ordinary college student's interactions with his senpai at work, who happens to be in high school. (Source: MU)

Years before the One Year War, Zionic Co. was developing a new type of piloted robots (later became Mobile Suits) using thermonuclear reactor shielded with Minovsky particles as the power source. For safety and secrecy reasons, the project was outsourced to Hosioka, a small steelworks which looked ridiculously lousy at the first sight. (Source: ANN)

The story starts with three friends, they all do art together, trying their hardest, but as the story progresses, the narrator begins to think that life isn't worth it and he doesn't need to try hard anymore. (Source: MU)

Fumi Koito used to be raised by an old housekeeper named Hatoko Natsuyaki. He would call her "Peppermint Nanny" because she would eat all his leftover peppermint candy drops—which he hates to eat—then breathe into his nose because he likes the smell. Now Fumi is in his mid-20's and living on his own as a cram school teacher. One day a little girl no more than nine years old shows up at his house. It turns out she is his old nanny who misses cooking and tending to his every need but because she is pushing past eighty and has grown too frail, she drank a mysterious bottle of medicine to regain her youth and accidentally drank too much. Thus begins their new life together, with the reader frequently left guessing who is taking care of whom.

Busamen is a stray cat who's ugly and loves women, but inside is cool and handsome(!?) On the other hand there's Ikemen, a prideful and beautiful cat (but he's cowardly). Which one will be the most popular among pretty women? Watch their fight unfold! (Source: Ikemen Scans)

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. (Source: Manga Abyss)

Meet Momoko, a "Lolita" decked out to the nines in the finest (and frilliest) of Victorian haute couture. The only scion of a drunken interlude between a cowardly yakuza and an inebriated bar-hostess, Momoko's mom has since split the scene, and, after various ill-fated scams that involve imitation brand name merchandise, Momoko's dad relocates them to the boondocks of rural Ibaraki prefecture. To escape her humdrum existence, Momoko fanaticizes about French rococo, dreams of living in the palace of Versailles, and buys all her extremely lacy clothes from an expensive Tokyo boutique. Meet Ichiko, a tough-talking motorcycle grrrl (on a tricked-out moped) who leads a ladies-only biker gang known as the Ponytails. Together, this unlikeliest of duos strike out on a quest to find a legendary embroiderer, a journey on which they encounter conniving pachinko parlor managers, legendary street-punks, and anemic costumers. Who knows, they might just make it big...if only Ichiko would stop head butting Momoko in the forehead. Novala Takemoto's break-though novel Kamikaze Girls, already a cult-classic in Japan, is more than a wry coming-of-age picaresque, it's a new way of life. (Source: VIZ Media)

In an era of space travel, there is a small restaurant in Jupiter's orbit named after its owner, Motoka. People coming to or leaving the stars come through her small restaurant, and she always has something to serve that speaks to her customers' hearts and memories. Some may say that the universe itself conspires for the curious encounters to happen at the tiny asteroid, it being in the proverbial fringe between the pale blue dot and the space beyond for the travelers, who while visiting find answers that they may have not been looking for, but whose questions lingered in silent vigilance, ever present in the back of their minds. (Source: MangaHelpers)

Minami, a gay fortune teller, has had a crush on his schoolmate, Kitahara, since high school. Kitahara, who has been divorced three times, asked to stay over at his house for a while, and so they started living together. Minami was convinced that Kitahara would never fall in love with him, but the new "crush" Kitahara found was, surprisingly, a man. Taken over by his feelings, Minami ended up kissing Kitahara?! This is a clumsy and endearing unrequited love that sways between friendship and love. (Source: Futabasha, translated)

One day at a funeral, after Chiharu's mother remarried, Chiharu met the child from her new stepfather's previous marriage, Rui. Rui decided to live on her own after the death of the grandfather who raised her, and Chiharu decided to live with her. A tale of togetherness of two stepsisters. (Source: Kadokawa, translated)

Mami is 36 and unmarried, and the entire world seems to be telling her she must be miserable. But is she? Does she really need a ring on her finger to be happy when she has a job she loves and friends who support her? A collection of interconnected stories that explores the hazards and joys of unmarried life through the eyes of three single ladies. (Source: VIZ Media)

Even though Chihiro is Shuuto's cousin, his neighbor, and a guy, Shuuto has had feelings for him for five years. Shuuto knows nothing good could come from these feelings. That doesn't stop Shuuto from kissing his cousin...and touching himself. When Chihiro catches Shuuto kissing him, Shuuto soon realize his unrequited love might still have hope. (Source: Fantasista Inc.)

At the popular Japanese-style tea house Rokuhoudou, customers can count on receiving not only excellent food and drink, but—if they wish for it—a helping hand in solving any problem that may be plaguing them. Serving in Rokuhoudou are four men who are consummate professionals in their individual fields: tea expert Sui, latte artist Gure, pâtissier Tsubaki and chef Tokitaka. (Source: MU)

There is a Japanese saying that goes, "Hana yori dango," or "dumplings over flowers." And no one is more of an advocate of this adage than mangaka Y-naga, a woman whose life revolves around her intense work and equally intense sleep schedule. The only thing that can rouse her out of this infernal cycle of deadlines and being dead to the world? Food. As Y-naga and her friends visit restaurants around Tokyo to satisfy their appetites, their individual approaches to food add an extra dimension to their witty and comical interactions. Friendships are explored and lifestyle choices revealed, all over exquisite culinary creations that prove that variety on an empty and open-minded stomach is, indeed, the spice of life. (Source: Yen Press)

A story of photography, motorcycles, travel and food.

Entering high school, Fujimura Kotone dreams of making friends and finding love. However, her classmates avoid her because of her scary demeanor. One day, a group made up of two girls and a boy come into her class and kneel before her, proclaiming, "It's an honor to meet you, Demon Lord!". With their antics, will she be able to obtain the normal love life she desires? A reincarnation romantic comedy that transcends space and time! (Source: Kadokawa, translated)