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Toshi is your regular senior high student, except in the evenings when he's a bartender at a joint frequented by American servicemen, where he deals drugs, pimps, and even cross-dresses a little on the side. And his best friend Miyuki just happens to be the son of a loan shark with gay tendencies. If this sounds like the hardboiled world of Yoshida's later and most well-known work Banana Fish, it's balanced by Toshi's madcap adventures at his all-male school (where his mates jerk off to everything in sight, and scenes from shoujo manga are performed in all their histrionic glory), as well as the unexpected delicacy of his relationships with the women in his life. This episodic drama is bursting with all the frustration, the tenderness, the audacity, the horniness and the hilarity that comes with being young and male. All the tough, silly, dirty, and sweet things boys get up to in the locker room and out of it never brought a bigger smile to your face. Bunko ver released in 1994. summary from Baka-Updates Manga

From Entropy: This is a set of one-shot stories of working people drawn from the viewpoint of Matsukata Hiroko, who is a 28-year-old single woman and is an editor of Weekly Magazine, JIDAI. She’s often at odds with Tanaka Kunio, a novice editor. Her work already stresses her out and he’s unapologetic about his own mistakes! Everyone refers to Hiroko as a masculine woman for how seriously she takes her work. She smokes too much, works too much, and never has sex. However, when it’s time to get a story done, she switches into “Working Man” mode where her testosterone in her blood increases, she works three times her normal speed, and all thoughts of life’s necessities disappear.

An average girl from a relatively average university somehow makes it into the general affairs department of a company. The main reason she decided to join was because of the handsome manager, who she ends up working under. The story basically revolves around their relationship and other work-related issues.

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.

Sanada Akihito, a student from Yotsuho Academy has been haunted by the angry spirit of a dead girl. In the exorcism that a friend was trying to do, the spirit manages to possess a girl from Akihito’s class and now that she has a body, she has worldly desires to satisfy, and Akihito just looks like her previous boyfriend!

They arrive in silence and darkness. They descend from the skies. They have a hunger for human flesh. They are everywhere. They are parasites, alien creatures who must invade - and take control of - a human host to survive. And once they have infected their victims, they can assume any deadly form they choose: monsters with giant teeth, winged demons, creatures with blades for hands. But most have chosen to conceal their lethal purpose behind ordinary human faces. So no one knows their secret - except an ordinary high school student. Shinichi is battling for control of his own body against an alien parasite, but can he find a way to warn humanity of the horrors to come? Won the 1993 Kodansha Manga Award for General Manga and the Seiun Award for Best Comic of the Year in 1996.

Meet Hana and Tohara. Two voluptuous women out to become fully fledged witches for life. To do that they just need to grant one wish to get their license. They see an opportunity in the form of a handsome Bishounen named Touma. But turns out he is a 24 year virgin otaku who is in love. Not only that, He has a not one, not two. But THREE wishes to grant...Can these Bodacious beauties take on the challenge?

In the title piece, Chiruhi, Orin is a prostitute who works on a boat near the seashore. She falls in love with a young hairdresser, who is one of her customers, even though she knows it is an impossible love. This collection consists of seven historical short stories which tragicomically depict people trying to do their best in the city of Edo throughout the seasons.

At age 33, I am a loser, jobless and virgin, who only has remorse and pity for myself. Called by Anna, my secret crush in my childhood, and her fiance, I come to face the reality. But after I fall from the roof (caught wearing a grade school girl's swimsuit) I find myself to be back in the past. Now I will get my life back.

Upcoming of Lovers Dream: Touko Momozono is a bright and eager shitamachi girl. She lives with an unwed mother and grandmother, all-female household. Her father had already gone when she was born, but she lived in comfort. Only there was a gaping hole opened in her heart. Recently she has often been an easy target for molsters and thugs, and Kazunari, who is usually boring and one of her colleagues, helps her ride out such a crisis. What is hidden behind his face? Why is she a target for a suspicious-looking man?

Kurata Yuki is staying alone at home while his parents are off on their vacation. His childhood friends Nekoyanagi Mei and Inui Sayo are helping him with the household stuff in the mean time. Mei is outspoken and active while Sayo is calm and knowledgeable. They have known each other for their entire life and they treat each other like they were real siblings. Little do any of them know, they’ll be involved in a love triangle a year from now.

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..