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On his way back from a business trip, the protagonist decides on a whim to take a train back to his old hometown. The moment he pays respects to his mother's grave in the transformed town, he is transported back to a summer when he was still in junior high school, only with all his middle-age consciousness, knowledge and abilities intact. On this journey across time, he understands for the first time the burdens born by his father, and his mother's tears. This is the kind of fantasy manga were made for, executed by an artist of great talent. This is a serious, delicate, and ultimately moving time travel variation.
Haruka and Kanata team up in Okinawa for an exhilarating adventure in beach volleyball. Despite struggling with her height and feeling overwhelmed, Kanata quits the game. But, Haruka inspires her to face the challenge and strive for success in the junior tournament.
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Slowly, little by little, modestly. A cute and charming budding love story. “Murakami, you can’t be that lovey dovey so soon…” The innocent and heartwarming youth romantic comedy of an excitable boy and a calm and collected girl.co
Collection of oneshots. V.1 - Mushi to Uta (Insects and Songs) "The Lover of Stars", a story spelling out the writer’s feelings for the little sister born from his fingers. "The Hinoshita Siblings", a moving story about the relationship between a highschool baseball player with an injured shoulder and "Hina", who continues to grow. "Violite", which describes the meeting of two people involved in a plane accident. Finally, "Insects and Songs", a shocking work that won the Shikitaishou award. These four stories, painting a picture of a unique setting and the bonds between various lifeforms who live in it, are recorded here. This is the long awaited first volume released by a new author rapidly growing in popularity as each of her sensational stories are published in monthly "Afternoon" magazine!! V.2 - 25-Ji no Vacances (25-Hour Vacation) Marine biologist Nishi Otome takes time off and reunites with her brother, Kotaro, for the first time in a while. He sees her at the 25th hour of the night with shellfish taking over her body in “25 Hour Vacationâ€. The meeting between the delinquent, Nana, and a strange transfer student to “Pandora Women’s College†located on a satellite of Saturn is described in “On Pandoraâ€. In “The Funeral of the Moonâ€, a genius highschooler begins living with a lone man in the deep snows of the north. Note: Won the Tezuka Osamu New Artist Prize in 2010.
Just your usual slice of life 4-koma... except with an alien transfer student.
Ono Matori is a high-school student who is secretly a successful erotic manga author. He has recently found new inspiration for his work from his neighbors and classmates, the Hikasayama twins, Haruna and Wakana. Both Haruna, the cheerful and active half, and Wakana, the cool and collect one, both fall in love with Matori. He unwittingly agrees to date both of them both for research purposes and personal interest. Their love triangle will help Matori with his erotic manga storyline but how will his life change back in the real world?
From MangaHelpers: Haruko is a teenage girl who shares with her brother a love of laying around the house in sweats, watching television and playing video games. Her brother has a few friends, but Haruko has a lot of problems with social anxiety. The two of them pass their days happily playing together, though their mother worries about how she's going to get Haruko to shape up enough to find a husband.
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.
A compiled volume of various Takemoto Izumi onehsots, including Fuwafuwa Ellen, who later was used as a basis for "Ellen" in Touhou Project 03 - Phantasmagoria of Dim. Dream.
Hataraku Maou-sama! with a high school setting.
