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Kyokou Suiri ~ Invented Inference

2015-05-12

Meet the cute, smug, cane-wielding 17-year old Iwanaga Kotoko as she (very) aggresively tries to woo the older Sakuragawa Kurou and act as a mediator/problem-solver for the supernatural world.

Kumo no Graduale

2012-12-16

Sora Ga Haiiro Dakara

2012-07-08

From MangaHelpers: A collection of short stories. The first volume contains stories about... - A lonely woman who works part-time, and who has crippling social anxiety that leads to misunderstandings. - A girl who is 'dumped' by her close friend. - A single mother who struggles to understand how to make her daughter happy. - A girl who desperately wants to buy a dress that she thinks could change her life. ... and many more! [tethysdust]

Pyeong Beonhan Ge Joa! Manhwa

2012-01-26

All I wanted is an ordinary life with everything being ordinary. That is all I wanted. But thanks to my dad (a lovely gangster), I don't get to live an ordinary life. So all I wanted is ONE thing.I wanted to be like other girls my age and have a normal school life.But what should I do when I get a fiance who is gorgeous and has a dirty personalty?!

Torikagosou No Kyou Mo Nemutai Juunintachi

2012-01-10

From Turtle Paradise:16-year-old Kizuna stalks the city at night, flirting with middle-aged salary men and coercing them out of their money. The thrill should be enough to satiate her, but Kizuna remains unsatisfied with her everyday life… That is, until the beautiful Inoue Yuki, also living in “Birdcage Manor” approaches Kizuna with a job proposition- to model in the nude for Yuki’s cousin, a painter and fellow resident Yusei Asai!

Soukai No Eve

2012-01-04

It was supposed to be just a regular daily bus drive to their high school for Watanabe Sheena and her friend Yuki, but when the bus enters a thick fog, the unexpected happens and the bus gets transported to another world that seems prehistoric. With the bus driver gone, the only other passengers on the bus in this mysterious world are all high school girls: Izumi, Ayu, Kyoka, Anna and Jessica. With no cell phone or internet signal, they are completely cutoff from their world. To make things worse, they see hundreds of glowing eyes of predators at night waiting for the girls to make a mistake. How will seven high school girls survive in this treacherous place and get back safely to the real world.Â

Narration in Seventeen

2011-12-12

From JanimeS:Se Young was a high school girl who has peaceful days until recently a worry begin to bother her. She had a childhood friend, apparently a boy, who also goes to the same school. His name is Heun Uoo. (Note : Their last names are not discussed here). Being a childhood friend, Heun Uoo does not have a feeling for Se Young, at least not as a female. However, Heun Uoo does care of Se Young in a way that Se Young is not satisfied of.

Shining

2011-10-14

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Yesterday o Utatte

2011-09-28

After college, Rikuo Uozumi, a boy without much ambition in life, takes on a job at a convenience store. The days pass by uneventfully for Rikuo until he meets his former girlfriend and classmate, but especially thanks to the unusual Haru Nonaka, and her pet raven… Readers of Toume Kei’s other works- Hitsuji no Uta, Luno, Kurogane- will enjoy her unique style.

Rakshasa Street

2011-04-28

Plot: Requiem Street, where evil spirits are attracted to in order to destroy them. A place where spirits and humans co-exist, not all humans can enter Requiem Street. Only those rare-soul users with guardian spirits can enter. Xia Ling was just a normal university intern, but a meeting by chance changes her ordinary life... In this world full of evil spirits, can you cooperate with your guardian spirit in order to survive?

Pika Ichi

2011-01-27

"Pika Ichi" is the story of two painfully shy teens who love yakuza movies. An incident at school pushes them over the edge, and they decide to drop their mousiness in order to dispense some "justice."

Aquarian Age: Orion no Shounen

2011-01-27

Plot: Sixteen year old Mana returns to her hometown to unite with her childhood friend after 7 years. But Kaname seems to have changed during his years apart.Mana's presence sets off a chain of events that changes the lives of Kaname and his best friend Naoya forever. Their classmates Isshin and Tsukasa, and their teacher Tomonori find themselves drawn to her as well.They soon discover that they are all a part of the Aquarian Age - a secret war raging for thousands of years.Now the fate of the world hangs in balance as one girl meets her destiny.

Kemono no Souja

2011-01-27

Plot: Kemono no Souja is entered around a girl who can control the greatest of beasts as if she was playing a musical instrument. However, she gets embroiled in a war for supremacy between kingdoms.

Sweet Blood

2011-01-27

Plot: Possessing extraordinary detective skills and even helping out at the police department can't be normal, and anyone who knows Uryuu Nanao knows that she's different from the rest. It is this distinctiveness that draws both Karasuma Nozomi and Sakuragawa Nozomi to her despite Nanao's attempts to distance herself from them both. However, a series of murders take place and Nanao is forced to enlist their help in order to unravel the truth behind her father's murder. Just who is the real mastermind behind the ongoing murders and why are they targeting Nanao? And what is the secret left behind by Nanao's father?

Hataraki Man

2011-01-24

This is 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.--Please read at Entropy website

QED

2011-01-24

Touma Sou graduated from MIT, but he 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 Sh?nen Category.

Anta Nante Okotowari!

2011-01-14

From NagareBoshi:Yui has a deep love for her "older brother" (they're not actually siblings, but are related), and she is devastated when he gets married. While at the wedding, Yui meets a sobbing boy, Kaoru. It turns out that his cousin (that he was in

Boogiepop Doesn't Laugh

2011-01-14

This prequel to the very popular Boogiepop Phantom series deals with the sudden disappearance of several female students at Shinyo Academy. Are they runaways, abductees or murder victims? Couple this mystery with the sudden appearance of a mysterious apparition known only as Boogiepop, and even more questions arise in the mind of Keiji, a student who can see and converse with the strange spectre. Who or what is Boogiepop? Is he responsible for the abductions or is he trying to stop them? Why does he have the appearance of Keji's girlfriend, Touka?

Boy Of The Female Wolf Manhwa

2011-01-14

Eun-soo Cha is the main character of the story. Eun-soo has hated her mother ever since she was abandoned by her. Raised by her grandma, she became a wild child who likes to fight. She has even disguised herself so well as a guy that people won't believe her even if she says she's a girl. She can fight well, and is even referred to as hot by girls. One day, however, her grandma's already bad health worsens, and she promises not to fight anymore. When Eun-soo's grandma dies soon after, she decides to leave Dae-Jeon (where she lives) and goes to Seoul to live with her mother, despite still hating her, because she has nowhere else to go. There, she runs into one of the best fighters, at her new school, and immediately gets on his bad side by calling him pretty boy. Will she break her promise to her grandma and will she find love?

Bushidou Sixteen

2011-01-14

From Animenewsnetwork:Bushidou Sixteen centers around two female competitors of another Japanese tradition, kendou (sword-fighting). Kaori is an accomplished kendou practitioner, but she finds herself facing an unexpected opponent in Sanae, a superficially weaker fighter who bests Kaori in a bout.

Dream Saga

2011-01-14

From Tokyopop:This fantasy adventure fairy tale is based on an adorable sweet girl named Yuuki Wakasa. She's just your typical 5th grader and big sister who's responsible for her three little brothers. One day while walking home she catches a red magi

Genius House

2011-01-14

The caretaker of the Meisen Dorm has fallen ill. Strapped for cash, it's up to her granddaughter, Kamiya Makoto, to work in her place. But living in a dorm with this prestigious school's "four geniuses" proves to be more than Makoto had expected.

Hakodate Youjin Buraichou Himegami

2011-01-14

The following content is intended for mature audiences and may contain sexual themes, gore, violence and/or strong language. Discretion is advised. During the beginning of the Meiji Era, a strategic town in the North, Hakodate, has become the nesting ground of mysterious monsters known as “youjin”. It seems the world’s Great Powers are pulling the strings of the youjin.Hyou, a 15 year old gir

Hanako to Guuwa no Tera

2011-01-14

Folklore detective Asou Daisuke would rather deal with normal, everyday, things like cheating spouses, embezzeling partners and the like. (That and his huge collection of ero-manga.) Because whenever he deals with the supernatural, he gets the hiccups. But no matter, an endless stream of desperate people come to him troubled by what he calls allegories. Those are stories, usually urban legends, that one believes to be true and if one believes strong enough can cause them to become true. His first case involves The Man Under The Bed. Can he stop this creepy man with an axe before he chops up kawaii Hiranuma Kanae? Why does Asou count his hiccups and just who is that strange girl in his bathroom? (From Manga-Updates)

Heaven!!

2011-01-14

Rinne is a girl who not only can see ghosts, she can exorcise them--with a paper fan! When she's saved from becoming a ghost by the school punk, he ends up in a coma. Fortunately, that doesn't stop their unique relationship from forging: Rinne and her rescuer's now-disembodied spirit must defend his prone body from being possessed by a muddled collection of local ghosts. When Rinne fails in her task, an ancient playboy takes over the punk's body--leaving him to inhabit a pink stuffed monkey! In this madcap adventure, what's a girl to do?!

Kaze Hikaru

2011-01-14

In the year 1863, a time fraught with violent social upheaval, samurai of all walks of life flock to Kyoto in the hope of joining the Mibu-Roshi--a band of warriors united around their undying loyalty to the Shogunate system. In time, this group would become one of the greatest (and most famous) movements in Japanese history... the Shinsengumi!In 2003 Kaze Hikaru won the Shogakukan Manga Award for shoujo.

Kimi ga Uso o Tsuita

2011-01-14

Saki has always hated liars, ever since her father left her family when she was young. Now a student in high school, Saki nearly dies in a car crash, and wakes up to find that she has a new ability... the ability to see when people are lying. Saki comes to realize that there are liars all around her...

Oumagadoki Doubutsuen

2011-01-14

Plot: Aoi Hana is a normal female high school student, though she is extremely clumsy and thus tagged as good-for-nothing. But Hana wants to change herself and decides that finding a part time job would be taking the first step in that direction. Being an animal lover, Hana's job of dreams is encountering animals day-to-day and taking care of them - the zoo sounds like the perfect place for that. So when she happens to see a job offer from a local animal park it's settled she'll attend a job interview.When Hana arrives at the zoo everything seems just fine. The "Oumagadoki Zoo" might be going south but altogether it's your regular animal park. Just a very normal zoo, one might think. But that is only until Hana gets to meet the zoo director...

Pig Bride

2011-01-14

Si-Joon has a recurring nightmare about being eight years old and lost in the woods. In his dream, he is forced to marry a strange girl whose face is obscured behind a pig mask. Unsettling as it is, at least it’s just a dream… On his sixteen birthday, though, the girl with the pig mask appears in his room — declaring that she’s come to share their first night together as husband and wife!

Seirei No Moribito

2011-01-14

Once every 100 years, a Water Fairy implants an egg into a person who then becomes the Guardian of Fairies. This time, the responsibility falls on Chagum, the second prince of the New Yogo Kingdom. Chagum's life isn't easy. The king finds Chagum an inconvenience and attempts to have him killed. As a result, the queen asks a female guard, Balsa, to protect Chagum. In addition to this, beings from another world, known as Nayugu, constantly attack him in order to eat the egg carried in Chagumu's body.

Shoujo Guard

2011-01-14

Unlike other 16 years old, Miyako only knows how to be a bodyguard. Taken in by Haruka-sama after her father passed away, Miyako is determined to give her life to protecting Haruka-sama.

Sugar Sugar Rune

2011-01-14

Little witch-girls Chocolat and Vanilla are best friends, but only one of them can be Queen of the Magic World. To determine who deserves the title, they must go to the Human World and enter a strange competition. Whoever attracts the most human boys . . . wins!Here's how it works: When a boy falls for a witch-girl, she utters a few mystic words and the boy's heart will be hers in jewel-like form. It may sound simple, but winning hearts is tricky business. While Chocolat had no problem enticing witch-boys with her forthright personality, human boys seem to be drawn to shy and modest girls like Vanilla. And to make matters worse, Chocolat is finding herself increasingly drawn to the cool and mysterious Pierre-who feels nothing for her! The girls had planned to be best friends forever, but both of them want to be Queen. Will their rivalry ruin their friendship?

Tokage Ouji

2011-01-14

Princess Canary is to go to an omiai with Prince Heath, a prince from another kingdom known for his flirting with women, drinking and gambling. She agrees but only to have the chance to preach to him about the way he rules his kingdom. Prince Heath is completely opposed to the idea and instead of going, gives his pet lizard a potion to turn him into an exact duplicate so that he may replace him.But when the lizard and Princess Canary meet, she is surprised to find herself falling in love with the prince thinking the rumours may not be true at all. What will happen when she discovers that the prince she’s falling in love with is actually a lizard? And what about the lizard, himself? what is his true form that he had forgotten? the prince's long lost missing brother?