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There is a world of myth and magic that intersects ours, and only a special few can see it. Misao Harada is one such person, and she wants nothing to do with magical realms. She just wants to have a normal high school life and maybe get a boyfriend. But she is the bride of demon prophecy, and her blood grants incredible powers, her flesh immortality. Now the demon realm is fighting over the right to her hand...or her life! Black Bird received the 2009 Shogakukan Manga Award for shoujo manga.

There is a world of myth and magic that intersects ours, and only a special few can see it. Misao Harada is one such person, and she wants nothing to do with magical realms. She just wants to have a normal high school life and maybe get a boyfriend. But she is the bride of demon prophecy, and her blood grants incredible powers, her flesh immortality. Now the demon realm is fighting over the right to her hand...or her life! Black Bird received the 54th Shogakukan Manga Award for shoujo manga.

A normal office worker, Toru Mizunori, was swallowed up by a dimensional fissure and reincarnated into a different world. Upon reincarnation, Toru was given a [skill board] by God. Make the most of it to acquire all the necessary skills! Even though he is an "inferior person", he'll make his way to the top!

College student Otonari Otoya is a boy who lacks self-esteem and dreams of being reborn into a different dimension. One day while playing a [video] game, he accidentally clicks on an ad, and trips into another world?!?!He's surprised but delighted, until he realizes that something's strange. A whole group of guys are treating him too kindly, almost like he's a girl! Could it be that the world Otonari was transported into... is an otome game?!?!

The story unfolds in the Edo era in the Yoshiwara red-light district of Tokyo. Akane a girl whose family is from Samurai is sold to a brothel to be orphaned. To be the "little sister" of the "lady" No 1 spot. This will bring a client ask, then she meets a stranger very peculiar man ... What will happen after that meeting? ..

[From Goddess Scans] A romantic comedy about a clumsy master who wants to make his coolheaded maid happy. Hayase Kiichirou comes from a distinguished family. As the next successor, all the companies that his family owns will fall into his hands. He is an elite among elites. However, his only weakness is that he is clusmy and Kishi-san, his coolheaded maid, is the one who always covers for him. Her expression ever unchanging, Kiichirou is determined to make her happy no matter what.

During a flashback, an interviewer inquires Kuzumi Taiga, a prospective student for Seinagi Private High School, on what he would do if he could use magic, during his entrance interview. He replies, "take over the world", with an outburst of laughter, from an attractive girl, following his answer.After the entrance exam, the school rejects his application; although he recalls almost nothing after this event, he does recall the girl, and believes the cause of his school of choice rejecting his application involves her.Wandering around outside of the school the next day, Kuzumi tries to enter, but an invisible barrier blocks him. A teacher, Mr. Hiiragi, confuses Kuzumi for a student of the school ditching class and pulls Kuzumi into the school through the barrier.Seinagi Private High School is actually a magic school and Mr. Hiiragi has just accidentally pulled Kuzumi, a teenager with no magical skill, through the barrier into this school.

Male high school student Shikayama always keeps his distance from his classmates. He has neither friends nor a lover, but always makes sure to get home before sunset. Because...

Bun sigue trabajando en su agencia de "manitas". Como de costumbre, Bun sigue haciendo trabajos de toda índole, por muy raros que sean, pese a que tiende a poner en riesgo su vida. Para este libro, le espera un chico muy distinto a él; Satoru.

"I want you, Moka..." There's a popular guy in class, and he can't stand the way the other girls look at him. The only girl he wants all for himself... is the plain girl sitting in the seat in front of him?! Moka Asano is your average high school girl, and sitting behind her is Izumi Kurosaki. Kurosaki's the captain of the soccer team, and is so popular that the neighboring schools have fan clubs for him! The girls always crowd around his desk, so Moka can never get a chance to sit down at her desk in the morning... but everything changes when Moka gets the chance to be close to Kurosaki when they see each other in the old school library. Even though Kurosaki hates being around girls, and tends to give everyone these cold stares, he looks at Moka with a bright smile and asks her "do you wanna date for real?" It's like he's a completely different person!

When Makoto, an unsuspecting Japanese teen, pulls a copy of “Alice in Wonderland” off a library bookshelf, his world will never be the same—literally. Suddenly, he is transported into the magical world of Wonderland, and even more shockingly, he is now stuck in Alice’s body! To make matters curiouser, the real Alice is stuck in Makoto’s body, and neither of them are happy about the situation. There’s only one way to reverse the body swap and return Makoto home, but it won’t be easy: They must journey together to Heart’s Castle and defeat the King of Hearts.

"You put on a serious front, but you're actually a slut, aren't you?" No matter where I am, no matter what I'm doing, I've got a bad habit of fantasizing about sex with Minato. This week Minato's been busy, so we haven't had sex at all... And I'm fantasizing about him more than ever! Whether I'm in the library, at the supermarket, or playing games at home, I just can't help but think about sex with him. I wonder if he'll hate a girl like me...

The daughter of the Daites Province's Duke, Milliana, had enjoyed her previous life in modern Japan. However despite her present status, she finds life in her present world very inconvenient. Especially the lack of BL! So she seeks to reform the province's culture to achieve a comfortable life and moe. Eventually, to marry into another family, the disinherited former crown prince Mathesa arrived?!

Sawa Ito looks like any normal girl. She works part-time at a lunch shop, and she has a crush on Kazushi Okutake - one of their regular customers. But, her real identity is that of Shark-teeth SAWA - a heel (bad guy) wrestler who is taking the wrestling world by storm!! Sawa doesn't ever want her crush to find out her secret, though she still wants them to have a relationship. But it won't come easy. Her dad pushes her with his idealistic views of how important grit is for a heel, and on top of that a powerful rival shows up as well - Marie Tsusaka. Things just keep escalating. Will Sawa get to experience her fairytale romance...!? This is a chaotic, wrestling love comedy by the author of Maid Kishi, Kano Kashiwagi!!

Though no one in school aware of it, Ootaki-kun, a first year high school student, is a big fan of 80’s songs and idols. One day, he found out that his classmate that sits next to him, Yakushimaru-chan, have the same interests as him...

It's time for some lovely sex in the bath with the boyfriend I've had for a year! I've been trying to hide my body flab, but he wants to take a bath with me... Oh no! If he touches me there, he'll find out...!! This short collection kicks off with the title story, "Erotically Exposed In the Bathroom - I Don't Want Him To See My Body -," followed by others, like "Melty Syrup-Coated Sweet Room - Full-Course Caressing -" and "Love Me With All Your Lust - How To Deeply Melt Together With Him -." This book is jam-packed with five sweet, flirty, and sexy tales, each masterfully created by newcomer Kanoka Amamiya!!

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It's her first time to be in a real relationship. She's confused, but watching her with kind yet determined eyes is a hottie who looks exactly like her favorite game character! With her secret obsession for games, 27-year-old Hozumi knows nothing about real love. Still, she can't take her eyes off the new teacher at the after-school learning program where she works because Yu Satoi is a real-life duplicate of her favorite character, Yuu. Her heart's pounding just watching him at his welcome party, and before she knows it, she's drunk, he takes her home, and they start getting too close for comfort...!

From the perspective of an alien planet with super-advanced technology and tiny (1/60th the size of a human) inhabitants, planet Earth was the perfect location to banish their worst criminals. Five of said criminals were sent to the planet to be exiled, attached to little critters like frogs and rabbits so they can never be fully active. Due to an accident, these five criminals managed to escape and attach themselves to five different girls that were nearby. The one responsible for the banishment of these five criminals now must detach them from the girls by mouth-to-mouth release.

The daughter of the Daites Province's Duke, Milliana, had enjoyed her previous life in modern Japan. However, to despite her present status, she finds life in her present world very inconvenient. Especially, the lack of BL! So she seeks to reform the province's culture to achieve a comfortable life and moe! Eventually, to marry into another family, the disinherited former crown prince, Mathesa, arrived...?!

Kate is an international model, and she’s agreed to auction off a kiss for charity. The price keeps going up, and the final bid is…eighty thousand dollars! The bidder is venture capital giant Tiarnan Quinn, an old friend of Kate’s and her first love. Ten years ago, she told him how she felt about him, and his rejection was cold and humiliating. He’s just as intense and haughty as ever, but overflowing with the kind of charm that instantly captivates women. He invites Kate to go to an island in the Caribbean with him… What is he doing? Kate knows it’s risky to go along with his ploy, but she wants to get some closure for her youthful heartbreak, so she decides to go along with it.

The goal of naïve high school student, Midori, is to get rid of his virginity! However, he must unexpectedly spend his last summer vacation of high school at his father's family shrine, ruining his summer plans!! One day, whilst bored at the shrine, he decided to have sex with a tengu mask he found. Things were going great until the magic seal broke, and the real tengu appeared...!!

Aoi, who is one of Japan's biggest entrepreneurs has a price on his head and the name of the assassin who is coming to collect on it is Kiruru Akaumi. But the one who commissioned this hit... was Aoi himself! He fell head over heels in love with Kiruru from the moment he saw her and, in order to spend more time with her to deepen their relationship, he himself commissioned the Kiruru company to kill him.Official Spanish (Mangaplus)

[EN] Hell, The last place in the cycle of birth. Where every soul has to pass. Filled with judgement and punishment. And "Roruv" Young daughter of Hell Lord. She's in charge of the 4th Hell. And today, she act out her part excellently. To give punishment to those hell animals. Until... [TH] นรกภูมิ ดินแดนที่อยู่ ณ ปลายสุดของวัฏสงสาร ทางผ่านของวิญญาณทุกดวง ที่ซึ่งเต็มไปด้วยการพิพากษาและการลงทัณฑ์ โรรุว์ ธิดาของท่านยมบาล ผู้ดูแลมหานรกขุมที่สี่ วันนี้ก็ทำหน้าที่ลงโทษพวกสัตว์นรกอย่างขยันขันแข็งเช่นเคย จนกระทั่ง..

Working man Yajima Shigeru always finds himself falling for straight guys and has repeated one-night stand to flee from his failing love. This time, his heartbreaking decision led him to kiss his current love who happens to be a married junior from his work place! The train conductor happened to see the drunken Yajima planting a kiss on his junior. After being denied by his junior, he's picked up by the conductor, Mita Yuusuke, who claims that that he fell in love at first sight?!

Volume 1: 1-2) Aniki Juntou Ryuusei has always admired his capable, sexy eldest brother Ichirou. After witnessing Ichirou and his elder brother Gou in an incestuous embrace, Ryuusei questions his own desire to monopolize Ichirou's affections. 3) Christmas GO! Yaizu brothers spend their Christmas. 4) Gentle Green The rebellious Haruki latest debacle with his cousin causes him to be send to his distant relative's place. There he meets Cecil, a British apprentice of the old man he is to live with. While he discovers a new love for landscaping, he slowly builds his new life with the old man, Cecil and Bunta, the lazy dog. Volume 2: 1) Aniki Joutou Ichirou collapses after overworking himself. 2) Adult Horror Yaizu brothers take part in a courage test at the graveyard. 3) Aniki Joutou Ryuusei suspects Ichirou of having an affair with the famous actor Takita (include part one, two and third of act 4). 4) Gou's Painful Memory Gou finds some memorabilia of his childhood and recounts his childhood for Ryuusei. 5) Yaizu Brothers Catalogue Characters profile. 6) Sweet Home Yaizu family's interview.

All my sensitive holes are stuffed. I'm getting shivers of pleasure from my whole body......!!! I'm Miku. My boyfriend from the science department, Minato, has no idea about my dirty fantasies. One day he injects me with an aphrodisiac unleashing the assertive sex beast in me!! My sensitive areas feel better than ever before. I've completely lost control of myself......!!! In this new sex position, different places are so stimulated, it's heavenly!! The aphrodisiac is shocking as it is, but Minato takes it to another level. He begins a thorough inspection......!?

Ferdia, a girl from the orphanage, is a working woman with 29 jobs. One day she was asked to marry the prince of the enemy country Erland, Poison Dragon Prince Crow, Clovis Kurwach Erland?! In addition, the mission given to Ferdia is “peaceful”divorce with Crow...!?

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The villainess of an Otome Game, Eleanor, was still young when she first heard somebody's "Inner voice". Tired of always hearing people's crude attention and their calculating, untrue, and heartless thoughts, at some point she had closed off her heart and given up on love. Then, she meets the first prince, Asher, at a ball. He's handsome, and speaks with a calm voice. No matter how you look at him, you'd think he's a perfect person. And then... "Pheww, I'm so nervous. Okay, I'll do my best! One, two, let's gooo!" He's actually a timid and pure prince!? For the first time, Eleanor is curious about the boy with the calming "inner voice". Could that turn into love...?

Volume 1: 1-3) P.B.B. Junsuke is the number one companion in a host club where Shinobu used to work. They have been in a relationship for a year, but as they start to get serious, Shinobu questions his commitment. The story continues from where act 1 (chapter 4 of Gaten na Aitsu) left off. (features Maki Motoharu from Punch Up) 4) The Evil Worker's Folklore ~ Trial version Short extra on construction workers and their uniforms. 5) Gaten na Aitsu Yuusaku is dying for a trip and his dad fulfilled his wishes and he soon learns that his holiday maybe more than he bargained for (continuation after chapter 3 of Gaten na Aitsu). Volume 2: 1-3) P.B.B. Junsuke follows Shinobu on his company's annual getaway. Love, sex, uneasiness ensues. Also includes a small extra Gift 1. 4) One Day of a Certain Host Junsuke spends his day while his lover is at work. 5) P.B.B. Junsuke clashes with the number 2 host Haruto. Also includes a short extra Gift 2 Volume 3: 1-3) P.B.B. Shinobu meets Junsuke's brother, Yoshinari. 4) Yukata Hajimemashita Club Dandy's special summer event. All the hosts dress up in charming yukata. Includes a series of four panel extras at the end. Play Boys blues Prequel is included in tankoubon Gaten na aitsu, and a sidestory is in Punch Up! ~~~~~~~~ Note ~ Play Boy Blues, Gaten na aitsu, Kawaige, Stepping Stone, Punch Up! and Otonage. are loosely connected. [CJ]

Anthology of short stories.1. Ikenai Kiss O Shiyou, by Kuramochi MariShe fell in love with an extremely handsome mysterious man. He turns out to be a trainee teacher?!2. After School It Gets Sexy ~Dangerous Private Lessons~ (Ecchii Houkago Kiken Na Katekyou), by Aikawa HiroThe extremely “popular” tutor is here to teach Yu but...?!3. Kinkyori Renai - The Reason For Me Wearing Glasses (Boku ga Megane o Shiteru Wake), by Mikimoto RinA secret romance between teacher and student. The only person who can take off his glasses is me.4. Pink No Idenshi Hanamitsu Shounen, by Yuzuki JunShe saw her Chemistry teacher Fugiki Sensei kissing a married teacher in the music room and the heroic battle begins!5. Mi Da Ra Choukyou, by Kanou NorikoYu-Sensei came as a tutor. I’ll do what ever it takes for him to fall for me!This is one of 8 (as of 8/31/10) Genshaku Tsundere Danshi Anthology books.Related:> Genshoku Tsundere Danshi Semekare(https://manhuascan.com/comic/_/genshoku-tsundere-danshi-semekare-r4537)

Ryou Nakamura moves in to his new life and apartment and spots two men kissing and he's too intrigued to look away. After getting into college, Ryou is finally learning to discover who he really is and who he really likes. We begin Miyamoto Kano's Flowers, filled with love triangles and coming-of-age tales today. From Hochuuami Also contains extra story "MIssing" From Baka-Updates: When Ryou moves into a new apartment block, his neighbour Makoto makes no secret of the fact that he likes men, and Ryou is forced to confront the secret doubts he's always had about his own sexuality. Things get complicated when Makoto's history with the other resident of the building, Nanno, results in jealousy, tension, and love triangles all around.

V.1 - Calling • Calling When Keigo sees Shiki at a club, he overcomes his shyness and determines to pursue Shiki. After Shiki gets plastered, Keigo seizes the opportunity to take the drunk back to his place, but no amount of alcohol can convince Shiki to turn gay. Is Keigo doomed to be nothing more to Shiki than his stalker or will Shiki's feelings change? • Night Call After spending some time as a homeless drifter and casual rent boy, Asaoka Shino decided to join the police force's Zero Unit, an anti-terrorism division, to aid the fight against the rapidly growing terrorist problem. He has a real chance to join the unit as an undercover officer, but first he has to pass a highly-secretive test to see if he could be used in 'honeytrap' operations, which is to have sexual intercourse with an examiner. But the assigned examiner is male. Can Asaoka go through with it? • Ougon no Ame (Golden Rain) Kaoru has just opened his own video rental store, and is lucky enough to have a friendly neighbour in the shape of Inoue-san, who runs a Takoyaki shop next to Kaoru's store. But who is the mysterious boy watching them from behind a closed window? Can the rumours surrounding the boy really be true? V.2 - Nowhere • Stray Sheep • Blue Me • Everything • Nowhere • Pandora • Kimi no Na wa (Call My Name) • Soar • Sly -----Calling Universe Timeline------ Pipe Dreams (Shino, TJ)* Realize (Shiki, Keigo, Shino, TJ)* Replay *Doujinshi published by Curve (accurate as of September 2010)

From Liquid Passion: Takeshi is straight until he sees Kazuya lying naked on his friend's couch. After their intimate encounter, can they find a way to make a relationship work and manage to survive on their unusual part time job? A series of short chapters currently running in Mellow Mellow. From 'Sweet Tale' collection of short stories/oneshots: Story 1. Boy Next Door Story 2. One Heart Story 3. Otoshimono Story 4. Long Way Home

Maki is an elite architect who's a sucker for bishies! And his favorite hunting ground is a construction site! Unexpectedly, this time his target is an ironworker named Kouta. A totally unrefined brat who talks with his fist first then cuts you down with his sharp tongue next.. Will Maki be able to capture this wild youth for keeps!? ~~~~~~~~ Note ~ Play Boy Blues, Gaten na aitsu, Kawaige, Stepping Stone, Punch Up!, Mayou Otoko and Otonage. are loosely connected.

"I want you, Moka..." There's a popular guy in class, and he can't stand the way the other girls look at him. The only girl he wants all for himself... is the plain girl sitting in the seat in front of him?! Moka Asano is your average high school girl, and sitting behind her is Izumi Kurosaki. Kurosaki's the captain of the soccer team, and is so popular that the neighboring schools have fan clubs for him! The girls always crowd around his desk, so Moka can never get a chance to sit down at her desk in the morning... but everything changes when Moka gets the chance to be close to Kurosaki when they see each other in the old school library. Even though Kurosaki hates being around girls, and tends to give everyone these cold stares, he looks at Moka with a bright smile and asks her "do you wanna date for real?" It's like he's a completely different person!

Kiichiro Hayase has a reputation as the wealthiest, hottest, most eligible bachelor in town. But as they say...behind every successful man is the maid who keeps him from tripping over his own two feet! Enter Miss Kishi, the most competent, professional maid around—and the only thing keeping from Kiichiro quite literally crashing and burning. He owes it all to her, but can he ever make it up to her? He's sworn to try...no matter how many things must get broken, scattered, or lost to do so!

This girl makes the world shine bright. Facing a ruthless reality, Claire’s surroundings have become dark. Her husband died in an accident with his affair, and it turned out that the father of her important daughter, who she had conceived with the help of the fertility clinic, was a strange billionaire named Luca Moretti. She was told that the clinic mistook Luca’s sperm ampoule for Claire’s husband’s. “I can’t live without my daughter! I won’t give her to anyone!” Claire turned down Luca’s request for custody. After that, Luca made an unbelievable proposal, “Why don’t we go on vacation at a beach house on the island for a month, so we can get to know each other?”

Renta: Toshiaki Saeki's an office worker who's too much of a doormat to say no. Thanks to that, he gets dumped by his girlfriend and spends his days in misery. But, one day, his younger colleague Kawagoe asks him out, and straight-up begs Toshiaki to sleep with him...! Will Kawagoe's first time be Toshiaki's first time bottoming...? Thus begins this innocent office worker romance.

From Liquid Passion: 1-4) When Ryuu transfers to Hitomi's school, he leaves an immediate impression on him. Curious about rumours of a full-scale tattoo on Ryuu's back, Hitomi starts getting closer to him. Before long, the friendship and fascination Hitomi feels for Ryuu start developing into more, but before he has a chance to come to terms with his feelings, Hikaru appears on the scene.... and he has his eyes set on Hitomi. 5-6) Now that Hikaru has become close friends with Hitomi and Ryuu, the group dynamics have changed. When Hikaru expresses his growing interest in Hitomi, will Ryuu admit his feelings or let Hitomi slip away...? 7-8) Ryuu seems to have found comfort in other places as Hitomi and Hikaru Taira get further involved. Sexual frustrations finally find an outlet, though misdirected. 9-11) In a startling series of events that lead up to Hydra's transfixing climax, hearts break, enemies resurface, and ties of friendship bind the trio in a complex web of struggle, sacrifice, and redemption. Rules series Timeline: 1) Please (5 chapters) -- Kiss (MIYAMOTO Kano) -- Kiss After 2) Skies ** 3) Hydra 1+2+3+4 (ch1-4) 4) Hydra 3+4+5+6 (ch5-6) -- Hydra dj - Blue Film First (after Hydra ch8) -- Hydra dj - Heavenly (between Hydra ch9 and ch10-11) -- Hydra dj - The Days Before -- Real Thing -- Rules dj - Hello Again 5) Lovers and Souls 6) Fragile (MIYAMOTO Kano) ** 7) Vanity ** 8) Dreamers high ** 13) Rules volumes 1 & 2 14) If Winter Comes, Can Spring Be Far Behind? ** 15) Rules volume 3 16) Rules dj - Song Birds ** 17) Another Day on The Planet ** 18) Rules dj - Double Trouble ** 19) Overload ** ** = doujinshi also the ones in ( -- ) are doujinshi's

From Chibi Manga: Natsu wishes to lead a peaceful high school life. However, in an unexpected turn of events, she became the girlfriend of Kuze Reito, who is rumored to be the strongest in a fight and the number one ikemen of the school. And ignoring the flustered Natsu, he declared in front of the whole class that they were 'going out'...!? What will happen to Natsu's peaceful school life...!? An enthralling school love story with a wild Kuze-kun's sweet teasing!

Consists of a collection of oneshots. 1) Nude. Natsuki is getting ready to graduate, and she wants her final art project to be Tsuji, fellow art student and crush of three years. Will she be able to complete it? 2) Hold me in the Summer. Nagisa's summer vacation seems like it will be uneventful, except she keeps running into the handsome Yuuji. Can this be a summer romance, or maybe something more? 3) Christmas Passion. Miyako is constantly being sexually harassed by Atsushi. He interrupts when she's being confessed to and is always touching her. But Miyako can't forgive him for hurting her years before. 4) Red Hot Blizzard. Kazuno's sister drags her along on a skiing retreat. Her sister's boyfriend also brings his brother, Aoi. The two get closer through mishaps, but is this meeting more than a coincidence? 5) Valentine Ecstasy. Madoka has been having sexy dreams of Akashi, probably because he's always teasing her! He has so many girls around him, she won't even give him obligatory chocolate. Can Akashi change her mind?

From September Scanlations: Misono Kazuki is a college student pursuing a dream of becoming a famous novelist—but unfortunately, for someone trying to pen a supernatural YA novel, he’s got next to no experience with close encounters of the spiritual kind. To remedy this, at the suggestion of a friend, he heads to a supposedly haunted shrine late one moonlit evening, and while he doesn’t find any ghosts, he does find something much more interesting.

Aoi Nemo has it made: He’s brilliant, good-looking, and the heir to a gigantic pharmaceutical empire. The only thing missing in his life is love, and he’s just fallen head over heels for a beautiful woman named Akaumi Kiruru. There’s just one problem: Kiruru is a professional assassin! Desperate to see her again, Aoi Nemo puts a risky plan into action. To reunite with Kiruru, he puts out a hit…on himself!

Collection of Stories:??????????? (Amaku Shitataru, Majin no Shitone) by HASUMI Hana???? (Wakiyaku) by YOSHIDA Yuuko

Terada Youhei is your average high school student whose only talent is his ability to see ghosts. One night he meets “Rooftop Rinko-san“, a ghost who resides on the rooftop of his school. Because she was unable to make any friends during her life, does that make her the type of ghost who won’t let anyone who meets her leave the rooftop...? It’s the story of a hilarious friendship between man an incompetent ghost girl!

Sex and an insider perspective in exchange for a place to stay. That's the deal young prostitute Bun strikes with jaded detective Daisuke. But how long can their relationship last when they’re both insisting that it's Not/Love? Miyamoto Kano's "Walker" universe timeline: 1) Are You Enemy? 2) Not Love *licensed -- Not/Love dj - The reason why we live together -- Not/Love dj - Dog Days -- Not/Love dj - Demonic Conversations 3) Heat (MIYAMOTO Kano) 4) Under the Skin the ones on ( -- ) are doujinshis..they give background or "add into" to some key points in the main story line. So you're not really missing anything even if you don't read it.