TOP MANGA OF THE WEEK

Makoto is determined to step out of her model sister's shadow and have her own high school debut, but when Makoto's sister shows up unexpectedly at her school, her plans suddenly go awry?

After breaking up, Kido Yuusuke decides not to get serious about relationships anymore and goes out with accountant Kamiyama Kouki just to have some fun with no strings attached. Kouki respects Yuusuke's wishes and maintains his distance; it's exactly the type of relation Yuusuke was hoping for, but after being touched by Kouki's kindness, Yuusuke starts to want more than just a good time with Kouki...

Here, young people, girls and boys, are living under the same roof. Mahiro is living with other people for the first time and everything is making her nervous and exited! Will her destiny will change? Will she find love? Or something else...?

When Takagi Akira, an owner of an apartment, was in town, he ran into a scene where a man, Oodoi, saved an old man from a gang. Akira fell for Oodoi’s manly courage and took him in his apartment. Oodoi found Akira’s apartment comfy and spent time there. Akira thought Oodoi's manly act was now part of the past... But when Akira was harassed by mobs and about to sell his apartment, it was Oodoi who saved his life. Truth is, Oodoi is a yakuza and…

The Onishi family doesn’t have a father anymore. They don’t have much money. They don’t even have a shower. Tenohira Size presents eight stories of a mother and her three children’s day-to-day lives in the aftermath of divorce.

Yonagahiko - a god(?) with a human face and a serpentine body - lives on a mountain-side with a small, mysterious boy named Tetsuichi. There is a popular legend about that mountain; a legend which tells the tale of a human who once slew the mountain god and gained possession of his powers...

"I want to get a boyfriend in high school" Born on the same day at the same hospital. Asuka and Tomaru were always together just like real twins but Asuka's desire for Independence will lead to separation between their twin like relationship. What will Tomaru do?

It was her 16th birthday when Kurusu was told by her classmate, Ogami, a confession, she’s delighted, but also feels very uncomfortable in relation to her friend Kiraha whom she knows that she got a soft spot for this guy. Kurusu doesn’t have time to rejoice because the mysterious evil creatures appear suddenly and attack her!! Kurusu must face her destiny along with Ogami whose role is to protect her. However, Kiraha can’t see this situation.

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A girl after falling through a hole in the floor of her school discovers a robot. How will this girl and the robot interact?

This series, a joint project between the rising star Nakamura Asumiko, and renowned director of Shoujo Kakumei Utena Ikuhara Kunihiko, weaves a strange, surreal, and often dark comedy respendent with ruffles and lace. It is on the surface a farce about a young girl traveling with her lover, some sort of bear-type creature, but as to be expected of Ikuhara, it's multi-layered.The series is being endorsed by Baby the Stars Shine Bright, the leading name in Japanese lolita fashion, and the characters often wear clothes based off of those from the company.

Mako has found a new part-time job as a live-in maid. When she arrives at the wealthy house, she is confronted by the son of the family, Tamaki. A playboy by nature, Tamaki persistently teases Mako … to her breaking point. But is the teasing something more?

Nagaoka Shunsuke lost his parents at a very young age. Since then, he opened his house for people who had troubles in life as a place of their own, their very own “home” without question. Then comes his newest tenant, a cheery boy named Tobari with a mysterious past…

from Ivyscan:Karin is a witch, but she can’t fly on a broomstick! She’s also the owner of a magic-shop on Southern Avenue, but recently, another witch named Lise has settled in the nearby forest and is stealing her customers from her! As Karin goes to spy on her new rival, Lise’s apprentice, Ruin, appears before her. Little by little, Karin finds herself attracted to him, but as for Ruin—!?

1) Noda, a boy who has 3 secrets: First, he's in love with his classmate Fukushima. Second, he can draw his spirit out from his body. And finally, sometimes he secretly watches Fukushima at home, when his spirit has left his body. But one day he drops in at Fukushima's at a very unfavorable moment. 2) A boy who is asked to take care of a huge white rabbit and how the animal makes him understand his own feelings. 3) Yuzuru Sakaguchi, a boy who leads a lonely but peaceful life, cut off by the rumor that people can see ghosts around him. One day a new teacher comes to his school and his life is thrown completely out of joint.

Kiyomizu, under the impression that he was going to a drinking party with colleagues, is tricked by Karasuma into a mixer with young and feisty girls. Sensing that he’s going to be devoured by them, he devises a plan and desperate tells them that he is gay, and then continues to give Karasuma a kiss to prove that he wasn’t joking. After leaving the store, the girls are undeterred and to drive his point home, he goes to a love hotel!Alcohol coupled with being in a love hotel prompts Karasuma to say “Let’s try doing it! Just the tip!” His curiosity was just too strong. He was willing to be on the bottom and Kiyomizu reluctantly agrees. In the beginning, Karasuma is complaining that it doesn’t feel good, but it slowly becomes pleasurable ad he lets out the cutest moans, drawing Kiyomizu in…!

Manga adaption of Towazugatari ("Unasked-for Tale"), the autobiography of a woman who was a concubine of Emperor Go-Fukakusa.

Tokage, a soul cursed to forever wander the world, unable to rest nor to join the reincarnation cycle, is now looking for its release. This time Tokage enters the body of a newly dead girl named Yuuka, a shrine maiden. This body requires continual recharging from a highly spiritual person, whom the dead person must have had an attachment to. This person is Shinobu, a younger boy, who also lives in that shrine. Thus starts the adventures of Tokage and Shinobu in a world gone mad, amidst the chaos and carnage that gravitates to an unsent soul draw.

A story about a mirror princess/demon. It seems that a new condo building was built on a certain location where this princess was housed and worshiped with a stone monument but it was moved due to the new construction.One room in particular seems to have a direct link to the princess who calls herself the owner of the pool of time. Beware when mirrors are placed opposite of each other because you may just be drawn in her world and powers.

It's the year 2020 AD, and Tokyo II is a city infested with crime. Women can no longer go out in the streets alone without being victimized. Not wanting their daughter to suffer the same fate, Tsukasa Kozuki's cop parents raise her as a boy. When they are suddenly killed by one of the yakuza's in-fights, Tsukasa is left orphaned on the streets along with her three brothers. With no other options, she goes to the only person she can think of for help: pokerface Ryuji Shirogami, her classmate of 8 years and also the head leader of the powerful yakuza group, Kuryugumi. Ryuji, whose father was also a victim of the same yakuza fight, agrees to take her on as his personal bodyguard. As they set out to find their enemy, Ryuji slaps an increasing amount of debt onto Tsukasa, using all manner of ploys to keep the reluctant Tsukasa by his side.

Even if this love, this tenderness will bring about the destruction of the world... "Because... I met you." Mashiro Ouha was a normal high school student... until the day she got attacked by snake-like creatures. Oblivious to her destiny, she had always believed that her life would be an ordinary one...

Life does not always go as planned. Noriko fell in love, got engaged, and imagined a bright future. Instead, her fiance fell in love with her older sister, Eiko. Noriko refused to let go, and they ended up getting married despite this significant problem. Some years of marriage and two children later, Noriko became a single mother. She returned to her family home, with her daughters Eri and Madoka. Her life continued, alongside Eiko (who ended up never marrying or leaving home), and their now elderly mother. Years later, Eri and Madoka are entering the time of life where they have their own problems with love. This manga follows the lives of this house of women.(A second volume has been released.)

When the unmotivated editor of a mahjong manga magazine, Sakaguchi, stops at a convenience store in the middle of a business meeting, he is reunited with his senior high school underclassman, Fujishiro.Fujishiro's ability forced Sakaguchi to abandon his dreams of becoming a mangaka, but Fujishiro has stopped writing and is living the life of a part-timer.In order to get Fujishiro to draw manga once more, Sakaguchi meddles in Fujishiro's business.With its novelty, Fujishiro's manga becomes popular, and when he's lured away by a major publishing company, Sakaguchi thinks that that is the end of their relationship ...The title work of the story of the ten years' desire of a violent editor and a useless mangaka, plus the sequel of the popular mangaka and his manager, now a couple, and others, all compiled in a single volume -- a brand-new work compilation!

Miki Tamura can read people like a book. To maintain his happy home-life and to please people, it's a skill he's learned to acquire. But what happens when he meets someone that he can't read so easily?