At the dawn of the 17th century, at the end of the era of civil wars, in a world of chaos, the epic Battle of Sekigahara was joined.
One man emerged from the largest battle ever fought on Japanese soil; a terrible warrior of unspeakable power, he was nicknamed 'the unconquerable.'
Kyoshiro is a peaceful medicine peddler who harbors the soul of an assassin. He accompanies a young bounty hunter across Japan in search of a murderer and on a quest to discover the terrible secret of his own identity.

Hinata Saotome is suddenly asked out by En Shinohara, a gorgeous boy in her grade. What she doesn’t know, though, is that his hobby is cross-dressing! En has always hated men, and whenever he sees his own reflection, he punches out whatever is doing the reflecting (windows, mirrors…). To combat this hatred, he dresses up as a girl. Hinata decides to go out with him anyway, despite his weird hobby.

Also included are the following unrelated short stories:

• Sweets Honey (V.08)
Serizawa gets sick whenever she smells something sweet, but she likes a boy named Miura who has an extremely sweet tooth.

• Boy's Lily (V.16)
A spin-off of Usotsuki Lily where En is a normal guy who recently started dating Hinata whose hobby is dressing like a guy.

• Amber (V.17)
Mio Hasekura is a helpful high school girl who is very fond of her late father who died when she was younger, and hopes to find a guy like him someday. On her way to school one day, she comes across a man collapsed on the side of the road and Mio helps him out.

Misako's father remarried a week ago and her step brother turns out to be the school's most popular guy, Aizawa Hiroki. Giving the appearance of a gentleman it turns out he's a huge playboy, trying to "capture" her to prove they can't be a family!?

Includes two oneshots "Kimi Fechi" and "Kanzen Date Manual". The former has yet to be scanlated.

After a long illness, Naki returns to school and finds a ghost in her locker who asks her to become a Rock-n-Roller.

Ex-yakuza hitman Yousuke dies... And is promptly scouted as an angel! Will he manage to accomplish his earthly duties, or will he simply drive his trainer, Zerachiel, crazy?

Note: The original oneshot was titled Scrap Heaven, but after being granted serialisation the series name has been changed to Gokurakuchou Dead End.

Kyosuke Kosaka, a normal seventeen-year-old high-school student, hasn't gotten along with his younger sister, Kirino, in years. For longer than he can remember, Kirino has ignored his comings and goings and looked at him with spurning eyes. It seemed as if the relationship between Kyosuke and his sister, now fourteen, would continue this way forever. One day, however, Kyosuke finds a DVD case of a magical girl anime entitled Hoshikuzu Witch Meruru (Stardust Witch Meruru), which had fallen into the entranceway of his house. To Kyosuke's surprise, inside the case, an adult video game entitled Imoto to Koishi yo! (Love with Little Sister!) is hidden.

Usui Fuuko is ridiculed by her classmates as 'ugly' after unsuccessfully confessing her love to Amahara Haruhiko. With the failure still in her mind, she swears to lose weight and to get revenge by making Amahara fall in love with her! However, after a series of event, Usui is beginning to have second thoughts about her plan...

From Dark Horse:
Dark Horse proudly presents another of the crown jewels of international graphic fiction—Astro Boy! Created by the late Osamu Tezuka, a revered animator and cartoonist—who created over 150,000 pages of comics in his career!—and considered the Walt Disney of Japan, his Astro Boy was the first manga series to be adapted to animation and became a worldwide phenomenon, making Astro Boy the Mickey Mouse of anime—a jet-powered, super-strong, evil-robot-bashing, alien-invasion-smashing Mickey Mouse, that is!
Exciting, whimsical, and touching, Astro Boy hearkens back to the classic era of comics and animation, featuring stories that readers young and old will enjoy.

Ichiru Kanzaki is given an offer he can't refuse: to clear his entire debt, he has to enroll in the high school where his father works to track down his father's illegitimate daughter, his own younger half-sister, whom he has never met. But which girl is she?

Amano Rintarou has taken care of Nakatsugawa Maki since they were kids. He knows his childhood friend Maki isn't the brightest crayon in the box but in spite of that, or maybe because of that, he still has always thought he would be taking care of him now and in the future. However, when they enter university together and Rintarou is made to move in with Maki, Maki goes from being a regular idiot to being a perverted idiot! But only towards Rintarou?! What's Rintarou going to do?! How will he deal with this new side of Maki? Will he be able to still live with him and continue to take care of Maki now and forever?

From Tokyopop:
In CLAMP's take on the Alice in Wonderland saga, Miyuki finds herself in a world which seems to be populated solely by a series of scantily-clad women interested exclusively in exploring her charms. Needless to say, hi-jinks and misunderstandings ensue as our young heroine attempts to escape their clutches and return to her regular life.

From Intercross:
Yamada Nadeshiko has always had a negative personality, so she always thinks that whatever she does, it will lead to the worst possible outcome. But by meeting Samejima-kun, with his conceptualization, she finds that she can slowly become more positive.
Then Nadeshiko realises that she has fallen for Samejima. What is she supposed to do now!?

Futagami Sousuke, 14 years old, is a normal student, wishing to live a normal life. But everything changes the day he sees a doppelganger of himself in his house.
Since then, the girl he has a crush on, Amane, will introduce him to another side of his world he had no idea about, and it won't be anymore the dear peaceful days for Futagami.

Heo Se is a 23-year-old young man. He graduated from a junior college with a degree in design, but he couldn't find a job. He finally borrowed money from a loan shark and could not pay back his debt. Heo Se is then chased by the loan shark who wants to put him on a deep-sea fishing vessel. At that moment, he sees a hot spring theme park named "Geumjatang." To hide from the loan shark he goes into "Geumjatang." There, he meets an old man known as President. The President pays Heo Se's debt and forces Heo Se to work as a scrubber at the bathhouse.

Tamano Kako and Marunouchi Gaku were the best of friends, but Gaku had to leave with his father to travel the world. However, Gaku promised that if Kako waited, he would come back in 10 years and they would go out. However, right after Gaku left the law of Takkoku was created: If you confess your love to someone, you must beat them at a game of ping pong; if you touch each other before the game, that person will be punished. If you win, regardless of the other person's feelings, you automatically go out. However, Kako is called the best ping pong player in Japan and Gaku has never played ping pong before AND he wants to be the one that confesses. How will these two people's love flourish under these conditions? Will Gaku ever be able beat Kako at ping pong?

Welcome to the Sparta Acadamy, run by a head master called Satan's Toenail. If you get anything below a 90 on every test, they punish you with torturous devices and the like. But fear not, there is one who stands up to this great injustice, in nothing but a mask and high boots. That's right, a naked fighter of Justice, Kekkou Kamen is here to punish the unfair system of the Sparta Acadamy and bring justice to those who study too much!

Humans may be considered at the top of the food chain, but when people are in the presence of cockroaches, they cower in fear. Who can they turn to when faced with these insects? The Gokiburi Busters, who have yet to fail to eliminate a threat!

1981 short contributed to the manga anthology "Shonen Shojo SF Manga Kyousaku Taizeshuu".

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