Master manga creater Yukito Kishiro returns, accompanied by his most celebrated character, cyborg sweetheart Battle Angel Alita. Meet Kishiro's latest bevy of bizarre and tormented characters and catch up with your favorite and foes!

Note: The Ultrajump phases are out of sync with the volume phases by +5 so Phase 93 from the volume release is phase 98 from the Ultrajump release.

Masahiro is a manager at a modeling agency and himself a former model. His newest charge is 16-year old Yoshimi. Yoshimi has looks and charisma to burn, but he’s also an over-privileged, egoistic, bratty teenager. When Yoshimi finds out that Masahiro is gay, he commands his manager to give him extra-curricular instruction in sex between men. But if Yoshimi wants Masahiro to be exclusively his, then he’ll have to surpass top model Akito, his rival in business and in love.

From Wings of Yuri: High-school freshman Komari needs to find a dorm to stay in and ends up living at the prestigious Paraso no Yakata, but only because she agreed to be Himemiya Yukio’s servant!

Why did you kiss me... Why did you fall for me...?

The most popular guy kissed a sleeping girl? What can she do, now that he has little by little, stole her heart away...

When she was 16, photographer Lee went to Gretna Green, the "Elopement Capital of Scotland," where she could get married without her parents' consent. However, she soon divorces, taking her daughter with her. She has had enough of men, but 13 years later, she meets Daniel, who tries everything in his power to seduce her. Meanwhile, Lee's brother is in a passionate relationship with Daniel's daughter. The two lovers decide to elope to Gretna Green just as Lee did all those years ago. Lee chases after them with a bitter feeling in her heart...

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Otoji is searching for his older brother in seedy, urban Yokosuka. During this search he meets up with Joe, a fashionable prostitute who eventually joins him with his search. Along the way Joe aquaints him with the wonders of sex and prostitution, and the flexibility of being both seme and uke! But while Otoji deals with the search he and Joe face the darker side of their lifestyle.

Takahata Shun's day at high school begins just as normal and boring as ever, but it doesn't end that way. After his teacher's head explodes, he and his classmates find themselves forced to play children's games, such as Daruma ga Koronda (a game like Red Light/Green Light), with deadly stakes. With no idea who is behind this mysterious deadly game session, and no way of knowing when it will finally end, the only thing Shun and other students can do is keep trying to win...

When forcibly injected with the DNA of Musashi—the legendary swordsman—by the secret organization Akai Umi (Red Sea), Hagane Yakushimaru becomes a master fencer with supernatural powers. She sets off to rescue her parents, who have been abducted by Akai Umi, making friends and foes with supernatural beings (parasite projects) who have also been injected with the DNA of other historical figures.

What is Hagane's secret? Why is she the only successful female DNA injection recipient? What exactly is the project called the "Revelations of the New Millennium"? A veteran artist depicts a futuristic battle manga on a grand scale.

1. Hada no Ue no Renai Jijou (Above Skin Love Circumstances)
Yamaji is a middle-aged, middle school art teacher who is dating Tsukishima, a younger man. Tsukishima possesses a perfect body type, which Yamaji loves to sketch. Reflecting on that perfection, Yamaji realizes his own body is less than perfect - flabby! - and he needs to improve it before Tsukishima rejects him because of it.

2. Zaiaku wa Hada no Ue ni (Sin Is Above Skin Level)
Tsukishima, a regular businessman, has begun a blissful life living with his lover Yamaji. But though things are happy on the surface, Tsukishima can't shake the feeling that Yamaji only likes his body...

3. Hada no Ue ni Furu Hana (The Flowers Touch)
Tsukishima and Yamaji admire the cherry blossoms together. While looking at the beautiful trees, Tsukishima thinks that Yamaji is far more beautiful. A springtime continuation with our lovely couple.

4. Renai Tsuu (Heartache)
When stoic Mizusawa, a janitor, saves businessman Aoki from falling down some stairs, he gets a friend for life! Aoki is always tracking him down at lunch time just so they can eat together. But Mizusawa isn't sure how he feels about Aoki...

5. Renai Tsuu - Akka

6. Yurusareta Uta (Permitted Song)
Humans keep monsters as slaves for fighting and protection, but there is one, Zai who refuses to fight. Zai is special since he can use magic by creating spells with his songs, but he refuses to sing too... will he, for his master?

7. Omake
Three pages about the characters from Yurusareta Uta.

Summary refers to the Libre Shuppan re-print, 2008:

1-6) Te wo Tsunaide, Sora wo
Haruya, a magazine article writer, is constantly frustrating his editors with his lack of inspiration. His calm, quiet life is spent in a house away from the city. However, upon meeting a shy boy undressing on the beach, their lives become linked. An unusual relationship follows that will ultimately be beneficial for the both of them.

7-9) Kiss me, Daddy/ Make Me Happy/ Walkin' on the Moon
Shiba owns a small software firm. Naomi, who works there part-time as he studies at the university, is comfortable with his homosexuality. So, despite Shiba's being 36 years old, Naomi can't help but be attracted to his boss! But, does Shiba feel the same way?
(Also included in Make Me Happy)

10) Fade
Morikawa has arrived in his professional career, however his vindictive ex decides to spoil it by revealing that Morikawa is gay. Luckly, Higa, a coworker, is there to help Morikawa. But does Higa have more motives beyond a business relationship?

11) Closed
Takashi wants Yuu, his classmate from University, to love him. Unfortunately, the only way Takashi can think to win Yuu's heart is through drugging and raping him. Will Stockholm syndrom work in his favor or will Yuu leave Takashi for good?

12) Echo Night
Akito has an interesting night with his client Shirou. After multiple rounds of steamy sex Shirou promises to take Akito with him as part of their role play. However, was he only joking?

13) Secret
Kei and Subaru visit Maki and Haruya again. Maki is concerned about Haruya and Kei's former relationship and Subaru tries to help him feel better.

Being his first series, What a Wonderful World remains Asano's most representative and successful work to date.

Composed of vignettes from the daily lives of a group of people inhabiting an ordinary neighborhood somewhere in Tokyo, the series is actually a comment about modern life itself and how we can survive in it despite all its rigors.

Amusing, melancholic, funny, strange, thought-provoking - Asano effortlessly shifts from one mood to another, creating stories and characters that are profoundly human and thus always involving. It's a shame that not everyone will find the subjects the author describes equally appealing since some of them are distinctly Japanese. But overall, it's a great collection that any discerning manga reader should check out.

Yuan Ge, a director at an advertising firm, is interrupted in the midst of a meeting with the news that his long-estranged wife has passed away. He barely finds time to grieve for her, a woman he had long since ceased to love. Several days later, he is struck by the vision of a young girl on a subway bus, but she disappears the minute he looks away. This is a story of lost love, and of one man's personal journey.

A collection of stories:

1. Hiragana Sen, Aiu Eki Yori (From Aiu Station on the Hiragana Line)
Asaki has her life all planned out: she is going to win a beauty contest, become a newscaster, and marry into wealth. One day she is helped by a delinquent-looking girl named Tsune on the train and her plans begin to change...

2. I'll Send Her Home on the Last Train
Sequel to Aiu Station.

3. Shoujo Planetarium (Girls' Planetarium)
Suzuki and Satou are classmates but barely interact due to their different personalities. One day Suzuki sees Satou getting picked up by an older woman and when noticed gets dragged along by her to Satou’s chagrin.
- Yuri Project

4. Isshun no Asterism (Ephemeral Asterism)

5. Eien ni Shoujo (Forever Girls)
A ghost named Mizuki returns to her old home to discover a family she does not know. There, she meets a child named Misao who is the only person who can see or interact with her. This is the story of their relationship as Misao grows up.

6. Otona no Kaidan no Shita (At the Bottom of the Stairway to Adulthood)
Natsu has never had a good relationship with her older sister, Aki, or her friends she always brings home. One day Aki brings home a girl that is quite a bit different than all the others and Natsu immediately likes her. When she overhears Aki and her friends talking about the new girl behind her back Natsu thinks, "If only she was my friend instead..."

7. Shoujo Seizu (Girls Star Map)

From Horobi no Michi:

Suou is just a normal highschool student. One night, she dreams about a red-haired demon girl... who shows up the next day in the middle of class and "claims" her as her property.

From Midnight Scans: Even though they played together innocently since they were young, somewhere along the way, the seeds of "love" started to grow. Growing up on an outlying island from Okinawa, Kazuya, Ryoko and Daisuke were brought up like a family. They wanted to be together forever, but the three of them have different desires. One wants to stay, one wants to go, and one of them wants to go, but can't. When Daisuke is lured away from the island, Ryoko decides to stay on the island with Kazuya. However, the three of them will experience a cruel fate...!

Atsushi and his friend Ayumi decide to join forces in order to make Atsuchi's big brother Takashi quit being a groupie.

This manga includes a oneshot called, "Love Romance."

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"A classmate suddenly became my 'older brother'...?"
High-school student Shinozaki Aya can't help but take care of others. The only one to relieve her burden is her classmate and close friend Haruki. But what will happen when they learn about their parents' remarriage to one another? Will they really be able to become siblings?

From Shoujo Sense: Spring can be hard season to deal with...