The eponymous Sota is a kitchen hand at a high-class traditional Japanese restaurant, learning the basics of cooking Japanese cuisine. Through Sota's training, readers will come to understand the care and forethought that goes into creating Japanese cuisine and which has led to its wide-spread popularity across the world, from ramen to sushi to izakaya fare. Pure-hearted, hard-working, and in love with food, Sota will have readers rooting for him to become the best washoku chef ever.

[From the author of Kill the Hero]

Through a combination of numerous injuries, a weak frame, and financial difficulties, the protagonist Lee Jinyong gave up on his path to being a baseball athlete and lived as a factory employee instead. One day, the spirit of Kim Jinho, the baseball hero who was hailed as a legend in Korea, as well as Lee Jinyong’s idol who passed away 10 years ago, appeared before him. At the same time, an unknown notice appeared, stating that the ‘Baseball Manager’ would start, and Lee Jinyong gained an ability that gave him the constitution of a pitcher, similar to a game avatar. He returns to the field to become .

From Transcendence:

Ardour is the hottest pop boy band out there. All members, Sheng Ye, A Yao, and Wei, have the looks, skills, and talents that any fans would want. Lian You Yi is a normal 15 years old girl, who does not know about Ardour, even though her father is the manager of Ardour! Due to her father's inability to take care of the band, You Yi is offered to be Ardour’s new manager. You Yi accepts the offer because if she didn't, then her father would be fired! However, what she does not know about are Ardour memeber’s cocky attitudes! How will You Yi manage this band? What will You Yi do in order to keep her father’s job?!?! And will one of the boys show kindness to her, and will romance spark?

In the midst of an auspicious sign from the heavens, the emperor’s family gave birth to a special pair of twins—a male born with a forehead mole the colour of cinnabar, and a female born with six fingers. However, this brother and sister pair is cruelly separated by fate! One is taken eastward to celestial Penglai, to embark on the long road of cultivation. The other is abandoned in the reeds, to travel alongside an old swordsman through the mortal realm… As fate advances, how will the two fight destiny? Will they be able to reunite?

Based on Bram Stoker's "Dracula", a gothic horror story at the end of the 19th century.

Dogged by pain and misfortune from the very beginning, Shin-Ae decides she wants nothing to do with people nor anything to do with romance. Although content with her unsocial, boring, loveless existence, her lifestyle is challenged after she ruins an unsuspecting strangers' clothes.

A story about a rabbit girl named Shiro and her owner.

The Author made many ntr doujins

The light is gone. Unable to escape the darkness, Pieta repeats the same day. Every day she walks to school down the same road, through the same rain, then talks with her friend Danae. Eventually, she finds happiness in the repetition. The days carry on as normal, until one day, her routine chat with Danae takes a different turn: "What?! You can remember the today that happened yesterday too?" Despite their bleak situation, the girls reach towards tomorrow!

The story is set in the year Showa 44 (1969), and it centers around Takanori Jinguuji, the 27-year-old man who eventually become the head of the Japan Shogi Association in the main 3-gatsu no Lion series.

A collection of stories / oneshots from est em.

A story from the perspective of a concerned protagonist and a female classmate who's suspiciously covered in bruises.

Is there someone whom you desperately wish to see dead? If you want your enemies and rivals eliminated, free-of-charge and with no possibility of the crime being traced back to you, all you need to do is leave a message for "Usobuki Tadashi" in a certain telephone booth at a certain park.

Soon afterwards, a black-suited man with cold, crimson eyes will meet with you and confirm the target. He cannot be prosecuted, for he kills through the power of suggestion and the clever arrangement of events. He will accept any request: regardless of whether the target is saint or sinner, and no matter how foolish, cruel or misguided the client... All with a mocking smile on his face that belies his quiet amusement in the face of humankind's never-ending folly.

I wasn’t reborn with talent or ability, but at least my knowledge from earth allowed me to stay one step ahead in this other world.

Magic exists here, and new progress was rapidly being made in science while magic stagnated in the name of tradition. Using my earthly knowledge and not bound by the traditional thinking, I was able to do things other wizards couldn’t even imagine.

Still, inadvertently becoming an undercover professor for a mysterious secret society at the renowned Sören academy was never in my to-do list!

Japan is hit by a series of monumental natural disasters that leave the country fragmented and its people devastated. Follow the lives of its citizens as they deal with massive emigration to refugee camps on the Asian mainland and try to solve the political task of rebuilding their nation.

A Spirit of the Sun is also a retelling and melding of two well-known stories in Japan. The setting is directly lifted from the early '70s disaster science-fiction book and movie "Nippon Chinbotsu," (Japan Sinks) while many of the characters are allegorical to the key players in the Eastern classic "Sangokushi" (The Three Kingdoms). Sangokushi aficionados may discover greater entertainment by watching the characters in A Spirit of the Sun closely to spot these resemblances.

From Kaiji Kawaguchi, the author of Silent Service, Eagle and Zipang (as well as the artist for Confession).

A Spirit of The Sun received the 2006 Shogakukan Manga Award for the seinen/general category along with Rainbow by Masasumi Kakizaki and George Abe.

Aizawa Kakeru is an energetic and dedicated eighth grader who serves as the manager for his school’s football team. Though he was well known for being a talented player the previous year, an accident during one of his games caused Kakeru to vow never to play competitively again. Still passionate about the sport, Kakeru dreams of one day becoming a professional football trainer so that he can work alongside his older brother Suguru, the ace of the school team who has represented Japan in international competition.

In a certain kingdom, there are pair of royal twins who are fated to be unable to live without one another.

Straight A student Yuka is a little too honest for her own good and has no friends but unexpectedly begins dating Haruomi after he helps her out of a difficult situation. The only problem is, Haruomi has a strict policy of dating someone new every Monday…

After a nuclear war turns most of the Earth into desert wastelands, surviving humans had used the sands in order to survive. One of them is a professional mercenary named Sunabozu, who makes a living by hiring himself out to anyone who needs his talents.

"That spring, an eleven year old girl bought a man for the first time."

After her mom left, leaving her five hundred thousand yen, Rinko sets out into the city at night to find her, but instead meets Haruno, found passed out at the intersection. Haruno introduces himself as a kept man, and Rinko, who can no longer bear being alone, decides to hire him.

The distorted and painful life of an elementary student and a kept man, somehow still full of warmth, is about to start.

After passing the Guangzhou Special Chef Trials, Mao decided to travel around China, to learn more about the unique preparation of food. Upon his return, he will learn that the real battle has only just begun. The Underground Cooking Society has already begun to move...