On the far northern island of Hokkaido, Saichi Sugimoto, a veteran of the Russo-Japanese war nicknamed "Sugimoto the Immortal", seeks the riches promised by the Hokkaido gold rush in hopes of saving the widowed wife of his deceased comrade. When he comes upon information about a massive lode of stolen gold hidden in a location known only to a wily band of criminals, he teams up with a resourceful Ainu girl who saves his life from the harsh northern wilderness and together they set out on a race against the bandits and other forces trying to get to the gold first.

Note: Won the 9th Manga Taisho Award in 2016. Was nominated for the 20th and 21st Tezuka Osamu Cultural Prize and the 40th Kodansha Manga Awards in 2016.

[Summary by OSTNT] It has been a year since Li Fu Chen lost his “Talent”. Now he lives the life of a trash, being bullied and beaten by those who once was inferior to him. However, he still has not lost everything as he’s still engaged to a strong and pretty girl of a powerful family, but that came to an end as the engagement was abruptly cancelled. With shame brought to the family and his life engulfed by darkness, a ray of hope pierced the the sky.

Tells the story of what happened up until the birth of Astro Boy. Essentially an "episode 0" for Tetsuwan Atom.

From Lezhin:
Most outcasts are ostracized because they look different, talk different, or live different. But not everyone. And not every previous outcast turns into a revenge machine. After seeing his friend suffer a horrific incident, the once outcast, Kang Haneul, decides to exact revenge with the help of an ability he never knew existed.

In the midst of a violent invasion of Earth by unknown alien forces, photojournalist Wakatsuki Tetsuya comes across a scantily-clad alien woman, cutting a swath of death through the Terran ranks with her sword. After a chaotic struggle, Tetsuya is knocked unconscious, only to awaken aboard her starship. To his surprise, she turns out to be Kahm, the invaders' princess - and she has picked Tetsuya for a starring role in her upcoming wedding, as the groom.

From Tokyopop:
When Kazura Enomoto’s grandfather dies, he leaves her to the son of a rich family, Mizuki Magahara, as payment for his debts. After she goes to live with him, Kazura learns that she’s not going to be working off the debts as a servant—she’s going to be Mizuki’s fiancée! Unless Kazura can repay her debt, she’s got no choice but to learn to live with her new lot in life. But no sooner has Kazura begun to adjust to living with Mizuki and going to his snotty rich school than the dark secret of the Magahara family comes to light. The head of the family has the unique power to bring back the souls of the dead—and right now the head of the family is Mizuki!

From Habanero Scans:

"Money Is Buried in the Ground!
Natsunosuke Bonda is a relief pitcher in Tokyo Spiders. In his eighth pro season, he makes 18 million yen at age 26. But he is always troubled by how little he makes, given that he is surrounded by high income earning baseball players.
This is a relief pitcher's story in Nippon Pro Baseball, his envies, worries, sweat and tears."

Note: Was one of two winners of the Best General Manga award alongside Kangoku Gakuen at the 37th Kodansha Manga Awardin 2013.

"Let's Meet at The Witches' Gathering" (#魔女集会で会いましょう) is an artistic participation hashtag on Twitter which people depict before/after comparison images of a witch who raised a child into adult.

They call her Saintess, a mystical and beautiful holy figure that guides the nation. Suddenly one day, her body has switched with a flippant, crude womanizer! To conceal the emergency, she’s sent to hide at a college as a normal student. But how is that possible with a scheme to get rid of her and all these hearts aflutter at school?!

Tenjin, a 27-year-old teacher who works at a cram school for students taking entrance exams for high school and middle school. While he is talented at teaching elementary school students, he holds no love for children. He coldly contents himself with grinding through his job while training his colleague JD and being tossed about by the cruel currents of life. But one day, while teaching a fifth-grade class, one of his students hugs him close and tells him that she loves him. And a 14-year old middle-school student named Seika sees the entire thing. Seika blackmails him into giving her "personal lessons" at night.

The "daily life comedy" manga centers on an elementary student named Sakura who summons a demon named Seere and asks him to become her mother.

In order to treat his sister's mental illness, the young man Leo resorts to treatment through magic. There, he meets a magician, Oswald, who enters the patient's psyche in order to treat them. In a world filled with Madness, will they be able to save the patient's heart and get out alive...

The story revolves around a mysterious place called "Angel's Island" that resides somewhere on the ocean seas. Living on Angel's Island are a species of merpeople that can live in both the sea and on land. They have the form of a human, but can breath in water as well as on land. Luna is a princess of this species of mermaid living on Angel's Island, but is exiled for breaking some of their rules. As punishment, she is placed inside a sea shell, and set adrift across the sea. Meanwhile Eiji Kusahara, the son of a wealthy Japanese family, meets Soleiu (Luna's older sister) and they try to discover the mysteries behind Angel's Island.

One day, Nana, who has always wanted to get married, has a fateful encounter. Unfortunately, she had to endure violence since the marriage, so she decided to kill her husband and put his corpse in a freezer, but things aren't always like one want as she finds out when he comes back…

Shine
Photography club member Maki takes ordinary pictures, instead of exciting ones. A simple-minded and innocent girl, she has a hard time voicing her feelings, like her crush on teasing Doujou sempai. Her quest to take more interesting pictures leads her to a boy who always speaks his mind. Drawn to his bluntness, Maki's feelings are becoming a lot less simple!

Slowly My Lovely.
Fuuka Nishikawa is a people pleaser who has unexpectedly been confessed to by classmate (and space-cadet) Tokuda. Since she barely knows him she's unable to give him an answer, which doesn't faze him in the least. When a sloth at the zoo reminds her of Tokuda, she finds herself envying their laidback approach to life and talking to the sloth about her thoughts and feelings. Which is totally, totally normal.

Before the Promise
A broken ski lift leaves Yui Mishima stuck in the air with abrupt and straight-forward guy Hisashi Kono. Intrigued by his unusual personality she continually seeks him out, until her trip is cut short and she has to leave without saying goodbye. Two months later he's still on her mind, when she bumps into him at train station!


A night to be Perverted ( omake) The author recounts a night of women sitting around watching porn, and how it all goes terribly wrong.

Lies are forbidden and love is doubly forbidden.
In the near future, when young people in Japan turn sixteen, they are assigned a marriage partner by the government. People don't have to go through the trouble of looking for someone, and everyone accepts that the country will find a compatible partner to make them happy.
Yukari Nejima is fifteen years old. He lives in a small corner of the country, and just can't seem to get ahead in life. Both academically and athletically he's below average. But in within him, he hides a heart burning with passion! In this world in which love is forbidden, what will happen to him when he falls in love?

Yamada Yoko, a high school boy who has a movie producer father. One day, while out with friends to shoot a film that he plans to enter into a film festival, a poster of Papiko, an adult video actress with big breasts, catches his eye.

30-year-old Jo Minjoon has always wanted to become a chef. He started his culinary career late in life, however, and is currently chopping onions at a restaurant. Regretting his life choices, he wishes he could go back to change it all and falls asleep. Meanwhile, someone out there is willing to give him another chance and send him back in time. How will he use the new powers he obtained from this mysterious being?

I found someone who looks exactly like me on SNS! He seems to have everything unlike me who grew up in an orphanage. Maybe he could be my twin?! When I was about to find him and solve my life problems, I got into huge trouble!!

Belongs to Blue String Universe.

On his way home from school, the shy young boy Tecchin finds the body of a young girl lying in the street. He alerts the police, only to come back to find she has been replaced with a life-sized doll. Tecchin takes the doll home and repairs it. She comes to life and tells him that they are both Grand Dolls, alien beings bent on world domination.