Matsurika Kou is pretty content with her modest rise in position from a low rank palace maid to an official within the inner palace of Hakurou country. One day her boss asks her to take part in a practice marriage interview in place of a co-worker who got sick. During that fateful meeting the wheels of fate will begin to turn...

A Chinese-esque Cinderella story.

From Summer Rain:

The story unfolds in the Edo era in the Yoshiwara red-light district of Tokyo. Akane, a girl whose family is from Samurai, is sold to a brothel to be orphaned. To be the "little sister" of the "lady" No 1 spot. This will bring a client ask, then she meets a stranger very peculiar man. What will happen after that meeting?

As the Kingdom of Elpasa fell before the blade of the Empire's greatest hero, in order to survive, Princess Beatrice assumed the guise of 'Chloe', a slave. But then, she caught the eye of that very same hero...

In the 17th century, the Holy Roman Empire was ravaged by the Thirty Years' War. In the middle of this chaos appeared a japanese mercenary named Isaak. His fierce battle begins.

From Transcendence:

This fantastic story took place in the incredible Ming Dynasty of Imperial China. Ning Haier is a reckless pirate girl whose father is the leader of Ning Citadel -- the most powerful pirate den of the Southern Sea. One day, Haier led a band of pirates and looted a Spanish ambassador ship while her father was away. There she met a very handsome English man named Michael, who was a talented translator and intelligent merchant on the ship. Marveled by Haier's beauty and character, Michael attempts to win over Haier's heart but failed!

However, opportunity arose when Haier was captured by the new governor named Shao Zhixun, who vowed to annihilate piracy from China's seas forever. Michael was able to convince Shao Zhixun that Haier was just an innocent maiden who was impressed into piracy... and Shao Zhixun arranged a position for Haier in his own household! Even more interesting, Haier's father captured Michael and planned to collaborate with the charismatic and capable young man, offering Haier as Michael's bride!

YiYi is one of the most beautiful girl in the kingdom. But after got called ugly by the Emperor she decide to be petty and join the palace as the palace's painter. Her plan? It's to draw even the most beautiful lady into an ugly hag!!!

Kato Kotono, a historian, presents a fantastic tale woven of intricate historical details set in a time of war.

Mahmut is a young Pasha serving on the council of the Türkiye Stratocracy. The clouds of war are gathering over his country as the threat of the aggressive Empire looms large. With Türkiye's council split between the warmongers and the pacifists, Mahmut begins his quest to keep the peace at any cost. As he finds himself drawn deeper and deeper in the politics of the ancient world, new enemies and allies surface. Who will prevail? What will Mahmut do if war proves to be inevitable?

Volume 4 includes an oneshot: Anastasia no Shinei Taichou.

Won the 41st Kodansha Manga Award for Shounen in 2017.

Kisshioin Tsubaki aka the "Crimson Camellia", a beautiful lady reporter of the occult, wants to satisfy her intellectual curiosity by having a hands-on experience with every Yokai she can find.
Follow her in her travels, accompanied by her trusted cameraman Yokomizo-kun.

Our main character was an unsuccessful romance fantasy novelist when she gets into a hit-and-run then wakes up as the villainess in a best-selling martial arts novel. She uses the information from the novel that she had analyzed in her original life, in order to avoid her death-ending and finding the truth behind what had really happened to her.

There is a famous fairytale. A kindhearted girl whose father and stepmother got married and became a family of five with her two stepsisters. The poor girl who was condemned by her stepmother and stepsisters when her father died. The very fairytale, Cinderella. But I am not Cinderella, I am the stepmother. At the age of thirty-seven, already married twice, been widowed twice and is raising three daughters!

Daniel Walford, a man who keeps approaching me while I’m busy trying to raise my three daughters.
“Can I kiss you?”
As a son-in law, I think he’s a little bit older but why does he keep approaching?… Oh, I don’t know.
Once I let Cinderella marry the prince, I can live quietly.
But is this fairytale really ‘Cinderella’?

Lucia grew up not knowing she was a princess. But when her mother died, she entered the palace and had the chance to see her entire future in a dream. In her dream, when she reached 19 years old, she was auctioned off to the bidder who offered the highest dowry. Her life became miserable from then on. When she woke up from her dream, she was determined to reshape her future, realizing that she had plenty of time before the crucial turning point. Thus, she begins her journey to change her dark future.

A journey to exorcise all demons told with paintings...
It's like remake of Journey to the West.

From Operation Boredom:
It is currently the Taiheimeji Era. It is a reign ruled by the Tokugawa shogunate. Inside this shogunate, there is a group of warriors that support the government. They are the Manyuu Clan. In this current era, breasts mean everything. If you have breasts, you are guaranteed wealth and popularity. If you lack them, you are rarely considered "human". Members of the Manyuu Clan help raise the future big breasts. Written on a secret scroll possessed by the clan, there is said to be various techniques on how to grow big and beautiful breasts. Chifusa is to be successor of the clan. However, she takes the secret scroll and runs away with it, hoping to fight against the cruel world that the Manyuu Clan has created.

I entered the world of a novel suddenly. I thought that I could return to reality by falling in love, but death was what awaited me in the end. Defenestration, strangulation, poisoning, drowning, and burning to death... Even after dying a hundred times and returning, the novel still doesn't end...

Karen Haier, who greets her 117th birthday trapped within a novel, now decides to become a murderer.

The Crimson Demon of the Battlefield, Jang Kirin. He spent his days in blood splattering war in the North for the last 13 years.
“Live a normal life.”
Those were the last words the general left me.
“The best way to live normally is to be an innkeeper!”
The youngest of my unit gave me this advice.
I came all the way to Hangzhou believing his advice.

But why is living a ‘normal life’ so much harder than fighting in a war?

I found myself possessed in a game I used to play occasionally.
And to top it off, I'm the female warrior of a barbarian tribe that only has bad endings.

...Alright, let's escape.

I reincarnated into my favorite genre for novels. I became the villainous aunt who mistreats the young protagonist. I felt sorry for my nephew who would grow up as the protagonist in a revengeful plot, so I’ll try my best to take care of my nephew until his uncle shows up and takes him as per the original plot. But then… “Oh, mom!” I’ve become his mother all of a sudden? “I don’t know your circumstances, but how could I bear to separate a mother from her son? Lady, come with us to Vintervald.” Hey, Kim Luka! How are you going to fix this misunderstanding? (Synopsis : Gourmet Scans)

From Mobots: During the closing years of the civil war period and uneasy reign of Toyotomi Hideyoshi, when men high and low scramble to follow conventional propriety so that they don't attract undue notice (or death) to themselves, there is one very bizarre individual who is known for his legendarily outlandish and wild personality, physical appearance and behavior. This series traces the dramatic adventures of Keiji Maeda from personal conflicts with his adopted Maeda family, brave combat exploits, travels to the capital, and relationships with famous existing figures such as Iyeyasu Tokugawa, Rikyuu the tea master, and Hideyoshi himself, to experiences with the foreign and Japanese Christian faithful.

From MangaHelpers:
The story begins in 1420, right as what would be known as the Bohemian War began. A young girl named Sharka is raped and left for dead among the corpses of her whole town, but she manages to survive. She is picked up by the Bohemian forces, who put a gun in her hands and take her on board as a soldier. Will Sharka be able to fight and take her vengeance?

The main character is the son of an English woman of noble birth and a Japanese zoologist. Keaton went to England at the age of five with his mother after his parents' divorce. There he learned archeology at Oxford University, where he met his wife with whom he has a daughter, Yuriko. They divorced after five years. He works as an operative/detective for Lloyds of London where he's known for his abilities he acquired as a master sergeant in the SAS and as a veteran of the Falklands War, and was one of the members of the Iran Embassy incident. This helps him carry out his dangerous work of insurance investigator.

Note: Was nominated for Eisner Awards in 2015.