Hisa Masato's debut work: A black bear works for the mafia.

Ryu and his friend Jay find a new companion in Hwa Ja, but find the scrutiny of the outside world harsh and cold. When his family moves away, Jay is left alone.

10 years later, Ryu is notified of Jay's death, and receives one final text message: "Don't ever come back." Despite the warning, Ryu returns for the funeral of his childhood friend, and eventually finds himself back at the house where it all began.

From Tokyopop:

Zerodaimu Kyupura Pa Azalraku Vairu Rua Darogu (a.k.a. Zero) once stopped the evil demon lord with his incredible psychic ability, and in the process saved the world from destruction and earned the honorable and highly imaginative title 'The Man Who Stopped the Evil Lord.'

Now, he has accepted a position as a teacher at Psychic Academy, a school for gifted psychokinetic youngsters who have demonstrated incredible raw powers and want to learn how to hone their abilities. Among the student body is young Ai Shiomi, Zero's little brother, a somewhat meek boy who, despite parental prodding and his fraternal reputation, feels that his limited skills hardly justify his presence at the prestigious academy.

However, everyone else is convinced that he, like his celebrated brother, is destined for greatness. A lot of pressure for a boy just entering adolescence!

Ajizawa is a renowned master chef, but he doesn’t have a restaurant. He is a “fixer”, a man who travels from place to place fixing menus and restaurants much like Gordon Ramsey, and he charges a fortune to do it. If your menu must be perfect to impress a foreign client, a head of state, or just a neighbor, Ajizawa is the man to do it. But why does he do it? Is it only the money, or is his mission much deeper…

"To end his eternal suffering, he must slay one thousand enemies!" Manji, a ronin warrior of feudal Japan, has been cursed with immortality. To rid himself of this curse and end his life of misery, he must slay one thousand evil men! His quest begins when a young girl seeks his help in taking revenge on her parents' killers... and his quest won't end until the blood of a thousand has spilled!

After a traumatic incident, Jun Sakurada refuses to interact with the outside world and return to school--he even shuts out his sister, his closest friend. Jun spends most of his time online buying spiritual items that are obvious rip-offs. One day he finds a website that curiously enough asks him to put his order in his desk drawer. Thinking it's a joke, Jun plays along. The following day a suitcase arrives containing a doll named Shinku... that comes to life before his very eyes! Welcome to the world of Rozen Maiden, where Jun must enter an all-new reality to protect and serve a living doll...

From Dark Horse:

Alone in his dorm on a Saturday night, Nekomi Tech's Keiichi Morisato dials a wrong number that will change his life forever: reaching the Goddess Technical Help Line. Granted one wish by the charming young goddess Belldandy--a wish for anything in the world--Keiichi wishes she would stay with him always! Complications are bound to ensue from this; the immediate first being the new couple getting tossed out of the dorm-it's males only!

As the hapless student and his mysterious "foreign beauty" ride around looking for a new place to stay--risking the different dangers of seeking shelter with an otaku convinced Belldandy is an imaginary woman, and a Zen priest convinced she's a sinister witch--Keiichi's still got his classes on Monday morning! How is his new "exchange student" companion going to be received on the N.I.T. campus? A little too well for normal life to ever return...

Won the Kodansha Manga Award for General Manga in 2009.

From MangaHelpers:

Narugami Kyoko is a 14-year-old girl with extraordinarily high amounts of static electricity. She shorts out electronics, shocks people, frizzes out people's hair, and makes their clothes full of static. Understandably, most people at school avoid her, except for her friend Hikari. This 4-koma style manga features her humorous everyday school life as she hangs out with Hikari, interacts with teachers, and tries to become closer to her other classmates despite her electricity problem! [tethysdust]

The story detailing the past of Senomiya Misaki, elder sister to the Robotics;Notes heroine Senomiya Akiho.

Michio Yuki has it all: looks, intelligence, a pedigree as the scion of a famous Kabuki family, a promising career at a major bank, legions of female admirers. But underneath the sheen of perfection lurks a secret with the power to shake the world to its foundations.

During a boyhood excursion to one of the southern archipelagos near Okinawa, Yuki barely survived exposure to a poison gas stored at a foreign military facility. The leakage annihilated all of the island’s inhabitants but was promptly covered up by the authorities, leaving Yuki as an unacknowledged witness—one whose sense of right and wrong, however, the potent nerve agent managed to obliterate.

Now, fifteen years later, Yuki is a social climber of Balzacian proportions, infiltrating the worlds of finance and politics by day while brutally murdering children and women by night—perversely using his Kabuki-honed skills as a female impersonator to pass himself off as the women he’s killed. His drive, however, will not be satiated with a promotion here and a rape there. Michio Yuki has a far more ominous objective: obtaining MW, the ultimate weapon that spared his life but robbed him of all conscience.

There are only two men with any hope of stopping him: one, a brilliant public prosecutor who struggles to build a case against the psychopath; the other, a tormented Catholic priest, Iwao Garai, who shares Yuki’ls past—and frequently his bed.

From XscansX:
What is the purpose of your life? To live is just to die?
Is life a slow death? Do you even have your own purpose? Nao is a sensitive yet self absorbed college student, believing that reality is cruel to him. Ever since he was a child, he was categorized as a "ghost boy" whose existence was so faint that no one cared about him. One day Nao snapped and assaulted a young boy playing in a family restaurant with Tabasco sauce.
While being interrogated by the police, a mysterious beauty appeared and rescued him. Her reason was simple: "Do you want to dominate the world with me?"

One day, a mysterious box arrived at Matsuda's door steps. The content of the box was none other than an android girl that insists that she's Matsuda's younger sister. Now, the purely otaku Matsuda has the privilege to live with a beautiful and submissive android sister that bows to his commands, or at least he wishes that were the case.

Hiroki's older sister got caught up on a bus accident. By the time she wakes up, he found out she has lost her memories. But this didn't actually seem to be the case, there's someone else is inside her!

Harii Noriko is a pretty and smart 17-year-old high-school student. After the meeting with Rhiana Alkanet, a 10-year-old witch who just moved in next door, she began to notice a whole new side of herself which she was unaware of. And so did Rhiana. This is a story about their hilarious and romantic adventures together.

Akikaze Cosmos is a regular elementary student who also helps take care of the hostel that her mom operates in the town of Hanami. She is incredibly responsible for her age and seems much more mature than the other older residents of the hostel, like the high-school girl Soyokaze, the college drunk Sonoko, and the pervert Raita. Everything about this hostel and the town of Hanami seems normal except that everything outside of the town is a nuclear desert where no one is allowed to enter. But when Cosmos unwillingly wanders into the lifeless desert, she is somehow transformed into a magical angel.

Kuuki no Soko is a collection of short stories drawn by the genius mangaka, Tezuka Osamu, between 1968 and 1970, and is known in Japan as a true masterpiece.

Belonging to Tezuka's most mature period, it touches many genres: from pure science fiction to historical fiction to contemporary drama. We find stories of industrial espionage, animal testing, and racial animosity, as well as stories about the more complex dynamics of the human mind.

And the human mind is the leitmotif of the entire volume, namely the duality present in every one of us - mercy, love, and understanding, existing together with cruelty and violence until something upsets the balance and we discover a side hidden even from ourselves... a side we are not always prepared to confront...

Note - Chapters 1 and 13 are also included in Clockwork Apple
1. The Execution Ended at Three
2. Joe's Visitor
3. The Voice of Night
4. The Cliff of Death
5. The Duel at the Grand Mesa
6. Scales Cape
7. Illicit Love
8. The Hole
9. Star for Exiles
10. The Cat's Blood
11. Telephone
12. Chameleon
13. Immaculate Conception
14. Catastrophe in the Dark
15. Robanna
16. Space Capsule

From MangaHelpers:
These stories chronicle the everyday working life of the staff of the Cafe & Restaurant Honey Comb. The main character, college student and waiter Mitarai Tsutomu, interacts with the various quirky female waitresses. These girls include the cute Megumi who happens to be obsessed with Gundam, the angsty and hungry Ritsuko, the cheerful and large-breasted Mai who nicknamed Mitarai "toilet" and the mysterious head waitress Taeko who never speaks.

One-shot tribute to Mushishi by Urushibara Yuki.Originally ran in the 50th issue of Good! Afternoon (January 2015 issue).

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