When Roman architect Lucius is criticized for his "outdated" thermae designs, he retreats to the local bath to collect his thoughts. All Lucius wants is to recapture the Rome of earlier days, when one could enjoy a relaxing bath without the pressure of merchants and roughhousing patrons. Slipping deeper into the warm water, Lucius is suddenly caught in the suction and dragged through the drainage at the bottom of the bath! He emerges coughing and sputtering amid a group of strange-looking foreigners with the most peculiar bathhouse customs...over 1,500 years in the future in modern-day Japan! His contemporaries wanted him to modernize, and so, borrowing the customs of these mysterious bath-loving people, Lucius opens what quickly becomes the most popular new bathhouse in Rome-Thermae Romae!

Note: Won the third Manga Taishō and the Short Story Award at the 14th Tezuka Osamu Cultural Prize in 2010.

Uda Natsumi, the owner of a food truck, finds himself becoming interested in one of his regular customers: a quiet, handsome young man who drops by during breaks from his work to try out Uda's sweets.

A very fluffy 4-koma.

From ADV:

Sosuke has finally lost his mind - and his memory! Rehashing his previous exploits will keep Kaname busy, but it doesn't take long for the military mind of this soldier to bounce back with a bang - literally! He's locked, loaded, and back to his old self by first period, as bombs and bullets grace the halls of high school!

The story of a two-person shogi club: the senpai is obsessed with shogi and making her expressionless kouhai confess.

Mio x Ritsu. Anthology.

Aika no Yume is about a cute little creature who is negative and melancholic on the inside. She usually has nightmares about her many fears, entering her psyche and her personal self.

From Kirei Cake:

Various short 4koma scenes about five girls, Shinobu, Alice, Karen, Youko, and Aya, all attending the same school together. The main idea behind all of the scenes are that the two English girls, Alice and Karen (Alice is pure English, while Karen is half-English, half-Japanese), are trying to live in Japan and are trying to learn their culture and language!

"I made wonderful friends!"

It is the Taisho period. A straight-laced man named Shougo works as a teacher for an all girls school, and lives with his black cat named Kuroi-san. Then one day, his nephew brings him a tight-lipped servant who doesn't talk. Is this beginning of a curious, and slightly warm life of a man, a cat, and a girl?

Even with the process being an exchange and not giveaway, innocence once lost can never be restored.

Or something.

There’s a crazy dog at Sungwoon Publishing Company. It has an expressionless face, a monotone voice, cold and dark eyes, and a difficult personality. Its name is Woojoon Seo.

But is this man really crazy?

Taeryung is exhausted from love, work, and even her her own family. To the tired Taeryung, Woojoon’s gentle and tender actions seem more like of a loveable pet than of a crazy dog. She doesn’t know what to make of him! At times, he seems like a loyal doberman and others, a cute maltese. What's a girl to do?

I gave a guy I didn’t like a love potion? Hong Yoo, quarreling with top star Ji Sulwoo due to a wretched first meeting, fed Sulwoo a love potion one day. That shady love potion…did he really drink it?!

An offshoot of the original Hetalia - Axis Powers work, Hetalia - World Starts follows the strange personifications of Italy and other nations as they navigate their world.

When Makita Maki, Hasebe Kokoa, and Tachibana Rinka are hit by a truck, they're transported to an unknown location. After fooling around, they eventually figure out that they're in another world. With their phones still connected to Twitter, now they must try and live in this fantasy world.

A girl watches over the town she lives in, believing the world is going to end. Soon she is joined by a boy who has no place to go, and they watch over the “last days” of the world together.

The straight-laced Tatsumi has accepted a new job as a teacher on a small island around the Ogasawara Archipelago named "Aoshima," where he encounters unfathomable phenomena that defy all logic. This warm fantasy tale is evocative of nature, in all its mystery and wonder. But is this enchanting isle of blue welcoming him, or......? The island calls out to you, ushering you to a realm on the flipside of the senses. Come enjoy a moment's little miracle in a place where "common sense" holds little sway!

Kasumi, a high school graduate who entered a dark-side company 3 years ago was in the midst of a late night overtime for the 30th day in a row when she wished that she could have "a single day off" to the shooting star she was watching on the roof when suddenly she was swallowed by a mysterious light...... The next thing she knew, she was standing, waiting to be introduced to her new colleagues at "White Products"! Will Kasumi be able to get used to the culture of the light side of business after thinking that the dark side's dealings are "normal"?

Toto is a newcomer god and has taken up post on the peaceful "Isle Island", a mysterious floating island in the sky.

A collection of short stories.

The short works collection all the Takako Shimura fans have been waiting for! The woman who appears suddenly in front of the timid boy Megumu is Nozomi, a self-proclaimed “witch’. She uses her mysterious powers to both play tricks on and help him. The “The Devil is so Cute” series, illustrating the fantastic mingling of a mysterious witch and a young honors student, is completed with a new bonus chapter! In addition to the title story, there is also “My Summer Vacation” which traces the wavering of a young girl’s heart after she falls in love at first sight at a bath house, “Unworthy Son” which captures the suffering of a young man (who dreams of becoming a comic artist) whose former teacher and object of affection becomes his stepmother, and many others, adding up to seven stories that absolutely shine with Takako Shimura’s charm.

1-5. Kawaii Akuma

6. Atashi no Natsuyasumi

7. Suteki na Ano Ko

8. Chuugakusei

9. Toaru Hi

10. Henshin

11. Fushou no Musuko / Unworthy Son

Kirishima Naoto is handsome, hardworking, and popular with his female coworkers, except for the extreme brother complex he has for his younger brother, Hokuto. Swearing off love for his brother’s sake, Naoto only really hangs out with his friend from college, Toudou. Though he knows Toudou is gay, he has never held it against him. One day, he sees Toudou texting his brother Hokuto and declares that he will change places with his little brother since "any man would do" for Toudou!