Akio and Umi live in the same student hostel. While Akio tends to avoid people, Umi is a connoisseur of the one-night stand. Still, with time they begin to seek each other out in order to deal with their pasts.

The story is about how and why a guy goes from a worker at a dead-end job to becoming a boxer.

From Yen Press:

Welcome to the prestigious Saint Leaf School, where, among other things, the boys are so pretty they give the girls a run for their money! Amidst this bed of flowers exists one Hitomi Sakuragawa, a sweet girl with a not-so-little weight problem, who lives in a nearby apartment owned by her doting older brother. Hitomi also happens to have pretty much the best luck on the planet: Her neighbors are some of the hottest guys in school! But will she need to steel her willpower, cut out the cookies, and slim down before they’ll even give her the time of day? Or will they be charmed by her kindhearted, genuine personality? It won’t be long before Hitomi discovers that the road to a healthy lifestyle is paved with hilarity!

Takato Kei is just an ordinary college student, training for an ordinary life, when he falls onto a strange but appealing part time job. He's been hired to tutor a teenage girl at home for 10,000 yen per hour! The girl in question, Fujioka Yukari, is not a high school student, but a highly successful day trader who has already amassed 170 billion yen! Despite her money and her beautiful apartment, Kei can't help feeling that there's a certain loneliness about the cute teenage girl. She even seems embarrassed of her career, as if her obsession with the stock market and the vast amount of time she spends moving stocks makes her an otaku. Kei may be just the person she needs to help her break out of her isolated lifestyle and acquire the one thing money can't buy - happiness.

(*Although the main story as been fully scanlated, the Extras from the tankobon are still unscanlated.)

From MangaHelpers:
Since their mother's death, sisters Tomoe and Mikage have been mostly raising each other. The older sister, Tomoe, is determined to get good grades and work her way into a good college. However, she's disturbed by the trouble Mikage sometimes gives her. For instance, at the beginning of the manga, Mikage sneakily locks a collar around her older sister's neck, forcing her to go through the day wearing it. Mikage wants Tomoe to think only of her, and her affection may be beyond sisterly love. However, at school, Mikage has made a new female 'friend' that has a serious crush on her. The two sisters have their separate lives at their respective schools, but their life together and their relationship may be most important of all.

From Yen Press: Yun-Ook Jang is a 26-year old freelance illustrator who rents out a room to help pay off her debts. Her tenant is a 19-year old drop out named Bum-Moo Lee who only has a part-time job. Before Yun-Ook knew how old Bum-Moo was, he seemed rather mysterious and cold to her, and the two argued all the time. Then one day, Bum-Moo asks her a most dangerous question: ”Do you mind if I like you?”

Fujishiro-san lives by the motto "industrious, diligent, sincere, and punctual." But for some reason her eye is always drawn to the mysterious but good looking guy in her class, Kuze-kun. While he teases her, she falls in love?!


(Not to be confused with the one-shot by the same name)

Kuragehime follows Tsukimi Kurashita, an 18-year-old who moved from Kagoshima to Tokyo to become an illustrator. Tsukimi is a jellyfish otaku who comes to live in a shared bath and toilet, women-only apartment, Amamizukan. Other tenants include fujoshi, NEETs and others who consider fashion their natural enemy, calling themselves "Amars". One day, Tsukimi meets a fashionable and beautiful girl, Kuranosuke Koibuchi, who saves a jellyfish that is about to die at a pet shop. She later discovers that Kuranosuke is merely cross-dressing in order to evade inheritance of his father's occupation as a politician.

Note: Won the Kodansha Manga Award for best shōjo manga in 2010 and was nominated for the 2010 Manga Taishō award.

From September Scanlations:

With a father who's a singer, a mother who's a movie star, and an older brother, Shougo, who's the lead vocalist for the super-popular band The Crusherz, Sena Izumi, an otaku college student is the only dull one born into this super famous and talented family. He loves Magical Girl LalaLulu and is working hard to become a mangaka, but one day he winds up appearing in a TV commercial he just can't turn down. There, he's reunited with Ichijou Ryouma, the super-popular young actor he costarred with on a project ten years prior.

Wakamatsu Masato lives with his step-sister, Miyuki, whom he does not have blood relationship with. Their father is always working oversea (in fact, he has not appeared in the manga at all...) and left the two of them living by themselves in Toukyou. Miyuki is cute, nice, sensitive and very popular among guys around Masato. Masato has a girlfriend at school whose name is Kajima Miyuki, who is pretty and gentle, the ideal dream of every high school boy. It took years for Masato and his sister to realize whom they love and care most after a lot of events.

This manga was very popular in Japan and was one of the winners of the 1982 Shogakukan Manga Award for shōnen or shōjo manga, along with Adachi's Touch.

From Psycho Pandas:

"I have something I don't want to lose—
So much so that these terrible feelings have grown."

A pianist who attempted suicide 3 times, Juri, is taken to help her aunt at a prison where murderers who killed indiscriminately are sentenced to death. There, she meets a man named Yuu who took the lives of 3 people. A mother's antagonism--a brother's death... Together they embrace the violent rebellion in their hearts caused by the large, deep scars they carry. However, before long, they both embrace an earnest hope in their hearts. "I want to live..."

An adaptation of a novel by South Korea's most popular female novelist, Gong Ji-Young.

Sae is a flight attendant working for ANL (AeroNippon Lines, a fictious airline). She wanted to work in this field thinking on the glamourous aspect of the job since her friends at the university were teasing her about her sex-appeal. She'll discover the truth about being a flight attendant while having to deal with the passengers!

A collection of short stories:

1-3) You're Hopelessly Cute
Mikuni Renji had always been serious in every love relationship. It was his bad luck to meet with people who only used him for satisfaction. Ichinomiya Shinobu, the sadistic younger flower shop prince who was his company supplier, fell in love with the Mikuni through constant teasing. Trouble came when Ichinomiya met Mikuni and his ex-partner on the street. Would Mikuni get dumped again?

4) Useless Goalkeeper
A friendly high-school student falls for his reclusive classmate.

5-6) Sorry, but I Love You
The son of a "Mama" realizes his love for his coworker, who also happens to be a cross-dresser like the son's parent.

Sugiura-kun became an assistant for the manga artist he admired most, only to find out that Sensei is totally nympho. Being attacked in bed immediately after he began working, every day he must deal with the perverted and frustrating Sensei. Despite this, Sugiura-kun sometimes finds himself thinking "Maybe I like Sensei". Also includes a one-shot! A cute, slightly perverted and moving debut comic!

Chibana Manabu has a habit of closing his eyes and counting to three whenever he finds himself stressed out, whether it's about his drag-queen father or the feelings he's harboring for his childhood friend. Kaji Hiroto is carefree and enjoying his days with Chibana, hoping they'll last forever and maybe even turn into something even more eternal. But lack of communication and a fear of rejection can only lead downhill.

"Kindly move out within 6 months." Masachika Fujimaki, the new apartment manager, makes this sudden declaration to the tenants of Wisteria Manor. Having lived there for so long without incident, "shock" doesn't begin to describe how the tenants feel. To top it all off, the cool and always aloof Masachika turns out to be (of all things) gay. Though he’d always thought himself to be straight, tenant Kei Kuraya finds himself attracted to Masachika. Discover the heart-warming story of men from all walks of life living happily together.

• Colour
Story about two girls who question if it's right to be together.

•Heartless Bitch
Two girls are talking about one of them playing with a younger man.

• Ikazu Onna (Cool Lady)
A man sets out to search the identity of a kinky dream woman from a drawing he drew of her.

• Kisses
Story about a young woman who leaves her boyfriend and moves to her best friend apartment not knowing that her friend loves her.

• Painful Love
A girl, who has just broken up with her boyfriend, is thinking about him.

Painful Love and Heartless Bitch are featured in Secret Comic Japan.

"Angels' Wings" is a short, all-color manga in which two friends play make-believe. (from Lililicious)

Enjouji Takumi is a rickshaw driver from the city that has been hired to work in a small town. Meeting the exquisitely beautiful (but rather clueless) Hana is a stroke of luck, and when he ends up working with Hana, Takumi's in heaven. But the "flower of the town" has many admirers...

1-3) A boy, who always gets bullied is told by his dad that the day he turns sixteen he is going to get someone that will always be with him. The boy, Kazu-kun, believes it will be a fiancee, since his dad got a wife (his mom) and his grandma a husband (his grandpa) on their sixteen birthday, but oh surprise, it is a boy and he is a ninja. So begins the story between Kazu-kun and Masanaru and their romance.

4) Path To Happiness
Single father and jobless Yagami Chiharu is saved from being hit by a car by an old high school friend, Okumura Masakazu, but the latter gets injured. So Yagami becomes Okumura's housekeeper until he recovers from his injury.

5) Project Section 3: Only For Two
Yokohama Takashi became a toy maker chasing a childhood dream, but when his project gets the worst selling record, he is demoted in the third section, where all the employees end up quitting... Will Yokohama be able to revive the team with the support of the section manager?

6) Banquet For Two
Continuation to the previous chapter. To celebrate the sales success Yokohama organizes a banquet...