Gouda Takeo is a freshman in high school. Both estimates: Weight: 120kg, Height: 2 meters. He spends his days peacefully with his super-popular-with-girls, yet insensitive childhood friend, Sunagawa.
One morning, on the train to school, Takeo saves a girl, Yamato, from being molested by a pervert. Could this be the beginning of spring for Takeo?

Note: Won the award for Best Shōjo Manga at the 37th Kodansha Manga Awards and was nominated for the 6th Manga Taishō in 2013.
Was also nominated for the 18th Annual Tezuka Osamu Cultural Prize "Reader Award" in 2014.
Won the 61st Shogakukan Manga Award for Shoujo.

A short by an Avant-garde artist, Okudaira Yla.

During their school days, Rin and Karaku were a detective duo of sorts. One day they meet again as adults, and indulge in a stroll down memory lane together. But what one of them doesn't know is that he is already dead, wandering the earth as a ghost...

From Which Scanlations:

Shiharu is a high-school student who loves kids, lives in an orphanage, and works at a daycare... Until the handsome uncle of two-year-old twins offers her a raise if she'll be their babysitter. Often relying on memories of her mother's actions for guidance, Shiharu quickly finds herself falling in love with her new makeshift family.

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When Donut meets Mew, their encounter turns out to be more than just a coincidence, as their closeness slowly turns into something more intimate. Lily Love... is a story between two very different people, who hand and hand, learn to trust each other in order to nurture and protect the love they share regardless of position, distance, or gender. If finding true love already seems next to impossible, how much harder will it be to keep it?

Two months after coming to Tokyo, Iku is enjoying otaku life, but something mysterious is happening to him: He's started to see ghosts!

One particular ghost - who's always standing on top of the pedestrian bridge at night - catches his interest, but he studiously ignores it... Until one day the guy turns up at his apartment holding a doujin Iku had dropped. He says his name is Seo Mimori, and seeing as he's a lost soul with nowhere to go, Iku doesn't really resist when he "moves in."

But then a shocking secret about Mimori's death is revealed...

Circumstances have intertwined the fates of five strangers. As a team of five, they make their living running a freak show. As a family of five, they live on a small covered boat together. In the midst of a terrible war, they embark to add to their number the kudan, a monster rumored to tell the future. Nominated for the 19th Tezuka Osamu Cultural Prize. Winner of the Grand Prize for manga at the 2014 Japan Media Arts Festival.

A collection of stories:

- Datsu-Eva!
A man finds himself in a place he doesn't remember, nor does he remember who he himself is. There, he runs into a girl.

- Hitomi to Goku (Hitomi and Goku)

Rumor has it, if you sit on a particular bench in the park and repeat "Dear Angel, please help me..." three times, one will in fact descend to your aid. It's true and all, but this angel's appearance will be that of a boorish middle-aged man, and the only thing he'll do for you is listen to your worries and, in some rare cases, give you a little push.

This is the visual diary of Kiitarou's experience with youkai. He's a boy with a very strong spirit sense, but when he entered a forbidden storehouse, he was kicked out of his home. He soon found a new place to live, where he met a zashiki warashi (house spirit) named Suzu. He and Suzu soon began to attract all kinds of spirit creatures, starting with a nurikabe (appears as a wall that impedes travelers) and mokumokuren (appears as eyes in a torn paper wall). What kind of folkloric creature will he meet next?

After Ryou's father remarries, he's not sure what to do with three new brothers and a stepmother at the age of 19. As he comes to appreciate his happy new home and family the glue holding them together starts to come undone. How will these four brothers weather tragedy after tragedy and stay together?

From the Outerworld Scans website:

Tetsushi (a 5th grader delinquent who rules over the students of Jouin elementary), Ryuuchin (Tetsushi's right hand man) and Tsuda (their sometimes-ally), are known to everyone in town as the "three evil prankster kings."

In a creepy pharmacy located out-of-town, the boys meet an old man who bestows a strange and other-worldly power upon them. Soon after, our 3 young pranksters find themselves battling a variety of ghosts and demons...!?

From Bliss:

One summer day, a fifth grade boy name Susumu suddenly appear before former biker gang member now current host club host, Okita Yamato and said that Okita is his father! Afraid of being a bad influence on his son, Yamato transforms himself into a daytime working parcel delivery man. But being a father is harder than it seems as Yamato struggles to become a good role model for his son.

The role of 'Nobunaga' was offered to Katou Youji to perform under Mochimune's direction. However Iwaki-san has just finished playing the same role for a taiga drama. Will Katou accept to jump into the successful vagon of his partner's drama?

One day Katou meets accidentally Sawa-san but her personality has changed and Katou suspects of her intentions. On the other hand, Iwaki-san meets Yuukihito which is Sawa-san's lover just to found out that Yuukihito left Sawa-san's side and works as AD. What could be the outcome of this separation?


ALIVE V.1
* Love Tanker
* Times Share
* Violence Lyric (Part 1, 2)

ALIVE V.2
* Tender Greens (Part 1, 2, 3, 4)
* Extra: The Secret of Harmony (Libre Premium 2014)

ALIVE V.3
* Iwaki Making
* Katou Method
* Companion Plant (Part 1, 2, 3)

ALIVE V.4
* Silent Area (Part 1, 2)
* Sensitive Age
* Urban Safari (Part 1, 2)

ALIVE V.5 - Chapters not compiled yet
* Tree rings (Part 1, 2, 3)

From Lovely Strange Dark:
What circumstances might drive someone to create a clone that copies even their memories? A replacement so perfect that even the clone won't realize he's a clone? Nanako once took Louie up on his offer and had him create the perfect replica of herself; now she stays at his side, witness to the mericlones that he creates. Beyond the stories of the individuals he "saves", who exactly is this man playing god, and why does he do it?

Nanase Sakashita is good at playing the role of model student but that doesn't stop her from taking an interest in Hana-kun, the school's delinquent. Hana-kun accidently drops a small box while sneaking around on the school grounds. When Nanase tries to return the box, Hana-kun tells her to keep it for its already too late to give it to the person he likes. Who is this person?!

"I think I fell in love with you, Onii-san..."

Tanaka is your average salaryman, who's never had a girlfriend. One night, as he's walking through a park on his way home, he's about to get assaulted when a young punk named Kira comes to his rescue.

Tanaka wants to thank the young man for saving him, but Kira only wants compensation... from his body!

Shocked to have been robbed of his first time, Tanaka wants to forget it all, but Kira seems to have taken a liking to him and waits for him every night on his path home, like a dog waiting for its master...

Will the lamb let it itself be moved by the wolf?

Tempted by a beautiful day, the piano teacher Toshiyuki decides to play the piano with an open window. Before he realises it, there’s an intruder entering through the window without permission. The intruder turns out the be a talented surgeon, Mashiba, who works in a nearby university hospital. This surgeon starts to pursue Toshiyuki non-stop! “You’re more beautiful than the music you play,” he says, stunning Toshiyuki. Feeling completely harassed, will Toshiyuki be able to get away from his pursuer?

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*Chara Selection EXTRA 2010: "Let's go to the hot springs!" /『温泉へ行こう！』 (Extra edition of Gekai no Okiniiri)