From Midnight Scans: Even though they played together innocently since they were young, somewhere along the way, the seeds of "love" started to grow. Growing up on an outlying island from Okinawa, Kazuya, Ryoko and Daisuke were brought up like a family. They wanted to be together forever, but the three of them have different desires. One wants to stay, one wants to go, and one of them wants to go, but can't. When Daisuke is lured away from the island, Ryoko decides to stay on the island with Kazuya. However, the three of them will experience a cruel fate...!

Grey Death on his quest to learn the mysteries of the infamous City. This deluxe collection of Tagami's tale of the future gone mad is presented in the same stunning format as the Mai Graphic Novel, with soft covers and full-color dust jackets. Grey loses the love of his life, Lips, when she dies in the line of duty as a "Trooper," a mercenary pawn of the government. Troopers fight in hopes of earning the rank of "Citizen" and escaping their dismal status as "People." After Lips' death, Grey becomes an exemplary "Trooper" himself, often the only one to return alive from the most hazardous missions. Together, he and sexy Trooper Nova set out on a personal mission to rescue Red, Grey's former squadron commander, risking demotion back to the lowly status of "People." Does Grey dare to love again?

From Dan of Population GO:

Everyone in the world is born with two things: the ability to collect Life's Light and a Light Vessel in which to collect and hold it. Most people use their vessels to assist them in doing various tasks, but occasionally someone is born with a vessel that allows them to do battle.

The protagonist, Ruyu, stumbles upon the end of a battle only to find one survivor. Could the young boy she saved be connected to the king's men who entered the town with the intent of killing everyone?

NOTE: Publication of this series was moved to a Chinese magazine. The number of chapters published in Asuka before discontinuing its publication of Yami no Naka no Crown is 6.

From Tokyopop: Eiri Kurahashi is an art school student, with a job at a local antique store. It's there that he develops a strange obsession. He finds himself entranced by a portrait of a Victorian-era girl named Cossette. It's a portrait with a strange history--everyone who has owned it has been murdered in a bizarre fashion. But the story runs much deeper than that. Cossette was savagely murdered by her lover, who also happens to be the artist who painted the portrait. When the new owner of the portrait nearly kills himself, Eiri decides to get involved. And that's when Cossette begins speaking to him...

Under Grand Hotel is the inmate's name for a prison in the US. Sen is a Japanese guy who has been imprisoned after killing his lover's husband. Sword Fish is the leader of the prison. Sen needs Sword's protection, but can a love story work in a prison?

From Wataame Shoujo:
Yoo-i is a very special girl -- she's like refreshing and fragrant orange bubble gum... A boy appears all of a sudden and becomes a natural part of her life, as natural as breathing air... His name is Joo-in. He says, "Do you know nuna? Nuna is.. my past, my present, and my future... You are like this ladder connecting me to this world..."

A gruesomely tragic, bittersweet story of a pair of orphan girls...

With a broken heart, Charlotte sees no more meaning in life, but if an unexpected twist were to happen?

From Vendetta Scans:
One thing is for certain - if you exercise violence, that violence will return to you in any shape or form.
The man who bakes flour-based food and runs an eatery, has a darker past than anyone could ever guess. Unless you see the name of his store.

A little girl goes to a convenience store with her mother and befriends a worker.

In Shinjuku Kabuki-Cho, the biggest sin town in Japan, there are two crazy guys. Ichi is a coward and a wimp, but once he breaks into tears, he turns into a human weapon. With great martial arts skill and a blade hidden in his boots, he butchers a bunch of enemies into mincemeat in the blink of an eye. His arch enemy is Kakihara, a yakuza boss who's tired of everything, including himself. Only when he pierces, cuts, and burns his own and other people's bodies does he feel that he is alive.

Collection of six short stories.

Dan of Population GO about first story: "An endearing story of a boy who, while visiting his relatives in a rural village, visits a mysterious pond where the local dragon deity supposedly dwells and uncovers a conspiracy that uses the god's name in greed."

Chapter 1: "Dragon Pond"
Chapter 2: "The Night has a Thousand Eyes"
Chapter 3: "The Star of Azure"
Chapter 4: "The Fog, the Rose, the Star, and" ("Mist, Roses, and Stars")
Chapter 5: "The Conch Elf"
Chapter 6: "Maiden of Dragon God Pond"

Zankoku na Kami ga Shihaisuru portrays the tale of two step-brothers - Jeremy and Ian, as they strive to discover their separate paths towards redemption.
Jeremy, a sensitive but outgoing 17 year old, is delighted to hear the news of his neurotic and excitable mother's remarriage to a wealthy British man. However, much to his horror, his sweet-talking new step-father Greg, soon begins to exhibit a disturbing trait...he is a sadistic pedophile and loses no time in making Jeremy his target. Months of horrific, systematic abuse drives Jeremy to desperation; he sabotages his step-father's car with the hope of eliminating him. The resulting accident, however, kills his mother along with Greg.
Jeremy's shocked and guilt-stricken behaviour arouses the suspicions of Greg's free-spirited son, Ian. He unearths enough evidence to tie his step-brother to the crime; but in doing so, also discovers the details of Greg's sexual abuse of Jeremy.
Caught in a moral dilemma -- between punishing the criminal and atoning for his father's sins, Ian soon finds himself haunted by lust for Jeremy. Is it lust...or love? He wonders whether he shares his father's proclivities, but finds himself helpless to resist being drawn into a passionate and painful relationship with Jeremy.

Note: Won the first Osamu Tezuka Culture Award Excellence prize in 1997.

In the near future on the starship Galaxy, Sheryl Nome lived with her parents Abel and Sally. The government tracked her parents down who were rebelling against mandatory human enhancing implants and Sheryl was the only one who got away alive. Barely surviving on her own on the streets, Grace O’Connor, a manager at a talent agency brings her in to make her a star. Several years later Sheryl is enrolled into the Erato Music School where she meets Amagi Lilies, a brilliant singer and they become friends. However, tragedy strikes and Lilies dies trying to save Sheryl. To make sure her parent’s sacrifice was not in vain and to keep her promise with Lilies, Sheryl enters into the entertainment world to become the greatest singer in the universe.

It's about young people in postwar Hiroshima getting involved in the black market for weapons. The main character is an A-bomb survivor whose hatred drives him to kill an American black marketeer. He asks the Americans, "Who are you to talk about justice when you massacred hundreds of thousands of innocent people in Hiroshima, in Nagasaki, in the firebombing of Tokyo? Was that what you call justice?"

From StarryHeaven:
In 2999, all people of the world had forgotten the existence of God. A seventeen year old girl in high school, Kisaki Aragaki, has been close to the Church’s Sister as a mother. One day Kisaki saw the Church being dismantled by workers and she encountered an Oni (Japanese demon) out of a worker’s body. Her father, Kenzo confessed that Kisaki is a reincarnation of her ancestress who fought against Oni with a Japanese saber called Katana of Oni. Then Kisaki took the inheritance of Katana of Oni and faced down the Oni.

Based on the eponymous novel, Sugar Candy Bullets Can’t Pierce Anything follows two young girls during one fateful summer.

Yamada Nagisa is a bored teenager who finds everyday life extremely unappealing: thus her plans to join a military academy as soon she graduates. On the last term of middle school, a strange girl named Mokuzu Umino, who claims to be a mermaid, transfers into Nagisa's class and, much to her bewilderment, begins to follow her around incessantly.

An annoyed and discomfited Nagisa initially strives to avoid these encounters, but then she begins to catch glimpses of the pain and sadness concealed beneath Umino's cheerful and carefree demeanour...