Nico Nicolson observes and interacts with mangakas.
This interview session is devoted to famed Berserk mangaka, Miura Kentaro. His art process and his relationship to fellow friends and mangaka are addressed and insight is given into the style of art material he uses.

Despite his short stature and his cowardly personality, Eisaku Yazawa dreams of one day becoming a gang leader of a nation of thugs. As he starts high school, he ends up meeting several delinquents who attend the same school as him.

Won the 23rd Kodansha Manga Award for Shounen in 1999.

Jail: Risk Hunter number one! He can alter his appearance using "Kara" and uses it wisely to kick his enemies' ass.

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"Risk hunters" are professionals who handle jobs considered too tough for normal law enforcement, such as kidnappings, combating terrorism, and preventing murders. One man who stands above them all however is the legendary Chameleon Jail, who has the ability to manipulate his "kara" or internal human body energy in order to physically change his appearance into that of any other person.

Throughout the series, he pursues several assignments on behalf of various clients given to him by Shall, a woman who runs a detective agency in New York City. All difficult, the successful completion of these assignments hinges on Jail's ability to change his appearance when the time is right.

Rebecca really is unfortunate. At first her fiancé gets stolen by her stepsister and then she even has to attend the wedding of those two. At the wedding tycoon Graydon Gallagher approaches and comforts her. The next morning she wakes up next to him and is not so sure what might have happened the evening before...

After that Gray proposes to take her on a business trip with him and Rebecca agrees, thinking it might be the starting point to a new life... plus Gray assures her that it will only be those two weeks and after that it will simply be just a memory, nothing more.

The story happened at the dawn of the Tang dynasty. Nobody knew the peaceful and prosperous capital Chang An had a really experienced demon fox, Duan Mu Ming De for its biggest brothel's owner. The shounen onmyouji Bai Yu Mu, the best onmyouji among the younger generation of his onmyouji family, masterful at slaying demons and being vengeful, was forced to reside in this demon nest. There, he got acquainted with a seductive fox, a cold and distant wolf, a tsundere gold crow, a Virgo hedgehog and a two-faced weasel...at the same time, a larger conspiracy is brewing in the dark, in the capital that never sleeps, in which fires are lit every night. Meanwhile within the prosperous Chang An, the Rebellion of Anshi threatens to erupt..

From Esthétique: During the period when the Tang Dynasty was at its peak of success, imperial court general, Huangfu Duanhua, was whisked away into a series of bizarre and supernatural events after his friend accidentally stepped into a store owned by a Persian merchant. This then led to many incidents that were kept sealed by the empire for a thousand years… Court disputes, strife in the royal family… As the wheels of the perilous history are set in motion, where will they lead?

From Easy Going Scans:

Chang An in the Tang Dynasty of China (618-907): The demon star is passing through the sky, calamity is about to befall the Tang Dynasty - because of a woman.
Skilled in martial arts and war tactics, Princess Li Chang Ge sets out to avenge her family and take back the throne.

A violent and muscular boy who dreams in becoming a national champion, unexpectedly turns into a cute girl, how will “she” achieve “her”dreams?

In Change 123, we meet Motoko, a girl with a very strange problem. In order to cope with her 3 adoptive fathers' incredibly intensive training methods, she developed multiple personalities, each with a different martial specialty. But what happens if none of them can beat her opponent on their own? And what further nugget of wisdom will be imparted by the great Kamen Raider?

Kisaragi Maki is the heiress of a yakuza group. She only dreams about being a normal high school student, and becoming an ordinary bride. However, when she sees blood, she changes completely and becomes violent. Will she be able to keep living an ordinary life?

Yotsuba Mitsuru, the day before his 17th birthday, is dumped for the 30th time. Remembering a promise with his best friend, who shared his birthdate, made 10 years before, he goes to the park to meet him, when a flash of light knocks him out just as he thinks he sees his friend. He awakens in the hospital and discovers he's been given a second chance at life... with a few strings attached.

It's nature vs. nurture when a nerd swaps bodies with the toughest guy in school! Kang Too-Jee and Woo Soo-Choi have swapped...their bodies! After becoming the subjects of a mad scientist's experiment with her latest invention - the quantum teleporter - their bodies are switched, leaving only their minds and spirits intact. Woo Soo-Choi, who was once a model student, must face the life of Kang Too-Jee, a teenage menace. Never having an enemy in his life, he now has to deal with the handful of Kang Too-Jee's list, but will his kinder, gentler demeanor ward off his rivals? Or will survival determine his future? Will he become the hardened fighter that matches his new exterior?

An anthology of genderbending and cross-dressing:

Volume 1 - Pink

1) Boy Meets Girl, Girl Meets Boy by AMAZUME Ryuta
Theme: TS (Medical Condition)
They both are going through the same thing; Okashita Yu was born a boy and is turning into a girl, while Koide Junko was born a girl and is turning into a boy. Add a lot of teenage hormones and you've got H.

2) Bloomed In Action by Shiono Etorouji
Theme: TS (Surgery)
A government agent, Terawaki Ryou, was critically wounded on the battlefield, and revived by the genius doctor, Asada, who is only interesting in working on beautiful girls. Fortunately, the government was able to make use of Ryou's current condition to infiltrate a school and search for their target.

3) (Suzuki Akiko)
Theme: TG (Crossdressing)

4) (Arai Shou)
Theme: TG (Crossdressing)
A bunch of 4-koma stories...

5) Entrance (En-Trance) by Pon Takahanada
Theme: TS (Magic)
A boy called En with an effeminate face is constantly bullied by his peers (who dress him in a female uniform), and while trying to hide from his oppressors, stumbles upon a small shrine. En makes a wish to be liked by other people to the shrine deity, but it misunderstands and changes En into a girl...

6) Accomplice by Rikudou Koushi
Theme: TG? (Crossdressing? WTF)
A girl called Sanjou Takara transfers to an all girls Maria ga Miteru-esque school, and in less than one week becomes a member of the student council. Takara finds out that all of the other student council members look like extremely masculine men who have feminine hairstyles (though one looks like he's wearing a Nemes Headdress) and names. Takara asks the other student council members if they are men, and they all burst into tears of happiness that someone finally notices the truth. Thus begins Takara's adventure in a manga rendition of the Emperor's New Clothes in Bizarro World. It seems everyone, including their parents, believe that these men are women. So, it's up to Takara to open the eyes of the rest of the student body from their mass delusion.

7) Crossdress by Sano Takashi
Theme: TG and TS (Crossdressing and Surgery)
The story is set in some kind of alternate universe where instead of a patriarchal society, it's a matriarchal one in which males are considered sex objects without equal human rights. Some mothers who love their sons and want them to have a somewhat happy future enroll them in the Josoushijo programme. Though some of the schools under this programme are pretty evil, and one of the ways they punish their male students is by having them expose the fact that they really are male by lifting their school uniform in front of the rest of the student body which is both arousing and embarrassing at the same time (Those who ejaculate during this punishment are additionally punished with the surgical removal of their male anatomy). During one of these punishment sessions, the protagonist, a first year student by the name of Saotome Asuka, tries to protect his upper classmates from their sadistic teacher. Asuka is then given the same punishment. Unfortunately for Asuka, the class president, Arisa, who develops some kind of perverse crush on Asuka (despite her dislike of males)...

8) Girl's Sactuary by Takamichi
Theme: TG (Crossdressing)
A short full-colour story called Girl's Sanctuary about a top-class cafe that only serves female patrons, and how the owner is very insistent on this point. That doesn't stop boys trying to get in to sample his excellent wares.

9) Ruffle Princess by Yunagi Kahoru
Theme: TG (Crossdressing)
The protagonist is an talented amateur lingerie designer, but is unable to find a willing model for his work. While picking up his sister at her all girls school, he meets a beautiful classmate of her's. But when he approached her, she began crying due to her intense fear of men. Thus he decides to disguise himself as a girl so he can sneak into the school and try to find the source of her problems.

10) (Orimoto Mimana)
TG and TS (Crossdressing and Magic)
The Takagushi family operate a shinto shrine with their identical twin children (one male and one female) called Tarou and Hime. Because Hime doesn't want to perform an important ceremony, she convinces her brother Tarou to switch places with her with the promise of having sweet, incestuous sex with him. Tarou accepts and later regrets it when he finds out what kind of ceremony he has to perform. Basically, the shrine's deity is a penis and Tarou has to insert the penis idol inside of him (Tarou does this anally). This causes the penis to upload the entire Kama Sutra into his brain (Tarou's mother explains it with a reference to a USB memory transfer). After this, Tarou's body is prostituted to people (180,000 yen for 60 minutes). It's no wonder Hime didn't want to perform the ceremony~! Meanwhile, Hime is on a date with some hot guy she likes (she gave him a present which is a box full of condoms to use with her). Unfortunately for Hime, she and Tarou have a spiritual link where Hime can feel everything Tarou feels during his session with his first customer: a boy who says he's male, but has breasts and no penis (which traumatises Tarou because he wants to have sex with his sister)... everything degenerates from there...

11) (Ooi Masakazu)
Theme: Futanari (Intersexed)

12) Hashiru Kakeru Subaru! by TALI
Theme: TG (Crossdressing)
A story about a girl called Subaru who binds her chest and dresses up in masculine clothing in order to enjoy the pleasures of street fighting. The reason why she does this is because the other male students at the dojo she trains at wouldn't take her seriously because she's female. Anyway, on one particularly satisfying night of beating the crap out of her fellow street fighters, Subaru meets the top fighter in the area who happens to be a woman. Naturally, Subaru challenges this woman to a fight and learns why this woman is the top fighter.

Volume 2 - Blue

1) First Night, First Morning by AMAZUME Ryuta
Theme TS (Medical Condition)
Set in the same world as [m]Boy Meets Girl, Girl Meets Boy[/m], but with different characters. This story is about the protagonist's male friend who got affected by the strange disease...

2) (Sano Takashi)
Theme TS (Surgery) & TG (Crossdressing)
2nd continuation of the previous story as Saotome Asuka confronts the director of the school to get his penis back...

3) (Pon Takahanada)
Theme: TS (Magic)
2nd continuation of the story in Change-H pink. Since the snake kami is currently too weak, it uses the school pool which is an energy spot known as a Ryuuketsu. Though, En misuses this part and rather than fix his condition, En makes it worse for himself and turns his childhood friend Maki into a futanari...

4) (Rikudou Koushi)
Theme: TG? (Crossdressing? WTF)
2nd continuation of Rikudou's story from Change-H pink. This time, Takara is burdened with the task of turning the school's Noel Party into a success.

5) Yu Clinic (Sou Yuukiyuu) by Yuukiyuu (Author) & Sou (Artist)
Theme: ??
A real clinic; which the easiest way to describe this story is if one were to take one of AMU-AI & Tomoe's posts (The two people who manage the Okashi blog) and turn it into a manga where two people who work at the Yu Mental Clinic stand there and talk. Basically, the nurse points out that the readers of this anthology are interested in nothing but girls and then goes on to describe why that may be.
As well as a discussing assorted mental and psychological problems and tropes

6) Hero's Secret by Imamura Youko
Theme: TS (Transformation)
The protagonist's heroes are the members of the team of Sentai superheroes known as Ichiban Hoshiman, who fight against monsters and stuff. The protagonist also gets an opportunity to join this team, though he winds up as the pink ranger much to his chagrin...

7) Girl's Sanctuary by Takamichi
Theme: TG (Crossdressing)
2nd continuation of the previous short full-colour story by Takamichi.

8) Wonderful World of Crossdressing 4komas by Arai Shou
Theme: TG (Crossdressing)
A bunch of 4-koma stories...
This time is about the Wonderful World of Crossdressing 4komas -- basically they are four-panel joke comics about the difficulty of "passing" in real life compared to the ease with which manga and anime characters can fool everyone who sees them.

9) Plastic Cradle by Amoi Jun
Theme: TS (Cloning)
A story involving clones and and how memory data is downloaded into them to allow certain people the ability to live forever. Due to some circumstances, a 10 year-old girl's data was downloaded to the protagonist's 10 year-old-clone-body that the staff was going to use for the protagonist with some notable memory loss. Also due to the lack of bodies and the need for the protagonist's presence, his data was downloaded to another clone of the original...

10) Broken Blood Side Story by Shiono Etorouji
Theme: TG (Crossdressing)
A short full-colour side story for Brocken Blood.

11) Festival Boy by Orimoto Mimana
TS (Transformation)
The protagonist, Takashi, is excited about being able to carry the Oomikoshi during the upcoming festival. Though, Takashi is the only one who is happy about it because the rest of the male students have an intense dislike of carrying some portable shrine around on their shoulders. Takashi calls the others wimps and says that the Oomikoshi can only be carried by those who are destined to become real adult men, and that they can go carry the Megamikoshi together with the girls. Unfortunately for Takashi, on the morning of the festival, he wakes up transformed into a girl. To add insult to injury, Takashi isn't allowed to carry the Oomikoshi. Instead Takashi has to carry the girls' Mikoshi together with the other girls...

12) (Yunagi Kahoru)
Theme: TG (Crossdressing)
2nd continuation of the story from the previous anthology.

13) Ladies Maid by Hitotose Rin
Theme: TG (Crossdressing)
Set in 1780 England, the protagonist winds up under the employ of an extremely eccentric noble (who the protagonist begins to suspect is really a guy).

Volume 3 - Yellow

1) The 2nd continuation of the [m]Boy Meets Girl, Girl Meets Boy[/m] from Change H - Pink by Amazume Ryuuta
Theme: TS (Medical Condition)

2) (Shiono Etorouji):
2nd continuation of the story from Change-H Pink about the government agent who died and was resurrected by a genius doctor. The kind of genius doctor who has an odd quirk to reconstruct people into girls... it seems that school is crawling with people who went under that doctor's knife...

3) (Sano Takashi)
Theme: TG (Josou)
3rd part of Josoushijo.

4) Balance Policy by Yoshitomi Akihito
Theme: TS (Surgery?)
A short 6-page story set in a world where female birth rates have mysteriously dropped...

5) (Pon Takahanada)
Theme: TS (Transformation)
3rd part of Entransu (En-trance).

6) Professor Taki’s Individual Class (Taki-Kyoju no Kojin Jugyo) by Shiozaki Yuji
Theme: TG/TS (?)
A short extra chapter of Battle Club.

7) (Rikudou Koushi)
Theme: TG (Crossdressing? WTF)
3rd part of Rikudou's crazy story.

8) Girl's Sanctuary by Takamichi
Theme: TG (Josou)
3rd part of the short coloured series "Girl's Sanctuary," where impertinent males try their best to sneak in and eat delicious cake.

9) (Imamura Youko)
Theme: TS (Transformation/FtM, MtF)
2nd part of "Hero's Secret" from Change-H Blue. Mostly a "heroine"-pinch kind of story where everyone from the Ichiban Hoshiman Squad of rangers get sexually asaulted by evil Kaijin... except for Yellow, no one wanted to violate his dirty asshole.

10) (Takauchi Yuuga)
Theme: TG/TS (?)
A series of 4-koma short stories that span throughout the entire anthology about a kitsune girl who meets a effeminate tanuki boy who can enlarge his scrotum to absurd dimensions.

11) (Hitotose Rin)
Theme: TG (Josou/Dansou)
2nd part of the "Lady's Maid" story from Change-H Blue about the eccentric Ojou-sama who has an odd interest in boys in maid uniforms.

12) Friends by Orimoto Mimana
Theme: TS (Transformation)
This is a oneshot story about two childhood friends called Hiroki and Kojiro who do everything together. The story begins with a flashback of young Hiroki and Kojiro having a peeing for distance contest until an older Onee-san shows up and seduces both young lads to sexing with her. They don't remember the Onee-san's face, but their peeing distance increased substantially since that fateful encounter with the child predator. Back to the present, Hiroki visits Kojiro's home so they both can go to the beach and pick-up girls to find that Kojiro somehow transformed into a girl for no apparent reason...

13) (Amoi Jun)
Theme: TS (Assimilation)
Another oneshot about clones. Well, this time it's an immortal clone who can regenerate tissue by assimilating the surrounding matter...

14) Hashiru Kakeru Subaru! by TALI
TG (Dansou/Josou)
2nd Continuation about the fighter girl Subaru, who dresses like a guy so she can enjoy the joys of street fighting without any discrimination. The weird crossdressing guy from the previous story makes a return along with another guy who wants Subaru to fight him (He found out that Subaru fought the crossdressing guy, so he decides to crossdress as well to get Subaru's attention).

Volume 4 - Green

1) (Pon Takahanada)
Theme: TS (Transformation)
4th part of Pon's series with some colour pages.
En somehow winds up in a fictional men's only train car, and gets boldly groped by everyone inside.

2) Balance Policy by Yoshitomi Akihito
Theme: TS (Surgery?)
Second part of Akihito's Balance Policy story.

3) Boy Meets Girl, Girl Meets Boy by Amazume Ryuuta
Theme: TS (Medical Condition)
A full-colour, eight-page continuation of Ryuuta's Boy Meets Girl Girl Meets Boy serial.

4) (Shiono Etorouji):
Theme: TS (Surgery)
4th part of Bloomed in Action, the story of a multitude of government agents who somehow wind up under the knife of a genius surgeon who has a weird obsession with converting every patient into beautiful girls. This time, the "son" of Major Shizuko makes an appearance (apparently both he and his son were mortally wounded during the same mission). Awkward love situation develops between the Major's son and the protagonist.

5) (Sano Takashi)
Theme: TG (Josou)
Fourth part of Takashi's serial.

6) (Takauchi Yuuga)
Theme: TG/TS (?)
More 4-koma short stories that span throughout the entire anthology about a kitsune girl and the effeminate tanuki boy.

7) (Ruuen Rouga)
Theme: TS (Virtual Reality Simulator)
A story about a boy who hates one of the female classmate in his class, although the feelings are mutual with the girl expressing sentiments that she wished the boy would just disappear forever. Little do they know that they're actually friends on the same virtual reality MMORPG. Tough, they both play characters that use some kind of disguise transformation feature to make their character's perceived sex different from their actual sex in reality. (I might be wrong, but I think the boy, while looking like some scantily-clad bishoujo with animal ears, still has a penis, and the girl, while looking like a hot bishounen, still has breasts and a vagina. The girl plays this way because she wanted to get in a lesbian relationship with someone online through deception.)

8) (Ishida Akira)
Theme: TS (Transformation?)
Some loser boy summons MAOU in order to form a pact with the king of demons, so the loser boy can become strong enough to prove to the head of the karate club that he isn't a weakling. Though, Maou is totally different from the boy's idealisation...

9) (Rikudou Koushi)
Theme: TG (Crossdressing? WTF)
The 4th continuation reveals that the delusions of everyone in this bizarro world is actually the work of some mysterious KKK-ish cult. As some kind of bonus, this time the mangaka gives the readers an idea what all these people in bizarro world see, along with information that the curtain of insanity isn't quite stable.

10) Transfer Students by Orimoto Mimana
Theme: TS (Gradual Transformation and Bodyswap)
To be honest, this story is a rather confusing oneshot story about pornography. I'll see if I can explain it somewhat, basically it's about a boy called Yurio, and his interest with lesbian porn, which caused him to become a perverted outcast from his classmates before Yurio moved to Tokyo. The reason for this was because the other boys in the class who watch porn insisted on heterosexual sex scenes so they can pretend that they're the man in the porn video. Lesbian porn doesn't let them perform this kind of projection, and, based on their logic of projection, makes Yurio a horrible pervert. However, the boys in Yurio's new school in Tokyo are quite accepting of all kinds of pornography.

Yurio also meets a girl called Nobara who also grew up in some unenlightened area before moving to the liberal and accepting city of Tokyo. Because Yurio and Nobara share similar histories, Nobara decides to show Yurio her most important interest, the same interest that ostracised her from her former classmates in her old school: her uncensored HARD BOY-LOVE DOUJINSHI. Yurio becomes enraged because the only pornographic subject matter that should be drawn are lesbians rather than men. Yurio also is distraught by Nobara's lack of understanding of male anatomy in her bishounen (the penises are positioned incorrectly and they have two holes). It is at this point, that Yurio condemns Nobara by calling her a pervert before realising that he's acting no better than the guys from his former school. So, Yurio quickly tries to salvage the situation by adding that he meant pervert in a good way. It is at this time that the wind blows away the pages of Nobara's BL Doujin, which leads to both Nobara and Yurio falling down a flight of 3333 stair steps. Thus begins Nobara and Yurio's journey of idealistic fantasy and reality.

11) (Amoi Jun)
Theme: TS (Clones)
The 3rd continuation of the story from Change-H Blue (and probably Yellow?).

12) Hikarism by Yunagi Kahoru
TG (Josou)
Himuro, a handicraft student, is desperate to get a girlfriend, so he recruits a fellow club member, Hikaru, to dress up as a girl for a day and help him find someone who's his type.

13) (Hitotose Rin)
Theme: TG (Josou)
3rd part of Rin's series. Though, this entry focuses more on the relationship of two of the minor characters from the previous stories.

Nanami Kousaka wants to be an idol, but he keeps getting turned down at auditions because of his overly cute appearance. He is approached by a producer, Kouichi Kitami, who gets him to debut as Mi-Na while crossdressing.

Saitō Yu'ichi, a young man without prospects, decides to kill himself at the turn of the year. However, a fateful encounter with a stranger, Mitsumune Sakutarō, who is his complete opposite, changes Yu'ichi's future in a way he could never have imagined.

A tomboyish girl finally meets a boy who tells her to be what she wants to be, not what others see her as.

Debuted in Dear+ #4

Hikari received a magic jewel from her grandpa when she was a kid. She deeply believed that if she could kiss the guy she liked with the magic jewel on her neck, she could be with him forever. However, the reality fooled her by switching her body with an old man who is also a wanted criminal. Would she be able to run away from the police and get her body back?

From MangaArt:
Kisaragi Arisu has wanted to be an idol for a long time. When she blew her last chance, a guy ran into her and dropped his watch. She tries to find him, but finds herself in Channel W director's office instead. The director told her he needed a girl to do a report on his show. She readily took the job, thinking that this was a debut she was looking for. Will this be her big break?

As a manga author of a semi known series, Hirahara Daichi has the talent for coming up with stories, but is incredibly lazy and irresponsible. That leaves his two daughters, middle school student Ayumi and the even younger Sora, to pick up the slack. With the help of the assistant, Akane, the two kids are forced to draw and complete the series every month if they want an income for the household, a task no child should burden themselves with. On top of that, they must do this without people finding out because it will ruin the credibility of Daichi as an author and put a stop to the series. If being a teenager wasn’t hard enough, add to that the pressure of meeting deadlines for a national comic magazine.