It's 1950s Tokyo, and only the Rose Cross Detective Agency dares to tackle cases the police refuse to touch. Enokizu Reijirou is an eccentric private-eye with psychic abilities, while Chuuzenji Akihiko is a surly used book store owner and part-time onmyouji with an encylopaedic knowledge of obscure supernatural trivia. Together with their associates, they seek justice for the victims of various odd crimes.

Stand-alone side story to the Kyougokudou series, which begins with Ubume no Natsu.

Ritsu inherited his sixth sense from his grandfather, along with a demon guardian named Blue Storm. Strange things just seem to happen around these two, and it's left to them to get to the bottom of all these mysterious events. Each story is independent but features recurring characters you'll come to know and appreciate as they, each in their own way, try to deal with things 'not of this world'.

Note: Won the Excellence Prize of manga section of Japan Media Arts Festival in 2006.

From Aerandria Scans:

Kayako is an enthusiastic exorcist from an isolated island who’s been newly-appointed to the big city. She has two familiar spirits (shikigami) who help her cleanse impure spirits: Kagari and Kohaku. They are mighty spirits who have to take an alternate form among humans: Kagari, who takes a form of a pirate bird and Kohaku, who takes a form of a silver fox. She’s been determined to continue cleansing spirits as her dead brother has done in the past. But what happens when her faith is shaken and she learns that she doesn’t want to save evil spirits anymore?

Kamizono Academy is a school with an elementary, middle, and high school all within the same campus, and Ayumi is a new student at this enormous school. She is shy and has difficulty making friends, but when she meets wild and outgoing Torako, school life gets interesting as Torako begins to befriend various students within their class.

It appears that the series stops at 6 volumes in 2011. Then the first 6 volumes were reprinted in 2012 with a 7th volume that came out in 2013.

99 ghost stories, by the late Garo artist and Edo expert, Sugiura Hinako.

Two high-school girls share an apartment. Fun-loving Yamada Momo loves to spend any money she gets. Serious (yet cute) Madoka Suzuki scrimps and saves all the time. Madoka is saving her money to visit her grandfather in Germany. And Yamada? She wants to buy a scooter! But in the meantime they have to learn to live together. Can they be frugal, yet happy? Will Yamada ever find space for all her manga? Will Madoka ever get used to having the toilet and bathtub in the same room?

Taiga Shishio, the Student Council President, is a notorious tyrant. And yet, the only person that can stop him is his faithful Vice President Momoko. School, love, and trouble collide in this amazing story of student leadership!

Oneshot: Bitter Trap
Nanao came from a rich family before their business failed. Now the only hope for her family to pay off their debts is if she can cement a marriage with the prestigious Takatsuki family within a week. How will Nanao overcome this problem when one of the three eligible Takatsuki men is her former arrogant schoolmate, Yoshito, who completely distrusts people? And did we forget to mention that Nanao is already the ninety-ninth candidate for the position of future wife?!But is she really there to pay her family's debts or is it for....
- Aerandria Scans

From Chibi Manga:

This is the liberated area where you listen to girls will, a girls high school! in this class, there's a king. Me, Yuka! My friends are counting on me and boys are afraid of me! But that kind of paradise will suddenly break up by a thirty-year old man!! dates will take place in golf areas and kisses will have the taste of smoke...



Included one-shot: Jiwari, Koi ni Naru.

Hiromu is a high school boy who has everything he could ever want: a normal life, friends, and a girlfriend. That is until one day Hiromu asks everyone where Tetsuya is and no one knows. All of his classmates think he is crazy for insisting that this Tetsuya person exists since no one has heard of him. Then on his way home from school Hiromu finally meets a boy who remembers Tetsuya and says that Tetsuya was "delicious" and this isn't the only strange occurrence. This boy seems to think that Hiromu's name is Glorious Lily and that his lover is not his girlfriend, but a beautiful, emotionless girl named Valeriana. With the help of this mysterious boy Hiromu uncovers his past, who Valeriana is and who, or what, he is.

What if real life could "glitch"?

Reika and Yoko, two students, wander in a huge building, a real never-ending labyrinth defying imagination. Their only clue: a mysterious message on a low table, signed by Tagami, a famous video game creator, who seems to know more about this place.

What is the real nature of this place ? Why are Reika and Yoko humanity's only hope?


Note: Nominated for the 9th Manga Taisho Award in 2016.

From Canis Major Scanlations:

Bent, who gathers minerals as a sample for his research, goes to the Akkrum mines which has been closed for a long time. Then, he saw a young person inside it who suddenly collapsed. The boy's name was Iris. Using minerals as his food, the color of the boy's pupil glistens with rainbow colors.

From Mousou Scans:

Eva, a long-lived witch, takes in Fernest kingdom’s fifth prince, Louis, when she is asked to heal the first prince of an illness. Although witches are traditionally despised, Louis forms a close bond with her. When Louis is called back to the palace by a strange twist of fate to take his father's place on the throne, Eva must decide whether to let him go or follow.

From batoto:
High school student Shuto is looking forward to being free and at ease while his parents are working overseas. Only problem is, things don't exactly go as planned when he finds a 5 year old girl in his house. As it turns out, the girl's mother is a colleague of his parents and is traveling overseas with them and has left her daughter in his care for the next 3 months!! Cute antics to follow

The main story, Hyakuoku Nengo no Kimi no Koe mo, is a shoujo romance about a girl and how she deals with the death of her boyfriend.

Instinct and a Chromosome is the extra one-shot at the end of the volume that was scanlated by Lililicious. It's an angsty but sweet tale of two women in love. Nanako is glad to escape the stifling atmosphere of her hometown and come to Tokyo for business school. There she meets Yuri, and the two quickly fall in love and begin a relationship. But that isn't the end of the story -- the pair still have obstacles to overcome before they can get their happily-ever-after.

Some urban legends are best left untested! Yūto Suoh gets more than he bargained for when he joins his childhood friend Mitsuki Shimoya in testing out an urban legend. When he uses his phone to take a picture of himself with the local shrine’s divine mirror, he is whisked off into another world – one heavily steeped in the lore of the old Norse myths. Using his knowledge gained from school and from his solar-powered smartphone, he has the chance to bring the Wolf Clan, the same people who cared for him, to prominence, all while earning the adoration of a group of magic-wielding warrior maidens known as the Einherjar.

Before Arakawa Hiromu became a mangaka, she spent seven years in Hokkaido working in the farming business. She raised cows, planted crops, was afraid of bears, and was constantly being turned around in circles by squirrels. There is no water to drink. Can't you drink milk? That is because she is a "Noble Farmer"!! Here is Japan's first manga to describe the facts about farming!

From Osuwari Team:

Aoyagi is a garden otaku who is not interested in anything else but gardening. Everyday she fights with Sugisaki, who is a baseball otaku, and their relationship seems to be the very worst. And yet... Aoyagi is in love with Sugisaki?! She's not interested in baseball at all, but... that's all he ever seems to think of! Will she ever be able to catch Sugisaki's interest?!

The Hybrid Insector (ハイブリッド·インセクター Haiburiddo Insekutā) is an unofficial dojinshi spin-off manga of the Showa Era Kamen Rider Series by Eiichi Shimizu and Tomohiro Shimoguchi (清水� �一×下口智裕 Shimizu Eiichi to Shimoguchi Tomohiro) (now famous for the ULTRAMAN and Linebarrels of Iron Manga). The manga would only publish nine chapters until Toei ordered a cease-and-desist for copyright violations

From Liquid Passion:

1-4) When Ryuu transfers to Hitomi's school, he leaves an immediate impression on him. Curious about rumours of a full-scale tattoo on Ryuu's back, Hitomi starts getting closer to him. Before long, the friendship and fascination Hitomi feels for Ryuu start developing into more, but before he has a chance to come to terms with his feelings, Hikaru appears on the scene.... and he has his eyes set on Hitomi.

5-6) Now that Hikaru has become close friends with Hitomi and Ryuu, the group dynamics have changed. When Hikaru expresses his growing interest in Hitomi, will Ryuu admit his feelings or let Hitomi slip away...?

7-8) Ryuu seems to have found comfort in other places as Hitomi and Hikaru Taira get further involved. Sexual frustrations finally find an outlet, though misdirected.

9-11) In a startling series of events that lead up to Hydra's transfixing climax, hearts break, enemies resurface, and ties of friendship bind the trio in a complex web of struggle, sacrifice, and redemption.

Part of Rules / Hydra Series