The year is 2XXX AD, and basketball has become the most popular sport in the universe. However, the Intergalactic League–-the pinnacle of professional basketball–- is completely dominated by extraterrestrials. Widely renowned as the best of basketball is an extraterrestrial named Gyuma, despite the fact that he is merely 19-years-old.

Into this arena steps Yoshimune, an old man who believes that it`s humans who should be number one in basketball. His plan is to collect the best team of pure humans there is, and attempt to win the Intergalactic League.

Yoshimune puts out a call for the best human players, and a 14-year-old named Hideyoshi answers the call.

From AnimeCouncil²:
This story revolves around the life of Akira, a man who has been saving his money for over three years to finally obtain a computer. Unable to get the computer model he wants he is offered the same model from a shady man in an alley. What happens next is something that will change the life of Akira forever. For he didn’t look at the box closely enough to note that it isn’t Model 9821, it is actually Model 2198, a super advanced gynoid who’s sole purpose is to serve and protect her “master.”

Homura Tsukishima and Sakurako Hirosue are roommates at Principia Academy, a school located on an island created specifically for researching "shiki", which is a form of power created by manipulating numbers.

Zhong Xiaoyin's (little seal) mother is seriously ill. To save her, her daughter needs a fortune she does not have. Luckily Lan Dongcheng (winter morning), the young and rich hospital director, offers her a mean to earn the necessary money. Why would he do that? Does he have an ulterior motive? And could it have something to do with the butterfly tattoo on her ankle? It looks a lot like the one embroidered on Dongcheng's handchief… Love and betrayal are waiting to be discovered in this new Chinese saga!

From Vices and Devices:

Isayama Natsu is a free spirit: he doesn't wear socks, he sets butterflies free from rooftops, and he gives blow jobs to other boys in the school tool shed. And Taneda Kouki, who believes himself normal in every possible way, accidentally sees the last one while taking a shortcut. Isayama bewilders and fascinates Taneda, who also begins questioning his own normality...

Compilation of short stories:

• Butterfly 69
Butterfly 69 is about two music students. There is an extra for this story in Sayuri-hime Vol.2

Agetha and Maria are two music students striving for the same dream, Maria's successful music career. Agetha supports Maria by always saying "My dream is your dream" but it isn't until Maria gets her big break that she realizes she has to drop out and most importantly, leave Agetha behind. Will their relationship be able to last? or will it crumble under the pressure?


• Quilt Queen
About the relationship between a fashion designer and a model. There is an extra for this story in Sayuri-hime Vol.3

• Beautiful Pain
It's about two sisters that are in love.

• Rooftop Miracle (Okujou no Kiseki)

• Spicy Sweets
A girl is worried because her rather unusual family is coming to see her.

• Butterfly Effect
Sequel to "Butterfly 69," Maria and Ageha try to balance their relationship with their careers.

Keel, the hero of our story, is looking desperately for Siva the so called "best monster fighter" to retrieve something precious that he took away from him, on his search he joins a beginner monster fighter girl, along with her flying pig monster and goes for an adventure to find Siva who for some reason has been missing for two years.

From Fifay.net:

Tokyo, 2002. Tatsuaki dares to learn something novel to the most of Japanese: Beijing Opera. One day, he receives a Kouu mask from his master. Just for fun he put it on and is instantly transported back to Beijing, circa 1924! So begins Tatsuaki's adventures in the Beijing Opera House.

Bushidou Sixteen centers around two female competitors of another Japanese tradition, kendou (sword-fighting). Kaori is an accomplished kendou practitioner, but she finds herself facing an unexpected opponent in Sanae, a superficially weaker fighter who bests Kaori in a bout.

From the authors of "Shin Angyo Onshi" a new manga set in Japan and Korea during the Edo period, a time of great upheaval between the two cultural groups. In ancient times, Japan and Korea would send its criminals to a penal colony called "Kyokudo", situated in the channel between the two nations. There the cannibal Juu was sent for murdering over a thousand warriors while in Edo. Yet for an island meant for criminals, there was but one Korean medic, Han, exiled from Korea for killing and dissecting over a thousand people.

From Ochibichan.
Oukawa Nabiki is an energetic and cheerful girl who dreams to become a stuffed toy maker. Ever since she joined Kousei High’s Crafting Club, with Fukamachi Itsuru, a boy who dreams to become a silverwork designer, both of them work hard together to become professionals! But due to the fact that Nabiki has to attend extra lessons, she’s not allowed to do any club activity for a week?!

The story revolves around Kudo Gai, a mischievous 13 year old all alone in the world. He despises his classmates who live by their free will, although supported by parents, but taking it for granted. Gai soon finds out he is contradicting himself for he is being raised at an orphanage as well,and makes an attempt for independence. His actions lands him in trouble, where he is framed for murder and sent to a place in an unknown location called the 'human institute'.

1-3) Bunbetsu to Takan
Aya has a great boyfriend Kento who treasures her a lot. But she is also attracted to Kento's older brother, who has a twisted personality. How come she can't stay away from him and she goes so far to cheat on her boyfriend? Will Aya's sense prevails over her sensibility?
From Jshoujo

2) Delusional Diary
Ui fell in love with the wrong guy. Jiro is popular and handsome, and agreed to date her, but he insists that their relationship should remain a secret. Ui starts to feel more uncomfortable about her love situation and her trust in Jiro is weakened by his cold attitude towards her. Is Jiro cheating on her or does he just have a very weird way of expressing his love?
From Evil Flowers

3) The Little Mermaid who Became a Witch
Everyone knows the story of the little mermaid who fell in love with the prince and exchanged her voice for a pair of feet. Did anyone wonder about the witch’s story and why was she so bitter towards the young mermaid? An interesting twist of the classic “The little mermaid”, this time, from the witch’s point of view.
From Evil Flowers

from -dokidoki- :
Ichirou's best friend Naoto's noticed that he's been acting a bit unusual since summer vacation. With a bit of best-friend solidarity, Naoto squeezes out the tale of Ichirou's secret summer fling: a sexual encounter with a mysterious stranger fleeing from a rainstorm. Naoto is, naturally, scandalized, but not half as scandalized when he and Ichirou run into the summer fling again at a school festival...

As if a guy falling in love with another guy wasn't complicated enough! How about when that boy's already got another guy after him? Throw a live-in cousin with an aggressive crush and the world's cutest lovestruck best friend into the mix and the situation gets rather convoluted, even by Koide-standards.

From Fantasyshrine:

Under the cover of the night
In the silent harbor
Two lovers, lips sealed on each other, reunited after two long years…
True love never dies…

Osamu Tezuka’s vaunted storytelling genius, consummate skill at visual expression, and warm humanity blossom fully in his epic of Siddhartha’s life and times. Tezuka evidences his profound grasp of the subject by contextualizing the Buddha’s ideas; the emphasis is on movement, action, emotion, and conflict as the prince Siddhartha runs away from home, travels across India, and questions Hindu practices such as ascetic self-mutilation and caste oppression. Rather than recommend resignation and impassivity, Tezuka’s Buddha predicates enlightenment upon recognizing the interconnectedness of life, having compassion for the suffering, and ordering one’s life sensibly. Philosophical segments are threaded into interpersonal situations with ground-breaking visual dynamism by an artist who makes sure never to lose his readers’ attention.
Tezuka himself was a humanist rather than a Buddhist, and his magnum opus is not an attempt at propaganda. Hermann Hesse’s novel or Bertolucci’s film is comparable in this regard; in fact, Tezuka’s approach is slightly irreverent in that it incorporates something that Western commentators often eschew, namely, humor.

Note: Won the Bungei Shunju Manga Award in 1975 and the Best U.S. Edition of International Material for the Eisner Award in 2004 and 2005.

Young Yamane Rin just finished her training and officially became a flight attendant for Fuji Airlines. On her first day, she thought it was going to be a pleasant flight. Not so fast, Yamane. Apart from struggling to learn how to deal with difficult passengers, Rin meets the Chief Attendant, Hanazono Hinako, who appears to be sweet. However, that is just one of her many facets. In fact, she's a dauntless and win-by-a-large-margin kind of girl, who becomes a completely different person after work.

Note:
Bucchigiri means "winning (a race) by a wide margin" or #1, but it has other meanings. At one point, it was a degraded form of English's "break." These days, however, it describes an automobile's/motorcycle's extreme acceleration, which refers to delinquents.

We all know that a lot of the booty of the golden age of explorations made it into museums. The British Museum in the C.M.B. story, which had custody of the recondite scientific curiosities and artefacts collected by explorer/adventurers and stored in a Wunderkammer, decided to study the dusty arcana in the 19th century. Three investigators dubbed the "Magi" were appointed to do the research, each given a ring embossed with the letters C.M.B. Fast-forward to present-day Japan where Sakaki Shinra is the curator of a museum of oddities. He now has possession of the C.M.B. rings, indicating that he has been granted the status of guardian of knowledge like the Magi that preceded him.

The fiance of the witch Meru is a sexy and wild werewolf?!

The witch Meru and her werewolf fiance, Riku, should have been married...but on the day of the wedding disaster strikes! A spell that the magician Nazo was casting accidentally hit Meru and she transformed into a little kid!! The only one who can return her back to normal is the one who cast the spell and Nazo has quickly escaped. What happens to Riku on the quest to find the missing magician? And how does their love stretch with Meru stuck in a little girls body? Will things ever go right for this unlikely pair??

Extras:

V.3 - Saigo no Onegai
V.4 - Renai Gokuraku Joudo
V.4 - Koigami - Love God

The hero in this manga has a split personality and each personality has its own lover! Aki is a right-hander and seme (but he denies his homosexuality); Ao is a left-hander and uke (acts as the "bad guy" and reduces Aki's excess stress). One personality is afraid the other one will take over and destroy it. In the end, which will win? Ao feels he will be deleted by Aki and asks Sayuu to help him...