Naota's life isn't simple: he lives with his eccentric father and grandfather in a two-story house above a family-owned bakery in a town marked by a gigantic factory at its heart. The factory looks suspiciously like a hand iron, complete with a steam release at the top--not the most typical landmark. Life is already strange enough, but to top it off, his older brother's ex-girlfriend starts making extremely suggestive passes at him... and an impish, playful alien smacks him in the head with a bass guitar and then infuses herself into his family.

Ouka is the great empire that rules over 1/3 of the world. To prevent conflicts from the other countries, they hold the battle competition once in every 8 years. In this competition, 5 candidates, known as "Patriots", from each countries are to battle against each other and the winners will be granted with fame and honor. This story follows Kurou, the boy who walks the same footsteps as his father to become the strongest patriot, along with his team . . .

Taiyou Tsukishima dreams of having a peaceful high school life, but he is assigned to take care of a classmate, the handsome and popular Yuu Yoshida. By spending time with Yuu, Taiyou starts to realise that Yuu seems to be hiding a big secret.

Haruka Mizuta is shocked when she gets confessed to by Naoto Konno a month after entering high school. He used to bully her in the second grade, but it seems he doesn't remember?!

Jiga Kirishima lives in a time where the only sky the people know is the color gray and most of the world is wasteland and ruins, with a few people in power depriving resources from the disorganized weak and poor majority. With his father's sword, Jiga makes friends and enemies and goes on adventures while searching for others who share his bloodline.
Jiga's sword happens to be made of a rare material which a powerful organization known as Lost Eagle Nest claims to want in order to rebuild the world, but is that what they really want it for? They'll stop at nothing to take it from him, and Jiga and his friends now have a price on their heads.

Collection of short stories including:

Finger Stinger
Hanzawa works at Hikarigaoka Massage Clinic which is often visited by the healthy college basketball player, Segawa Aki. One day, during a vigorous therapy session, Segawa suddenly got in the mood and attacked Hanzawa! They shouldn't! Hanzawa didn't want it! But he still got swept away by Segawa's warm body...

He Virgo
Yoshiki is a 20 year old student, Sugita is a 33 year old salary man. When Yoshiki falls for Sugita who knows how things will progress? But Sugita is happy with this turn of events after having been constantly mistaken for a seme. But now the problem lies in the fact that Sugita gets so swept away during sex that he can't remember anything about it later! Yoshiki proposes a possible solution to this problem.

Blaze The Trailer
Nagase one night stumbled drunkly into a park only to wake up the next morning snuggled up to a strange man in a truck no less. The man introduces himself as Takao and explains that Nagase had, the night previous, demanded that he travel with Takao for the three day road trip Takao needs to make for his work. How will things progress?

Cafe Anise
Takumi inherited a store but has no motivation to work there. Meanwhile Satake, Takumi's lover keeps the store afloat by acting as its manager and trying to persuade the lazy Takumi to take an interest. One day, worrying that his demands and pampering are the cause of Takumi's lack of motivation, he tells Takumi he wants to open his own store.

Home
Considering what to do next a criminal stumbles across a wealthy looking house. He breaks in with the intent of stealing what he can. Seeing a man cooking dinner he threatens him and demands money, but the man is surprisingly calm. But when the burglar realises the man before him is blind he takes advantage of the situation and rapes him. Staying at the house the burglar learns more about his 'hostage' - but wanted by the police how will things end?

From CoyoMoose:

Nakamura Mei is a very simple high-school girl. While at a cafe with her friends, they bump in to -none other than- the model Shirou's table. Mei apologizes and that's when Shirou notices something. Grabbing her he takes her outside with him and reveals that Mei was once a kids model - and that he's her idol-otaku?!

Also included are two short stories in vol. 2:

• Anya Kouro
• Wonderful Cafe ni Youkoso

From Beyond the Sky:

Akatsuki and his good friend Kiyoharu (whom Akatsuki calls Kiyo-chan) have been playing one-on-one basketball for quite sometime. Unfortunately, things started to change after they joined a very strong basketball team in their new school. Both of them were forced to separate into two groups: Kiyoharu was in the "B" group, and poor Akatsuki was put under "F" group, which is known as the "Failure" group. However, Akatsuki was not discouraged at all. He continues to train hard and always has a smile on his face. Will Akatsuki succeed in his promise to Kiyoharu to become an official player? And what is blocking the path to his goal?

In an alchemical ritual gone wrong, Edward Elric lost his arm and his leg, and his brother Alphonse became nothing but a soul in a suit of armor. Equipped with mechanical "auto-mail" limbs, Edward becomes a state alchemist, seeking the one thing that can restore his brother and himself... the legendary Philosopher's Stone

Note: Won the 49th Shogakukan Manga Award for the shounen category in 2004, the UK's Eagle Award for favorite manga in 2010 and 2011 and the Seiun Award for best science fiction comic in 2011.

Futakoi Alternative tells the story of Rentarō Futaba and his detective agency. One day a set of twins, Sara and Sōju, show up at his doorstep. They move in with him and work as secretaries for his agency.

From Wikipedia:

Shimeru Futaba is a normal high schooler living a normal life, active in his school's wrestling club and slowly getting closer to his awkward love interest, Misaki. This fails to last, as he discovers his family's hereditary genetic defect that becomes active at adolescence. Although it will eventually become controllable, excitement and stress now make Futaba switch sex. Hilarity ensues.

From Wingtip Cafe:

Udagawa Kachiko is a studious no-nonsense high-school girl. One day, she found an entrance to a fantastic world called Fusuma Land.

From Viz:
Miaka Yuuki is an ordinary junior-high student who is suddenly whisked away into the world of a book, "The Universe of th Four Gods". There she becomes the priestess of the god Suzaku, and is charged with finding all seven of her Celestial-Warrior protectors.

Abe Maria, an ordinary high-school boy and Nanami Tokuko's childhood friend, is the world's last pureblood vampire!! For 10 years, Tokuko has been encouraging him to become a part of human society, and since then, Maria has come to love humans. As such, Tokuko happily watches over Maria. This couple's story is the world's most gentle vampire comedy.

*Includes an extra story called Manshinsoui no Futari (The Wounds that Cover Us) in vol. 1 detailing a high-school romance between a boy who is suffering mentally and an extremely clumsy girl.

A Japanese student named Arisu gets on the wrong bus and winds up in some sort of homoerotic version of Lewis Carroll's Wonderland. The last thing you want to do in a land where people change shapes at the drop of a hat is to drop the soap and introduce yourself as Arisu (identical in Japanese to Alice), lest you start looking like one! And Arisu does, slowly but surely...

A fantasy story for kids featuring a girl named Melmo, who can change her age as she wishes by eating special candies.

Melmo's mother dies in a traffic accident, leaving young Melmo and her younger brother Totoo. Anxious, Melmo's mother in heaven asks God to prepare some magical candies, and hands them to Melmo.
There are two kinds: Melmo can grow 10 years older to become any sort of adult she wishes by eating a blue candy. By eating a red one, she can become 10 years younger.

Using these miracle candies, Melmo disguises herself as a nurse, schoolteacher, policewoman, and overcomes troubles together with her brother, Totoo.

The Furou siblings are well known for being extremely close. In the bathtub together, in the restroom together... what is the reason these twins can't be separated even for a moment...? Don't miss out on this hilarious horror comedy!

From The Waffle House:

Chiya brought Michiru to a very interesting cafe on her birthday. Upon eating the customized dessert, she was possessed by a prank-loving witch who intended to bring misfortune to the other ten boys who had also ordered from that day's special menu?!
Join Watanabe in this fun, magical adventure!

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Following the Tuatha de Danaan's seajacking incident, things are back to normal at Jindai High School in Tokyo, or as normal as they get with Sousuke guarding Kaname. After finding out who betrayed Mithril and caused the seajacking incident, Kurz and Mao are sent on a top secret mission in order to capture and bring the traitor back.

However, Sousuke and Kaname's lives are about to change when they meet Leonard Testarossa, a high ranking member of a mysterious group named Amalgam. After their meeting, Leonard warns her that he would do anything to recruit her even if it means war in the streets of Tokyo.

From ADV:

Sosuke has finally lost his mind - and his memory! Rehashing his previous exploits will keep Kaname busy, but it doesn't take long for the military mind of this soldier to bounce back with a bang - literally! He's locked, loaded, and back to his old self by first period, as bombs and bullets grace the halls of high school!