It is the year 2025, and NASA has announced the crew members–including Japanese astronaut Hibito Namba –of the first mission to live on the moon for an extended period. Meanwhile, in Japan, Hibito’s auto designer older brother Mutta Numba is despondent after losing his job. Although the two brothers have followed vastly different paths, their respective destinies begin to move and merge as the result of a vow they exchanged as boys.

Note: Was nominated for the Manga Taishō in 2009 and 2010. Won the award for best general manga at the 56th Shogakukan Manga Awards and at the Kodansha Manga Award (shared with March Comes in Like a Lion) in 2011. Won the Reader Prize of the 18th Tezuka Osamu Cultural Prize 2014.

In the year 300X, a cruel dictator has mandated the hunting of all hair in the Maruhage Empire. But a single man rises to the occasion and takes a stand against this violation of human hair rights. Bo-bobo, master of Fist of the Nose Hair, uses the prehensile hairs of his schnoz to most lethal ends. Follow the nonsensical adventures of Bo-bobo and his sentient sidekick snacks as they lead their hilarious rebellion against the Empire.

Harada's collection of stories presenting "negative" perspective on life. Includes:

- Koukai no Umi (Regret of The Sea)
"The three of us were always together. On the graduation day I had to reject his feelings. But without my knowledge this two guys..."

- Suimenka (Behind The Closed Doors)
Sweet yet tragic love triangle between childhood friends. Complement to Koukai no umi.

- Pierce Hole (Piercings)
This is a story between Mr. Usui, an 'ordinary businessman' and another ordinary man working at a massage parlor. However, unknown by the people around him, Mr. Usui actually has many piercings hidden behind his suit and when our protagonist at the massage parlor finds out about this he is quickly intrigued! But are these piercings simply for aesthetics or is there a deeper meaning behind them?

- Restart
New Age style BL. Two men were in a casual relationship, as declared by the uke, Miki, but the real shape of their relationship only appears after an accident.

- Watashitachi wa Byplayer (We’re Supporting Actors)
(from MbE) There are love stories that you can’t say how they got so complicated. A three-way struggle with an ultra-popular woman, an ultra-popular man, and a guy with a plain face. The martial arts of love!
BL from a Girls POV (also included in Joshi BL)


Paired with Poji

All the Ore no Sora series deal with the Yasuda family. The first two series are about Yasuda Ippei. This is a Otoko Roman Manga and the genre is about Japanese men fantasizing about being successful in the world.

From Dan of Population GO:

In a world where girls who have turned into an "Eternal Labyrinth" endangers the world, only one person doesn't want to kill them. Arisu Shinnosuke hates society which revels in those who kill the labyrinth diseased girls. Only he strives to find the cure and reverse the disease all in order to save his little sister, who turned.

An interpretation of Sound Horizon's 7th Story CD Märchen.

Will the promise made by the boy and the girl in days of the past come true? The curtain for the revenge tragedy at dusk is lifted.

The return of the famous teen detective, Kindaichi Hajime. With his keen intellect and sharp wits, there is no case he cannot solve, in the name of his grandfather!

Hachimitsu Private Academy was a revered and elite all-girls’ boarding school on the outskirts of Tokyo…once upon a time. But with the new school year comes a revision to school policy: Boys are to be admitted into the student body for the first time ever. But on his first day at Hachimitsu, Kiyoshi Fujino discovers that he’s one of only five boys enrolled at the school. Their numbers overwhelmed by the thousand girls in the student body, is it heaven or hell that awaits these five (un)fortunates?!

Note: Was one of two winners of the Best General Manga award alongside Gurazeni at the 37th Kodansha Manga Award in 2013.

From Fluff Words:

1st Story -- Katsumi, a university student who hates troublesome matters a lot, leaves all the household chores to his childhood friend and flatmate, Akira. He’s lazy to the point that he doesn’t want a girlfriend and gets call ladies to take care of his sex drive. Katsumi happens to find out that Akira likes him one day. Initially feeling indifferent about it, he starts to get impatient as there is no change in Akira’s behaviour even after the revelation. Katsumi eventually realises that he is worried because he hopes that their relationship can develop further…

From Hoshikuzuu Scans:

A young photographer, Hirami Yuichi visits an island for an exhibition and meets the gallery's owner, Asahina Jun and fell in love at first sight. Even with a direct approach, it doesn't reach the heterosexual Asahina. However, one day when Asahina talked about his past with him, he was moved and he hugged him. Getting closer or staying away, both of them make it hard to leave. A painful love story that will squeeze your heartstrings. It is Nishi Noriko's debut piece!

When Kassey was young, her grandmother used to tell her stories with adorable and fantastic characters called "Yumon". Now Kassey has suffered an accident and became stuck inside her dreams where she has close encounters with those now-not-so adorable real creatures like she wished, involved with a terrible criminal who's head was looked for with a tempting reward in exchange; his name is Eon

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Granted superhuman abilities via cybernetic implants, they were created to be the pawns of a corrupt and evil corporation. Free and united against their creators, they are known as Cyberforce.

Would you like an older man dressed in suits? She was never this popular before university but before she knew it, Risa was way out of everyone’s league. The one who saves her from this cruel fate is a handsome man who can rock his suits, Fukami-san. What will he offer Risa, who is a beginner at love…!?

Comics that get you.

Nakajima Atsushi was kicked out of his orphanage, and now he has no place to go and no food. While he is standing by a river, on the brink of starvation, he rescues a man whimsically attempting suicide. That man is Dazai Osamu, and he and his partner Kunikida are members of a very special detective agency. They have supernatural powers, and deal with cases that are too dangerous for the police or the military. They're tracking down a tiger that has appeared in the area recently, around the time Atsushi came to the area. The tiger seems to have a connection to Atsushi, and by the time the case is solved, it is clear that Atsushi's future will involve much more of Dazai and the rest of the detectives.

From the master of love comedy manga, Wakabayashi Toshiya, comes a high school fairy tale about love☆!

Shindou Rei (Cinderella) comes from a very poor family. Her only clothes are hand-me-downs from her brother, even her school uniform. So everyone always mistakes her for a boy. Even her close friend Hakuba Ouji (white horse prince), who starts developing confusing feelings toward her all the while believing she's a boy. Tsukumo Yuki (Snow White) is the leader of a delinquent gang and falls in love with Rei at first sight, also believing her to be a boy.

From Dan of Population GO:
Based on the light novel of the same name, Kishimine Kengo has avoided playing video games his whole life in a society filled with it. Instead, he prefers the comforts of books of which he has a tendency to get drawn into the story, perhaps a little too much. Every time he reads a story he unintentionally imagines reliving the story as the protagonist. When Kengo learns of the Modern Game club fate may let him use his imagination for another medium, video games.

From Antisense Scanslations:
New shinigami Hikari is doing her best every day to get used to her onerous duties. The only thing that keeps her going is the kindness of her superior, Commander Ryouma. But, when a disastrous event happens among the shinigami, everything changes... This slightly steamy manga is Fujita Maguro's latest work.

Marisa Kirisame runs into Hieda no Akyuu on her way through the Human Village, and notices that she's carrying a strange book - a youma book, said to be indecipherable. Afterwards she makes her way to the Hakurei Shrine to ask Reimu Hakurei about them, but she doesn't know much on the subject. Marisa explains their dark and mysterious nature, and the two decide to take a visit to Suzunaan to talk to Kosuzu Motoori about it. She reveals her collection of demon books, as well as her recently-awakened powers that allow her to decipher any sort of script. Reimu worries that it might be dangerous, but Kosuzu is not very concerned.

From Summer Rain:

Arashi has discovered a way to create and sell human-like dolls using sweet substances, dolls that are able to serve their master in different ways according to the "Dessert" they have been fed. Rokuka, one of Arashi's dolls, was fed a "love Dessert" and has therefore learned to love her master and wants to make her master happy. But what happens when she goes against Arashi's decision to sell her because of a love strung too deep...?!