From TokyoPop (based on volume 1): The World at the Brink of Self-Annihilation The nuclear age has brought with it the arms race, which has led to the advent of weapons powerful enough to destroy the world itself several times over. Unwilling to take the plunge into Armageddon, the world powers, in league with a group known only as the Black Ghost, have developed super soldiers known as the Cyborgs, designed to fight the wars of the world in space. Unfortunately, the Black Ghost didn't ask the Cyborgs how they felt about their role in the new world order. This classic work from manga legend Shotaro Ishinomori (Masked Rider) not only told a thrilling tale set against a backdrop of Cold War tensions, but it also helped define the genre of super team stories such as Battle of the Planets, Voltron, and The Power Rangers.
From MangaHelpers: 300 years ago, the demon lord attempted to take over the world but was defeated by a hero. But now, the demon lord has been reincarnated in the form of a cute girl who doesn't have any memory of her past. She still retains the same deadly powers, but her only resource is the memory robot assistant. The reemergence of the demon lord also means that somewhere, a new hero has appeared. The demon lord creates a fairy named Mao to locate this new hero who is said to have the hero's mark on his neck. However, what Mao finds is Alsha, a weak and a little timid young boy. As the cute demon lord observes and guides Alsha through Mao, who she has a direct connection to, in his quest to become the strong hero, she finds that he really is a hopeless young kid. [vyc]
Sakuma is a college student who works part time at the Akutabe detective agency. There she does regular office work for private investigator Akutabe. However, Sakuma soon learns that Akutabe is no ordinary detective, but in fact a demon detective. He is able to summon demons through the use of a grimoire and use each of their special abilities by providing an offering. He uses their magical powers to solve the case he is working on and he wants Sakuma to start learning demon summoning. As Sakuma begins her journey to be a demon detective, little does she know the repercussions of using demons.
From Shinmakoku Scanlations : Kanato is an average guy working in a small family business, while Shin is a handsome guy working for an elite company. They've been friends since childhood and seemingly at odds, until one day Shin suddenly attacks Kanato... with a kiss ♥!
The prestigious Arima family has an excellent butler. When the head of the family takes in an exotic-looking bastard-girl as a favor for his friend, it is up to the butler to tame her wildcat personality.
The young lady Lina originally comes from the wealthy count Randall’s family line. However, because of the bad weather that resulted in bad crops and because of her good-natured father, the family ended up being severely swindled. She quickly fell and became a poverty-stricken young lady. But then one day Lina is forced to participate in the evening party to decide the fiancée of the third prince Gilberto..... Since she stuck out like a sore thumb she decided to leave after she got a glance of the prince but.... What is that dazzling light behind the cheers of joy the young ladies are making...!?
Absolute Four Heavenly Seats! Three hundred years after the disappearance of the martial arts of the Four Absolutes. Someone entered Biryong Island with a child. Lee Moo-Hwan, who learns his identity and the secrets of his parents, now ascends to heaven!
Chigusa is a businessman who lives alone. One day he picks up a dirty hairball-like animal, thinking it’s a cat. He washes and feeds it and puts it to bed, but the next morning… in the room there’s an adolescent with cat ears and a tail, which Chigusa has never seen before. He calls Chigusa “Master” and wants to serve him hard, so Chigusa names him “Kedama (hairball)” and they start living together, but…
What happened to that girl who changed so much?
From: Fujoshi Bitches "Sensei, an impure same-sex friendship, what's that?" Love. It comes all of a sudden even to delinquents. A pint-sized punk is fascinated by the earnestness of the black-haired, pessimistic committee chairman; two punks start going out only as a defiance to everyday monotony; and two boys cut classes at their usual spot, the rooftop, where they end up having an adult relationship. Also after that, extras on these three couples. Triple features, satisfaction guaranteed. A compilation of oneshots packed with the follies of youth.
From MangaHelpers: Luca's friend Will, who is from a lower-class segment of society, has gone missing. Luca's only clue to find his friend is his fondness for a certain club in the entertainment district, where a woman named Yue performs. Will had always said they should go there together sometime. When Luca goes down alone to try to speak to Yue, though, he ends up being beaten badly. Luckily, Yue herself finds him, and takes him to her friend Takaomi to be patched up. It soon becomes clear that Will has fallen victim to a chimera sickness that is becoming common in the lower classes. Luca is determined to find his friend, and to save him. [tethysdust]
Seri Koyuki is just trying to have a normal school life, but instead he ends up acting as the straight man to his odd classmate, Kabuto Hanadori. Kabuto is is a delusional high school student, whose fantasies range from believing he is a knight on a journey, to claiming that removing his eyepatch will release a darker alter-ego who he refers to as Michael Offenbarung Dunkelheit. Seri is determined not to let himself get pushed around by Kabuto, but it seems that this will be easier said than done!
Konoe Subaru, a classmate of Sakamachi Kinjirou, has been serving as the butler of Suzutsuki Kanade in school. Due to an accident, Sakamachi discovers Konoe's secret...that he is actually a she!? Apparently she will be removed from her position if anyone at school finds out. What will unfold from this chain of events?
On a coaching journey in the Bayankala Mountain Range in the Qinghai Province of China, his father Genma and Ranma Saotome belong to the cursed springs at Jusenkyo. They take the physical kind of whatever drowned there hundreds or 1000s of years past every time they touch cold-water when somebody falls into a spring. The hex will revert when exposed until their chilly water exposure to hot-water. While Ranma falls into the springtime of a drowned woman Genma falls to the springtime of a panda. Upon returning to Japan, the pair settle in Nerima, Tokyo in the dojo of Genma's old friend Soun Tendo, a fellow professional of Musabetsu Kakuto Ryu or "Anything-Goes School" of martial-arts which Genma passed on to Ranma. Soun and Genma concurred years ago that their kids would marry and carry-on the Tendo Dojo. Soun has three teenaged daughters: the somewhat spiteful, martial-arts, the indifferent and selfish Nabiki and the easygoing and polite Kasumi training Akane. Akane, who's Ranma's age, is named for bridal duty by her sisters using the logical thinking that because Ranma is just a guy half of that time period and Akane dislikes guys, they're perfect together. Both Akane and Ranma refuse the betrothal initially, having not been consulted on the conclusion, however they can be usually handled as betrothed and wind up saving or helping each other on some events. They can be generally found in the business of each other and therefore are always claiming in their own hallmark clumsy love-hate mode which is a franchise focus. Ranma goes to school with Akane at Furinkan High School (Furinkan Koko), where he fulfills his revenant adversary Tatewaki Kuno, the conceited kendo team captain who vigorously pursues Akane, but in addition falls in-love with Ranma's female form without actually finding his hex (despite most other figures understanding it). Nerima functions as a backdrop for mo-Re martial-arts mayhem with all the debut of Ranma's routine competitions, like the eternally lost Ryoga Hibiki who traveled half-way across Japan becoming to the rear in the very front of his home, where Ranma spent three times waiting for him. Where he finally falls to the Spring of Drown Piglet, Ryoga, seeking revenge on Ranma, adopted him to Jusenkyo. Now when splashed with cold-water he takes the kind of a small pig. Not understanding this, Akane requires the piglet as names and a pet it Pchan, but Ranma understands and loathes him for using the scenario and keeping this key. Another competitor is the nearsighted Mousse, who becomes a duck when he gets damp and also falls into the pool that is magic, last but not least, there's Ranma's impish grand-master, Happosai, who spends his time stealing the panties of schoolgirls. Ranma's future paramours range from the martial-arts rhythmic gymnastics champ his 2nd fiancee and youth pal Ukyo Kuonji, and Kodachi Kuno the seller that is okonomiyaki, combined with the Chinese Amazon Shampoo, supported by her greatgrandmother Cologne. As the show progresses, the college becomes more eccentric using the return of the demented, Hawaii- the keeping the energy as well as obsessed Principal Kuno -leeching switching kid/adult Hinako Ninomiya as Ranma's English teacher. Ranma's irresolution to decide on his love that is true causes turmoil in college life and his intimate
Nekoya Ai is a cute teenager who turns into a cat uncontrollably when he is under emotional distress. After being cornered by delinquents he gets help from a scary looking guy who turns out to be a real cat lover and his classmate to top it off. Will Ai be able to keep his shape shifting condition a secret?
The story starts with the death of Hikaru Mikado. That guy was a natural charmer, a “harem king”, but had no real male friends. After he died, he became a ghost, a soul, but Koremitsu Akagi can see him. Koremitsu though, isn’t really like Hikaru. His red hair and his evil-looking eyes make him look as a delinquent, even though he is very kind inside. Hikaru asks him a favour: he wants to fulfill a promise, which he couldn't fulfill anymore. The promise was to give his girlfriend and fiancée, Aoi Saotome, 7 gifts for her seventeenth birthday. Koremitsu accepts, and has to work hard to help fulfill Hikaru’s promise with Aoi.
[from Fantasy Shrine :] Kikuchi Yo, a travel agency owner dreams of turning the “Blue Rose”, a British noble mansion into a hotel. He enthusiastically approaches Baron Gilfred, owner of the mansion, with his plans. Unbeknownst to him, he’s walking into the Baron’s trap…! A gorgeous love story between a nobleman and a business owner. (sequel) Koushaku no Himeta Kuchizuke (continues the story of the Duke and the Prince)
A girl from the Edo era somehow time-travels to modern Japan and finds the reincarnation of her dead lover in Tokyo... a middle school kid. He wants nothing to do with her. A little "get to know you" story.
