From Tokyopop: A lonely yet caring 15-year-old Chiaki, the half-angel daughter of the Archangel Michael and a human woman, welcomes into her home a dejected devil Ororon who pledges to stay at her side forever. Both of them have been ostracized from their respective celestial realms--Chiaki because her origins are impure and Ororon because he is the youngest son of the Lord Devil and therefore a threat to his older brothers for leadership of the underworld. As various agents of heaven come by to destroy the angel Chiaki, she learns that having the incredibly powerful Ororon by her side is useful. And as assassin after assassin comes to eliminate Ororon, he learns that Chiaki can teach him a valuable lesson about the sanctity of life.
Satomi wakes up late one morning and starts running to school, but she crashes onto Keshi. They both stare at each other for a moment and noticed they switched bodies! Now Keshi is in Satomi's body and Satomi is in Keshi's body. They have to continue the other's life until they fix their problem. But things get complicated when Mariko, Satomi's best friend, confesses that she likes Naoshige to Keshi, in Satomi's body, and he doesn't know what to do. Includes two other stories: • Mushibana After graduating from middle school, HIRAI Yuka hopes to gain many new friends and a handsome boyfriend in high school. But during her days before entering high school she manages to get a major tooth ache which totally ruins her class introduction and kills her chances of gaining new friends and boyfriend. Forced to go to the dentist and feeling like her life couldn't get any worse, she makes a chance meeting with a bishounen, Yuuki Yuuta-kun at the dental clinic, Yuka's life is suddenly starting to look better!? - Intercross • Tomodachi Sando
Deep in Scotland Yard in London sits an evidence room, where artifacts of the greatest mysteries in London history are kept. In this "Black Museum" sits two bullets, fused together after a head-on collision. This was the key piece of evidence in a case that brought together a supernatural Man in Gray and the famous nurse and activist Florence Nightingale—the only person who can see him. Surrounded by war and suffering, the lady enters into a desperate pact with this ghostlike man… **Links:** - (https://twitter.com/Ufujitakazuhiro)
1) The Welcoming Fire- when fuyuki goes to his grandma's house for the o-bon festival, he gets sick and has an illusion about a soilder named seita, who completely confuses him for someone named fuyuhiko- and confesses his love for him!!! who's fuyuhiko??? and why does seita make fuyuki feel so strange?!?! 2) The Sea Roar - The beautiful young son of a nobleman falls in love with his tutor who smells of his hometown near the ocean. To enchant the tutor he sings a love song and dances. When the nobleman hears the tutor is dismiss. The young lover runs to catch up with his tutors or risks losing him forever. 3) The Delicious Family Affair (WARNING: CONTAINS INCEST) 4) The Dragon Knight & The Prince 5) Sinner's Kiss Jan was thrown into jail as an offering to the “Blond Demon” Ruehl!! In the world of wardens and inmates, knight and prince, father and brothers, will the boy Jan find a home for his soul? Don’t miss this lustful, passionate love story between men. 6) Angel's Kiss
A short story published in the October 2011 issue of the fashion magazine Spur, in which the mangaka mixes advertising for Gucci products with a little supernatural flavour courtesy of Kishibe Rohan and his grandmother's old traveling bag.
From Intercross: Riko's dream is to write picture books for children. However, she has no confidence in her drawings, so she never shows them to anyone, especially because then children said they suck in her dreams. One day, she happens to meet Akane, a spirit from a sakura tree. With his help, Riko remembers her first intentions of wanting to write picture books and starts to have more confidence in her drawings.
A man suddenly gets off the train at some rural station, and soon comes to realize that this town can't be found on any map. Even stranger are the manners of Urushima's townspeople - because over there people are doing it openly on the street, in broad daylight, just like you'd say "hello" to somebody elsewhere. And there are many other things being weird about this little town Urushima, seasons are randomly coming and going, and our protagonist meets the woman of his life. Shouldn't be hard to get her given the prevalent manners...
High school student Yukari Fujimaru knows a potential star when she sees one because she sees the special "aura" they give off, in the form of angelic wings. Yukari's fellow student, the beautiful and responsible student body vice president, Ryoko Katsuragi, has a small pair of wings herself, and is one of these aspiring talents. She's so talented, in fact, that no one even knows that "she" is actually a boy in disguise. Due to a series of events, Yukari has come to discover Ryoko, or rather, Ryou's secret, and is hired as a manager for Ryou by the president of the Peacock Talent Agency. Living together with the promising Ryou and his rather dashing room mate, Makoto Ayori, the number one star in Peacock who is also the lazy, ruffle-headed student body president, is bound to be an adventure! Now, to make her own down-to-earth dream come true Yukari must help her new friend become a star while doing her best to protect both her beloved room mates. read right to left. but read vol.5 ch.24 and 25 from left to right.
A bitter, washed up manga artist receives a mysterious gift from a fan... A one-shot by Takahashi Rumiko to celebrate the 45th anniversary of the Japanese semimonthly seinen anthology, Big Comic.
From Storm in Heaven:The local gods are out of followers, and only have one yokai to give them power! Can Mizuchi, the yokai, bring any more into the fold?
Riu Rokugiya is the only daughter of a famous Kabuki theatre house. Since she was small, she had always dreamt the same dream about meeting a man under the red moon. A man she didn't know, until she attended one of the performances of her brothers. The man turns out to be one of the Akatsukiya's heir, Rui. The Akatsukiyas were distant relative of the Rokugiyas. Just recently, its Head, Ashikawa Enjuuro died. The family is on the process of choosing its successor among the three adopted sons, one of which is Rui. What relation will Rui have with Riu? Why was she dreaming of him dying every night?
From Esthétique: I heard a rumor... it's about a black box that contains all the weird and wonderful things in the world. There's nothing that the box can not do. It can grant you any wish in the world. Such a profound, mysterious story. Almost all rumors are basically like this, whether it's true or not is not important. As long as the story is interesting, everything is fine. Thus, the story begins, with a high school boy, a black box, and a mysterious girl.