Saburo Onishi (or "Sabutan") wanders into a four-dimensional world through a crack in the wall of a underground road under construction. There he gains the ability to stop time. He decides to use this ability to help people.---**Volumes 56 and 57 of the Osamu Tezuka Complete Works**
After the tragedy that happened in her family, Arimura Aiko moves to another city. There she meets Matsumoto Hikaru, a former basketball player who also experienced a misfortune. They don't even suspect that their stories might be closely connected.
(from ebookjapan): Ippei Yasuda, heir to the Yasuda Zaibatsu, is back as a detective! Despite being a rookie, Ippei takes on cases head-on, but is confronted by the unreasonable crimes of those in power. Will Ippei be able to maintain his manly justice?
From MangaArt: There are 2 manga series in the book. In the first series, Magic, the background is set in the futuristic 2200's in the edge of the galaxy. Super model Kana has died in a space ship accident when she traveled to a planet on the edge of the galaxy. Her daughter was found 3 years after the magnetic storm has rested. A distant related cousin of Kana adopted the young child (he was also an old boyfriend of Kana!). Years later, Kana's child has grown up to be a teenage girl... In the second story, Silence, the background is set in modern Japan. A teenage boy is seeking revenge for his brother who was murdered by gangsters. He rides on his bicycle, approaches each of his enemy and then pulls out his pistol! No one is supposed to find out. But someone notices him...
"In nicht allzu ferner Zukunft werden die Städte von staatlich gelenkten Jugendbanden beherrscht. Wer keiner Gang angehört, ist als gesellschaftlicher Außenseiter gebrandmarkt. Der stille und geheimnisvolle Julian ist so ein Außenseiter, ebenso wie die hübsche Anna. Als Julian eines Tages Anna vor einer Abreibung durch eine der Gangs bewahrt, nimmt der Ärger seinen Lauf..." In a not too distant future, cities are controlled by government guided youth gangs. Those who are not in a gang are marked as outsiders. The silent and mysterious Julian is one of these outsiders, as well as the beautiful Anna. After Julian saved Anna from a beating at the hands of a gang, the story starts... --- In this series: V.1 - Personal Paradise V.2 - Miss Misery V.3 - Assassin Angel V.4-5 - Killer Kid Note: This is not an OEL!
Toki Mishiba, Nobuto Nakajyo, and Kazuo Saitoh are hired to play the Biz Game, a game much like capture the flag, only with company secrets and insane amounts of money involved. At first they think it's a crazy but fun way to get some money, but as the game goes on, they hear stories about mysterious deaths on the news, and recognize the victims as members of the teams they've beaten in the game. When one of the losers of a game dies right in front of them, they realize what is really at stake - their very lives! Note: Bus Gamer was originally published in shoujo magazine Stencil, but was later re-drawn and re-published in shounen magazine Comic REX. Both times it was axed after the magazine went under. This is the Comic REX version.
A manga adaption of Devilman partly based on the 70's anime.
There is a planet where all the inhabitants have mysteriously disappeared. This planet was called "Earth." Four people (Shiki, Miyuki, Yoshimura, and Satou) are dispatched to investigate the planet, its remaining living things, and the remains of the culture that once thrived there. Together, they pass peaceful days on the quiet Earth.
Two siblings, brother and sister, have been separated for a long time when meet up again. They soon learn that they were separated due to the fact that they were children of an ex-ruler from a small country. High-school girl and orphan Mahiro has had a hard life after her parents' death. Now, suddenly, while she is at work, two young men push her into a car and- OMG- kidnap her! With family united again and some nasty assassination attempts, Mahiro's life changes drastically. From Baka-Updates: Mahiro thought she was all alone in the world until her long-lost brother, Ren, and his handsome, mysterious friend showed up and turned everything upside down! Competent, determined and dangerous, the two men have vowed to protect the innocent girl from the ruthless Queen Phibula, who is hell-bent on seeing her dead. As Mahiro learns more about her forgotten past, she and her handsome bodyguards must face explosions, assassins, betrayal... and the promise of blossoming romance.
Asa and Kame meet on their first day of serving in the Ooku - and quickly discover that things there are more complicated than they imagined. A strange cult, an unexplained delay in a palace festival, and even samurai in the Ooku are just some of the oddities they encounter. And what does the Medicine Seller, who peddles love potions and mononoke exorcisms, have to do with any of this...?
A collection of four short stories. Chapter 1 is the 100 page title story. It's a supernatural shoujo about a man with one chance to escape from death, a mysterious woman he meets, and a tribe seeking to find its way back into Heaven. Chapter 2 deals with the mystery of a man gone missing, and presumed dead. Chapter 3 is a very short story about a couple in the mountains who pick up a strange guest. Chapter 4 is a longer story about the traditions binding a family, those that would break away from them, and the dark secret that holds the family in sway.
From Beautiful Soup: Matsuno Kaoru works for a department store that sells very elegant men's clothing. At this department store, there is a mannequin named Mister Veirne that brings about good business to the store. Strangely enough, Kaoru begins to notice how life-like Mister Veirne really is...
