It's a hard-knock life for Kotarou. His father is always away on business, and his mother recently passed away. He spends a lot of time alone... and he hates it. Maybe he can make good use of his solitude--his middle school exams are looming ahead, and he needs to buckle down and study hard. But his concentration--along with his loneliness--is shattered when a zany girl named Misha unexpectedly moves in next door to him. Soon, Misha starts popping up everywhere Kotarou goes! Although she seems to have a stalker's mentality, Misha claims she's an angel. Her mission: To make sure Kotarou is happy and safe. That's a tall order, since Misha seems to know almost nothing about life on Earth! What will become of the two of them, will love flurish from their friendship?! -Tokyopop

One day a demon fell right out of the sky, landing into the human world, not to mention into Hirosaki Chihiro's backyard. As time fled the 2 friends became closer to each other and Hirosaki's life began to end. What will the demon do to help Hirosaki? ~Ca55i3

From Midnight Scans: Story 1: Rakuen Nana, a 16-year-old girl, has had a happy relationship for 1 year with a University student named Shugo. Though, it all comes to a halt, when a doctor tells her that in 6 months, she will become completely blind. While her condition worsens everyday, she decides not to tell Shugo anything because she fears she will be pitied. Will their love be able to survive this tragedy or will it go all downhill? Story 2: Summer Rain - A girl and her mother move to the countryside where her father had been raised up in, the lonely girl finds herself in a friendship with somebody new... Story 3: The Smiling Doll - ''We'll always be together,'' her friend had said to her before she died...

Meet Min Su, the ultimate playboy. One day on a rainy day he meets a girl; naturally he had to get her. When she left, she dropped her cell phone which Min Su found. After tracking her down, he confesses to her, however she didn't want a relationship with him; when Min Su is able to truly show his love for her, they can finally get together. But will his love be enough, when Min Su find out that...?

Yoshika and Yukina are best friends at school. Yukina is both physically beautiful and possesses a kind and gentle personality that charms everyone who knows her, including her wonderful boyfriend. Yoshika is less traditionally beautiful and has a less alluringly feminine personality. In addition, she desperately likes Yukina's boyfriend. While Yoshika does care for her friend, she is also deeply envious of her. One day, a demon in the form of a house cat appears to Yoshika and offers her the supernatural power to take whatever she wants from her friend. How far will Yoshika let her jealousy of her best friend take her?

Is a manga which Miyazaki wrote for a newspaper targeted for children. It is more of a graphic novel than a manga, since most of the text are written outside of the frames and there are very few dialogue bubbles (though towards the end of the story, it moved closer to the traditional manga style). The surprisingly dark story deals with the devastation of war, betrayal, and the ugliness of the human nature under desperate situations, including deaths of several characters. One can see the influence of TEZUKA Osamu in the art style of this manga (as in most of the manga written in this time).

"For you I will sing... for your eternal repose."A requiem draws the dead. A requiem draws the night. A requiem singer is cursed.Tsuki, a requiem singer, often mistakenly called "Death", meets San, a girl who wants to die.

A One shot. As children, Kaoru and Kentarou witnessed the beautiful miracle of the blooming sakura tree. Their bond is deep, but Kentarou has been traumaticized by his unhappy home life. Can Kaoru, and the memories she and Kentarou share, help him endure?

Sakura Gari is gorgeous Taishou Era romantic story, ten years in the making. It centers around the 17 year old Tagami Masataka as he is aiming to find his place in life. While attempting to start prep school as a rounin he encounters Saiki Souma, the son of a distinguished noble of the Saiki Koushyaku family and becomes part of the Saiki household . It seems as though this will be the story of Tagami's life, taking us through both him growing up physically and emotionally. Be aware that there is sexual and yaoi (boy x boy) content within this story. The first chapter is only getting us started... -- Manga Updates

Tina, a homeless girl, is ill-treated by her village and is left to be a sacrifice to a lamenting vampire.

From An Endless Story: Popular stories from fashion magazine Zipper have made their way into a special book. Letter by Hazuki Kanae "Who are you?" On a certain day, she discovered a letter left in her school desk... My Best by Fujisue Sakura "I can't touch him, because we are friends." Where will these unsuppressable feelings lead us... Miss You by Kumiko Saiki And the day they part ways finally arrives... Goodbye, I'll See You Tomorrow by Tomoko Noguchi Yasaki, who finally gets a boyfriend, now has to enter into a long distance relationship! Even though she thought that the pain of not being able to see him was the same... CHERRY by Matsumoto Nanako The only person that would suit her is someone as extraordinarily popular as she is, right!? The person in question should definitely be... To the You Who is Here by Haneda Ibuki Does she still seem like a child to her older boyfriend? All she wants is for him to glance her way...

Collection of short stories:• SheherazadeYouko just started working as an office lady at a new company. According to the gossip, Shinogami, her boss, is cursed and any girl who gets involved with him will die. After a lively welcome party, a drunken Youko wakes up in Shinogami's bed. What will become of her and this gorgeous man?• Sheet no SukimaMomoko and her boyfriend go to apply for a marriage registration form, but the man at the public office, Hisame, is so rude that he offers them a divorce registration form as well! One month later, Momoko returns and...?• Yoru no BanninMaya consistently stays late at night at the office to finish her work, which earns her a nickname from the security guards. One guard in particular won't allow her to stay despite her cries of saying that she'll be done in 5 minutes. However, he notices that she's been getting thinner and decides to make her lunch?! What exactly is going on?• BlancGirl is getting married soon and goes to visit her cousin that she grew up with. However they're closer than just family.(Also included in Kinjirareta Ai no Kajitsu)• KizuatoA woman whose husband was killed in a car accident sexually abuses her handsome servant.(Also included in Kinjirareta Ai no Kajitsu)• IzayoiTsukiko is driven to suicide, while Akito tries to keep her away from her doctor. But what is Akito's relationship between Tsukiko and the doctor; what is the doctor's real identity and who exactly is Akito?

From Tokyopop: Legends say that when it snows, it is because the snow princess is crying. A collection of five tragic tales, all connected by the bond of snow. Shirahime-syo is CLAMP's tribute to traditional Japanese form and storytelling.

Follow the friendship of Tetsu and Gorou from the Koushien to adulthood.

From Sumie: A love story between two souls separated by their stations in life, in the form of a tattoo.

Consists of three stories: 1) Boys Next Door - Lawrence is a young male prostitute whose actual aim was to look for his brother. Unknowingly, he did find his brother - the owner of the young boys prostitute club. However, his life was about to change when he witnessed the killing of one of the biggest serial killers - Dr. Wolfgang Adrain Cray. Instead of running away, he searches for the murderer and falls in love with him. Adrian, who is basically a nice person (he is a school teacher) takes in Lawrence and reciprocates Lawrence's love. but Lawrence's brother was not too happy about losing a possible money tree and sends out his gang in search of Lawrence. 2) Devil Inside - Rick Randool has a dangerous condition which affects a few unfortunate members of his family. - Omanga 3) When a Heart Beats - All Ted wanted was a guitar. But the price he paid to get one was a young girl's life. Many years later he meets her again and...

Collection of One shots, include 1) MP0 2) She Monkey 3) Snow in the Dark A one-shot fairy tale which shares many elements of the traditional story of Snow White but is certainly unique and complex enough that it is more than just a reinterpretation. 4) 桐野佐亜子と仲間たち

Yorito is a high school student who likes to take photographs of the sky. A chance meeting introduces him to Matsuri, but she is no ordinary girl—it turns out that she’s actually a 350 year-old Yaka, an immortal being that cannot go out into the light! As such, Matsuri has been forced to live a life of solitude, and Yorito is the first friend she’s ever had. But there is much more to the Yaka than first meets the eye, and a sword-wielding man named Takeshi seems intent on harming Matsuri, but for what reason? Now thrust into a supernatural battle, will Yorito have the courage to protect their friendship for Matsuri’s sake?

Stork, the man with no memories, and Tit, the boy with no home, travel across the grim world where the sky is grey and the birds are believed extinct. They have met accidentally and continued together, both searching. Stork searches for his past and Tit searches for a bird. They are followed by the dark mysterious man, who may have relation to Stork's past.

A warrior, plundering the people for money, finds a military dog, a creation that with the power of a dog and the intelligence of a human and takes the dog in as his own and becomes the dog's master.

It's about a rich man's daughter and a orphan boy growing up together and falling in love. But when her parents die, her aunt wants to send the boy away to college and make her marry a respectful man to save the family reputation. [From mangatraders] In a quiet area of France during WWII, a very young orphan boy was left on the steps of a large mansion on the same day that a daughter was born to the bourgeois family living there. From that day on, Francis and Natalie grew up together and found themselves falling deeply in love. As talk of their marriage began to stir, Natalie suddenly lost her parents to a plane crash, leaving her aunt as her guardian. This aunt, vehemently opposed to Natalie's engagement to a mere orphan, which drove Natalie and Francis to elope. Unfortunately, they were caught. Rather than be torn apart from each other, Natalie and Francis decide to spend eternity together by jumping off a cliff. Through a cruel twist of fate, however, only Natalie survives...Is there even a smidgen of hope that Natalie will somehow be able to find her love once again? An amazingly well-developed, emotional work of art from Ichijo Yukari.

A collection of four short stories.Chapter 1 is the 100-page title story. It's a supernatural fantasy tale 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.

Have you ever heard of a crow that could speak it's mind and a forever-curryeating-family?

What would you do if you found out that your neighbour is a serial killer...? From The Duck Webcomics: ''Second thriller of Team Getname. An ordinary man in an unordinary situation. "How superior were you today?" A story of Killer V.S Assasin and a ordinary man between it.''