This is the first character book for the Shaman King series. It is very text heavy, and focuses alot of the characters.

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.

Akohito is a simple guy who wants to find a perfect girl, until he met Agate who was a marble turn into a human. He thought his life was turn into a Shōjo manga but he didnt know his life turn into a Shounen manga instead and he will discover that Agate is not just marble girl but is an aion soul weapon.

Collection of short stories including • Miyama Uguisutei Jiken (The Miyama-Uguisu Mansion Incident) Ao no Futsumashi (Exorcist) pilot chapter • Hoshi Ota

From AnimeNewsNetwork: She calls herself Sexy Voice. To most of the world, she's just Hayashi Niko, an ordinary schoolgirl - but when time permits, she lives a double life as a hired investigator/spy. To help her, she has recruited the rather unlikely assistant she calls Robo, a geeky lump of a man who doesn't really know why he feels the need to do everything she tells her to. He just does it. Together, the odd team solve a number of cases for Sexy Voice's employer, an aging gangster.

Oneshot description: Inside of every human lie dormant superpowers. When these powers are awakened, some people use them for evil. Others use their power to stop those who commit evil deeds. One cruel boy named Hiruko has taken over his high school by using his superpowers. The students live in fear of him, until the day a mysterious transfer student, with his arm wrapped in a giant cast, arrives to stop him.

As a boy, Taishi saved a tiny chick being bullied by its brothers and sisters. And now it’s grown up into a hot girl who wants to do his every bidding! Did we mention she lays eggs, too?

[From Omanga]: A coming-of-age story from Jiro Matsumoto (the author of Freesia) about a young, aspiring photographer named Soma. He's going nowhere, stuck in a mire of sex and drugs, until a horrible end to a one night stand sets him on a path that changes his life forever. WARNING: Mature content. Do not be surprised if you come across disturbing imagery.

It's a time in the future -- a time where the creation of life itself has evolved to include biodroids named after the ancient Greeks and cyborg warriors programmed to destroy. The power struggle between the various synthetic life-forms and the humans could mean the end of all life. But there is one, named Typhon, who may be able to prevent that.

Ever since he was a kid, Hoshino Yuuda was forced to care for himself. For someone who grew up all alone, having someone like Saitou Yukihito confessing his wish to die for Hoshino was just plain absurd. Though, thinking that he could make use of Saitou, Hoshino proposed that they should start off as friends. However, will Saitou’s advances lead to something more?

[From Aku Tenshi]: The world of Waq Waq is a place where machines attack the black-blooded humans, whose only defense are the Sakimori, humans chosen to partner up with the Goujin-zou, a race of machines that grow stronger when melded to humans. Shio and his Sakimori father, Al, upon entering a village, are attacked by the machines. As Al falls in battle, he leaves his son to become the new Sakimori and guardian of a mysterious young girl, believed to be god, found at the heart of the battle. Waq Waq is the story of Shio as he battles to protect what was entrusted to him by his father. Let the battle for God begin!

Yoshimatsu Hotaka is the president of the manga club and is always diligent with his studies and club responsibilities, even though he has a habit of skiping class activities. Although he looks like a regular honor student in reality he is overwhelmed by melancholy and haunted by his past misfortunes. Meanwhile, he makes sure to admire and watch Awaya Nika, the beautiful, bright, radiant, super cheerful swimming club's female ace. He's content to continue his high school days like this until the P.E. teacher makes him take a private swimming lesson to make up for all the other lessons he had missed; a development that would forever change the dynamic between him and Awaya.What's the cause of Hotaka's bitterness? What does he want to hide? How does Awaya Nika have more in common with him than he could ever imagine? +

is a Japanese manga series illustrated and written by Atsushi Okubo. Looking to create the latter a "death scythe" and therefore fit for use by the school's headmaster Shinigami, the personification of departure, they need to gather the souls of 99 wicked people and one witch, in that sequence; otherwise, they're going to have to begin all over again. is placed at Death Weapon Meister Academy --"DWMA" for short--situated in the fictional Death City in Nevada, United States. The institution is run as a training facility for the wielders of these weapons, named meisters, in addition to individuals together with the capacity to transform into weapons, also called Death, by Shinigami. Medusa and her cohorts assault DWMA together with the aim of restoring the first kishin who almost plunged the world into insanity before being secured beneath DWMA by Shinigami, Asura. Even with the combined efforts of Death the Kid, Black Star, and Maka, Asura, who leaves to spread mayhem all over the world following a short conflict with Shinigami is successfully revived by the group of Medusa. Nevertheless, Medusa befriend Maka and is apparently killed by meister and DWMA teacher Franken Stein in the act, while Crona surrenders to the DWMA and goes to register there. As an outcome of Asura's distributing insanity, the older sister Arachne of Medusa comes out of hiding after 800 years. Arachne reforms her organization Arachnophobia, which poses itself as a critical danger to DWMA. Shinigami calls all over the world to assist in the struggle against Arachnophobia from in passing scythes. In now, Medusa forms truce, and reappears along with her soul within the body of a woman so they could annihilate the risk of Arachnophobia collectively. The DWMA pupils and brainwash Crona into rejoining her, possess Arachne's body, and the entourage of Medusa infiltrate the headquarters where Maka gets the better of Arachne, just for Medusa to betray DWMA of Arachnophobia. Meanwhile, Noah, an artificial concept created in the Book of Eibon's Tables of Contents captures Death the Kid. Following this, Maka eventually succeeds in turning Soul Eater into a passing scythe. Crona resurfaces in a city in Russia, destroying it and killing the departure scythe stationed there, eventually being chosen by madness after killing Medusa while DWMA hunts for Asura's location. Shinigami orders Maka to hunt down Crona, and she accidentally finds Asura's place on the moon, while hunting for Crona with her powers. An assault is launched by the DWMA on the moon to take Asura down, only to be repelled by his militaries that are Clown. Maka as well as the others find a way to choose the upper hand helped by the witches after Death the Kid successfully convinces them to set up a short-term alliance, but the situation gets a lot more chaotic using the hindrance of Crona, who consumes Asura's body before being overtaken by him. The manga was released as three different one and is published by Square Enix -shots serialized in one Gangan Wing and two Gangan Powered special versions in 2003. Yen Press has licensed for distribution in North America the manga. A manga series that runs alongside the primary collection, named Soul Eater Not!, started serialization on January 12, 2011 in Monthly Shonen Gangan.   Maka Albam Maka Albarn is among the primary protagonists of . She's a young but committed pupil who takes another prodigious meister, after her mom. Nevertheless, her relationship with her dad Spirit is strained due to his continuous flirtations with girls, leading her parents. Therefore, Maka is obsessed with turning her weapon partner, Soul Eater, into a passing scythe which will surpass her dad.[ch. 0a] She collaborates well with Soul in conflict, but occasionally gets frustrated at him when he does something silly. When in risk, yet, Maka does everything she can to keep Soul out of harm's way.[ch. 4] Soul Eater Soul Evans,nicknamed Soul Eater, is the partner of Maka Albarn as well as a devil scythe, as well as the principal male protagonist. His weapon form includes a reddish- and-black blade.

From Ivyscan: Karin and Lisette are witches who trained together when they were younger. After a long absence, Lisette has moved to a nearby forest and seems to be stealing Karin’s customers. Karin really wants to see her old friend again, but she can’t seem to get past Lisette’s apprentice, a young man named Ruin… Volume 1 Extra: Meeting Place About a student that can't say thanks to her overly enthusiastic teacher; so, she is thrown back in time to figure out that she still can. Volume 2 Extra: Mission Sachiyama About an after school program that trains modern day ninjas.

From Endless Youth and Co.: Shunpei Closer's grandfather, Alsyd Closer, was an odd man. He traveled around the world always coming back to Japan to tell his grandson all the amazing adventures he would have. Before leaving to Africa on Shunpei's 7th birthday, he gives him a teddy bear named Hyde. Six years have passed and one day Shunpei receives a mysterious package that contains a deadly surprise. To survive, he will learn more about his grandfather than he ever dared to dream and learn what it takes to be a real man, and not the coward he always thought it was all right to be.

Thousands of years ago, Vampire King Akabara "Red Rose" Strauss lost both his kingdom and his queen. Since humans were unable to kill the queen, they sealed her away, erecting thousands of fake seals so that the king would never find her true location. Despite being pursued by relentless dhampires, Akabara continues to search for his queen to this day... Akabara's quest takes a sinister turn when an entity called the Black Swan appears. The Black Swan inhabits the body of a young human girl every 50 years, giving her the power to destroy the Vampire King and his queen. With each incarnation the Black Swan grows stronger--will the 49th Black Swan mean the end of Akabara?

When Shizuka comes back after being away for 13 years, the courageous Kosuke she hopes to find has grown into a perverted total coward. But then again, she had changed a lot too, growing into a true brawling queen. Angel by the infamous U-JIN follows the comedy story of our two heroes. WARNING: This manga's explicit sexual scenes makes it offensive for young viewers. If you still choose to read, do it at your own risk!

After dropping out of the art school in Hokkaido, Hibino Ryouichiro moves to Tokyo and starts a living as a novice ero-manga artist Hanabino Q-ichiro.

A man who's still a virgin, has a very very rare disease that only allows him to have sex 7 times in his life. After he's used up all 7 of the chances, he'll never be able to have an erection and ejaculate, which means he will lose his ability to have sex for the rest of his life. So far, he has wasted 2 times while masturbating, so he's left with only 5 more chance to have sex. He has to save those precious bullets, but at the same time he desperately want to lose his virginity.

Story 1: Welcome to Megane café, a place for food, fun, and extremely hot butlers? While walking in with her friends, Kusumoto Sumire meets one of those butlers. But there’s something rude about him, weren’t butlers suppose to be nice-tempered and attentive? Suddenly the rude butler; named Katsuragi, kidnaps her, giving Sumire her first kiss! Outraged, at first she vows to never go to the café again. Nevertheless, something about him is so addicting, she just can’t help herself. --Summary by Take-me-away-to-paradise Story 2: Aoki Misao is the daughter of the owner of a glasses cafe, Glasser, where beautiful men in glasses will gladly serve you tea. These beautiful men are all under the oppressive rule of Kaga the manager, who only ever smiles to the lady customers as their perfect prince. He puts on these two different masks in dedication to his work. How will Misao ever expect to get close to him as the boss' daughter!? Story 3: Still in the realm of story 2; Erika, a high school girl is in love with the school prince. As smart and as handsome as he is he is also very cold and refuses every girl that approaches him. Just when she thought all hope was lost she finds out his secret of working as the Glasses cafe, which is against school rules. Can she use this secret to get noticed and possibly win his heart? Or will he turn the tables?

Heir to the Vessalius Duke House, Oz, has just turned fifteen. His life is carefree and wealthy, darkened only by the continuous lack of his dad. At his coming of age service, every thing changes. For no reason he is able to pick out, Oz is cast into the prison called the "Abyss", simply to be saved with a girl called Alice, the Bloodstained Black Rabbit. The puzzle there starts as Oz unravels the enigma behind Alice, the Abyss, and the peculiar organization called "Pandora". Chains Beings in the Abyss that were at one-point person, changed by the Will of the Abyss. They have to sign a contract using a contractor that is human to be able to depart the Abyss. People must be repeatedly consumed by chains involved with prohibited contracts as a way to achieve power. Some chains, like Humpty Dumpty, can have several contracts. When they do even more will be slowed down by the revolution on a prohibited contractor seal. The sole Chains that have been once not people are Oz the B-Rabbit Cheshire and Cat who are the sole chains that will develop a form that is human due to them being creatures as well as in the instance of Oz a filled thing while the others developed semi-human looks.

Includes stories about two different couples: 1) "Hitotsu no Koi no Hajimari" (Beginning of love) 2-3) "Hitotsu no Koi no Ikisaki" 4-6) "Gohoubi wo Ageyou" 7) "Hitotsu no Koi no Nichijou"

From Baka-Updates: Because Shinjo Mayu stopped her job relationship with Shogakukan, she continued her incomplete manga in Asuka and called it Ai Ore! This can be considered a continuation of Ai wo Utau Yori Ore ni Oborero! or even as a second series as it introducing a lot new character and unrevealed past When Akira announces he was a boy in the first book "Ai wo Utau Yori Ore ni Oborero" so does the fact Akira goes to Dankaisan the boys school next to St. Nobora (Mizuki's school) Things start to get rough when pressure against Mizuki dating a boy from that school rise.

This is a story about two friends, from nearly the beginning to almost the end of their lives, who happen to love each other. Tatsuya and Junichi are in 5th grade and their music teacher is a pedophile. One day the music teacher has a request for Yumi, a girl who uses him to get expensive gifts. He wants her to get Tatsuya into the music room so he can be with him. Junichi recently confessed his feelings for Yumi and she decides to use him as bait to get Tatsuya to go to the music room. Junichi and Tatsuya's future does not look good... Note: Only chapter 1 of volume 1 and chapter 7 of volume 2 is shotacon. Reading chapter 1 is almost necessary for the story and is not very explicit but chapter 7 of volume 2 is an extra/one-shot and can be skipped over completely for those who dislike shota.