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Classic short stories from Rumiko Takahashi. Many are comedies. Volume 1: - **Fire Tripper** (fantasy, romance) A gas explosion sends high school girl Suzuko and toddler Shu 500 years into the past. But she lost Shu on the way, and as a result, Shu ended up in the past 10 years before her, and is 15 years old when Suzuko arrives. - **Maris the Chojo** (comedy, SF) A destructive alien policewoman sees a kidnapped quadrillionaire as her ticket out of debt. - **Those Selfish Aliens** (comedy, SF) - The direct pre-serialization one-shot to [Urusei Yatsura](https://mangadex.org/title/6b9206b3-5c0f-4cf8-a0cc-d2c9e1aa4df9/urusei-yatsura?tab=chapters) Aliens, the government, and fishmen implant bombs in a poor paperboy. - **Time Warp Trouble** (fantasy) Warriors from feudal Japan inexplicably pop into a high-school classroom. - **The Laughing Target** (drama, romance, supernatural, tragedy) When they were children, Yuzuru Shiga and his cousin Azusa Shiga were engaged. Azusa aims to make sure that Yuzuru stays hers, no matter what, but Azusa also has a dark secret… Volume 2: - **Wasted Minds** (Dust Spot) (adventure, comedy, fantasy) Follows a pair of two bickering government agents, both of whom have special abilities. (A five-part mini-series) - **The Golden Gods of Poverty** (gag comedy) An unfortunate boy's scientist parents try to use him to make money, but they only succeed in contacting the Seven Lucky Gods, who happen to also be broke. - **The Entrepreneurial Spirit** A woman leads seminars for a get-rich quick scheme. Volume 3: - **That Darn Cat** (slice of life) Rumiko Takahashi remembers having to take care of her neighbor's cat. - **When My Eyes Got Wings** A couple befriend a sickly child with a secret and his destructive pet bird. - **Wedded Bliss** (comedy, romance) A wedded couple can only let out their tension from working all day by fighting with one another, until their neighbors threaten to have them moved. - **Sleep and Forget** A girl relives a past life involving her lover and an evil witch back from the dead in the form of a dog. - **A Cry for Help** A fairy gives a boy a frightening split personality thanks to the wind-up key she inserts in his neck. - **War Council** Student councils go to war with one another over a stamp. - **The Face Pack** A man can change his appearance at will and leads a "masters of disguise" club. --- Official Release: - Indonesian release by Level Comics Viz Media Out of Print editions. ISBN below for Official English Print Vol 1: 9781947804739 Vol 2: 9781569311943 Vol 3: 9781569312063

Amidst the chaos of World War II, two Japanese sailors hear of Zephyrus, an utterly captivating woman in the South Pacific. Many years have since passed, and now Zephyrus has resurfaced in Japan, wielding her mysterious power over all men to exact revenge for their crimes against women since the beginning of time. Gohonmatsu Seki is the only man with the ability to resist her allure, but even he seems ill-equipped to save his gender...

Human Metamorphosis, a satirical Manga depicting human society compared to the insect world, focuses on the life of a devious woman. Tomura Toshiko, who is said to be a genius, is a rising star writer. Her novel wins the Akutagawa Prize for the best novel of the year. While she attends the award ceremony, another woman named Usuba Kageri commits suicide in another place. It turns out that Kageri and Toshiko used to live together, and the awarded novel was copied from Kageri's transcript. Toshiko is like a parasite: approaching talented people one after another, squeezing everything out of them and stealing their works for her own fame. Behind her success story, she has her secrets.

Kanna is an office lady who is at a critical point in her career. For some reason, she is assigned to receive training from the dull and plain Haruki…?

Set in 2025, a roboticist named Fudou Yuuki joins a project involving a large mural depicting humanity's true past as well as the ancient but advanced technology found in Antarctica.

Two friends who look at each other differently, a straight one and a gay one, are still together since high school. Is there more to their feelings?

This is the story of three high school students who discover a tree of knowledge on a small island in the Sea of Japan, who eat the fruit of the tree and then return to the mainland and attempt to return to their lives! --- **Volume 255 of the Osamu Tezuka Complete Works**

Sunflower ~ Kenichi Legend is a gag manga based on the manga author's real life story. Sunflower is about an OL named Akiko who is very good at drawing illustrations for her company bulletins. She drew manga as a kid, but hadn't pursued it. Her father Kenichi works at the same company. He is a tropical fruit freak & is on a different wavelength than others. Sunflower ~ Kenichi Legend was nominated for the 1st Manga Taisho Award in 2008. (Source: MU)

Hirose Akira works in a famous finance company. Without knowing, he hit on the wife of the beautiful son of the company president, Shigeharu Tomoya, and got caught in the act. Of course, having offended Shigeharu, he was spared from being fired on the condition that he would work as a maid at Shigeharu’s place. The tough life of cohabitation, coupled with Shigeharu’s cute side, Hirose has been entrapped by him. What will happen to Hirose!?

The manga centers on Nagumo, a penniless college student who moves to a town filled with bizarre people. ___ [Alternative Official English](https://kodansha.us/series/city/)

A salary man is quite depressed, especially on Mondays. At his lowest point a well-endowed High-School girl calling herself Ai-chan stumbles breast-first into his face. The concussion she gave him served as the start of their relationship. Features additional single-page images of other side-stories, that were posted on the Authors Twitter every Monday before.

Kouta Takeda is a young office worker, who at the entry level at XOX Corporation is put under the direct supervision of Kyouko Takizawa, a stunning and voluptuous woman with a fearsome reputation at the company as an inflexible and cruel boss, but Takeda has the privilege of finding out that Takizawa is no iron lady, and that she's no stranger to kindness where it's dispensed.

A short oneshot of the comedic daily interactions and antics of Matilda the cat and her doting owner, Shibata.

Closet idol fan, Mikado, hates his superior, Anezaki. Anezaki is very capable in his work, but he hands all the grunt work to Mikado. One day, Mikado is charged with sending a drunk Anezaki home after a company drinking party – but they missed the last train and end up spending the night at a love hotel. There, Anezaki suddenly mounts Mikado and continues to do the dirtiest things.

Kazura has an unusual job in a department that handles clearing out demons and spirits. Her teammates include a super-otaku, a former delinquent with fire powers, a drunken magic sword wielder, a British exorcist and a powerful Buddhist monk. Kazura's role is not so glamorous, though. She forms a team with her manager, as a vessel for the dog spirits he controls. When he kisses her, she is possessed by the powerful dog spirit Bentengou for about five minutes, after which she usually wakes up to herself doing something embarassing, like licking her "master's" face!

Burning president Mizushima, bet his life on "Table Tennis" and never once regretted it! Onsen ping-pong, the royal road to entertainment sports that anyone can enjoy. However, sometimes there are idiots who confuse it with table tennis and aim for a perfect winning streak. One such person was Monma, a new employee at a company's overnight training program for newcomers, who claimed that "there is no distinction between up and down on the ping-pong table," and won a convincing victory against the general manager of the company. Then, the president of the company shows up and tells him how to get there through ping-pong!

Movie advertising agency employee Murakami Chihiro has someone he yearns for. His customer is fashion magazine editor: Motona Kiyoharu. An incredible worker with an attractive smile, he is the one person Chihiro really desires, but they don't get any opportunity to become closer. However, one fateful day at a drinking party, Chihiro looks after a drunken Motona and takes him home…!?

**Volume 1**: *Gelateria Supernova* Tomoaki randomly meets a guy through an online dating site, and they only know each other by their bland usernames. Their relationship consists of meeting at Supernova, the neighborhood gelato shop, and walking to Tomoaki's place to have sex. ...At least, it was supposed to. Tomoaki soon realizes his changing feelings and is worried he's the only one being drawn in deeper and deeper... Is he unable to resist these new emotions...? A sweet yet bitter tug-of-war between hearts revolves around this gelato shop. **Volume 2**: *Gelateria Supernova royal vanilla* After meeting through an online dating site, Naoki and Tomoaki had a purely physical relationship for almost a year before they finally became a proper couple. Tomoaki graduated from college and got a job, and despite their busy lives, the two men have slowly but surely grown closer together. However, when Tomoaki is sent to Osaka on a business trip, they're separated for two whole weeks. Having never spent this much time apart, it only takes a small thing to cause big trouble. Naoki's never loved anyone before, and he soon realizes he's getting a taste of something new. Feelings that began in a gelato shop melt together in sweet harmony and turn to love...

Set in a fantasy world of swords and magic, the story centers on the titular Lycanthrope Adventure Insurance company. This company provides insurance and support to adventurers taking on the risk of going on a journey and finding a path through the darkness.

Kine Machiko is a thirty-something office worker, who loves nothing more than watching movies and writing her review blog. She hides her passion for movies from her co-workers due to unpleasant past experiences, but she still wants friends with whom she can share her love of movies. What will be the next movie she watches? What dark, geeky secret will haunt her next? Will she ever make any movie friends?

Hoshino has to transfer, and rumor has it, that one of his new colleagues is gay.

Ji-woo has dreams of inheriting her grandfather’s company. However, her grandfather has other plans and they involve a certain person named Kang Min-woo. Ji-woo will stop at nothing to prevent those plans from happening!

(from mangapedia): One day, Kenichiro, a commissioner of the Boxing Association, was kidnapped by the "World Domination Gym". Kenichiro returns safely a few days later, but his condition has changed, and he begins to accept the World Domination Gym's demands one after another, which deviate from the rules of boxing. As the boxing world is on the verge of an unprecedented crisis caused by boxers wearing the approved goods, a boxer stands up to stop the ambitions of the World Domination Gym. Shimamoto's parody of Kamen Rider and Tomorrow's Joe.

Good-for-nothing Shibata Michiko is back! And with her back are her never-ending troubles. Will she be able to stand on her own feet this time around or will she have to keep on relying on her Shuunin (literally supervisor in the workplace), Kurosawa Ayumu, to get her out of her misery? Hop on board to take a ride for a fun and romantic journey with a woman too good for her own idiocy and a man too good for his own kindness. It's time to go through an endless spiral of hilarity, countless hair-pulling situations and lots of heart-thumping moments all over again as Nakahara Aya's popular josei manga Dame na Watashi ni Koishite Kudasai makes a return as DameKoi R.

(from MangaUpdates): Based on novelist Ryuichiro Utsumi's works. Published as the Hitobito Series (人びとシリーズ): - The Keyaki Tree (欅の木) - The White Rocking Horse (白い木馬) - The Reunion (再会) - My Brother’s Life (兄の暮らし) - The Umbrella (雨傘) - At the Art Gallery (絵画館付近) - Through the Forest (林を抜けて) - His Hometown (彼の故郷)

Tokyo is under siege by the terrorist organization known as Panther Claw: the beautiful superheroine android known as Cutie Honey arrives to take them on–and fails! Cutie Honey must now join forces with government agent Natsuko Aki, as the duo pose as student and teacher at St. Chapel Academy. But there is nowhere to hide from Panther Claw and its leader’s evil machinations! --- Based in the adaptation of the 2004 Live-Action Movie and OVA Anime Re: Cutie Honey.