Rising Stars of Manga (RSoM) was an annual comic anthology published in English by TOKYOPOP from 2002 to 2008, as well as the name of a contest. It was originally semi-annual, but switched to annual beginnin...

In this collection of hauntingly elliptical short stories, Oji Suzuki explores memory, relationships, and loss with a loose narrative style, filling each tale with a sense of unfulfilled longing. He plumbs t...

Somewhere, nowhere, a place where life meets death, where consciousness surrenders itself to oblivion. Who might one find at such a crossroads? Note: Each original chapter is accompanied with a BGM that add...

Ichiro is trying to become a mangaka but is not succeeding, yet Sachiko loves and supports him. The two live together in a transient and unfulfilling relationship, and the collapse of their affair is depicte...

The first of two early works one-shot compilations by Kimura, this collects works from her latter half of high school through college, with one one-shot from her 20's at the end. Common themes include waitin...

A story of a black cat who wants to taxidermy the head of a young girl.

?At least until the rain stops? You can be my family.? Our protagonist is the building manager who works quietly and tries to put the memory of his abusive mother behind him. One rainy day a big-eared dog ap...

Joe Yabuki is a young man living in the slums of Tokyo. But, one day he meets Danpei Tange, a former boxer, who discovers his potential in boxing and tries to make him into a champion. Due to petty crimes, J...

After the loss of his leg, Kikuzato’s dream of becoming a soccer ace comes to an end. But with use of a prosthetic leg, he finds a new goal— to become a track star and win gold at the Tokyo Paralympics! ...

In the 80s, Kaze Takashi's parents moved to a quiet area in Tokyo to protect their son from the bad influence of his friends. In class, Takashi doesn't wait to make new friends. Passionate for motorcycle ral...

Because there is always love next to you. I want to get a dirty life with Tomo-chan That's all that's going on in Seishiro's head!! As I thought, I tried my best not to put Tomo-chan on the floor. Tomo-ch...

The story takes place in a circus in Paris in the 1970's. Much is made of the romance of the circus atmosphere, of flying through the air on a trapeze etc. We're talking about Old World riffs on the romance ...

Cover by Hideyoshico Occasionally, there was a woman that appeared in BL ... it was a rival or a bystander or just a good understanding person. This anthology is told form that girls point of view. Boys Lov...

Shoya is a bully. When Shoko, a girl who can't hear, enters his elementary school class, she becomes their favorite target, and Shoya and his friends goad each other into devising new tortures for her. But t...

Welcome to “BAR California”, a place where people with different genders, propensities, and sexual orientations gather to find a certain “something”. A transgender bisexual who has been hurt by the v...

A collection of short stories. Note that the vast majority of these stories contain heterosexual romance themes. A few stories explore transgender issues, but it's a stretch to call them shounen-ai or BL rom...

Note: Nominated for the 47th Annual Kodansha Manga Award in 2023.

In order to complete the work task of the marriage agency, Shen Yi Yi was forced to put her own information into the client’s information. She didn’t expect to be picked up by the president of a wealthy ...

15-year-old Fukushima Yuuya has always wanted to live on her own, in an inn next to her school. This new dorm of hers, the Strawberry Tree Dorm, turns out to be a place with weird people--a girl that touches...

We were taken to some island, thinking it was a school trip. What was declared there was the beginning of a battle to the death. It seems only five people can board the boat that will come 28 days later... N...

A DECADE-SPANNING JOURNEY INTO DARKNESS. Even as butterflies ominously proliferate in town, the rumor of a mysterious creature lurking in the tunnel behind the school spreads among the children. When the bo...