In Rising Stars of Manga: United Kingdom and Ireland, Tokyopop has awarded 9 aspiring artists and writers a unique opportunity to be published and receive a well-deserved jump start on their creative careers...

Zhen Jin, a woman who made her fortune as a jeweler. She was living days overflowing with happiness, preparing to marry her kind-hearted fiancé. However, the man who was to become her husband, her most beloved,...

Based on the eponymous novel, Sugar Candy Bullets Can’t Pierce Anything follows two young girls during one fateful summer. Yamada Nagisa is a bored teenager who finds everyday life extremely unappealing: thus...

University student Ishiko Yuzuki is dumped by his first girlfriend who cheats on him. At home, Yuzuki is cheered up by his friend Tsuyoshi, when he sees a commercial for the second season of the popular...

What will the cruel fate of Michi and his friends be, living as they do in the debris left by the war?

Is corporal punishment by teachers strictly prohibited under any circumstances!? Sakurai, a teacher, witnesses bullying in her class and unintentionally raises her hand against the main culprit student. Unaware...

A story that wonderfully depicts the emotions of an overweight woman with low self-esteem surrounded within the harsh environment of slim and good-looking women. She then decides to lose weight after getting...

Piano prodigy Arima Kosei dominated the competition and all child musicians knew his name. But after his mother, who was also his instructor, passed away, he had a mental breakdown while performing at a recital...

New boy Natsume Hiro comes to a boarding school unlike any other school in existence to solve/resolve something that happened in his past- but even that fact takes a while to emerge. The school is a hotbed of...

A series of loosely-connected vignettes, each lead to the next by a stray thought. A young hit-man chased from his home; a dropped key to a bloody room; a meat-locker to hide a corpse; the watchful eyes of...

Follows the stories of abused children and the members of a charity organisation dedicated to helping them.

A young man whose motto is "Never commit suicide" happens to meet a boy with a cut mark on his wrist and follows him out of curiosity. However, the boy's path leads him to a world of "death" that he has never...

Chapter 1: Shirube no Michi Mao's life is far from normal: she attracts spirits and constantly has to keep her father from losing his soul! One day, she meets a man who claims to be a "guide for lost souls...

Civilization is dead, but not Chito and Yuuri. Time to hop aboard their beloved Kettenkrad motorbike and wander what's left of the world! Sharing a can of soup or scouting for spare parts might not be the...

At that boarding school (gymnasium), the voices of young boys singing and the sound of gunfire echo through the air——. The Augenblick Boys' Choir. Once an orphanage, it's now a boarding school (gymnasium) where...

Highly recommended by Ryoichi Ikegami! "The man, sometimes with a sharp glance, quietly gazes at us living in the present..." In downtown Tokyo just after the defeat in World War II - in a burnt-out area where...

A cyber-punkish collection of stories revolving around the theme of the "DOLL." • Keep Those Condoms Away From Our KidsThe tale of boys and girls who have lost their sexual desire.Mihara Mitsukazu's debut work....

Story 1 - Don't Say Any More, Darling The only thing keeping Tadashi, a struggling song lyricist, alive is food handouts from Kouhei, a successful doctor. In fact, Tadashi has been leeching off of Kouhei for...

Jaehyeon's life was ruined by his stepmother, the woman who drove his mother to death and later caused his father's downfall. Consumed by hatred and forbidden desire, he takes revenge on her, only to die in a...

"Have you heard of Summer Ghost?" Tomoya, Aoi, and Ryo are high school students who met through the Internet. The urban legend of the Summer Ghost is that it is a ghost of a young woman who appears when...

They say that if you set off fireworks at a certain abandoned airfield outside of town on a midsummer's night, the spirit of a young woman who took her own life might appear before you. Three teens from...