In Giant Killing a ragtag bunch from East Tokyo are struggling in Japan's top football league. The team is going through an abysmal spell right now where they are nearing the bottom of the table and have lost five matches in a row. Losing hasn't done much to team morale, because it was already at a low. Fan support, on the other hand, is also looking bleak. In the world of football, once the fans turn on a team, the end is near. The team doesn't recover, coaches are fired, players are sold, and the team drops to lower divisions. In a situation where profits often prevent them from ever being successful again against even the mediocre top division programs... ETU, East Tokyo United, has only their coach to blame. ETU hires a new coach that once played in ETU. This coach wishes to prove to his ex-players and fans that even against the biggest clubs in the nation, he can make the team win. In 2010, this manga received the 34th Annual Kodansha Manga Award for General Manga.
Read manhwa Green Light / 그린라이트 Eun-seo, an assistant director at a broadcasting station, gets a chance to become a producer—if she secures an exclusive interview. The catch? Her target is Choi Kwonhoo, a wealthy club owner entangled in a messy divorce and her first love from middle school. Hoping to use an old IOU as leverage, Eun-seo tries to persuade him, but Kwonhoo counters with a shocking deal: he’ll agree to the interview if she accepts a costly ring worth 100 times the debt. Taking the ring could make her a traitor to her family, but Eun-seo decides to go through with it—only to realize she may have stepped into something far more complicated.
Read manhwa I Will Be The Protagonist of This Captivity Story / 그 감금물 주인공 내가 하겠다 “I wish I could be reborn as a rich family’s dog in my next life.” Yujin, an orphan who failed to even get converted to a permanent position, was thinking this while watching a rich family’s dog. Suddenly, she gets hit by a truck and finds herself trapped in a captivity game, [Golden Cage]! And not just any role, she’s in the body of a small, white-haired extra who gets killed early on by the prince. She no longer wants to live a life of effort. Deciding to take the place of the heroine in the captivity story, she resolves to become the prince’s pet dog… “Woof woof woof!” She successfully distracts the prince’s attention by barking like a dog, and lands a job as the prince’s ‘dog’! Eugene, now referred to as ‘Doggie,’ gets to live the comfy life of a pet dog… The problem is, in the original story, the ‘dog’ was constantly pursued by the obsessed prince—yet here, he doesn’t seem to care at all! “Why is that? My lovely Yujin…”
A stupid gag comic featuring caricatures of characters from across the Mega Man franchises, focusing primarily on enthusiastic airhead EXE-kun, the matronly Guts Mama, and other characters from the then-current handheld titles.
From Keen on Boys: A Military “Thought” Police is helped from a fall by a Communist Party member. Unbeknownst of the man’s political stance, he promises to repay him, but as “a man of strong principles,” how will he keep his promise…
The story is set in a world where supernatural powers exist through science, and magic exists through religion. In the story, Touma Kamijou is an ordinary high school boy with terrible academic scores and a power called Imagine Breaker. Imagine Breaker can defeat any other power, but it also undermines Kamijou's own good luck. His Imagine Breaker's immense strength is literally immeasurable, so hapless Kamijou is listed at the supernatural level of 0. He happens to meet a girl in white hanging off his window balcony. The girl says she is being chased by sorcerers, and Kamijou learns that the girl is a Church of England nun whose memories have been forcibly replaced by Index-Librorum-Prohibitorum — the 103,000 forbidden texts of the Church.
It is currently the Taiheimeji Era. It is a reign ruled by the Tokugawa shogunate. Inside this shogunate, there is a group of warriors that support the government. They are the Manyuu Clan. In this current era, breasts mean everything. If you have breasts, you are guaranteed wealth and popularity. If you lack them, you are rarely considered "human". Members of the Manyuu Clan help raise the future big breasts. Written on a secret scroll possessed by the clan, there is said to be various techniques on how to grow big and beautiful breasts. Chifusa is to be successor of the clan. However, she takes the secret scroll and runs away with it, hoping to fight against the cruel world that the Manyuu Clan has created...
Spin off of Zero No Tsukaima; The adventures of Gallia's knight Tabitha
A magical cooking lesson about making horan (soft-like pancake made without baking).
Tales of a high-school calligraphy club. A story about a high-school calligraphy club on the verge of breaking up that enters in a major competition while overcoming problems. Yuki, a promising female judoist, and Yukari, a quiet Canadian-raised boy who just returned to Japan, end up joining the club for the sake of maintaining the membership required to keep the club. Together with the old club members with unique characters, they gradually discover the fun of calligraphy and work together to win in the competition. -- NHK Tomehane! was nominated for best manga at the first two Manga Taisho.
