Interest Stacks

Beyond the mist-filled alleyways in the concrete crevices of Los Angeles' Chinatown hides a mysterious pet shop, home to many bizarre yet friendly creatures. The store's proprietor is an enigmatic young man who goes by the name of Count D. Count D welcomes those who feel lonely and wounded through the doors of his shop, claiming to sell "love, dreams, and hope" in the form of the fantastic beasts that lie within. Each creature comes with a special contract accompanied by a set of rules. However, he warns customers that he cannot be held accountable for any consequences of breaking the rules. Short-tempered detective Leon Orcot traces the source of several crimes back to Count D and what the former considers to be a pet shop of horrors. Determined to find proof that the Count is a criminal, he begins to pay regular visits to the shop. [Written by MAL Rewrite]

First-year Japanese major Yuu Sasaya is a naive country girl who has yet to adjust to the sophisticated city lifestyle. After watching a stage play for the first time, a particular minor role's performance leaves such a profound impact on her that she decides to pursue a career in acting. Yuu confesses her newfound dream to a classmate and though ridiculed, attains an opportunity to tour a theatre company. While there, she meets the well-reputed rookie actor, Touya Ichii, and immediately recognizes his voice as the character who had impacted her. Seeing Yuu's passion, Touya recommends her to his friend's troupe, Garandou Company, run by Shougo Shimamura. Shougo tests Yuu's acting skills with high expectations, only to discover that she is a complete amateur. Unwilling to accept defeat so soon, she pleads him to let her observe and learn from them over time. Ashita no Ousama tells Yuu's story as she searches for her hidden flair among the different positions offered in a theatre troupe, with immense determination to make it big in the world of the dramatic arts. [Written by MAL Rewrite]

Ritsu inherited his sixth sense from his grandfather, along with a demon guardian named Blue Storm. Strange things just seem to happen around these two, and it's left to them to get to the bottom of all these mysterious events. Each story is independent but features recurring characters you'll come to know and appreciate as they, each in their own way, try to deal with things 'not of this world'. (Source: MU)

Shiho is a "private actress" who works for a production company. She also does personal assignments that needs her to pretend to be a different person. She takes on assignments for people and takes on the personality of the person who they are pretending to be. (Source: Animewaves) Included one-shot: Volume 1: Vivien Leigh ga Koroshita (The Murder of the Substitute)

Pink is a manga about a Japanese girl named Yumi, a beautiful girl in her early 20s. During the day, Yumi works as a regular office lady, but by night, she works as a prostitute. Yumi needs her two jobs to make ends meet. She also needs the extra income to feed her unusual pet, a crocodile, which she keeps in her apartment. Working in an office is quite normal for young Japanese women, but keeping a pet crocodile, and being a prostitute makes Yumi stand out. In truth, few girls are like Yumi, however, many readers can empathize with her. Young women love their "something," symbolized by her pet crocodile, and they can also identify with Yumi's "wild at heart" nature. (Source: MU)

Japanese supermodel and fashion icon Haruko "Liliko" Hirukoma leads a posh life, wearing and promoting the biggest brands in the country. She stands at the top of the modeling industry with the beauty she has attained through full-body plastic surgery. However, Liliko's body soon begins to break down due to the extensive surgery she has been through and the medication she has taken. Worse still, her fear of growing old and being rendered useless begins to drive her insane. Helter Skelter is the story of Liliko's struggles to remain in the limelight in a world where people are so easily replaced. [Written by MAL Rewrite]

Haruna Wakakusa and Yamada become friends after she saves him several times from her boyfriend's constant bullying. Through him she gets to know Kozue Yoshikawa, a fellow student who also models professionally. The three emotionally stunted teens' lives briefly yet intensely intertwine for one semester before splintering from the aftereffects of one disastrous night. For both Wakakusa and Yamada, their emotional awakening fosters an unlikely friendship between the two battered souls. (Source: MU)

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Rock and Astro meet, fall in love, and decide to marry after their first night together. Between romantic comedy and hallucinated fairy tail, Kyoko Okazaki blows a wind of hysteria in the fashion world and it's nights saturated with music and drugs. (Source: Librairie Dialogues)

Fujiwara Momoe is the daughter of a rich family. She has never had any worries, had an easy and luxurious life. She loves good cooking. Her carefree life ends when her father dies from a heart attack. She now has to take care for herself and her mother and this involves also cooking the meals. Unfortunately, she never had to cook, so her cooking is awful. She starts working at a French restaurant where she becomes a cook under the chef. She falls in love with the chef, but he only considers her as an apprentice. (Source: PRISMS)

After being dumped, followed closely by her grandmother's sudden death, the chubby Yuri is left broke and homeless. That is until she discovers that her grandmother had been lying to her for years. Her mother is not dead, but is in fact a famous movie star, and very much alive. Upon arriving at her mother's house, she meets her three new beautiful siblings, all from different fathers. Her newfound family is filled with hilarious oddities, ranging from laziness to drunkennes to gay incest. She is constantly antagonized by her brothers Sumire and Aoi. And her sister Fuyou does little to help. And thus Yuri becomes little more than a maid in the household, catering to her siblings needs while her mother travels the world. But as Yuri's warmth fills the house which before had been so cold...what will happen between her and her brothers? Can they come to see each other as siblings before it's too late? (Source: Aerie Scanlations)

A story about two classmates who become friends, Sahoko and Rio. Rio is depressed and self-abusive and isn't loved by her "family" (which consists of her father, stepmother, and stepbrother), but Sahoko seems to be the bright spot in her life. Sahoko also seems to have a mysterious past and doesn't seem to have a good relationship with her parents; she lives with her aunt. It's also hinted at that Sahoko and Rio have met once before, when they were much younger... (Source: Lililicious)

From the creator of Pieta comes the story of a connection between two women, Maho and Fujiko, who live in the same apartment building. Maho, a transgender woman, saves Fujiko, a girl from a rich family who's left home and is living on her own, one night, and the two become fast friends. As they grow closer, Fujiko confesses to Maho that she has feelings for her... (Source: Lililicous) Included one-shot: Tinker Bell no Hanzai

Chise is an elementary school girl who lives with her widowed father, a novelist. Her mother died when she was very young, but she is extremely close to her father. He is the one she loves the most, and because he works as a novelist, he spends most of his time at home, much to the delight of Chise. (Source: Wikipedia)

A collection of very complicated adult sci-fi short stories with difficult concepts about time and destiny.

In the dismal backdrop of New York City, Southern-belle-turned-prostitute Sunny meets the college-educated Lou, who makes a living by out-drinking people at bars. What first starts as a night of drunken passion quickly spirals into unexpected love, as together they begin to search for meaning in a world that has all but deserted them... (Source: Tokyopop) Included one-shots: Volume 1: 99 Roses Volume 2: Peggy; The Funeral Procession of Stars (2 parts)

A resident of Room 301 in Building 67, K, had died and no one had seen or was able to find his corpse. Everyone, however, was still certain that he was dead and held a funeral for him. That was when a stranger named Mikaya suddenly showed up and announced that he was going to live in 301. Determined to solve the mystery of this far from ordinary death, Mikaya began to question the residents and as everything began to unravel, he realized that something was very, very wrong. (Source: ANN)

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 crows; a criminal's chance at salvation; the sight of music in the air. Where will this story take you, and in what place will it end? (Source: MU)

After being belittled by a famous composer, Gen Mikami, Tendou Kawahara, a budding composer goes to a secluded town of Mongolia, Cojr in search for inspiration. He meets Kanon , a Japanese girl with an untamed, freedom loving spirit, talented in playing violin. When her sick mother dies leaving her with the knowledge that her Japanese father is alive, she leaves with Tendou to become a true musician so that her real father comes to hear her music.In Japan, she lives with Tendou who tries to tame her and bring her talent out.However, Mikami discovers her and wants her for himself as a musician, Tendou is challenged to produce such music to impress him to forget her.Mikami shows that he is a better teacher in bringing out her talent then Tendou decides to quit and move to US not before he enrolls her into a boarding music school whose manager she later discovers is none other than the hateful Mikami.She is left alone to find her father and deal with the cruel and arrogant Mikami. (Source: Anime News Network)

A story that wonderfully depicts the emotions of a 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 dumped by her lover. The consequences and side-effects are explored further after the "achievement." Is it what she really wished for? (Source: MU)

Cool and gorgeous Nagisa paired with her perverted and stupid step-father Ryuunosuke makes for a hip-hop story that presents a father and daughter who cannot be honest with each other. (Source: ShoujoMagic)

Ten stories about the everyday life of Sei, an idealistic songwriter, and Miho, the young woman who struggles to support the both of them. Miho and Sei are living together. She works at a boutique while he tries to make it as a musician. Even though Miho still can’t forget about Hagio, her ex-lover, she is happy in her relationship with Sei. However, all is not well for the young couple. Struggling to make ends meet, Miho decides to take a second job as bar hostess. As she becomes increasingly desperate for money, Miho eventually gives in to one of her client’s sexual advances. When Sei finds out about this he begins to distance himself from her. Things are getting even more complicated for Miho when Hagio suddenly reappears in her life. (Source: Goodreads)

1 Volume, 5 short stories. 1) My Prince (Watashi no Oujisama) : A rich man and a poor man appear before Hanako, an office lady who used to be rich. She wavers over which man to choose. Her feelings are comically described. (Source: MU)

Karin Mochizuki is an attractive woman lawyer. Because she is always calm and collected and never lets her feelings show, she's been nicknamed Stone Cold (a woman colder than a stone). This volume contains four stories about incidents involving Karin. From Baka-Updates Manga

Mitsu is the perfect woman. Looked upon by men as the ideal girl, the perfect lover. Kishi is a bookstore clerk. Mitsu is an art student and one of the store's regular customers. When Kishi falls head-over-heels in love with Mitsu, he soon discovers another side to this seemingly flawless woman. Mitsu's self-destructive tendencies are an emotional hazard that even Kishi's infatuation can't fix. Together, they lose themselves in a world of intense love, drama, and going to the occasional party. But when Mitsu's former lover gives Kishi a warning about her and the meaning of "Dolis," it may already be too late to save her. (Source: Tokyopop)

Life has been hard on Makoto lately, and she's nowhere close to her wish. She wishes to have a sweet, sweet life. When she's at the lowest of her luck, after her boyfriend took all her money and split, she's rescued by the handsome and rich Aeda CEO. To make things stranger, when she's supposed to get married to the ceo, she fools around with his son, without knowing his identity! Will she be able to find and choose the man that will be able to give her a sweet life? (Source: ShoujoMagic)

Shouji has a girlfriend but is seeing Mako on the side. Unable to continue pretending she feels less for him than she does, she breaks it off with him. Shortly before that happens, Mako is hit on by Mika, who tells Mako that she's interested in both men and women. Mika wants to pursue a relationship with Mako, but is Mako's relationship with Shouji really over? (Source: Lililicious)

At age 20, Yuko is leading a life without aspirations, what with work as an assistant in a company and her boyfriend Yutaka. Determined to give a new twist to her lifestyle, she accepts Yutaka's offer to work at his side by night as a bar hostess. But Yuko quickly becomes disenchanted: this choice brings her much more trouble than pleasant surprises, leading her to face difficult situations, even dangerous ones. And above all, she doesn't succeed in getting closer to Yutaka who remains elusive and indifferent to her signs of affection. Despite his infidelity, Yuko persists in clinging to that futile and fruitless relationship. Will she react before being unable to break the deadlock? How far will she let herself go?

A collection of one-shots by Minami Q-ta. 1. Shinjuku Deluxe 2. Goodbye, March 3. Please God 4. Time After Time 5. Apron and Sunglasses 6. Long Tall Sally 7. Spirit 8. Hot for You 9. Sayuri-san's Worries 10. Friends 11. A Girl’s Dream.

Kei is interested in a woman at the gym. Imagine her surprise when she sees her in a lesbian bar! (Source: Lilliious)

A cute and touching story of a single mother, Sumireko, and her daughter, Nozomi. The manga starts off with Nozomi being sixteen years old in the first chapter, then hops back to before she was born. Finally with the third chapter starts the "real" story, when Non-Non (Nozomi) is three years old. (Source: Dragon Voice)

During the Edo period, not all samurai were considered wealthy, high class war heroes who answered directly to the shogun. In fact, many of them were of low rank and remained nameless throughout their careers while living economically with their small families just to make ends meet. Nakamura Hanshirou and Yukie with their baby son Tarou is one such family, and through their lives, Yamato Waki offers eye-opening glimpses of the less talked about aspects of living in Japan's capital during this famous era. Note: Vol. 2 contains a 3-chapter long side story titled "Aoba Shigereru" that involve the same set of main characters.

An amusing romantic story about a college student girl and a man who is a famous fashion designer. Thanks to the antics of his very unique cat, the girl and the designer are thrown together, and sparks fly! Again, there is a large age difference between the hero and heroine. His name is Hanada Renichi, and he is 38 years old. Her name is Saigou Kaori, and she is only 18. Their age difference is an issue in there relationship. He is interested in her, but tries to resist because he thinks he is too old, and she is a virgin. But even though Kaori likes to tease him by caling him 'ojisan' ('gramps') she doesn't care about his age, and is perfectly willing to let him relieve her of the second objection he has about her. This is a very cute romantic comedy!

This volume contains 3 one-shots by Shinohara Chie. Toubou Kyuukou: Natsumi is a young journalist who aspires to get that one big scoop that will put her on the map. Searching for something that might make a good story, she drives around at night and comes upon a murder scene. Wanting to find out more, she stops to ask questions of the investigators, but is taken hostage by a guy covered in blood! Is this story worth risking her own life?? Shissou Toshi: Keiko wakes up one morning naked and with a huge hangover in a hotel room next to a guy that she had only met the night before. Horrified as she realized what she had done, she rushed back to her home, worried about what might happen if her strict husband ever found out. However, she discovers her husband dead at her house and she is now the prime suspect! Can Keiko prove her innocence? Shikeidai no 72jikan: Natsuki Kiriko has received a mysterious invitation to spend a few days at a fancy lodge called "The Orchard House". When she arrives, she finds 4 other young people there who had also been invited. After welcoming them, the hostess declares that the 5 of them had been chosen b/c they were all suspects of her son's murder 4 years ago. If one of them did not confess his/her guilt, they would all 5 die by the end of their stay! Kiriko knows she did not kill the hostess's son, but everyone else says the same. Can she find the real killer before she loses her life?? (Note: This story was published also in Shinohara Chie's "Umi ni Ochiru Tsubame")

Dr.Shinnosuke is called 'Doctor Dangerous' by nurses. When he's a student he always gain good grades in classes. However he's afraid of blood and gory pictures and always passing out when he has to do surgery operation. One day, his dad, the hospital's director introduced him a new nurse that is going to work here. she is cute and have a baby with her. She advise him to get used to the scene by watching gory horror movies. Shinnosuke is attracted to her, but somehow heard a rumor that she is his dad's mistress. Curious to know who the father of the baby is, he tries to deny that thought and practice himself to get used to the surgery scenes so that it won't be embarrassed when he's performing surgery with her.

Baku is an illustrator. One day he buys a little rabbit, while he is drunk. First, he can't handle him, but after a certain accident, he notices, that he grows fond of it. This manga tells the story of Baku and Sentarou's everyday life.

Kanna was ugly, and she had been treated badly from everyone aside from a man called Kousuke. Therefore, she decided to have plastic surgery on her whole body to win his heart and the rest of the world. Will Kanna overcome her insecurity and lack of confidence after this?

1. Changeling 2. Nepenthes 3. Chiri no Tenshi 4. Ophelia-sagashi 5. Timer

A collection of Shimazu Kyouko's short stories filled with human drama.

Youko is the new teacher of the Dandelion Class, an elementary course provided within the hospital. All her students are admitted to the hospital with serious diseases. While trying to find her place with courage from her students, one of them takes a turn for the worse... (Source: Media Do International/Beaglee)

Shiratori Reiko is beautiful and rich. Her usual catchphrase is something along the line of "do you think a gorgeous perfect person like me would do something like this?" One day, when she's in high school, a boy called Tetsuya confessed his love to her. As usual, her response to him is that someone like him doesn't deserve her at all. Rejected by her, Tetsuya walks off. However, what Tetsuya doesn't know is that Reiko actually does loves him. With everyone expecting her to retain her high standard, she doesn't dare to go against the peer pressure. After they graduated from high school, Reiko follows Tetsuya to study at the same university he attends. she's also rent the apartment near the place Tetsuya is renting. Pretending that this is all a coincident they study in the same place, how will Tetsuya found out about Reiko's true feeling? Included one-shots: Volume 1: Watashi no Otoko ni Te wo Dasuna!!! Volume 2: 1980-en no Marilyn Volume 5: Goippatsu Dou desu ka? Volume 7: Antagata Busu sa♡, Junai RIsshinben

Gin Shimochiai is an expert babysitter, who's willing to make every child in the world happy. But actually, he's a man disguising as a woman. Inspired by his nanny in childhood and the story of Mary Poppins, he build Poppins Shimochiai Club, a babysitter agent. With his "poppins magic," he can solve every family problem and bring happiness to the children. (Source: MU)

A manga revolving about the life of a first-time mother and her daughter Tamako.

Stories about office ladies, their life and hexes. 1. Akuryousama Oteyawaraka ni 2. Motto Warui Onna 3. Cruel Sea - Doku wo Motsu Onna 4. Mafuyu no Hakuchuumu 5. Watashi no Jusatsu Keikaku

This is the sequel of Shiratori Reiko de Gozaimasu. Now Reiko and Tetsuya are living together, but this causes many other problems...

Consist of 5 short stories about a man who like to broke anything he deemed beautiful, a woman who have a heroine complex, a girl who always made mistakes, a model who is targeted by someone, and a woman whose boyfriend always died.

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Nagiko has a spur of the moment affair with a young man she literally finds thrown away in a box and they fall for each other almost instantly – leading to stories about a group of friends and their pasts and present lives and loves… (Source: MU)

Stories about office ladies, their romance and hexes.

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