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High school senior Aihara Kotoko has had a crush on Irie Naoki since freshman year. But she's been discouraged from confessing to him by a few things: he's a member of "Class A," the top ranking class in school, whereas she's in "Class F"; he gets the top score on every exam; and he's so smart, popular, and handsome that he's been class president every year. When Kotoki finally musters up the courage to present him with a love letter, though, Naoki outright refuses it, telling her point blankwith a look of disgust and boredomthat he doesn't like "stupid girls." Poor Kotoko's worst nightmare! Her heart is broken, but then a change in circumstance forces Naoki and Kotoko to be together every day!? Itazura na Kiss is a gem to the shoujo demographic, as it is the mother of a lot of cliches found in today's shoujo series. Despite the fact that it is 2 decades old, it still stands out as unique for it has the series follow the main characters well into their life, over a span of 10 years. It was so popular it inspired popular series like Marmalade Boy and Fruits Basket. However, the author had an accident while she was moving homes with her son and husband, and passed away a few months later, leaving her popular manga forever uncompleted. It was adapted into a popular Taiwanese drama under the title "It Started With a Kiss", and it even earned sequel. It was also adapted as a short Japanese drama in 1996, and an anime series in 2008, with the anime portraying the author's planned ending.

Miyuki Umino was a senior in high school. Although Miyuki, her two younger brothers and her younger sister were poor, they were happy living together. But, one day all of a sudden her older brother's debt of 250 million yen fell upon them. To pay back the debt Miyuki quit school. What was the incredible choice she took to do this?

"You're really not cute!!!" Akutsu is still only an underclassman though he's got all the girls' attention, plus, not only is he good in his studies, but he's also the ace of the baseball club. Even though Ida doesn't want to have anything to do with Akutsu but somehow he can't ignore him...? "Don't tell me he actually likes me!?" This is the first serialized BL story of Mosuko, a master of romantic comedy!

Despite repeated rejections, Shinatsu fell in love at first sight with the most popular boy in school, Yoshiyuki-sempai (a member of the tennis club). After unhesitatingly joining the team, she gets rejected by her sempai. On top of that, she is bullied by his girlfriend. However, as her childhood friend Iku, says, "Things that are too easy to obtain aren't amusing at all." Right?

After watching her first ballet performance, Morino Kurumi aspired to become a great ballerina. She entered Hosaka Ballet School and worked towards being the best of her group. 2 years after starting ballet, Kurumi is still as eager as ever to become a great ballerina. She meets Hosaka Kazuomi, a young man who further motivates her to become the best. But moving up in this world wasn't so easy, as Kurumi soon gained a great number of problems blocking her goal. From the jealously of her fellow dancers to Kurumi's apparent shortness. Will Kurumi be able to become the great ballerina she has wanted to be?

Hi, your hater just sent you a date request~ This is a Tsundere bottom who thinks himself poweful enough to control the top. Yet, the situation changed at just one moment! My innocent boy, you never know how scheming the top is!

A collection of short stories published in the 40 year anniversary edition of Kodansha's Afternoon magazine, Go-Chan Magazine.

Join the hotblooded young man Sena Arata as he enrolls in Kamui Daimon Comprehensive Academy - where all the best LBX players are gathered - and embarks on his journey to become the number one LBX player in the world!

At a judo tournament, Akutsu falls in love with Murakami. While jogging, they crashed into each other and Akutsu got hurt (not really, he had a nosebleed due to dirty thoughts). In order to tend to his "wounds" Murakami took him home... Features Akutsu from Seito Kaichou ni Chuukoku

In a town with no baseball team, young Bungo spends his days throwing the ball he received as a gift against a wall until Yukio Noda, Japan’s representative youth baseball player, appears before him and an unexpected showdown ensues! After a chance meeting in middle school, these two enroll in Shizuo Senior where they struggle to make it to Koshien with everything they have.

Tsukasa, a young man with shattered dreams, and Inori, a girl no one believed in. However, in the face of adversity, those two possessed a tenacity towards the rink greater than anyone had ever known. Together, they meet on the ice, and aim for the world with their figure skating!

Before the start of high school Sakamoto Maki meets Homare-senpai and falls in love at first sight. When he find out she will playing basketball at the same school, he becomes cold and tells her not to talk to him. Kouta of the newspaper club then informs her the boys and girls basketball teams hate each other and are forbidden from dating one another! In a hasty move, Maki confesses her feelings anyway and gets ignored. Just as she's about to give up, Homare announces to the two teams that they are dating?!

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“Player Gong, are you ready to suck me dry?” Eun-gil, once the youngest national team player and called the Goddess of Victory, is now branded a traitor to the nation and barely scraping by as a professional volleyball player. The only die-hard fan who has stayed by her side is Min-ah. When Eun-gil tries to save Min-ah from an unwanted arranged marriage, she ends up running into Ha-hyun, the team owner she had never wanted to face again. To make matters worse, Eun-gil discovers that Min-ah is actually Ha-hyun’s younger sister. “If you want to stay by Min-ah’s side no matter what, then you’ll have to marry me first.” A substitute marriage? What on earth is he talking about?!

A Saki spin-off series. It follows the characters Toki Onjouji, Ryuuka Shimizudani and other girls from Osaka during their elementary and middle school years.

Shoubu wa Toki no Un Daro? is actually a series which Takaguchi co-writes with another artist. SEVEN is a solo work using many of the same characters, but takes place slightly later. It is about the members of the basketball team at a sports-based high school. The first chapter focuses on a new character, Kiyoshi. Although he is attending a sports-based school, he is unable to play sports because of a childhood accident. He isn't dealing well, until Nana (Seven) takes him under his wing and asks him to be the manager of the club. Nana is a senior and captain of the basketball team. Kiyoshi quickly falls for him. But most of Nana's attention is focused on his coach, Saegusa. The man practically built the basketball team from scratch and was manager at one point. He played basketball in middle school, but fell prey to some kind of chronic illness and wasn't able to play after that. All his life he worked with the goal that he would one day be able to play again. But suddenly, he realizes that it will never happen. He begins drinking and becomes depressed. Nana works to pull him out of it, and perhaps they grow too close... from Tranlated Treasures

Haru Okamoto, a teenage girl who adores katanas, is just now entering high school. When she was little, she happened upon a katana in her grandparents' house. In their haste to get the blade from her, they agreed that when she was an adult, the katana would be hers. However, to her dismay, they do not agree that a 15-year-old, immature, excitable Haru is an adult! Luckily, she finds another outlet for her love of Japanese swords, the almost-defunct high school Iaido club! As Haru searches for new club members and tries to get over her fear of boys, she will become aware that her affinity for Japanese swords has a deeper source than she could have imagined!<br />

The stage is a small club in the domestic third division league aiming for promotion. Former Japanese soccer representative Yoshinaga feels that an unknown high school student, Chiaki, has the qualities of being a center back and begins to grow up. A

"I thought the distance between us would stay like this?"A love story between a cool catcher and a stupid baseball pitcher,childhood friends and battery-mates.The pitcher Yuudai and Shoutarou, the catcher, have been childhoodfriends and a battery since they can remember. The third year baseballplayers retired and now it's time for the the second year players tostart aiming for the Koushien! However, before the autumn tournament,Yuudai suddenly starts to have the yips, which leads to an unexpectedchange in their lives. After embracing the same dream and chasing thewhite ball for 10 years, the distance between the two swayed... Whatwill become of them?

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Will Kaname's destiny as ballerina change?Because she wished to become a great ballerina, Kaname followed Miki-sama and entered in the prestigious ballet of her school. Kaname will secretly develop her talent as ballerina there.

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Jay's the perfect student. He's got straight As and he's the student body president. But after being coerced into joining the school's biking team, the Hummingbird Crew, he discovers a whole new world outside of studying. What new adventures will he face outside the comfort of his textbooks?

Sixteen years after the great hydroseism, nearly the entire world has sunken beneath the seas... but that won't stop Tatsumiya Minato from following her dream of becoming a high school student at the Enoshima Women's Ocean Academy!

Read The Genius Midfielder's Passes are SpecialI can see it.The flow of the game that no one else can!Song Yujun, who loves football more than anyone, is suddenly struck with color blindness and is forced to quit the sport.15 years passand he meets an unjust end."Just once.""If I could just play on the field one more time!"In that very moment, he's sent back 15 years into the pastback to the days when he could still see color.As he's about to kick the ball, overjoyed at the chance to play soccer again, strange lights begin to appear before his eyes.Colors that show him the flow of the match begin to manifestand so begins his rebirth as a genius midfielder.A modern fantasy sports story!

Meet Harada Takumi—not even in junior high and he's the best pitcher in the region, although he's frustrated and ready to give up, because he can't find a catcher who is good enough to keep up with how he pitches in this backwater town his family has just moved to. Then along comes a kid named Nagakura Gou…(Source: MU)

Natsuhiko Sakurada, having won three billion dollars in lottery transferred to the Millionaire Private School, catered for the children from wealthy families. This is all for the sake of seeking his childhood friend, Shin, whom he used to play baseball with. This school is managed by a pair of twins, who are the very popular and smart young masters of the Jinnai family. But, unexpectedly, this school does not have a baseball team and his room-mate, one of the Jinnai's twins, is very distant towards him. In order to setup a baseball team to find Shin, what would Natsuhiko do? Find out in this lovely, sweet and hilarious story.

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In 2036, the World Olympic Committee made the groundbreaking decision to lift all restrictions on doping for athletes. All those hallowed, longstanding records of human ability were buried in a single night of competition. The public enthusiasm for the performances was suffocating. The new rules were here to stay. But, not all athletes want to dope. Not all of them see the 'enhanced' records as legitimate. And Mike, a clean-running 100-meter specialist, is about to hit these steroid monsters with his very best shot.

Five young swimmers are invited to take part in a TV program. This a story of them and their female director.

A modern Japanese teacher who finds herself in a gym and discovers her hidden potential in boxing.

Homely and shy, Hime is burdened by the name her mother gave her, "Princess." Wanting nothing more than to be unnoticed and live a modest life, Hime gets a jolt of inspiration when she tries a dance class where she meets Tango. Her teacher/dance partner, Tango, happens to also be her classmate at school. Unfortunately, Tango is desperate to keep his ballroom dancing a secret, believing it will ruin his cool image if anyone at school finds out. Will Tango quit teaching Hime in order to keep his secret or will he be the partner Hime believes he's destined to be?

Because of the two senpais passionate affections towards each other, there isn’t any new recruit for the Archery Club. As a result, the club might be disbanded. However, there might be hope if the two freshmen, who have been studying archery for over ten years, join the club. Will the boys agree to join a club that has only three members and without a consultant? And will their relationship advance to the next stage? Includes a one-shot of a sweet love confession between a sensei and an intern.

Omari's dream was always to become a professional basketball player. But that dream was quickly crushed by reality. There's school, money, his strict aunt, and the future, of which he wasn't sure of until a mysterious scout discovers his talent with a ball and offers him a ticket to Overtime Elite Academy, a high-tech program designed to craft the world's greatest basketball player. Does Omari have what it takes to survive against the most competitive basketball talent? Or will his dream slip away again?

Sequel to Diamond no Ace.

The stage is the proud land of the north—Hokkaido. The year is 2010. Rou Shirakawa has just received the highest score in history at the All-Japan Junior Figure Skating Championships! But suddenly, he loses control and starts destroying the stage. He is quickly disqualified and banned from the skating world for life. Now nicknamed "the Rabid Prince," Rou ends up in Tamakomai, an ice hockey town in northern Japan. And on a hockey rink on a frozen lake, he meets the ruthless Genma brothers! Rou will soon learn of the famous Oino-kami high school and their quest to win an unprecedented 20th straight national hockey championship. And also the strong, yet beautiful battle sport--ice hockey! Change, grow, evolve! Turn defeat into victory in this red-hot redemption story!

A manga about general car appreciation, or "Car Life" as it is known to auto enthusiasts. The main character's father passes away. On the will states that each of the three siblings receives a portion of the father's wealth. The main character receives a Porsche Carrera. She doesn't know what a Porsche Carrera looks like, didn't know the car company Porsche, can't drive a manual and had absolutely no interest in cars, at the time. You can follow along and find out what some car enthusiast do

Physical therapist Kim Dan has been down on his luck for as long as he can remember. Between an ailing grandmother, menacing loan sharks, and an old boss making it almost impossible for him to find work, Dan is truly running out of options. Naturally, it feels like a dream come true when he’s finally hired to treat top-paid MMA fighter Joo Jaekyung, especially when the man then calls him out for a treatment the night before a match with an oh-so-tantalizing offer of five thousand dollars. He claims to have a “jinx” in need of a particular type of “treatment," but it's one that Dan isn't quite prepared to offer… You see, Joo Jaekyung may be a beast in the ring, but he’s even rougher in the bedroom, and Dan’s not sure he can survive Joo Jaekyung at his most primal. Nevertheless, the promise of much-needed cash has Dan agreeing to this ill-fated deal... Could a night fix it all?

Toshihiko Ota is mocked by his peers for his smooth, hairless body, but his life changes forever when he meets a young woman in swim club with the opposite problem: Ayako Goto, poised for swim-meet glory but too ashamed of her body hair to compete. After Ota happens on her trying unsuccessfully to shave in the locker room, she comes to him with an astonishing request...!

While on a soccer tour, Toudou Mirai is involved in a shipwreck accident. When he comes to, he finds himself in 19th Century England. With him being saved by a player of the local soccer team named "Durham", Eddie, it seems Mirai will be joining "Durham", a team with their sights set on joining the world's first ever professional league... What with slipping through time, will Mirai ever make it back to the 21st Century?! This is a science fiction soccer story bringing the true talents of playing soccer straight to you!from SRoMU

Koo Tae-Yang is an unofficially retired footballer after going through few tough ordeals in life. He had seemingly given up on professional football until approached by his former teammate who offered a chance for a restart in FC Dalin of Chinese Super League. At 34 years old, there isn't much left in his career but it doesn't mean it has to end with a low key... 

(from ebookjapan):Michael's seemingly carefree daily life, with his pampering and begging for food, is thrillingly unpredictable, including a fall from the seventh floor and an interrogation on suspicion of theft of Pen Nibs! Michael's daily life created the golden age of cat manga that took the 1980s by storm! The "dancing cat" that won the Kodansha Manga Award, was made into an anime TV series, a TV drama, and even appearing in TV commercials. Michael, who, has become a hit with the general public, is back in digital form! Beware of the too cute cat!(https://www.darkhorse.com/Books/3004-968/Whats-Michael-Fatcat-Collection-Volume-1-TPB)---- **As mentioned in the description, What's Michael? Won the 10th Kodansha Manga Award for General Manga in 1986, shared with Osamu Tezuka's (https://mangadex.org/title/16dc43f3-d6ba-4154-b445-a9d2e674c0eb/message-to-adolf)**

A series in Young Magazine the 3rd, where authors write the 100th chapter of a series without writing chapters 1-99 first.It is the 23rd century, an age of science and technology, where sex is no longer required to reproduce.However, humanity has not forgotten sex!Sex has evolved to become a form of martial arts, and those who practice it are known throughout the world as BattleSexers!

Otaka Touya and Kandachi Rei have been figure skating partners since they were kids and their goal is the top. There is only one rule between them: they are forbidden from having a romantic relationship. Many successful pairs have met failure because they let intimate feelings get in the way of their performances. They swear they feel nothing for each other but how they behave on the ice says otherwise. This is a story of a couple who can only show their feelings for each other on the ice.

The story of two twin brothers Riku and Raimu, who try to take on the world of basketball by storm.

If a telepath, a clairvoyant, a hypnotist, a ninja with super reflexes, a spirit medium, an oil magnate, an extremely lucky boy, and an extremely strong man were to fight it out in a rock-paper-scissors tournament, who would you bet your money on? Just because it's a simple game with simple rules doesn't mean the matches will be simple. Mind games, cheat abilities, interesting characters, great humor, this manga has it all!

Series of Short Stories. Chapter 1-3: Revolves around the same boxing club. 1) A Boxer's Love ~ Part One 2) A Boxer's Love ~ PArt Two 3) Secret 4) The True Form of Your Favorite Man 5) Love Spell 6) Forbidden Agreement (Contains incest!) 7) Baby Animals 7.5) Memories of Papa Igawa & Switch One