[from lost-translations] “I want a boyfriend!” Kozakura Nonoka always fancied having a boyfriend. Upon entering high school, she was certain that she was finally going to get one, but fast-forwarding eight months to December, she was still single as ever. Desperate, she attended a goukon (a group blind date) where she met Kiriyama Naoya, whose first words to her was “You’ll never get a boyfriend.” Now, what would this strange meet-up lead to? --- - **Won the Shogakukan Manga Award for Shojo in 2018**

In Shimoyama Middle School, the Experiment Club and Karate Club each only have one member left, and as a result, must share one classroom. These two students, Sharaku Homura and Yamazaki Yousuke (a.k.a Karate Kid) together solve numerous impossible mysteries that they happen to run into! Originally a doujinshi by Nemoto Shou, now an award-winning manga, having won the Hokkaido Mystery Cross Match Award!

(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! [Official English](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 [Message to Adolf](https://mangadex.org/title/16dc43f3-d6ba-4154-b445-a9d2e674c0eb/message-to-adolf)**

The manga is about ten-year-old Chie, "the most unfortunate girl in Japan," who manages her family diner while her unemployed yakuza father and her mother are separated. Note: Jarinko Chie won the 26th Shogakukan Manga Award for best general manga in 1981.

Little Nyano doesn't know what she got wrong about a test question she should've gotten right! Can she figure out the problem and fix it? --- Prize winning debut oneshot from the second round of the Yatagarasuhai Competition published in the Harta magazine.

Kindaichi Hajime returns from his biking trip around Japan to meet Inspector Kenmochi and childhood friend Nanase Miyuki at the themed inn "Ruins." Case List: 01. Vampire Legend Murder Case. 02. Opera House: The Third Murder. 03. Jail Gate Cram School Murder Case. 04. Snow Spirit Legend Murder Case. 05. Reika Hayami and the Uninvited Guest. 06. Chidamari's Room Murder Case. 07. Fudo High School Festival Murder Case. 08. Black Magic Murder Case. 09. Inspector Kenmochi: The Murderer. 10. The Evil Spirit of the Diving Pool. 11. The Mysterious Event at the Campsite. 12. Alchemy Murder Case. 13. Murder at 10000 metres. 14. Game House Murder Case. Note: In the newer reprints of the Kindaichi series, the File, Case and Shin cases were merged and printed as full cases instead of the original tankobon. The volumes which correspond to the above cases are 27 to 34. The raw links below correspond to the first chapter of the first case of the Shin Series.

“If a silver bullet is used on a vampire, he will die.” Angie is a vampire with an immortal body. Throughout eternity, she has lived in the human world by blending in as a stage actress. Angie's attendants have always run away from her because of her arrogant attitude, that is untill an unusual newcomer named Chris appears...? This is the unique love story between an immortal vampire and a human.

It's a war of words that invades reality!

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Italo and Erika made a promise: they would become siblings starting from the first day of school. Although it's easy to convince their classmates, the distance between them two grows every day and the gaps of this relationship will give way to dangerous feelings…

Known for the compilation *"Captivated, by You"*, Wayama’s first serialization in a Josei magazine is a comedy set in an all-girls school about a Japanese language teacher, Hoshi-sensei, and the carefree play that his students involve him in. The story starts when Kagawa, a student, delivers the class journal to Hoshi-sensei. As the students play word chain game "Shiritori" in the form of drawings in the remarks column of the journal, Hoshi-sensei becomes troubled… --- - **Won the 25th Japan Media Arts Festival Social Impact Award for Manga in 2022**

Musashino Art University, Department of Visual Communication Design, 2021 graduation project. When he was in elementary school, a boy who had been trying to save his childhood friend from being bullied by a bully turned violent. Now, as a junior high school student, his classmates nickname him "Kaiju-kun" and distance themselves from him. One day, a girl who is "half Kaiju" joins his class. She seems to have come to school to make friends with many people...... A heartwarming monster coming-of-age story about the pain of school life and friendship!

Sunday Webry Newcomer Award, March 2021, 4-Page Division, Third Place. An up-and-coming mangaka thinks back on drawing as she takes a bath.

Sunday Webry Newcomer Award, March 2021, 4-Page Division, Third Place. An up-and-coming mangaka thinks back on drawing as she takes a bath.

There was once a doctor fixated on creating the "ideal human being." After the doctor's death, his fabricant creations start attacking humans in order to attain the perfect body. When Ashibi Yao's entire family is murdered by these fabricants, he sets out on a journey of revenge accompanied by the doctor's final creation, Fabricant 100.

Sunday Webry Newcomer Award, September 2022, Free Division, Honorable Mention. A man is curiously gifted one of his own flowers by his mailwoman. What are the implications behind this gift?

Sunday Webry Newcomer Award, September 2022, Free Division, Honorable Mention. A pathetic boy is swiftly rejected by the girl he likes. Frustrated, he tries summoning a demon to curse her - but not only is the demon he summons is totally his type, he accidentally sends her back! How far will this boy's desperation go?

Sunday Webry Newcomer Award, December 2021, 4-Page Division, Consolation Prize. A girl of a wealthy upbringing gets awfully curious when she sees her family's maid out in public on her day off.

Sunday Webry Newcomer Award, January 2022, 4-Page Division, Honorable Mention. A boy in a hair-y situation sees a fellow classmate in one of his own.

Sunday Webry Newcomer Award, February 2022, 4-Page Division, Honorable Mention. "People all see only what they want to see."

Sunday Webry Newcomer Award, March 2022, Free Division, Honorable Mention. The story of two friends - an angel and a mermaid - and what happens when one of them is gone.

In the future, computers control all aspects of human life, even birth. No one questions Superior Domination, the new social order, except the Mu, a mutant race with telepathic powers who are forced into exile by the System. On a distant colony mistakenly believed to be Terra by its inhabitants, Jomy’s world is turned upside-down when the Mu ask him to become their leader. Can Jomy, with his emerging telepathic powers, lead the Mu back home, back to Terra? In 1978, this series won the very first Seiun Award for manga, and subsequently, in 1980, also won the Shogakukan Manga Award for shōnen/shōjo manga

Ben, a biology professor, hears about a mysterious and supposedly six-legged deer residing in the remote mountains of Sweden from an acquaintance. Setting out on a journey to parse fact from fiction, Ben soon meets a boy who says he is collecting the stars... Bronze award-winning oneshot from Afternoon magazine's Four Seasons manga contest.

Digital colored version of Akira Toriyama's original best selling manga

The story begins with a beautiful girl, her perfectly fake smile, and the people who love her selfishly for it. What transpires behind the scenes of the glittering showbiz industry? How far would you go for the sake of your beloved idol? What would you do if you found out reincarnation was real? The star of the show is Aquamarine Hoshino and the stage is but a mere facade. Will he manage to reach the climax before the world of glamour swallows him whole?

Shirayuki, a young girl born with unique apple-red hair, happens to meet a famous but foolish young man, Prince Raji. He falls in love with Shirayuki at first sight, and orders her to become his concubine.Determined to do whatever it takes to resist his advances, but with nowhere else to go, Shirayuki cuts her hair and escapes to a neighboring country. While traversing through the forests, she meets an injured boy, Zen. After she boldly heals his wounds, he in return helps her. Meanwhile, Prince Raji sends out his henchmen to search for her.What will become of Shirayuki? What is Zen’s true character? A refreshing fantasy story between an optimistic heroine and a prince who constantly stays on her watch.

A cute top student who’s cold on the outside and warm on the inside, vs a girl who’s garbage at school and settles for ‘good enough’. I like you, so I’ll monitor your studying! At a selective school where lots of good students are gathered, Gu Shandao is just your ordinary girl who doesn’t try very hard, and who thought she could quietly make it through high school like that. However, a studious out-of-the-loop student council member is about to scramble up her life! A ‘study plan’ will change her life forever... [Author Weibo](https://weibo.com/u/5605118600)

Kyohei Saito, a first-year college student who's gloomy and negative—in other words, "depressing"—falls in love with Ayame Ogawa, a beauty and contestant of their school's beauty pageant. Will the depressing nobody's feelings reach the goddess who basks in the spotlight? The curtain rises on an ensemble cast drama of college students shaken by the glimmer and helplessness of youth!

When entering high school, the protagonist Sakai Momone applies to the art course by mistake. She has to study overtime to keep up. There she meets new friends and learns to appreciate art. 4-koma of the year 2017 (new publications): http://4oty.net/2017/award Tsugi ni kuru manga 2018 (nomination): http://tsugimanga.jp/nominate/2018/comics/

(from ebookjapan): **"I will become the best financier in Osaka!"** Tatsuyuki Haibara, unemployed after his company went bankrupt, decides that finance is his true calling and goes to work as a salesman for the finance company Teikoku Kinyu (Imperial Finance). However, it is not a sweet job, and Haibara is confronted with various human dramas and underworld situations related to money, such as a woman who became a soap opera star by shouldering a debt, a man who got involved in fraud, and a confrontation with an underworld moneylender... The story is set in Osaka, the commercial capital of Japan, and is the first in a series of Osaka Finance manga! --- - **Won the Kodansha Manga Award for General Manga in 1992** - **Won the Osamu Tezuka Excellence Award in 1997**

Coming from a single parent family, Wu Xiaorong is ridiculed by both her peers and teachers. She despises going to school yet when she enters her third year of primary school she meets the class celebrity, Tong Kewei. Although Wu Xiaorong feels like the two are from separate worlds, a moment of impulsivity leads to an intimate encounter... Won silver place at the 2022 Japan International Manga Award

A cute and round ghost applies for a part-time job focused on scaring people. But what's the ghost hiding inside?

Kachou Kousaku Shima is the first in a number of Japanese manga series about a fictional salaryman named Shima Kousaku, a Japanese white-collar worker who devotes his life to his company, Hatsushiba Electric.

In this story set in the early 1980s, a young man dreams of becoming a renowned comic writer in years to come. His name is HONOO Moyuru. He has no money, only a dream. Then, he feels overwhelmed by his lack of ability, and buys some sake, although he has no head or stomach for alcohol. This is a tortured elegy for any dashing young art student who spends his days careening around in burning ambition. **Notes:** - Nominated for the 3rd Manga Taisho Award in 2010 and for the 19th Tezuka Osamu Cultural Prize in 2015.

Special Weekly Shonen Jump issues dedicated to celebrate the Kinnikuman series

A story about a professor and his assistant, working hard on their research every day. While clumsily hiding pursuit of their mutual affection for each other, they go back and forth on growing close and drifting apart, creating a perfect sense of distance in this strange laboratory romantic comedy! --- [Shounen Jump +](https://shonenjumpplus.com/episode/10834108156683040362) [Note: Received the Shounen Jump Rookie: July 2019 Bronze Rookie Award]