Daizawa Riku loves dogs more than anything else in the world! They are having an assembly and a guy named Inukai Jun reads his speech. Riku's eyes turn into hearts as she realizes that his name means "dog" ~LB Also includes two other short stories: • Amakuchi Kigokoro • Himitsu no Chikara
In a world of humans and beastfolk...After Masora, a human college student, discovers that his best friend may have not actually been his friend at all, he starts to feel insecure about how naive and inept he is.In hopes of improving himself as a person, he decides to start working at a ski resort part-time.That's where he meets another part-time worker, a husky-hybrid beastman around the same age named Kohaku.From the moment they meet, Masora feels that Kohaku is a cold, terrifying man, and he begins to worry that he won't be able to survive his new part-time job, until one day...A love story between an unsociable beastman and a clumsy human.
Sora Pometani, a sober high school student, has a peculiar constitution: when he's anxious he turns into a Pomeranian. One day, his classmate and secret love, Makito Matsuda, bumped into him in his Pomeranian and ends up taking him home.Makito takes Sora in his pomeranian form home because he resembles his grandmother beloved but deceased dog, "Pometa". Makito finds out about Sora's true constitution and, in order to make his grandmother happy, he asks Sora to keep visiting her in his pomeranian form. Sora is promoted from a mere classmate with a secret crush to one of Makito's friends.
Ever since middle school, Takahiro Ozu was famous in the world of track and field as the "long jump specialist”. But after losing his final competition in high school, he hung up his track shoes for good. Now in college, having taken up smoking, he just wants to get a girlfriend and lead a normal student life. Noriko Watsuki has had a crush on Takahiro since she first saw him jump and wants him to join the college track team so she can get close to him. Yuki "The Headphone Girl" Hoguchi, a high school student who likes to hang out at the university, claims Takahiro took her virginity 13 years ago when he was in kindergarten. She considers him her property to do with as she pleases. Throw in a full cast of zany and unique characters, sprinkle with fan service, and you have the world of Inu Neko Jump. From Animewaves
Isazuki Village is a village with a deep, strong faith in the Inugami folklore. As the opinions of redevelopment of the village are divided among the villagers, they are greeted with the strange deaths of the people from a construction company who had come to investigate the village. Tachibana Tsukiko, who lives in this village, and her three childhood friends are getting ready to participate in the annual festival that seeks to drive away the Inugami spirit. However, they end up getting caught up in a certain incident…?! This dark, young-adult tale of childhood friends begins here…
Retired boxer Shouji Kazuya has long given up dreams of winning championship titles. He's now a coach and all his hopes are pinned on his protege, the upcoming pugilist Gaku. But the relationship between the two is not simply that of coach and student... "It's just that when I see the normally expressionless kid making a face like this, I can't help but get excited."+
Continuation of I Love You Until the End of the World. Takase Hajime's perspective of his stalker.
The manga centers on 34-year-old Nichiko, who moved away from her city and back to her hometown island alone after a certain incident. She returns to her childhood home, where nothing is left except a lonely kennel, and begins an impoverished life. She meets Chimaki, who works at the local convenience store at the island, and they begin a curious relationship.
From Viz: All alone except for her loyal mutt Lupin, 18-year-old Suguri moves from the countryside to the big city to find a career and a new life! In her first job at a pet store, she meets an assortment of quirky dogs and even stranger owners. What she lacks in retail experience, she makes up for through her natural rapport with all things wagging and fluffy! [taken verbatim from the blurb of the English volumes]
Fumiki Shimazaki has only one dream: to become a poet. Spending more time in his poems than in the preparation of it his studies(?), he faces disapproval from his professors and his best friend Mika... To escape from the harsh reality, he seeks refuge in an abandoned factory. There, he stumbles upon a mysterious dog, who saves his life from an attacking monstrous feline. Their friendship is immediately created thereafter. Questions arise then. From which does this gifted dog come from capacities paranormaux and overflowing of thirst for knowledge? How can it speak? What does the number 23 on its ear stand for? The Appearance and arrival of this dog causes an increasingly number of extraordinary events all revolving around the number 23...
From Antisense Scanslations: Kazura, an office lady, only ever gets teased by her boss, Inukai. Her job? She transforms into a dog spirit to perform exorcists. However, there's one small problem. In order to do her work as a dog spirit, she has to be kissed by the boss, or she can't transform. Now then, let's begin this inhuman romance! -------- From MangaHelpers: Kazura has an unusual job in a department that handles clearing out demons and spirits. Her teammates include a super-otaku, a former delinquent with fire powers, a drunken magic sword wielder, a British exorcist and a powerful Buddhist monk. Kazura's role is not so glamorous, though. She forms a team with her manager, as a vessel for the dog spirits he controls. When he kisses her, she is possessed by the powerful dog spirit Bentengou for about five minutes, after which she usually wakes up to herself doing something embarassing, like licking her "master's" face! [tethysdust]
From MangaHelpers: Inuzuka Taromaru is a first year high school student who looks like a delinquent. One evening, while he's at his part-time job, he ends up with a white-feathered arrow through his head! He's told that this arrow means he has been chosen as the sacrifice for "Inugami-Hime," who lives on top of the nearby mountain. However, this mysterious "Inugami-Hime" turns out to be a cute girl who has chosen him to be her servant, not her sacrifice. Their life together is just beginning! [tethysdust]