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July 2005. There is a series of mysterious homicides happening in the blazing city, Tokyo. All the victims were women and the cause of their death was traumatic shocks. Judging from abnormality of these incidents, there are reasons to believe that they have something to do with the occult. In order to make clear the direction they should take, the metropolitan police department decided to carry out their investigations by engaging the help of those influential figures of the occult world. July 21st – the metropolitan police department officially labeled this incident as the No. 568 Specific Crime.
Chiaki Honda is a middle-school boy who neglects his studies. Furthermore, he smokes, and has dyed his hair a bright green. One evening at the arcade, a girl challenges him to a match. The girl, who straightforwardly introduces herself as Nanako Kikuchi, suggests a bet, nonchalantly wagering her body for Chiaki's watch. Chiaki is soundly defeated, and he goes home fuming. His life goes on, of course. The next day, he meets a strange young man on the train who looks an awful lot like him. And eventually he runs into Nanako again.
A legendary face-off between two high school baseball players in the national finals, one a naturally gifted talent, the other a hard-working monster. A fierce rivalry with their lives on the line.
Shio Houkigi runs an aromatherapy salon by day, but has another occupation by night. She runs "Striped Sheep," a service that provides relief to women who have a hard time falling asleep without a man by their side.
After recently moving to Onomichi, Hiroshima, high school student Tasuku Kaname is thrown into despair at the possibility that he may have been outed for being gay. Convinced his life is over, his despair turns into shock when he sees a woman jump out of a window of a nearby house. Tasuku races to the house in a panic only to discover that it's a public meeting lounge owned by the woman he saw before. Tasuku comes face to face with the woman as she walks past him unharmed, but not before she implies that she had been watching him from afar. Confused, Tasuku follows her up to the top of a steep hill where she offers to briefly listen to what's on his mind. Although Tasuku doesn't go into too much detail, he later accepts her invitation to come to the lounge to meet others with similar troubles.
Shimazaki Mako used to be a zebra, but she hated her life of being chased by lions, so now she's turned into a human. But in the apartment next door is a former lion...!? It's wildlife survival of the fittest for these former animals turned high school girls on Kami-sama's whim.
From MangaHelpers: Tatsuo, Hide, Satoshi and Aya worked together to cheat people out of money. They tended to target marriage services, where they con money out of people looking for love. They were good at it, until they crossed the wrong guy. Then they saw the world below the surface of dupes to cheat, when the 'collection agency' came for them with extreme violence. The person who takes Satoshi and Hide, and then Aya and Tatsuo, is a wild-eyed maniac who seems to get off on the torture. There may be hope for Tatsuo, though, because the man recognizes him. The torturer is "Akasada" a bullied kid that Tatsuo knew from school. Now Tatsuo and Aya have been pulled, against their will, into Aka's world. [tethysdust]
After surviving a terrorist incident as a child, Shingo Shimazaki was forced to join the League for Economic Liberations' revolutionary army. Now, thirty years later, he's back in Japan and trying to assimilate to a normal life. His Japanese may be awkward, and his grasp of ordinary tasks a little weak, but he has all the combat and surveillance training of a green beret. There are many kindhearted souls who want to help him - and a few not so kind ones who will do anything to stop him. (Source: Kodansha USA)
From etc: Based on historical setting of Korea during the Josun Age. Long ago, in Jushin, secret royal inspectors named "Angyo Onshi" wandered the country and restored the order. But now that Jushin is destroyed, only one is still wandering...
A continuation of Say Hello to Black Jack, published by Shogakukan instead of Kodansha.
Prequel to the Getter Robo Armageddon anime. Also published in the Getter Saga version of Shin Getter Robo.
Ryo and Akira travel through time in order to eradicate demons that could have changed history. Various periods are visited: from pre-WWII to ancient Greece, middle ages in France meeting Joan of Arc, far-west America, renaissance.
