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Crayon Shin-chan (?????????, Kureyon Shinchan) is a manga and anime series written by Yoshito Usui. The American version of the manga is titled "Crayon ShinChan" while the UK, Catalan, Galician, Spanish, Portuguese, Dutch, German, Hindi, Danish and American version of the anime is titled Shin-Chan. The series follows the antics of a five year-old boy Shinnosuke Nohara, his parents, neighbours, and friends. This story is set in Kasukabe, Saitama Prefecture, Japan. The show is called "Crayon Shin-chan" because "crayon" signifies the fact that it is a tool commonly used by kindergartners and that Shin-chan goes to kindergarten. "Shin-chan" is the affectionate name for the main character. (R.I.P. Usui Yoshito April 21, 1958 – September 11, 2009)
From September Scanlations: Miyano is a high school student with a secret–he’s a BL fanboy. He’s passionate about his hobby but doesn’t share it with others easily, until a chance encounter with a quirky sempai named Sasaki brings a new friendship. Sasaki doesn’t know what the heck a ‘seme’ or ‘uke’ is, or why he should be worried when Miyano threatens to draw doujinshi involving him, but he’s eager to learn about his cute new friend’s hobby!
He graduated early from the science department, acquired his PhD at a record speed, and is now a senior researcher making a large salary at a major company. In other words, Go Youngwon is a pitiful engineering student that has never been outside his school or the lab. Just like his name, he dreams about love and forever ever after. But, he's actually a sucker for looks and falls in love quickly. Because of this bulldozer-like personality, he often gets dumped before he even starts dating. Meanwhile, the guy he's been stuck with lately is... Kang Hyunwoo, a man of the same age, and who has the exact opposite temper, tastes, personality, and basically everything else..
Touka is an ordinary high school girl who loves bowling. Her father runs a bowling alley, she has a crush on her former coach, and she is a pro at the game. The only issue is that if anybody watches her bowl, she becomes extremely conscientious of her body and plays poorly. To ensure this doesn't happen, Touka's best friend tries to help her overcome her shyness while bowling.
Hina has one-sided feelings for her childhood friend, Yakumo. However, Yakumo is actually like a helicopter parent, an overprotective mama...! "I'm happy about being doted on by the person I like, but being treated like a daughter is the worst!" Wanting to become lovers with Yakumo, Hina tries her hardest to make him look at her as a woman, but...?! The romcom between a determined maiden in love and an overly-protective boy starts now!
Unsuccessful in getting his work serialized in a shounen magazine, struggling manga artist Susumu is advised by his editor to try drawing BL instead. He feels disheartened, thinking he is finally being ”designated for assignment,” when his junior Minoru comes forward with a suggestion to start dating for the sake of research. What starts as purely research becomes something more, as Susumu finds himself captivated by Minoru's sincerity...
As a punishment for punching a famous Calligrapher, young handsome Calligrapher Handa Seishu is exiled on a small island. As someone who has never lived outside of a city, Handa has to adapt to his new wacky neighbors, like people traveling on a tractor, unwanted visitors who never use the front door, annoying kids using his home as a playground, etc. Can this city guy handle all the crazy hardships? Find out in this wacky island comedy full of innocence and laughter!
The manga centers on a second-year high school student who is standing in for his Catholic priest father to protect their church while his father is away. He saves a troubled beautiful young girl who is in front of his church one day, but she turns out to be the demon Asmodeus.
On a rainy day, when Mai got stood up by the guy she likes, she met a beautiful girl who told her that she was the Rain and that she had come because of her tears. After that Mai's days were filled with the bitterness of betrayal, only the memory of the girl called Rain can somehow ease her heart. A story of a brief love affair under the rainy season.
Kazoe, a girl sheltered from perverse content, and Hanazono, a boy brought up in a family that lives off of the perverse. As Kazoe is finally unable to restrain her curiosity, she turns to Hanazono for help. This is the story of the two engaging in high intensity consensual knowledge sharing.
Clad in school uniforms practically breathing with life are the girls of Hoshimiya Girls' Academy. When a certain “incident” rocks the academy, hidden feelings will be entwined in this pure girls' love story.
Saint Oniisan is slice-of-life, or divine-life, tale of Jesus and Buddha as they try to experience the modern world: in this case, Japan. The manga places a funny twist on religion, attitudes, culture and customs in Japan through the eyes of Jesus and Buddha. You see Jesus and Buddha experiencing Asakusa, public baths, theme parks, and the internet. Throughout the manga, we get a little history of their divine greatness only to see their apparent insignificance in modern Japanese society. Suffice to say, before people can recognize that they're actually Jesus and Buddha, people think of them as someone who looks like Johnny Depp or a guy with a button on his forehead. For real. Saint Oniisan received the 2009 Tezuka Osamu Cultural Prize for Short Work Manga. Nominated for the 2nd Manga Taisho Award (2009).
