Drama
Clare's grandpa is on his deathbed, but the greedy relatives are concentrated on fighting each other for his legacy with nasty means. Will they get what they want? Will the Underground Satan, Bruce Warner, who's also the son-in-law in the family, turn the table for Clare?
DramaSupernaturalJosei
In the story, a woman feels depressed just after entering college. She finds herself unexpectedly lost, and ends up standing alone in a mysterious world. (Source: ANN)
SportsSeinen
RomanceSchoolShounen
Onda Nozomi is in her second year on the middle school soccer team but has yet to play a single game because she is a girl. Growing up playing soccer, she has the technical skills, endurance and the elegance. However, as a girl, she can't overcome the physical difference and she can see all her male teammates that she grew up playing soccer with get further and further away from her. Even her younger brother, Junpei, who is also on the team, is starting to rise above her. Coach Samejima sees that Nozomi is an amazing player but because soccer is such a physical sport, he can't let her play. Nozomi isn't the kind of girl that just gives up so she practices harder than anyone and drives the team in the hopes of one day playing in a game. (Source: MU)
DramaSci-Fi
"WANTED: Players with Beautiful Legs!" With that, Kicker Weekly sports reporter Yukari Ogata is sent on the onerous task to cover Tokyo Crusade, an amateur football club. But what would have been another frivolous assignment becomes a potentially worthy scoop, when Ogata discovers that Chihiro Oki—a football freelancer who goes by the name "Joker"—is playing at the tryouts! Rumors have it that the Joker can fill any position on the field, and whichever team he joins is guaranteed to win! But why has such a talented player gone unnoticed for so long? Throw in an ex-league professional, a bunch of ragtag players and the eccentric coach who will bring them all together, this Division III club may just have what it takes to win the Emperor's Cup! (Source: Shogakukan Asia)
ActionAdventureFantasy
Sealed and forgotten below Tokyo, there is a world called Tokyo Underground. Bodyguard and element user Chelsea Rorec escapes the underground with the Maiden of Life, Ruri Sarasa. They take refuge in the home of Asagi Rumina but are soon attacked by members of the Company ordered to retrieve Ruri.
AdventureShoujo
Chocolate and other sweets have been banned thanks to the political reign of the Good For You Party, and the new laws are enforced strictly, with force if need be. Smudger and Huntley are two teen boys determined to eat chocolate again. They search out rumored chocolate bootleggers, eventually starting their own chocolate underground distribution.
HistoricalShounenSports
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! (Source: SRoMU)
ActionCarsSports
Street racing shifts into high gear, taking a turn down the dark streets of underground racing as the proteges of legends arise! Most of the Four Kings have since fallen from grace, and now the streets are ruled by the 13 Ghosts! But when a legendary racing god comes out of retirement to recuit some new talent, the die is cast, and the wheel is set in motion for some major competition with the 13 to rule the strets of Asia! So it comes that the chlidren of racing icons Tien Ren and Ichiro Sakazaki step forward to prove their worth as champions! But will the heirs to street thunder receive their crowns, or will previous kings Fuma and the Seer intervene with a plan of their own? (Source: ComicsOne)
DementiaHorrorSeinen
Comics Underground Japan presents the wild, subversive world of Japan’s most accomplished underground comics artists. Some of the dozen artists included in this anthology will be familiar to followers of manga; others make their American debut in these pages. The richly imaginative stories in this volume show a great range of graphic style, from painstakingly detailed craftsmanship to exuberant, maniacal renderings. At the heart of each work in this anthology is a unique personal vision and a fierce artistic compulsion–these manga artists are the misfits of the art form, and they are its visionaries. (Source: Blast Books) Included stories are: 1. "Hell's Angel" by Yoshikaze Ebisu 2. "It's All Right if Yiu Don't Understand" by Yoshikaze Ebisu 3. "Steel Pipe Melancholia" by Masakazu Toma 4. "Future Sperm Brazil" by Takashi Nemoto 5. "A Love Like Lemons" by Carol Shimoda 6. "Selfish Carol's Summer Vacation" by Carol Shimoda 7. "Mercy Flesh (Jiniku)" by Kazuichi Hanawa 8. "Don Quixote #1 & #2" by Yasuji Tanioka 9. "Planet of the Jap" by Suehiro Maruo 10. "Mary’s Asshole" by Hanako Yamada 11. "Volvox" by Pan Migawa 12. "Bigger and Better" by Muddy Wehara 13. "Laughing Ball" by Hideshi Hino 14. "Cat Noodle Soup" by Hajime Yamano & Nekojiru
DementiaSci-FiSlice of Life
Zajirou is a salaryman who draws manga during his daily four-hour round-trip commute—a perfectly appropriate activity on a subway that shuttles between fantasy and reality. Today he continues to ride that real/surreal subway, pen in hand, depicting a mysterious underground world where pens take the form of pantographs and elephants amble aboard the train. (Source: Japan Media Arts Festival)
Sports
ComedyDramaRomance
Everyday Kimi's belongings were searched and destroyed, and she always felt that someone was watching her. They said that the school’s secret organization solves all the problems within the school’s ground thus she gathered up her courage, and went to them for help. Little did she know, this organization actually consisted of 3 “Money-loving” people... can they solve her problem safely? (Source: MU) Also includes two one-shots: Fake and Summer Love Paradise
The manga follows Atsuhiko Kouno, a soccer player who represented Japan in the 1996 Atlanta Olympics and had high expectations to become a star player. Now in 2002, he is 31 and has somehow slipped into obscurity. One day, he receives a notice from his champion team that they are canceling his contract. Atsuhiko is offered a new contract for his former team JEM Chiba, and it is there that he wagers his comeback. However, he's known on his new team as the "former Japan representative," and his young teammates make fun of him and treat him coldly because he's still wearing the #10 jersey even though they think he's past his prime. Through all this, Atsuhiko silently continues to practice in hopes of making a comeback. (Source: ANN)
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