Fancy Lala,known in Japan as Fancy Lala,the Magic Stage,is a magical girl anime series produced by Studio Pierrot in 1998,following an OVA released in 1988. A two-volume manga adaptation by Rurika Kasuga ran in Ribon. The original designs were created by Akemi Takada,who worked on many of the Studio Pierrot series of the 1980s. The anime series was licensed for English release by Bandai Entertainment with a dub produced in Calgary and Edmonton,Alberta,Canada by Blue Water Studios which was owned by Ocean Productions in Vancouver. This was the last magical girl anime Pierrot produced by Pierrot prior to Tokyo Mew Mew in 2002.
Saikano:The Last Love Song on This Little Planet.,also known as She,the Ultimate Weapon,is a Japanese manga series written and illustrated by Shin Takahashi. It was serialized in Shogakukan's seinen manga magazine Weekly Big Comic Spirits from December 1999 to October 2001,with its chapters collected in seven tankōbon volumes.
Golden Boy is a Japanese sex comedy manga series written and illustrated by Tatsuya Egawa. It was serialized in Shueisha's seinen manga magazine Super Jump from 1992 to 1997,with its chapters collected in ten tankōbon volumes. It tells the story of Kintaro Oe,a 25-year-old freeter "travelling student",who despite having met the requirements for a law degree,left Tokyo University without graduating. Kintaro is living freely,roaming Japan from town to town,job to job. During his travels,Kintaro meets several women whose lives he dramatically changes,despite poor first impressions. He constantly observes and studies the people and events around him,recording his findings in a notebook he carries on his belt.
Grenadier is a Japanese manga series written and illustrated by Sōsuke Kaise. It was serialized in Kadokawa Shoten's shōnen manga magazine Monthly Shōnen Ace from April 2002 to March 2005,with its chapters collected in seven tankōbon volumes. In North America,the manga was initially licensed by Tokyopop and released in print from 2006 to 2008. It was later licensed for digital release by Viz Media and released in 2015.
Kare First Love is a Japanese shōjo manga series by Kaho Miyasaka. It was originally serialized in Shōjo Comic from March 2002 to August 2004,and the individual chapters were published in ten tankōbon volumes by Shogakukan from September 2002 to December 2004. It focuses on the romance between the seemingly plain,shy Karin and the cool Aoi Kiriya,as they experience their first love.
Kekko Kamen is a Japanese manga series written and illustrated by Go Nagai. It was serialized in Monthly Shōnen Jump from September 1974 to February 1978,with the chapters collected into five tankōbon volumes by Shueisha.
...But,I'm Your Teacher is a yaoi manga series written and illustrated by Row Takakura. Seven individual chapters were published as a single tankōbon volume in July 2001 by Biblos,then reprinted in March 2007 by Enterbrain which had assumed the license. The volume presents six short stories,with the titular story featuring Yahiro,a substitute teacher,who begins having an affair with his student Kago.
By the Sword,known in Japan as You,is a Japanese manga series created by Sanami Matoh,who is also the creator of Fake.
Futaba Aoi is a manga artist. Part of a duo including herself and Mitsuba Kurenai. This is the pen name used for writing extremely adult-oriented yaoi-stories. Real names are Masaki Sano and Kyou Watanabe. This duo also still works for the dōjinshi market and has published some dōjinshi of their own work.
Hakase Mizuki is a Japanese manga artist born in Hokkaidō,Japan. She made her manga debut with The Monsters Collection in the June 1997 issue of Wings,published by Shinshokan. Her representative works include Asian Beat,Baku,The Demon Ororon and Demon Flowers.
Indian Summer is a Japanese manga written and illustrated by Takehito Mizuki. The manga was serialised in MediaWorks's monthly Dengeki Daioh before MediaWorks moved the title to the quarterly Dengeki Moeoh. The manga was formerly licensed in English by ComicsOne and DrMaster.
Detatoko Princess is a Japanese manga written by Hitoshi Okuda and serialised in Dragon Magazine from 1994 to 1999. The individual chapters were published in six bound volumes by Fujimi Shobo.
Hero Heel is a Japanese manga written and illustrated by Makoto Tateno. It is licensed in North America by Digital Manga Publishing,which released the manga through its imprint,Juné,on April 8,2008. Biblos released the manga on August 10,2005 before it went bankrupt in 2006. Libre Publishing took over publication in Japan and released the manga's three tankōbon between June 30,2007,and March 10,2007,publishing the last two volumes first then the first volume. The manga is licensed in Taiwan by Egmont Manga &Anime and in Germany by AnimePro.
Angel is a hentai manga series written and illustrated by U-Jin. The original manga series met with controversy in 1990–1991 in Japan and was retired from its magazine serialization. It was adapted into an OVA of the same name and a sequel called Angel:the women whom delivery host Kosuke Atami healed. The manga was also succeeded by a manga called Angel:the women whom delivery host Kosuke Atami healed,and succeeded again by another manga called Angel:the women whom delivery host Kosuke Atami healed season 2.
Sket Dance is a Japanese manga series written and illustrated by Kenta Shinohara. The manga follows the adventures of the Sket-dan,a high school club whose goal it is to help the students and teachers of Kaimei High School with their problems,as they do whatever it takes to help make their campus a better place. The story is mainly told in the perspective of the Sket-dan's three members:Bossun,the leader of the group;Himeko,the "muscle" and the only female in the group;and Switch,the otaku and the "brains" of the group. It was serialized in Shueisha's shōnen manga magazine Weekly Shōnen Jump from July 2007 to July 2013,with its chapters collected in 32 tankōbon volumes.
A Channel,is a Japanese four-panel comic strip by bb Kuroda. It was serialized from 2008 to 2021 in the seinen manga magazine Manga Time Kirara Carat,published by Houbunsha. A prequel manga series,also by Kuroda,launched in Manga Time Kirara Carino from January 2012. An anime adaptation by Studio Gokumi aired in Japan between April 8,2011,and June 24,2011. An original video animation,A Channel +smile,was released on March 21,2012.
Romantica Clock is a Japanese manga series by Yōko Maki,serialized in Shueisha's shōjo manga magazine Ribon from August 2012 to June 2016. It had been collected in ten tankōbon volumes. An anime television series adaptation aired from February 4 to February 25,2014,as a segment on TV Tokyo's children's television series Oha Star.
Yorifusa Yamaguchi was a Japanese anime director.
Kenta Shinohara is a Japanese manga artist. He is best known for his manga series Sket Dance,which was serialized in Weekly Shōnen Jump from 2007 to 2013 and won the Shogakukan Manga Award in 2010. His next series,Astra Lost in Space,serialized on Shonen Jump+ from 2016 to 2017 and won the 2019 Manga Taishō. Shinohara began serializing his currently ongoing series Witch Watch in Weekly Shōnen Jump in 2021.
Witch Watch is a Japanese fantasy and romantic comedy manga series written and illustrated by Kenta Shinohara. It has been serialized in Shueisha's Weekly Shōnen Jump since February 2021,with its chapters collected into seventeen tankōbon volumes as of July 2024. As of November 2022,the manga had over 1.1 million copies in circulation.
