Ken and two other Japanese chefs get thrown back into past and arrive in the Sengoku Era (the Warring States Period; 1467-1573). Almost immediately, Ken’s presumed co-workers are killed by soldiers.  The only survivor, Ken, is rescued by a female blacksmith, Natsu.

Upon arriving in the Sengoku Era, Ken lost almost all of his memories; the only thing he retained was his knowledge of cooking. To repay Natsu’s kindness, Ken does the only thing he knows how: cook. After seven months of cooking, Ken attracts the attention of a pivotal figure of the era, Oda Nobunaga.

1. Kono Bijutsubu ni wa Mondai ga Aru!

Author: Imigi Muru
Artist:  Imigi Muru
Genre(s): Comedy, Romance, School Life, Seinen

“Uchimaki Subaru, the main character, loves to draw 2- D characters and freakly love them and says that he isn’t interested in 3- Ds girls. Usami Mizuki is quite a normal girl heroine. Lastly, The president doesn’t act like one. 

“There’s a problem with this art club!” Artist Imigi Muru is a winner of the Award for Wxcellence in the 5th Dengeki Comic Grand Prix, went one and had a debut in Comic Gum. Currently has another series running beside this one….” -Mangafox.me

Thoughts: What I like is that this manga starts out generic but has a very subtle twist in the last two pages which prevents me from calling this series generic. In fact, I have no idea how the story will progress.

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1. Yuusen Shoujo - Plug-in Girl

Author: Kaya8
Artist:    Kaya8
Genre(s): Action, Sci-fi, Shounen

“Six years ago, Tsukihiko was caught in an assassination attempt on a little girl, Sami, when he attempted to be her shield. This incident nearly killed him and the girl together, but the little girl was the daughter of an extremely powerful family. With its vast amount of resources, the family was able to keep both Tsukihiko and Sami alive by recreating both of their bodies with cyborg technology. This has forced Sami to permanently rely on wired connection to her life sustaining computer. On the other hand, Tsukihiko has become a cyborg “Knight,” sworn to protect Sami from harms way. [DrCoke]” -Mangahelpers

Thoughts: Besides the great premise can we just marvel on the beauty of the cover art? God, it is beautiful.

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1. Adventure of Sinbad ~Prototype~

Author:  Ohtaka Shinobu
Artist:     Yoshifumi Ohtera
Genre(s): Action  Adventure Fantasy Shounen

“A 70 page manga prologue of Magi. Tells the story of Sinbad’s early life, when he captured the first Dungeon, Baal.” -Batoto.net

Thoughts: Has enough questions left unanswered that I am sure that this will be continued one day.

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Kazama Kenji and his two friends are a normal group of delinquents. For them, life is dandy if not a bit boring. Their lives change drastically when Kazama runs into the Game Production Club. In a school full of freaks and weirdos, he entered the den of the freakiest and the weirdest. The club consists of Karasuyama Chitose, the student council president, Shibasaki Roka, the secret boss of the school whom everyone knows about, Mizukami Sakura, a mysterious girl who likes water, and their adviser, Oosawa Minami.

Together with Kazama and his childhood friends, the two delinquents and the masochistic student council vice president, the group goes through various antics and adventures with the rest of the unusual student body and the surrounding area.

Best known as the creator of Akira, as mangaka to the manga and director of the animated movie, Katsuhiro Otomo is a man of many hats. As a director, his other works include such hits as Steamboy and Mushishi (live-action). On top of his professions of mangaka and director, Otomo-sensei is also a screenwriter. having written the screenplays for the mentioned films, along with the screenplay for Metropolis.

1. Classmate (♀) to Meikyuu no Futekisetsu na Kouryakuhou

Author:    KONYA Yukio 
Artist:      KONYA Yukio   
Genre(s): Action  Mystery  Romance  Shounen  Supernatural 

“It has been decided that Nishi High will close in two years time. Since then, the student population had dropped to a total of only seven. Hazakura Motoya, one of the remaining students, decides to stay for the free ride through high school.

Suddenly, everyone is shocked when they receive three new transfer students, Kayama, Mizumura, and Toujou, girls who are actually members of a special military division.

Soon after, Motoya and the three girls witness a giant tower suddenly appearing on school grounds. Motoya is chosen by destiny to enter the tower with the girls in order to uncover the mysteries of the tower.” - MangaHelpers & Kirei Cake:

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1. Moon Edge

Author:      TAKANO Masayuki 
Artist:        TAKANO Masayuki     
Genre(s):    Sci-Fi Seinen

“In a ruined city, Takeru comes across a suicidal young girl named Konoha. She’s deathless, and she’s being used as a guinea pig by a cruel organization. Seeing no meaning to her life, she fled her captors to seek a way to end it. Takeru has a lot in common with Konoha— he’s also deathless. He’s made a life for himself, though, locating people by contract. After he rescues her from her pursuers, he convinces her to continue living. Maybe she’ll be able to find a purpose, as she and Takeru face the future together.” -MangaHelpers

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Kentaro Miura-sensei is the mangaka, both the author and artist, for the behemoth of a manga, Berserk. Miura-sensei received second place in the Tezuka Osamu Cultural Prize of Excellence in 2002 for his work in Berserk. In my opinion, he should have earned first place.

1. Bouken Erekitetou

Author:       TSURUTA Kenji 
Artist:         TSURUTA Kenji    
Genre(s):    Seinen

“After her grandfather’s death, Mikura chose to continue their island express courier service. With her seaplane and her adventurous cat, Endeavor, she lives life as she chooses. Soon, Mikura becomes very interested in a mysterious island that seems to move around, according to local legend. After some extensive effort to determine the island’s whereabouts, she manages to get a brief glimpse of it from the sky. Now that she knows it’s real, she’s determined to find the island again, no matter what it takes!” -Mangahelpers

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The highly decorated Hitoshi Iwaaki-sensei is the author and artist of notable works such as Kodansha Manga Award winner Parasyte and 2005 Tezuka Osamu Cultural Prize finalist and 2010 Japan Media Arts Festival grand prize winner Historie.

1. Radio Heads

Author:        Mukoura Hirokazu 
Artist:          Mukoura Hirokazu    
Genre(s):    School Life, Sci-fi, Seinen

“At the Ozu Technical High School, students ranging from first years in their teens to fifth years already in their 20’s are bred to become engineers. Togawa Sumiji is the president of the Robotics Division and is just as gifted and passionate as all the other nerds in his school. But something about Sumiji makes him stand out from everyone else. And with the robot competition drawing close, it’s time for him to shine as the president and lead his members into building the greatest robot in history.” -Mangafox.com

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From the manhwa writer that wrote Shin Angyo Onshi and Defense Devil comes a story of demons, death, history and vengeance.

Island centers around Won Miho, who, ever since she came to Cheju Island, has attracted the attention of the native demons. Her only line of defense is Pan, a serial killer who hunts these demons. This mysterious man uses Buddhist chants and his jade dagger to defeat both god and demons alike. He is unpredictable, to say the least, and Won has to resort to money in order to keep Pan defending her.

However, these demons are the least of Won’s worries as she gets caught in a history of hate between Korea and Japan which manifests itself in supernatural killing and battles.

Even in real life, humans are slowly destroying the planet.  However, in Parasyte, Earth may have a chance due to alien invaders.  These aliens are parasitic, sometimes symbiotic, creatures that attempted to take over human bodies when they first invaded.  Most Parasites succeeded and took control over human brains. Others failed to take over humans but succeed in controlling other animals, although this is considered a failure by the Parasite population. These Parasites develop a need to eat others of the same species as their host.  Thus, Parasites in human hosts eat other humans.

Another failure is when a Parasite fails in taking over a human’s brain and instead controls a different part of their body. This is the case for Shinichi Izumi, who has a Parasite in his right hand.

1. Time Killers

Author:      Katou Kazue 
Artist:       Katou Kazue  
Genre(s):   Action Shounen Supernatural

“Collection of short stories including:

• Miyama Uguisutei Jiken (The Miyama-Uguisu Mansion Incident)
• Ao no Futsumashi (Exorcist) pilot chapter Hoshi Ota” 

-Mangafox.com

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