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. Dragons Rioting

Author: WATANABE Tsuyoshi
Artist:  WATANABE Tsuyoshi
Genre(s): Action  Comedy  Ecchi  Martial Arts  School Life Shounen  

“As a 6 Year Old, Rintaro is diagnosed with Henisei Tashu Ijou Syndrome (also known as Hentai Syndrome), a disease that could kill him if he gets sexually aroused. To save him and provide a way for him to live as normal a life as possible, his father teaches him the ways to control his body and mind for ten years in the mountains, with the martial art of the Koei Sougetsu. When he’s 16, he chooses to enroll Nangokuren High School, which he assumed to be the biggest all-boys school in the country but is actually the biggest all-girls school that has just gone coed.

On his first day, he stumbles upon a large scale battle and learns that the first rule of the school is that it “Abides the Law of Nature” which has turned the campus into a war zone-like environment. Rintaro now sees transferring out as his mission, but will it be that easy now that he’s caught the eye of the 3 “Dragons”, the bodacious female leaders of the three biggest factions around?” -Mangahelpers

Thoughts: I usually don’t like manga full of overly well-endowed girls but this one actually has a fairly interesting, if easily avoidable, premise.

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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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1. Tsuki no Sango

Author:   NASU Kinoko
Artist:     SASAKI Shounen
Genre(s): Shounen, Drama

“The story takes place in approximately the year 3000, when humankind arrived at the peak of its civilization, but is losing its will to keep living. It follows a girl, called “princess” by those around her, living on a small island with a fifty person colony and a shinning coral reef. She is descendent of Moon people, and it focuses upon how her ancestor supposedly came to Earth.” -Mangaupdates.com

Thoughts: At first I didn’t think much of the work, but the second chapter changed that.

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1. The Legend of Genghis

Author:   Dai Qing Xian
Artist:     Wen Ri Liang
Genre(s):Action, Adventure, Martial Arts, Mystery, Shounen

“A princess calls upon a hero to kill the newly born demon king and that’s how the story begins…!” - Mangafox.com

Thoughts: An amazing example of manhua, Chinese comics. The entire comic is amazingly drawn and colored while the story is surprisingly complex. The work has great re-read value as I picked up so many more hints the second time around.

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The manga, Fullmetal Alchemist, won the 49th Shogakukan Manga Award for shounen and the Seiun Award in 2011 for best science fiction comic.  Additionally, it is a best seller in both Japan and America. It is a given that either you or someone you know wants it. But it is a whopping 27 volumes long; buying each volume will take a hefty chunk out of your wallet.

So what do you do? Buy the box set, of course. But don’t get too excited: the box set is far from perfect.

This is the story of Yamada, a generic delinquent, and the seven witches of his high school. One day while on the way to class, Yamada falls down the stairs with Shiraishi, the smartest girl in the grade, and they switch bodies. Turns out they kissed upon landing, and that a kiss is the key for witches to use their abilities.

Witches? Yeah, there are perpetually seven witches in Yamada’s high school, although the people change and trasnfer their powers transfer upon graduation. With little else to do Yamada, Shiraishi and their slowly growing group of friends start a club to research the witches’ abilities and their holders.

I don’t like sports manga. Most of them are unrealistic and they don’t accurately represent the sport. Often times they are simply an action manga with good looking guys/girls battling through the use of a sport with unrealistic powers and abilities or use the sport as an excuse for pantyshots.

But occasionally I run into sports manga that aren’t like that. They accurately represent the sport and not only provide the reader with meaningful dialogue, but also offer insight into the sport itself. Baby Steps is one of these manga.

George Morikawa-sensei has accomplished what few mangaka have ever been able to do: create a series that has lasted 1000 chapters and is still going strong.  The fifth longest manga in terms of chapter numbers, Hajime no Ippo started slightly over 23 years ago and has yet to reach its closing arc.

Chapters 256 and 257 are golden; even when I re-read them I still get excited!

1. Ano Hi Mita Hana no Namae o Bokutachi wa Mada Shiranai

 AKA: Ano Hana

Author:    Okada Mari
Artist:     Izumi Mitsu
Genre(s): Comedy, Drama, Mystery, Psychological, Romance, Shounen,Supernatural, Tragedy

“Five childhood friends grow apart after the death of Meiko Honma, close playmate of them all. Jintan Yadomi, leader of the group when they were kids, neglects high school and lives as a shut-in when he unexpectedly starts seeing the ghost of Meiko, who can only interact with him and no one else. She has returned to ask Jintan to fulfill the forgotten wish she made as a kid.” -Mangaupdates.com

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Abiding by three laws, Tripeace’s purpose is to eradicate war from the world. The first two laws the organization members follow are Love and Peace, with the third changing on an individual basis. Nana has joined Tripeace in the hope of ending all war. Despite the feminine name, Nana is a guy… a guy who has forgotten his past. His new life greets him with terror — the very first people he befriends are killed in front of him during an invasion by Xyece. Nana vows to stop at nothing for a peaceful world… even cross-dressing?

I wonder if glowing eyes affects her vision? In fact, how does she get her eye to be luminescent? Is it moss? Yeah, its probably moss.

There can only one reason why they are so dressed up: fanservice…