(from ebookjapan): Another Side of the Rumic World unlike "RINNE" or "Rumic Theater"!　 Black, pure, mysterious, and humorous! Works made from 1999 to 2014 are almost all included in the tankobon for the first time! Included works: - **Came the Mirror** (鏡が来た, Kagami ga Kita) - **Revenge Doll** (リベンジドール) - **The Star with 1000 Faces** (星は千の顔, Hoshi ha Sen no Hao) - **Lovely Flower** (可愛い花, Kawaii Hana, ALT. ENG. - Cute Flower) - **with CAT** - **My Sweet Sunday** (マイスイートサンデー) - Collaboration with Mitsuru Adachi

Friendship blossoming to love between a high school girl who tries extra hard to make up for her lack of height and a middle school boy who just looks too tall to be his real age.

Classic short stories from Rumiko Takahashi. Many are comedies. Volume 1: - **Fire Tripper** (fantasy, romance) A gas explosion sends high school girl Suzuko and toddler Shu 500 years into the past. But she lost Shu on the way, and as a result, Shu ended up in the past 10 years before her, and is 15 years old when Suzuko arrives. - **Maris the Chojo** (comedy, SF) A destructive alien policewoman sees a kidnapped quadrillionaire as her ticket out of debt. - **Those Selfish Aliens** (comedy, SF) - The direct pre-serialization one-shot to [Urusei Yatsura](https://mangadex.org/title/6b9206b3-5c0f-4cf8-a0cc-d2c9e1aa4df9/urusei-yatsura?tab=chapters) Aliens, the government, and fishmen implant bombs in a poor paperboy. - **Time Warp Trouble** (fantasy) Warriors from feudal Japan inexplicably pop into a high-school classroom. - **The Laughing Target** (drama, romance, supernatural, tragedy) When they were children, Yuzuru Shiga and his cousin Azusa Shiga were engaged. Azusa aims to make sure that Yuzuru stays hers, no matter what, but Azusa also has a dark secret… Volume 2: - **Wasted Minds** (Dust Spot) (adventure, comedy, fantasy) Follows a pair of two bickering government agents, both of whom have special abilities. (A five-part mini-series) - **The Golden Gods of Poverty** (gag comedy) An unfortunate boy's scientist parents try to use him to make money, but they only succeed in contacting the Seven Lucky Gods, who happen to also be broke. - **The Entrepreneurial Spirit** A woman leads seminars for a get-rich quick scheme. Volume 3: - **That Darn Cat** (slice of life) Rumiko Takahashi remembers having to take care of her neighbor's cat. - **When My Eyes Got Wings** A couple befriend a sickly child with a secret and his destructive pet bird. - **Wedded Bliss** (comedy, romance) A wedded couple can only let out their tension from working all day by fighting with one another, until their neighbors threaten to have them moved. - **Sleep and Forget** A girl relives a past life involving her lover and an evil witch back from the dead in the form of a dog. - **A Cry for Help** A fairy gives a boy a frightening split personality thanks to the wind-up key she inserts in his neck. - **War Council** Student councils go to war with one another over a stamp. - **The Face Pack** A man can change his appearance at will and leads a "masters of disguise" club. --- Official Release: - Indonesian release by Level Comics Viz Media Out of Print editions. ISBN below for Official English Print Vol 1: 9781947804739 Vol 2: 9781569311943 Vol 3: 9781569312063

A 1980 short contributed to the manga anthology "Shonen Shojo SF Manga Kyousaku Taizeshuu".

Takahashi Rumiko contributed this short autobiographic piece to the 2014 Big Comic Original Godzilla 40th anniversary special edition.

Ootani Rin, a girl from a poor family due to her father's gambling is attending a highschool on a scholarship. She has been taking care of her sisters and mother ever since her father ran away. Her school doesn't allow its students to work part time but she's not worried about it since all the students at her school are rich. However one boy takes interest in her, finds out about her part-time job and to keep him quiet she has to make him a bentou (packed lunch). Included one-shots: Bukiccho☆Boukun, Totsugeki! Hanamaru Bentou

Taking her grandfather’s advice, Iwa, who is in Tokyo for work, strives to do good deeds wherever she goes. Whether it be rescuing an injured bat on the sidewalk or helping out a sickly young man, the city is turning out to be a very interesting place.

Nobuyuki Anzai's debut works.

Sunflower ~ Kenichi Legend is a gag manga based on the manga author's real life story. Sunflower is about an OL named Akiko who is very good at drawing illustrations for her company bulletins. She drew manga as a kid, but hadn't pursued it. Her father Kenichi works at the same company. He is a tropical fruit freak & is on a different wavelength than others. Sunflower ~ Kenichi Legend was nominated for the 1st Manga Taisho Award in 2008. (Source: MU)

The girls are sold as prostitutes in the towns that dot the arid desert. Each of them is forced to receive the lusts of men for their own reasons, and each of them fall in love. They have men they are in love with, but prostitutes aren't free to choose who they love. "Love or life, which is more important to you?" "I pick love." "But you can't be in love if you're dead." Is there a way for these women to survive in a world filled with lust and violence? One day, Candy and Susie run from the brothel, seeking the freedom they can never have. "We are stronger creatures!" Obey your instincts ” the voice from within!

Travelling salespeople visit a small, remote town. However, neither the town, it's inhabitants, nor the salespeople are what anybody would consider "normal". A supernatural crackpot comedy.

From Kirei Cake: After Yune returns to Japan, Alice can't seem to forget about her, so she decides to go visit Yune herself! Each chapter in this series features "quickies" that show the daily lives of Alice and Yune having fun being silly in Japan! Each page links to the next in a sequence of events that help build the story as it progresses! Side Story of Ikoku Meiro no Croisée.

"My inheritance is a company that rents out magic users…what!?" The extremely scared Iba Itsuki receives his inheritance left to him by his missing father: the Magic User Rental Company Astral. The magic users are rented out to customers to solve problems as requested. How will Itsuki deal with the fate of being president when he's never studied mage-craft!?

The affection of a fallen angel and demon

What is Tanpo? Basically it means security collateral. In this story, the Suzumiya family have run deep in dept that they pawn off their three daughters Yukari, Ai, and Midori as guarantees for the money they'll receive. Well, they mistake some piece of trash called Ishihara Yuujirou for the Daikoudan Group. Unfortunately, Ai-chan is the one that the rest of the family/staff coerce into tempting Yuujirou with her body to initiate sex with her in order to secure money for the debts.

Tokyo is under siege by the terrorist organization known as Panther Claw: the beautiful superheroine android known as Cutie Honey arrives to take them on–and fails! Cutie Honey must now join forces with government agent Natsuko Aki, as the duo pose as student and teacher at St. Chapel Academy. But there is nowhere to hide from Panther Claw and its leader’s evil machinations! --- Based in the adaptation of the 2004 Live-Action Movie and OVA Anime Re: Cutie Honey.

Louise is a student at Tristein Magical Academy. She is known to be quite a screw up when it comes to her magic. One day, a ceremony takes place where each student is to call forth a being or entity that will become his or her familiar. For Louise, her familiar comes in the form of a boy named Hiraga Saito. Somehow, he managed to get transported from his world into hers, and shortly after became her familiar.

After oversleeping during an attack on Mars, our heroine Eileen is sent to Earth "to broaden her horizons." Eileen can only return to Mars after defeating her quota of monsters, but much to her dismay, Earth is much more peaceful than Mars. Partnering up with Earthing NEET Lovely Melon ☆, no one knows what lies ahead for our two heroines.

Mazinger Angels chronicles the adventures of four women who pilot giant robots in the Mazinger vein. The concept is a spoof on the late 70's and early 80's popular TV series Charlie's Angels. Three of the robots, Aphrodite A, Diana A and Minerva X are from the original Mazinger Z series, while Venus A is from the Great Mazinger series. Their pilots are also traditional characters from Go Nagai's universe, Sayaka Yumi and Jun Hono from Mazinger Z and Great Mazinger respectively, and Hikaru Makiba and Maria Fleed from Grendizer. The style of the manga highlights the sex appeal of both the characters and the mechas, sometimes similarly to the way Aika's female characters are shown. (Src: wikipedia)

The Angel Troupe is composed of five beautiful and talented female pilots. When a coup d’état threatens the life of Prince Shiva, they are called to action. Takuto Meyers is put in charge of the Angels and is ordered to escort Prince Shiva to safety. With their enemy right behind them, Takuto and the Angels have enough to worry about—but multiple love triangles don’t seem to be helping!

Long ago, in an epic battle of might, King Phelios defeated the Vampire King Duzell. And as both lay dying, Duzell swore that his reincarnation would find King Phelios' reincarnation and exact his revenge. A hundred years later, the moment of reincarnation has arrived…the only problem is that Duzell has been reincarnated as a harmless house cat. And to add to his frustration, he can't find the reincarnation of King Phelios. Luckily, he has been adopted by Phelios' granddaughter, the teenage princess Ishtar, through whom Duzell may be able to track down who in the Phelios tribe is host to the great king's reincarnated soul.

This is the story of the workers in the Maid Cafe Curio. The current shop manager, Daisuke, is a young man standing in for his newly remarried and traveling father. He must deal with all the quirky young ladies who work at the maid cafe, including his newest hire, the runaway rich girl Misato, who doesn't know the first thing about working at a maid cafe. Other workers include Daisuke's new stepsister Suzu, the aggressive floor chief Midori, the clumsy chef Sayaka, the absent-minded waitress Imako, and the academic-minded Kanako

- Princess Princess - Sugar Complex A girl worries about her weight. - First Complex Extra to Sugar Complex. - Bankara!! Otome Gakuen - Sweet Room - Lunch Box - Meiko - Lunch Box - Yukari