TOP MANGA OF THE WEEK

The following content is intended for mature audiences and may contain sexual themes, gore, violence and/or strong language. Discretion is advised. When K-books turned 15 years old in 2008, a collection consisting of artbooks, special phone cards and many other products was released, to thank its customers. Please read the below notes carefully for the contents of EACH volume.Note #1: This collection comprises of 2 separate artbooks as in, 1 for the boys and 1 for the girls. The particular names are Boys side and Girls Side and neither of the 2 are likely complete. Note #2: Boys' side = often ecchi and with some images featuring some nudity. One of the images was lolicon, soo I left it out in accordance with Batoto's site policy. I mean: you don't want me to start censoring by drawing on someone's art, right? The image in question was by Kiyotaka Haimura, if anyone's extremely curious. Girls' side = mostly shounen-ai but some of the images are not. Nothing that really qualifies as "mature" for this artbook.

This is only a partial of the artbook which numbers about 100++ pages in total.

Cute, simple-minded Tomo Masaki has a brother complex, Tomo so adores his older brother Ei that he studied hard to get into Kouryou Academy, where Ei is a popular senior and Student Council President. Now the bane of Tomo's existence is Ei's best friend and Student Council Vice-president, Motoki Izumi. For some reason, Izumi always bullies and teases Tomo whenever he comes to the student council room to pay his brother a visit. Why can't Izumi just stop it and leave him alone? More importantly, why does Tomo's heart pound whenever Izumi does bully him?! Sometimes, Izumi's even nice to Tomo--which only makes his heart beat faster! 

The following content is intended for mature audiences and may contain sexual themes, gore, violence and/or strong language. Discretion is advised. When his Handicrafts Club sempai, Himuro Saeji despairs of ever getting a girlfriend, Kirishima Hikaru is dragooned into helping out in a rather odd manner. Later he also goes "undercover" in practice for his starring role in the Drama Club's play during the school festival. From the anthology series Change H!

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I treated you as a brother, so how could you just confess to me?! I only wanted to avoid you but ended up getting you hurt in an accident. I'm sorry. If I had another chance, I definitely wouldn't run away again. However... that chance came so fast. I suddenly travelled back three years ago and met you again. The you who doesn't yet know me.

Mana, the spirit of green living things, can be used for both good and evil, and an investigative office exists to keep the destructive power of Mana in check. Ruwen is a Mana Investigator who's been sent to a small town to check out a possible abuse of M

A little note: this is not Oku-sama wa Joshi Kosei/My Wife is a High School Girl. This is a different manga with a different author.

Tengujin is a story about two twin brothers who live in a world where Eastern and Western Japan and splitting apart and have formed two warring countries. In this "idiot adult's world", many social issues press on society and drove it to war. Gods of the world, mainly tengu, influence the start and end of the events that lead to war such as Japan splitting into two, so the younger twin, Mozuku, desires to end the idiotic war the adults started and meets with the God of the West (Sai) with his older brother, Shinonome.Zanouka, the second story in Tengujin, is about the former incarnations of Mozuku and Shinonome. Mozuku is a young bard who is the inheriting son of a feudal lord of a dead mountain with only poor people remaining on it. He keeps a rigid, realistic perspective on life and refuses to believe in things like tengu. While cleaning the tengu's small shrine, his beautiful voice attracts the attention of the tengu of the mountain, Tondonbou (Shinonome's former incarnation), who hides half of his face behind a mask. After meeting the tengu, Mozuku sets to seeking him out again, wanting to see what was hidden behind that mask.

Compilation of short stories: 1) Cupid College student Ryosei received (what seemed to be) an angel statue as a congratulatory gift from his eccentric uncle. Although this little angel turned out to be the mischievous Cupid instead.

Continues the story of Dee, Ryo, and the rest of the gang in the 27th precinct of the New York police department. A new crime, new faces, new clues, and new loves can all be expected in this thrilling sequel!

"The Human Whose Name is Written In This Note Shall Die" This is the story of a Death Note user.

It's about a depressed woman who's stuck on something that happened in her life.

Shinichi is the only son of Takako Gotenji, the strongest female fighter in Japan. Despite this, he is not very good at seeing people get hurt, and he would never be interested in martial arts! He has made up his mind that he will never follow in the footsteps of the dojo. Then suddenly five beautiful girls appear in front of Shinichi. They are the strong fighting girls who have been scouted as the heirs to the dojo! But in fact, they are all potential brides for Shinichi, and the only condition for marriage is that they have to squeeze his penis...?

From Intercross:Riko's dream is to write picture books for children. However, she has no confidence in her drawings, so she never shows them to anyone, especially because then children said they suck in her dreams. One day, she happens to meet Akane, a

Alan Barnes, a young billionaire, is entangled in many rumors about sexual scandals and mental illness. He seeks out Wu Bang/Vick Wu, a young doctor, as a friend. Ken Brooks, a colleague of Wu Bang, is very hostile to Alan. He tries to find more evidence about Alan to convince Bang.

Everyone's favorite "darlings" from the hit OVA are back! This time around, the rowdy couple of Sentarou Katsura and Sanshirou Sakamoto suffer trials and tribulations when their mutual "friend," Youichirou Takasugi, warns Sakamoto of an inevitable break-up with Sentarou. Disturbed by this revelation, Sakamoto decides to tail Sentarou around town. But just as his "investigation"' is beginning, Sakamoto's dad visits, commanding him to marry and settle down. In fact, the bride has already been chosen: none other than Takasugi's sister!Amidst all the confusion, will Sentarou end up eating his promise of trying to do everything he can to make Sakamoto happy? And what about all the other couples? The couplings of Takasugi x Ogata, Shikibu x Tsutsumi, Todoroki x Takeru and Kitasenju x Juujou all collide in this volume -- with babies in-tow! It's one riot of a manga indeed!

English teacher Kijima-sensei and his six years younger colleague , PE teacher Ono-sensei are working in an all-girls school on a hill. After Kijima overhears a girl confessing to the PE teacher, Ono asks him for advice. The two get closer bit by bit and in a conversation Ono confesses that he has a one-sided love. Who is the person Ono has one-sided feelings for and how will Kijima handle the matter...

A collection of cute shonen-ai oneshots.

1-2) Chill OutTakafui manages a gay dance club, and when the owner introduces new hire Tomoya, it's love at first sight for Takafui. Unfortunately, he can't even get Tomoya to look at him, let alone talk to him or see him outside of work. Will Takafui's drinking buddy, Yukihiko, acting as Cupid, be able to bring them together?3-4) Strawberries and ChocolateHaruhiko has been in love with his best friend Jyunya for a long time. It becomes harder and harder for him to sit through the details of Jyunya's sexual exploits. Unable to sit and watch from the sidelines, he bribes his younger brother into seducing Jyunya's latest boyfriend away from him. How can his plan possibly go wrong?5-6) Abortive FlowerUchida thinks that he likes his art teacher, Yoshino-sensei. He struggles with the uncertainty of knowing how deep his "like" really runs, and how he can communicate his feelings to his teacher.7) Apartment ZeroAndou left his hometown following an unsettling "kiss" incident with his best friend Nei-chan. Now, two years later, he finds himself broke and homeless, and breaks into an apparently abandoned apartment building for a place to stay. But he wakes up to find the irate true tenant of the apartment, his old friend Nei-chan, who also fled their hometown about the same time. When will the two friends face the incident that caused their estrangement?8) Pretty in PinkWatabe was dumped by his boyfriend because they had few interests in common. Luckly for Watabe, his dad was transferred about that time, and moving saved him the humiliation of having to run into his former boyfriend every day. All he wanted was someone to share his tastes in designer clothes, trance music and art films. Strangely, the clerk at the video store in his new neighborhood seems to share his tastes in a lot of things, and is just Watabe's type in looks too. So why is Watabe running as fast as he can in the opposite direction?9) Abortive Flower?A short trailer which features a conversation between friends on the permanancy/ impermanancy of gay partnerships.

Before entering High School, Ei and Yuuji had always been good friends, but it all started after Yuuji confessed to a girl and was rejected. The relationship between Ei and Yuuji has delicately changed. Boy�s worry when falling in love� particularly when the partner is also a "boy". What should they do...? (from Countless Time)

Loosely based on "Dogura Magura", a novel written in 1935 by Yumeno Kyuusaku

Yui has a small body and has always wanted to have a big, muscular body. He enrolls in a gym with Tachibana as his instructor. He�s the guy he has been idolizing in some body-building poster. There is another story in this manga entitled Ta