from mangaupdates.com Mizushoubai (water business) is the term for Japan's night life activities, such as fuuzoku (similar to prostitution but none of the illegal bits), hosting and managing (entertaining at bars), and kyabakura (night clubs). Recently, it was decided that a high school should be founded to educate the youth in these area where they'd previously had no such guidance: the School of Water Business, "Mizushou", located in Tokyo's Shinjuku ward. The story is from the perspective of a teacher, Tanabe Keisuke, who was transferred there to help teach that school's first generation of students. --------------------------- From the Old Gringo --------------------------- Toritsu Mizushou first appeared as a light novel by Hikaru Morozumi. The manga series doesn't seem to share very much with the novel other than the setting, so in a way you might call it an authorized doujin. Shinobu Inokuma's series before this was Salad Days, and you can find similar character designs there. One character in Salad Days is cloned into an entire baseball team in Mizushou. But unlike Salad Days, Mizushou is much more focused on major characters, and story arcs tend to become longer as the series goes on. All in all, great comedy and good soap opera. Explicit sexual content has been surprisingly rare, more or less equivalent to Kenichi Sonada's Gunsmith Cats or Cannon God Exaxxion. Inokuma has a web site, "The Garden Plot" at http://saladplanning.pro.tok2.com/main.html

She's the most popular girl in school, but what all the guys don't know about Akari is that she's actually a yaoi-crazed doujinshi artist... and her subjects look an awful lot like some boys from school. from snoopycool

In a deserted place, wish upon coins, then laugh loudly three times, your wish will come true... The carefree and outgoing Eu Hee secretly likes a girl; however the person she likes is another senpai. If this isn't ridiculous enough Eu Hee decided to help her confess to her crush! A sweet and light-hearted tale, the Mi Sa-Lyn's first oneshot after her Debut.

Ringo's life isn't going so well. Her father's company went bankrupt, they have to move to a new town, she's leaving her crush behind and worst of all, she has met weirdo in the new town she's moved to. Will she ever find happiness?

Quoted from 4dawgz (the scanlator)- "So there's a magazine called Gelatin where various manga artists are given some coloring crayons and then told to draw whatever they want in full color. The plot for this is about a guy and a girl who go on a mission to retrieve a pair of shorts from an island... aaaaand that's it. All you'll find is a nice slice-of-life story and lovely colored pages."

[From Entropy]: This is a story about aliens. Yes, aliens. Choi Sera houses displaced aliens in her home, where they all pretend to be UFO fanatics in order to explain their eccentricities. Sera’s job is to teach these aliens how to live in human society—not that difficult on the surface, as they ostensibly look like humans (except for the three fingers on each hand thing). They look normal, and they can communicate with earthlings via a translator that looks like a hearing aid, but can they act normal? The answer to that is a resounding no. Watch as Sera tries to school the emotionless twins, Seunghyun and Seungmin (really clones) on dating (with disasterous results), tries to keep Hyunwoo out of trouble, and keep them all from being taken away by the UN alien hunter who’s on to them. And what happens when a translator breaks?! Find out in Safe Again Today!

4-koma on Class 4-2's Sadomi the sadist and friends! Elementary school JUST like you remember it!

Cute little Tarepanda one day wants to go on an adventure. But, after a few bad turns, he realizes he misses home.

From Blu: Watch as the worlds of anime voice acting and high school hockey collide! The boyishly handsome Shino is greeted at his front door one morning by the seventeen-year old son he didn’t know he had. Suddenly pushed into the position of being a father and a provider, Shino starts taking on new acting jobs, including boys’ love drama CDs, and the separation between art and life narrows significantly when his new coworkers start taking quite a bit of interest in him! As if that weren’t enough, his son Nakaya is a handful in and of himself. An aspiring hockey player with a bit of an attitude problem, Nakaya has a lot of growing up to do, and Shino is in for the long haul.

Sasameki Koto is the story of Murasame Sumika, an intelligent and athletically gifted girl who just happens to be in love with her best friend, Kazama Ushio. Unable to confess her feelings, Sumika can only stay by her side and watch over her. After all, the biggest obstacle to her love is something that she can't change. It has nothing to do with the fact they're both girls; Sumika just isn't Kazama's type! Kazama is only into cute girls and Sumika's cool personality just doesn't fit the bill. Much to her friend's dismay, Kazama is always eager to share news about her latest crush. With the duo's knack for attracting trouble, it looks like Sumika's trials have only just begun.

From JShoujo Scans: Being a tomboy who loves to get into fights, Ouka's had zero-luck in the love department. The motto she lives by leans more towards "Be Yourself" than "Be Ladylike," and she follows that to a T. But lately, her long time friend Mashima's been on her case about how she should act "more like a girl"...

Collection of short stories: -Spring Egg Chika’s house was actually just an old lodging house, but due to the location, her parents decided to turn it into a student dorm for the college students. One day, she meets her first love, Fujimori Tomohiro, a college student who will be living at her house! But, Chika’s mother had made him signed an agreement that he can’t go after Chika-chan?! How would their love bloom?! - Sunflower Girl - Happiness Faces South! - Prince and I - 2 Block Honey - Spring, Air, Sunday (From Ochibichan)

From AnimeNewsNetwork: She calls herself Sexy Voice. To most of the world, she's just Hayashi Niko, an ordinary schoolgirl - but when time permits, she lives a double life as a hired investigator/spy. To help her, she has recruited the rather unlikely assistant she calls Robo, a geeky lump of a man who doesn't really know why he feels the need to do everything she tells her to. He just does it. Together, the odd team solve a number of cases for Sexy Voice's employer, an aging gangster.

A boy looks at an idol pic and becomes obsessed with the underwear she is wearing, his obsession leads to him discovering his fetish and new life style( Its a trap manga)

Shiina has 2 secrets. She loves her brother Kiri a lot, and Kiri doesn't know that they are not blood related. She doesn't know what to do, she's been hiding it for a long time, and no one knows she loves him. "This love is secret. Secret to anybody. However, my heart is trembling. ---Hey, I've become aware of these feelings. Please don't notice.---"

From Stiletto Heels Through his hobby, which is exploring (peeping?) through the spaces in-between, Heisaku-kun ends up falling in love with his neighbor, Fumio-chan. However, it turns out that Fumio-chan has also been spying on Heisaku-kun all this time. Will this uncontrollable pair’s hidden love ever be realized?

From Girls' Generation Scanlations: The cheerful and affectionate Hidekazu, and the thoughtful and genial Eiji. They were my old neighbors, the super popular twins. I, Ueto Shun, am in love with the younger twin, Eiji. We study at the same university and share an apartment, although I do not pay the rent... I live under the same roof, but... I am in trouble! I'm happy, but I find it problematic... The excitement of living with the person I love. I have to add that his older brother, Hidekazu, falls for a tsundere at first sight.

From Eclipse Scans Hwee Kang is in a band with all his friends and is recruited by a well known company called JBL because they all have the looks of stars. However, there are high expectations. During the audition, what surprise will they give everyone, and what will Hwee Kang do?

The last student living in a run-down dormitory decides to leave when the conditions get too harsh. The only thing stopping him is a Zashiki warashi, who is afraid for her and her building's future once he leaves.

A short story about a young maiden who falls in love for the first time.

About the student council president and his otaku friend(?) daily life in school.

1st official fanbook of the Touhou series, is written by ZUN and drawn by Kususaga Rin and some others. It features Aya Shameimaru writing a newspaper about the Touhou world, with some comics and newspaper articles. It also comes with a music CD featuring tracks from POFV. Circle/Artist list01 Haniwa's Store & ZUN02 Makoto Kurasawa03 Iron Temple/Yuki Narumi04 Shunichi Fujiwara05 Misuzu Fujimiya06 Yamai07 Harao08 Kiriu09 Clash house/Hirasaka MakotoZUN only involved in the 1st chapter.Hirasaka Makoto is the mangaka who writes several Touhou official mangas

Connected to "Endou-kun no Kansatsu Nikki"

From Manga-Sketchbook: 14 pages short story which originally appeared in AERA COMIC'S "Nippon no Manga" anthology. To get anything other than the pretty pictures out of this short story, one should have read Natsume Souseki's Sanshiro.