Fancy Dance (ファンシィダンス) is a Japanese shōjo manga series by Reiko Okano. It won the 34th Shogakukan Manga Award for shōjo. It was adapted into a 1989 live action film directed by Masayuki Suo. References ^ 小学館漫画賞: 歴代受賞者 (in Japanese). Shogakukan. Archived from the original on 2007-09-29. Retrieved 2010-01-08. Fancy Dance ファンシィダンス Manga Written by Reiko Okano Published by Shogakukan Magazine Petit Flower Demographic Shōjo Original run 1984 – 1990 Live-action film Directed by Masayuki…
Dame na Watashi ni Koishite Kudasai (ダメな私に恋してください, lit. “Please Love the Useless Me”) is a Japanese romantic comedy manga series written and illustrated by Aya Nakahara. It was serialized in Shueisha‘s josei manga magazine You from April 2013 to August 2016, with its chapters collected into ten tankōbon volumes. A sequel series, titled Dame na Watashi ni Koishite Kudasai R, was serialized in the same magazine from October 2016 to October 2018,…
Bad Company (バッドカンパニー, Baddo Kanpanī) is a one volume prequel manga to the series Shonan Junai Gumi. It was written and illustrated by Tooru Fujisawa shortly before starting work on Great Teacher Onizuka. The manga was serialized in Kodansha‘s Weekly Shōnen Magazine from June to July 1996 and the collected volume was published in 1997 by Kodansha. Synopsis Bad Company is made up of two parts, each dedicated in…
A Zoo in Winter (冬の動物園, Fuyu no Dōbutsuen) is a Japanese one-shot manga written and illustrated by Jiro Taniguchi. It was serialized in the Shogakukan seinen manga magazine Big Comic Original between 2005 and 2007. The manga’s seven chapters were compiled into a single tankōbon and released on 28 March 2008. A Zoo in Winter was translated into English and released by Fanfare/Ponent Mon on 23 June 2011. It was nominated for the…
Yancha Gal no Anjō-san (Japanese: やんちゃギャルの安城さん, Hepburn: Yancha Gyaru no Anjō-san, transl.: “Naughty Gyaru Anjō-san”) is a Japanese manga series written and illustrated by Yūichi Katō. It has been serialized since August 2017 in Shōnen Gahōsha‘s Young King magazine and its chapters have been collected into twelve tankōbon volumes. In May 2019, Katō started two Anjō-san manga spinoffs: Anjō-san no Gakkō no Hokenshitsu no Komaki-sensei (安城さんの学校の保健室の小牧先生, “Ms. Komaki, Anjō-san’s School Infirmary Nurse”), illustrated by…
Umineko When They Cry (Japanese: うみねこのなく頃に, Hepburn: Umineko no Naku Koro ni, lit. “When the Seagulls Cry”) is a Japanese dōjin soft visual novel series produced by 07th Expansion. Its first episode debuted at Comiket 72 for Windows in August 2007. The story focuses on a group of eighteen people on a secluded island for a period of two days, and the mysterious murders that befall them. Readers are challenged to discern…
Parallel Paradise (Japanese: パラレルパラダイス, Hepburn: Parareru Paradaisu) is a Japanese manga series written and illustrated by Lynn Okamoto. It has been serialized in Kodansha‘s Weekly Young Magazine magazine since March 2017. In North America, the manga has been licensed for an English language release by Seven Seas Entertainment in August 2019. Plot Youta Tada is an ordinary high school student who holds deep feelings for his childhood friend….
Oira Sukeban (Japanese: おいら女蛮, “I’m a Sukeban”), sometimes called Sukeban Boy, is a Japanese manga written and illustrated by Go Nagai, serialized in Shogakukan‘s Weekly Shōnen Sunday from 1974 to 1976. It is a comedy with several erotic touches, where the protagonist Banji Suke (or Sukeban) has to disguise himself as a girl in order to be able to attend an all-female school to try and clear his…
Nanimo nai Kedo Sora wa Aoi (何もないけど空は青い, “There’s Nothing, But the Sky is Blue”) is a Japanese manga series written by Hiroyuki Nishimori and illustrated by Yuuki Iinuma. It was serialized in Shogakukan‘s shōnen manga magazine Weekly Shōnen Sunday from March 2014 to August 2015, with its chapters collected in seven tankōbon volumes. Publication Written by Hiroyuki Nishimori and illustrated by Yuuki Iinuma, inspired by Nishimori’s novel Manten no Hoshi to Aoi Sora, Nanimo…
Magia Record: Puella Magi Madoka Magica Side Story (Japanese: マギアレコード 魔法少女まどか☆マギカ外伝, Hepburn: Magia Rekōdo: Mahō Shōjo Madoka Magika Gaiden) is a Japanese role-playing video game developed by f4samurai for Android and iOS, which was released by Aniplex in Japan on August 22, 2017. A North American version was available from June 2019 to October 2020. The game is a spin-off of the 2011 anime series Puella Magi Madoka Magica, and…
Land (Japanese: ランド, Hepburn: Rando) is a Japanese manga series written and illustrated by Kazumi Yamashita. It was serialized in Kodansha‘s seinen manga magazine Morning from March 2014 to July 2020, with its chapters collected in 11 tankōbon volumes. Publication Written and illustrated by Kazumi Yamashita, Land serialized in Kodansha‘s seinen manga magazine Morning from March 13, 2014, to July 9, 2020. Kodansha collected its chapters in eleven tankōbon volumes, released from October 23, 2014, to September 18, 2020. Reception Land placed 13th on Takarajimasha‘s Kono Manga ga…
Kaguya-sama: Love Is War (Japanese: かぐや様は告らせたい ～天才たちの恋愛頭脳戦～, Hepburn: Kaguya-sama wa Kokurasetai: Tensai-tachi no Ren’ai Zunōsen, lit. “Lady Kaguya Wants to Make Him Confess: The Geniuses’ War of Hearts and Minds”) is a Japanese romantic comedy manga series written and illustrated by Aka Akasaka. It was first serialized in Shueisha‘s seinen manga magazine Miracle Jump from May 2015 to January 2016, and later transferred to Weekly Young Jump, where it ran from March 2016…
