A twist on Alice's Adventures in Wonderland in which 'Alice' is a boy whose 'adventures' more closely resemble a gunfight! With Alice and Hatter distracted, the traitorous Dormouse sets off with the Queen of Hearts in his crosshairs. In his urgency to stop the traitor, Hatter makes the mistake of leaving Alice alone with the Cheshire Cat - an error that has proved near-fatal in the past. And when the Regret formerly known as the 88th Alice confronts Alice, it becomes clear that the Dormouse wasn't the only traitor in their midst! Now Alice must fight to keep his position, lest his name and his life be forfeit!
(W) Ikumi Katagiri (A/CA) Ai Ninomiya
A twist on Alice's Adventures in Wonderland in which 'Alice' is a boy whose 'adventures' more closely resemble a gunfight! It's a very special holiday in Wonderland, the one day a year when everyone can take a break from Alice. In celebration, the Queen of Hearts is throwing a grand bash, and everyone in Wonderland is invited! Everyone except Alice, that is. Outraged when the Hatter abandons him for the festivities amidst reassurances that absolutely no one is bold enough to break the rules and come after him, Alice knows well enough that he'll never be so lucky. But even Alice is surprised when, of all people, the Jack of Hearts attempts to abduct him!
(W) Ikumi Katagiri (A/CA) Ai Ninomiya
Determined to break his fealty to the Queen of Hearts and make his time move once again, the Hatter takes Alice through the Looking Glass to a desolate world devoid of people and overrun by monstrous creatures. The two set out into a forest to locate Tweedledee and Tweedledum, who possess special abilities - one to reissue regrets and the other to issue new names. If Alice returns his current name to its rightful owner and the twins can grant him a new one, Alice just might find his happy ending and reign over the world through the Looking Glass as its Queen! But whether his plans align with the Hatter's goal remains to be seen!
On a whim, Aron Cornwall decides he wants to live a pirate's life of thrills,sailing on the high seas in search of distant lands and buried treasure. And when you are the son of a duke, you generally get what you want. Accompanied by his reluctant manservant, Robin, Aron scrounges up a crew - including a cook who cannot cook, a transvestite assassin, and a boy (girl?) genius - and sets off on the craziest pirate adventure you've ever seen!
Serialized monthly in our online manga anthology, Yen Plus, buckle your swashes and prepare for silly seas ahead with Aron's questionable pirate crew! The comedy of AAA is unique among Yen Press's other four-panel series in that it features full color artwork and appeals to pirate- and comedy-loving readers in a more familiar format that closely resembles American strip comics!
Aron's Absurd Armada appears in all of its four-color glory each month in Yen Plus magazine online! Buckle your swashes and prepare for silly seas ahead with Aron's questionable pirate crew! It's pirates... It's treasure... It's the raccoon god... It's a monster... It's the sea king and the turtle... It's Bell... It's the Cornwalls... It's the king... It's Luther and Dorothy and Admiral Nelson and Lady Grey and so on and so on... Anyway, Aron's adventures are still cruising along!
(A) Kiyotaka Haimura
Featuring the stunning work of Kiyotaka Haimura! This collection of illustrations, rough sketches, and more is sure to please any diehard lovers of the beautiful artwork decorating the covers and pages of Is It Wrong to Pick Up Girls In a Dungeon? Side Story: Sword Oratoria! Included are a long format interview between Kiyotaka Haimura and the author Fujino Omori, an exclusive short story, and illuminating scribbled commentary by Kiyotaka throughout!
(W/A/CA) Matoba
Murin's lands his dream job with the demon king he's always held in awe, but when his tenure begins, it turns out the demon king isn't quite what he expected...
(W/A/CA) Matoba
Everyone's clumsy, with unrequited love in their hearts…A girl who doesn't have the confidence to show her true self.A girl who can't speak due to nerves.A girl who always has to run to the bathroom.And a girl who doesn't realize her own feelings…The everyday lives of these demon girls is filled with tears and laughter as they try their best. All this is in the fifth volume of the soft and fluffy underworld manga, As Miss Beelzebub Likes!
(W/A/CA) Matoba
If there's one thing to know about the new face around, Shemyaza, it's that he worships muscles. No wonder Azazel is his idol! Will his arrival bring winds of a new romance? The fluffiness continues in Volume 6! Ages 13 and up.
(W/A/CA) Matoba
Little by little, despite her worries, Beelzebub is getting closer to realizing her 'special feelings' for Mullin. Is she finally going to graduate from the kindergarten of love?! (That would make her a student of the elementary school of love). Her conversations with Mullin are so pure and blissfully ignorant, they can't help but bring smiles. Ages 13 And Up, Grades 8 to 17
(W/A/CA) Matoba
At long last, Beelzebub and Mullin are on a date...at the aquarium?! What else could be in store? From picking up a stray toy poodle, to going to a muscle-themed mixer, to having a diet cheat day, the Underworld is full of everyday hijinks. For readers ages 13 years and up.
(W/A/CA) Matoba
Three guys, three sets of worries. One's love interest is suffering from amnesia, another is figuring out how to serve waterslide noodles in his room, and the third keeps running into a certain someone on his day off...It's the fluffy underworld comedy full of tears and laughter!
(W/A/CA) Matoba
Sacchan lacks confidence in the arena of love, so what will she do when Astaroth invites her on a date?! It's a straight-up chance for the two to get closer! For readers ages 13 and up.
(W/A/CA) Matoba
Astaroth asks Sacchan on a date, and is rejected...but that's not the end of the story! Sacchan might not be confident about many things, but she's found some determination...and wants to be the one to ask Astaroth out?! Will these two demons manage to close the distance in their relationship? For readers ages 13 and up.
(W/A/CA) Matoba
Beelzebub is finally realizing her feelings for Mullin, and Mullin has found the courage to confess his love. Can they overcome the difference in social status? The fluffy and hellish romantic comedy comes to an end in this final volume!
(W) Mikage Sawamura
Naoya Fukamachi is a university student whose ability to infallibly detect lies has left him friendless and isolated. But when he writes a paper about a strange festival he wandered into as a child, he catches the fancy of his folklore studies professor Akira Takatsuki, a handsome and eccentric man with a passion for all things mysterious. Soon, Naoya finds himself working as Akira's assistant, helping him to interpret an array of unexplainable phenomena, from haunted objects and cursed effigies to urban legends. As this odd couple continues their investigations, however, Naoya realizes that his professor has had a few bizarre childhood experiences of his own?
(W/A) Mikage Sawamura
Naoya, a university student who can infallibly detect lies, embarks on another investigation into mysterious phenomena with his eccentric professor, Akira Takatsuki. Their latest client claims that they've contacted the spirit of a missing classmate while playing the Kokkuri fortune-telling game. Afterwards, a famous actress comes to Naoya looking for advice about ghosts, and more of Takatsuki's enigmatic past comes to light!
(W) Mikage Sawamura
'The difference between damnation and celebration is paper-thin. At the same time, Takatsuki and Naoya learn of the urban legend about ''Library Marie''. Apparently if you solve a hidden cipher in the library collection, you'll be cursed. ''The unlucky letter and cursed cipher.'' Upon investigating the legend of a demon god in a village, in a grotto they find a skull with a hole in it. Soon after, Takatsuki is plagued by unexpected suffering. How will Naoya help him out of this one?!'
(W) Mikage Sawamura (A) Toji Aio
Naoya Fukamachi is a university student whose ability to infallibly detect lies has left him friendless and isolated. When a paper of his piques the interest of his folklore studies professor Akira Takatsuki, a handsome and eccentric man, he soon finds himself dragged into Akira's research. Now, as the assistant in charge of common sense, he must help his professor interpret an array of unexplainable phenomena?
(W) Mikage Sawamura (A) Toji Aio
One day, Fukamachi catches a cold and loses his mysterious ability to distinguish lies. While he is out of commission, Professor Takatsuki at an event where he meets an actress who claims she can see ghosts! How will Takatsuki fare in an investigation of her haunted studio without his erstwhile lie-detector...?
(W) Mikage Sawamura (A/CA) Toji Aio
"Because we will return-to the world of everyday life."?
Professor Akira's scary story party became a strange tale in its own right when a ghostly voice was caught on the recording equipment-now it falls to the professor and Fukumachi to resolve the mystery of "The Night of One Hundred Horrors!" And Fukumachi's summer has more in store, because Akira promised to head to Nagano with him and research the Festival of the Dead that Fukumachi saw on that muggy summer night of his youth that changed his life-and his ears-forever!
(W/A) Mikanuji
Discover a variety of stories about women's love, starting with Iori: twenty-eight-year-old office worker who sets out to drown her love and job sorrows in booze. When she wakes up next to someone, she can't believe her partner was Minami, a worker at the bar who doesn't want to forget what they have!
(W/A) Mikanuji
After meeting through an online game, Heke and Lala have become close enough that they can gripe to each other about work-but it turns out the boss Heke's always griping about is actually Lala...!? This is the love story of two awkward girls who have nothing but complaints for each other in the real world and can only convey their true feelings online...
(W/A) Mikanuji
'There's no real reason. It's just that talking with her makes me feel like life is worth living.' Heke and Lala met through an online game, becoming fast friends despite knowing nothing about each other...or so they thought. It turns out they actually work together-but their IRL interactions are full of friction and nothing like the breezy relationship they have online. Will the day when they're able to tell each other how they really feel ever come...?
(W/A) Mikanuji
'She couldn't care less about her teacher. But for some reason, she can't leave her alone... When Kujo, a gym teacher whose thoughts on romance have been complicated by past disappointments, finally starts looking for a girlfriend again, she ends up enlisting one of her students as her wingwoman in exchange for not revealing that the girl, Sugimoto, works at a maid caf?. But it isn't long before Kujo finds herself at the mercy of Sugimoto and her incessant advice. And yet, as the pair work towards their strangely shared goal, they find the tense distance between them giving way to feelings of affection... '
(W) Yuu Miyazaki (A/CA) Okiura
The traitor revealed! The one behind the recent 'accidents' has finally been unmasked - but Julis alone isn't strong enough to beat him! It'll take a team of unlikely allies to bring this fiend to justice. Those in the shadows know this is only the first of many threats to come. Things will heat up even more as the Festa draws near!
(W) Yuu Miyazaki (A/CA) Okiura
Kirin Toudou is one of the top fighters at Seidoukan Academy despite her young age, but there's one enemy she cannot face - her controlling, abusive uncle! When Ayato steps in to help, has he only caused more damage? And does he really have time for this as the Festa draws ever closer?
(W) Yuu Miyazaki (A) Okiura
Ayato Amagiri, the chosen wielder of the Ser-Veresta, has made it into the Phoenix tournament with his tag-team partner, Julis. As they fight their way through the preliminaries, trouble is lurking in the shadows and heading straight for Ayato!
(W) Yuu Miyazaki (A) Okiura
Team Enfield is preparing for the next battle, but just as they start planning to build their teamwork, Claudia disappears! Claudia has some information that only the upper echelons of Galaxy should know, and they're not going to let her get away with it…
(W) Yuu Miyazaki (A) Okiura
After what happened with Claudia, Team Enfield is closer than ever, but what awaits them in the Gryps semifinals...? Ages 13 and Up.
(W) Yuu Miyazaki (A/CA) Okiura
Despite some setbacks, Team Enfield's bonds of friendship held fast for the Gryps tournament, and all's well that ends well for Kirin. But the member of Team Enfield still have their own worries to face-and instead of participating in the next tournament, Ayato and Kirin plan to visit each other's homes... Ages 13 And Up, Grades 8 to 17
(W) Yuu Miyazaki (CA) Okiura
Ayato and Kirin return to the Amagiri household to face his father. There, Ayato requests that Magnum Opus Hilda awaken his sister Haruka...and at last, after her long slumber, she awakens. Following their emotional reunion, Haruka begins to tell her brother in her own words exactly what had happened to her in the past. Meanwhile, Haruka's revival slowly stirs the Golden Bough Alliance to action... For readers ages 13 and up.
(W) Yuu Miyazaki (A/CA) Okiura
After the Gryps, it's time for the Lindwurm tournament! Ayato has been training for the competition in hopes of saving Haruka, who has been taken as a hostage...but what about his promise with Julis? Ages 13 And Up
(W) Yuu Miyazaki (A/CA) Okiura
Asterisk's sixteen strongest fighters have come together for what may very well be the greatest Lindvolus ever-and Ayato isn't the only one who's in it to win it for more than just the crown. Will they finally be able to achieve their goals...?!
In the sixth round of the Lindvolus, the final four will be decided! But if Ayato advances, he'll have to face Julis in the semifinals. Meanwhile, Ayato is visited by two students from Gallardworth who say they've been asked to come save Haruka...
(W) Yuu Miyazaki (A) Okiura
Julis advances to the finals of Lindvolus, and there is still one match left to determine her opponent: Saya vs. Orphelia. But before it can even begin, Saya approaches Orphelia with a different intention. Rather than fighting her, Saya wishes to have a talk instead. What can she possibly want to discuss? Meanwhile, behind the scenes, Ayato and his friends become more entangled with the Golden Bough Alliance, and the two groups may finally face their last battle.
(W) Yuu Miyazaki (A) Okiura
As Julis faces off against Orphelia in the final Lindvolus match, Ayato takes on Madiath behind the scenes. The Golden Bough Alliance has been sowing the seeds of chaos in Asterisk, but Claudia and the others are hot on their tracks. It's time to decide the final victor-and when all is said and done, will Ayato be able to face his precious friends, including Julis? The heroes of Asterisk come together one last time in this final volume!
(W) Yuu Miyazaki (A/CA) Okiura
The school-city of Rokka-also known as 'Asterisk.' Here boys and girls of the Starpulse Generation all compete in the Seibusai, the 'star battle festival,' fighting for glory on the greatest combat entertainment stage of the world. Ayato Amagiri has just arrived at one of these academies at the express invitation of its student council president, but when he begins his career by making a dangerous enemy, his life on Asterisk is off to a rough start!
