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San Francisco Kinokuniya 01/16/2011
Asuko March! is a josei series by Akiyama Kaori from Margaret's YOU magazine and the main character attends a technical high school.Yuzuko was left alone after her grandmother passed away.
Shadowed by a mysterious organization, her family murdered by a psychopath,
and with the sudden "breakdown" of the world, the missing pieces to everything is revealed,
and the "Peppermint" inside Yuzuko activates...
Matsuri Special by Yoko Kamio is from Jump Square - the main girl can take guys down with wrestling moves.
Dainana Jyoshika Houkou by TSUBANA runs in Comic Ryu and is a comedy where strange stuff happens around the cover girls.
Ateya no Tsubaki by Kanji Kawashita had an 18+ sticker on it since there is sexual imagery in this Edo period horror-mystery, not unusual for Young Animal magazine.
Sakuragawa Volley-boys by Souko Masaki is about pretty boys playing high school volleyball and the otaku girl Satoko who follows them.
Cafe Detective Club by Fujishiro Takeshi was an impulse buy - turns out it's a cute girl comedy. Here's its Gangan Online page.
Popcorn Avatar by Koichiro Hoshino runs in Shonen Sunday. I was drawn to it by the blonde fighter who often wears cheerleader gear.
Prizona 6 by KOJINO & Ryunosuke Kingetsu deals with six females are stranded on an island with no memory of their pasts as part of Project Prisoner.
San Jose Kinokuniya 1/16/2011
Le Tour! is a Shonen Sunday series by Akira Otani about a budding competitive cyclist.
I'd seen Kiyoku Masashiku Utsu Kusuku (ufotable x Tartan Check) on the shelf a couple times & the one-shot 364-page is about girl's soccer.
1/11 (Juichi bunno ichi) is a soccer tragedy manga by Takatoshi Nakamura from Jump Square (Jump SQ).
Bengoshi no Kuzu revolves around a rosy-cheeked lawyer and the cases he takes.
Love Eighteen by Akira Miyagawa can be seen in Kodansha's Afternoon and takes place in 2018 when a supercomputer directed starts chasing main girl Naoki. The not-so-clean character design caught my eye when flipping through an issue of the magazine.
Shoujo Fight by Yoko Nihonbashi focuses on a women's volleyball team and had an anime OVA episode in 2009. Characters have a thin black outline around them.
Ryo Atsuchi's light comedy Sofuteni is about a female "soft tennis" club and will have an anime adaptation later this year.
Here's a Sofuteni trailer from Comiket 79 and you may notice some ecchi moments:
Back to San Francisco Kino - 01/22/2011
Hanbijiburu by Hirai Takeshi is a school comedy that features Haruna, a girl who can only be seen by some people.
Yuubae Sakusen - adaptation of a Ryu Mitsuse novel that Mamoru Oshii wrote and Tsutomu Oono drew. It was also the subject of a 1974 Japanese drama. I guess there is a time machine in it and also a basset hound (an Oshii trademark).
Femme Fatale and Darenimo Ienai, both by Kaya Shigisawa, have a black-haired glasses girl as main lead in relationship drama, though Femme Fatale looks like it has some humor. Also: Femme Fatale has French and Japanese titles for each chapter.
Nightmare Maker by Cuvie had an 18+ sticker and for good reason: a number of sexual scenes that are part of dream/reality blurring for its high school characters.
Some English translated stuff, too
