By Katutoshi Kawai : Tomehane! The syodou club of Suzuri high school

This manga is set in the "syodou" club of the high school in Japan. The Syodou is the Japanese art of calligraphy, which was rooted in the Chinese one.
All the children in Japan go through basic training of the syodou in the elementary school, but after that most of them have hardly any interest in it. It's like saying that the syodou is a niche art category in Japan. Is the syodou an insipid art? The author Kawai is successful in showing and proving the syodou is very profound, diversified and sometimes dynamic.

Maybe you can sare the process that The lead character "Yukari" ,who is the returnee boy from Canada, and heroine "Yuki" learn the logics, history and techniques of syodou by degrees.
A little bit of romance will make you smile. Yukari has a secret crush on Yuki, but Yuki regards him as a competition. The perception gap is at once funny and thrilling.

By Daijiro Moroboshi : Syokai-shii

"Syokai-shii" has short scary　stories based on chinese patrimonies.

The stories are sometimes so totally-unexpected that you may be shocked with endings. And sometimes the stories have strange endings which are extremely-irrational but pregnant suggestive.

The main character = Aki is the boy who can see ghost. He is very adorable. And his guru = Gogyou-Sensei is the very skilled taoism master. They get into paranormal phenomena or sometimes solve them.

Moroboshi's style is not realistic, and makes a positive effect on these stories. Because of his dry and somewhat comical style, you'll enjoy even dreadful scenes. They are of course awful, but humorous too.

By Tokuhiro Masaya : Kyoushirou 2030

"Kyousirou 2030" final volume finally went out. I love this manga but the impression of final volume is thin somehow.

I'm gonna introduce "The world of Kyoushirou".
In near future, Japan are being ruled by some men through New World War. There is a Super-administered society with strong social hierarchy that is centered on army. Men and women are isolated and engaged in the farm labor etc. With only a handy virtual reality machine : the amusement. Most people have virtual experience of sexual perversion with the machine, hero = Kyoushirou is too shy to talk to the virtual girl in the virtual "Edo city" ,that means Tokyo in hundreds-of-years-old, and always perseveres in a military art of sword. He lives in Tokyo and his real occupation is a policeman. And his skill of military arts is the five-stars--why it is so, it turns out as the story develops.

At the same time, heroine = Yurika ,who does the work of the programming of the virtual machine in the army underground central base in Hokkaido far from Tokyo, while checking many user's worlds of virtual machines, finds Kyoushiro by chance.
She likes tha man who is stoic, gentle, missing a few screws, and impossible to hate. And as a virtual girl, she enters the virtual Edo world of Kyoushirou.
Later, Kyoushirou finds Yurika really exists. He asks her hand in marriage , and Kyoushirou and Yurika that have not been met quite actually become married couples.

Kyoushirou knows that Yurika's real life is in quite misery, he starts on a journey to Hokkaido for saving Yurika. He has two partners of the journey. The management computer of virtual machine = Asuka and genius dog with genius scientist's brain = Babenske are. The possibility of the rescuing Yurica that Asuka calculated is "0%". Can Kyoushirou meet Yurika and save her...

These 20 volume stories were published. However, to me, the story got to the certain measure of ending at volume 18 in which Kyousirou meets real Yurika.
Though I have a little bit of dissatisfaction with last several volumes,
from a big point of view, I think this manga must be the considerable masterpiece.

Please note this manga is not only very romantic and moving, but also violent, erotic and nonsense.

By Terajima Yuji : A"ace" of Diamond

At the current moment, this is the only manga for school boys that I'm looking forward to sale of the next volume of.

Hero = Sawamura from a small and weak local junior high school baseball club, where the girl member exists, goes to Seidou high school distinguished for baseball, and makes eleventh-hour efforts and aim for an ACE. It might be an orthodox composition in which a good old-fashioned school baseball manga smells somehow.

The author seems to be paying close attention to the drawing division of caratars. But except hero = Swamura, his rival Furuya and a "phenom" catcher Miyuki of their baceball partner, the attention doesn't go well so much. Especially, the unskilled of girl's drawing style is impressive.

I think this is a polite manga totally. But sometimes the statements that audience made seem to be out of line, I hesitate to assess this manga as high or low. The book editor, Please support him at working-out of details carefully.

Well, though there is a detailed fault, as symbolized by Hero = Sawamura's cheerful character, I like very much a bright air that this manga has. A cheerful part of the physical education association is drawn all over the stories. Although Sawamura is some "Dokonnjyou-syugi" that means guts and sweat-ist, surrounding persons around him sometimes stops it. The seniors and the supervisor induces him to light or reasonable practices or the rest some of the time. I think it is important at manga of presebt day.

The most classical "Dokonnjyou-syugi" manga, "Kyojin no Hoshi" has what kinds of its ending? It says "The hero = Hoshi is as expected ruins his body and has to leave the ball field". The author Kajiwara Ikki made responsible work at the ending of it. However, there are still a lot of "Dokonjyou" mangas without responsibility.

Because the author of this manga seem to be a baseball experienced person, he accurately tells and draws the baseball as a sport. For example, a genius players who have been injured and lost their way to first string, a fast ball pitcher who divides his fingernail by having neglected. The baseball play scenes have been made very exciting by autor's baseball experience. The maximum feature of this manga is beauty and reality of the play scene. It is really beautiful that pitching form of very fast ball pitcher = Furuya is! When I see his finish pose after throwing out, I think "Wow, his ball is exactlly fast". Sawamura's finish pose is also powerful. Terajima is the manga author who can the most beautifully draw the pitching form as long as I know.
And the portrayal of fast hit ball watched by outfielder is realistic. I think that it draws the appearance of baseball that cannot be never seen with the television screen well.

Cool "precision machine pitcher" = Yang Syunshing from Taiwan is taken an active part around latest publications. I laughed in the communication "After all, Yuming was the highest" and "What a radical pro-Japanese man!".