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Nounai Poison Berry

Name: Nounai Poison Berry
Mangaka: Mizushiro, Setona

Volumes: 5 (Complete)
Licensed: No
Scanlations: V.02 Ch.09 (Hiatus)
Scanlator: Forbidden Garden
Type: Manga
Genre: Josei/Comedy/Romance
Age Group: Mature

Summary: Sakurai Ichiko is a 29-year-old woman whose head contains council members (each with differing personalities) that dictate her every thought and decision. While waiting at the train station one day, she encounters Saotome, a man whom she met and made short conversation with at a drinking party with friends. Although she’s interested in him, being a much a older woman, Ichiko hesitates over whether or not she should approach him, causing a wave of uproar between her intracranial council members.

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Graphics Rating: 5/5
Plot Rating: 5/5

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Gozen Reiji ni Kuchizuke o

Name: Gozen Reiji ni Kuchizuke o
Manga-ka: Tokiyama, Hajime

Volumes: 1 (Complete)
Licensed: No
Scanlations: V.01 Ch.03 (Complete)
Scanlator: Midnight Scans
Type: Manga
Genre: Smut
Age Group: Teen

Summary: Aoki Karin has always wanted to be a bartender because of an American movie she watched when she was a child. On her 20th birthday, her friends take her out to a bar to celebrate. There she meets Shiino Takumi, who is much cooler and more handsome than the bartender from the film. Alas! Karin believes she has found the one… until she finds out that maybe she jumped into this a bit too fast.

Contains extras “Crazy Only for You” and “Striving Little Devil”.

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Graphics Rating: 3/5
Plot Rating: 3/5

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Otokonoko wa Hachimitsu

Name: Otokonoko wa Hachimitsu
Manga-ka: Sakurada, Hina

Volumes: 1 (Complete)
Licensed: No
Scanlations: V.01 Ch.05 (Complete)
Scanlator: Eclipse Scans
Type: Manga
Genre: Drama/Smut
Age Group: Teen

Summary: Compilation of short stories:

• Honey Prince
Minoko accidentally witnessed the secret of her junior, Akane, whom she has been hitting it off with. This Akane is much different from usual, and Minoko involuntarily…?!

• Magic Red Thread
Story about childhood friends considering becoming more. To abandon their friendship for love?

• If I Disappear
Love relationship between a nurse at a high school and one of the student.

• Trembling Honey Taste
Tough guy finds someone to love?

• My Honey Sweetheart
A continuation of Honey Prince.

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Graphics Rating: 5/5
Plot Rating: 4/5

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Cosplay Animal

Name: Cosplay Animal
Manga-ka: Sakou, Watari

Volumes: 14 (Complete)
Licensed: Kodansha
Type: Manga
Genre: Comedy/Smut
Age Group: Older Teen

Summary: Rika is 19. She loves cosplaying, especially wearing high-school uniforms. On an online dating site, she meets a high school student, Hajime. He turns out to be her ideal guy and she meets him pretending to be still a high school student… Can this kind of relationship work?

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Graphics Rating: 5/5
Plot Rating: 4/5

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Meru Puri

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Name: Meru Puri
Manga-ka: Hino, Matsuri

Licensed: Viz (Complete)
Scanlations: V.4 (Complete)
Scanlator: Good and Plenty
Volumes: 4 Volumes (Complete)
Type: Manga
Genre: Romance/Fantasy/Drama/Shota-Con
Age Group: Teen

Summary: High schooler Airi Hosina dreams of that perfect white house, with her perfect husband, and perfect children; Who is bound to scare away any teenage suitors. While running to school one day Airi encounters a strange boy who claims to be a prince from a land beyond a mirror. But when the lights go out Airi finds that this boy is a bigger problem then she had imagined.

Graphics Rating: 4/5
Plot Rating: 4/5

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