Anno Moyoco

Tribute series by other artists to celebrate Aoike Yasuko's Eroica Yori Ai wo Komete's 45th anniversary. It started to run in Mystery Bonita's 2021 July issue. The artists who have contributed so far (as of 2023 June): 1- Shitou Ryoko (2021/7) 2- Sakai Miwa (2021/8) 3- Mineo Maya (2021/9) 4- Nanamaki Kanako (2021/10) 5- Akaishi Michiyo (2021/11) 6- Nakayama Seika (2021/12) 7- Aoki Tomo (2022/1) 8- Toono Yukiko (2022/2) 9- Ogawa Yayoi (2022/3) 10- Shima Atsuko (2022/4) 11- Haruna Remon (2022/5) 12- Hagio Moto (2022/6) 13- Aoki Tomo (2022/7) 14- Takahashi Miyuki (2022/8) 15- Yamato Waki (2022/9) 16- Honda (2022/10) 17- Shitou Kyoko (2022/11) 18- Aoki Tomo (2022/12) 19- Hamada Shouko (2023/1) 20- Urasawa Naoki (2023/2) 21- Shiomi Chika (2023/3) 22- Nogami Takeshi (2023/4) 23- Anno Moyoco (2023/5) 24- Yamamura Higashi (2023/6) 25- Nagano Noriko (2023/7) 26- Kihara Toshie (2023/8)

A relay series project with 109 short stories, each done by different mangaka for 100 days straight during the 2020 pandemic, depicting everyday life in a post-coronavirus world. Volume 1 Day 1 - Evil Spirit by Chiba Tetsuya Day 2 - Hirokane Kenshi Day 3 - Yanauchi Daiju Day 4 - Ishikawa Sei Day 5 - Nata de Coco Day 6 - Tsuchida Eri Day 7 - Mogi Sayaka Day 8 #1 - Mikashima Kentaro Day 8 #2 - Yoshimoto Yoshitomo Day 9 - Kumakura Takatoshi Day 10 - Asou Mikoto Day 11 - Momoi Ito Day 12 - Shirono Yuki Day 13 - Mori Moriko & Tomimura Cota Day 14 - Taiyou Marii Day 15 - Takahashi Ai Day 16 - Nomari Day 17 - Mukouyama Atsushi Day 18 - Aoki U-hei Day 19 - Yaguraba Tekka Day 20 - Yuzuka Masanari Day 21 #1 - Azuma Yoshio Day 21 #2 - Uta Ariko (Ariko) Day 22 - Suzuki Suzuhiro Day 23 - Imai Yuu Day 24 - Yamada Hitsuji Day 25 - Ooei Yukio Day 26 - Amagakure Gido Day 27 - Ishitsuyo Natsuko Day 28 - Nagata Kitsuneko Day 29 #1 - Ayame Gonta Day 29 #2 - Tosazu (Inoue Tosazu) Day 30 - Suenobu Keiko Day 31 - Kuwabara Taku Day 32 - Yuchi Mikumi Day 33 - Fujimura Akeji Day 34 - Machiko Day 35 - Sekiguchi Kanko Day 36 - Robico Day 37 #1 - Manatsubi Zuru Day 37 #2 - Shin Yui Day 38 - Fujio Ai Day 39 - Fuyukawa Tomoko Day 40 - Matsumoto Hidekichi Day 41 - Umino Tsunami Day 42 - Tsujitomo Day 43 - Nanato Eri & Kameyama Satoshi Day 44 - Okaue Ai Day 45 - Yamada Daisy Day 46 - Toyoda Tetsuya Day 47 - Kinoshita Itaru Day 48 - Etsuko Day 49 #1 - Andou Mikio Day 49 #2 - A Boring Story About Telework by Yamada Kintetsu Day 50 - Hiura Satoru Day 51 #1 - Kasori Riara Volume 2 Day 51 #2 - Yamato Aka Day 52 - Anno Moyoco Day 53 - Murata Hiroyuki Day 54 - Himeno Yuuma Day 55 - Megochimo Day 56 #1 - Iwamura Tsukiko Day 56 #2 - Sakai Eri Day 57 - Tanaka Ai Day 58 - Natsumin Day 59 - Nikaidou Ko Day 60 - Saotome Ageha Day 61 #1 - Chicchi Mama Day 61 #2 - Hinase Mayu Day 62 - Izumi Mitsu Day 63 - Ogawa Etsushi Day 64 - Konari Misato Day 65 - Tsutsui (Tsusui Itsuki) Day 66 - Hinaki Day 67 - Kubota Wataru Day 68 - Higashimura Akiko Day 69 - Namori Day 70 - Nishizono Fumiko Day 71 - Kameno Hiroya Day 72 - Kozaki Ai Day 73 - Wanatsu Kou Day 74 - Mizushina Takayuki Day 75 - Tanaka Motoi Day 76 - Yuma Satoru & Kumano Nell Day 77 - Mimori Day 78 - Tenamachi Saho Day 79 - Yuuki Masami Day 80 - Suzunoki Yuu Day 81 - Kuroda Iou Day 82 - Itagaki Paru Day 83 - Kamurada Ichina Day 84 - Nishikawa Maru Day 85 - Hachi (晴智) Day 86 - Shiro Manta Day 87 - Serizawa Naoki Day 88 - Okada Atsushi Day 89 - Oomachi Terrace Day 90 - Yabe Tarou Day 91 - Tanaka Keiichi Day 92 - Takasugi Katsura Day 93 - Aiuchi Airu Day 94 - Kitamichi Masayuki Day 95 #1 - Minamoto Keisuke Day 95 #2 - Kumeta Kouji Day 96 - Nishi Keiko Day 97 - Karasuya Satoshi Day 98 - Shiraume Nazuna Day 99 - Yamashita Kazumi Day 100 - Morikawa George

Kayoko is confronted by Takahashi who wants a divorce. He now loves someone else, a complete role reversal in the relationship between the two after 15 years of marriage. Kayoko later disguises herself and follows Takahashi in an attempt to find out about her husband’s new love.

The girls are sold as prostitutes in the towns that dot the arid desert. Each of them is forced to receive the lusts of men for their own reasons, and each of them fall in love. They have men they are in love with, but prostitutes aren't free to choose who they love. "Love or life, which is more important to you?" "I pick love." "But you can't be in love if you're dead." Is there a way for these women to survive in a world filled with lust and violence? One day, Candy and Susie run from the brothel, seeking the freedom they can never have. "We are stronger creatures!" Obey your instincts ” the voice from within!

Perverts are people who know the shape of their desires. They have carefully traced those contours like a blind man using both hands to measure the shape of a vase. Colette works in a brothel in early 20th century Paris, an occupation she can't escape. She and the other girls support each other, satisfying the desires of their clients, day in, day out. The one source of hope in her difficult life was her trysts with Leon. But Colette could never be sure if Leon really loved her… The strength of women in their pleasurable confines; the naked desires of the 'amorous gentlemen.'Won the 23rd Japan Media Arts Festival Excellence Award in 2020

"I can help you laugh, but I can't take away the tears you've shed." In Mametsubu-cho, a town somewhere in the ancient Japanese city of Kamakura, Ochibi-san lives a relaxed, easy life. With his friend Nazeni the dog, Jack the naughty kitten, and Pankui the hungry dog, Ochibi-san's year in Mametsubu-cho is filled with encounters and new discoveries! Flower-viewing in spring, swimming in summer, collecting leaves in fall, and eating yummy food in winter.

Himeno lives in Moonlight Tokyo City, a world different from ours; one in which there are illusionists, those who can conjure up things. One day, Himeno accidentally conjures up a human from our world!! How will they react to meeting someone so different from their own kind?

From Del Rey: Little witch-girls Chocolat and Vanilla are best friends, but only one of them can be Queen of the Magic World. To determine who deserves the title, they must go to the Human World and enter a strange competition. Whoever attracts the most human boys wins! The girls had planned to be best friends forever, but both of them want to be Queen. Will their rivalry ruin their friendship?Won the Kodansha Manga Award for Children in 2005

This is a set of one-shot stories of working people drawn from the viewpoint of Matsukata Hiroko, who is a 28-year-old single woman and is an editor of Weekly Magazine, JIDAI. She’s often at odds with Tanaka Kunio, a novice editor. Her work already stresses her out and he’s unapologetic about his own mistakes! Everyone refers to Hiroko as a masculine woman for how seriously she takes her work. She smokes too much, works too much, and never has sex. However, when it’s time to get a story done, she switches into “Working Man” mode where her testosterone in her blood increases, she works three times her normal speed, and all thoughts of life’s necessities disappear.

K' (K-Dash) is a four volume doujinshi compilation released by Kodansha containing oneshots by a number of different authors and artists. The first two issues contained short stories by published mangaka such as CLAMP and Ikumi Mia (amongst others). The first issue was released in December 2002 at Comiket 63, while the second was released in March 2003 to commemorate the opening of the K-Square store. These two issues contained short comedic stories from CLAMP; Tokyo Tower Kankeisha Kakui (characters from Chobits, Rayearth and Cardcaptor Sakura running into each other in the Tokyo Tower) and Murikuri Holic (Watanuki and Yuuko working at the K-Square store while characters from Murikuri look on) The third and fourth issues consisted primarily of work from doujinshi artists.

Long before Hideaki Anno married Moyoco Anno, he was known as the creator of one of the most popular animated works of all time—Neon Genesis Evangelion. But little was known about the author’s personal life. Along came comic artist Moyoco Anno…then came love, then came marriage and then came a comic about how they changed each other’s lives….Hopefully for the better. \[Kodansha]

A poor peasant girl was sold to a brothel in Edo. Her new life started from the day when she had her first full bowl of rice. After many struggles, she became a cultivated oiran. While her beauty never failed, her hope for freedom faded with the passing seasons. Yoshiwara of Edo was a man's heaven, but a woman's hell: all was sakuran.

A Moyoco Anno series that tackles the campy robot girl fighting for justice tropes with style.

"Bishonen" are the beautiful boys that overpopulate shôjo manga. Flowers & Bees is the manga that makes men out of beautiful boys. Beautiful men. Masao Komatsu might think of himself as a total loss. But high-school life is never so bad that it can't get a little worse, and unfortunately, it turned out he still has a few crumbs of self-respect hiding here and there. Gorgeous sisters Kiyoko and Harumi will be happy to vacuum them out of his pockets–with each and every visit by Masao to World of Beautiful Men, the men's salon they own. Why shouldn't young men, too, get the chance to have their lives ruined in the pursuit of unattainable standards of beauty? Though mocked by classmates and stared at on the street, Masao vows to remain faithful to his makeovers–determined to become the man hairdressers, estheticians, and fashion magazine editors only dream that women dream of!

A simple woman whom you used to make fun of finds herself in the stardom of the workplace! In addition to the title story "Chameleon Army," the collection contains seven surreal masterpiece short stories, including "The Prince of Night," a man who wishes for the smiles and happiness of all women, and "Tokyo Banbee Jump," a communication between a virgin and a high school girl! The charm of Anno Moyoco explodes!

Mameko Endou is 14 years old, loves fashion and lives in a village dreaming of becoming a model in Tokyo. A classmate from her school who's in love with her, calls to leave together but Mameko, uncertain of her feelings and embarrassed, ends up ruining their first appointment. Mameko's beauty is not good enough for a model, which gives her little hope. However, after being in Tokyo and claiming to know the two beautiful models Miri and Hikaru, she decided to become a stylist! Her passion for fashion grows even more, and all her "inspiration" becomes hostile visions and are often bizarre...

Who's in love right now?! Nozawa Nao is just a normal middle schooler, except that she's been obsessively studying about love and romance. Will her thoroughly-researched tactics help her snare the man of her dreams?!

The warmest thing in the world is being together. Earnest Kara and flippant Nom live in the second coldest town in the world. Though they get along well, they have clashing personalities. On these ordinary days, they sometimes get irritated or fight over the smallest things. Even then, thanks to the small things like meeting reindeer and penguins or Nom catching a cold, Kara starts thinking about what is really important for them to be living together. The reason why you love the person next to you is right there in your everyday life, just waiting to be found.

Ruma is just a normal high school girl, living with her younger brother, and having fun at school when three handsome boys suddenly show up! Little does she know that they're not just handsome, they're actually from outer space. And what are the strange dreams she keeps having about a bright light....

Shuuji is a loser living a boring life. But one day...someone comes from the future and gives him a chance to stand in the spotlight!

From the pen of Moyoco Anno comes a stunning tale of self-image and self-loathing. In Clothes Called Fat details the lives of young women earnestly revealing the struggles women may have with their bodies and sexuality. Noko appears to be living a great life, she’s got a good job and a loving boyfriend, but beneath a thin veneer is a young woman who is struggling with her self-image and self-confidence as she fights to keep her weight down. To Noko, being 5 pounds overweight means being miles away from happiness in her love life and in her work-place. \[Kodansha]

Miri (16) is surprised one day to find out that she is actually a twin separated a birth! Raised by her Yakuza father, she's been brought up to be boyish and manly. On the other hand, her twin, Momo, has been brought up to be girly and cute! The catch is that Momo is actually a boy! Then, Miri gets scouted by a talent agent....as a male model! Join the two twins, with the model Hikaru and his roommates Hideki and Katsuya for some crazy fun!

A collection of short stories by Anno Moyoco. PEEK A BOO! Romanchikku de Nemurenai (ロマンチックでねむれない) Itsuka Ouji-sama ga (いつか王子様が) Betty Pink (ベティー・ピンク) Paradaiso wa Soko ni Aru (パラダイスはそこにある, Paradise is There) 1990

Shigeta, a young woman of 24, spends her days working at Tanaka Books and fretting over her love-life or, more accurately, the lack thereof. The thing is, though, the biggest obstacle between Shigeta and a satisfying relationship seems to be Shigeta herself. When it comes to men, the poor girl has exceedingly poor judgment, exacerbated by her even poorer self-esteem, having sex with most the men who cross her path.

Because of her poor sleeping posture, Mona has become a human electricity generator!