Kase Atsushi

Kaede, a tough-looking yakuza, who is also very strong when it comes to fighting. But Kaede has another side that he dare not tell anyone... Kaede is also the famous Moe manga artist Maple. As he lives a two-faced life, it's a ruthless battle in the yakuza world and in the world of manga deadlines for Kaede.

7 years have passed since the OZ gang was disbanded. The high school student Hoshino Eita is made to dress and work as a hostess called "Eira" at his family's establishment. While out in disguise, he encounters his classmate Miyabi Yamamoto. She inherited the banner of the OZ and "Eira" soon earns her trust. Now they're off to begin a new legend!

After being bullied at his old school, Makoto wants to be the main character of his own story. When he finds a bill with his face on it on a school trip to Kyoto, he takes it as a sign, which leads him to fall into a river. Once he comes to, he realizes that he has been transported back to the period of time in Japan known as the Bakumatsu!

60 years after the Pacific War, on a certain midwinter island, was discovered the soldier Asahi Toshizou, buried in ice. Thanks to Matsumoto Kikuzou, his former subordinate and now the president of a large company, Asahi was resurrected to the present world, only to despair at the decay of today's japanese's youth. Not able to leave aside the Japan of today that his companions died for, he becomes a teacher to reform the students.

The main character of the series is Jigorou Ishikawa, the second of three brothers. Jigorou is a homely, fat, dirty-minded guy and frankly, a loser compared to his brothers. The elder brother Kusuo is the local 'Service Area King'--a cool and good-looking young man who gets all the girls, while the youngest brother Isao already has stalkers even though he's still young. The story begins in the first volume with how Jigorou 'borrows' Kusuo's Cadillac so he can impress some girls by pretending that he's the 'Service Area King'. But since he's an utter twit, he ends up crashing the car. To make it short, Kusuo arrives and beats the crap out of his younger brother, who is saved only when Isao intervenes. Later at his part-time job, Jigorou then somehow gets himself stuck in a mess when he agrees to challenge Hideki 'Guillotine' Okada in a little driving duel. He rushes off to buy a car for the duel with his savings, but finds that out of 500,000 yen, he's only got 50,000 yen left in his account after having to pay for the repairs to Kusuo's car. As expected, the poor boy spazzes and Kusuo takes pity on him and takes him to a junkyard, where Jigorou ends up buying a S13 Silvia. Thanks to the new car, Jigorou ends up impressing everyone at the duel with his 'super playboy technique' drifting, including one very pretty Chinatsu Honda.

Despite his short stature and his cowardly personality, Eisaku Yazawa dreams of one day becoming a gang leader of a nation of thugs. As he starts high school, he ends up meeting several delinquents who attend the same school as him.