Shintani Kaoru

On the western continent cursed by the dragon's spell, an unfortunate fate awaits women over the age of 20. Sheema, the princess of the Kingdom of Kreka, is about to turn 16, so she leaves the castle and embarks on a journey northwards to confront the dragon and break the curse. Along the way, she meets Corona and Sylphie, who are also heading north, and they decide to travel together... but what will happen next?

Sherlock Holmes' 17-year-old niece Christie is just as intelligent as her uncle. A lot of things are expected of a young aristocrat woman like her but she has little patience for banquets or corsets. Although she appreciates the maids who care for her, she'd rather spend her time working on interesting cases. In the opening of the manga she's on the trail of a mystery that has London in an uproar, the "Case of the Old Russian Woman" in which Sherlock Holmes' greatest rival will appear! \[tethysdust/MangaHelpers]

(from ebookjapan) Late 19th century London: a 10-year-old girl, Crystal "Christie" Margaret Hope, happens to be the famous detective Sherlock Holmes's niece. Armed with the deductive powers inherited from Holmes and a voracious curiosity, Christie takes on a variety of difficult cases. One day, someone sneaks into Whitehall and steals expensive jewelry. After overhearing an outline of the case by chance, she deduces in just three minutes what Holmes' partner Watson took three hours to find out and then confronts the culprit directly...! Curator Note While first volumes arcs and chapters are direct adaptations from Conan Doyle's novels and short stories last two volumes are original Shintani scripts taking some inspiration from titles or Watson/Doyle's hints to unpublished tales, The Giant Rat of Sumatra being the most well-known example

Hinomaru helps his uncle, a veterinarian, in the vast plains of Texas. One day, while visiting the Miller family's ranch, he accidentally learns about air racing. He is excited by the fierce battles between pilots soaring through the skies, but when a friend loses his life during a race, he becomes embroiled in that world...! Hinomaru is invited to take part in the newly established "V1 Class" race for daredevils, and his talent for flying is awakened! He unconsciously pulls off the legendary flying technique "Leaf Drop," so successfully that even Sho, a former fighter pilot, is astonished, demonstrating his natural talent!

A Japanese sword is brought to Mizuha Hiiragi, a high school girl who is a daughter of a shrine keeper, by her friend Sachiko. She is a mysterious Japanese sword that cannot be pulled out of its scabbard, and she wants to ask Mizuha to exorcise her. In fact, the sword is inhabited by the soul of a woman named Ichino: Mizuha tries helping her but things get tangled and she ends up living with Ichino all the time. Ichino declares that if she finds four kageuchis somewhere in this world and purifies the souls of her daughters who sacrificed her, she will be able to leave Mizuha... A magical sword fantasy battle drawn by Kaoru Shintani!

An official doujinshi drawn and written by Kaoru Shintani under the pen name of 88 Night, in collaboration with Kazuhiko Shimamoto, Noboru Takizawa's creator. Part of a series of doujinshi where the CAT Division M teams or clashes with other action/seinen manga characters including the Gunsmith Cats pair and the Sukeban Deka heroine, usually developed in collaboration with their creators (a notable exception being Desert Rose vs Akihime, where they meet the heroine of his wife Saeki Kayono's josei manga; clearly the couple developed it together)

Official doujinshi crossover story between Desert Rose and Gunsmith Cats co-authored by Shintani Kaoru and Sonoda Kenichi. (MAL)

In the near future, humans have come to live in a virtual world called a colony. Dragon Corporation is a company that undertakes the job of eliminating "dragons," bugs in the colony system! Yuko, an office worker, is an employee in the company's Sales Department 3. She works hard every day to protect the peace of the people living in the colony. However, the target dragon is getting stronger and stronger every day...?!

This story revolves around the life of Akira, a student who has been saving his money for over three years to finally obtain a computer. Unable to get the model he wants he is offered the same model from a shady man in an alley. What happens next is something that will change his life forever. For he didn't look at the box closely enough to note that it isn't Model 9821, it is actually Model 2198, a super advanced gynoid who's sole purpose is to serve and protect her "master".

F1 free practice was taking place in Monaco, Italy. Many famous and highly skilled drivers, such as Ayrton Senna and Nigel Mansell, considered prodigies of racing, were participating. Suddenly, a mysterious test driver appeared, sticking right behind Senna and Mansell and challenging them! While each team was in a state of shock, wondering "Who is this guy!", he overtook them in a flash from the inside of the tunnel, even though it wasn't a serious race during free practice! The name of this daredevil driver is Yaoyao Man. And Man says, "F1 is just child's play"... But who exactly is this Japanese driver who suddenly appeared in the world of F1...? This is the story of Yaoyao Man, a racing driver who drives by instinct!

Mariko, codenamed "Rose Marie", is a division leader in the private anti terrorist group C.A.T. She lost her husband and son in a terrorist attack at an airport; after being injuried in the blast she was left with a scar that looked like a rose flower on her chest, determined to do everything in her power to avenge their deaths and prevent other tragedies like hers. The manga follows her all-woman division's feats and challenges (both military and private) from the 1980s to the 1990s, a time of instability and change.

Hayabusa, Ran, and Ichimaru. The three boys and girls are employees of a trading company that serves as the hands and feet of a wealthy girl, Sara, and are commonly known as \`\`Elan.'' Today, he travels all over the world and makes an incredible amount of money from purchases to sales. Meanwhile, a coup d'etat takes place in the South American Republic of Dadria. A military government is established with a general at its head... and behind the scenes, the willow firebrand is working behind the scenes...? Serialized by Shonen Captain (Tokuma Shoten), this is a political and economic adventure action manga with the theme of import and export trade set all over the world, which can be said to be the first of its kind as a boy's manga!

The main character, Yu Shinozaki, is an honor student in her second year of high school. However, something has been bothering him recently. What does he want to do? Who am he? He seems to be in a rebellious phase, but he is a far-sighted person who feels that such questions are ridiculous. Eventually, he begins to shut himself in his room , and just when you think it's been a long time since he went to school, he ends up submitting his exam answers for all subjects blank. There is a large transparent clock on top of the school building he attends. The clock casts a shadow, and the students learn the time from the shadow and act according to that time. "I don't like something...I don't like clockwise rotation like everyone else..." In order to escape from this monotonous life, Yuu sets out on a journey on a Yamaha Sero 225 , a motorcycle that was suddenly bought on a whim and left abandoned. This was the first time he tried turning counterclockwise.

Gen Todoroki, a talented but accident-prone rally driver, gets offered a contract deal from a big-shot car company which comes with a chance to prove himself in the world of rally racing. However, the road there is bumpy and rife with tough competitors...

Master Kaoru Shintani's aviation romance masterpiece! The plane that appears is a passenger plane. Captain Morgan is a trouble-filled flight crew member who carries everything from luggage to people! Morgan, who also appears in "RAISE'' (published by Shonen Gahosha), released in July, is the Morgan of "ALICE 12''. Captain. You can enjoy it together with “RAISE”!

The Cleopatra Corns Group, aka Cleopatra DC, is a powerful financial conglomerate controlling most of the United States economy, almost as powerful as the US government itself. At the top of the organization is the beautiful, smart and brave Ms. Cleo, the Group's young and talented Chairman, a blonde African-American who fought her way out of the slums. Good thing she manages her company so well–it means she can handle the repair bill from that airplane crashing into her bedroom. With stolen artifacts, corporate kidnappings, and top-secret cyborg projects gone awry, her luck only gets worse from there.

The time is the near future, a time when space development is flourishing, with permanent stations being built on the moon and in satellite orbit . As the existing Space Shuttle became obsolete, a new generation shuttle, the Saratoga class, was built and put on a test flight, but engine trouble caused by the new ship led to a runaway accident and the ship headed for a collision course with the moon at full speed. Although it narrowly avoided a collision with the moon, it is now on a course to enter the sun. Although the spacecraft narrowly avoided entering the sun by using what little fuel it had left, the crew recovery plan failed due to a microsecond synchronization error, leaving everyone involved in despair. Meanwhile, the seven crew members, including children, did not give up hope, commandeered an old shuttle used to transport supplies to the Earth-orbiting space station, and chased the Saratoga as it headed away from Earth. The Saratoga crew was successfully retrieved after overcoming NASA 's chase after the shuttle was stolen and a system failure when the oxygen supply door was unable to open in an area isolated from other cabins. She returns to Earth. Captain Karl saw the children acting so naturally in his role assignment that he named them among the first seven accepted into space. Eighteen years later, they were all involved in space in their respective capacities.

DISCLAIMER: During it's initial serialization in Weekly Shonen Sunday, "Balancer" (バランサー) was originally titled "Jap" (ジャップ) but was then changed due to controversy. (from ebookjapan): The Netherlands... is not the name of a country that is widely known, but the name of a province. In the Netherlands, there was a Japanese mercenary named “Nango Hyoue” (code name “J”), a survivor of the Hida Shirouwashu (ninja). "J" had achieved many successes by utilizing his ninja combat techniques, but while on a mission in a distant land, he was attacked by his sworn enemy, the Kuroushu, and...! This is an action work depicting the national agenda and the problems of the Shirohashu, Kurohashu, and Akahashu!

Taka Sawatari and Taka Tojo, who were born on the same day in the same hospital and have the same name "Taka". Sawatari spends his days as a street rider in Okutama, dealing with rolling tribes and motorcycle gangs , while Tojo belongs to a racing team and spends his days as a genuine circuit racer. One day, the two "hawks" met after the death of Sawatari's motorcycle mate, and eventually they became rivals in the world of endurance motorcycle racing , aiming to reach the top of the world together. However, these two have a hidden birth secret that they don't know...

In 2644, Ray Sawamura loses his parents in an accident and drops out of the Galactic Aerospace Academy to earn money for his sickly younger sister's medical treatment, boarding the legendary free trade ship Queen 1313. The Queen 1313's crew are all highly skilled but also a bunch of outlaws. Ray is moved by their determination to uphold their human dignity while carrying out dangerous missions such as smuggling. Between ESP-possessed comrades and a battleship computer composed of the collective consciousness of its subordinates, this is a groundbreaking masterpiece of science fiction romance!

Kyoichi Maki is a handsome high school boy. His father was Tadashi Maki, a former top photographer for the Hoichi Shimbun newspaper who was caught up in the crowd of demonstrators while covering an anti-war demonstration in Hibiya. Her mother worked as an insurance agent, but after she was in a traffic accident, she became mentally unstable and now believes that her son Kyoichi is her dead husband. It's stored away. A drama full of love for photography, in which Kyoichi begins working at a photo studio to make a living, and walks the path of becoming a photographer while facing the photographs that took away his father and mother from him. The second volume includes various short stories related to cameramen.

The story is about a young pilot named Shin Kazama and his experiences at Area 88, a mercenary air force base secluded in the desert of a war torn country. Shin goes from head of his class at a world renowned aviation school dating the beautiful daughter of an airline president to a mercenary fighter pilot bound to Area 88 by a three-year contract that he was duped into signing by a jealous and competitive childhood friend. Determined to earn $1.5 million dollars to buy his way out of the obligation and return home, killing becomes second nature to Shin as he quickly rises to the top rank at Area 88. Overwrought with shame and self-loathing for what he has become, Shin begins to question whether he is still fighting for survival, or like his fellow mercenaries, for the sheer excitement and camaraderie of battle.

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(from ebookjapan): Tetsuo Kanda, a Phantom II pilot belonging to the Air Self-Defense Force's Hyakuri Air Base, and Hiromi Kurihara, a navigator belonging to Misawa Air Base. They are both highly skilled air Self-Defense Force officers, but because of their personalities, they are treated as troublemakers by those around them. Ota, the commander of Hyakuri Air Base, transfers Kurihara to Hyakuri to counter Kanda. The two men rebel against each other, but recognizing each other's skills, they hit it off and grow up to become the exclusive pilots of Unit 680... Along with "Area 88," this is one of Kaoru Shintani's best-known works. A masterpiece of vivid human drama based on the author Buronson's work experience as a Japan Self-Defense Forces officer.