YAMADA Reiji

Yuu Utagawa grew up being praised by his family as a "genius artist" from an early age. His father told him, \`\`If you don't go to college, leave home,'' he decided to take the entrance exam for an art university. However, when he visited an art preparatory school, he became acutely aware of his lack of drawing ability through charcoal drawing. In front of him, a beautiful girl named Yume Katsushika appears...!?

One Christmas night, 11 children scattered around the world received the same present. Inside were a video and a soccer ball. The video contained a "Fantasista Training Course" from a man calling himself their father, Gold Panther. Gold Panther was trying to impregnate women from soccer powerhouse countries around the world to create 11 powerful soccer players. And the one who received the gift in Japan was a 6-year-old boy named Hagane Zanku who lives in an orphanage. Zanku, now a high school student, is invited to take the entrance test for J1 Ariake Atlantis, but his selfish playing style causes him to fail... Zanku then bows his head to the members of the soccer club with whom he had a big fight in the past, and joins the club, starting out with odd jobs.

Ten-year-old Tamaki was at a concert of idol Miku Moritaka with his father, Byakko. As a birthday present for Tamaki, Byakko offered to give him Miku's panties, and he went up on stage and, with his smooth talk, got Miku to take them off... Eight years later, Tamaki, now in his third year of high school, confessed his feelings to Yuki, saying, "Let's become John and Yoko together." But he was easily rejected. Dejected, Tamaki remembered the key to his father's desk that he had left behind before he died. He used the key to open his father's drawer and found a book titled "The Amarita Scripture." It was a gigolo's text that his father had dedicated his life to writing.

Mizuki Yuri, the leader of the visual kei band "Eros," is a second-year student at Kyusei Prefectural High School who can only love men. To help her beloved, Kaneda Toraki, reach the Koshien tournament, she takes on baseball, a sport she's never played before. Meanwhile, Amano Uzume of the team "Karma Rain" has made a bet on whether she can win Mizuki over...!? "Agape" is true love that transcends carnal desire! A story of friendship? or love? between a weak man and a strong woman! The legend of the fiery Feng Shui magic ball begins now!

Celebrating the 25th anniversary of his debut, this is the second installment of the reprint series!! Reiji Yamada's early short story collection, including his debut work, is now available in a "Complete Edition" with the addition of previously uncollected works (approximately 50 pages in total)! Centered around "Scenes from 17th Street," an anthology depicting the anguish and conflicts surrounding love among "non-human beings" such as eggs, animals, vegetables, and fruits, this collection also includes carefully selected works not previously published in book form and previously unpublished works. Reiji Yamada's origins are here.

Aki, a camera enthusiast who was completely ignored by girls, undergoes a dramatic transformation when he enrolls in the same university as his crush, Yui! Trained by his three sisters, he becomes a cool guy who's great at handling women. What's more, he becomes a "B virgin," fulfilling a girl's wish to only have sex with the woman he loves! However, Yui mistakes Aki, who's so good at handling women, for a "player" and doesn't take his feelings seriously...!? A must-read for both unpopular and popular guys! A surefire dating manual to transform you into a super-popular guy!

Grade-school teacher Shinichi just can't get any respect. His wife treats him like a nuisance, his daughter ignores his every word, his coworkers think he's pitiful. His students regard him as a bore and an imbecile, and mercilessly bully his son, who wants nothing to do with him as a result. The only place Shinichi can find any confidence and self-esteem is alone in his room, where he's secretly sewn together a costume. It's a perfect replica of the suit worn by Zebraman, the hero of a third-rate 1970s superhero show that nobody remembers except Shinichi -- and much to his joy, the new, wheelchair-bound student at his school. At the same time, strange things are occurring throughout the area. The citizens are nervous, and the military has dispatched agents to uncover - or perhaps cover up -- the source of the danger. Shinichi's urge to sneak out and prowl in his costume, to feel what a hero feels when guarding the night from evil, soon has him dragged into an increasingly bizarre mystery.

In a future Japan, manga are burned. Rem, a book burner who cracks down on manga, has his dreary daily life turned upside down when he reads a manga for the first time— real-life masterpieces of manga such as "Urusei Yatsura," "Astro Boy," and "Nodame Cantabile" break through despair—!? Reiji Yamada, author of "A Cure for Despair" and "Art School Entrance Exam Chronicles: Ariene," teams up with rising star Banai for this dystopian sci-fi epic. A comic lovers' revolution where manga changes the world!