At last, the Sanzo Ikkou have arrived in India. In this foreign land, where the anomaly’s influence runs rampant, their battles only heighten in their violence. And also awaiting them is their tragic fate from 500 years ago— What will they find at the end of their long and treacherous journey? From Saiyuki Wiki
Sekine is the captain of the judo team. His friend and roommate Kosakai is popular novelist. They both attend school and seem to be pretty close. Tamura Maiko is a member of the judo team and she fell in love with the one of them. A love triangle follows.
The anthology features works by mangaka from "Ward" and "Comic Zero-Sum". A new volume is released every four months.
VOLUME 1: SHITSUJI (BUTLER)
1. Spider's Nest ~ Minekura Kazuya
2. Nice to Meet You, Young Lady ~ Kouga Yun
3. Holly Green and White Little Garden ~ Takayama Shinobu
4. The Situation of Goshogawa Yuzuru's Magnificant Mansion Creation ~ Miyamoto Fukusuke
5. Butler of Worry ~ Higashiyama Kazuko
6. Elevenses ~ Mikanagi Touya
7. The Incident of the Butler's Birthday Project ~ Saeki Yashirou
8. Le Droit D' Aimer ~ Haibara Yaku
9. Young Lady's Butler ~ Yoneyama Setsuko
10. The Melancholy of the Irritable Boy and Butler ~ Kikuta Yui
11. The Moon and the Visitor ~ Nanjou Tsugumi
VOLUME 2: REBEL AND PHANTOM THIEF
1. CANDY ~ Haibara Yaku
2. "...That Story." ~ Masaki Haruka
3. FLIES ~ Minekura Kazuya
4. Arabiana ~ Mizuhara Kenta
5. The Ancient History of the Three Thieves ~ Takayama Shinobu
6. The Adventure of Captain Arco Iris ~ Tsutsumi Shouko
7. SKYHIGH TENSION ~ Fujimura Ayumi
8. Mushroom and Kappa: Arcana compilation for thieves on business trips ~ Magami Guriko
9. The Lonely Mountain Robber ~ Tachibana Ayun
10. LANEKEEPER ~ Fujiwara Yuu
11. Moonlight Honey ~ Shindou Arashi
12. The Unlucky Pirate ~ Asada Yasuka
13. Strobo Rider ~ Kouzuki Reo
14. Moonlight Dance ~ Kouga Yun
VOLUME 3: PRINCE AND PRINCESS
1. Prince of Stars ~ Minekura Kazuya
2. Mushroom and Kappa: Arcana compilation for princes on business trips ~ Magami Guriko
3. Flower King ~ Kouga Yun
4. Rose Princess Destiny ~ Kinoshita Sakura
5. The Window of Rain ~ Takayama Shinobu
6. My Knight is a Princess ~ Kosugi Mayu
7. The Beggar Princess ~ Ueda Shinshuu
8. The Dawn Outside Heaven ~ D. Kissan
9. Princess Academy ~ Mikawa Verno
10. PRINCESESS ~ Kari Erika
11. Our Majesty's Tactful Words ~ Kisaragi Yoshinori
12. Heart-Racing Engagement Meeting ~ Saeki Yashirou
13. Listen to the Song I Sing ~ Mizutani Yuzu
VOLUME 4: VAMPIRE
1. The Vampire of the Sleeping Forest ~ Kinoshita Sakura
2. Mushroom and Kappa: Arcana compilation for vampires on business trips. ~ Magami Guriko
3. To Cross the River ~ Kouga Yun
4. A Shower in the Sunshine ~ Omote Sora
5. URBAN VAMPIRE ~ Bikke
6. Sky Burial ~ Takayama Shinobu
7. Today's Dining Table ~ Saeki Yashiro
8. The Aegis of Time's Coffin ~ Yugyoji Tama
9. Forest of Nobility ~ Kayase Shiki
10. CHIYOSAMA! ~ Shindo Arashi
11. Strigoi Kingdom ~ Serikawa Mame
12. The truth of Catharsis ~ Inui Miku
13. Blood Donation Advice ~ Igarashi Ran
14. The Novice Vampire ~ Amamiya Azusa
15. Gentle Temperature ~ Kisaragi Yoshinori
VOLUME 5: JAPANESE STYLE / SAMURAI
1. Last Night's Rain Lifts ~ Minekura Kazuya
12. The Queen’s Dog ~ Araishi + Oshino
13. Kakure Oni ~ Mikanagi Touya
15. Miokuribana ~ Kikuta Yui
VOLUME 6: SPECIAL FORCES / TEAMS
2. Monach Sacred ~ SENO Tatsune & TAKAMIYA Aya
7. Frightening Eccentric ~ Sakamaki Yukisato
15. Twins Pocky ~ Serikawa Mame
16. Pledge of the Ox ~ Kayase Shiki
VOLUME 7: WIZARDS AND MAGICIANS
2. Night bird ~ Kouzuki Reo
3. Mushroom and Kappa - Magic Users’ Chapter ~ Magami Guriko
4. good day for me ~ Omote Sora
5. Love Coloured Glasses ~ Bikke
6. The Kind Black Witch ~ Ueda Shinshuu
7. The Magician and I ~ Mikawa Verno
8. Kokonoe Kyuujutsu ~ Aoto Takane
9. Forest’s Poison ~ Kumeta Natsuo
10. The Witch and I ~ Saeki Yashiro
11. Kashoku ~ Kayase Shiki
12. Magical Girl Alice and Her Brother ~ Igarashi Ran
13. Magic! ~ Mizuhara Kenta
14.The Kind Magician and the Paper Bag Girl ~ Mizutani & Kaede
15. Secret Service ~ Suzuki Ichiko
VOLUME 8: SHITSUJI 2 (BUTLER)
5. Le Droit D'Aimer ~ Haibara Yaku [SS]
VOLUME 9: TRANSFORMATION / PERSONIFICATION
1. The Wolf and the 7 Baby Goats ~ Minekura Kazuya
7. Little Heart ~ Ninagawa Tomo
8. A Nameless Quality ~ Tokito Kanade
12. Super Human Console ~ Shindo Arashi
13.Private Solar System Academy ~ Sakura Maro
14. My Blue Bicycle ~ Zekkyo
15. Tique-tique ~ Mitsu Nanae
16. The Crow and the Pomegranate ~ Yoshizawa Tomoya
VOLUME 10: CONFLICTS / SECRET SOCIETIES
11. A Promise ~ Seno Tatsune & Takamiya Aya
VOLUME 11: TIME TRAVEL & TIME TRAVELERS
1. A Watch Seller Travels Through Time ~ Takayama Shinobu
2. The Classroom Where He Is ~ Kumeta Natsuo
11. If Time... ~ Buchi Keiko
VOLUME 12: DEVILS & DEMONS (Sequel)
1. Demon’s Kiss ~ Inui Miku
6. Wednesday Swing ~ Sekka
Arcana 13: Several Men and Love (Sequel)
Arcana 14: Ninjas (Sequel)
Arcana 15: School Uniform (Sequel)
Meet the Executive Committee of Araiso Private High School, a group of five students whose motto is “Ridiculing the weak and bullying the strong.” At the heart of this organization are Kubota Makoto and Tokito Minoru, two bad boys who take care of any trouble at the school in their own unique (and violent) way. If you are familiar with Minekura’s other works or if you paid attention to the Wild Adapter description, you’ll recognize the names of Kubota and Tokito as main characters of the WA manga. No reference is ever made to the Wild Adapter story line in Araiso, which is slightly more upbeat than the dark Wild Adapter. This manga is also known as Shiritsu Araiso Koutougakkou Seitokai Shikkoubu referred to as simply Executive Committee.
From: Project Kurai Ryu Up in Heaven, a new part-timer joins the team under Tenpo and Kenren's care. He gets to see the so-called "ants" from the inside.
While recovering from surgery, Minekura Kazuya is asked by the Zero-Sum editor-in-chief Koyagi to create a series of illustrations for the manga magazine Zero-Sum Ward. To create a theme, Koyagi rolls four dice: two hold character names, one holds a situation, and the last holds an action. With each roll, characters are placed in strange situations, much to Minekura's chagrin.
Having been assigned by the human elders the mission of stopping a mystical plague that has afflicted the Youkai with madness, Genjyo Sanzo assembles his team of Youkai warriors, desperately hoping that the disease will not affect them. He sets up qualifying tests that will help him determine the loyalty and worth of Cho Hakkai, Son Goku and Sha Gojyo. The team then journeys west to rid the land of madness.
Stork, the man with no memories, and Tit, the boy with no home, travel across the grim world where the sky is grey and the birds are believed extinct. They have met accidentally and continued together, both searching. Stork searches for his past and Tit searches for a bird. They are followed by the dark mysterious man, who may have relation to Stork's past.
Priest Genjo Sanzo and companions Cho Hakkai, Sha Gojyo, and Son Goku maintain their westward journey to stop the resurrection of the demon Gyoumao. As the reputation of the Sanzo Ikkou precedes them, they continue to fight demon assassins at every turn, but they must also deal with increasing tensions within their group in order to defeat a powerful enemy.
Two government workers perform a very unusual job, for the same pay as every other paper-pusher! Kaoru Jinnai and Yamazaki Yuusuke pick up corpses to be cremated before organ harvesters can reach them in post-apocalyptic Japan. What seems to be a simple task takes on complication after complication, from the looting, gunslinging harvesters to clingy family who don't want to let the bodies go just yet.
NOTE: On hiatus
Kondo Masahito is a tough high school senior, while his older brother Yoshio is a calm and gentle kindergarten teacher, so it is not rare that younger brother protects the older one. Different personalities make it difficult for Masahito to understand his brother, but he still tries.
Chapters 5-9 are oneshots:
5) Ghost --Setagaya-ku no Maboroshi--
6) Amai Natsu no Kyousoukyoku
7) Unbalanced?Tart
8) Kimi wa Nemuru
9) DEAR / Ganbare! Kagaku-bu
Toki Mishiba, Nobuto Nakajyo, and Kazuo Saitoh are hired to play the Biz Game, a game much like capture the flag, only with company secrets and insane amounts of money involved. At first they think it's a crazy but fun way to get some money, but as the game goes on, they hear stories about mysterious deaths on the news, and recognize the victims as members of the teams they've beaten in the game. When one of the losers of a game dies right in front of them, they realize what is really at stake - their very lives!
From Tokyopop:
Makoto Kubota wandered through life, not taking things too seriously or looking too deep within himself. His job as the head of the Izumo Group's youth gang kept him pleasantly occupied with yakuza wars, mahjong and assassinations... Until the day he stumbled upon a strange drug called Wild Adapter that produces bizarre side-effects--including death. Forever changed, Kubota becomes entangled with a drifter named Minoru Tokito, and the two form an unlikely companionship that draws them deeper into the mystery of Wild Adapter...
500 years before the story of Saiyuki, a heretic child with golden eyes is brought into Heaven. He is given into the reluctant care of a minor deity named Konzen, the nephew of the Merciful Goddess Kanzeon Bosatsu. Konzen eventually gives the child the name "Goku". Goku becomes friends with two other minor gods, Marshal Tenpou and General Kenren of the Western Army of Heaven. He also meets a strange little boy who seems to be his own age, the War Prince Nataku. Although Goku is happy in his new home, Heaven is not kind to heretics. There are those who would use Nataku and Goku as tools in an attempt to seize the throne of Heaven, and Konzen, Tenpou, and Kenren may not be able to save them.
Saiyuki Ibun recounts how a man will grow up to become the light (Komyo) of the future. He is supposedly history's most powerful, clever, unrestrained and gentle man.
Volume 9 : Transformation and Personification*1. The Wolf and the 7 Baby Goats by Minekura Kazuya2. A Ramen Academy That Can Make a Line! (Temporary) by Kinoshita Sakura3. Mushroom and Kappa - Personification Chapter by Magami Guriko*4. Engi Maker by D. Kissan5. The Fox Cub’s First Love Transformation Technique! by Gunjou6. The Cat’s Turn by Saeki Yashiro*7. Little Heart by Ninagawa Tomo*8. A Nameless Quality by Tokitoh Kanade9. The Chosen One and Their Power by Mikawa Verno*10. "Thank Dogs Day" by Aoto Takane11. A Sprinkling of First Love by Akanatsu*12. Super Human Console by Shindo Arashi*13. Private Solar System Academy by Sakuramaro*14. My Blue Bicycle by Zekkyou*15. Tique-tique by Mitsu Nanae*16. The Raven and Pomegranate by Yoshizawa Tomoya17. Humanoid Début by Kana Sakana* indicates oneshot being scanlated.