Second-year student Anna works together on the Culture Festival's Executive Committee together with the school's famous Chiaki-senpai. However, everyday, she's forcibly swung about by a self-confident, flashy, lazy, and ultra-insincere Chiaki-senpai--!?
The title character, Maruko, is a nine-year-old third-grade student. She is lazy, disorganized and usually late for school, in strong contrast with her neat and tidy older sister who must share her room with her. Maruko, like many kids, tries to avoid homework and chores, takes advantage of her doting grandfather and squabbles with her sister. Nevertheless, she is a well-meaning child who tries to do good. Maruko's real name is Momoko Sakura (さくらももこ Sakura Momoko), the same as the pen-name of her creator Miki Miura 三浦 美紀 (who used her own childhood experiences as inspiration). Her nickname "Maruko" is made of marui ("round", because of her round face) and -ko (girl child); the prefix chibi and the suffix -chan also refer to a cute child. Maruko's trademark face fault in reaction to embarrassment is the sudden appearance of vertical lines on her face, sometimes with an unexplained gust of wind blowing behind her head. This is sometimes mimicked by female fans of the series who draw the fingers of one hand down across the face to show embarrassment. On the internet this is often used as emoticons, by speech marks. For example: -_-" Other characters include Maruko's classmate and best friend Tama-chan. A fan favorite is Maruko's kind but absent-minded grandfather. Naive and easily tricked, he keeps a pet turtle and loves watching TV with Maruko. When feeling distressed or nostalgic, he spontaneously retreats to a surreal inner world for a few seconds to improvise a sad yet comical haiku about his state of mind.
Puniko, manager for the basketball club, has always been self-conscious about her weight. She thought that she had no chance in love... until Shou-kun, the basketball team's diminutive yet popular ace, confesses to her. Can Pinuko really find love at last? Is such a love even possible?
Karin's a cute, cheerful high school girl. She loves the sunshine, cooking with garlic, and has a part-time job as a waitress. All in all, she's pretty average... except for one thing. Karin is a vampire, and lives with her parents and two siblings, who are also vampires. But even among them, she's different, for she doesn't take blood but give blood that is increased in her body. Once every month, Karin's blood builds up, and if she doesn't expel it quickly, massive amount of blood will come out her nose (a major nosebleed). And one day at school she meets Kenta Usui and gets the feeling of a nosebleed at first site. It seems Karin never has a "right way" for her problems.
2nd-year middle schooler Shigeru finds herself moving from the city to a tiny island. It seemed to her that there was no entertainment or anything of the sort over there, so she had a feeling that her new life was going to be frustrating and anxious; but after learning that there is a tall girl bigger than a building among her classmates, she can't stop feeling excited! The huge Mikuru, the class president-type Rin, and the transfer student Shigeru are the only members in their small class of three. Their numbers may be few, but every day is exciting! This is a slow-life comedy about the three's laid-back school life, drawn with excitement!
Saga is a tidy young girl, living an ordinary life with her grandmother in a pleasant small town. One day she comes across a tiny pink-haired creature who seems to be ill. Thinking it might be hungry, Saga feeds it and brings it home. The creature turns out to be snow fairy apprentice Sugar, a hyperactive, cheerful little fairy with magical skills and the ability to make snow...and she can only be seen by Saga! Now, what is Saga going to do with such a whimsical little thing invading her well-planned life, and will Sugar ever accomplish what she came to the human world for?
Kotobuki Tanaka is a high school student who grew up in a single-parent household. Though he barely saw his father, he still received the essentials such as money and food from him, and managed fine on his own for the most part. However, on the day he accidentally runs into a little girl on the way to school, he finds out the little girl is actually his father! What will poor Kotobuki do considering he's a lolicon?!
A girl harboring feelings for her childhood friend receives some help from little balls of fluff... For better or for worse.
A playboy who has gone through countless girls; a pure, lovely girl whose only love is chicken cutlets; a super gifted student who spouts poetry and songs about fried chicken cutlets; a blond hyperactive boy who chases after girls with chicken cutlet deliveries three times a day; the student council president Wei Luo Li who moves people's hearts everywhere, and also the truth of the BL headline story published in the school newspaper... The legendary stories happening at Rembrandt High School are just that unbelievable! Includes side story to "Proud Dragon Showy Phoenix", which was published in Butterfly Likes to Read
The manga is about ten-year-old Chie, "the most unfortunate girl in Japan," who manages her family diner while her unemployed yakuza father and her mother are separated.Note: Jarinko Chie won the 26th Shogakukan Manga Award for best general manga in 1981.
A childhood friend and transfer student girl that’s 8 meters tall...?! An extraordinary romcom begins!
An ordinary high school student, Yumeji Kotaki, is transferred to his class by his childhood friend, Chieri Omine, who has grown to 8 meters in height! Yumeji is assigned as \"caretaker\" to support Chieri\'s school life. Their daily life is full of excitement due to the height difference! The height difference is nothing to worry about!
