YOSHIDA Akimi

  • Kawa Yori mo Nagaku Yuruyaka ni
    Toshi is your regular senior high student, except in the evenings when he's a bartender at a joint frequented by American servicemen, where he deals drugs, pimps, and even cross-dresses a little on the side. And his best friend Miyuki just happens to be the son of a loan shark with gay tendencies. If this sounds like the hardboiled world of Yoshida's later and most well-known work Banana Fish, it's balanced by Toshi's madcap adventures at his all-male school (where his mates jerk off to everything in sight, and scenes from shoujo manga are performed in all their histrionic glory), as well as the unexpected delicacy of his relationships with the women in his life. This episodic drama is bursting with all the frustration, the tenderness, the audacity, the horniness and the hilarity that comes with being young and male. All the tough, silly, dirty, and sweet things boys get up to in the locker room and out of it never brought a bigger smile to your face.

    Bunko ver released in 1994.

    summary from Baka-Updates Manga
    Updated: 2021-08-26
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  • Umimachi Diary
    A letter comes to the three Kohda sisters in Kamakura, bringing the news of their father's death. A father they hadn't seen since he divorced and left home 15 years ago. Despite feeling indifferent about their father, Yoshino, the middle of the three, and Chika, the youngest, go to Yamagata to attend his funeral on oldest sister Sachi's request. There, they meet Suzu, their young and reliable half sister.

    (Source: MU)
    Updated: 2022-08-07
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  • Banana Fish
    Nature made Ash Lynx beautiful; nurture made him a cold ruthless killer. A runaway brought up as the adopted heir and sex toy of "Papa" Dino Golzine, Ash, now at the rebellious age of seventeen, forsakes the kingdom held out by the devil who raised him. But the hideous secret that drove Ash's older brother mad in Vietnam has suddenly fallen into Papa's insatiably ambitious hands--and it's exactly the wrong time for Eiji Okamura, a pure-hearted young photographer from Japan, to make Ash Lynx's acquaintance...

    **[WARNING: Just in case you missed it, this is a TRAGEDY. If you don't want to cry, don't start reading it!]**
    Updated: 2021-08-25
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  • Kisshou Tennyo
    Sayoko is a newly transferred student: gifted with rare beauty and mysterious and magnetic charm, she captures every student's attention. Among them, the introverted Yuiko and the grumpy Mari become friends with Sayoko, while Ryou, a known womanizer, wastes no time and tries to hit on her, unleashing his girlfriend's rage.
    But this story has countless plot twists, characters and secrets…

    From Banana Fish and Yasha's author, a manga that won a Shogakukan Award and defined as "a must" by Matt Thorn, one of the greatest shoujo manga experts. Recently Kisshou Tennyo became popular again thanks to the TV drama and the movie adaptation!
    Updated: 2021-08-26
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  • Sakura no Sono (YOSHIDA Akimi)
    The drama club of an all girl high school puts on the play "The Cherry Orchard" by Anton Chekhov.

    Also includes an unrelated one-shot called Schoolgirl Princess.
    Updated: 2021-09-08
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  • Juusanyasou Kidan
    Various unconnected oneshots from different years in the author's career.

    In "At Summer's End", a chance reunion with a childhood friend leads to love, but is it requited…?

    "Wind Singer" is the bittersweet tale of friendship between a spider and a moth larva.

    In "The Curious Tale of 13 Moons Villa", art student Tatsuro opens his closet one day to find a strange young man who claims to remember nothing except the fact that he lives in Tatsuro's apartment.

    "Gold Thread, Silver Wind" is a short illustrated story about a boy who can hear the wind.

    In "The Fox's Bride", Ojiro wonders why he's different from other foxes and goes on a quest to find his heritage.

    "Zashiki Warashi" tells the tale of a type of friendly ghost.

    "Acapulco Gold" imagines a future where marijuana is legal and common, and tobacco has become a rare illegal drug.

    (Source: MU)
    Updated: 4 months ago
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  • Yasha
    There were once two demons who carried bows on their backs and had sharp swords in their hands. When their eyes turned black, they swallowed the darkness and the people. All that was left was black blood, and the only thing they were afraid of was the yomizakura. With their bodies badly damaged, they chased after a person who could not be killed forever.
    (Source: Mellylemon)
    Updated: 2021-09-08
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  • Eve no Nemuri
    It's been 18 years since Rin died. Alisa, who is Sei and Lou May's daughter, lives with her mother, her brother Shinji, and Ken in Hawaii. Shinji is Ken and Lou May's son. Shinji knows Alisa isn't Ken's real daughter, but Alisa doesn't. Alisa sometimes sees a phantom boy. One day, she sees a boy point to the sky, where she sees a plane. By the plane, Rie, Shin's son, comes to ask Ken for some help. He also knows Alisa is really Sei's daughter. Alisa is called "Dragon's daughter." Rie says a prophet told him that he would marry a woman who's a dragon's blood relative. When they go into the forest, Rie also sees a boy. Alisa tells him that the boy is a phantom and that he is the only other person who can see him. Her family had told her that the boy was the spirit of the forest, but she doubted that. She thinks the boy is trying to tell her something.
    (Source: Baka-Updates Manga)
    Updated: 2020-12-26
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