4-koma Koushiki Anthology: A Lull in the Sea - Recommendations

• Vol: 3
• 2011 - 2012

• Vol: 2
• 2004 - 2005

• Vol: 1; Ch: 16
• 2015

• Vol: 1; Ch: 15
• 2016

• Vol: 1; Ch: 16
• 2008

• Vol: 2; Ch: 15
• 2000 - 2001

Naota Nanbada is a boring young boy who leads a boring life in a boring town. His older brother has left for America, and the closest he comes to any excitement is when his deadbeat dad has too much sake. But things change one day when a bizarre girl zooms up to him on a scooter and smacks him in the face with her guitar. What's more, once Naoto returns home he discovers that this strange woman has arrived ahead of him and moved in! Not only does she constantly engage in perverted activities with Naota's father and flirt with the young man himself, but she also claims to be an alien who is searching for the ‘Pirate King.' Now, Naota must learn to live with this new intruder, deal with an odd government agent who sports exceptionally large eyebrows and the mysterious Medical Mechanica, and come to terms with the fact that there are a variety of robots and weapons emerging out of his head - amongst other things. Perhaps boring wasn't so bad after all...

• Vol: 1; Ch: 15
• 1997

Different manga artists across Japan joined in this collaboration of 15 mini stories connected to the anime Escaflowne. Most stories in this are humorous, but some are serious. Escaflowne is about a girl, Hitomi, pulled into another world called Gaea, and there she meets a refugee prince named Van. Together with a legendary armor called Escaflowne, they try to put things to right.

• Ch: 6
• 2004

• Vol: 1; Ch: 7
• 2022

• Vol: 1; Ch: 14
• 2022