Paranoia Cage - Recommendations

• Vol: 1; Ch: 5
• 2016

It’s no good. I feel pleasure even though it’s work. Masumi is an earnest student with a past that made him hate adult men. However, due to some unprecedented circumstances, he got hired to work as a part-timer for a popular adult mangaka, Otomo. Although initially he was wary of being touched by Otomo, he starts to feel comfortable enough to even model in girl’s clothes. As if being restrained, his body starts to tremble in his gaze. His greed gradually propagates and wishes for Otomo to touch him more.

• Vol: 3; Ch: 12
• 1999 - 2001

Pink is the story of a young high school student named Usagi who is trying to become a porno manga artist. Who would've figured that out of a such a cute, innocent blond boy? Guiding him is Benio, the original artist of the story that Usagi is working on. Benio at first seems to just want to teach, but then finds himself getting a little too interested in teaching Usagi how to get into that, er, certain frame of mind for drawing adult porn. Now enter in Usagi's father, an attractive, sexy man who is more than a little interested in Benio, and makes no move to hide it both from Benio and his own son. And who could resist that? Who would want to?

• Vol: 4; Ch: 26
• 2010 - 2012

20-year-old Minoru Aihara has come to Tokyo to make his dreams of becoming an action manga artist come true. To his amazement, he lands a job as a live-in assistant of his favorite mangaka, Kenji Takakura, who writes a popular fighting manga called "Ultimate Banchou." Upon arriving at his new workplace, however, he discovers that his idol is not the tough guy he'd always imagined. The truth is, Kenji Takakura is the pen name of Ichiko Sekai, a girl his age who is basically a moe character (she looks and acts like a little kid). After Aihara's obvious disappointment starts them off on the wrong foot, it's going to be tough for him to prove to her that he has what it takes to be a manga artist!

• Vol: 3; Ch: 13
• 2011 - 2012

As an anonymous erotic author, high-school student Mitsumaru Yahiro needs to keep his occupation a secret. If anyone were to find out, everyone would look at him as a pervert and his life would be over. Yahiro’s wish for his secret to remain unknown is reinforced when Kisaki Madoka, his crush, becomes disgusted when she saw his erotic series. Soon after, his work load increases and the publisher sends an assistant to help in the process. But the assistant turns out to be Madoka and, in fact, she is a giant fan of Yahiro’s work. She seems to be willing to do anything to keep working for him and it looks like the tables have turned for Yahiro.

• Vol: 5; Ch: 20
• 2011 - 2012

Inamine-kun, an aspiring young manga artist, is a total failure at whatever he does, but some of his work has caught the eyes of a busty, beautiful, mysterious editor from a B-rated magazine. Will he turn his fortunes around through her? Will a relationship start, between the boss and the subordinate? Read Koimoku and find out!

• Vol: 13
• 1996 - 2005

In the manga publication industry, there is a legend: If you leave a message on a bulletin board in the train station at Shibuya, you can obtain the services of a certain man: Comic Master J, an assistant mangaka who can instantly complete any publication manuscript in any art style for the price of 5 million Yen. However, he refuses to work on manga without a "soul." But what is J's true identity? Why does he wear an overcoat lined with pens and rulers? And for what reason does a man of such artistic talent choose to live in the shadows of the industry, rather than working on a manga of his own creation?

• Vol: 4; Ch: 28
• 2010 - 2013

As a manga author of a semi known series, Hirahara Daichi has the talent for coming up with stories, but is incredibly lazy and irresponsible. That leaves his two daughters, middle school student Ayumi and the even younger Sora, to pick up the slack. With the help of the assistant, Akane, the two kids are forced to draw and complete the series every month if they want an income for the household, a task no child should burden themselves with. On top of that, they must do this without people finding out because it will ruin the credibility of Daichi as an author and put a stop to the series. If being a teenager wasn’t hard enough, add to that the pressure of meeting deadlines for a national comic magazine.

• Vol: 13; Ch: 52
• 2001 - 2004

The super excited assistant and always alert. Fiercely editor. Endless deadlines. There was no day without any surprises in Moyoru Hono’s life as a comic artist. Quite often he had to choose between idealism or his editor demands. Everything finished in his pen strokes.

• Vol: 7; Ch: 73
• 2012 - 2014

For the entirety of his life, Yokoda Takashi has been drawing erotic drawings and it has been his way of expressing his sexuality. And now, he has managed to become a successful erotic comedy manga author for a monthly magazine. His series stars a character named Aimi who is actually based loosely on his niece with the same name. He keeps his job a secret, especially from his family from the fear that using Aimi’s name in such a perverted way would cause hatred from everyone. But his manga’s popularity rises and gets moved to a weekly magazine where there are vastly more readers and it seems like only a matter of time until the truth comes out. Takashi has to struggle between protecting his secret while keeping up with the production and erotic creativeness that comes with a weekly magazine series.

• Vol: 5; Ch: 54
• 2015 - 2017

The days go on as 32-year-old Futaba Kiryu continues on working on her manga with her manga assistants, but soon, one of her assistants, Hiro Asakura, and the anime scriptwriter for the "Bottoku" anime, Kitamura Kyosuke grow an interest in her and eventually make a move on her. How will Futaba fare in this love triangle when her knowledge of romance is next to nothing?