Pelu, a friendly little ball of fluff, lives on Planet Kotobuki, a planet inhabited only by gorgeous naked women. As the only one of his kind, Pelu is happy but lonely, until eventually he discovers the shocking truth of what he truly is…

Witty enough for adults to enjoy, this children’s manga is a great mix of humor and dino-infotainment.

The ultimate foody comic, Oishinbo (”The Gourmet”) appeals with its old-school father vs. son character dynamic, its rock-solid writing and the Food Network fascination of learning new things about fish broth and chopsticks.

Kyoichiro is an arrogant concert pianist, “the bad boy of the classical music world in Japan.” Kazune is his manager and girlfriend, and their active sex life is accompanied by many, many strained music-sex metaphors.

One of the most interesting titles in the short-lived LuvLuv “women’s” manga line, Object of Desire is much darker and quirkier than their typical starry-eyed sexual Harlequin romance-style material.

In the late 19th century, Marie, a pure-hearted young Austrian girl, falls hopelessly in love with Rudolf, Crown Prince of Austria (1858-1889). But Rudolf is no prince charming, he’s a tragic antihero; he already has a wife, he associates with rebels against the will of his father, and he loves to play with skulls and guns. Oh, and there’s a demon involved.

Like a Roald Dahl or Harry Potter book in manga form, except that instead of “magic” the heroes’ special power is sniping and setting explosives.

An extremely dirty gag manga about three otaku — sexually frustrated neonate nerd Najimi, quietly perverted Tsuyuri, and the creepy-but-handsome guy with glasses who goes by the pen name “Justice” — who create self-published adult comics, “dojinshi.”

Aiba, a high school virgin who hangs out with his equally dorky friends in their school clubhouse, finds himself singled out for sexual teasing by Kurumi, a scrawny transfer student whose soft-spoken manners conceal her dominant streak and her shady background.