Genre - Josei

From Aerandria Scans: Rinko is an ordinary girl who was born with a mysterious birthmark on her left arm. But when that mark starts to get darker, strange accidents begin to happen everywhere around her, involving even the people she cares about. What will the powerful magic awakening inside Rinko bring her? In 1987, Purple Eyes in the Dark was awarded the Shogakukan Manga Award for the shoujo manga category.

From ShoujoMagic: Arisue Sei lived as happily as any normal kid would, just him and his mother -- a particularly private woman -- on an outlying island of Okinawa. There were also his friends Toichi and Moichi. The only unusual things about Sei were his sharp instincts and high intelligence. But everything changed when his mother was killed and he was kidnapped by the people of Neo Genesis. Now, six years after the kidnapping, Arisue Sei has returned to Japan with the title of "Doctor" at only the age of 18, and he's not the Sei that his friends remember. There are bodyguards with him who protect him from others who wish to possess his superb intellect. He says he's come back to assist with the research at Rakuhoku University, where Moichi now works, but here is where the door to Sei's secrets just begins to open... In 2002 Yasha series received the 47th annual Shogakukan Manga Award for shoujo.

The daughter of a noble family that had fallen on hard times during the Taisho period is Ranko Hanamiya. She works as a waitress at the cafe Cassiopeia and is 24 years old and without prospects. One day, a handsome customer unexpectedly handed her a gift. Bewildered, she went back home to learn that the Viscount Chonabashi, a previous family acquaintance, had arrived to carry out the marriage vow made when Ranko was a young child. Although Ranko preferred independence and had no desire to get married, she grudgingly consented to go to the Chonabashi home in order to appease her parents. There, she discovered that Yoichiro, the young man who gave her the gift at the cafe, would be her fiancé.

Yugo Beppu is a master negotiator and mediator. Fluency in five languages, Socratic wit, and a deep understanding of human nature combined with top-level international connections make him a formidable operator. When a woman's father is seized by Dacoit bandits in Pakistan, Mayuko seeks Yugo's help. After complex and dangerous negotiations, he secures his release. After this success Yugo is called in to deal with yakuza in Japan, triads in Hong Kong, the IRA in Northern Ireland, and the Russian Ministry of Internal Affairs in Siberia. (Source: M-U)

Ichiyo and Akehiko (both 15 years old) have been brought up in an amicable environment at a prosperous restaurant in Japan. They live a safe, happy life, but, as was the norm in feudal Japan, they train at the local dojo with determination to become strong. The times are turbulent, and violence brims the streets of nineteenth century Japan. Under such conditions the boys will have to learn what it means to wield a sword, to take someone’s life and understand the precarious life of living by the sword. [ravfar]

"It's overflowing here, but it's not until the end. Today I'm just marking..."At the age of 28, Yuki, an office lady, spent days far from romance. One day, I decided to go to a dangerous playground with a forcible invitation from a man I met at a drinking party. Although I am confused by the place I am not used to, when I am enjoying it as if I were visiting social studies, I meet a man with an overwhelming aura, Kanadome. Yuki feels the crush for the first time in a few years, even though she is wary of a date invitation from Kanadome as "a strange man." Yuki accepted the date without knowing Kanadome's "certain speculation," but that encounter changed Yuki's fate significantly. [Wicked Yakuza Boss] x [Frigid Office Lady] I was struck by a yakuza in 0 days of dating?! An emotional love story that begins with a contract marriage that I can't refuse!

Musical instruments have minds and bodies, feelings and thoughts. When tossed aside and abandoned, they can become corrupted, even murderous. Petrauchka is an instrument unlike the others; she can't make music at all. After she's found by the mysterious Rentarou in a trash heap, they must team up to calm a despairing lute and perhaps reveal the secret to Petrauchka's lack of musical ability. Can Rentarou somehow unlock her latent talents? (Source: Fallen Syndicate)