This week's manga recommendation ~

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The ongoing series :

• Usotsuki Lily

Genres : Comedy, Gender Bender, Romance, School Life, Shoujo, Slice of Life  

Tags : Androgynous Male Lead, Appearance Different from Personality, Bishounen, Breaking the Fourth Wall, Cross-dressing, Idiot Couple, Male Lead Falling in Love First, Strong Female Lead, Twin/s

Summary : Hinata Saotome is suddenly asked out by En Shinohara, a gorgeous boy in her grade. What she doesn’t know, though, is that his hobby is cross-dressing! En has always hated men, and whenever he sees his own reflection, he punches out whatever is doing the reflecting (windows, mirrors…). To combat this hatred, he dresses up as a girl. Hinata decides to go out with him anyway, despite his weird hobby.

The completed series :

• Kekkaishi

Genres : Action, Adventure, Comedy, Drama, Fantasy, Romance, School Life, Shounen, Supernatural  

Tags : Adapted to Anime, Award-Winning Work, Character Growth, Childhood Friend/s, Demon/s, Exorcism Ghost/s, Secret Identity, Shikigami, Special Abilities

Summary : By night, junior high student Yoshimori Sumimura is a "kekkaishi"--a demon-hunter who specializes in creating magical barriers around his prey. By day, Yoshimori's got some other demons to battle: an addiction to sweets and a seriously crotchety grandfather! Yoshimori's pretty 16-year-old neighbor and childhood friend, Tokine Yukimura, is also a kekkaishi, but their families are feuding over who is the true practitioner of the art.

• Defense Devil

Genres : Action, Comedy, Drama, Ecchi, Mystery, Romance, Shounen, Supernatural  

Tags : Afterlife, Angel/s, Contract/s, Demon World, Demon/s, Devil/s, Hell, Lawyer/s, Prince/s ,Shinigami

Summary : Adapted from the oneshot Akuma Bengoshi Kukabara, Mephisto Bart Kucabara is a devil lawyer. In order to return to the demon world that he was exiled from he needs to collect enough Dark Matter. To do so he creates a plan to claim the Dark Matter from the souls of sinners sentenced to hell. Prove the soul's innocence and the Dark Matter becomes his.

But how can he gather enough Dark Matter when his kind personality causes him to continually use it up in order to defend the soul from the Shinigami that has come to take them to hell?