Jin Kobayashi: 22 books

DOWN BUT NOT OUT!Harima Kenji has never lost a fight, but his love for the clueless Tsukamoto Tenma is proving to be his greatest challenge. After catching his cherished Tenma-chan and an unexpected rival in a lunchtime tryst, Kenji spirals into the deepest pit of high school Hadesplummeting so low that...

HAVE A NICE DEITY!Love (in the form of Tsukamoto Tenma) betrayed Harima Kenji, but he has moved on in an effort to find himself. He’s become a fortune teller who can communicate with animals. Some even mistake him for a helpful deity who watches over a local shrine. What happens to a young man who...

SUMMER LOVE SHAKE-UP!Cute Tsukamoto Tenma is desperately trying to help juvenile delinquent classmate Harima Kenji win the girl of his dreams: Tenma’s friend Mikoto. But when Tenma hears Kenji say "I love you" to someone else, she begins to have serious doubts about Kenji’s loyalties. Now, in an...

AMERICAN INVASION!Harima Kenji has tried everything he can think of to attract his cute, but dim, classmate Tsukamoto Tenma. This time he’s grown his beard to enormous lengths. But one snip of the scissors by wealthy beauty Sawachika Eri ruins everything! Can a delinquent punk and a stubborn, quick-to-anger...

THE REAL RUMBLE!!The school athletics fair is meant to be a celebration of youth and fitness, but personal grudges, haughty attitudes, and long-standing rivalries have turned healthy competition into all-out war! Will Tsukomoto Tenma’s teacher have his revenge for the theft of his cookies? Can Sawachika...

DANGEROUS WATERS!The love of Harima Kenji’s life has made it clear that she will not return his feelings! Brokenhearted, Harima decides to run away and become a fisherman, sailing Japan’s high seas. Once aboard, however, Harima finds himself up against mean-spirited shipmates and a brutal captain who is almost too muscle-bound to be real. Can Harima measure up?

LOCK AND LOAD!The school festival is coming, and Harima and his cohorts want to present a play. But Hanai’s group is set on a maid café. So the two stubborn parties decide that the only way to come to an understanding is s rumble in the middle of the nightwith BB guns at the ready!

SUBTLETY IS FOR WIMPS!She . . . is a second-year high school student with a single all-consuming question: Will the boy she likes ever really notice her?He . . . is the school’s most notorious juvenile delinquent and he’s suddenly come to a shocking realization: He’s got a huge crush, and now he...

SLEEPING BRUISERTough-guy Harima takes a nap backstage during the school festival. Unbeknownst to him, his bed is a prop in the stage version of "Sleeping Beauty," and he is unwittingly about to make his debut as the princess. Fortunately, the princes are played by six of the cutest girls in his classincluding Harima’s beloved Tenma!

HAUNTED BY FINALSA teacher’s ghost, infamous for preventing students from graduating to the next grade, is haunting Harima. If he’s held back, he’ll never again be in the same class with his beloved Tenma. Does this mean that Harima will actually have to study?! Oh, the horror!

TWO FOOLS UNDER ONE ROOFHarima Kenji has just received an impossible assignmentto draw 120 pages of manga in a week! With his cousin away on vacation, the suddenly homeless Harima has only one person to turn to: his assistant, Yakumo. But how can Harima concentrate on manga when the love of his life, Tenma-chan, is just down the hall?Includes special extras after the story!

ARRANGED CHAOS!Rich girl Sawachika Eri is being forced into an omiaia meeting that may well land her in an arranged marriage. Her only hope is to convince the handsome workman she’s just met to join her at the appointment. What she doesn’t know is that the stranger is actually her enemy and sometime...

THE SWEET AND TENDER HOOLIGAN Kyoto is the capital of Japan’s culture, but the school trip is ruined for bad boy Harima by a band of British hooligans. They’ve captured beautiful Eri, threatened Harima’s beloved Tenma, and challenged our hero to a lifeordeath duel on the movie sets of Japan’s samurai dramas. Can Harima’s streettoughened fists overwhelm the foreign barbarians?

SUBTLETY IS FOR WIMPS! She . . . is a secondyear high school student with a single allconsuming question: Will the boy she likes ever really notice her? He . . . is the school’s most notorious juvenile delinquent and he’s suddenly come to a shocking realization: He’s got a huge crush, and now he...