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Ten de Shōwaru Cupid (Ten de Shouwaru Cupid)

Ten de Shouwaru Cupid  (てんで性悪キューピッド) is Yoshihiro Togashi's first manga series published in Weekly Shonen Jump from July 24, 1989 to March 12, 1990 (consisting of 32 chapters) and was also his first manga SERIES (only one shots before) period. Weekly Shonen Jump Issue 32 (July 24, 1989)  *The following is quoted from Wikipedia.* The storyline of Ten de Shōwaru Cupid follows Ryuji Koinobori (鯉昇 竜次), a sweet and introverted 15-year-old who lives with his four stepsisters and their father, the leader of the Koinobori yakuza and  promiscuous playboy by heritage, just like his own father, grandfather, and so on. Ryuji's family has a tendency to make fun of his innocent nature, causing the boy to continuously try to run away from home. After escaping one day, Ryuji witnesses a beautiful girl with a devil tail bathing in a forest pool. Embarrassed, Ryuji returns to his home only to be confronted by girl the following day. As it turns out, this devil girl na...

Yoshihiro Togashi's Sensee wa Toshishita!!

Senseha Toshishita!! (センセーは年下!!) is SUPPOSEDLY  Togashi's (Pen name: Toritome Yomoya) first known manga (being 15 pages long) which came out in 1986 becoming a final candidate for the 20th Hop Step Award Selection. It didn't make it's debut until it was released in Togashi's manga Ten de Showaru Cupid Vol. 4 on November 4th, 1990 as a special oneshot along with Jura no Miduki . The synopsis basically says in a junior high school, a teacher goes on maternity leave so a substitute teacher has to take their place, but that substitute is a elementary school student.  In Ten de Showaru Cupid Vol.3 & Vol.4, Togashi talks a little about the one shot being a debut manga. Read here: Sensee wa Toshishita!! If you want to read in it's original format, it is in Japanese here .  Source: Weekly Shounen Jump N°43, 1991 Thank you Yu Yu Hakusho 4ever for translating!