BLACK LAGOON
Rokuro Okajima, a strait-laced Japanese salaryman, is taken hostage during a routine business trip in the South China Sea by the Lagoon Company, a crew of mercenary couriers operating out of the fictional Thai port city of Roanapur. When his own employer abandons him, Rock, as the crew dubs him, joins Dutch, the veteran captain, trigger-happy gunfighter Revy, and tech specialist Benny to run contraband across Southeast Asia's criminal underworld.
どろろ
Hyakkimaru, born without skin, limbs, eyes, or ears after his father the warlord Daigo Kagemitsu offered him to twelve demons in exchange for power, is raised by a medicine man who fits him with prosthetics and blades. Years later he roams Sengoku-era Japan hunting the demons to reclaim his body one piece at a time, joined by Dororo, a scrappy orphan thief who tags along and refuses to leave. Each demon killed restores a body part, but it also weakens the prosperity Daigo's land gained from the pact.
新世界より
Saki Watanabe lives in Kamisu 66, an idyllic Japanese village a thousand years in the future where every child develops telekinetic powers called "Cantus." At twelve, Saki joins her friends Satoru Asahina, Maria Akizuki, Mamoru Itou, and Shun Aonuma at Sage Academy to train their abilities. During a field trip beyond the village barrier, the five uncover suppressed history about what Cantus did to the old world, and why their seemingly peaceful society controls its children so tightly.
Sword Art Online
Kirito, a veteran beta tester, logs into the newly launched virtual-reality MMORPG Sword Art Online on its first day, only to discover that ten thousand players are now trapped inside with no way to log out. The game's creator, Akihiko Kayaba, announces that the only escape is to clear all one hundred floors of the floating castle Aincrad, and that death in the game means death in reality. Kirito pushes through the floors as a solo player until he partners with Asuna Yuuki, a skilled fencer who becomes his closest ally.
メイドインアビス
Riko, a young Cave Raider apprentice in the town of Orth, lives at the edge of the Abyss, a vast vertical chasm filled with ancient relics and creatures that grow more dangerous with each descending layer. Her mother, the legendary White Whistle Lyza the Annihilator, vanished into the depths years ago. When Riko finds an amnesiac robot boy she names Reg and receives a message apparently from Lyza at the bottom, she and Reg begin their descent into a place where the Curse of the Abyss makes every step down harder to reverse.